In the summer of the 17th year of Xibao, there was a flood in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The heavy rain in Xiangyang Mansion on Jingnan Road lasted for more than ten days, flooding many villages on the outskirts of the city. Fortunately, the prefect of Xiangyang Mansion was thoughtful, and at the beginning of the rainy season, he sent people to move the people from the surrounding villages into the city early, so that the entire Xiangyang Mansion did not have any casualties in the flood.

Although Xiangyang Prefecture did not suffer much loss, the upstream Jinzhou and Junzhou did not have such a good time. When the heavy rain passed, on the river outside Xiangyang City, it was common to see whole floating corpses floating down the river, all of which were poor people who had suffered from floods in Jinzhou and Junzhou.

On this day, the sky was clear, and most of the people in Xiangyang City opened their doors to dry their clothes. The residents living on both sides of the river could not give up this rare sunny day, and took out their wet clothes and bedding to dry.

"A-Niang, there are people floating on the river!" A boy who could not speak well was playing by the river, when he suddenly saw several floating corpses floating on the west side of the river, and he was so frightened that he ran to a woman who was drying clothes. When the woman heard the cries of her child, she looked up the river, and saw that there were indeed many corpses floating on the river, and most of them were already swollen, and among them there was a small boy with a face down. Seeing this, the woman couldn't help but feel pity, and couldn't help but shake her head and say to herself: "Alas, what a sin, I went like this at such a young age..."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, she saw the young man's floating body float into a shallow water, and then hit a rock. The thrust of the river turned his entire body on his side, revealing a delicate face. The woman took a closer look at the young man's appearance, shook her head again, recited a few words of Buddha for the young man, and beckoned her child to go back to cooking.

As soon as the woman walked away, the young man floating on the river suddenly opened his eyes, and with a snort, he slowly spat out a turbid breath from his chest. As the turbid breath in his body exhaled, a small amount of river water sucked down his nostrils, and a cold feeling instantly pierced his head, and she sat on the shallow water with a grunt.

"Ahem... Cough... Ahem..."

The feeling of the river pouring into his respiratory tract caused the boy to cough violently, and a feeling of soreness appeared in his abdomen, forcing him to lower his head and open his mouth wide, and suddenly a large pile of sour dirt vomited out of his mouth.

"Am I drowning?"

A memory suddenly appeared in the boy's mind, and it was the last scene she had before she fell unconscious. Through this memory, she remembered that she and some of her companions went to the reservoir to swim until late in the evening, when she suddenly saw a meteor streak across the sky, and her head turned black and she lost consciousness.

Looking at the bright sunshine in the sky, the young man showed a surprised look, after all, it was still evening when she was unconscious before, but at this moment it was noon, which made her think, could it be that she had drowned all night?

After watching the sun, she looked around again, and saw that there were only a few thatched houses on both sides of the river, and the thatched houses were surrounded by paddy fields planted with rice, but whether it was a thatched house or the paddy field, it was an antique appearance, and it was also a place that the teenager had never seen in his memory.

"I've swam that reservoir no less than a hundred times before, why have I never seen it before?" Thinking of this, the boy insisted on standing up from the shallow water, but suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"How did my legs get shorter?" The young man looked down at his legs, which were no longer as slender and white as before, but became thin and short, and she looked at her hands again, and they had changed from the previous delicate and smooth to a pair of small and thin chicken feet.

"Oh my God, what the hell happened to me!"

The boy couldn't help but scream, but she suddenly realized that her voice had become thin and high-pitched, and she quickly lowered her head and observed her face in the reflection of the water.

"It's not me!"

The boy pressed his cheeks with both hands, but the reflection in the water was the same. And no matter what kind of action the boy makes, the reflection in the water will follow. After a long time, the teenager had to admit the fact that her body had changed people.

"It's not my own body, it's a completely unfamiliar scenery, I can't be crossing, right?"

With such an idea, the boy hurriedly stroked his current body, and when he touched a certain part, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"It's a good thing it didn't grow, otherwise I wouldn't have known what I would have done next."

When she touched all over her body, she estimated that her body was only about twelve or thirteen years old, but unfortunately she didn't have the previous memory of this body, except for the wet juvenile clothes outside, she was only tied to a thumb-sized jade pendant around her neck, and the jade pendant was depicted with the pattern of Shan Feng Chaoyang, but with the jade pendant alone, the identity of this body could not be identified.

"Alas, this body is really poor and white, and its body is weak, and it can't do anything if you want to."

As she thought, the girl walked out of the river to the shore, and then shook herself vigorously and twisted her clothes with her hands to remove some of the water from them. Fortunately, it was noon when she came out of the river, and it was hot enough that she didn't catch a cold.

At this moment, a burst of fragrance came from the thatched house on the other side of the river, and was inhaled into the nose by the girl, and her saliva immediately flowed, and her index finger opened widely. The girl was attracted by the smell, and without thinking about it, she crossed the river and came straight to the thatched house.

The owner of this thatched house was the woman who had been drying her clothes outside, and at this moment she was cooking a pot of rice, and the girl could not help but salivate when she saw the pot of fragrant rice inside through the paper window. When the woman saw that the rice was cooked, she straightened up and was about to go to fetch the pot and put it on the stove, when she suddenly saw a figure outside and screamed in fright.

"Auntie, what's your name?"

The woman's child, the child who first found the floating corpse, heard its mother's cry and ran to it. The woman saw the girl's face clearly, and her wet body, and immediately recalled the floating corpse she had just seen by the river, and immediately turned blue with fright, and hurriedly recited the Buddha's name, and then took the child who ran behind her, and shouted to the girl:

"Are you a human or a ghost? I have nothing to do with you, don't come to harm our mother! ”

When the girl heard the woman's words, she quickly explained:

"Auntie, don't be afraid, I'm not a ghost. I just drowned in the river and just woke up... I was so hungry, and then I smelled the smell of your rice here, so I ran over, can you please ask my aunt to give me a bowl of rice to eat! After speaking, he looked at the woman pitifully with wide eyes.

"Are you really not a ghost?" The woman had heard the story of someone who had faked his death for a long time and then came back to life, so she continued to ask.

"I'm really not a ghost, you see it's daytime, and besides, I have a shadow, don't you believe you can come out and have a look?" The girl recalled the ancients' understanding of ghosts, and hurriedly shouted.

The woman did not dare to go out to see if there was a shadow of the girl, but the child beside her was so timid that after hearing the girl's words he rushed out of the door, and then shouted:

"A-Niang, look, this person really has a shadow, not a ghost!"

The woman was still worried that her child would be in danger if she ran out, but when she heard the child's cry, she was relieved to know that the other person was really not a ghost.

At this time, she slowly looked at the girl in front of her, looked at her with a vegetable face, her whole body was skinny, and she couldn't help but feel compassion, so she walked over and opened the door, and said that the girl said:

"Come in and sit down, and I'll scoop you a bowl of rice soup to warm you up."

"Thank you, auntie."

When the girl entered the house, she found a clean chair and sat down. At this moment, the child walked up to the girl and asked curiously, "Who are you?" Why are you drenched all over? ”

"I just got up from the river, and of course I'm wet." The girl thought for a while, and then said, "As for who I am, you can call me Li Chunhai!" ”