There is a ten-mile-long dragon stream under Gulong Mountain in Taipingguan Town, Pengze County. There is a Ming Dynasty stone arch bridge on the stream. Under the bridge is the bottomless Gulong Pool. The surface is still and there are no waves, and the undercurrent at the bottom of the pool is turbulent, which is very dangerous.
Legend has it that a long time ago, a fisherman was weaving a net by the pool, and the wooden comb on his head fell into the pool. Unexpectedly, this wooden comb with her name engraved on it was picked up by her father who was fishing on Taibo Lake dozens of miles away. It turned out that Gulong Lake crossed Gulong Mountain, and the exit was at Taibo Lake in Madang, the first town in northern Jiangxi. After a year of severe drought, the water in Longxi fell into the pool. There was a man who was confident in his water quality and went down to fish in the pool. After coming up, his nose was blue and his face was swollen. The man danced and said, "You know, there is the Dragon Palace at the bottom of Gulong Lake. There is a palace and a garden. I saw the dragon girl picking flowers, and the third prince also gave me a night pearl!" The man was dumb after saying that, and he broke his hand, and there was indeed a huge night pearl in his palm. From then on, people have no doubt that the Dragon Palace is under the ancient dragon pool.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a village girl named Cuicui by the edge of Longxi. She had delicate eyebrows, was smart, and liked to sing. Her voice was like a bell in the wind, singing better than a lark in spring.
Just after the Flower Dynasty, Cuicui came to the stream with a basket to pick tea buds. Cuicui is seventeen years old, and it is early to talk about marriage. The father was determined to climb high branches, so he delayed the good time of his daughter. In spring, the weather in Gulong Mountain warms up, and ten thousand trees spit green. The whole mountain rises and falls, just like jasper carvings, and the water of Longxi is fine and unstained, as if a green lace is floating. Pairs of koi chase happily on the stream, making people fascinated to see. Cuicui's heart is in spring for a while, and she sings: "In February, I came to Baihua Fragrance, and both carp swam on the stream. Yumei was originally a girl from Longtan, which river does Brother Yu live in?" Before his voice fell, a young man selling oil on the opposite side continued to sing: "February Longxi is beautiful, carp come in pairs and then come in pairs, my sister asked where my brother's house is, Dou Family Villa at the foot of Gulong Mountain." Cuicui fixed her eyes and looked at a handsome young man who was about the same age as herself. He was ashamed for a while and said, "I didn't ask you, so shameless!" "Don't ask me who to ask?" "I ask fish!" The young man laughed and said, "Can fish talk?" Cuicui didn't show weakness: "I asked about fish, in short, you are shameless!" After saying that, he took the basket and left.
Cuicui climbed onto the wheat field, and the young man sang again from behind: "Brother is a magpie flying in the sky, and my sister is a plum tree in Longshan. The magpie rests on the plum tree, and the stone doesn't fly even if it hits." Cuicui found that the young man is not only handsome, but also sings well. He found a confidant for a while, turned around and said shyly, "What if the magpie rests on the plum tree, be careful that people hit you with a penny." Everyone said loudly: "I'm not afraid, the penny doesn't fly even if it calls!"
Cuicui later learned that the young man's name was Shuigen, and he was an oil seller in Doujiazhuang next to him. He was known as the oil seller, who picked oil and passed by the bridge every day. He was honest and smart, and loved to sing. He grew in love and often found excuses to meet him by the bridge. Unexpectedly, my sister was in love, and Lang was interested. Like many infatuated young men and women, he swore that one would not marry the other, and the other would not marry the other.
One day, Shui Gen asked a matchmaker to propose marriage. Cuicui's father, He Mianjiang, looked down on Shui Gen and said contemptuously, "The boy of the Dou family is a cheap oil seller. If he can't earn a few copper coins a year, he wants to marry Cui Cui, and the toad wants to eat swan meat. Unless he can come up with the betrothal gift of ten buffaloes, I may be able to consider it." After the matchmaker went back, she told Shui Gen what He Mianjiang had said. Shui Gen was not discouraged, and the next day he put down the oil pick and went to the countryside to find a job that earned a lot of money. He vowed that he would never return home if he could not earn ten buffalo.
