On this day, a lot of white carp appeared nearby, the big ones were one or two catties, and the small ones were the size of an adult's palm, and even the old people who had been fishing all their lives had never seen this kind of fish.

The key is that these fish are slow and can be caught directly with their bare hands, which attracted many people to come out to catch fish for a while, including Yu Laohan's family and Hong Jingsheng's family.

At that time, Hong Jingsheng had already married a wife and had children.

In fact, everyone from the post-80s generation to the top knows that before, especially before 80 years, rural people generally got married at a young age, most of them started a family before they reached 20, and they got married at the age of 16 or 7 as early as 16 or 7, so it was a very common phenomenon to have three or four children at the age of 30.

Hong Jingsheng had two children, the eldest daughter was ten years old and the son was seven years old, and they all came out to catch white carp.

Hundreds of women and children, some holding pots and some carrying buckets, scattered in the potholes around the village, feeling a bumper harvest.

At that time, Yu Laohan didn't go, and after so many years, he couldn't remember the reason why he didn't go at that time.

He only remembered that when his wife and children went out, it was after lunch, about one o'clock, but after several hours, people still did not come back, so he wanted to go out to greet him, but as soon as he walked out of the street, he heard crying outside, and several neighbors were wet. Wet, carrying things this way.

The distance was closer, and after seeing the things carried by a few people, the old man was startled, and it turned out to be a person who didn't move, and his whole body was wet. Wet.

They are all very familiar neighbors, Yu Laohan asked what was wrong, and those people were full of tears, saying that the neighbors who fished for fish were all crazy, and they threw themselves into the river, and many people had drowned.

The old man jumped up and ran desperately towards the Yellow River, his daughter-in-law and children were also fishing, and they wouldn't ......

Speaking of this, Yu Laohan, who was talking about dry cigarettes at this time, still showed a sad look on his face.

He ran to the Yellow River in one breath, and saw many people scattered on the shore from a distance, crying, shouting and scolding one after another, and many people lying motionless on the ground, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

Yu Laohan frantically shouted the names of his wife and children, and ran along the riverbank for four or five miles in one breath, but did not find their mother, and at this time an ominous premonition had filled his mind.

He searched more carefully, and this time he saw Hong Jingsheng's family lying on the shore, squatting on the side of Hong Jingsheng's father, and the old man was crying to death.

That afternoon, it can be said that the whole county was in mourning, and the whole county was shaken.

The next morning, the rescue team arrived at the scene, and it was not until noon that the bodies of the old man's wife and children were found, and the person was already stiff. Finish.

Seeing his wife and a pair of sons lying motionless on the ground, Yu Laohan collapsed, the biggest pain in the world is nothing more than this!

Later, an inventory showed that more than 30 people had died in their village, and many people had drowned in several nearby villages, all of whom had drowned themselves. At that time, the county sent people to investigate the cause of the accident, but there was no result in the investigation, so it had to be hastily reported, and the report was caused by a sudden flood and inability to evade.

Later, this incident was called the "90 years of mass drowning incident", and it has been passed down for more than 20 years.

In order to quell the impact of the incident, the county sent local armed police, criminal police, and fire police...... In short, all the personnel who could be dispatched were dispatched, and coffins and condolences were sent to the deceased.

The village chief discussed with several members of the village committee, and of course the consent of the villagers was sought, and it was decided to mourn the 30 or so deceased collectively.

Yu Laohan still clearly remembers the scene of more than 30 black coffins placed in the village, and described it in one word, that is, "miserable"!

According to the local funeral customs, the deceased put into the coffin to "mortuary overnight" before entering the soil for peace, coincidentally on the same night, the archaeological team into the mountain returned to the village, Yu Laohan remembered very clearly, a total of eight people when entering the mountain, but at this time there were only five, these five were obviously thinner than when they entered the mountain, and their mental state was also very poor.

At this time, the families of the deceased quit! It is said that after they entered the mountain, they angered the mountain god, and it will rain heavily, and white strange fish will appear, and someone will take a stick for a while. Someone, carrying a hoe, surrounded the five people.

These five people did not panic, let alone dodge, and let the stick be. The hoe smashed down on them.

The common people of that era were very kind and simple, and when they saw that people didn't dodge, they were embarrassed to go on endlessly, and the two sides were in a stalemate for a few minutes.

The village chief Mao hurriedly came out to play a round, of course, both sides said good things, and said to the villagers that rain is a natural phenomenon and has nothing to do with the archaeological team, and said to the archaeological team that someone at home had an accident, and they were very excited......

The five archaeological team members always behaved very calmly, although they were beaten for no reason, they didn't say a word of complaint, and only asked the village to find a place to rest.

It was still a bit cloudy that night, and according to local funeral customs, there should be a dutiful vigil (also called a vigil).

In fact, the custom of "filial piety vigil" exists almost all over the country, and it has existed since ancient times, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has Cao Cao pretending to give his dead son Cao Chong a vigil, so as to find out who is the real murderer of him, which shows that at least in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the vigil and funeral custom were prevalent.

It's just that since ancient times, vigils have mostly been carried out in the family, basically a peer of the deceased with a few juniors, during which it is necessary to ensure that the yellow incense in front of the deceased's head cannot be extinguished, and to pay attention to the cats and dogs with hairy domestic animals close to the deceased.

It is said that if a hairy animal (mostly a cat) crosses over the body of the deceased on this night, it will cause a corpse change, such as the "cat-faced old lady incident" in Harbin, northeast China, which has been rated as one of the top ten supernatural events in modern China.

A family wake is a room in the home that is set aside and arranged according to the requirements of the mourning hall, with relatives, friends and children waiting by the deceased's side. Family wakes should not only arrange the vigilers, prepare midnight snacks and emergency spare medicines, but also pay attention to the safety of electricity, gas, and fire candles.

Nowadays, many of the children of the deceased have moved out of the countryside, so it is naturally inconvenient to send mourners in the village, but to set up the mourning hall in the funeral home. The funeral hall is equipped with all kinds of household utensils, which saves many troublesome things for the bereaved family.

What is strange is the vigil of some ethnic minorities, such as the Miao people, who keep vigil for women, and they have to wear costumes, gold and silver.

Because of the heavy rain, a lot of the work of cleaning up the aftermath needed to be done by the village laborers, so the task of keeping vigil at night was handed over to a few teenagers and a half boys. I don't know if it's scared or playful, just after twelve o'clock, a few people secretly hid in a nearby house to play.