Back in '63, Ma Zangshan was only twenty-six or seventeen years old, but he was already the father of a three-year-old child, and the family still lived by the river west of the village, which was wider and deeper than it is now.

At that time, there was a river temple by the river, but the river temple was not a proper temple. It is the river god named by the local villagers, and the mud statue of the river god has been tattered, and his face has been ruined.

The statue of the river god was not standing, but sitting on top of a coiled dragon, and the golden paint on the dragon's body was almost gone, and yellow mud embryos were exposed everywhere.

When this river temple was built, the people in the village can no longer say clearly, anyway, listening to the old people in this village, it seems that there was this river temple when there was this village, and the temple has been renovated and rebuilt in several dynasties.

Of course, there are many legends about this river temple in the village, and one of the most famous is this.

It is said that one day a cowherd baby drove the cow across the river, but I don't know why, the cow suddenly fell into the mud and sand. And the deeper and deeper.

That road is the road that the cow baby walks every day, and he is very familiar with the situation in the river, and there should be no pits, so the cow baby thinks that it may be a ghost of the river monster, so he quickly ran to the river temple and kowtowed three times, and as a result, a golden light fell from the sky and pulled the cow out of the river.

It was also after that incident. According to legend, their ancestors had to worship the river god for generations, so they built a house next to the river temple and lived with the river god. Bai Du Yi Yan Song Hall Chop Mouth New Chapter L Section

This family is often thought of as the Mazangshan family, but it is not theirs. Ma Zangshan himself can't say for sure, but their ancestors did leave such an ancestral teaching, the river temple will not fall, and the Ma family cannot be moved.

After introducing the basic situation of the river temple, Mazangshan began to tell his own story, which was the beginning of spring in 63 years, when the last snow had not yet melted, but the ice on the river had all melted.

Although Ma Zangshan's son is only three years old, the little guy is very expensive, and the adults in the family are a little careless, so they sneak out and run back and forth by themselves, and they don't know how to be afraid.

Because in winter, Ma Zangshan took his son to skate on the ice on the river several times, so the kid remembered that this day was not paying attention to the family. He ran out and jumped straight into the river.

At that time, the water in the river was very turbulent, especially in front of the gate of Mazang Mountain, because a large pit was dug for washing clothes, and the deepest part of the water could be lost to the chest of an adult. Even the shallowest part can reach the thigh.

A three-year-old jumps into the water, and if no one saves him, it's probably a field - drowned.

When his son was diving into the water, a neighbor saw it, shouted the name of Mazangshan, ran to the side of the pool, and rushed to the rescue.

When Ma Zangshan ran out, he happened to see his son crawling out of the water crying, but he saw that his son's movements were very strange, and from his point of view, it was his son who climbed out on his own.

But he clearly found that his son's arms were bent, and one hand was struggling. He didn't touch the shore at all, and his son's movements didn't use any force at all.

So it was his son who climbed up on his own, but something pushed his son out of the water.

At that time, Ma Zangshan didn't think much about it, there was only one thought in his heart to save his son, and after running over, he grabbed his son's hand and pulled out half of his body in the water.

At the same time, he glanced at the bottom of the pool, and saw a large black shadow that had swung around the surface of the pool and disappeared into the mud and sand.

In the eyes of the surrounding neighbors, it was Mazangshan's son who first grabbed the embankment on the shore by himself, and then Mazangshan dragged it up, and no one noticed what was in the water.

However, Ma Zangshan kept this incident in his heart, and after thinking about it, he thought that it was the dragon sitting on the god of the river temple who saved his son, so he went to buy some incense and candles, and went to the river temple to worship one night.

But nothing strange happened at that service, and he did not see the great figure in the pool again after that day.

Originally, Ma Zangshan could keep this matter a secret, but after a long time, he couldn't bear the itch and wanted to find someone to talk to, so he told his daughter-in-law about it.

When his daughter-in-law heard this, she told several long-tongued women in the village about it, and added fuel to her that her son was the owner of the dragon and the reincarnation of the river god, so his son saved the dragon after diving into the water.

For a while, this matter spread in the village, some people believed it, and some people thought that it was nonsense by Ma Zangshan's daughter-in-law.

When this incident reached Ma Zangshan's ears, he himself felt quite face-saving, after all, their family had become the center of conversation in the village, and this feeling was as exciting as people being on TV now.

