At that time, Jinniu Lake was still a vast expanse of water, and the shore was a fertile land with black oil. People there live and work in peace and contentment, and irrigate crops with clear lake water. The ears of rice are extremely full and round, like a string of pearls. In the off-season, people go fishing and shrimping on the lake. We live in harmony and live a quiet and comfortable life.
At the bottom of Jinniu Lake, there lived a Taurus. As long as the weather is fine for a long time, the lake will go down slowly, and then Taurus will appear in the lake You can see its golden back, raised bull's head and upturned horns from a distance. As soon as Taurus saw that the lake was getting less and less, he spit out a mouthful of water from his mouth, and the lake immediately rose again.
I don't know how many years and generations have passed, and then there are bad people, and then I don't know which day the lake is not as rich as before.
One summer, it didn't rain for 998 1 day. The dry lake faces the sky, the surrounding fields are as hard as stone, the cracks are several inches wide, and the green seedlings are all yellow. Ordinary people's thirsty eyes are sunken and boring. They expect Taurus every day.
One morning, just as everyone was standing by the lake looking forward to Taurus, suddenly, with a "moo", Taurus came out from the bottom of the lake. It shook its head, wagged its tail, spat at its mouth, and suddenly the lake was full again.
People shed tears of joy and were about to thank Taurus, but Taurus looked up with sparkling eyes, gave a cry of "moo" and disappeared into the lake again.
This incident soon spread, and it also reached the ears of a group of hooligans who bullied the city in Qiantang County. They dream that once they get Taurus, they will definitely make a fortune by blackmailing the people. Now I order my men to try to catch Taurus at once.
The local ruffians rushed to the lake to have a look. There is a huge white lake in front of them. Where is Taurus? Ask someone nearby. They saw it, either didn't see it or quietly avoided it. The local ruffians had to repay the rogue. The rogue was so angry that he had a moustache. After thinking and thinking, he came up with a deadly trap. He said to his servant:
"In that case, call a person to dry the lake car. Anyone who doesn't come will not inform the government about it, be careful! "
At first, some people living by the lake fled because of lack of sense of justice, while others were afraid of being rushed here. Under the threat of hooligans, they had to set up a waterwheel to open the lake.
After 998 1 day, these people are exhausted. On the last day, they finally dried up the lake car. Sure enough, Taurus is lying at the bottom of the lake, shining golden.
The rogue's head was blinded by the golden light, but he was still yelling at the rogue and quickly went down to the lake to catch the Taurus. Strange to say, Taurus seems to have taken root and can't lift it. At this time, everyone began to wake up, thinking about how not to cooperate with the hooligans' persecution of Taurus.
As soon as the rogue saw that he couldn't move it, he said to everyone, "Who can lift the Taurus and reward it with three hundred and twenty pieces of silver!"
At that time, the people's righteousness had been aroused, and they stood still and glared at him.
Seeing that everyone ignored him, the rogue shouted loudly, "If you don't raise the Taurus today, you'll all be beheaded!"
People are still motionless, as steady as Mount Tai.
The rogue was about to start work when Taurus let out a cry, like a bolt from the blue. But when I saw flying sand and stones, the earthquake shook. Rogue head, frog in the well, never seen this world. He turned pale with fear and his legs went limp. He tried to escape, but he was stopped by Taurus and couldn't take a step.
At this time, Taurus stood up nimbly, let out a long whistle at the sky, spit out a glistening flood from his mouth, and rushed at the ringleaders and hooligans, sweeping them all into the huge waves at once. Then, the lake was full again. Since then, people have water to drink and water to irrigate farmland.
In fact, Taurus can easily drag hooligans into the bottom of the lake at first, but Taurus depends on people's hearts. Because the people didn't have benevolence and righteousness at first, and they didn't maintain the golden bull that raised them day and night. Later, although they became upright, it was too late. Therefore, although ordinary people have water to drink again and hooligans have been eliminated, they are not qualified to see Taurus.
After that, the Taurus never appeared in the lake, and the lake never dried up. People can't forget the Taurus who raised them. They built a tall tower on the wall by the lake and climbed it every day to look forward to Taurus. This tower was later called "Yongjinmen".