Chapter 142: There Are People in the Water
Bronze statues?
Liu Liwei and I exclaimed at the same time.
"That's right! A green bronze statue with the upper body of a human and the lower half of a snake. The body, the ears are big, and the eyes are bigger! As he spoke, the old man stretched out his hand and gestured twice.
Oh, my God! It's really a coincidence that there is no book, it turns out that twenty years ago, someone also fished the same bronze statue in the Yellow River, why haven't they heard of Yao Liguo!
Liu Liwei's face turned pale again, and he poured a glass of water for the old man.
"Brother, can you tell me more about this?"
The old man looked Liu Liwei up and down carefully, and muttered, "Why do you like to ask questions so much?" No...... It doesn't have any purpose, does it? ”
Liu Liwei waved his hand and smiled: "What can I do, my brother treats me as a bad person?" ”
The old man grinned and replied, "I heard that there were a few more cultural relics dealers in the district the day before yesterday. ”
Hearing this, Liu Liwei laughed: "You...... Brother said I was like an antiquities dealer? ”
"This ...... That's not what I meant, but ......."
This time, before the old man finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Liwei waving his hand again.
"I understand what my brother means, you are a good person!" As he spoke, he stood up, took out his police ID card from his jacket pocket, and handed it to the old man with both hands.
The old man glanced at it, and his hands trembled: "It turns out ...... It turned out to be Comrade Director, look at me! ”
Liu Liwei smiled and added some water to him.
"Brother, let's talk about your salvage of bronze statues!"
The old man stood up and bowed to Liu Liwei again and again.
"I was just there at the time, and what happened later had nothing to do with me! Really, I didn't get involved at all......"
Liu Liwei hurriedly helped him sit down again.
"What's wrong with that, brother? No matter what happened back then, 20 years have passed, and no one is pursuing it, and my brother from the water conservancy station is to find out the current case. ”
I hurriedly added: "This is Director Liu of our Hekou District Police Station, you still don't believe his words?" ”
"Ao-Director Liu? I believe it! I believe it! ”
After the old man sat down again, his panicked expression eased a lot.
"Twenty years have passed since this happened, but it has always been a nightmare for me!"
Twenty years ago, in June 1998, there was a shower in this area of the estuary. Perennial fishermen must know that the thin air in the water before and after heavy rain is the time when fish and shrimp are active, and of course, it is also the best time to fish with nets.
After the heavy rain, Old Man Chen hurriedly rowed out of the river.
At that time, there were quite a lot of fishermen, and everyone knew each other, and they shouted from afar, which was regarded as a greeting.
At that time, an old man surnamed Sun was caught in a fishing net by something in the river, so he asked for help from a few fishing boats around him, and the people at the end of the twentieth century were very simple, and soon gathered four or five young men with good water qualities.
It is also very common for fishing nets to be hung by stones and other debris in the water, and when encountering this, people with a little experience know that they can't pull it with brute force, otherwise even if they pull the net up, there must be an extra hole, and the net will basically be wasted.
The easiest way to come across this is to use a stick. Sub-poke, if you're lucky, poke a few times, poke a coincidence, and the underwater net will be untied, but if it hangs very strongly, someone has to dive down and untie it.
I also blame the old man surnamed Sun for being unlucky, as soon as he picked up the first net, the net was hanged, and he was not in good health, so he was not in a small amount of water.
Seeing that Sun Laohan felt sorry for his net, the two young men patted their chests and said that they were willing to help.
Diving into the water, for the villagers who grew up by the river since they were children and made a living from fishing, it was just a piece of cake, the two of them jumped into the water one by one, and floated up again half a minute later.
Sun Laohan also pulled the net up.
Originally, the matter should have passed like this, but who knew that after the two of them poked their heads out of the water, they touched the water on their faces and said that there was a person in the water.
There are people in the water! Could it be a dead body?
It is not uncommon for dead bodies to appear in the Yellow River after heavy rain, but the heads of the two people shook like drums, saying that they were not dead bodies.
Someone on the boat scolded: Fart! It's not a dead body, it's hard to be alive!
The two of them hurriedly explained, saying that it was a metal man, and the color looked like copper.
Twenty years ago, prices were not as high as they are now, but the price of copper was higher than now, so when I heard that there was a copper man below, this word reached the ears of several people on the ship, and the word "person" could be ignored, leaving only a dozen yuan a pound of copper.
Even if the bronze man below has fifty catties, he can sell it for five hundred yuan.
It has to be said that money is the poison that God sprinkles on the world, and those who are poisoned will instantly become demons.
When several people are combined, everyone has a share in this benefit, but no one can say anything.
Soon two thick ropes were brought from the village, and a few good ones went down to tie the rope to the bronze man, and after the tie was done, the people on the boat pulled hard, according to the old man's recollection, in the end, it was the power of the boat, and then with the buoyancy of the water, the bronze man was pulled up from the silt.
Look at the pull to the bed. On the strange bronze man, timid retreat, such as the hunchbacked old man who told us in front of him, in his own words, he took one look, he didn't dare to look at it a second time, so frightened that he put down the sentence "I won't participate", rowed the boat and went home, and then he fell seriously ill, and became a Luo pot after he got better.
The rest of the things were also what he heard from others after he first recovered from a serious illness.
This was already a month after the bronze man, and what scared him was that all the people involved at that time had accidents, some people drank medicine, some people hanged themselves, and some people hacked their wives and children to death with knives, and then hacked themselves to death, and when the neighbors found out, the whole house was full of blood.
All of them died strangely, but in the end, they all committed suicide.
The old man was both frightened and curious, but he still asked about the day on the river and what happened after he left.
After he left, there were a few who retreated, but they were all bold Hu Lao. Second, I persuaded it.
Such a large piece of copper, to say the least, has two or three hundred catties, even if it sells scrap copper, it is worth more than two thousand and a half, and the money is in the pocket, who would be stupid not to want it! HU Lao. The second patted his chest and promised that he was responsible for contacting the buyer, as long as he gave him an additional 200 yuan in benefits.
As soon as I heard that I didn't have to sell it myself, those who retreated had no worries.
As for what happened after that, no one knows. HU Lao. The second is the first to die, and his daughter-in-law said Hu Lao. Two nights before Er committed suicide, he always said that he saw Nuwa standing at the door, staring straight at her.
His wife graduated from junior high school and knew the story of Nuwa's creation, and thought he was making up reasons to convince himself to have a child! I didn't take it seriously.
Who knew that in the middle of the night on the third day, she heard Hu Lao. The second got up and went out, I thought that I was tossing for the child in the past few days, and I forced her to drum it twice tonight, and her thigh was almost beaten by Hu Lao. The second was broken, and she was too lazy to ask, who knew that after falling asleep, she reached out and touched it, Hu Lao. Two haven't come back yet.