So Ma Zangshan went home and changed his new clothes and wandered around the village, and when people asked about his family, he once again added fuel and vinegar to tell everyone about the day, and also talked about his family's ancestral motto - "The river temple does not fall, and the Ma family cannot migrate."

As for this person, if he tells too many lies, he will believe it, so this matter is spread and spread, and Mazangshan has become a god chattering, and he no longer secretly goes to the river god at night, but goes openly during the day.

There are even some people who follow the trend and buy incense candles to worship the river god with Mazang Mountain.

It's just that this river temple is not a temple for making a wish, it is a functional temple for blessing the peace of the place, and if you make a wish to the god here, people will not pay attention to you.

Therefore, more and more people's wishes began to be disappointed, which caused many people in the village to stop going after burning incense once, and even complained that the river temple was useless, and then developed to the point that some people scribbled on the already broken gods.

At that time, it was already summer, and there was a lot of rain this summer, and there was a light rain outside that day, and Ma Zangshan didn't know which tendon was wrong with him, so he went to the river temple to see the statue.

He looked at it for a while and found that the part of the god's eyes was actually wet, and there were drops of water flowing out of the eye sockets, and the river god cried!

Seeing this, Ma Zangshan knelt down directly, and then he heard a voice say to him, telling him to persuade all the people in the village who lived by the river to move out quickly, because soon there would be a great flood, and the big water would wash away everything in the low places.

When Ma Zangshan heard the news, he hurriedly ran to inform the villagers in the village, Ma Zangshan said that the gods were in tears, and what he said was true, but those villagers didn't believe it, and they had to follow Ma Zangshan to see.

Ma Zangshan saw everything with his own eyes, and he led the villagers to see it very confidently, but after passing over, the villagers laughed, because the so-called river god statue shed tears, but the roof of the temple leaked, and some water happened to drip on the vague eye position of the river god statue, creating the illusion that the river god was crying.

The tears of the river god are fake, and the villagers regard the so-called words of the river god that Ma Zangshan said as falsehoods, and they think that Ma Zangshan is bragging, and they want to win the attention of the villagers again.

And everyone also said that they made so many wishes to the river god, but none of them came true, so there was no river god living in this temple at all, and one of the families surnamed Li also picked up a stone and threw it at the head of the river god statue.

Half of the mutilated head of the river god was smashed off, and it was originally two eyes with tears, but now it has become one.

The villagers all left, leaving only Ma Zangshan alone in the river temple, and he looked at the river temple for a while and said, "If you want to really be able to manifest the spirit, why didn't you come out and tell them in person just now?" ”

"Could it be that I'm confused, I'm blind?"

Ma Zangshan couldn't tell whether it was true or not, so he also went home to sleep.

Since that day, the rain outside has not stopped, and the water in the river has become more and more turbulent, and on the second day, the water in the river has become a flood, but there is still some distance from the embankment, this kind of scene, the villagers have not seen this kind of scene, and no one cares.

But in the afternoon of that day, a light rain suddenly burst out, and the water overflowed the embankment, and many people ran to the mountains in fright, but only two families did not leave.

One family is the Li family who smashed the statue of the river god, they thought about running, but the river had sealed their door, they jumped on the roof to ask for help, and the villagers also prepared ropes, thinking about saving them, but I don't know how, his house collapsed in the flood with a "bang".

And the houses near Li's house are all in good condition.

Then there is Ma Zangshan's family, and his wife also keeps asking for help around, but Ma Zangshan is sitting on the roof and looking at the direction of the river temple without saying a word.

After a while, he felt that his wife's screaming was annoying, so he roared angrily: "What is it called, there is a river god to protect us, we will be fine, the river temple will not fall, and my Mazang Mountain will not leave here." ”

Why Ma Zangshan made such a decision at that time, he himself couldn't say clearly, so he felt that he should do that, so he said.

Their house is surrounded by a river embankment in front and a mountain ridge in the back, so they can get out of danger as long as they are more than ten meters away.

Therefore, Ma Zangshan's wife didn't want to wait for death here, and she didn't want to go crazy with her husband, so she couldn't wait to grab the rope and prepare to climb the mountain after the villagers threw a rope.

But as soon as she grabbed the rope and carried the child into the flood, a huge wooden beam rushed over and knocked Ma Zangshan's wife into the water, and then his wife and son were swallowed up by the flood.

Hearing this, I asked Ma Zangshan curiously: "How did you survive, in that situation, didn't your house collapse?" ”

Ma Zangshan took a deep breath and said, "Collapse, how can it not collapse!" ”

So how did he get alive?