Time is like a giant ship, turning to 1915, and suddenly something goes wrong. A strange sign suddenly appeared in the capital. Abnormal signs and signs, as the name suggests, are abnormal natural phenomena.Naturally, if something goes wrong, people will panic, and always feel that something is going to happen.And since this period of time, there have indeed been a little more strange things.According to incomplete statistics, there were no less than twelve abnormal natural phenomena at that time. Which twelve piles?The first is wisteria grass, the second is the dragon entering the house, the third is the dragon coming out of the water, the fourth is the moon fainting, the fifth is the silent frog, the sixth is the scorpion in the tower, the seventh is the rain and blood from the sky, the eighth is the dog ascending the palace, and the ninth is the big old demon. On the tenth, the locusts should be auspicious, on the eleventh the winds folded the flag, and on the twelveth frogs moved south.Many of the above-mentioned strange omens were published in the newspapers at that time, and some of the omens were so noisy that even Europeans knew about them, it was definitely not nonsense.

Let's talk about wisteria first.This happened in 1914. One day Yuan Shikai was full of food and called a few staff members to set up a long-term battle. While talking about it, the official in charge of the security of the Presidential Palace suddenly reported: President, there is an outsider. The barefooted migrant workers said they were from your hometown and asked to come in and fight with you. gossip?Yuan Shikai hurriedly ordered: "Let people come in quickly. This is a person from my hometown. If you don't let them in, my grandparents will be stabbed in the back for generations."

The migrant workers came in and fell to their knees with a plop: Caomin had seen the president. Yuan Shikai said: Brother, get up quickly, this is not popular in the Republic of China. Migrant workers said: The grassroots dare not be dissatisfied with this set. Yuan Shikai was in a hurry: Why are you so special, "Don't dare to dislike this set"? This is because...the migrant worker raised his head and said: President, don't you recognize me?I am the grave guard for the Yuan family's tomb. The President was disobedient when he was a child, and I even spanked your ass.

Look at you, even the buttocks were spanked, and you said "I dare not dislike this", get up quickly.Yuan Shikai lifted up the grave.After Feng Ding stood up, he knelt down again with a look of joy: Congratulations to the President, congratulations to the President. Yuan Shikai wanted to cry but had no tears: what happened again? Grave Ding said: "I want to teach the President to learn that a wisteria has recently grown on the old grandpa's tomb. It is as thick as a wrist and more than ten feet long. It is winding and coiled like a dragon." real or fake?Yuan Shikai was dumbfounded.

It was your sister who lied to you.The graveyard swears and swears. Don't come here, come here, give me a few silver dollars, my fellow can't speak human language.Yuan Shikai ordered, who is that, the boss Yuan Keding, have you been busy recently?It's okay, you go back to your hometown and burn incense to your ancestor's grave, and take a look at whether this is true or not. So Yuan Keding, the eldest son of the Yuan family, went back to his hometown, Xiangcheng, Henan, with the tomb boy.A few days later, he wrote back and said: "If, as the grave clerk said, the vines grow so fast that they are thicker than a child's arm, and the color is as fresh as blood, or the destiny is at stake, this is auspicious experience!"

Yuan Shikai was overjoyed, and immediately wrote back to his son, instructing Yuan Keding to recruit a few more cemeteries, to strictly guard the ancestral tomb, and to take good care of the wisteria so that it would not be eaten by someone's sheep. After this incident, it will soon be winter.At ten o'clock that night, Yuan Shikai was taking off his clothes in the bedroom and was about to go to bed, when he heard rumbling outside, rumbling, and countless people running from east to west, from south to north, running around without aim .Yuan Shikai didn't care, and took off his own clothes. At this time, a guard knocked on the door outside: President, it's terrible, it's terrible.

Yuan Shikai's annoyance: What's the matter?What's the matter?I think it's great. The guard said: "President, come out quickly and take a look, a snake appeared in Ju Ren Tang." A snake is a snake.Yuan Shikai said, snakes are a common thing in the mansion, have you never seen a snake in your life? The guard outside said: Snakes are common, but the snake in Ju Ren Tang is a little different. How is it different?Yuan Shikai asked. The guard was in a hurry: President, you will know if you go and have a look, I can't tell. It's annoying.Yuan Shikai put his clothes on again angrily, and went out to ask the guards, what happened to the snake?Is this still not clear?

The guard said: President, that snake is really not an ordinary snake, but a red chain snake, as thick as a water cup, about ten feet long, it came from nowhere, when people saw it, it was already entrenched in the living area. Rentang's roof beams are on.Everyone wanted to drive it away, but it raised its head and opened its mouth at people, as if to say something. Is there such a thing?Yuan Shikai found it strange, so I went to have a look. When he arrived at Jurentang, Yuan Shikai looked up, and there really was a big snake as thick as a water cup, and its whole body was dark red.Seeing Yuan Shikai coming, he didn't panic, but bowed his head and nodded repeatedly, as if he was saying something.Yuan Shikai didn't understand what the snake was trying to say, so he could only stand there and watch.After watching for a while, the big snake crawled slowly, got into the hole in the wall, and disappeared.

The story about this snake was widely circulated during the Republic of China, and there are dozens of different versions with different versions.However, Liu Chengyu's "Notes on Hong Xian's Chronicle and Poetry Competence Book" broke the news that this red-chained snake was brought by Yuan Naikuan and Yuan Keding for the purpose of fooling Yuan Shikai: It was also decided by the imperial system that Xiangcheng built an ancestral temple in the Xinhua Palace, and held a regular sacrifice ceremony on the winter solstice in the fourth year of the Republic of China.At that time, the civil and military officials in all provinces were extravagant to Chen Xiangrui.Yuan Naikuan's generation encouraged Keding to buy a long snake with a lot of money, the body was as big as a cup, and it was painted golden like a dragon costume.In the early stage, people dived into the ladder and placed it on the beam.The snake is afraid of the cold, bows its head and does not move.At the time of offering sacrifices, Xiang Cheng had just entered the temple, and when he caught a glimpse of the spiritual creature, he was secretly delighted, thinking that it was an omen of flying dragons.

There is no evidence for Liu Chengyu's statement.But since there is such a statement, it is difficult to rule out that this matter is mixed with artificial elements. However, the third strange omen, that is, the dragon emerges from the water, is absolutely true.The incident happened in October 1915, when the British Consul in Yichang, Mr. and Mrs. Schleder, led the whole family, young and old, and colleagues from the consulate, to sail on the Yangtze River by boat.While the boat was sailing, they suddenly heard a scream. Everyone turned their heads and saw that the consul's wife's wedding ring had fallen into the Yangtze River.

The ring is put on the finger, and you can't get it off even if you pull it hard. Why did it fall into the river? Anyway, it fell into the river, don't talk nonsense, hire someone to salvage it. So Xu Lede paid a lot of money to hire people who understand water to go down to the center of the river to find rings. As the saying goes, looking for a needle in a haystack, and under the so-called heavy reward, there must be a brave man. Tong jumped into the river.If you are lucky and happen to come across that ring, wouldn't it be a big profit? While fishing, suddenly the underwater waves were rough. A fisherman got out of the water, grabbed the side of the boat, and shouted: "No, everyone, hurry up and run for your life. This is Longtan. The dragon is enraged and is about to come out of the water!"