After listening to it, I felt that there was indeed something here, and whether the legend was true or not, the brick pottery shards I saw with my own eyes were true. And if it weren't for the value of the gold stone, the gold stone institute would not have spent this effort. I'm a little looking forward to it, because the ruins were directly submerged by the water, so the state of preservation should be very good, especially the brick houses and the city walls, which are even very intact. Going to the gold stone is not the same as digging rags on the shore,

I turned my head to see a man dressed as a fisherman, wearing waterproof pants like suspenders, and he said in dialect: "Lao Yin, let's go!"

Lao Yin agreed: "Okay, it's here!" Then he turned to me and said, "Well, I have to go out for night fishing, you can go back and rest first."

Lao Yin is a person who likes fishing very much, and all kinds of fishing gear in his room are evidence, and he usually runs over to fish whenever he has nothing to do, and obviously he also knows a lot of fishermen in this area. I'm not a big fisherman, and sometimes I don't understand the pleasure of sitting by the lake for half a day without getting a reward.

I was about to go back to the dormitory when Lao Yin suddenly said, "Huh? Have you ever gone night fishing before? ”

"Nope."

"Let's go together, I see that your water quality is not bad, and I don't have to worry about your safety."

"Okay, so what should I bring?"

"No, it's all on board."

After that, Lao Yin took me to the fishing boat. This boat usually catches a lot of fish, and when it goes up, there is a fishy smell.

Lao Yin and I sat on the deck, and the boat boss drove the boat.

It's just nightfall, and the water appears clear and calm. In addition to the lights on our boat, we could only see the lights of a few houses near the station and a few others on the shore, which was far from the city.

We slowly drove towards the middle of the lake, and the lights around us had dissipated, and the boat sailed in the darkness, giving me the illusion of sailing in the River Styx, as in Western picture books.

The boat boss began to go to the net, and I realized that he had brought Lao Yin out by the way. When the net was almost gone, he stopped, and the boat slowly came to a standstill.

There was no sound, silence, and the silence gave me a little unease. It's a good thing there are two living people around, otherwise I might have been really scared.

Lao Yin picked up the fishing rod from the boat, showed me the fish float, and said, "Look, this thing is specially used for night fishing." I look at that thing, it's glowing a little bit, oh, glow-in-the-dark! It's really good.

So the three of us sat on the deck in the front, left, and right directions of the deck, hung the bait, and fought each other, without disturbing each other.

There was a complete silence all around, except for the occasional birdsong and the "poof" of fish.

I kept an eye on my float, which only fluctuated from side to side with the water, but it didn't bite the bait. The same is true for the boat boss and Lao Yin, who waited for a while and did not catch the bait.

"Damn, did the fish go to sleep tonight?" The boat boss was a little impatient.

"Have they all been caught in your net?" Lao Yin asked.

"No way, this direction is the direction in which the fish go, and my nets are all fish that have slipped out of our hands."

"That's really evil, it was still swishing two days ago, how can it be like an extinct species today?"

After waiting for a while, there was still no fish on the bait, Lao Yin really couldn't help it, stood up and put away the rod, and said, "It's too much back today, go back."

The boat boss looked at his watch: "Wait a little longer, this time the net will be in vain today."

Lao Yin reluctantly sat down again and swung his rod again.

Suddenly, my fish float began to float up and down, and at first I thought it was a hallucination after watching it for a long time, but it was true! I immediately reeled in the rod and thought to myself that the first fish of the day was going to be baited!

Then, I jerked up the rod. Lao Yin couldn't help laughing first, and when the boat boss heard him laugh, he turned his head and smiled. On my fishhook, there is actually a cloth shoe hanging from it. I wanted to laugh too, but I was embarrassed to think that I had caught it.

I took my shoe off the hook and threw it into the far water, definitely far beyond my fishing range. Reload the bait and swing the rod again.

At this time, a layer of mist that is just perceptible gradually rises on the surface of the lake, which also means that it is not early.

Suddenly, my float shook again, and I was excited by the "harvest" just now, and quickly pulled up the fishing rod. I was completely dumbfounded when I saw it, and it was a cloth shoe, as if it was the same style as the one just now.

But this time, Lao Yin and the boat boss didn't laugh, the two glanced at each other, both put away the rods, Lao Yin put the three fishing rods away, and the boat boss started the boat without saying a word.

I don't know what that means, why did I catch two pairs of shoes and call it a day?

I asked Lao Yin: "Why don't you fish, I was shaved today."

"I'll talk to you when I go back, don't ask!" He had a serious expression on his face.

