Fishermen in the East China Sea love to dress up their fishing boats. There are beautiful patterns on both sides of the boat, but there is a sea loach on the butt of the boat. What is the reason for that? Here is another story.

Once upon a time, there was a knock on the watchfish in the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, which was ugly and dark. He knocked on the watch at Dragon Palace for many years. Seeing the dragon son and grandson paired up and had children, he was over 30 years old and single. Throughout the year, holding a cold gong, he knocked and knocked in the Dragon Palace… In the middle of the night, walking between the courtyard of the deep palace... Remembering his sad life experience, he couldn't help but burst into tears. As he knocked on the watch, he sang the sad tune of the fifth watch. He sang about his miserable mood, his words were true, and the tune was sad and tearful. One night, the bright moon hung in the sky like a jade bracelet in the hand of the dragon girl, illuminating the palace courtyard like daylight. At this time, the sad knocking sound came from a distance, alerting Princess Caizhu, who lived deep in a high-rise building. Although Princess Caizhu has the appearance of sinking fish and falling geese, and the appearance of closing the moon and shying at flowers, her mother has fallen out of favor with the Dragon King, and she has also been given cold treatment. Seeing that her age has reached the marriage period, she has not yet been hired. Usually, she never leaves the Pearl Tower, never in contact with the outside world. Loneliness, loneliness, and sadness fill her heart together. Whenever she hears the cold and desolate tune, she often has an indescribable taste in her heart. It seems that the five more tunes that are sung by the more fish are exactly the bitter water that she wants to spit out in her heart. After a long time, there is a kind of curiosity and compassion, and I want to see how the singing is born. Coincidentally, on this moonlit night, Princess Caizhu was watching the moon on the platform of the Pearl Tower, and she met Kougengyu. Princess Caizhu glanced shyly at Kougengyu, and hid in the Pearl Tower, but Kougengyu was like an anchored ship, always staying there stupidly. Kougengyu couldn't believe his eyes. Could it be that a gust of wind blew Chang'e from the moon into the sea? Or did the fairies in the sky come to the Dragon Palace to collect pearls? He also peeked at some beautiful Dragon Princess, but none of them could compare with her beauty.

He thought that the dragon girl might appear again on the pearl tower, so he kept looking up blankly and looking at the platform. Looking, looking, as soon as the watch passed, the dragon girl still didn't come out. Could it be that the celestial woman has really returned to the moon palace? Seeing that the fifth watch was approaching, he could only hold the gongs and quickly left the pearl tower to report the tide at the Dachao Yuan Shuai Mansion.

From then on Knock Gengyu seemed to have fallen into evil, and came to visit under the Pearl Tower every night. He thought that one day the dragon girl would show up again. Three months have passed, and the dragon girl has not shown up. What is the reason for that? Knock Gengyu was dazed and puzzled. Or the muddlefish, who was well informed, ran to tell him that it was the dragon girl who appreciated the moon, and was known. He reported to the Dragon King, and Long Yan was furious, scolded the Dragon Mother, and put the Princess under house arrest. Knock Gengyu died. However, he had become sick with lovesickness, and was as thin as a wick, and soon died gloomily. On his deathbed, he confided his thoughts to his good friend, Muddlefish. He said, "I can't see the princess again in life, and I have to be by her side when I die." He asked the muddlefish to bury his body secretly under the beads of the princess of colored beads, and the muddlefish did as he wished.

Strange to say, after a while, a sea tree actually grew in the place where the fish was buried. The color of the trunk was like an iron tree, and the branches were as tall and straight as green bamboo. The tree kept growing, and in less than half a month the branches touched the window of the Pearl Tower. One night, the sea tree suddenly blossomed. The one on the top of the tree was particularly large, with petals like black jade, and its aroma was amazing, and it could smell ten miles away. The refreshing fragrance of flowers made Princess Caizhu drunk! She could no longer hold back the rippling spring heart, so she reached out to pick the flower from the window and carefully chewed it with her mouth. The flowers and leaves are as sweet as a fairy. As she chewed, she unknowingly ate the whole flower into her stomach.

Soon Princess Caizhu was pregnant. Her belly grew as big as a day, and this matter was heard by the Dragon Palace, and it spread like a gust of wind, reaching the ears of the Dragon King. The Dragon King is a tyrant, and of course he cannot tolerate such ugly things. He aggressively carried the fish intestine sword to the Pearl Tower, and Princess Caizhu's lips were so white that she trembled while hugging her big belly. The more the Dragon King looked, the angrier he became, and he raised his sword to stab. At this time, a voice suddenly came from Princess Caizhu's belly: "Don't kill! Don't kill! I'll come out by myself!"

As she spoke, a blue cloud flew out of the princess's mouth, and a small thing that looked like a dragon, but not a dragon, like a fish, but not a fish, was churning in the green cloud. It was the sea loach. The skin of the sea loach was as black as paint, and the whole body was naked. With a mouth full of sludge, it sprayed out a mouth full of sludge, making a mess of a good pearl tower. The Dragon King hurriedly ordered all the soldiers to capture it, but the sea loach was as smooth as oil, and no one could catch him. Just as the general crab came to beat with a double battle, he jumped into the Dragon King's ear with a snap, from the ear to the Dragon King's stomach, and bit and ripped in the Dragon King's belly, causing the Dragon King to scream. The Dragon King is a golden branch and jade leaf, how can he stand this toss. Helpless, I have to beg for mercy:

"My grandson, stop fighting in my belly, please come out quickly, this king will make you an oil-robed general and rule over the fish emperor of the East China Sea!"

Only then did the sea loach come out of the dragon king's nostrils. From now on, in the East China Sea, whether it is a scaly fish wearing a scale robe or a scaleless fish wearing an oil robe, he must be given three points. Even the most ferocious big fish would rush to avoid him when they saw him, not daring to disturb him, for fear that he would get into their stomachs and make trouble. Probably for this reason, fishermen in the East China Sea like to draw a sea loach on the butt of their boat for good luck and go to sea safely.