Text/Wang Yulai
In the previous document, it is said that the male turtle spirit washed away the fields and crops, violated the heavenly rules, and was turned into stone, and the female turtle essence pleaded fruitlessly, did not eat or drink, did not abandon, and kept relatively together, and after hundreds of years, it also became a stone turtle.
Later, when I finally touched the heavens and the earth, I also touched the second master brother, the tears of the two turtles turned into a small river, the river flowed down from the North Ridge, into the south triangle of the village, the villagers took water from this bay to irrigate the fields, since then, the land of the other village is fertile, the people are prosperous, the grain is abundant, and it has become a treasure of feng shui. The old people educated posterity, saying that the stone turtle is the protector of the village and cannot be harmed.
The water in this triangle is not dry all year round, and the water is very deep. When Mr. Wang was a child, he often led his friends to skate in winter and bathe in summer... There has never been any accident in this deep bay, and the whole village is very safe.
There are many turtles in this big bay, which are said to be the descendants of the two turtle spirits. When the sun comes out in the morning, it is often out to dry the lid, and some people have seen turtles as large as the lid of eight people, leading many small turtles in the sun, but no one dares to catch them, probably out of reverence for the turtle spirit.
Legend has it that during the Qing Dynasty, a few merchants from the south (known as the Southern Barbarians) came from the south, went to the countryside, sold daily necessities, exchanged their hair for needles, threads, and thimbles and other things, and the business was very prosperous. He will also play hiding, magic, watch feng shui, and step on the cave (cemetery).
Nan Manzi wandered around the village for several days, optimistic about this feng shui treasure land, and wanted to buy it for a long time. They found the head of the other family to discuss, willing to pay a high price to buy the whole land, but the other family members have been rooted here for hundreds of years, this land has nurtured their ancestors, and they do not want to leave. Although the price is tempting, it is still reluctant to sell.
After many fruitless discussions, the southern barbarians were very angry, and they knew that this feng shui treasure land was because of the town guard and blessing of two stone turtles. If you can't buy land, you want to destroy feng shui, and Nan Manzi doesn't want other people's families to continue to get benefits.
One night, they moved their luggage to another village in advance, and before leaving, they let out a message saying that they would not buy the land and would return to their hometown in the south. But in the middle of the night, a few of them took advantage of the dark wind at night to sneak to Northridge with explosives and set them on fire.
In the middle of the night, there was a loud noise, shaking the earth, other family members did not feel good, the patriarch hurriedly summoned the villagers to look around, found that two stone turtles were blown up, the female turtle was missing, the male turtle's cover also cracked a slit, and the front leg exploded a piece.
When they chased a hundred miles away, they found that a carriage fell into a pond on the side of the road, and no one survived, so they rushed back to their lives, and the perpetrators were all dead, and the matter could not be pursued.
In fact, the female turtle was blown up by the Southern Barbarians, fell into the South River, sank to the bottom of the river, and was not lightly injured, but no one knew. The yin and yang are wrong, and the female turtle falls into the river, like a fish in the water, just at the bottom of the river to heal, and the vitality is slowly restored. It has been guarding this sad and unbearable land at the bottom of the river. This female turtle appeared once in sixty years to see the male turtle in North ridge and help her brother heal her wounds.
The male turtle at the top of the North Ridge was also injured by the explosion, the turtle cover was blown open in a large gap, the turtle's front leg was blown off a piece, and the rubble was placed next to the stone turtle, and no one dared to move for many years.
Legend has it that there was a young man surnamed Ju who had pigs at home, and the door of the pigsty was often arched by the pig, so he used a cart to push the gravel of the front leg of the stone turtle home and blocked it on the door of the pigsty. The pig could not come out, but his nose was bleeding non-stop for several days, and he could not stop it, fortunately, his family leader had insight. Guessing that something should not be moved, the young man understood and hurriedly put the stone back in its place.
Strange to say, soon after putting it back, his nose stopped without bleeding, and he felt that the stone turtle did have a god. As the saying goes: Save people to the end, send the Buddha to the west. Out of awe, he approached one of his brothers and asked him to close the crack (the last time I went to investigate, the crack in the tortoise cover was still visible).
The brother of the craftsman, who went to the countryside and villages on weekdays, specialized in making a living in pots, bowls, and vats, and had good craftsmanship, so he took over this job. The smith worked for three days in a row before the turtle was covered, and only ate at his brother's house, and the handicraft fee was not taken. Since then, the family of the Ju family, Ding Xingwang, has become a large household in other villages.
Beijia Village is surrounded by water on three sides, with the Wind River in the west, the South River in the south, a small river in the east, and the North Ridge in the north, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is a strategic road to hold the seven villages northeast of Tieshan.
Before liberation, the rich side of the other village, afraid of war, built a high wall around the village, and there was a village gate in front of and behind, just in the direction of the two stone turtles, and the crisis moment could always turn the danger into a disaster.
Legend has it that the bandits in Jiaozhou once came to another village to snatch property, sneaked up on the wall by night, and suddenly two red lights flashed, and the bandits fell under the wall, and the villagers found that someone sneaked in and knocked on the gong, frightening the bandits to flee in a hurry, and never dared to attack again.
It is said that when the Japanese occupied Shandong, they could not attack Yangjiashan in Tieshan for a long time, and then turned to attack Beijia Village, trying to occupy seven villages in a ditch northeast of Tieshan Mountain, but the high wall of Beijia Village could not be reached, so they used planes to bomb it.
Legend has it that several planes flew against the roof treetops and dropped bombs into the village, but they dropped them back and forth many times and could not be dropped on the wall, and the bombs were either silent or deflected, and the devils had no choice but to give up. These are all things that Mr. Wang has seen with his own eyes, and every time he says this, he says that he is thanks to the blessing of the Great Turtle God.
This time I went to the bottom of the south river in another village to look for the traces of the big stone turtle, but I found nothing, maybe once in sixty years, I was not so lucky. On the North Ridge, only a fragment of a turtle cover was found, and the cracks were still clear. The stone turtle was broken by the developer, so he was hospitalized for half a year, and the remaining turtle cover remnants were no longer moved, and he was lonely and coldly pestle in the field.
Mr. Wang said that in fact, the two stone turtles had been full of merit since they were bombed, and the true gods of the two turtle spirits were recalled to the Heavenly Palace by the Queen Mother of the West and named the South Heavenly Gate God, which was listed around the South Heavenly Gate and guarded the Heavenly Palace.
The other village has become a sad place for them, and it is also a place of perfect merit, and perhaps they can occasionally return here to find the memories of that year, or they may be able to visit the people they once protected, and no one knows...
This is exactly:
Thousand years of cultivation is not an easy task
The two are willing to tie the knot
One heart for the people is full of merit
Protect the side out of the legend
Introduction: Huangdao District Tieshan Street office. Pen name Yamazumi. Firm in the altar of apricots, attached to the landscape, admiring the height of the mountains, envying the depth of the sea, taking books as friends, pen cultivation as pleasure, and quietly looking for beauty and happiness in life.
Photo: Niu Hongzhi
Introduction: Teacher, home in Huangdao. His works have won the Excellent Work Award of the Shandong Exhibition Area of the 10th National Art Exhibition. Painter of Shandong Youth Painting Institute.
(Home in Huangdao2017-11-20)