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The truth about the mysterious disappearance of the giant turtle

Everyone knows that the more remote the place, the more superstitious it is, and the river workers also hurried to kowtow to the old man. Under the guidance of the old man, the village cadres surrounded the giant turtle and placed sacrifices around it. But the night before the sacrifice, the giant turtle suddenly disappeared. Later, the villagers still held a sacrifice ceremony, and soon after the local rain began to rain, and it rained for seven days and seven nights, solving the local drought problem in one fell swoop.

The truth about the mysterious disappearance of the giant turtle

Where did the giant turtle go? Why does it suddenly rain after the giant turtle disappears? The story spread so widely in the local area that some people even claimed that the giant turtle was the river god of the Yellow River. Fortunately, the people did not offend it, which gave the local Pulin Ganlin. But is that really the case? It is obvious that the locals made up myths and stories.

The truth about the mysterious disappearance of the giant turtle

According to the descendants of one of the participants, the so-called "giant turtle" is not as big as a truck at all, and its actual volume is about the same as the size of a farmer's water tank. The giant turtle did not disappear mysteriously, but was stolen and eaten by seven villagers in the night. At that time, the rural economic conditions were relatively poor, and the villagers did not have too many opportunities to eat meat, so some daring guys took advantage of everyone's sleep to secretly eat giant turtles.

The truth about the mysterious disappearance of the giant turtle

As for the problem of rain later, it was just in time for the rainy season, and the locals were far-fetched, calling the giant turtle a river god. The picture of the giant turtle circulating on the Internet is a still of the Japanese movie "Little Braves Gamera", which is not the Yellow River giant turtle at all. Therefore, wuxia town did catch a relatively large turtle, but it is nonsense to say that it has mysterious powers. Don't take it seriously.

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