It is said that there is a rich second generation in Pengli Town, and the name given by his parents is Fu Yifang. Because he is rich, he changed his name to the rich side. He is not much younger than He Mijiang, but his heart is very spent, and he has long coveted Cuicui's beauty. When he heard that He Mijiang asked for the betrothal gift of ten buffaloes, he was secretly happy in his heart. He prepared ten buffaloes, plus silk and pearl agate, and sent them to He Mansion to marry Cuicui for a hundred years. He Mijiang knew that the age was not equal, how could he give up the wealth he got? He was overjoyed for a while, and immediately changed the marriage contract without telling Cuicui, and set the wedding date for the wheat harvest the next year.
Shuigen asked someone to do a hexagram before going out. The person who did the hexagram said that the God of Wealth was in the south and asked him to go all the way south. Shuigen came to Hukou County and found that a brick kiln hired people and mud, and that one day's work could pay off a month's salary for selling oil to the villagers. When he arrived at the kiln, the kiln master saw that Shuigen was honest and told him the truth: "Young man, mud is hard work. You have to work barefoot in frost and snow, and no one can work for a few days. It used to be stepped on by cattle, and the owner cherished the people hired by the cattle. Can you suffer?" Shuigen said: "As long as you can make money, I am not afraid of being tired again!" Shuigen boasted of his strength and got up early every day to dig the soil and pick up water to wake up the mud. The hardest thing is mud, which must be stepped on with After a few days, his feet were rotten, and his legs were so swollen that he couldn't even walk. Suffering from the cold again, he lay in bed for a full month. Shui Root quit his job in the kiln and came to Huangmei County across the river. The family was recruiting people to dig dams, and he caught up with them. It was not easy to dig dams. In the cold winter and twelfth lunar month, the soil was as hard as iron, and the hoe dug it and risked sparks. As soon as he thought of Cuicui, he encouraged himself to persevere. The proprietors were kind, and they entertained him with delicious food and drink. It was not completed until spring. Shui Root finally earned the money of a buffalo. He continued to walk south. After the Xiaoman solar term, the farmers in Nankang Road were harvesting a kind of early ripening wheat called rice wheat. He passed a mountain dock, and suddenly dark clouds rolled in the sky. Seeing that a heavy rain was coming, an old man grabbed the wheat. He rushed to help. Shui Root helped the old man carry the wheat home, and the heavy rain began to fall. The old man was very grateful and gave him a bunch of wheat ears. It rained until late, and Shui Root couldn't hurry, so he had to stay at the old man's house. Shui Root slept very sweetly at night. I woke up in the morning and found myself lying in a broken temple. I thought I had a dream. For a moment, I remembered that the old man had given him a bunch of wheat ears yesterday, and they were pressed under his clothes. He opened his clothes, and his eyes straightened instantly. The bunch of wheat ears turned into golden wheat ears. Shui Root knew that there was a God to help. This bunch of golden wheat ears not only bought ten buffaloes, but also thought of getting up from high-rise buildings, buying fields, and living with Cuicui in love and affection.
The words were divided into two ends, and in the blink of an eye, the rich party hired eight palanquins, hired two classes of drummers, and bragged all the way to the He family to welcome relatives. He Xijiang was in the house, and Cuicui was still in the dark. Her daughter had to dress up when she got married, but her mother couldn't hide it and told her the truth. Cuicui knew that she had been sold to the rich party by her father, and refused to comply. She packed her change of clothes and quietly slipped out the back door while the family was busy.