The boat went back, and the boat boss began to collect the nets, and today the things in the nets were pitiful, and occasionally there were a few small fish, which were picked up by the boat boss and thrown back into the water.

Suddenly, Lao Yin pressed the hand of the boat boss, pointed to the water and said to him, "Look, what is that?"

I also looked over with his hand, and in the mist, there seemed to be a black mass of aquatic plants, and it looked like a mop, and it was a black mess anyway.

The boat boss stopped the boat, looked at it carefully, and said, "I can't see clearly, why don't you take a closer look?"

"Don't, you'll regret it if you get closer." As he spoke, Lao Yin picked up a long bamboo pole from the boat and said to us, "Be prepared."

I couldn't take my eyes off it, and he suddenly said this, isn't it dangerous?

He slowly reached over the bamboo pole and picked it up with his back hand, and I immediately sat down on the deck in fright.

A corpse popped out of the water, soaked in a little inhuman, but it looked terrifying, and I happened to see his deformed, rotten, and distorted face.

The corpse floated up and remained motionless on the surface, and I tried to calm myself down, but then I was nauseous, and the double stimulation of sight and smell made my stomach tumble and I quickly fell to the side of the boat behind me and began to vomit.

The boat boss came over and patted me on the back, and I got up again after I vomited. Lao Yin was very calm at this time, gently flicked the corpse with a bamboo pole, and said to the boat boss: "Come on, it's hanging on your net, let's take him back to the shore to report to the yamen."

The captain shook his head helplessly, said something unlucky, and continued to sail.

Lao Yin came over to me again and asked, "Are you okay?"

I shook my head.

"We felt something was wrong when you caught two shoes just now, but I didn't say anything for fear of scaring you, but I didn't expect to be bumped into."

"Well, alas, he must have drowned for a long time."

"Well, we have to report to the yamen quickly when we go back, I don't know if anyone has disappeared or anything recently, maybe we have done something good."

Lao Yin really thinks farther than ordinary people, and he thinks of it.

I didn't want to look back at that thing at all, I just kept looking ahead, hoping to get back to shore as soon as possible.

After a long wait, we finally got to shore, and I couldn't wait to jump onto the shore in one step.

Lao Yin went back and hurriedly reported to the yamen, and heard that people had drowned, and many residents around also came to see, and the shore looked very bright for a while. I watched from afar at the gate of the station, thinking that the curiosity of the common people was really strong, and I didn't know what to look like about this thing.

After waiting for a while, the official finally came, not to mention how to deal with the body, Lao Yin came back and said to me: "There are really missing people in the past two days, the good news is that this person and the missing person are the right age and clothes, the bad news is that a total of two people are missing."

Oh, two people, two people? One problem suddenly came to my mind, and the other one hasn't been discovered yet, so we dive every day, wouldn't we be in the same environment as him.

I had a chill on my back, and I don't know how to describe it.

Lao Yin should have seen the expression on my face and said, "That's it, let's rest for two days first, and after two days, when the body comes up and is discovered, let's go down again."

"Okay, I think it's the best, even if this thing is mentally prepared, it will be scared, and it won't be good if it scares anyone out of the problem."

At breakfast the next day, Lao Yin announced that we would have a two-day holiday, although everyone knew the reason more or less, but when they heard about the holiday, the diaphragm in their hearts was gone.

Lao Yin told us not to go to the river and not to follow the fishing boat into the water. He himself drove a horse-drawn carriage every day to take a few people to the city to shop and buy things, and brought back snacks for everyone to eat together.

I was so disgusted by that thing that I almost didn't want to go out, I watched TV every day except for eating and sleeping, but I had a few comfortable days, if I lived like this every day, I didn't have to worry about food and housing, I didn't have to work, I wouldn't go to what I was doing on such days.

And Lao Yin doesn't seem to have the kind of ease that we have, paying attention to things on the lake every day, and paying attention to another person in the lake. This is not difficult to understand, it is not that he is in a hurry, but he is also in a hurry - just like Mr. Shen took us back then, so many people, the cost of food and accommodation a day is not a small amount, and the funds are so much, a day of delay is a day's money.

One day at noon, the rest of us were eating when there was a knock on the door. When I opened the door, there were several officials, and when I saw it, I thought that another person had been found and came to report the news.

When they came in, they greeted us, put the bag on the table, and pulled out a sealed bag from inside, and I saw that it was a small object. They saw me because I had communicated with their family last time, and they were a little familiar, and asked me, "What about your team leader?"

"He's gone to the city to buy something, do you two have anything to do with him?"

"Na", when they saw that Lao Yin was not there, they handed me the sealing tape and said, "Young man, look at what this is?"