At the end of the Ming Dynasty , there was a family named Huang in a certain place. The couple had a son named Huang Dawang. King Huang has loved water since he was born. When he sees water inside and outside the house, he will play with it. If it rains, he will be even happier. He often plays in the rain, and his parents often stop him.
When Huang Dawang was three years old, his father passed away and his mother raised him alone. In order to survive, my mother would wash and mend clothes for others to earn some money to support the family.
Once, my mother was going to wash clothes, and Huang Dawang woke up from his sleep. She was worried about leaving it at home, so she took it with her. When they arrived at the well, mother fetched water from the well, and King Huang was playing on the side. Suddenly, he saw his own shadow in the well. He found it interesting and immediately jumped into the well.
The mother was frightened when she saw it, and immediately shouted for help. After hearing this, the neighbors on the left and right rushed over to help. As a result, when they looked into the well, they were stunned. They saw the child sitting on the water, constantly lapping the water around him, and he was extremely happy. It was so amazing that he would not sink underwater. Everyone found it strange. Some even thought he was the reincarnation of a god.
The mother was surprised and happy, and she coaxed and coaxed her son, then she let her son grab the basket and then lifted him up.
When Huang Dawang was seven or eight years old, his mother unfortunately fell ill and died due to overwork. Seeing him become an orphan, fortunately, although his aunt was married, she had no children, so she was very happy and took her brother's child home and treated her as her own son.
His aunt and uncle are both fishermen and live on the boat all year round. Now, Huang Dawang is happier and plays with water on the boat every day. His uncle didn't know that he was water-based, so he often warned him not to go into the water, otherwise he would drown. But King Huang didn't listen. He often played in the water secretly on the boat, or simply went into the water to play.
As time passed, my uncle gradually grew disgusted with him.
On this day, my uncle was lying on the bow of the boat, preparing to go fishing later. Huang Dawang was also on the bow of the boat, constantly slapping the water with his feet. The splashes fell on his uncle several times and wet his clothes. My uncle said a few words, but King Huang didn't listen and continued to play with water. The uncle was furious and kicked him into the water.
There was a lot of wind and waves on the water, and Huang Dawang was quickly washed away by the current.
My aunt was originally in the cabin. After hearing the noise outside, she came out and saw that the children were swept away by the current. She was angry and anxious, and shouted at her husband: "Why did you kill my son! If you do this, not only will our Huang family be extinct, but we will also be homeless in the future!" After
said this, her aunt burst into tears.
My uncle disagreed and said, "This child is too naughty and of no use. What are you doing raising him? Keeping him will not only waste rice, but may cause trouble for us in the future, so it's better to drown him."
Auntie was so angry that she cried. She stopped paying attention to her husband and planned to go boating to rescue King Huang. However, my uncle didn't agree, so my aunt grabbed the paddle, and the two couldn't get over it.
After a while, a boatman came downstream. He saw the two people arguing and asked what was going on. The aunt cried and told the story and said she would save the child.
After hearing this, the boatman smiled and said, "Don't worry. I saw the child, ten miles downstream. He was still playing in the water. I saw that he was happy and nothing happened. , How could he be drowned? Stop arguing and go and have a look." Upon hearing this, my uncle felt strange that such a large amount of water swept away ten miles and did not drown him. He quickly rowed a boat and took his wife downstream. Sure enough, they saw the child. Not only did the little guy not sink in the water, but he was holding a big fish and laughing happily in the waves.
When the aunt saw it, she wiped her tears happily, then went down to the river and took the child on the boat.
Since then, my aunt also knew that her husband could not tolerate this child, maybe because he was not his biological son. It seemed that he could not be blamed. However, the child could no longer go near the water, otherwise she would anger her husband again, so she thought about it and asked Huang Dawang to herd cattle.
While grazing cattle, Huang Dawang passed by a place where the village children studied.Out of curiosity, he listened for a while and found it very interesting, so he came to listen every day. He is very talented and attentive, so he learns quickly.
