came to the enemy's Shanshidu, who was by the Fenghua River. Yesterday I briefly talked about the origin of the "Stone" name, but do you think this will end? Today, let’s tell a more mysterious story. You should know that the gods also "fall out" here back then. If it weren’t for the secrets of heaven, this place would probably be no longer a ferry, but a bridge across Fenghua River .
It is said that the ferry here existed a long time ago, for people, trucks and horses to cross the river, but because it is really simple, whenever heavy rain, the river water rises, the stone steps on the shore will be all immersed in the water, and the ferry can hardly dock, so the ferry can only be stopped. So local people have always wanted to build a bridge here, but when we open the map, we can find that this is a river, not the Nantang River next to it. The river is wide and the water is deep. With the villagers' own skills at that time, it is really only a matter of sighing.
One day, the river water rose again, and some people who thought about crossing the river could only gather in the ferry's thatched hut and sigh. You talked about building a bridge again with one word, but I couldn't tell anything except complaining. In the end, someone said depressedly: "Don't dream about the blue sky. Build a bridge here unless the gods come to help." It was originally a summary speech, but who knew that as soon as the words came, a white-bearded old man who had not spoken in the crowd answered, saying, "What's the difficulty..."
The simple four words instantly puzzled everyone present, "What's the difficulty"? Hebei is not good. Looking at everyone's expression of looking at a fool, the old man continued, "I said it's OK, but I also want to ask everyone to keep a promise. No matter what appears on the river tomorrow, you can be surprised after seeing it, but you must never say the word "stone". Otherwise, the construction of a bridge would be like hanging curtains on the screen wall - there is no door." After saying that, he floated away arrogantly.
Some people actually said that they could build bridges here, and this important news immediately flew to every corner like wings. The next day, although they were skeptical, the people still rushed to the ferry and wanted to witness the moment of history. People stretched their necks and waited for a while, their feet were sore, and finally saw white things floating upstream. Everyone's eyes were wide open, and they didn't blink, trying to see clearly what it was? As the thing drifted closer and closer, it turned out to be the big stones. Now I opened my eyes. The stones could actually float on the water. Thinking back, the white-bearded old man must be not an ordinary person. I can't guarantee that he really didn't brag.
Just as everyone's surprised eyes and discussions were all, the stones had slowly floated to the river in front of the ferry, and there was also a line to connect to the other side. Then, just imagine the way boat bridge troops build a floating bridge in the river, which should be almost the same. Seeing a stone bridge connecting the north and south of Fenghua River, who knew that at this time a crisp childish voice came from the crowd, "Mom, look, is this a stone?"
"It's over". I believe this is the voice of everyone present at that time. The originally noisy ferry crossing suddenly became silent, and time felt as if it was frozen at this moment. Looking at the stones again, they all suddenly turned over and sank into the water piece by piece. The crowd was in a state of great pain and the pauses were boiling again, shouting that it was a pity, accusing and insulting, and even some people offered to throw the child into the river and apologize. The parents who were scared to protect the child tightly and kept apologizing to everyone. Just when everyone didn't know what to do, the old man appeared. He touched his beard and said, "Don't make things difficult for the child, it's all the number of days, don't blame him." Then he shook his head, stepped onto a cloud, and ascended. Only then did people realize that he was really a god. Since the god said that, it would be difficult for the child to make things difficult for him. So they changed the name of the ferry that was originally intended to build a bridge to "Shake Ferry" to thank the old man for his help.
Later, according to the records of the "Ningbo Prefecture Chronicle", in the 12th year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty (1276), the Fenghua River dried up and reached its bottom. People really saw a row of big stones on the riverbed in front of this ferry.
, let’s end with today’s story. Isn’t it more mysterious than the story of “a woman pointed at a broom to a stone” that I told yesterday? Do you want to know more about our hometown Ningbo stories? Follow me, see you tomorrow.
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