Cuicui rushed forward in a hurry and just stepped on the Cologne Bridge. Seeing two burly men standing there, he knew that he had been tricked and turned to run back. The rich party just rushed under the bridge, and the front and rear roads were blocked. Cuicui said angrily, "The rich party, don't waste your time, I won't marry you even if I die!" The rich party said with a grim smile: "Cuicui, accept your fate, your life and death are mine!" After saying that, he went to hug Cuicui. Cuicui knew that it was impossible to escape, and his heart was horizontal and said, "Shuigen, I can't be paired with you in this life, and I hope to be paired with you in the next life." After saying that, he jumped into the ancient dragon pool. The rich side did not expect Cuicui to dare jump off the bridge, and was very regretful. He sent someone to inform the He family to salvage the body, and he fled with the family in embarrassment.
Shuigen rushed back to Doujiazhuang day and night for the third day of Cuicui throwing water. Shuigen lit a stick of incense by the Gulong Pond and said, "Cuicui, I want those greedy people to pay the price, you wait for me!"
Shuigen disappeared, and people found a pair of shoes on the edge of Gulong Pond. The people of Doujiazhuang all said that Shuigen died in love. A month later, a fisherman was fishing in Taibo Lake and found a wax-sealed bamboo tube with a letter written by Shuigen to Cuicui's parents. Shuigen said in the letter that he met Cuicui in the Dragon Palace. He became the goddaughter of the Dragon King. Cuicui said that she had a marriage certificate with the rich party, and only waited for him to marry her. In this life, he could only match his brother and sister. The Dragon King asked Cuicui to manage the imperial garden, so that the two elders of the He family did not have to worry. One spread of ten, ten spread of hundreds, and the whole Taipingguan Town spread. The news reached Pengli Town, and the rich party personally came to He's house to read the letter and was convinced that it was true. He thought that Cuicui would be a princess if she became the goddaughter of the Dragon King, and wouldn't she be a concubine if she married Cuicui? Cuicui would not be stingy with her dowry when she married the Dragon King, and any stone in the Dragon Palace would be priceless. Thinking of this, the rich man's heart is itchy. If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get a tiger's son. He decided to go to the Dragon Palace to marry Cuicui.
The rich party was going to the Dragon Palace to greet his relatives, and people from near and far came to the Gulong Pond to watch the fun. The two elders of the He family also came. It was a dangerous thing to go down to the Gulong Pond. Although the rich party had good water quality when he was young, he was still worried that he would not be able to get up, so he specially bought a rope a hundred feet long, tied it around his waist at one end, and gave the other end to two guys named Goucai and Winter Melon. The rich party said, "Listen up, you two, it is dangerous for me to pull the rope three times below, and you immediately pull the rope up." After giving the order, he made a bow to the two elders of the He family with his fists in both hands, and jumped into the Gulong Pond. The people on the shore saw that the rope was falling, and when it fell to ninety-nine feet, it suddenly stopped moving. People threw their eyes into the pool together, and there was still no movement at the bottom of the pool until sunset. The housekeeper of Fu Mansion breathed a sigh of relief and said, "All the villagers, my master is doing well. I 'm afraid that tonight is the wedding candle with Princess Cuicui in the Dragon Palace, so everyone should be scattered!" The two guys had already sore and weak, and if they got the amnesty order, they would work together to pull the rope up. Unexpectedly, they brought a corpse with them, whose body was smashed by the whirlpool on the stone, and carefully identified that it was the rich master Fu.
It turned out that Shuigen didn't throw himself into the pool at all. The letter was a bait he set up to catch the big fish of the rich side. At first, he didn't know, but he didn't expect the rich side to be too greedy and really took the bait. When he stood on the ancient dragon mountain to enjoy the scene of his director, he was very excited. In the dead of night, Shuigen burned a thick stack of paper money for himself by the bridge, then walked up to the Cologne bridge and said loudly, "Cuicui, I'm here with you!" He jumped into the ancient dragon pool, and from then on, there was a pair of koi in the pool. They cuddled together in the water, like a loving couple.