In ancient times, a woman saw the eyes of the stone turtle at the entrance of the temple turning red, so she beckoned everyone to flee for their lives, saying that tomorrow the city would encounter a catastrophe, but the next day the city was safe and sound, people laughed at the woman's madness, who knew that when the woman went out of the city alone, the city was flooded in an instant.
The woman's name is Han Qiuniang, a native of Chaozhou, and at the age of sixteen, her parents died one after another, leaving Qiu Niang alone to live a difficult life.
Chaozhou is adjacent to a lake, for many years has been calm and calm, who knows that this year, the torrential rain fell for several days and nights, resulting in a surge in the lake water level, until it was about to flood Chaozhou City, suddenly the wind and rain stopped, the flood finally subsided, and hundreds of people escaped the disaster.
A few days later, the flood slowly receded, and someone found a large stranded fish in the ditch of the moat, this fish was incomparably huge, thirty or forty feet long, tens of thousands of pounds, the scales of the fish were golden yellow, the eyes of the fish were agile, and it looked extraordinary.
Without water, the big fish kept struggling in the mud of the ditch, and the people in the city rushed to watch, but people only cared about the liveliness and commented on the big fish, but no one came to the rescue.
Three days later, the big fish finally died in the ditch due to lack of water, and some bold and greedy people jumped down and broke the big fish's intestines and stomachs, and the cut meat was sold on the spot.
Because the fish is too big, so it is sold very cheaply, almost everyone in the city has bought fish meat, Qiu Niang's neighbor is a kind fisherman, specially bought more than a dozen pounds of fish meat, and gave Qiu Niang a few pounds.
Qiu Niang was kind by nature, and when she heard the fisherman say that this was the meat of a giant fish, she felt pity and did not want to eat it, but she could not refuse the kindness of her neighbors, so she hung up the fish meat.
A few days later, a white-bearded grandfather came to Qiu Niang's house, he walked twisted and turned, his posture was very strange, and his accent was different from that of The People of Chaozhou, qiu Niang saw that he was old, so she let him enter the door.
The old man looked at the fish hanging under the eaves of the courtyard and asked, "Girl, the whole city has eaten the meat of that big fish, why don't you hang up and eat it?" ”
Qiu Niang said slowly, "When I was a child, I heard my father say that any fish that has more than a hundred pounds must be a spiritual thing, this fish is incomparably huge, I think only a dragon has such a big body." ”
"Moreover, it is only stranded, and it does not harm people, and if we don't save it, we will already be sorry for it, and then eat its flesh, how can I bear it?"
The old man listened to the bitter crying and weeping: "It is not a secret, that big fish is my son, we are the dragon clan under the water, he was eaten by the people in the city, I don't blame everyone, that is my son's fate, but you sympathize with my son not eating his flesh, just by virtue of this, I want to repay you!" ”
"There is a stone turtle at the entrance of the temple in the east of the city, and you remember, if you see the eyes of the stone turtle turn red one day, leave here immediately, because this indicates that the city will be destroyed the next day."
After the old man finished speaking, he disappeared, and Qiu Niang knew that this was the apparition of the old dragon king, so she quickly knelt down and prostrated her head in thanks.
The next day, Qiu Niang deliberately ran to the east of the city to see if the eyes of the stone turtle had turned red, and found that there was nothing unusual, so she prepared to go home.
At this time, a child noticed that Qiu Niang's behavior was abnormal, and was curious for a moment, asking her what she was doing when she looked at the eyes of the stone turtle? Qiu Niang told him about her encounter with the Dragon King, and when she was finished, she left.
After Qiu Niang left, the child looked at the stone turtle and suddenly began to tease her mind, so he played a prank, painted the stone turtle's eyes red with paint, and then ran away with a sneaky smile.
The next day, Qiu Niang came to see the stone turtle again, only to find that its eyes turned red, and she was suddenly surprised, and hurriedly told everyone to flee quickly, and the city would encounter great disasters, but except for a few people who believed that she had escaped, such as the neighbor fisherman, no one else listened.
Qiu Niang rushed to the yamen to beat the drum and asked the government to tell everyone to flee for their lives, but the government officials were willing to believe it and drove her away as a madman.
As a result, there was nothing in the city the next morning, and everyone said that Qiu Niang was crazy, but Qiu Niang was convinced that the Dragon King would not deceive himself, so he hurried out of the city.
Not far from the city, a boy in green clothes greeted me and said, "Sister come with me, I am the younger son of the Dragon King." ”
After holding her arm, she suddenly flew up and landed gently on the top of the mountain, and Qiu Niang looked at Chaozhou City at this time, which had been flooded.
It turned out that everything was fate, and the eyes of the stone turtle were originally painted red by the child, all of which could not escape the unknown prophet of the Dragon King.
Those who listened to Qiu Niang's words and stayed away from the city, standing on the mountain and watching countless people in the city buried in the belly of the fish, could not help but be afraid, and they were even more grateful to Qiu Niang.
Later, the flood here never receded, forming a lake, and Chaozhou has been known as Chao Lake ever since.
In order to commemorate Qiu Niang's life-saving grace, the survivors built a temple by the lake, called "Damu Temple".
It is said that when the weather is clear, people will talk and sing at the bottom of the lake, and when the lake is clear in autumn, you can see a city at the bottom of the lake, and people walk under the water.
Some people say that these people are all dragon clans, and the kind Qiu Niang has become the guest of honor of the dragon clan.
@Mo Xue asked heart
The story "Big Fish", adapted from the Song Dynasty Liu Axe's notebook novel collection "Qingzhuo Gaoyi", the dragon was trapped in a shallow water beach, and the kind Qiu Niang could not bear to eat fish meat, so she got the favor of the Dragon Clan and rescued Qiu Niang when the city was in trouble.
The story tells the world that when you are a person, you should always have a kind and compassionate heart, and be kind to others, but in fact, you are also good to yourself.
