The temperature of the river in winter is imaginable, and Wang Xi's father agreed without thinking about it, saying that as long as his mother's body is found, he is willing to do anything.

Hearing him say this, many people present lowered their heads in shame and praised his filial piety, even I couldn't help but look at him a few more times, only to see his Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a vague stubble on his chin.

After discussing all this, Wang Xi had some quarrels with his father, and Wang Xi said that he went into the water and his father was at the helm on the bamboo raft. His father said that Wang Xi was at the helm and he went into the water.

The two quarreled for a while, and his father became furious and said, "Quarrel, I'm old, thick skin, can withstand the cold, you little brat, fine skin and tender meat, just enter the water will freeze to death, how can you have the energy to find your grandmother." ”

After saying that, he found another rope, tied one end to his body, and the other end to the bamboo raft, and jumped down.

As soon as he entered the water, his face turned pale, he shivered involuntarily, his lips were a little dark, and he shouted to Wang Xi, "Hurry up and get on the bamboo raft, don't let your grandmother's corpse stay in the river for too long." ”

When Wang Xi heard this, he didn't think about it, he stood up with a pair of rain boots and swiped towards the place pointed by the previous person.

As soon as they rowed a few times, I tied the rope to a willow tree by the river and walked along the river bank with a flashlight, and the villagers next to me did not return home and followed us.

When I came to the place where the man had pointed before, I noticed that there were footprints beside the algae by the river, which were very small, only the size of a six or seven-year-old child's foot. I was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that this should be the footprints of Grandma Wang Xi, the old people at that time took small feet as beautiful, and they would choose to wrap their feet when they were young, so that their feet became very small.

Immediately, I shouted to Wang Xi, "There are footprints here, your grandmother should have fallen here, just look for them around here." ”

As soon as he finished shouting this, he stammered and pulled me, looked embarrassed, and said, "Brother Jiu, you told Wang Chuyao earlier that the old man would collect his footprints and go home by himself, but now, Wang Xi's grandmother has not returned home, is there something wrong with this situation?" ”

Hearing him say this, I slapped my palm on the thigh, and was shocked, this situation is really not right, according to the statement of collecting footprints, the old man can definitely go home by himself, even if there is an earthquake, the old man can also return home, this is the eternal conclusion, why can't the old man go back now? Instead fell into the river? What the hell is going on?

Thinking of this, I took a flashlight and looked around for a while, trying to find the figure of the old man, but after looking for a while, I didn't find the figure of the old man except for the footprints. Made, this situation is very wrong, collecting footprints is Hades' reward for the old man, and there is no possibility of mistakes, just like 1+1=2, this is the law.

Didn't the old man fall into the river? Just wandering around here for a while?

As soon as this thought came to my mind, Wang Xi's father's voice came from the river, "Found it, found it." ”

I picked up a flashlight and looked in that direction, and I saw that he was holding a corpse in his hand, dressed in a blue suit, and there was a faint smell of rancidity.

It was a good thing to find the body, but I couldn't be happy, I was very worried, and I always felt that something would happen.

I have such worries, I have my own considerations, people live in the world, they all follow a law, just like the sentence, 'The king of Hades called the third watch to die, who dares to keep people until dawn'.

According to Hades' intentions, Wang Xi's grandmother should have died at home, but the current situation has an accident. This accident is called the 'rebel' in our line of eight immortals, which means disobedience to the king of Hades.

After the death of such a person, it is said that he will go to the eighteen layers of hell, which forms two extreme results with the collection of footprints, one side is rich and noble in the next life, and the other is the eighteen layers of hell.

Of course, this is just a legend, and there is no way to verify how credible it is, and outsiders may not believe it. However, we Eight Immortals believe in this legend very much, and we always believe in one sentence, there is no wind and no waves.

Thinking of this, my heart is half cold, it seems that this funeral is not easy to handle, and maybe there will be some moths.

Just when I was stunned, the surface of the river changed, and the water on the surface of the river was very gentle, like a pool of stagnant water. I don't know what's going on, but a whirlwind suddenly sets off on the surface of the river.

The whirlwind was so strange, as if it was under control, impartial, and struck in the direction of Wang Xi at great speed.

This scene made the people on the shore anxious, and they all shouted, "Be careful, the tornado is coming." ”

Seeing this situation, I didn't care about how the whirlwind came, so I pulled Guo Fatzi and stammered and ran towards the willow tree, intending to pull the bamboo raft back with a rope.

As I ran, I looked in Wang Xi's direction. Wang Xi dragged the bamboo cane into his hand to stabilize the bamboo raft, and his father held a corpse in his hand and struggled to put the corpse on the bamboo raft.

At this moment, the bamboo raft trembled violently, making strange sounds of 'grunting' and 'grunting', and there was a faint tendency to fall apart.

I said no, and my pace couldn't help but become a little faster, and I came to the willow tree, grabbed the rope, and pulled it violently towards the shore.

As soon as I was exerting my strength, something strange happened, the rope protruded a little above the water, as if it had been picked up. What's even more strange is that the protruding point broke inexplicably, and the broken rope made a splash on the surface of the river.

Made, how can this be, when we tied the rope before, we thought that the rope would break, and deliberately found a new rope, just to prevent the rope from breaking, but we didn't expect the rope to break.

"Brother Jiu, what should I do, the bamboo raft seems to be falling apart." Stammering aside, he stretched out his hand to the raft and said hurriedly.

"Guo Fatty, stammer, you two hurry back to the village and get a few wooden doors down." I greeted Guo Fatzi and ran in the direction of Wang Xi.

As soon as I ran two steps, I felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere by the river, and the light of the flashlight would reflect some bright light on the surface of the river. The current flashlight shines on the surface of the river as if it were shining in an endless abyss, and there is no reflection at all, and even the water on the surface of the river looks a little hazy.

Suddenly, there was a 'pop' sound on the surface of the river, presumably the sound of Wang Xi falling into the river.

I was in a hurry, and I took the flashlight and shone it in that direction, it was pitch black, there was nothing, and there were two faint cries for help, "Help!" "Help!"

"Get in the water and save people." The villagers on the shore were also very anxious, shouting one by one. However, as soon as he reached out and touched the water, he immediately retreated, saying, "The water is too freezing, and it will be frozen before it goes down." ”

I was stunned, did they exaggerate? When Wang Xi's father went down to the river before, he was not so cold, he came to the river with an arrow step, bent down to probe the temperature of the water, and as soon as his hand went deep into the water, he felt a cold air seeping into his palm, which made me shiver.