"Actually, my master is a master who specializes in ghost hunting." As the saying goes: if you have no hair on your mouth, you can't do things well. I knew I was too young, and not many people believed me to hunt ghosts, so I had to temporarily move out of his old man's house to fill the façade. I continued to fool him half-truthfully: "He came to see me that day, and he saw from afar that you were angry. At that time, he said that there must have been a death in the fishpond, so he sent me to find the owner of the fishpond and ask if he needed to clean up the dirt. ”

When the pond lord heard me say this, he relaxed a little, but he was still quite wary. He looked at me hesitantly, probably still wondering if I was telling the truth.

"Your master can hunt ghosts? Hum! When you are young, you want to fool me, and you want to cheat money, don't you? He asked, but his tone wasn't as strong as before.

I shook my head and said, "Oops, I won't take your money this time!" We should do good deeds and accumulate virtue! ”

"Really?" He was skeptical, and his eyes rolled a few times. He thought about it for a while, and felt that as long as he didn't need to give money, he wouldn't lose anything if it was really fake anyway, so he immediately changed his attitude and said to me with a smile: "Hehe, since your master can see that there is a problem in this pond from so far away, he should be a very powerful master!" Alas, it's not like the guys I looked for before, they are all here to cheat money! So don't blame me for being suspicious just now! ”

Alright, now we can finally talk well!

I said to him, "Big brother, it's inconvenient to stand outside and talk. Why don't we come into your house and sit down, and tell me the details of the situation first, so that I can go back and report to my master." ”

The man agreed, and said with a smile: "No problem, no problem!" Hehe, you look at my carelessness, I should have invited you in and sit down a long time ago! Are you thirsty? Do you want to drink water? ”

I said no, and followed him into the house. When I went in, I realized that the hut by the pond was only lived by the pond keeper, not his home. However, the hut is now unoccupied, and there are many miscellaneous items. I looked a little and didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Then the two of us found a stool and sat down, and the host began to tell the story about the fishpond.

The owner's surname is Ke, and he ran a boat and worked as a fisherman when he was young, and he has been dealing with fishing for half his life. Later, when he got married, he stopped running away from the boat, and came back to live in the village and start a small business nearby. The pond turned out to be just a natural stretch of water, relatively wide, and followed a thin stream into the sea. Later, after the school was built in front, the river was blocked, and the water level rose and it became a pond. He approached the village committee and rented the river and converted it into a fish pond for fish farming.

"In the beginning, I was very profitable to run this pond!" Brother Ke said with a sad face, "But in the third year, people died one after another in the pond, and just losing money will kill me!" The people in the village are all gossiping, and I invited a few masters to come over and do things, but it was useless. In the end, even I didn't dare to get closer. Therefore, this pond has been abandoned until now. You know, I still have 12 years left on my contract! Alas! ”

I asked, "How did they all die?" How many are there? ”

Brother Ke said: "Three! It's all gone when I go into the water to swim, two children and an adult. ”

The drowning ghost in the water was obviously not a child, but most likely an adult. I asked, "Tell me about those three people, who was the first to have an accident?" ”

Brother Ke's expression suddenly became a little strange. He said, "The first one is the adult, who I hired as a worker to watch the fish pond here. I was not in the village at the time of the accident, and it took two days to soak in the water before anyone found him. I rushed back to see it, alas, it has been soaked for too long, and people are swollen into pigs' heads, and I can't see it! On that occasion, I also paid a lot of funeral expenses to his family, so I sent them to carry people away. Unexpectedly, within a few months, two children had an accident here. The two children didn't say anything, they were all village babies, and they ran to play in the water by themselves, and they disappeared while playing. ”

"Do you know how the worker you hired died at that time? Does he know how to swim? ”

"Hey, this is here!" Brother Ke patted his thigh and said, "He has been out to sea like me before, and he is a good swimmer, so everyone feels very strange, how could he be drowned?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't think it's strange. As the saying goes, whoever drowns knows how to swim. Even those who can't swim don't dare to enter the water easily! ”

"Although I said that, there is no wind and no waves in my pond, which is different from the river and the sea." Brother Ke is obviously much more experienced than me in this area. "However, when I saw him being fished up that day, his right leg was bent, which was very strange. So I wonder if he had a leg cramp while in the water. ”

"Hmm." I nodded. A good swimmer drowned in such a broken fish pond because of an accident, and it is probably because of this that he is resentful. The basic situation is almost asked, and the cause and effect are roughly understood, all that remains is to look for clues and see if the drowning ghost will come ashore.

