On the other end of the phone, the middle-aged man said something and then fell silent.

The courtyard is becoming quieter.

On the other end of the phone, Lian Ge listened, glanced at the middle-aged man, and didn't say anything, just waited quietly.

“...... Master Lian, our village is called Quhe Village, except that most of the people in the village are surnamed Quhe, and there is a big river in the village, which is called Quhe. ”

The middle-aged man was silent, bent down again, and continued to speak to Lian Ge on the other end of the video call,

“...... The people of our village, our ancestors, have lived next to this river for generations, building roads along the river, building houses along the river, and our village has built along this river, and it is like this until now...... Washing clothes by the river, taking the water from the river to irrigate the crops, watering the fields, and fetching water directly from the river when there were no pressurized wells and no pumping wells...... The ancestors of the past also built a small river temple by the river, and from time to time, there are still people in the village who go to worship incense, and when they pass by, they go in to make a ......."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man raised his head slightly, and then fell silent,

“...... But now...... In the village, don't say that you are washing clothes by the river, but you really can't do it, you have to cross the river, it's all far away...... In the river...... Haunted ......"

Slowly lowering his head again, the middle-aged man's eyes showed some fear, as if he saw something, and his whole body trembled slightly.

Next to the middle-aged man, listening to the middle-aged man's words, Second Uncle Lian and Uncle Tai stood aside and didn't say much.

The old lady in the embroidered cotton jacket had her eyes redder, while the young man, standing at the edge of the picture, still bowed her head and silent.

glanced at the middle-aged man on the other end of the video call, the old lady, and the young man, Lian Ge listened and didn't say much.

On the other end of the phone, it became quieter.

......

“...... It was more than two months ago, or in the fall...... In those days, it rained non-stop in autumn, and it was dark all day long...... On that day, when it was almost dark, the rain finally stopped, although the road was still wet everywhere, but the villagers also opened the door, or they were busy with dinner, or swept the yard to accumulate leaves, mud, and some children finally waited until the rain stopped, and ran outside to play...... As for me, I also swept the yard, thinking that if it didn't rain the next day, I would take out the grain from the house and dry it, so that it wouldn't get moldy......

The middle-aged man was silent for a moment, and then continued to speak, his eyes looked in front of him, a little distracted, and seemed to respond,

“...... At this moment, a little doll in the village, not far from my house, a child from another family in the village, a little doll of seven or eight years old, ran back from the end of the village crying and shouting...... All over, all soaked, still in the hair, on the clothes, still stained with some mud, the shoes on the feet, all have fallen off, crying all the way, shouting all the way...... As if frightened, he called his mom and dad...... All the way the village people heard the movement, all came out of the house, I swept the yard in the yard, saw that the little doll was not right, so I hurriedly walked over, asked him what was wrong, the little doll, crying hard, also scared badly, all over, I don't know whether it was scared, or cold, just that trembling, I couldn't speak, just called his parents...... People from several families next to them also ran out, looked at this little doll, and said that it fell into the river...... I quickly asked him what was wrong and if he had fallen somewhere...... At this time, the little doll was finally able to speak, and while crying, he was sobbing a little, saying that the little doll that he had gone to play with at the end of the village fell into the river...... When I heard this, I quickly ran in the direction of the end of the village, and several people from the village followed......

“...... By the time we get to the river...... There was no movement anymore, and there was no movement in sight, and there was no movement in sight, only the river after the rain, still wrapped in mud and sand, and the water was fast and deep...... The steps to the river were half flooded, and there were still half-sized plastic toy water guns on the steps......"

“...... At this time, the parents of the little doll also dragged the little doll over again, seeing that there was no movement on the river, dragging the child and beating, while beating, scolding, the child's mother couldn't help crying, the child, but he didn't cry, no matter how his mother beat him, he also stuffed his head...... Let's just pull and say that it's already like this, and it won't help to beat that kid again......"

As he spoke, the middle-aged man was silent again,

“...... Then, the parents of the little doll who fell into the river also ran over in a panic...... When I saw the movement in the river and the people standing by the river, I also reacted...... The mother, all at once, fell to her knees, and then she cried out to us, to the river, to help, to save people...... The father, who was the father, took off his shoes at once, and jumped directly into the river...... But that kid...... It has long been washed away by the river without knowing it......"

“...... That night, I searched for some people in the village, along the river with his parents...... The next day, I found the little doll dozens of miles away from the village...... When I found it, the little doll had already floated up from the bottom of the river, and the branches of the trees that had fallen from the river were hanging up, so that they were not washed down...... In that hand, I still hold the part with the plastic water gun and the part that is filled with water......"

The middle-aged man paused again as he spoke, his eyes a little distracted,

“...... Later, I asked the little doll that was still there, and I found out what was going on......"

“...... In our village, the small river temple was built at the end of the village, and the place at the end of the village used to be lived, but then they all moved out slowly, leaving only a vacant land and the river temple, and in the summer, there were still people drying food there, and some little dolls in the village also liked to play there.

Those two little dolls are also neighbors, and they usually like to play together.

That night, as soon as the sky was clear, the two little dolls ran out of the house, and when they ran out, the parents of the family told them not to run far, not to go to the river to play...... These two little dolls, in a blink of an eye, ran to the clearing at the end of the village.

At the beginning, I still remember that I didn't go to the river, but I was alone with a toy water gun and played in the open space by the river temple...... But while that's playing, there's no water in the water gun...... The two children forgot their parents' advice and ran to the river to fill the water cannon...... As a result, it rained, and the water rose again, and there were not many people living in the place, and not many people went down the steps, and the steps were full of mud and moss......

The middle-aged man said, silent,

On the other end of the phone, several people listened, and there was some silence.

On the other end of the phone, Lian Ge didn't say much, just listened quietly,

On the other end of the phone, in the courtyard, it was getting quieter.

......

“...... It's not much yet, but it's slowly ...... Ah, things are starting to go wrong. ”

After a pause, the middle-aged man raised his head and continued.

As he spoke, his eyes showed some fear, and his whole body couldn't help but tremble slightly.

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