Chapter Forty-Six: The Jiaohe River Undersurges
As the sun sets, the reeds on the banks of the Zhanghe River rustle in the breeze.
After the fat man and Lao Hu and I took our gear to the river, we threw the waterproof backpack we were carrying on the ground.
"A dog said, taking a bath in this kind of weather, refreshing from head to toe, cold through the heart, and the body is great." After the fat man finished laughing, he opened his backpack a little impatiently, changed into a frogman suit, and began to do some simple warm-up exercises.
I opened my backpack, took out a piece of cloth and laid it flat on the ground, pressed it with a few stones, and then took out an incense burner, two incense candles, a plate of glutinous rice, and an empty bowl.
"Half-immortal, what are you doing?" The fat man asked, looking back at me.
I didn't bother to pay attention to him, and came with them to rob the tomb, which was detrimental to Yin morality. Only a few remedies can be done now. The incense burner is placed in the center of the north of the cloth, and then two incense candles are placed on both sides, and the glutinous rice dish and the empty bowl are located behind the incense candles.
After taking off the wooden sword behind my back, I muttered in my mouth: "The five elements of yin and yang, heaven and earth are Xuanhuang, the Tao is full of law, the dark and the dark are self-combined, and the Tao is used!" ”
As soon as the words fell, he quickly inserted the wooden sword in his hand into the glutinous rice dish, "Open!" ”
After a loud shout, the tip of the wooden sword was lightly raised, and a few grains of glutinous rice were provoked, I shook the wooden sword, and three or two grains of glutinous rice fell back into the plate until a grain of glutinous rice remained on the tip of the sword. Holding the sword in his right hand, he raised his index finger with his left hand and tapped his middle finger on the sword body, pulled his right hand back slightly, and slowly leaned forward with his left hand until the middle finger of his index finger stopped at the tip of the sword and clamped the glutinous rice grains, then slowly bent down and pointed the tip of the sword at the incense candle.
"Ignition!" I said to the fat man.
The fat man looked puzzled, but he still took out a lighter from his backpack, lit the two incense candles that lay flat on the cloth, and inserted them into the ground along with the cloth.
I used both hands to stabilize the glutinous rice grains on the tip of the sword, and after quickly turning the left and right three times on the flame of the incense candle, I put the glutinous rice grains in the empty bowl, and then bit the tip of the index finger of my left hand and dripped a little virgin blood onto the glutinous rice.
After doing this, I put down the wooden sword in my hand, took out three incense sticks, pressed the three incense sticks with the index fingers and thumbs of both hands and held them upside down and put them on the incense candle to light them, and then my thumb exerted a slight force, and my hands changed the shape of my hands, and the three incense sticks were quickly straightened.
"Xiaodao is the one hundred and ninth generation head of Maoshan Mountain, come to your land, beg for mercy for a few days, and hope that you will raise your noble hands and do not block the road."
After that, I got down on my knees, buckled my head three times in front of the cloth, and inserted three sticks of incense into the censer. Then after taking out some dark coins and burning them on the side, he picked up the bowl with glutinous rice and said to the fat man and Lao Hu who had shining-eyed eyes on the side: "Come here." ”
Lao Hu and the fat man looked at me like the worshippers of God worshipping the true God's face, extremely worshipful and holy. I took out the blood-stained glutinous rice, dotted a little rice-shaped red dot on their foreheads, and explained: "The yin qi in the tomb is very heavy, and with this life-saving hemorrhoid, you can avoid guarding the yin qi and flirting with your body." ”
Lao Hu and the fat man nodded as if they didn't understand, and I didn't expect them to really understand. After helping them order, I ordered one for myself, and thankfully, the diving goggles were just enough to block this life-saving hemorrhoid.
"Half-immortal, then we can go into the water now, right?" The fat man asked weakly.
I looked at the Zhanghe River in front of me, the river was very turbulent, and the waves were blooming one after another, and I was a little panicked, and replied in a weak mosquito voice: "It can be, but it's just ......."
"Just what?" Lao Hu hurriedly asked intently.
I was a little embarrassed, I grew up in the mountains, and I used mountain water or well water for bathing, and the only 'big river' in the village was actually a small stream, and the deepest place was only about one meter. But looking at their adoring eyes, I was too embarrassed to tell them I couldn't swim.
"Half-immortal?" The fat man waited for a long time, saw that I didn't respond, and reminded.
I said embarrassedly, "This river is so fast, aren't you afraid?" ”
"I'm afraid of hair! We've all swam across the sea! The fat man patted his chest heroically, "It's not that I'm bragging, let alone wearing this outfit, even if I don't, this kind of river, I don't have any problem throwing back and forth." ”
Outfit? I looked at the frogman suit on the fat man's body, as well as the oxygen cylinder behind him, and I still felt a little lacking in confidence.
"Half-immortal, you can't swim, do you?" Lao Hu on the side asked cautiously.
"Just kidding, how could I not be able to swim, Maoshan Warlock, what not!" I raised my voice to embolden me, and after changing my outfit, I was afraid that they would be suspicious, so I jumped into the water first.
"Eh, half-immortal, wait!" The fat man hurriedly shouted.
"What, you're scared?" I said contemptuously, but sighed in my heart: It's good to be afraid!
