Children are always very forgetful, and the big tigers quickly threw the matter of the well out of the clouds. Our mischievous "little monkeys" were running around the old house again, shouting and screaming.

After school very early that afternoon, we threw away our schoolbags and played a game of "officers and soldiers catching robbers." Dahu and Xiaoshi were seven of them as "officers and soldiers", and I was "robbers" with Xiaohua, Mingming, Yaoyao, and Yangyang, and everyone was having a good time, when they suddenly heard a noisy sound at the mouth of the alley, as if a child was shouting at the top of his voice: "Come and see!" There are dead people floating up in the river again! ”

We were all stunned, and I said, "Who's calling?" ”

Xiaohua listened carefully: "It seems to be Xiaozheng in the alley next door." ”

"What's the wordy? Let's go check it out! The big tiger took the lead and ran out of the alley.

I hesitated, and Xiao Hua pulled me: "Sister Xiaoxing, can we go and see it too?" I thought about it for a moment and nodded reluctantly: "...... Well, go check it out. ”

Walk out of our alley, across the road, across the street and across from us is a row of old houses. In the middle of the two houses there is a small alley only 1 meter wide and about 10 meters long, and at the end of it is a small river beach, paved with two large stone slabs relatively flat, with seven or eight steps under it, two on the water, and the others under the river. Now not only are the stone slabs full of people, but even the small alley is crowded with people watching the excitement.

Xiaohua and I finally squeezed closer to the slate, and the big tiger had already squeezed into the crowd standing on the slate.

Xiaohua whispered: "There are so many people! We can't see it! ”

"Little kid, look at this nightmare!" An uncle in front of us warned us.

"We can't see anything. Uncle, you say, what happened? "Xiaohua was too short, standing on tiptoe, and couldn't see the situation in front of him, so he asked the uncle who was talking to us just now.

"I heard that someone went down to the river today to fish out the rod that fell, and I saw a dead man floating on the river beach here!"

Again?

I asked, "Were there many of them before?" How did we not know? ”

"You know what! This didn't happen often before, but in the last few days, I've found several in a row! You children, don't listen to the adults, run around on the river beach, and if you accidentally fall into the river, you will drown! ”

My face turned white, and I bowed my head and said nothing.

"Are all the children drowning?" Xiaohua asked unconvinced.

"Not really! How pathetic! Five children! Another grandmother, who was standing in front of us, sighed.

"Really? How could you be so careless! ”

"Ahem, look, this thing is very evil!"

"How?"

"Of the five children, the eldest was sixteen or seventeen, and the youngest was over ten years old. None of them came to the river alone to play, but after hearing the children who played with them say that they were all gone in a blink of an eye, as if they had not struggled or called for help at all. ”

"Maybe the other kids didn't pay attention and didn't hear it!"

"Where! It's all big living people, how can they not hear it? ”

"Yes! I think it's evil! ”

Xiaohua and I listened to the people in front of us talking and didn't speak for a while.

At this time, there was a noisy voice from behind, and someone pushed me and Xiaohua: "Hey, the Public Security Bureau is here!" Tell everyone not to crowd here, but to go home! "The two of us had to follow the crowd out of the alley. It was only when the public security bureau called a car and transported away the drowned child that the lively crowd dispersed. The big tigers were all taken home by their own adults like prisoners.

I looked at Xiao Hua and said, "Xiao Hua, you go home first." If my dad comes looking for me and says I'm going to buy a book, I'll be back in a while. ”

"Sister Xiaoxing, don't run around!" Xiao Hua remembered the discussions he had just heard and was a little worried.

"Don't worry, you know I'm afraid of water, how can I run around?" I smiled and patted Xiaohua on the shoulder.

I waited for Xiaohua to leave, and then slowly walked back to the small river beach. The slate was empty, and because something had happened, the adults wouldn't have come to wash their clothes today. I stood still in front of the stone slab and looked at the river.

I really didn't dare to get too close to the river, because I had fallen into it when I was a child.

After looking at it for a while, the sky is a little dark, the afterglow of the sunset is reflected on the water, there is a bridge across the river in the distance, the old houses on both sides of the river have the smell of soot wafting out, the scenery of "small bridges, flowing water, people" looks very beautiful.

I was about to go home, and when I turned around, I accidentally glanced at an old dilapidated house on the opposite bank, with four large bright red lanterns hanging from the gate.

I shook and quickly stopped to look. I couldn't believe my eyes, it was really a striking broken house with red lanterns!

I was shocked because there was such a dilapidated house there, but it was so dilapidated that I heard that it had been demolished ten years ago. And I know because I saw it and ...... six years ago Other!

I unconsciously turned my gaze to the stone steps of the river beach on the opposite bank, and a girl in a purple blouse was sitting on it again, and at this moment, she was looking at me coldly!

I opened my mouth, but I didn't know what to say, why did she appear again?

