Chapter 14 Chapter 12: Scenery and Ghosts by the Hongze Lake

Hongze Lake is one of the five great lakes in China. Although the river dug through the Shuanggou River Diversion Project leads to Hongze Lake, it does not lead to the center of the lake, but another lake on the edge of the lake that is connected to the main lake. The area of ​​this lake is also very large. The water in the lake is quite shallow when it is not flooding, at most not more than two meters, and it is covered with reeds three to four meters high, densely packed, and the boats are propped in it, and only the hull of the boat and the reeds are rubbed against each other. Swish. That time, from the side of the lake, we had to cross the lake to the county seat of Xu County, Yi, and boarded a small boat. The punters were middle-aged people who grew up in the lake since childhood. The boat journey was estimated to be seven or eight hours In the end, he would also get lost in the reeds. When he saw only reeds as far as he could see, he spent two days wandering around and found his way out on the third day.So no one dares to hold the big in this situation.

However, although I got lost in the reeds, I didn't feel any fear in my heart, because the necessities of life were readily available. The water, including lake water, is not clear, but after being hit by alum, it is clean and drinkable.Fire, with a wave of the sickle, cut the reeds, which is the best fuel. Although the freshly cut ones are relatively wet, they can still burn, but the smoke is a little more, and the smoke is more, which can be used to fight against no points day and night, and become successful. Thousands of mosquitoes attacking people. There are many and terrible mosquitoes in Hongze Lake. I have already mentioned it before, and I will not repeat it. The abundance of various fish in the lake is really surprising. The situation is like an artificial fish pond full of fish. Same.On the side of the boat, use the simplest net bag to fish it into the water. It can be said that there must be fish in the net.

The fish that come online are small and you don’t even look at them. If you throw them back into the water, you have to buy fish that weigh at least a catty, and you have to pick the fish that tastes good. In addition to the abundance of fish, when it is dark, large flocks of wild ducks are perched among the reeds, and the boat gently swings past, using a slender bamboo pole to sway casually, until the ducks are awakened and fly away, and the water surface is knocked unconscious. There were at least thirty or twenty dead wild ducks. In addition to wild ducks, there are also geese and geese, which are as big as tens of catties. They can be caught in the same way. Although the meat of a goose is older, it can still be full, and it only eats the breast. Serving the two tender ones, who wants to chew the old ones patiently!

The food is abundant, but the only regrettable thing is that there is very little salt. Most of them are cooked and eaten lightly. A few days to remember. Later, many people absented from work, so they caught geese and wild ducks on Hongze Lake, plucked their feathers, and sold them to native product companies.About one hundred geese can pull out one kilogram of fine and soft fluff from the feathers on its chest, and three hundred ducks can also pull out one kilogram.The local product company does not accept feathers, only downy down. The purchase price is 17 yuan per kilogram for velvet and 12 yuan for wild duck down.

The purchased goose down and duck down are extremely versatile. So far, the natural goose down and duck down quilt is the most comfortable warming product. I am afraid that the people who use it will not expect more than a hundred geese and geese to have one kilogram of down! There are many legends about Hongze Lake, but, indeed, there is a city under Hongze Lake, which is the famous Sizhou City.During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Sizhou City was completely swallowed up by Hongze Lake due to the surge of river and lake water, and it is still at the bottom of the lake. According to people by the lake, during the Japanese invasion of China, divers were sent to find the site of the city and built a dam around it. Then, many large water pumps were brought in to pump water, trying to make Sizhou City emerge from the water, but they did three in a row. In the first month, only the flagpole of the Yamen in Sizhou City was exposed by about a foot, but it was futile, so I had to give up.

It is said that the reason why the water is not pumped out is because there is an eye at the bottom of Hongze Lake, which leads directly to the East China Sea. This is naturally a myth and legend, but it is okay to listen to it, but there is a problem if you believe it. The atmosphere beside Hongze Lake is very mysterious. After arriving in Yixu County, I lived in the guest house of the county government. When he fell asleep, he suddenly heard the sound of flipping through a newspaper. The newspaper was clipped in a wooden folder. Before going to bed, I took it off the newspaper shelf in the lounge. It was a copy of People's Daily and a copy of Guangming Daily.The sound of turning the pages of the newspaper is definitely not the wind blowing, but the sound of turning a page slowly and clearly every few moments, as if someone had finished reading and turned the page.

The newspaper was placed on the table not far from the bed. Although the sound was not very loud, the shock it caused in the heart was incomparable. The kerosene lamp has been blown out, and normal people cannot see things in the dark, so why are they still reading with relish?At that time, my whole body was cold, my palms were sweating, and I couldn't see the outside situation at all through the curtain. At that time, although I said I was not afraid of ghosts, but the dark road was separated, it was really unpredictable. Open the curtain and take a look, you will see What kind of situation, moreover, even if he dared to do so, he still had more energy than he wanted, because he couldn't move his body at all, and even opened his mouth wide to ask someone, but his throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he couldn't make any sound.

So I had no choice but to open my eyes and listen to the sound of flipping through the newspaper, slamming, slamming and writing down to this point. Thinking of the scene at that time, I still shivered unavoidably. It took about half an hour before the sound became silent, so naturally I dared not sleep , tremblingly, waited until the cock crowed two or three times before raising the tent and leaving. Indeed, all the papers were turned over. At dawn, I realized that the building turned out to be an ancestral hall.