Dummy? I bent down to take a closer look, and sure enough, I saw that the two of them were carrying a dummy.

It's just that I'm wearing clothes and makeup, and if I don't look closely, it's almost the same as a real person.

I smiled embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I thought ......"

"This is a 'clay man' made of flour by several neighbors overnight, dedicated to the river god as a bride!" Zhou Laohan explained again.

The two villagers gave me a blank look, bypassed me, carried the dummy to the river, shouted "one or two", and threw it into the Yellow River. After the dummy fell into the water, it sank directly.

The villagers gradually gathered around, dozens of pairs of eyes staring at the river.

"What? I'm still waiting for the river god to show up! ”

Han Jianjian muttered.

A few of us came over.

The surface of the river is very calm, and the morning sun shines brightly, sparkling and giving people a sense of tranquility and peace.

After looking at it for a minute, there was no change in the surface of the water, and my eyes were a little sour, and just as I was about to retract my gaze, I saw a whirlpool in the water, and then a piece of chicken and duck feathers floated up from under the water.

"! I ate ......," Han Jianjian, who was behind him, muttered again.

I was also taken aback, and my first reaction was: there are big animals in the river!

The huge whirlpool seemed to have long legs, and swam in circles on the surface of the water, and after another half a minute, some red, green, and green things floated up in the water, and before I could recognize what it was, I heard someone behind me shout: "It's a rag!" ”

Immediately afterwards, someone shouted: "The river god Niangniang is in pieces!" ”

It dawned on me that this was the dummy that had just been thrown into the water! Something underwater made it into pieces and floated up.

Suddenly there was a shout in the crowd, and the old man who was on crutches just now was helped by someone and came to the river tremblingly: "It's the river god who is angry!" The river god is angry! ”

A young villager hurriedly asked him, "Master, why is the river god angry!" ”

The old man snorted coldly: "Deceive it for you!" He saw that the bride was a fake! Village...... I'm afraid the village is going to suffer! ”

After saying that, he coughed, turned around and walked into the crowd.

I just feel curious, guess where there is a river god, it is clearly a large and ferocious animal living in this river, such as a crocodile or a catfish with a large head, a few days ago it broke out in the boundary of Henan, there is a child playing in the river by the river, dragged down the river by something in the water and drowned the news.

At first, it was rumored that "the drowned ghost was looking for a substitute", but it turned out that it was all done by beasts in the water.

My attention shifted to Fa Ying, and after he had finished reciting a lot of strange words to worship the river, he did not follow him to the river to watch the excitement, but took out a few ancient coins and squatted on the ground.

Is he divining?

I turned and walked over.

"What's going on! Can you figure out what that you are talking about? I asked in a whisper. 135 Chinese

Fa Dian looked at the ancient coins scattered to the ground, and was stunned for half a minute, before he slapped the back of his head and exclaimed, "It turned out to be this thing!" ”

"What is it?" I hurriedly asked.

Before Fa Dian could answer, he heard a loud splash by the river, followed by an exclamation from the crowd of onlookers.

"There's a lot of stuff in the water!"

"It's the river god who is here!"

Fa Dian and I also hurried over, and we saw the water splashing on the surface of the river, and sure enough, it seemed like some huge beast was fluttering under the water, and everyone was frightened and took several steps back.

"Look! Something is floating up in the water! ”

Someone shouted again.

Before the man's words landed, I saw a long strip slowly floating up from the bottom of the water, at first I thought it was a dummy thrown into the water, and then I thought, no! The dummy was made of flour, and when it came into the water, it would become a paste, and the clothes were all in pieces, but at this time they floated up...... It's a man!

It was a man, face down on the water, screaming from the crowd.

"It's a person!"

"Still a man!"

……

It was obvious that the man had been soaked in the water for a long time, and the back of his neck and hands were swollen.

It is said that ten or twenty years ago, there would be floating corpses on the Yellow River almost every week, some of them drowned by accident, and some were thrown into the Yellow River after being killed.

At that time, our area relied on development, the economy developed rapidly, and many small restaurants sprung up, so they attracted a lot of southern girls to work as waiters, and most of them were sneaky, hiding from relatives and friends, and some even had fake ID cards.

After such a person is killed, he throws it into the river, and as long as he is not discovered at that time, the matter becomes a 90% unsolved case.

In the first month of work, due to work needs, I heard Lao Hong talk about a lot of floating corpses in the Yellow River, so I knew more or less about the rumors and taboos about the floating corpses of the Yellow River.

For example, what kind of corpses can be fished out in the Yellow River, what kind of corpses cannot be fished, and how to fish.

A few decades ago, the Yellow River Water Conservancy Station did not salvage corpses part-time, and the corpses were salvaged by a more professional person, called "Yellow River Corpse Collector", and in some places also called "Water Ghost".

I remember Lao Hong said, the density of the human body is similar to water, after the dead body sinks to the bottom of the water, with the decay of the corpse, the flatulence in the body gathers, and it will gradually surface, first floating up is the upper limbs, and then the lower limbs, because the pelvis of women and men are different, so the floating corpse has a characteristic, called "male and female prostrate", that is, these dead bodies floating on the water, leaning over are men, and those who are leaning on are women.

In the process of scooping up the corpse, there is a kind of corpse that neither leans over nor leans back, but stands upright in the water. They maintain a walking posture underwater, moving slowly forward with the current, as if they were walking slowly.

If the riverbed dries up, you can still see clear footprints underwater. This kind of corpse is like a living person, without the slightest trace of decay, and the face is bright, there are old people, children, and women.

People who don't understand the situation, when they see it, they must not be scared half to death!

The main livelihood of the Yellow River corpse collectors is to salvage the corpses, and their main job is to salvage the dead bodies in the Yellow River, and those family members who come to identify the corpses will pay a lot of money for the corpses. Of course, there are also family members of the victims who take the initiative to find the corpse in the Yellow River and ask for help in finding and salvaging the corpse, and the fee in this case is naturally higher.

The livelihood of the Yellow River corpse collector has always been a topic of controversy. Some people believe that this business is immoral, that people are already dead, and that they demand that the families pay for the identification of the bodies, which is a little cruel to the families of the victims. However, there are also many people who believe that the Yellow River corpse collectors have paid their own labor and sweat, and it is appropriate to charge a certain fee. Moreover, in a sense, the Yellow River corpse collectors are also doing a good deed.