Uncle? How could the person in front of him be an uncle!

Then, everything around me became clear.

I found myself still on that tin boat, flanked by the gently flowing river, with the dam and the fields in the distance, the poplar leaves on the dam slope had turned yellow, and a gust of wind was blowing, and I smelled the familiar smell of earth, and at this moment it smelled so familiar, so familiar, so fragrant.

"Your kid has a big life!"

Seeing me wake up, my uncle smiled and helped me up.

"I ...... I'm not dead? ”

The uncle said: "Not for the time being, but it's a little bit close!" ”

When I straightened my waist, I saw a huge dead fish lying across the bow of the boat, it was the 'ghost catfish' that was fighting with me in the ghost cave, and it still had my uncle's "javelin" stuck in it, and the scene before the coma hit like an arrow.

Shaking his body, he felt soreness and weakness, and barely stood up.

"I ...... I thought I was dead underwater! ”

This time, my uncle was no longer indifferent, but slowly said what happened after I fell into a coma.

After the big fish hit me, it also died, and I also passed out, my uncle jumped into the water, first rescued me into the boat, and then pulled the 'ghost catfish' floating on the surface of the water into the boat, and then followed the same way out of the ghost cave.

After speaking, my uncle suddenly changed his words and asked me in a low voice: "You seem to have something special in your body!" ”

"My body?"

He turned so fast that I was caught off guard.

"If you are a normal person, I am afraid that you will really not wake up this time...... But there seems to be a strong sense of regeneration within your body. He paused for a moment and then asked me, "Do you know how long it took from the time you were dragged into the water by the 'ghost catfish' until I dragged you ashore?" ”

"How long?"

The uncle stretched out his hand and crossed the index fingers of both hands and made a gesture: "Ten whole minutes!" ”

"Ten minutes? So long, this ...... It's impossible! ”

The uncle smiled: "I also think it's incredible, so I asked you that just now." I didn't expect you kid to be so stubborn, I'd rather die than let go of the 'ghost catfish', just like your mother back then, this is really a creation, otherwise I'm afraid this time it will be in vain." ”

"My mother?" My heart trembled, "What kind of conflict did you have with my mother back then, brother and sister, ......?"

Before I finished speaking, my uncle waved his hand: "I have already said, when the time comes, I will tell you everything." ”

I nodded, seeing that his face was not very good, and quickly changed the subject: "Why do you have to catch this fish?" ”

The eldest uncle glanced at me and sighed: "Child, didn't you ask about the second uncle's situation before?" ”

I realized that what he was going to say next must be important, so I was stunned and nodded.

"Your uncle has been lying in bed for more than ten years, and the reason why I am in a hurry to catch the 'ghost catfish' is to save him!"

"Ahh What's wrong with my uncle? Can the 'ghost catfish' save people? ”

"More than ten years ago, your second uncle was seriously injured, and the only thing in the world that can save him is the bitter gall in the body of the 'ghost catfish'."

"Catfish's gall bladder?" I couldn't help but exclaim.

"The 'ghost catfish' is not an ordinary catfish, it has lived in a place with extremely heavy yin qi for a long time, and grew up eating carrion, so his guts can restrain some yin and evil things, of course, this time there is another use for catching 'ghost catfish'."

"What for?"

"Suppress the evil creatures!" The uncle slowly sat down on the boat, showing exhaustion, "I said, their way of 'giving out money and food' is useless!" ”

I was stunned again, and seemed to understand my uncle's words: "You mean the two female ghosts that appeared at night?" ”

"Originally, they were all poor people!" Uncle took a deep breath, "That's not a ghost, it's a spirit!" ”

"Spirit? What a spirit! ”

After death, under different conditions, it is possible to turn into three things, one is what people often call "ghosts", the second is "soul", and there is another kind of thing, which is extremely rare, that is, "spirit", because the spirit is extremely rare, and ordinary Mr. Yin and Yang, monks and Taoists can not be identified, so it is usually confused with "soul". “

"Soul, soul! It's two things, huh? ”

"That's right! The big and the small are the spirits of the mother and daughter in the coffin! Originally, they were about to become powerful ghosts, but at the critical moment, the old man who came with you sacrificed his life to the river, which eliminated most of his strength, and you know what happened next! ”

I nodded, as if I didn't understand, and suddenly thought of what happened to Han Jianjian, and hurriedly asked: "Isn't that little one oppressed on my friend and was ...... by you?" Did you eliminate it? ”

The uncle smiled bitterly: "What I eliminated was only the anger on her, and now what remains in the village is resentment, and the two are completely different." ”

As he spoke, the iron boat sailed onto the main road of the Yellow River.

