At nine o'clock in the evening, I arrived at the place where the lantern festival was held.

The crowd was full of voices, and it was so lively.

Ten miles long street, brilliant lights.

I strolled through the world of lights, carefully watched, lifelike goldfish lanterns, vivid lotus lanterns, and a lot of beautiful, novel and unique lamps, dazzling, beautiful.

Countless local women, dressed in Hanfu, walked on this ten-mile long street.

A series of Chinese-style tunes slowly sounded and drifted with the wind.

At this moment, I felt as if I had returned to the world hundreds of years ago.

The depression and dullness in my heart were relieved at this moment, as if floating to a place beyond the clouds.

Pulling out my phone, I took these beautiful photos.

Before I knew it, two hours had passed.

I'm a little tired.

Sit on a chair by the river to rest.

The moon is really round tonight.

Lighting a cigarette, I thought again, if my mother hadn't been sick and I hadn't gone to work at Castle Peak Hospital, how good it would have been!

Immediately, I turned my head and looked to the side.

At this time, an old lady appeared next to me at some point.

She was hunched up, with a two-finger-wide scar on the left side of her face, extending from the corner of her eye to the bridge of her nose, and her left eye was blind, apparently because of the scar on her face, which had damaged her eye.

She also had a problem with her right eye, which had a faint green glow in the dark.... Like a cat's eye ....

The appearance of this old lady in vain really frightened me, and I was covered in a cold sweat, and my heart beat a lot faster.

Subconsciously move to the left a few times.....

"What are you doing here, young man?"

The old lady's voice was hoarse, and her throat seemed to be choked by something. Her right eye shimmered with a faint green light, which looked very strange in the darkness....

I patted my chest, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "I'm tired of shopping, sit here and take a break." ”

"Oh!"

The old lady leaned over and slowly turned around with her hands behind her back, ready to leave.

After walking a few steps, she turned her head and looked at me directly: "It's not safe here at night, hurry back and ....."

As soon as the words fell, the old lady disappeared into the darkness and disappeared.....

I patted my chest and took a few deep breaths.

This old lady is really, it's scary to run out at night, a little unauthentic!

Immediately, I got up and prepared to go back to the hotel to rest early, so that I could take the first bus to Hejia Village tomorrow.

At this moment, there was a shouting voice in my ears, and when I listened closely, it was the voice of a girl crying for help.....

My heart tightened, and I quickly looked into the river.

Because it was dark, my vision was blocked and I couldn't see clearly.

The source of the sound was a little far away from me, so I quickly took out my phone and turned on the flashlight and ran over to follow the cry for help.

After a while, I came to a bridge.

The cry for help was in my ears.

If you look closely, there is a little girl struggling in the river.....

I put my phone on the ground and jumped off.

There was a 'bang', and the river suddenly submerged me, it was very cold, biting, and my bones were almost frozen.

The girl was exhausted and was sinking into the river.

I swam forward and grabbed her hand.

Suddenly I felt that the cold was even worse, and my right hand felt as if it was frozen, and I felt paralyzed and unable to move.

Just as I was about to swim to the shore..... The girl's hand grabbed my arm with great force, and at once she pulled me into the river.....

I drank several sips of water at once, and I felt very uncomfortable.... Most of the qi in the body was drained out at once.....

I struggled desperately to shake off the girl's hand and float to the surface for a few breaths.

Otherwise, if this continues, we will both die in this river.

But this girl has a lot of strength, and she keeps pulling me down, and even if she is breastfeeding, she can't break free from her grip on me!

"Gollum, Gollum....."

At this point, I couldn't hold my breath anymore, and I felt like my lungs were about to explode, and it was extremely uncomfortable.

In the blink of an eye, I saw a pale face suddenly appear in my eyes.

The eyes are white.... The facial features are swollen and the outline is not clear, and it looks like after being soaked in water for a long time.

At that moment, a pair of miserable white hands grabbed my neck, and the force was very strong, accompanied by pain.

At this moment, I opened my mouth, and there was no oxygen left.

The river was constantly pouring into the mouth and nose, and it was very uncomfortable, as if the whole body was about to be filled with the river water.....

At that moment, I felt a great force on the surface of the river, pulling me up.

The hands that were on my neck suddenly let go..... I saw that faceless face and gave me a weird smile.... Then disappeared into the river.

Coming to the surface, I was breathing heavily, and I was coughing constantly, and I was instantly relieved.

The man who rescued me was a middle-aged uncle, who took me by the arm and swam to the shore.

Climbing ashore, I lay on the ground and vomited a lot of water.

In an instant, the whole person was much more relaxed, and his breathing was smoother.

The uncle sat on the ground, wiped the water from his face, and said, "Young man, there are still many things in this world waiting for you to do, what can't you think of?" Going to suicide? ”

I sat up, looked at my uncle and said, "I'm not committing suicide, I'm going to save people!" ”

"Saving people?"

The middle-aged uncle frowned and said, "I only saw you alone....."

"How is this possible?"

I raised my voice a little and became a little emotional: "There is a little girl in the river, she is right next to me, you didn't save her?" ”

At this time, the middle-aged uncle's face changed a little, and he looked at me strangely, and he said: "When I passed by, I only saw you struggling in the river, if there were other people, when I rescued you, I would definitely save her....."

Speaking of this, the uncle's face was a little uncomfortable, and a trace of horror crossed his eyes.

He glanced at the river, then showed panic, said a few words to me, and hurried away.

I sat on the ground, shocked.

There's a little girl in the river, huh?

When I went to rescue her, her hand clasped my arm with such force that it dragged me into the river and almost drowned.

The power is very real.... There is a hot sensation in the arm until now.

But middle-aged uncle, why didn't you see it?

For a moment, I remembered the face I saw in the river..... Suddenly my scalp was numb and I shivered.....

And the hands that held me!

There was an immediate pain in his neck, as if his skin had been scratched.....

Could it be a ghost.....

Then a terrible thought suddenly came to me..... A few minutes of shortness of breath....

The legend of water ghosts has always been spread in the township.

He often takes the form of a human being in the river and attracts the attention of passers-by.

As long as you go down to the river to save people, you will definitely drown.

This is the search for a substitute ghost in folklore.....

Could it be that the little girl I just saw was the legendary water ghost?

Thinking of this, I was even more panicked, trembling all over, my heart was beating faster, and my breathing was much shorter.....

"Whew...."

A cold wind blew by the river.

I was soaking wet, but I was even colder at this time, and I had goosebumps on my body, and I was shivering all over.

Faintly, I seemed to hear a burst of laughter coming from the river.....