Chapter 4 Fourth, the method of recruiting fish

A month ago, at the mouth of the Pearl River, on the beach. The fishermen under the scorching sun were listless, because during that time, whether they were catching the sea at home or going fishing, they felt that the number of fish had dropped sharply and there was nothing to catch. At that time, people did not understand the effect of changes in ocean currents on fish.Ocean current convection can cause changes in temperature and pollution in local sea areas, and the species and quantity of fish will also change accordingly.Therefore, there are peak seasons and off-seasons for fishing, but that time, it was a big off-season. For several months, fishermen returned empty-handed every time they went to sea.

The sea breeze is blowing slowly, and children are running on the beach. The children don't know the worries of the adults, so they sing while running: The sky tilts to the northwest, It sinks to the southeast. If you don't believe in Fairy, The sea is dry and the river is dry. The fishermen opened their sleepy eyes. "Adi, come here, who taught you the songs?" Before the words were finished, the child shook his head and pointed behind the fishermen. The fishermen turned their heads one after another, and it turned out that it was "Xiangu Huici" who had arrived.

Qiao Wumei's external identity in Nanyue is a homely Taoist of the Shangqing School in Maoshan, known as "Xiangu Huici".Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, she has prayed for blessings and rains in Guangzhou and Guangxi many times, and it has been fulfilled repeatedly. The prefect of Guangzhou personally inscribed a plaque for her, saying: "The Taoism is profound, and it helps the world and the common people; the common people are sentimental, and the merits are immeasurable." Not far from the beach, there is a big banyan tree with coiled branches, lush and lush, with slanted branches extending tens of meters in all directions, the whole tree is like a small forest.

Qiao Wumei came to the banyan tree and hung red and yellow silk and satin on the tree, and the accompanying people placed a low incense table under the tree. Qiao Wumei burned three sticks of incense and chanted. Afterwards, Qiao Wumei said to the fishermen: "This tree has been taken by the Sea God. If you do not do good for a long time, the Sea God is furious and recalls all the fish and shrimps to show God's power!" The fishermen said one after another: "Xiangu help us." Qiao Wumei said: "No one can help you, only you can help yourself. Donate money to build a Sea God Temple. It will be worshiped every day and the incense will continue to keep it safe in all seasons."

After all, turn around and leave. The fishermen looked at the incense table under the banyan tree and the merit box next to the incense table, silently in a daze. At this time, a female Abao pretending to be a good-hearted person came over and said, "Sister Huici never tells lies. You have returned empty-handed for the past few months. You might as well try it. I will donate some for you first." As he spoke, he threw some copper coins and oceans into the merit box, and wrote down the names of several fishermen in the merit book. "Whoever donates will benefit. The Sea God has written down the names of you guys. If you go out to sea at five o'clock tomorrow, you will surely catch fish." Abao said.

At five o'clock the next day, those fishermen went out to sea in doubt. Holding up the boat, the sea breeze blows in, and the faint fishing fire is faintly visible. The fishermen just went to the depth of the sea for tens of meters, and found a thick layer of things floating on the sea surface, shining and connected together. I had hallucinations, rubbed my eyes, and walked closer, and found that they were all fish, floating on the water, turning their bellies, white flowers under the moonlight! The fishermen were stunned!Hurry up and cast the net, in fact, there is no need to cast the net at all, just use the net bag to fish up.At the beginning, everyone saw the fish turned over and thought it was a dead fish. After catching it, they found that all the fish could hold up and move!The fishermen were overjoyed and hurriedly kowtowed to the depths of the sea.

After dawn, the news spread, and there were frying pans on the beach.A few fishermen carried baskets of fat fish and walked all the way, giggling happily, and everyone around them looked dumbfounded. So a large number of fishermen began to donate money frantically, and soon the merit box was full. Later, several boxes were placed, and they were all full. At this time, the Dibao contacted by Qiao Wumei came forward and said that since the Sea God occupied the tree, the Sea God Temple was built next to the big tree, so a small temple rose from the ground next to the banyan tree. This incident shocked the whole of Southern Guangdong, and it also provoked the leaders of the "Huidaomen" from the five southern provinces to visit Taoism one after another, hoping that Qiao Wumei could reveal something.Qiao Wumei smiled and said nothing.

