Our village is called Pingqiao Village, which is a small village located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, a small river just passes through our village and flows into the Yellow River, and the confluence is the famous "Sancha River" in our place, which is a place where the people of the nearby ten miles and eight villages talk about the color change.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, and raising one side of the people. The Sancha River was originally a good river that nurtured the people and was embraced by the people, but just 18 years ago, it became a "backwater"

It is said that eighteen years ago, there was a flood here that flooded the village, but fortunately all the villagers were evacuated in advance, so there were no casualties.

But when the flood receded, when people came back again, they found that the water in the Sancha River had turned blood-red, and from time to time there were a few corpses floating on it, and it took several days to recede, which was very strange.

Since then, no one has been to that area of water, and the surrounding people have moved to the new village.

After that, it gradually became a forbidden place in our place.

When I was young, the adults in the family had to warn the children not to go to that place to play, but the more the adults restrained them in this way, the more curious we children became about it.

A few years ago, four primary school students were on summer vacation, because of the hot weather, a few of them made an appointment to steal their parents and quietly went to Sancha River to play, and finally, tragedy happened.

All missing! No one is alive, no corpse is dead.

Later, someone suspected that he had fallen into the river, so he went to find someone to retrieve the body.

First invited the Yellow River corpse salvage people, but no one dared to go there to retrieve the corpse, and finally there was no way to pay a high price to hire the salvage company's people, and several divers went down in a row but none of them could come up, it was like a bottomless abyss, as long as anything went in, don't think about it.

At that time, the news spread very widely, and people were panicked for a while, and since then, the Sancha River has become a forbidden place for everyone.

Later, the parents of these children have always been prejudiced against my Uncle Zhang, and resented Zhang Lao Er for not saving their children in the first place. That's right, Zhang Lao Er was the famous Yellow River corpse collector in our village at that time.

My name is Ji Xiaofan, I am eighteen years old this year, I have a younger sister who is in elementary school, the family is not good, but I can get by with the two of us.

In the middle of July this year, the college entrance examination that is only once in a lifetime came to an end, and I also failed, in order not to add burden to the family, I went to Guangdong alone with enthusiasm, did odd jobs, assemblers, and installed coffee machines......

As the so-called teenager is ambitious, he always dreams of how to make money, get rich, and make a fortune, so after working for less than three months, he shouted and bought a train ticket home.

When I got home, my dad hated me too, and he didn't care what I did, just don't cause trouble for him. And my mother, when she saw me coming back, was a burst of hush and warmth.

When I came back this time, I didn't think about going back again, because the part-time job is really unpromising, and I want to find my second Zhang and make a lot of money by scooping up corpses with him.

In these years, it is understandable that the corpse can make a fortune, and the price of fishing for the corpse of a common person starts at two thousand, and if you are lucky, you can catch up with the dignitaries in the city at every turn.

I just think about it, I will work with Zhang Lao Er for a few years, and when I have saved enough money, I will leave it and change my career to do something else, do serious business, and go to the peak of my life.

Naturally, I didn't discuss the matter of being a corpse digger with my family, because they would never allow it.

After staying at home for two days, I went to the embankment to find Zhang Lao Er under the pretext of going out to work. Because Zhang Lao Er spends all year round on the boat, he has no other home, so he built several rooms by the river embankment, a bedroom, and a living room and kitchen.

As soon as Zhang Lao Er saw that it was me, he smiled and asked me if I had figured it out and wanted to make a lot of money with him?

I nodded and said that I had figured it out and was going to make a lot of money with Boss Zhang. He smiled and invited me into the house, and when good wine and meat were served, he made up with me.

The craft of scooping corpses does not mean that you can earn money if you have money, you will fish it if you are asked by the employer, you will fish it wherever you go, and it is not that all corpses will be fished, which is very particular.

