Have you heard the strange story told by the old man a long time ago?

My hometown is located at the corner of a big river. For many years, the villagers have relied on the nourishment of this big river, and they are full of legends because of this big river!

My hometown is in a small village in northern Jiangsu, near the corner of Sheyang River. When roads and bridges were not built many years ago, the village was quiet and beautiful, far from the noise.

As long as I can remember, Sheyang River is so wide, shrouded in fog in the morning and emitting golden light refracted by sunlight in the afternoon. About this river. There are many stories circulating, among which the story about the serpent attracts my attention the most!

According to the old people, there were no villages on either side of the river bank for a long time. At that time, it was still a wasteland. During the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang moved Suzhou Nagato and Huguan to Subei Plain for generations, and some of them settled by Sheyang River, where my ancestors lived.

The old man said that when he first came here, it was deserted, overgrown with weeds and deserted for a hundred miles, but the small ditch by the river was very rich in fish and shrimp, so people decided to settle here.

The most important thing at that time was to build a house. Fortunately, there are patches of trees on both sides of the river bank, so it is convenient to use local materials. One morning, at first light, people began to work. The two brothers went to move the wood that had been put away the day before. When they were ready to work hard, they found that what they were carrying was very cold and the surface was a little hard, but the whole thing was weak, unlike wood. On closer inspection, the two brothers almost died of fright. This is not a trunk, but it is obviously a big snake.

Rolling and crawling, they ran back and told everyone. At first, everyone didn't believe it, but the mud and expressions on the two brothers didn't look fake. So a group of people got up the courage to go over and check it out. At this point, it was already dawn. Sure enough, they saw a big snake lying there. I may have been disturbed by someone carrying wood just now. At this time, they woke up and looked like people holding their heads high, with red letters in their mouths, but they didn't mean to hurt people.

The serpent swam to Sheyang River and left a deep impression. Later, people occasionally see big snakes sunbathing on the shore on sunny days.

The rumor that there is a big snake in Sheyang River has spread to this day. When I was a child, I heard that one morning, Lao Yang, a fisherman in the village, went to the river to collect the cage buried the night before, a tool for catching shrimp. When he was closing the net, suddenly a wave shook the boat a few times. Lao Yang looked around. No big ship passed by, and there was no wind. How can there be waves? Just as Lao Yang wondered, far away, a big snake surfaced and swam to the reeds on the other side of the river, only to see reeds rustling. Lao Yang was too scared to connect to the Internet, so he hurried back to the shore.

I don't know if this is true or not, but the old people have been saying it by word of mouth. This may be true, but it sounds like fiction! How credible do you think this legend is?