Then I remembered what I had seen in the ghost cave, and hurriedly asked, "What is that ghost cave?" There are obvious traces of artificial excavation in the depths, and there are so many coffins, yes! I also saw a huge coffin at the bottom of the river! ”

"Oh?" The uncle also seemed to be surprised, his face changed suddenly, and then he laughed: "It turns out that its coffin is buried at the bottom of the river!" No wonder! No wonder! ”

"Whose coffin?"

I was confused by his sudden move.

Soon the uncle returned to his usual demeanor and coughed lightly twice, as if to hide his abnormal behavior just now.

"Nobody, this matter has nothing to do with you!"

I nodded, also accustomed to his routine "refusal to answer", turned my head to look at the lush greenery on both sides of the strait, I had a kind of exhaustion after recovering from a serious illness, and a hearty feeling of returning from the victory of the battlefield, although there was still a stomach of confusion, but at this moment I was too lazy to ask anything.

My uncle handed me a cigarette again, and said that I had to get rid of the remaining spirit in my body, and the two of them smoked back to back, and neither of them spoke until the village appeared in sight.

My uncle patted me on the shoulder and stood up: "Okay, let's get to work!" ”

"Work? What do you do? ”

"Cut out the fish gall!" As he spoke, he drew two daggers and handed me one of them.

It was a short dagger covered with patina, black and black, with a white handle that was cold and hard to the touch.

"This dagger is so strange, it looks like an antiquity!"

The uncle smiled and nodded: "You kid don't remember?" ”

I was stunned: "What do you remember?" ”

"This dagger!" Uncle pointed to the short knife in my hand, "When I found you at the bottom of the river, you were unconscious, and you were holding this dagger in your hand at that time, and you will not let go of your hand even if you die. ”

After that, he turned around and raised his hand to wave at the 'ghost catfish' on the side...... I hurried over to help, the two of them cut open the belly of the fish, I broke it with both hands, the uncle put the whole right arm into it, and after tinkering for a while, dragged out a bunch of black things, the uncle ignored the blood on his hands, touched the neck and nose, and then smiled happily, like an innocent child.

The smell of blood came to his nose, and he looked at the thing in his hand, which was more than twice the size of his palm, and the surface was composed of black bubbles the size of a hawthorn, and the whole looked like a huge frog egg.

"This is the guts of the 'ghost catfish'?"

"That's right! Right! In our circle, this is a baby! You can't exchange any amount of gold for any amount of money. "Uncle seemed very excited.

After speaking, the uncle kicked the "ghost catfish" into the water.

"You ......" I was in a hurry, and the fish I caught from the ghost cave at the risk of my life were immediately transported back to the village, and I was kicked into the river by him like this, which was inexplicable.

The uncle sneered: "This fish itself is useless, what is useful is this fish gall bladder." ”

After saying that, he turned around and put the fish gall in a red bag, put it at his feet, then took off his coat, laughed a few times at the boiling river, and jumped into it.

"Uncle—"

I shouted this subconsciously in a panic, and when I walked to the river in two steps, I saw a circle of ripples on the surface of the water gradually spreading around, and there was still the figure of my uncle.

"Uncle! Uncle! ”

At this moment, I couldn't care so much anymore, and yelled at a circle of ripples in the river, until the ripples faded and finally disappeared, and my uncle still didn't come up.

I panicked and was hesitating whether to jump in and save him...... Right! I should have done this, by blood, he was my own uncle, and besides, he had saved me by jumping into the deep water of the ghost cave.

A heroic spirit instantly filled my body.

Three times five divided by two, took off the disgusting corpse suit, and just wanted to go into the water, I heard a violent splash in the water, and the uncle got out of the water.

"Uncle—"

I shouted at him excitedly.

My uncle smiled at me, then reached out and threw two big fish into the boat, and wiped the river water from his face.

"You kid finally called me uncle?"

After saying that, he swam to the side of the boat, held the edge of the boat with both hands, and slammed it on, and his body got on the boat.

I couldn't help but secretly exclaim in my heart: no wonder my uncle was able to dive underwater and rescue me, it turned out that he was so high underwater! It's even better than a few old colleagues at the water conservancy station.

The uncle pointed to the two big carps that were jumping around and asked softly, "You kid will clean up the fish, right?" ”

I nodded, "Yes!" ”

"Hurry up and pack up and make lunch!"

