It has become a social problem to find a job, especially for a dick like me, who has no education and no skills.

After graduating from junior college, my second uncle took a lot of trouble and relied on the relationship of his old comrades-in-arms to send me to a local Yellow River water conservancy station.

The Yellow River Water Conservancy Station is called in the 80s of the last century, ostensibly belonging to an enterprise, but in fact it is a subordinate unit of the local river bureau.

The second uncle said that his old comrades-in-arms promised to let me train here for two years first, and then find an opportunity to transfer to the River Bureau in the future and become a regular worker who eats "iron rice bowls".

Actually, I know in my heart that this is!

In the second month after I went to work, I encountered a strange thing that made me creepy, to be exact, it happened in the Yellow River beach more than ten miles away......

The area around Dongying in Shandong Province has been dry for two consecutive years, so much so that the Yellow River, known as the second longest river in China, has now become a water of cows' hooves.

Most of the children on the banks of the Yellow River are flooded, and the adults are not worried about their children drowning.

It happened this weekend, I was in the dormitory chatting with a few buddies on WeChat, "pop pop" - a sharp knock on the door scared me so much that I almost threw away my phone.

The door slammed open.

"You kid, don't play with your phone, come with me to the police!" Li Guozhi gasped and shouted.

Originally, the water conservancy station was only responsible for flood prevention and drought control work and the safety of passing boats in its jurisdiction, but the neighbors of Shili and Eight Villages did not care about this, and in their eyes, as long as it was related to the Yellow River, they should look for us, so every time we went out on a mission, we laughed at ourselves and said "go to the police".

Seeing that it was Li Guozhi who pushed the door in, my anger was immediately half extinguished.

Li Guozhi, who is in his forties, is the deputy director of the water conservancy station. The stationmaster's surname is He, and he will retire next year, and he is too lazy to "show up" again, so Li Guozhi basically has the final say on everything in the station.

"What's wrong, Brother Zhi? What's wrong? ”

"Just now someone called and said that the two boys from Hewang Village were drowning......" Before he finished speaking, Li Guozhi turned his head and glared at me, and said sharply, "What are you talking about, you won't know when you get to the place!" ”

The two of them hurriedly drove the four-handed Santana in the station and left the station.

Li Guozhi's car drove very fast, and after running along the embankment of the Yellow River for less than ten minutes, he saw that many people had gathered in the depression of the Yellow River that had broken off not far away.

The Yellow River is in China's rivers for the second time, although it has been cut off for more than a year, but in the downstream area, two or three meters deep puddles can still be seen everywhere, in fact, it is not uncommon for a child to drown in the river.

There are so many people who do good things! Seeing so many onlookers eating melons, I secretly said in my heart.

The car stopped on the dirt road by the river, about five or six hundred meters away from the crowd, and in the distance I heard the sound of gossip mixed with the cry of a woman.

"Lao Wang, whose kid has an accident?" Getting closer, Li Guozhi beckoned to a thin old man and asked softly.

"The Guanglin family's—hey! One is choked by the water, and the other hasn't been found yet......"

I don't understand this, there are many ways to make people stupid, but I haven't heard of anyone choking on water.

Li Guozhi also seemed to be confused, and was stunned for a moment: "This matter...... You have to call the police! We ...... We can only do the work of salvaging corpses! ”

After saying that, he made a phone call gesture to me.

After all, I followed Li Guozhi as soon as I arrived at the station, and there was still a tacit understanding - it meant that I would call Tian Zhen and Yu Jin to retrieve the corpse.

The black and thin old man known as Lao Wang sighed: "I have already called the police, and more than an hour has passed, and it is estimated that the child is already over!"

Seeing the two of us coming, the crowd consciously flashed a way, and then I saw an unkempt woman sitting on the yellow mud by the river, holding a half-sized child in her arms, I couldn't hear what she was humming in her mouth, and there was a man standing next to her frowning, and he kept sighing.

After glancing around, my gaze was fixed on the boy in the woman's arms.

The child looked eleven or twelve years old at most, slumping and sloping, his chest trembling, his eyes wide open, and his mouth slightly open.

"This is the eldest son of the Guanglin family—the second one didn't come up......" The black thin old man didn't finish speaking, and the unkempt woman howled again.

"There's nothing wrong with getting into the water to catch people." Li Guozhi turned around and glanced at the kid in the woman's arms. "I don't think this kid is choking on water."

"What? So what's going on? ”

"Look...... Looks like I'm scared of something! ”

Li Guozhi's words caused a stirring in the crowd again.

"Guozhi, you used to be a barefoot doctor for two years, just take a look at it first, our place is in a bad place, and the ambulance won't be able to come for a while."

"Yes! The ...... of the folks in the village"

Li Guozhi smiled bitterly and waved his hand at the crowd, pulled up his trouser legs, and squatted in front of the kid.

Because Li Guozhi was facing away from me, and I didn't see clearly where he pinched the child, in less than a minute, I heard a "wow" sound, and the child sat up suddenly.

"Dead child!"

