Chapter 9: The Water Ghost Asks for His Life
It was just after dinner on this day, and the lockdown was patrolling the streets of the town as usual.
Seeing that the weather was warming, although the errand clothes issued by the yamen were light, they were hotter in the end, and in the slightly hot sun, the lockdown looked at the laziness on everyone's faces, and they felt that they were also starting to be sleepy.
As soon as a person is in a trance, the steps under his feet are easy to float, and he is not guarded by someone from behind, and he staggers out several steps.
When I came back to my senses, I saw that I didn't know whose thug it was, holding a long pole and shouting to kill on a hot day, and I couldn't see who was chasing at the front, so I heard someone shouting in a panic, "Jump into the river, jump into the river!
After frying the pot, the market was full of people.
Locked down a few steps to catch up, turning an alley is a moat, and the bridge has already surrounded a circle of people watching the excitement, and the group of thugs are panting and desperately squeezing up.
Lao Zhang ran over, he didn't know how to water, he was sweating on his forehead in a hurry, and he stomped his feet and shouted at the closed city, "Master, Master!
The moat in Tianyu Town is not wide, and most of the rivers are safe, except for a few places that lean on the bridge piers, because the engineering design in the early years is not very rigorous, the masonry and stone below are disordered, the sediment accumulates, and the bridge hole is narrow, and some greedy little dolls will still be trapped every summer.
It was too late, the figure had already been seen on the calm water, and the lockdown didn't think much about jumping straight down.
It was noon, the visibility under the water was not low, the eyes of the lockdown were scraped by the muddy water and sand, and instinctively reached out to rub it, and felt that something seemed to be stabbed in the eyes.
When he came to his strength, he was pulled by something around his waist, and when he turned around, he was jumping too fast, and he even forgot to understand the saber, and now the sword body was entangled with the water weeds, dragging him down a little bit.
He tried to tug at the messy mess of aquatic plants, but they were so tightly wrapped that he didn't even move after two pulls.
I had to dive down first, and I was studying carefully, when I heard the sound of water behind me, and a huge thing "boom" pounced.
The thing was extremely fast, almost instantaneously sticking behind it from the imperceptible distance of the lockdown.
Lockdown felt that his arm had been pulled, the instinct to survive was beating in his heart, he desperately broke free, just like that, in the time of shaking his arm, the pain on his right arm was already like fire, he gritted his teeth and pulled out, and pulled the three-foot Qingfeng out of the messy grass.
As soon as the silver light appeared, he reflexively stabbed, and the red flower buds exploded in front of his eyes.
I don't know where the lockdown stabbed that thing, I just feel that this sword is really ruthless, if it is a person, it has probably been pierced alive.
He looked through the blood, and a howl in his ear, as sharp as the sound of metal rubbing, aroused goosebumps all over his body, and his heart panicked knowing that this breath was about to be held back, and he kicked his feet violently and jumped out of the water.
On the shore, the people of the yamen had already arrived, and they held the previous thugs accountable, saying that there was a little beggar who stole the food in their store, and turned the whole kitchen into a mess, and the shopkeeper was angry, so he called them to come and scare the little beggar, but he didn't expect the little beggar to jump into the river when he was forced to be in a hurry, but it scared them.
Someone here asked, and someone over there went to ask the old shopkeeper of Ning Hetang to come over quickly, only Lao Zhang squatted on the shore and wondered why the master hadn't come up yet.
I was anxious, looking at the flash of red light underwater, the blood on the face of the closed city rushed up, and I was so frightened that the soles of Lao Zhang's feet slipped and almost fell into the water.
Feng Cheng didn't know that his face was stained with blood, he was anxious about where the person who jumped into the water was, and he was afraid that he would lose the official's knife. I didn't hear the noisy crowd, Lao Zhang's throat was hoarse, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and sank again.
When I got to the bottom of the water, I found that there were no aquatic plants in the water under my feet.
The backbone of the closure was cold, but fortunately, when he saw the half-old child, he was stuck at the bottom of the riverbed not far in front, and he grabbed the child's waist and put it on his shoulder, without looking upstream.
When they got to the shore, someone dragged the child up, and the old shopkeeper had already arrived, busy meeting him for first aid.
After two tosses, the city was already out of strength, he was half-kneeling, panting heavily, and the blood on his face had been washed away, but Lao Zhang was still frightened, and asked several times with a crying voice, "Master, what's wrong with you, Master, are you okay?" ”
The lockdown couldn't speak, so he felt that the water-stained clothes were so heavy that people couldn't raise their heads, and they had no strength in their hands, so they pulled twice on their necklines.
Lao Zhang panicked and helped him untie the outermost long cloak, and he was stunned as soon as the cuffs were turned over.
Feng Cheng saw that his face was not good, and he didn't know what was going on, so he rolled up the cuffs, and then he saw clearly, on his right forearm, there was a slender row of baby-like handprints, four fingers, revealing a faint vermilion, which was extremely weird.
"Master, you... It can't be a water monkey, right?" asked Lao Zhang, feeling cold on his body.
Water monkeys, there are also water ghosts in Tianyu Town, what is it, in fact, no one has seen it, they all say that the person who drowned in the water has become a ghost, and he wants to catch a living person as a stand-in. Once you get entangled, you can't run.
Lockdown was asked by him, and he chuckled in his heart, he really didn't see what that thing looked like, but he couldn't let a child worry about himself, so he put the cuffs down again, "Don't talk nonsense, I just rubbed it on the stone, and it broke a little skin, it's okay." I'll leave it to you here, and I'll go back and change my clothes. ”
He said so, Lao Zhang naturally had no doubts, calmed down, and felt that he was thinking too much, the blue sky and the white sun, where did the water ghost come from, patted his head and took over the conversation, "Okay, Master, don't worry, I have me." ”
When the beggar who jumped into the river was taken back to the pharmacy by the old shopkeeper, the people on the bank dispersed, and no one saw it, and a translucent little head suddenly poked out of the dark bridge hole.
He shook his body, squeezed himself out of the bridge hole, and suddenly grinned at the corners of his mouth, which was as big as half an arm, and spit out the scabbard of the city with a "bang".