学文网很久以前，济南的东郊是一片泥水的苇子湾，每年夏秋月圆夜深时，有一头金牛总会来湾中沐浴戏水。附近的居民看到这头金牛后，都觉得这头牛一定不是寻常之物，遂心生歹念，想尽办法制服金牛，据为己有。但多番努力都付之东流，始终没有人能够接近那头金牛，时间一长人们也就打消了捕捉金牛的念头。金牛仍是定时来水湾戏水沐浴。
当时，湾边住着一对善良年迈的老夫妇，夫妻俩生活拮据，和家中惟一的希望老黄牛一起苦熬时日。一天，黄牛将死，含着泪对老夫妻俩说：“我死后，把我的角埋到东墙下，来年就会发芽、开花、结瓜。结瓜七七四十九天后，你们把瓜摘下，等到金牛再次来到湾边沐浴时，你们用瓜打湾中的金牛。打中之后，金牛就会被你们驯服，从此代替我听您二老使唤。”说完，老黄牛就断气了。
夫妻二人依老黄牛所说，将牛角埋于东墙下，第二年果然长出一棵新苗。随着时间的流逝，小苗渐渐长大、开花、结果。花落结瓜后的第49天，老两口满怀希望地前去摘瓜，可是来到瓜藤前却怎么也找不着老黄牛所说的那个瓜，只得失望而归。
瓜怎么会不翼而飞？原来，庄里有个二流子得知秘密后，在结瓜48天时将瓜偷走。第二天他来到湾边，见金牛一到便用瓜击之。由于金瓜早摘一天，未能制服金牛。金牛狂躁而起，用双角将二流子抵死。地痞偷鸡不成反蚀米，投机取巧，丢了性命。
金牛化作一道金光向西北方向跑去，从此再也没有来过。金牛没了，人们就把此地称为“牛亡庄”。后来，人们认为“亡”不吉利，遂改为“牛旺庄”。
The Legend of “Hitting the Golden Bull with a Melon” in Niuwang Village
Once upon a time, there was a village in the eastern suburbs of Jinan, to the north of which there was a reed marsh. Every summer and autumn, during the late night when the moon appeared, a golden bull would play with water in the reed marsh. A kindhearted old couple lived beside the reeds with a yellow bull. One day, their yellow bull was about to die. Before dying, it said to them: “After I die, please bury my horns in the ground under the eastern wall, and they will bloom and bear fruit next year. On the 49th day after they fruit, you can pick off the melon and hit the golden bull with it at the time of the full moon. Then the golden bull will be at your beck and call.” The next autumn, as the bull had said, a melon appeared under the eastern wall. A loafer in the village heard the secret and stole the melon on the 48th day. The next day he came to the reed marsh and hit the golden bull with the fruit. But he didn’t succeed, since he picked the fruit one day ahead of the schedule. The golden bull went mad and killed the loafer with its horns. It drank all of the water in the reed marsh and ran off to the north. The golden bull was lost, so the local people changed the name of the village as “Niuwang,” which, in Chinese literally means “the bull is lost.”
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