Guo Shoujing's legendary story: Fighting shrew immortals on the Ten Mile River

"What are the mountains on both sides called?"

"Mantou Mountain and Black Bean Mountain."

"What mountain is in front of you?"

"Laoye Ridge, Niangniang Cliff, Woniu Peak, Flint Rock And Wolf Mountain."

Guo Shoujing's eyes lit up and he said, "There is a way, get stones from the top of Wolf Mountain, and block them again!"

When Guo Shoujing was young, he studied at the Purple Mountain Academy in Taihang Mountain. Once, when I came home from school, I walked to the ten-mile river and saw that there were incense and people. In the past, when I inquired, I learned that it was for the immortals. Legend has it that there is a king here who goes to the East China Sea every summer to pay homage to the Dragon King, and when he goes, he will bring pigs, cattle, sheep, and virgin boys and girls as gifts, and if the people do not send offerings on time, they will send water. As soon as the water is lost, the head of the water is several feet high, and the sound is like thunder, which can be heard for dozens of miles. As soon as the water passed, the houses, the trees, the crops, the people, and the cattle were gone.

Guo Shoujing stood on the top of the mountain and looked at it, and there were three ravines in the west that converged here, and both sides were blocked by the mountains, leaving only a very narrow exit, like a funnel. Outside the mountain pass, it suddenly fell down, with a difference of twenty or thirty inches. He understood in his heart that it was no wonder that the water was so fierce as soon as it exited, it turned out to be so. He looked north again, and there was a large river outside the mountain beam, wide and flat, around a big bend, and merged with the Shili River downstream.

Guo Shoujing looked at it, found the magistrate and asked: "Local, asked, "How many years have you been sending water here?"

    The other party said: "No one can tell, the old life is like this." ”

    "Why don't you want to cure it?"

    "There is no way to cure it, the shrew immortals have great ability, and they can't cure it."

"I have a way to make sure it's a cure."

The local government asked him what he was doing, and he told them: First block the mountain pass so that the flood can no longer go straight down, and then dig up the north mountain beam and introduce the water into the north river. The North River is high and wide, and once the water arrives there, it will be boring, and if it flows down, it will not be able to drown anything.

    The guys thought he was being reasonable, agreed to do so, and asked Guo Shoujing to be the commander-in-chief. At this time, an old man with a green beard came from nowhere, smiled and said to Guo Shoujing, "The method you think is good, but you can't make it." If nothing else, the mountain pass is not good for me to see, forget it, don't waste your efforts. ”

    Unconvinced, he said, "What if you block it?" ”

The old man said, "Hang a plaque and erect a monument for you." What if it can't be blocked?"

    Guo Shoujing said: "Give the Xian gai temple, light a long lantern, and make offerings three times a day." ”

    "Good, good, for sure." After the old man finished speaking, he disappeared and everyone felt strange and suspicious. Guo Shoujing did not listen to that set and still proceeded as planned. There were stones on the mountain, and within a month, the pass was blocked. Just as everyone was celebrating their victory, suddenly clouds came from the northwest, and it rained overhead. The landscape immediately came down, and with a single flush, it flushed a large hole in the embankment of the new fort. Plugged again, and rushed away. This has been repeated many times, and it cannot be stopped. Everyone was dumbfounded, saying that people can't cure immortals. Guo Shoujing was also worried and had been wandering around the mountain. He asked, "What is the name of this mountain pass?"

The other person said: "Outlet." ”

   As soon as the mountain pass was blocked, a cloud drifted from the northwest sky, and a thunderclap sounded, and it rained heavily. The torrent broke out, and the head of the water rushed towards the mountain pass, but it was really strange, and as soon as the water reached the embankment, it became flat and stable, and even a wave could not rise.

The amount of water has stabilized, but every day it rises, and seeing that it is going to cross the embankment, everyone is panicked and asks Guo Shoujing what to do?

    Guo Shoujing knew that it was Wang Bajing who was making trouble, and said, "Don't be afraid, it's all right." Open the stone at Flint Yu, throw it into the water, and then bring the water from the fire spring and pour it into the river. ”

    Wang Ba was afraid of heat. That night, I only heard the water churning and screaming. The green-bearded old man ran to Guo Shoujing, threw himself on his knees, prostrated his head and pounded garlic, and said, "Lord Spare your life, please ask Lord Guo to spare his life!"

    When Guo Shoujing looked at it, it had burned all over his face, like a rotten pear. Then he said, "It is okay to spare you, but you are not allowed to make trouble in the future." In addition, a big thing had to be done to arch the northern mountain beams. ”

"Good, good, do it!"

    That night, with a loud noise, the north mountain beam collapsed into a large mouth more than twenty meters wide, and the river rushed to the north. Since then, there has been no water damage here.