Chapter 2: Nightmares

Seeing Wang Fatzi, I was angry in my heart, I didn't want to pay attention to him, but Zhang Lao Er agreed without thinking about it, and later I learned that we can't be too reckless in what we do.

Since we agreed, we packed up our things and set off, and when we arrived at the reeds, we saw that there were already a few villagers standing sparsely on the shore, all of them were village cadres, and such things happened in the village, so we naturally came to see the situation.

Witnessing the villagers to lead the way, we rowed into the reeds.

Due to the relatively small surface area of the reeds, they could not enter the boat to collect the corpses, so they could only row in a small boat, and rowed all the way for several minutes before entering the depths of the reeds.

Because it was the first time to fish for a corpse, I was very nervous, although the sky is still bright now, and there is Zhang Lao Er in charge, but this endless reeds also make people panic.

According to the guidance of the witnesses, it didn't take long for Wang Min's body to be found.

Lying on all fours on a pile of dead branches and rotten leaves, a shed of black hair spread behind his head, and the white shirt on his body had already been washed aside by the water, revealing the flesh of white flowers.

Because it was found early, the body hadn't been soaked much, and it looked like it was asleep. Fortunately, the body was on its back and died peacefully.

Since it is facing the sky on my back, it proves that there are no worries, and my hanging heart can be regarded as relaxed.

Zhang Lao Er told me that generally speaking, the corpse floating on the water pays attention to "male and female prostration", which means that the corpse in the water, there is a law, the male corpse is to lean down, and the female corpse is to face the sky, which is the reason for the physiological structure between men and women.

And if it is reversed and becomes "men looking up to women prostrating", it proves that the corpse has grievances and cannot be fished, and whoever fishes is unlucky. Before I came, I was worried that Wang Min was too pitiful before his death, and he would be resentful after his death, so it would be difficult to do.

"It's okay, go down, just practice your courage," Zhang Lao Er said when he saw that he was okay and lit a cigarette at the bow of the boat.

"This ......" Hearing Zhang Laoer's words, I hurriedly retorted: "Next time, I'm a newcomer, I don't know anything, what if I violate any taboos?"

"You kid, I haven't taught you much these days, you see that she also died peacefully, there is no problem, according to what I usually say, hurry up"

"Good...... All right! ”

I think so, anyway, one day in the future I will have close contact with the corpse, and this is indeed a good opportunity to practice my courage.

The salvage company generally uses foreign objects or salvage tools to salvage, but the corpses salvaged in that way are incomplete.

If the corpse stays in the water for a long time, it will be soaked and swollen, and if you are not careful, you will get your limbs mutilated, and when the time comes, you will offend the owner and not say anything, so you will be embarrassed to ask for money.

After seeing that I agreed, Zhang Lao Er threw away the cigarette in his hand, quickly took out a big rooster from the cabin, cut his throat, and sprinkled the blood in the water, while I took off my jacket and slowly went into the water with a hook rope.

Zhang Lao Er said that the corpse collector is the rice bowl given by the Yellow River King, and only when he nods, we can eat the corpses, so every time we go out to collect corpses, we have to slaughter a big rooster for the Yellow River King to show filial piety.

When the autumn solstice came, the river was relatively cold, and as soon as I got into the water, I got goosebumps. I slowly swam to Wang Min's side, and first tied a red rope (divided into "male left and female right") in the middle finger of her right hand, which means that I want to collect her body, and I am the principal.

Then hooked her hand with the corpse hook, and Zhang Lao Er pulled her from the boat to the side of the boat and carried her to the boat, because I was very nervous and careful, so I carried her onto the boat without any mistakes.

Zhang Lao Er put away the big rooster that was already dead, put it into the cabin, and then took out a white cloth and prepared to cover the corpse, because the corpse could not see the light.

And just when Zhang Lao Er was about to cover the white cloth, out of curiosity, I also felt that Wang Min was too pitiful, so I inadvertently glanced at her, and out of the corner of my eye, I actually saw her as if she was smiling at me......

She smiled so weirdly that I immediately felt a pimple in my heart. We have a saying here that you can't stare at the dead, is it just my delusion?