"Dead child! There's a dead kid underwater! ”

As soon as he regained his senses, he screamed like crazy, his voice was shrill and indistinct, but the words were like a thunderclap, and instantly exploded in the crowd.

"You...... You make it clear, where are the dead children? ”

Lao Wang also squatted beside the kid and asked tremblingly.

"That's it...... Right under the water, there's ...... There are several. ”

Lao Wang shook the child's shoulders vigorously: "Yujue, you ...... What do you say? There is a ...... underneath the water How many dead kids? ”

The child's mouth opened, and the Adam's apple moved a few times, but he never said a word, just kept nodding his head, like pounding garlic.

The chatter in the crowd never stopped.

"How can there still be ......?"

"Is it murder and throwing corpses?"

"That's not right! I haven't heard of any children missing lately - let alone several ......."

Everyone knows that if someone drowns, it is just an accident, but if there are other people's bodies underwater, it is likely to involve a homicide, and the nature is different.

More than ten minutes later, a police car and an ambulance stopped on the dirt road on the side of the river beach. Chahe walked over in a white coat.

Lao Wang and Li Guozhi hurriedly greeted him.

"Director Liu, why are you here in person?"

The old dynasty walked in front of the middle-aged fat policeman. Check out your hand.

"Weekend! It was my turn to be on duty - what the hell was going on? ”

Director Liu first glanced around the crowd, his eyes paused on Li Guozhi's face, and then nodded, which was regarded as greeting him.

"Things have become complicated...... Lao Wang led a few people to the puddle and briefly explained what had happened.

It turned out that the two boys came here to take a bath on the weekend, and they happened to be seen by the old man Sun who was herding cattle nearby, so he notified the police in the village.

Hearing Lao Wang say that there were still a few children's corpses underwater, Director Liu frowned, he wanted to ask Haitao again, but the female doctor who was squatting on the ground for examination shook her head at him.

"I've passed out - but there are no external injuries......"

The villagers gathered more and more, and Yu Jin and Lao Hong squeezed out of the crowd.

"O national chronicles! Tian Zhen went shopping with his girlfriend, and I will do this for him today. After saying that, Lao Hong grinned at the two of us, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth.

We have a total of ten people in the station, except for the deputy stationmaster and two female comrades, the remaining two people are in a group, and they take turns on duty on weekends, according to the duty schedule, it is Yu Jin and Tian Zhen's turn this week.

"That's hard brother—just now I was worried that the two hairy boys wouldn't be able to handle it." After Li Guozhi gently patted Lao Hong's shoulder, he explained the salvage task in a few words.

Counting, Lao Hong is the oldest employee in the station, one year older than the station manager, and should have retired, but he applied to continue working, saying that his old bones are still strong, and he is reluctant to go to this river, so he was rehired again.

A few young people who stood up always joked about it, saying that when people are old, brain cells may be diseased, and others can't retire if they look forward to retirement, but he is good and can not retreat.

Among the six of us, Lao Hong's diving skills are good and courageous, and I feel solid with him.

Yu Jin wanted to go into the water with Lao Hong, but Lao Hong refused: "This puddle is muddy, and the riverbed is full of silt, my own!" ”

After saying that, he tinkered with the equipment, made an "ok" gesture to the people on the shore, and dived down.

Behind us was surrounded by people eating melons, and at this moment everyone was very quiet tacitly, and I didn't dare to breathe, staring at the ripples on the water.

For five minutes, with the sound of water, Lao Hong came out of the water a few meters away.

Well? Didn't find a body?

I was wondering, when I saw Lao Hong pick up his arms and pounce on the shore, looking a little embarrassed, he pulled off the snorkel, took off the mirror, gasped and climbed to the shore.

"In the water...... What's in isn't ...... Not people! ”

Again, like a bomb, the words exploded in the crowd.

Even Director Liu's face changed slightly: "Not a person? What is that! ”

Yu Jin and I hurriedly pulled Lao Hong up, and I noticed that his expression was a little strange, the muscles on his face were stiff, and his eyes flickered.

"Yes...... It's a half-human, half-snake youkai! A youkai caught in a glass cover! ”

Lao Hong's voice was hoarse, and I could clearly feel his hands shaking.

Helping Lao Hong to sit on the side, Li Guozhi handed over a cigarette, took out a lighter and lit it for him, and took two puffs before Lao Hong slowly said what he saw underwater.

The water of the Yellow River has a large sediment content, which is already turbid, and this puddle is deep, and the underwater scene is dim and unclear. Old Hong Yi was bold, but he was not too afraid, and dived to the bottom with experience.

At first, it was very smooth, he groped his way forward and "climbed" less than two meters, and saw the corpse of a child whose foot was stuck in the mud, and just as he wanted to tie the cable to the child's waist, his eyes glanced at it, and his attention was suddenly attracted by something in front of the corpse.

At first, he thought it was a piece of glass wrapped in yellow mud, but out of curiosity, he reached out and touched it, only to realize that there seemed to be something under the curved glass.