After half an hour, I kept trying to remember what had happened under the culvert, and I didn't know what was going on, except that I was holding the body of the female beggar and drifting down the slope along the current. I don't remember anything after that.

Seeing that I ignored her, Wen Xue held my face with both hands and said, "Husband, how do you feel?" Hungry or not? Thirsty or not? Do you feel anything unusual? ”

I gave her an angry look, ignored her, and coughed violently, intending to wake my stutter awake.

Not to mention, I was with the stammering for a long time, just coughed a few times, the stutter woke up, as soon as he saw me, he didn't speak for two minutes, and then knelt down at me and said: "Brother Jiu, I promised Guo Fatzi to take care of you, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you, I shouldn't let you go to the river alone, I shouldn't let you go to the river alone." ”

As he spoke, he stammered and knelt on the ground and walked towards me, hugged me, and said, "Brother Jiu, I'm sorry for you!" ”

When he hugged me, I felt as if I had been pricked by ten thousand needles at the same time, and it hurt terribly, so I moved my body and gave him a look, which meant to untie the gauze on my mouth.

He came to his senses, untied the gauze, and said, "Brother Jiu, don't speak, the doctor said that your body is too injured and it is not suitable to talk too much, otherwise it will affect your vocal cords." ”

As soon as I heard this, I could not care about his words, and asked, "Where is the corpse, where is the beggar's corpse?" ”

He was stunned, stretched out his hand and pointed to the coffin, and sobbed: "Ninth brother, ninth brother, don't worry, the body is there, it's not lost!" ”

Hearing him say this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to speak, when Wen Xue on the side raised her hand and pressed it to my mouth and said, "Husband, the doctor said that you can't speak, it will affect your vocal cords." ”

I frowned, and then I gave the stammering a look, meaning to let him pull Wen Xue away, who knew that the stammerer shrugged helplessly, and said, "Brother Jiu, I think what Miss Wen said is reasonable, you can't speak now." ”

As he spoke, he seemed to see my thoughts, and continued: "Brother Jiu, I know you have a lot to ask me, but you have applied Chinese medicine all over your body, you can't get excited, you can't speak, and after dawn, the effect of the medicine completely invades your body, and I will explain everything to you." ”

"Alright, stammer, don't talk about it!" Na Wen Xue glared at her and stammered, tied up the gauze on my mouth, and said, "Husband, you have a good rest, and when you finish this funeral, you will go back to Beijing with me to get married." ”

Made, being messed with by them like this, my mind is full of questions, how did I end up in the hall? Why does Wen Xue call me husband? Is Lao Wang okay with the little boss? What day is it? What about Shen Jun's funeral?

Thinking of this, I shook my head vigorously, but Wen Xue and Stammering ignored me at all, so let me have a good rest.

After shaking for a while, I was a little tired, my eyelids became very heavy, and before I knew it, I fainted again.

The next day, when I opened my eyes, it was already dawn, and many people were around me, even the old king and the little boss were among them.

This time he didn't reject me, he untied the gauze on my mouth and said, "Brother Jiu, I've wronged you." ”

After saying that, the women in the walking horse village collectively bent down towards me and said a word of thanks, and I was a little puzzled and said, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Thank you!" The women bent down again and spoke in unison.

At this point, I was even more confused, so I stammered, "What's the matter, can you tell me now?" ”

He was stunned for a moment, nodded, and pointed to his mouth, meaning that he was incoherent in his speech, so he asked the senior guy to start telling the story of the story.

The tall man nodded, and he told me that that afternoon, after I had left the village, they had waited for three or four hours in the hall and had not seen me return, and they had gone to the river to look for me, and they saw a rope hanging from the tree with a crooked neck, and when he pulled the rope, he found that the rope was empty.

Stammering originally wanted to jump down the culvert along the rope to find me, but the tall guy said that I was not short-lived, so I persuaded Stammering to return to the village.

When I returned to the village, I stammered and found a lot of ropes, tied them into a long rope, and was about to go down the culvert to look for me, when I found the bodies of me and the beggar floating in the pond of the village of Yanma.

As the corpses of me and the beggar surfaced, Lao Wang, Little Boss, and Wen Xue were inexplicably fine.

They hurriedly fished me up, and when they were angry, they set up a faucet pot at the door of the hall and put me on the faucet pot. (Faucet pot: The catastrophe used for red and white ceremonies, the picture is auspicious and called faucet pot, but it is actually similar to an ordinary pot, but it is much larger than an ordinary pot.) ）

This made them die of hardship, and in the end they had no choice, so they found incense and yellow paper, and burned them to the beggar.

Coincidentally, about a dozen catties of yellow paper were burned, and the beggar's corpse didn't know if the water was dry or what's going on, and the body was actually one size smaller, so I broke my hand away.

Then, they poured a small half pot of water into the faucet pot, and then lay me on the pot and burned the straw.

Speaking of this method, I know that in our rural areas, the general child falls into the water and catches it up, will be put in the faucet pot to boil, it is said that it is to use fire to burn away the bad luck brought by the water ghost, there is also a saying that once a person is entangled by the water ghost, this time he did not die, he will die in the flood within three years, and the soul of the water ghost can be burned by such a fire.

They put me on the faucet pot and boiled for three or four minutes, and asked the doctor to ask the doctor, who helped, and stammered that they would move me to Shen Jun's house, but the senior guy didn't agree that he had been infected with evil gas, and he would be sick if he was away from the coffin for too long.

So they built me a simple bed in the hall, and because there was a coffin in the hall, if the bed was built, and there was a coffin in it, they spread some quilts on the ground and put me on it.

Then what happened, the senior guy sighed and didn't speak again, but Lao Wang came over, patted me on the shoulder, and said, "Jiu Yanzi, I saw that you had been unconscious, so I called Daoist Qingxuanzi." ”

"Qing Xuanzi is here?" My eyes lit up and I quickly asked.

Lao Wang nodded and said, "Here, this will set up an altar in the river, saying that it is praying for you." ”

I was stunned, that Qing Xuanzi is a person who practices Taoism, and knows more about some folk legends than me, more important, Qing Xuanzi understands metaphysics and Taoism, I originally planned to ask Qing Xuanzi to pray for the white python once after this funeral, which is to repay the white python's life-saving grace, but I didn't expect Qing Xuanzi to come now.

At that moment, I hurriedly stammered and said, "Stammer, go find Qing Xuanzi for me, and tell him that there is a white python living under the culvert, and I can survive all thanks to the white python, and the white python has committed a killing taboo, so let him think of a way to prevent the disaster for the white python." ”

"Good!" He stammered and nodded, and without saying a word, ran straight in the direction of the river.

After stammering away, I glanced at the women, then at Wen Xue, and asked Lao Wang suspiciously, "Who are they?" ”