Mr. Huang can be seen every time he leaves the house and enters the house. One day he couldn't help but ask Huang Dawang: "Child, can you understand the article I'm talking about?"
Huang Dawang immediately recited the article his husband said and gave the general meaning. It was absolutely correct. The husband thought the child was good and asked about him. When he learned that his parents had passed away and that his aunt was raising him and he was quarreling with his uncle, he stopped looking for his aunt and instead found the owner who hired him, expressing his hope that the child could be brought to him. The child was studying, and the owner of
was very happy and agreed to the private school.
Therefore, besides herding cattle every day, Huang Dawang could study and study in the house with peace of mind. A few years later, he became a child and went to the county school to continue studying. In the past few years, Huang Dawang's aunt and uncle have also passed away, leaving him completely alone.
Later, the master saw that King Huang was a talented man and had no relatives, so he betrothed his daughter to him. From then on, King Huang married a wife, started a family, studied and became more diligent than before. However, because he had no livelihood, he could only make a living by opening a private school and teaching children to read.
Because Huang Dawang had read many books, was knowledgeable, could explain the deep meanings and truths in poems and articles, and played well with children, everyone liked him very much and sent their children to study with him. Slowly, his fame grew. After hearing about him, a vassal king in Henan, the King of Zhou, recruited him to his mansion and asked him to do paperwork.
At that time, it was the last years of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was not only in chaos internally, but also very bad outside. There were the revolting King ChuangLi Zicheng, the Qing army, etc., so the world was in chaos.
After a few years in the Zhou palace, King Chuang's soldiers happened to come over and besiege Henan. Huang Dawang anticipated what would happen next. After leaving with some excuse, he bought dozens of boats of various sizes, and then went up the Yellow River . Sure enough, it didn't take long before Li Zicheng began to breach the Yellow River and try to flood Henan City.
At this time, King Huang's fleet arrived. He quickly rescued King Zhou and others. The boats were full of people, including thousands of people.
Li Zicheng's army came after him and wanted to capture the king of Zhou alive. But when they were about to catch up, King Huang actually summoned a thick fog that covered a five-mile radius, thus stopping Li Zicheng's army in time. Therefore, King Zhou fled to the depths of Songshan Mountain, an inaccessible place. King Huang quickly arranged the rooms, etc., so that King Zhou could live in seclusion here. As for supplies, etc., King Huang has also arranged them, which is enough for them to eat and drink for many years.
King Zhou thanked King Huang and asked him who he was, why he could summon the fog, why he could decorate the house in an instant, and why the food appeared out of thin air. However, King Huang refused to say.
After settling Queen Zhou, King Huang still went home to teach. At that time, there were bandits, soldiers, robbers, etc. everywhere. However, when they saw Huang Dawang's village, they could always see many soldiers in the village, disappearing and appearing. They suspected that there was an ambush inside, and even more suspected that there was a god. The soldiers help each other, so they dare not invade.
When some people fled here, they would look for Huang Dawang, who also arranged food and lodging for them.
Later, the King of Zhou personally sent troops to recruit King Huang to go back, but King Huang said that he had important matters and could not follow King Zhou, so he did not go. Even so, he continued to study and teach in the village.
At that time, Emperor Shunzhi had already taken control of the Central Plains, and the Qing Dynasty was dominating the Central Plains. After Emperor Shunzhi learned about Queen Huang, he sent someone to ask him to come out and regulate the Yellow River. It turned out that after Li Zicheng opened the Yellow River, he no longer took care of the Yellow River's affairs. However, the Yellow River breach had to be controlled, but the ministers had no good solution and had to ask King Huang.
King Huang did not refuse, and immediately went out of the mountain. He directed others to build embankments and channel the river water. He did it in an orderly manner. Soon, the Yellow River was on the last step, just to surround the last opening of the dam.
King Huang selected four strong soldiers and asked them to hold the big chun tree, and then go to the Yellow River to block the opening. However, the four healthy soldiers did not dare because the current of the Yellow River was very strong and they were afraid of drowning.