"Is his family also in this village?" I asked. Maybe he'll miss home and go back once in a while?

Brother Ke shook his head and denied: "No." He's an outsider, and I don't remember where he is. ”

"Does he have any personal vendetta with you? At night...... Did he come to harass you? ”

I just thought about it along my own lines, and asked casually, but Brother Ke was startled, and his face turned green. He waved his hand again and again: "No, no! I don't have any grudges with him! I still handled his funeral, and the funeral expenses were fully compensated, so what did he come to me for? ”

It's hard to do now, there is no reason to lead him ashore, but how can you arrest him?

"Did he have any other hobbies besides swimming? Or where do you like to go? I was not reconciled and continued to interrogate.

"He loves to drink!" After thinking about it for a while, Brother Ke blurted out, "And he often goes into the water to swim when he gets drunk, maybe this is one of the reasons why something happened that day!" ”

Alright, this one is enough! I finally found a breakthrough, and I planned to use this "wine" to find a way to lure him ashore.

What strategies can be used? Just set a table of wine in this hut? No, it's so abrupt that I think it's fake when I look at it. Ask a few classmates to have a barbecue on the shore? It's a bit more natural, but I don't want to drag other people in, and it's not easy to do it in front of my classmates.

When I thought about it, I thought of the graveyard I saw when I came. I had a flash of inspiration and asked, "Brother Ke, are there any ancestors of your family in the cemetery on the slope over there?" ”

"Yes. Uh, what do you want to do? "Brother Ke saw that I always asked such strange questions, and he regretted it a long time ago, and his attitude was not as polite as just now.

"Tonight, you go to worship an ancestor!"

"Ancestor worship? Today is not a festival, not even the first and fifteenth days of the new year! Brother Ke shook his head again and again.

"Can't you go to the festival if it's not a festival?" I asked rhetorically, "Go and worship your ancestors more, maybe there will be no such thing!" I'll come back in the evening and come with you. ”

Brother Ke was speechless to refute, so he had to agree. I also told him that in addition to burning some paper in the evening, he must bring wine and some snacks as offerings. He didn't say anything about this, and he nodded in agreement.

At seven o'clock in the evening, I went over to find Brother Ke on time and dragged him to the ancestral tomb to worship. The reason why I chose this time was to avoid making the drowning ghost suspicious. After all, no one would run to worship their ancestors in the middle of the night. The sun was setting at the right time, and there was no delay on both sides of the human and ghost sides.

When Brother Ke saw that I was coming alone again, he began to mutter. "Where's your master? How can I see you and not your master? ”

I said, "My master is not available. I can do this little thing myself! ”

Brother Ke was dissatisfied, and his suspicion rose again. However, I never reached out to him to ask for money, and he rubbed for a while, but still did as I was told.

When I arrived at the cemetery on the barren slope, I first found a large grave nearby and hid behind. Brother Ke doesn't look at people who are very tall, but his courage is average, he is still in a hurry to do this, first he poured the wine and poured it, and then the burning paper burned his hands again, and it was not easy to finish these few charters. He looked in the direction I was hiding, asking what I meant. I waved quietly at him and told him to go back first. Relieved, he took a big stride and went home.

I continued to hide behind the mound, staring at the offerings. When Brother Ke left, according to my instructions, he deliberately left half a bottle of wine and two plates of peanuts and small fish in front of the grave.

However, the weather that night was not very good, it was hot and windless. I hid in the grass of the grave, and I was busy chasing mosquitoes, and I didn't dare to make much movement, for fear of being discovered. The drowning ghost didn't know if he didn't see it, or if he was deliberately patient, and he didn't move.

