Later, when she went to college, she rarely went home.

The contact between her and her father is also quite special, and even many of the words that sound homely in the ears of others contain important information, such as the use of Tibetan poems.

The last time the father and daughter communicated was ten days ago, I roughly calculated the time, it should be the first time we were salvaged in the Yellow River, she told Wang Shengjia through a "language" that only their father and daughter understand: Everything may be almost over!

Speaking of which, although I couldn't see Wang Shengjia's expression, I heard her sobbing.

After a moment of silence, she continued: "Many times, I even suspect that she is not human, and since she was a child, she has often looked at me with a very terrible look, and I think that kind of look is not something that humans can have. ”

I was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "It's not a person, what is it?" ”

"It's a snake!"

What shocked me the most was another thing Wang Shengjia said, it turned out that Lao Wang also left her last words a few years ago: the body must be cremated within 40 hours after death, and no one can be present during the cremation process.

When Wang Shengjia heard his father's last words, he must have been more shocked than me, but she believed that his father must have his own reasons for doing this. Lao Wang's body is very tough, even before he was bitten by a snake, compared to an old man in his sixties, he is still a strong old man, and this last words remain in his memory.

It wasn't until yesterday that the village accountant contacted her and learned the news of her father's unexpected death that she remembered her father's last words a few years ago.

Wang Shengjia has asked for two months of leave from the unit, and this time she returned to the village to not only manage her father's funeral, but also determined to find out the reason for her mother's disappearance.

I exchanged messages with her, and Wang Shengjia told me that according to her judgment, the family encountered these things related to her father's work as a security guard for several years, and she suspected that there was something wrong with the pharmaceutical factory that suddenly closed down that year.

I told her about the corpses of disabled babies and strange "briquettes" recovered from the Yellow River, and Wang Shengjia suddenly remembered a strange legend that circulated in the village when she was a child.

Wang Shengjia is 27 years old this year, and when she was a child, she meant before she was 10 years old.

At that time, the school was "zoned", and there may have been several schools in the larger townships, and their schools were located in the nearby Bojia Village, and the students were all from seven or eight nearby villages.

There is a very scary saying, when she was eight or nine years old, it became a popular phrase for adults in the neighborhood to scare children.

"If you don't obey again, I'll send you to be a demon child!"

For a time, the word "demon child" made the children of ten miles and eight villages frightened.

Almost all of Wang Shengjia's classmates have been frightened by their parents with this sentence, and whenever their parents say this, most of the children will immediately "give in".

In those two years, several children disappeared in the neighborhood, all of them were normal children between the ages of three and seven, and it was rumored that they were stolen by "beating". The so-called "anti-mongering" is, in today's terms, human traffickers who abduct and sell children.

It was also during those years that an even stranger event occurred in the neighborhood, at least a dozen women gave birth to deformed babies. This should be true, because many people have seen with their own eyes, these children are either mutilated, or have two extra arms or legs, these children are more like animals than humans, and the neighbors call them "demon children" behind their backs, and of course all the children died later.

This incident caused a great deal of panic at the time, even to the extent that the villagers spontaneously organized themselves to worship the river god.

Wang Shengjia was a little impressed by the scene of worshipping the river god, she remembered that at that time, more than a dozen widows in Hewang Village gathered together, burned incense and worshiped Buddha, and kowtowed to the Yellow River on the edge of the Yellow River.

Wang Shengjia vaguely remembers that it was spring when she worshipped the river god, and she was wearing a hat made of freshly sprouted willow branches by her neighbor's brother on her head, and a whistle twisted with wicker in her mouth, which was a very interesting thing in the eyes of the children.

I don't know if it was the old widow's worship in the village that had a good effect, but that summer suddenly there was a heavy rain, which flooded the village and the fields, and I don't know if it was a coincidence, after this heavy rain, no more deformed babies were born, and I never heard of children being stolen again.

After hearing this, I broke out in a cold sweat.

"You...... Since you're my father's friend, ...... Can you do me a favor? After talking about the strange past of childhood, Wang Shengjia suddenly changed the conversation and asked me softly.

"Huh? What's the matter? ”

"According to my father's last wish, he must be cremated within forty hours, but ...... But the custom in the village is to mortuary for three days, of course, I will do the work in the village, you have to help me take my father's body to the crematorium, and when the body is cremated, you have to think of letting the crematorium staff leave. ”

When I heard about the crematorium, I chuckled and was a little frightened.

"I beg you......" I suddenly felt a pair of soft hands take my arm.

In an instant, all my hesitation vanished: "That's okay! ”

I exchanged phone calls with Wang Shengjia, and when I returned to the dam house, it was already half past two in the morning, and I didn't feel sleepy at all. The funeral home and the people's hospital are not far away, and I can go to see Wu Yuhui tomorrow, I remember Captain Zhang said that Wu Yuhui's parents also disappeared a decade or two ago, will all these things be connected?

Local customs, cremated in the morning before the age of 60, cremated in the afternoon of 60, sure enough, in the morning Wang Shengjia called and told me that he had discussed with several stewards in the village, and set off on time at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

I didn't patrol the river for two days, and I sat on the boat, but I felt very relaxed, wondering how to find the female corpse. Several days have passed, and the chances of finding the body are slim. Ay! Do your best!

The river was much less watery than it had been two days ago, and as I walked along the Yellow River, I came across a few small boats with electric fish.

It's very interesting to say, with the development of the times, the fishing industry has also used high technology, now on the Yellow River, fishing with nets is basically amateur, it may be a simple hobby, or their own catch fish to eat, really rely on fishing to make money, most of them use the "power grid", this thing has strong lethality, discharge once, and kill the large and small fish within a few meters.

Most of the fishermen were old men, and they all knew me and greeted me from afar.

"Young man, haven't you found those two bodies yet?"

An old man rowed a boat towards me, grinning.

"No! There seem to be two more. I replied.

The old man smiled: "You guys have also worked hard, it seems that these two people are water fate, they were selected by the Water Dragon King, and they went down to be the little daughter-in-law, and they couldn't find it!" ”

I know he's half joking, but there's little chance of finding it.

Seeing the old man's black and thin appearance, he knew that he must rely on the river to eat the river all the year round, and he may have experience in this area.

"Uncle, let me ask something!"

"Ask!"

"A corpse from three or four days ago, if you look for it now, can you still find it?"

"Well-this is hard to say, the floating corpse of the Yellow River is quite evil, some of them don't leave this area no matter how fast the water flows, and some will sink to the bottom of the water, of course, if they flow to the sea, you have to ask the Dragon King of the East China Sea."

This old man has nothing to do! I thanked me, and just as I wanted to continue walking, the old man called out to me again:

"I've heard an old fisherman say that there is a way to find a corpse in the Yellow River, but I don't know if it is spiritual."

I quickly turned around: "What's the way?" Let's talk about it first! ”

"Find three big black watermelons, shout the name of the deceased, and throw them into the water, if the deceased is chosen by the Water Dragon King, this is when they will surface."