This is a secret handed down from the time of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty. In 684 AD, Wu Zetian was making intensive preparations for becoming emperor.If the ancients wanted to do great things, they must first create momentum to show that the destiny is coming.Before Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising, they took out a silk book from the belly of a fish: "Great Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng"; There is a yellow air in the southwest, and if it stands several feet upright, there must be a rumor that the emperor will come from its side."A scheming genius like Wu Meiniang must have a better understanding of the mystery, so she first changed Luoyang, the eastern capital, into the capital of the gods, and then invited various gods to create auspicious images. A spell was cast in the peony pond for Wu Zetian to bathe in. When Wu Zetian took off his clothes and took a bath, as soon as Yuzu stepped into the peony pond, fishes all around swam in one after another. The palace lady shouted: "Good omen! Good omen!"

This spell was passed down from the Magadha Kingdom in central Tianzhu during the Xianqing period of the Tang Dynasty.This method can gather fishes with a radius of tens of nautical miles together without anyone noticing. The ancient method is recorded as follows: "Five green-shelled eggs, soaked in the dry domain for seven days, three liang of meat, one ladle of refined noodles, two qian each of naoyanghua, wild star anise, and fennel, mixed and mashed into mud, and two liang of seasoning oil, worth At the time of the child, when you scatter in the water, if you recite the incantation, all the fish and shrimps for thirty miles will return to your feet."

Green-egg eggs are a kind of eggs with blue skin, which can only be produced by a kind of silky chicken from Hubei and India. "Soak for seven days in the dry fan", the old saying of the dry fan, the meaning of the hut, is to put the green shell eggs laid by the black-bone chicken into the cesspit for seven days and seven nights. Pork is mutton.Take three taels of mutton, a scoop of flour, and then take two taels of Chinese herbal medicines such as Naoyanghua, mix these things and mash them into mud, add some sheep oil, and sprinkle these mushy things in the water at midnight, Recite the corresponding mantra, and the fish will come here one after another when they smell the stench.

In order to achieve the overall situation of recruiting fish, Fifth Sister Qiao tried her best to find out the method of "Zhafei", and finally got this fish-recruiting technique from a wizard on the Yunnan border with a lot of money. The cleverness of the Abaos is that they can draw inferences about everything from one example to another. Qiao Wumei improved this method after many experiments, and added "Sleeping Holy Powder" (equivalent to the current sleeping pills) to various raw materials.After eating these pastes, the fish became drunk, their stomachs turned over, and they floated on the water, ready to be caught! Afterwards, Fifth Sister Qiao faced the sea and laughed loudly: "Everything in the world, I am the only one who is the most respected, the vast land, I am the master of ups and downs!" Now it seems that this is a fishing method that destroys the ecological balance.After the founding of New China, in the 1980s, the coastal and riverside fishery administrations resolutely banned this cruel fishing method. According to the usual practice, this bureau has made it clear to the local gangsters in advance, and will give them 30% of the profits.Unexpectedly, when Qiao Wumei was celebrating the success of the game, someone came to report that the other party asked for an additional 20%, and warned Qiao Wumei not to do this kind of messing up the overall situation. When Qiao Wumei heard this, she burst into anger: "I have made an inch, dare to break ground on my old lady!" Qiao Wumei dared to fight head-on, because she had some excellent network resources in the Secret Investigation Team of the Kuomintang Military Commission (the predecessor of the Military Command Bureau). The boss of the other gangster is also a woman, and people in the world call her the second sister-in-law of Tian.Came to Nanyue a year ago and claimed to be a direct descendant of the Qinghong Gang.There are many sects in Nanyue. After the second sister-in-law Tian came, she distributed a large amount of gold and silver to organize gangsters, and they gained a firm foothold in just one year! The sea areas where fishermen fish are controlled by gangsters. Fishermen have to be tapped when they go to sea or catch the sea.Sometimes they go out for a few days without catching much fish, and they have to pay protection fees when they come back. The fishermen are outraged and dare not speak out. As a result, the status of gangsters in the eyes of fishermen has been greatly reduced by Qiao Wumei recently. The fishermen feel that they can just ask Qiao Wumei for anything. She is a living fairy, and gangsters are vampires who eat for free. To collect protection fees, many fishermen did not cooperate, and they wanted to fight desperately with gangsters with harpoons.Therefore, Second Sister-in-Law Tian quit and came to settle accounts with Fifth Sister Qiao. When the two ghosts of impermanence arrive, life and death are instantaneous.The two halls were in a stalemate for a while, but Qiao Wumei had a heart attack and died. There are two things in life that cannot be decided by oneself: one is life and the other is death.A scheming person is always calculating and thinking hard every day, his heart is overloaded, and he may end up playing one day. When Qiao Wumei smugly shouted "The vast land, I am the master of ups and downs", she would never think that Lord Yama would stand behind her.