Chapter 17: The Corpse in the River
Under the moonlight.
The man in the cowshed staggered out and stunned me.
A weasel!
Its eyes were shining, and it was covered in a garment that had been stolen out of nowhere, and it was dressed like a foreign gentleman with a bow tie around its neck. It's just that it holds a piece of hard cow dung in its small hands, and raises its hands up, as if it is holding cow dung to bask in the moonlight.
I reacted, when I was a child, my grandfather told me that when I was a child, I would dress up as an adult, stop people on the way to beg for a seal, and ask passers-by if it looks like a person, if you say it looks like, it can become an adult, and if you say it doesn't look like, it will break its merits. The yellow skin will be reported, and if the mouth seal is not successful, you will be arrested. I always thought it was a story of deceiving children, but I never thought there was such a thing.
"Do you think I look like a person?" Huang Pizi spoke with a shrill voice.
The sound was as unpleasant as metal friction, not like normal human speech, as if it was an animal's tongue, and it seemed to be like a non-image. It can be seen that Huangpizi repeatedly imitates people's language in order to ask for the seal, and it takes a lot of effort for the old nose.
The fat man on the left suddenly replied: "I think you look like a handful!" ”
When Huang Pizi heard this, his eyes suddenly showed horror and anger, and he threw the lump of cow dung in his hand in front of the fat man on the left, and ran away like crazy.
The fat man on the left laughed on the side, like a fool.
I was speechless for a moment.
Isn't the fat man on the left afraid that the yellow skin will trouble him?
In front is the City God Temple, with ruins and broken walls, and cobwebs.
The fat man on the left brushed away the cobwebs, committed himself to go in first, and said to the half-cut statue of the city god, "Dog's day! You don't care if the spirits are running around in the village, you can't swallow this breath if you don't clean it up! ”
He wants to clean up the city god?
The fat man on the left took out a talisman from his pocket, bit his middle finger, drew a talisman on it with blood, and then raised his hand at me: "Lighter!" ”
I gave him the lighter, and he burned the talisman in front of the statue of the city god.
Taking advantage of the gap between him burning talismans, I asked him, everyone Taoist priests use Taoism to urge talisman fire, why do you always use lighters?
The fat man on the left gave me a blank look, isn't it difficult to promote the fire of the Dao? Dude, this is called keeping pace with the times, don't be noisy if you don't understand.
After the rune paper was burned, let alone the city god, not even a mouse appeared around.
I secretly thought that the fat man was pretending to be too big, and he was far away from him on a rainy day, because he was easy to get involved when he was struck by lightning.
The fat man on the left frowned, his expression was angry, and he shouted: "Get out of here!" Then, he kicked over the altar in front of the city god, and the surrounding area instantly became dusty.
An amazing scene occurred.
The statue of the city god shook twice, and there was a crack in the middle. Then, a cold, biting wind blew from behind the statue, rolling up the leaves on the ground and flying all over the sky.
Is the City God out?
The fat man on the left was self-reliant, unmoved by the leaves, like a god, with his hands behind his back and a pair of mung bean eyes staring at the front.
The leaves rolled in a few rolls, forming strange symbols on the ground.
The fat man on the left glanced at the leaves, opened his mouth and said, "If you don't dare to show up, then tell me the situation!" ”
The leaves rolled up a few more volumes, forming strange symbols again, and the fat man on the left looked at it twice: "If I find out that you have deceived me, I will go to Wulei and judge you and chop off your dog's head!" Tell the brute to come out and lead the way! ”
There was a sound in the corner of the temple, and a snake with a white neck and a penny size slipped out.
I took a step back in fright.
The fat man on the left was unmoved, and shouted at the big snake: "Lead the way!" ”
I really couldn't help but wonder in my heart: "What is the city god talking to you?" ”
The left fat man had a cigarette in the corner of his mouth: "That coward didn't dare to say anything, only that he couldn't afford to mess with the things in the river." Then, he pointed to the flower snake in front of him: "No...... I sent a little brother to lead the way, and let us investigate by ourselves. ”
"Master Chenghuang still accepts his younger brother?" My three views have been refreshed again.
The fat man on the left looked at me as if he was mentally retarded: "That deflated calf has no incense in the world, and he is dying of hunger, so he quietly accepted animal worship." These cultivation spirits are also happy to have the protection of the little gods, hiding nearby and slapping him on the back. Don't you smell a fishy smell all around? Let the five thunderbolts know that he didn't run away from his post. ”
I glanced at the strange snake in front of me: "Can it talk like a yellow skin?" ”
The fat man Zuo replied no, it has not been cultivated for less than a year, and it is like a family dog, at most it will lead the way.