"I'm afraid of a hammer!" The fat man said with a smile, and Lao Hu also shook his head and said with a smile: "Half Immortal, although the Zhanghe River is not terrible, but in order to prevent us from being washed away by the water, I think it is better for us to be safe." ”
After finishing speaking, Lao Hu took out a mountaineering rope from his bag, tied one end of the rope around his waist, and handed it to the fat man, who looked at me and handed the rope into my hand. How do I feel a hint of doubt in the fat man's eyes? Did they see that I couldn't swim?
Wrong!
I dismissed the idea, this is not the time to scare myself.
After tying the rope around my waist, I handed the head of the rope to the fat man.
After the three people tied the rope around their waists, the fat man took the lead in the water, I was in the middle, behind the old Hu Palace, and the length of the rope between the three people was about five meters.
The backpacks are all purchased waterproof bags with very good sealing! When I first started to enter the water, I was a little frightened, and I followed the fat man with one foot deep and one foot shallow, for fear of being accidentally swept away by the river, but after walking for a while, my courage was magnified.
The river was not too violent, and when it reached my chest, I felt a little tight, but fearing that the two of them would despise me, I had the courage to proceed cautiously.
It wasn't until I entered the deep water that I realized that there was nothing to be afraid of. With frogmen in place, it is not difficult to swim, and there are oxygen cylinders to provide oxygen, and the only difference from land is probably the resistance of the water.
The fat man is very watery, although the swimming route is not a straight line, but it did not deviate too much, I swam a little hard behind, and finally simply landed at the bottom of the river, leaning on the bottom of the river and slowly crawling forward with both hands.
At this time, I can't do it, I can't hold back!
The fat man and Lao Hu were very obedient to me, and they also dived to the bottom of the water, and the five-meter-long rope was straightened by two or three meters, and they obviously disdained to climb the river.
As I went deeper step by step, I obviously felt a little strained, my body was driven by the current to drift uncontrollably, and the most uncomfortable thing was the pressure at the bottom of the water, which made me a little breathless.
The fat man and Lao Hu may also have noticed my abnormality and shortened the distance between me and me, for fear that I would be swept away by the current.
There are diving goggles, and the underwater vision is not too obstructed, but during the time I entered the water, I didn't even see a small fish or shrimp, and I thought, could it be that the Yin soldiers scared away the fish here when they crossed the border?
After a while, the fat man and Lao Hu were still swimming in an orderly manner, and there seemed to be nothing abnormal. I couldn't stand it anymore, and I felt the urge to surface, but I was afraid of being swept away by the water.
Suddenly, I saw a large boulder in front of me, and the shape of the boulder exposed to the bottom of the river was irregular because it had been washed by water for many years, and it was nothing when I first saw it, but I felt that it was like a life-saving straw, and it was a good haven for me.
Originally, there were not many stones at the bottom of the river, and there were many such boulders, but I really didn't want to climb it now, and I wanted to take a good rest, so I deliberately looked at this boulder not far away.
After looking at it for a long time, I felt that something was wrong, and this big stone had a mysterious aura, as if something was calling me from inside the big stone.
For a while, I was in a trance, my body involuntarily swam to the boulder, and after approaching step by step, I was stunned to find that in the place where the boulder and the bottom of the river touched, there were strands of long black hair rippling with the water, if I didn't look carefully, I thought it was aquatic weeds!
Could it be that a woman was crushed under a boulder?
I don't think I'm a qualified warlock, and I've done a lot of things that damage yin morality, but if there really is a woman who stumbles under the boulder, then she will definitely turn into a terrible ghost after death. The corpse is oppressed, and it is impossible to find peace after turning into a ghost.
I looked at the fat man and the old beard who I was pulling towards this side above, their faces full of doubt, and they gestured to me. Probably means asking if you have found something.
I beckoned to them and swam to the edge of the boulder. Holding the boulder with both hands and using a slight force, he tried to lift the boulder and release the female corpse that might exist inside. In the Taoism of Maoshan Mountain, although the lonely souls and wild ghosts are very pitiful, the real pity is these undead who cannot be buried before death and are abused all year round.
The fat man and Lao Hu probably guessed that I wanted to move the boulder, thinking that I had found something, so they hurried over to help, and with the efforts of the three of them, they finally moved the boulder a few times. It was hard to exert force in the water, so I looked at both of them for a moment, paused, and then I gestured to them, raised three fingers, and slowly bent them one by one.
After the third finger was bent, the three of us held the boulder at the same time, and then pulled it with all our strength at the same time.
With the efforts of the three of us, Dashi was finally shaken by a great wave.
However, at this moment, I suddenly felt that my feet were tripped over something, and I hurriedly kicked the fat man viciously, and the fat man was full of doubts. I looked at Lao Hu again, and Lao Hu looked at me inexplicably.
Still pretending to be garlic with me?
I raised three fingers again and gestured at them, and after counting down to zero, the three of them once again held the boulder and lifted it up, and the loose boulder was greatly improved, but we still couldn't pull it out in one go.
At this moment, I felt as if my feet were being grabbed by something, and my whole body was pulled down and slid violently, and my body hit the bottom of the river uncontrollably.
Now I was completely furious, they knew I couldn't swim and still played with me like this!
When I stabilized my body and resumed my voice, I glared at the two of them viciously, and if it weren't for the underwater, I would have wanted to say to them, "Nima's cheat! ”
It's just that their expressions look weird, and they both look behind me with round eyes and look at me with horror on their faces. And I felt a chill in my back, as if something was behind me, and before I could ask them what they saw, they suddenly turned around and fled as if they had seen a cat and a mouse.