There seemed to be an irresistible force in the uncle's words, not an order, but better than an order.

Children from single-parent families mature early and will do more housework, because the family is poor, except for the New Year's holiday, my mother rarely buys meat, and the fish on both sides of the Yellow River is always cheaper than meat, so others often eat meat, my family often eats fish, and I have also learned to clean up fish and all kinds of fish since I was a child.

When I first joined the water conservancy station, I had a detailed investigation of the relevant information of the Yellow River:

There are 121 species of fish in the Yellow River, of which 98 are freshwater fish, and there are about 79 species downstream of us, the most famous of which are the Yellow River carp and the Yellow River saury, which are also regarded as the characteristic fish of the whole North China.

With the development of industrialization, environmental pollution has become a serious problem in the Yellow River, and now the Yellow River saury is very rare, and the price is also rising every year, but there are still a lot of delicious Yellow River carp, and the uncle caught two more than two catties of Yellow River carp.

The boat had already arrived at the western outskirts of Higashito Village, but the uncle had no intention of docking, but dropped anchor and let the boat stop in the middle of the river.

"Great nephew, I haven't eaten meat in nearly twenty years......" he smiled bitterly, and stopped talking.

The uncle took out an iron pot and charcoal, and brought out a seasoning box, a package of sauerkraut, and a pot of sauerkraut and fish were quickly prepared.

With the previous experience, coupled with a vicious fight between the ghost cave and the "ghost catfish", especially after helping my uncle to disembowel the "catfish" just now, the fishy smell that came to my nose, I didn't want to eat fish, but the moment I opened the lid of the pot, the smell of fish came to my nose, and my appetite was like a string of firecrackers lit, crackling and exploding.

The two of them held chopsticks, neither bowls nor plates, and devoured the pot for a while, and about four catties of carp were eaten and there was not much left.

After eating, my uncle asked me to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and then pulled the iron anchor myself, and sailed the boat to the river.

Before he could enter the village, he heard a heart-rending cry and gossip from the village.

"Uncle, there seems to be an accident in the village!"

The uncle didn't think so, and at this moment his face returned to the indifferent expression that existed before, and only nodded slightly.

When I was about to arrive at the village commissary, I saw a bunch of people around the alley on one side, I took a few glances and recognized Han Jianli and Zhou Yinuo, and hurriedly walked over.

"Establishment, what's going on?"

Han Jianli turned around and saw me, his eyes widened: "Brother Dong? I haven't seen you all morning, why are you going? ”

"Tell me, what are you doing at the gate of the courtyard?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was another cry in the courtyard.

"Oh! I heard that his old man was killed by a ghost? We both just arrived. He leaned over me and said in a low voice.

"Uncle......" I wanted to ask my uncle if all this was the work of the "spirit" he said, but when I turned around, I found that he was gone.

Forget it, weirdos behave!

"What about Wu Jinghan?" I swept around, but I didn't see Wu Jinghan, so I hurriedly asked Han Jianjian.

"Oh! I'm still waiting for you at the village branch! I refused to come. ”

Although I was curious, I wanted to see what this old man who was scared to death by ghosts looked like, and I also wanted to know what it was, but I was even more worried about Wu Jinghan, who was crying and waiting for me all morning, so I turned around and ran to the courtyard of the village branch, and happened to meet the oncoming old man Zhou on the road.

"I haven't seen you all morning! Brothers? ”

I smiled: "I went out, you ...... What are you doing in such a hurry? ”

"Xue Chunshan saw the pair of female ghosts last night and was scared crazy! I haven't had time to go to the hospital yet, just ...... Just now Li Bolai told me that the person is dead, so I won't go and take a look! ”

With that, he waved his hand and ran in the direction I had come.

Wu Jinghan stood at the gate of the courtyard, crossed her hands to her chest, and when she saw me, she pounced directly and got up whimpering in my arms.

"How...... What a morning! She cried for a while, and asked softly in my ear.

"It's okay! It's okay! Makes you worry about ......."

After a while, I briefly told me about the hanging coffin and the mysterious erased murals found in the ghost cave of the Yellow River, thinking that Wu Jinghan is a graduate student in the Department of Archaeology, so what conclusion should I draw!

"Maybe this is another tomb group of the Dongyi tribe, and the time should be later than the underground tomb group we found before."

I nodded, and then thought of the old man being scared to death by a ghost just now, so I casually asked her: "Comrade Xiao Wu, do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" ”