For example, vertical corpses cannot be fished, and the so-called vertical corpses are corpses that stand upright in the water, occasionally showing their heads and coming out. That's not called a corpse, it's called a corpse. Because that kind of corpse has been deceived and has become a living corpse, generally when encountering this situation, turn around and go home directly, don't fish any amount of money, and if you get rich, you won't die.

There are also ordinary corpses that can't be fished up three times, so they can't be fished up again, because this kind of corpse is considered to be the corpse of the owner, and it has been favored by some yin and evil in the river, if you don't have enough Taoism, then don't try to salvage it anymore.

The biggest taboo is the Sancha River, Zhang Lao Er said that no matter how much money the employer pays, no matter how tempting it is, he can't go there.

Zhang Lao Er told me a lot about taboos in this regard, I listened to it with relish, but I still felt that he was talking nonsense, although what he said was very reasonable, but I am also highly educated, how can I believe in ghosts and gods.

After two taels of liquor, he told me the story of the Sancha River, but most of them were similar to the rumors, and I didn't listen carefully, he saw that I didn't think so, and suddenly told me why he didn't go to the Sancha River to fish for the corpse.

He said that it was also related to the events of the year, when the order was issued to let everyone withdraw from the Sancha River, he, as a corpse digger, did not leave, because of this, he saw something that he will never forget in his life, and when I listened to it, I knew that there was such a strange thing behind the Sancha River.

Zhang Lao Er said that the reason given above was that the Yellow River sent a big flood and asked the villagers to evacuate, and the big water did happen, but it was because of what happened before.

He said that the sky was still clear that day, and he was basking in the sun in the courtyard, and he began to complain that the people above had nothing to do, and what kind of water would come out on a sunny day.

When he thought so, the sky suddenly changed, it became black clouds, thunder rolled, and suddenly there was a heavy rainstorm, and the water of the Yellow River swelled all at once.

Then there was a golden light in the black clouds, and there were bursts of low roars, and suddenly a big black dragon came out of the clouds, spraying black liquid into the river, and all the objects that were touched by the black liquid were like encountering strong sulfuric acid, all of which were corroded and unpresentable.

He was afraid that I would not believe me, so he led me to his boat, pointed to a place on the bow of the boat, and said to me, "You see, my boat was stained with that black thing, and all of a sudden it became like this bird."

I looked closely, and sure enough, it was a black piece of wood, like wood that had been burned by fire.

Then he told me that later there were many Taoist priests wearing Taoist robes on the river embankment, holding wooden swords, each casting a spell and fighting with the evil dragon in the sky, and the scene was no less than the special effects in the TV series. But because the evil dragon's ability was too strong, many Taoists were killed by the evil dragon and fell into the Sancha River, and the river turned red for a while.

"Hey, go on, why don't you say it" Just as I could listen hard, he stopped talking, and lay motionless on the table.

"Hmph, hmph" After a while, there was a sound of him snorting, and the drunkard actually fell asleep.

Glancing at the time, it was almost eleven o'clock, and I should have gone to bed.

I was thinking of asking him what happened the next day, whether the black dragon was dead, but when I asked, he kept silent, and said that he drank too much yesterday, and asked me not to think too much about it.

Actually, I didn't take it seriously, I just thought he was drunk and made up nonsense, because what he said was too fanciful. As for the black scar on the bow of the ship, it is not known when he was drunk.

After resting for a few days, he came to do something, saying that Wang Min from Shuijiang Village next door had fallen into the river, and his body had floated into the reeds.

But what I never expected was that the first body I wanted to fish for was actually my junior high school classmate.

As soon as I heard that it was Wang Min, I felt a little uncomfortable. Wang Min has a very poor background, he has no father and mother since he was a child, he grew up in an orphanage, and spent a black childhood in an orphanage, and was finally adopted, but he entered another tiger's den from a tiger's mouth.

Wang Min's adoptive father is called Wang Fatzi, everyone in the village knows that this is a rotten person who is addicted to alcoholism, and his temper is very strange.