After seeing their thoughts, King Huang said: "The four of you are destined to do this big thing, make great contributions, and then be sought after by the world and worshiped by future generations. If you don't go down the river, not only will you not be able to receive People sacrificed and were executed instead of being killed for disobeying the order. "
When the four soldiers heard this, they thought it made sense. They ate three kilograms of meat, drank three large bowls of wine, and then hugged the big chun. The tree arrived in the Yellow River. Under the command of King Huang, the four people successfully placed the big chun tree in the gap and blocked the Yellow River. They were done. After the people nearby and the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River learned about it, they kowtowed to King Huang and the four strong soldiers one after another. Sure enough, they worshiped these people. After all, they blocked the Yellow River and they would not be flooded. This was a great merit.
After the incident was completed, several officials said they would report to the emperor and ask the emperor to grant King Huang an official title.
King Huang refused and said: "I am a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. I am a member of the Ming Dynasty when I am born. I am also a ghost of the Ming Dynasty when I die. I did not choose to commit suicide. I am loyal to the country. It is no longer right. If I continue to be your official , Isn’t it shameless? Since ancient times, there have been many scholars who have betrayed the country, but there are also many scholars who are loyal to the imperial court. The reason why I am willing to help is to consider the people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, not for fame."
finished. Afterwards, King Huang left.
After a period of time, the Yellow River water receded and the river sand rose. The river used to transport grain was submerged by the river sand. The imperial court recruited thousands of people to clear the yellow sand in the river, but it was in vain. Because there is too much yellow sand and it is very heavy and difficult to transport. The most important thing is that there is too much yellow sand in the Yellow River water and it cannot be dug out all. Many people died of exhaustion, and their corpses piled up like mountains, but it was still useless.
The court had no choice but to ask the river governor in charge of the Yellow River to invite King Huang, but King Huang refused to come. The governor of the river went to invite him three times in person, but King Huang refused to come. Finally, the river governor sent people to invite him, but King Huang couldn't bear it and had to go out again.
Arriving in front of the Yunliang River, Huang Dawang took a look and roughly saw the outline and situation of the Yunliang River, and then said: "After fifteen days, I will start the work myself, but you have to make it a hundred miles away. People, please move out, and they will move back after the grain transport river is repaired. I can do it myself.”
After the fifteenth day, all the people within a radius of 100 miles moved away. Tens of thousands of people came to watch. They were all curious about how Huang Dawang could handle the grain transport river alone that tens of thousands of people could not open.
After noon, King Huang looked at the sky and recited something silently. The originally clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, with wind, rain, thunder and lightning. Among the clouds, everyone saw several giant black dragons coming down from the sky. After King Huang recited a few more sentences, the giant dragons came down one after another, reached the top of the Yellow River, and then sprayed water from their mouths.
The water in the dragon's mouth is like a waterfall, with large volume and fast speed, but small scope. The mouths of four dragons are side by side, which is almost as wide as the Yellow River.
As water spurted out from the dragon's mouth, the heaven and earth shook, and the mountains collapsed and the earth cracked. People watching from a distance on both sides were shaken and fell down. The noisy sound is like a yellow stream pouring out of control, and it is also like a fierce enemy fighting fiercely. Soon, all the yellow sand under the Yellow River was washed away.
The four giant dragons were not idle for a moment, and continued to go down, spraying water at the same time to wash away the Yellow River. They kept spraying for three days and nights, and all the yellow sand in the Yellow River was washed away.
After the river sand was resolved, the river governor went to find King Huang and found that he had disappeared. According to common people, he was so tired that he vomited blood and died. But no one knows that King Huang was originally the river god in the sky, and he just returned to the heaven after his death.
The governor of the river reported to the court and made King Huang the god of the river. The four strong soldiers who held the big chun tree were also named and became the four generals of the god of the river. The imperial court also allocated funds to build a river temple on the edge of the Yellow River to worship them.
Later, the people nearby said that as long as there was trouble in the Yellow River, they would see King Huang walking in the Yellow River, with four strong men leading the way.