"How can an official as big as Lord Chenghuang listen to you?"
"He's got a big hammer! The buddy hung the priesthood on it, and the Heavenly General of the Jade Shuhuo Mansion Wang Lingguan was the right protector...... Hey, why the hell do you have so many problems, hurry up! ”
The fat man on the left didn't want to talk more, so he buried his head and hurried forward.
I remember the position of the dead fat man, and then I checked it out without anything, and the Wang Lingguan in his mouth was the protector of the gods, and he was the imperial general who guarded the supreme god of Taoism, and the left fat man and the right protector position were equivalent to the guards with knives in front of the emperor. "One village, one land, one township, one city god, one county, one temple, one Yama", don't look at the city god in the eyes of the people, in front of the guards with knives in front of the emperor, it is indeed not a fart.
The flower snake led us straight to the wax crossing.
The fat man's face changed.
I asked him what was wrong.
He said he wouldn't know water.
The dead fat man has been coaxing for days, and I've finally caught a skill he doesn't know. I grew up by the Yellow River, and I didn't have to say anything about the water, so I couldn't help but say a few sarcastic words, just as I was refreshed, he untied an anchor, and said with disdain: "The water has a chicken feather use, and you can still swim a boat?!" ”
I'm silent.
After getting on the boat, I paddled to the center of the river.
I have a natural fear of wax crossings, the golden leopard frog, the monster with the big head of the house, the mysterious boy in white...... It's always been a nightmare for me.
The fat man on the boat told me with great interest about the corpse, so frightened that my paddling hand kept trembling, and I couldn't stand it later, and said that I would make a noise to kill Lao Tzu and swim back into the river, so that you could stay alone in the river, so he shut up.
The boat traveled in the river, about a few hours, and traveled more than ten miles.
In the middle, I asked the fat man Zuo to row for me, but this cargo made the boat staggered.
I had to tell him to get out of the way and paddle by himself.
This time, I was so tired that I couldn't help but pause and rest.
The white snake suddenly threw its neck up, sank into the water, and quickly disappeared before our eyes.
We look at each other, what do you mean?
Ask us to investigate here?
The boat began to rock from side to side, and the fat man on the left was frightened.
I hurried to the side of the boat to look, and found that the river was extremely turbid, like boiling water, constantly tumbling upward, mixed with a large amount of sediment and aquatic weeds.
There's something at the bottom of the river!
The fat man on the left stabilized his mood, took out two talismans, stuck them on the side of the boat, and began to chant incantations in his mouth urgently.
I took a penny and poked it down.
A tremendous force came, and Penny almost broke free.
Seeing this, the fat man hurriedly came over to help me pull the penny, the two of them worked together, the other party got out of his hand, and we fell on the deck one by one, picked up the end of the penny to take a look, and found that it was stained with black blood, and even, there were a few strands of long hair.
Before we could react, the boat suddenly swung upward, and the two of us were caught off guard, and we tumbled down the river with two "poofs".
I only felt the river water pouring into my ears and nose, and the thick muddy smell choked my lungs with severe pain. I swung my arms and swam to the side of the boat, and just as I was about to swim to the side of the boat, a chill hit my feet, as if I had been grabbed by a hand, and dragged me to the bottom of the river.
I choked on a few more mouthfuls of water, and I was in a hurry, so I hurriedly kicked the hand that was dragging me with my foot.
I couldn't do it underwater, and my body was dragged down by a powerful force.
When I opened my eyes, I suddenly felt that the blood in my whole body was cold.
A woman, white and swollen, her hair fluttering along the river, her pupils were all white, her eyes were not black, her mouth was "gurgling" greedily swallowing the river water, and her hands were dragging my ankles and ankles, and she was pulling me deep into the Yellow River.
Corpse?!
My scalp tingled and I kicked hard.
Under my tremendous strength, the hands loosened slightly, and I took advantage of the opportunity to sink sharply. The woman's hand was going up, but I didn't expect me to stab it downward, and my hand fell off my ankle. Like a loach, I burrowed behind her and ran madly towards the river.
The woman didn't give up, spat out a lot of mud and sand from her mouth, and chased me upward.
Half of his head had just come out of the water, and his chest was hugged by a pair of cold arms like a soaked formalin. His mouth choked a few more mouthfuls of water, and his body fell rapidly.
Ignoring the nausea, I opened my mouth to bite the swollen and white hands.
Under the bite, it was like biting into a sponge, soft, and the hand showed no signs of injury at all, but it was like a lump of crystal mud, but it was deformed by my bite, and it quickly returned to its original shape.
I was completely confused.
What the is this material form?!