"What's wrong?" Zhang Lao Er sensed my reaction.

"She, she seems to be smiling at me," I couldn't help but say.

"What?" Zhang Lao Er covered the white cloth: "What nonsense, I haven't seen a corpse, I'm stupid."

After the corpse was disposed of, Wang Fatzi gave 3,000 yuan to collect the corpse, and I deliberately raised the price for him and said that he wanted 5,000, and he said that a village has always only charged 3,000? Why do you want him to have five thousand?

"Whoever is from the same village as you, hurry up and give the money," I said unhappily.

"This, Lao Zhang, everyone is from a neighboring village, and they usually don't look up and look down, so it's not good to accept it."

Wang Fatzi thought that Zhang Laoer would talk to him and wanted to start from Zhang Laoer, but Zhang Laoer shook his head and said that the body was fished by me, and he couldn't say the price, in fact, there was really this rule, otherwise I wouldn't have eaten Wang Fatzi at the beginning. Now the fat man Wang couldn't help it, so he gave me 5,000 yuan.

For people like him, I should take it like this!

After handing over the body to Wang Fatzi, we rowed home, and the first time the body was fished out was very smooth, and Wang Fatzi was cheated with 2,000 yuan, but I always felt that the scene I saw just now was too weird.

Tossing and turning when I slept at night, that picture would appear in my mind as soon as I closed my eyes, causing me to not sleep well all night, and I got up late the next day, and Zhang Lao Er didn't blame me, saying that the first time was normal, and it would be good to rest for a few days.

Over the next few days, I slowly returned to normal, and although I still had the same image when I went to bed at night, I managed to persevere.

In the following days, due to the arrival of the holiday time, the number of tourists by the Yellow River gradually increased, and many corpses gradually increased due to marriage, career, accidental stumbling and other reasons.

On this day, I worked with him until the night, I was very tired, and when I came home, I lay down in bed and fell asleep in a daze.

In my daze, I didn't know where I came, there was water all around, and there was no end in sight. I looked down and saw that I was actually standing on the raft used by Zhang Lao Er to fish up the corpse, where was this?

I couldn't find my way, I paddled like a headless fly trying to find the riverbank, and after a long row, I felt my limbs start to ache and sore, so I stopped to rest.

As soon as I stopped, I suddenly saw a person in the river, no, a corpse, lying quietly in the water. Instinctively, I rowed closer, and as soon as I got closer, all of a sudden, I froze, because I actually knew the corpse in the water.

This frightened me, haven't I already fished out Wang Min's body? What's going on? I stared at her with wide eyes, trying to take a closer look, but found that it was really Wang Min.

Wrong! She seemed to be smiling at me again, the same as that day, a very weird smile!

I stared at him blankly, in a trance, I didn't know where I was, let alone what was going on. Suddenly, a wave hit Wang Min's corpse, and her corpse slowly turned over, from facing the sky on her back to leaning down.

Something is going to happen!

I may have been frightened by this scene, my body involuntarily retreated, but I looked forward to the railing behind me, and fell directly into the river, the cold and biting water instantly spread all over my body, I wanted to climb into the boat, but there was an invisible force that brought me to the bottom of the river.

Just when I was out of breath.

Call!

Suddenly, I woke up from my sleep, found that my whole body was soaked, my mind was blank, I came back to my senses, and hurriedly ran into the bathroom to take a shower.

In the bathroom, I thought about it for a long time, and in addition to the incredible, it was incomprehensible, and my dreams were blurry, and I couldn't remember it when I woke up, but the scene just now was too real, very clear, as if it was real.

Out of the bathroom, Zhang Lao Er hurriedly came in through the door, first counting out why I got up so late, and then told me that Wang Fatzi from the neighboring village died last night.

When I heard that Wang Fatzi had died, I was shocked and hurriedly asked how he died.

"It is said that he hanged himself, and he will be funeral tomorrow, and everyone knows him, so you can go for me"

Rumble! This sentence is like a thunderbolt hitting me, and it is difficult for me not to think about two things together, first my strange dream, and then Wang Fatzi hanged himself......