Ruota fish

There is a kind of fish in East Taihu Lake area, which is only raw rice, flat and collapsed, and its image is like zongzi (the leaves used to wrap zongzi). Everyone calls it "the collapsed fish". Why is this fish so strange? There is a story about a dutiful son. Legend has it that a long time ago, there were two wired people near the East Taihu Lake, the mother grew vegetables and the child firewood. They lived together and spent their time together. One winter, my mother suddenly fell ill, getting worse every day, and my son was so anxious that his heart would break. There was no money at home, so the son had to hide it from his mother, send his personal leather back to the pawnshop, and ask the doctor to redeem the medicine with the broken silver. After taking the pulse, the doctor said, "The disease of 0 is a deficiency caused by hunger. As long as you take good care of it, you will be able to turn to safety." Then he wrote a prescription, and added: "This side needs a live carp, first decocting the medicinal soup, and then cooking the fish soup with the medicinal soup." At that time, it was the middle of winter, and the river was completely frozen with ice and snow. Where could live carp come from? My son walked up and down the river bank, but he couldn't think of any way. As soon as he gritted his teeth and stripped off his clothes, he lay down on the ice on the river. Suddenly, my whole body was as cold as chaff, my lips were purple, my limbs were stiff and I couldn't speak. He thought: as long as I can cure my mother's illness, I am willing to freeze to death! His son's filial piety finally touched the Dragon King of the East China Sea. The Dragon King of the East China Sea immediately sent shrimps, soldiers and crabs to get a fresh and lively big carp, and when he melted out of the ice cave with his body temperature, he spat it up from the hole. My son brought a big carp and went home happily. He split it in two, and half of it was decocted and boiled in soup, and the other half was dripping with blood. He stuck it tightly with paper and hung it on the beam. After eating fish soup, Niang really recovered, and said, "Son, it's rare that you have such a filial piety. It's freezing in the cold to get this big carp. Now Niang's illness is all cured, and the remaining half, please put it back into the river quickly." After listening to his mother's words, the son nodded and agreed: "Mother is right, I'm going to release him." Half a carp has been put back into the river. It's strange to say that it will live if it touches the water! It blinked, fanned its tail, and swam into the school of fish. Since then, this half has added a strange fish like zongzuo, and people have named it "Zuozuo Fish" according to its shape.
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