At half past ten o'clock in the evening, I was really impatient, and my hands and neck had been bitten by mosquitoes in several large bags, and it was very itchy. At this time, a gentle breeze finally blew on the edge of the pond. The wind blew towards me first, and I immediately smelled a strong aroma of wine, and Brother Ke clumsily poured the wine just now, but it played a key role at this moment.

After a while, the wind changed, and the smell of wine began to drift into the pond. I don't chase mosquitoes anymore, the talismans and tips are ready, and I can do it at any time. Sure enough, a transparent figure slowly rose from the water in the fish pond, it was the drowning ghost!

I saw him stretch out his nose and sniff in the air, his mouth clattering to the ground. If an ordinary person does this, it would be fine, his face is swollen like that, and it is particularly disgusting to watch.

The drowning ghost sniffed for a while, but finally could not resist the temptation, and floated towards the shore. He looked left and right before going ashore, looking very careful. I don't know why his vigilance is so heavy, maybe it was because the few masters and ghosts invited by Brother Ke didn't catch it, but they startled the snake, right?

He cautiously approached Brother Ke's ancestral grave. But when he saw the bottle of wine and two side dishes, he suddenly lost his resistance and lay on the ground for a while. After licking the wine stains, he grabbed a handful of peanuts and stuffed them into his mouth, unscrewing the half bottle of wine.

"Gollum! Grunt! ”

After taking a big sip of white wine, the ghost showed a very intoxicated expression, obviously hungry for a long time. While drinking wine, he munched on side dishes, and when he ate it was refreshing, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

"I'll make you cool!" I took advantage of this opportunity to creep through the mound, holding a soul talisman in my hand. When I was only three meters away from the drowning ghost, I jumped out from behind a tombstone and slapped my head on the head, trying to stop him directly.

Unexpectedly, the ghost was really alert, and suddenly saw me pounce, and threw the wine bottle and saucer in his hand at me! I subconsciously withdrew my arm to block the bottles and saucers, but I missed the best time. The drowning ghost turned and ran in the direction of the fishpond, and I followed closely behind. The drowning ghost fled all the way into the water, turning his head all the way to look at me. He recognized me, and the new hatred was added to the old hatred, and then he gritted his teeth and roared, and his face became even more ugly.

Seeing that he was about to run to the edge of the fish pond, I hurriedly took out a large handful of talisman darts from my pocket and threw them forward like scattered flowers. The ghost kept looking back at me, and when he saw me throwing something, he threw something on the spot, and actually flashed it to him! I wasn't in a hurry now, sneered and threw a large handful of talisman darts, this time still adding a little more strength, but he easily dodged it.

The ghost finally ran to the water's edge, turned his head and jumped up, and a fierce man tried to plunge into the water. With his water nature, he is absolutely safe when he enters the water, and no one can catch him in the water at all. But if he wants to get this, can't I think of it?

"Ahh

The moment the drowning ghost first touched the surface of the water, it was as if he had fallen on an iron plate, and it was a red-hot iron plate. He was bounced back violently, covered in the talisman darts I had thrown before, rolling and screaming on the ground!

Although my talisman dart can't be waterproof, it can't be soaked for a while. The ghost jumped into the water without even looking at it, isn't it a suicidal dive?

This time, I didn't miss the opportunity again, jumped directly on him, and used my self-created ghost fire palm, punching him with a left fist and a right palm, so that he only shouted "spare my life". When I saw that the drowning ghost had lost his resistance, I got up and grabbed him and stuffed him into my bag. Hehe, the next time you have time, find someone to ask where there is a ghost in the provincial capital, and you can also exchange it for a yin yuan!

After a whole day of fuss, I finally settled the matter. I went to find Brother Ke again and told him that he could continue to raise fish in the pond. Brother Ke will be suspicious, and he will ask me what about the ghost? There's no way I'm going to show him that the ghost has been captured by me, believe it or not. Then I walked straight away.

However, then I thought about it, it would be better to do less of this kind of thing in the future. I didn't have a penny, but I only earned a big bag bitten by a dozen mosquitoes on my body, which itched so much that I didn't sleep all night. The next day, I had no choice but to spend money to buy a tube of ointment to wipe it, and I felt a little more comfortable.

Alas, this job is really a loss!