In a trance, as she had done six years ago, she somehow crossed the river, sat down on the stone steps in front of me, and splashed the water with her hands, and the splashes flew to my face. It wasn't cold, but I was cold. At such a close distance, I could clearly see that the girl had an indifferent expression on her face, with two pigtails, and was about ten years old. She seemed to feel that I was staring at her deadly, and actually raised her head, her delicate face, the small black mole at the corner of her eye, she didn't change anything! I didn't move, but my body began to tremble, and the events of six years ago came back to my mind.

Six years ago, I was just five years old and in kindergarten. When I was a child, I was not in good health, especially in the spring, and I often had a cough and high fever. So at that time, my mother took sick leave to take care of me at home, and I often didn't go to kindergarten. I was bored at home alone, so I followed my mother to the river to do the laundry. Mom squatted on the steps above the water, pounding her clothes on the stone slabs. So I took a small stone and took a piece of paper and beat it.

One morning, my mother took me to the river to do laundry. I've cracked two pieces of paper, and I don't think it's interesting, so I look around. It was then that I was fascinated by the two red lanterns hanging from the door of an old house on the other side of the river, and I liked the big, bright red lanterns and stared at them.

"Xiaoxing, I'll go get the trousers you changed out yesterday to wash, and by the way, go and see the white fungus stewed on the pot. You play on the stone slabs, don't run around, and don't go near the steps! My mother gave her advice and went home with the laundry.

I saw a girl several years older than me sitting on the steps by the river opposite. She was dressed in a purple and red dress, which was quite conspicuous, and I waved at her and smiled silly. She also looked at me for a long time, and then suddenly stood up. Her face was not very good-looking, and she seemed a little angry. I was a little silly at that time, so I called her across the river: "Sister, do you want to come and play with me?" ”

She looked at me and nodded. I blinked, huh? She had crossed the river and sat down on the steps of the beach on my side.

I was very curious, so I asked her, "Sister, why did you come here so quickly?" Did you swim here? ”

She didn't speak, just stared at me blankly.

"Sister, why don't you fly here?" I took another step closer to her.

She shook her head and made a swimming motion.

I turned my head to look at the river and said, "Sister, you are amazing! I can't swim, but I can't get across the river! ”

She turned her head away, still not speaking.

At this time, several clouds drifted in the sky, obscuring the sun. She suddenly stood up again, beckoned to me, and motioned for me to come over.

I took two steps towards her, and when I was about to step down the steps, I remembered my mother's instructions and said, "Sister, I don't know how to swim." My mother told me not to play on the steps. She hesitated and shook her hand at me, meaning it didn't matter. I nodded, and walked down the steps to her. She reached out to me, and I reached out to pull her.

But the next moment, I found that I was already in the river, and I didn't even hear the sound of me falling into the water.

This is an inland tributary of our Suzhou, which leads directly to the Grand Canal, the river is very deep, the river is very wide, and you can drive several boats side by side! I didn't know how to swim at all, but I was very calm, I didn't scream or struggle, I just looked around, and I was still thinking: What about my sister just now? Where did you go? So for a while, I didn't sink, and my upper body kept floating on the water. But I found myself drifting slowly towards the center of the river, where it was silent, with no boats passing by and no one washing clothes.

The water is clear and green, and you can see the steps and moss under the surface of the river, as well as the aquatic plants growing next to it. At that time, I was young, I didn't realize that I would drown, and I enjoyed the beautiful scenery by the river! I just don't know how to get back to shore, and I'm still thinking about finding the girl in the purple dress! The weather was not cold, but the river was not warm, and after a long time, I felt that my hands and feet were swollen and numb, and gradually became heavy, and my body was sinking. I watched the river rise up, not knowing what to do, and thinking to myself: What about that sister? Why didn't you come to my rescue?

At this moment, I felt my body turn sideways, my hands and feet were scribbling wildly, and after a few strokes, I actually leaned towards the head of the river. I was conscious, as if I felt a force pushing me. When I got to the slate, I found another problem, I was too short to climb the slate; And the steps under the water are too slippery to stand up.

I tried to look up, and I saw the girl in purple standing on the stone slab, looking at me. Her face was delicate, with a noticeable black mole at the corner of her eye, and she looked hesitant, but she still reached out and pulled me up the stone slab with all her might.

I was drenched, but I opened my mouth to say to her, "Sister, thank you." I knew you'd come to my rescue! She looked at me, shook her head, and then turned around and was gone! I stood there stupidly looking left and right, but I didn't see her again, and then I realized that even the old house with the lantern on the opposite side had disappeared with her, as if it had never existed.

When my mother returned to the river, she was shocked to see that I was drenched, and thought that I had fallen on the steps while playing in the water, so she scolded me severely. Everybody didn't think I had fallen into the river, because they thought, if I had fallen into the river, how could I, a five-year-old kid who couldn't swim, climb up on my own?

For the next year, I was in my sleep, repeating the scene of that day, and waking up sweating profusely. When I was a little older, I knew that I would drown if I fell into the river, and I was even more afraid. Later, I didn't dare to go to the river again.

Unexpectedly, I saw her again today! Could it be that the scene of that day will be repeated?