Old Ghost Hou took a sip of wine when he said this, and then continued: "At that time, I wanted to struggle to get out of the water, but the thing became tighter and tighter, and I touched it with my hand, and it was all wet and slippery hair. Just like that, I was pulled under the water, I wanted to gasp, but a mouthful of water, I held it more and more, I felt that my eyes were popping out, and it didn't take long for me to be relieved, and I suddenly felt relaxed, and suddenly I could swim in the water.

I desperately went upstream, surfaced, looked into the water, startled me, I could see the bottom of the water, the night became clear at this time, no matter how dark the night was, I couldn't stop my eyes.

I saw a woman in the water, with her hair wrapped around a corpse, the woman, with a snow-white face, without a trace of blood, like a piece of paper, staring at me with two resentful eyes, looking at me viciously. I was so frightened that I hurriedly retreated, saying that I was not afraid of ghosts and gods, and that was because I had never seen it, and once I saw it, there were few who were not afraid.

At that time, I was also frightened, and I thought of going ashore, and when I turned my head, I was startled, and I saw a human head floating behind me, and the long hair of the human head was floating in the water, and he was looking at me with those resentful eyes. As soon as I saw that I couldn't get ashore, I said loudly: "You female ghost, I have no grievances with you in the past and no enmity in the near future, why do you want to stop me." ”

The female ghost sneered, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of the ghost crying, you are afraid of the ghost laughing, this ghost laughing, there must be nothing good, sure enough, the female ghost finished laughing and said: "Lang Jun and I have no grievances in the past and no enmity in the near future, but I have a fate with you." ”

I said, "Bah, I'm a dignified person, what do I have to do with you, a female ghost?" ”

The female ghost sneered again when she heard this, and I didn't know the bottom of my heart when I laughed, and the female ghost finished laughing, and then said: "You were still a human a while ago, but now you are a ghost like me." ”

I said, "How, how is that possible?" How could I be a ghost? ”

The female ghost said: "Under the secluded green water and grass, the secluded eyes and other stand-ins, died here in a certain year and month, and go to reincarnate on this day next year, you are now my stand-in, today and now, you will be like me, every day is flooded, and the drowned person will never come out unless there is a stand-in." ”

I didn't believe I was drowning, so no matter how scary the female ghost in front of me was, I pushed the female ghost away at once, and ran towards the house, trying to run home. When I ran home, looking at the sleeping old mother, wife and children, I felt a little relieved, and quickly called them up, but no matter how loud I shouted, my family was indifferent, I pushed them, and my hands went over them, as if they were gone.

I knew that I was dead and became a water ghost, I didn't want to be in the water, so I hid at home, but I didn't expect that after the chicken crowed, my body went directly back to the water, and when I returned to the water, the female ghost was gone, and I was left in the water.

Since then, I have to stay in the water every day, suffering from flooding all day, the water is hot, and when it comes to the winter moon, the ice is biting, and it is very uncomfortable, day after day, it is my anniversary festival, and on this day a ghost tells me that my substitute is coming. Tomorrow morning, there will be a man carrying my old mother across the river, and that person will be my stand-in, as long as I drag him into the water and drown, I can be reincarnated.

I finally got through the end, as long as the person drowned, I didn't have to suffer from this flooding, so I waited in the water for the dawn, and when the hour came, I saw a young man in the water, and he was carrying his mother across the river in a hurry, and this young man was my substitute, so I dived into the water, and waited for the young man to cross the river, and there was a stone bridge in the river at that time, and when the water rose, the stone bridge would be flooded, so the young man would tread the water.

As soon as I reached the middle of the bridge, I was about to pull his foot by the neck, when suddenly the young man's feet slipped and fell into the water, and I was happy in my heart, this young man, it seems, is damned. So I gladly went over, grabbed the young man's feet and neck, and pulled him into the water, and the young man struggled in the water, but how could he break free from my palm? After a while, it was almost drowned, and when I was about to drown, I suddenly saw his old mother struggling in the water, when I thought of my old mother, my heart hurt for a while, my mother worked hard to raise me, but I couldn't fulfill my filial piety. Now that I have drowned the young man, he will not be able to do his filial piety to his mother.

Thinking of this, my heart softened, and I pushed the young man up and sent him back to the water, and when I returned to the water, I said in the young man's ear: "Honor your parents well, it was your mother who saved your life." ”

Of course, I said nonsense, I don't know if the young man could hear it, but when the young man reached the water, he sobered up and saved his mother on the shore, and the young man kowtowed three times to the river on the shore, and said loudly that he must honor his mother. In this way, my stand-in was lost, and I didn't feel uncomfortable, but I felt relieved, because if I pulled that stand-in into the water, it would be two lives, as the saying goes, saving one life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, and I can be regarded as saving two lives in this way.

After a few days, the errand came again, and told me that the city god saw that I could not bear to hurt two lives, and this time he did not blame me, and gave me another chance, saying that the next day there was a woman dressed in white, holding a child, and that woman was my stand-in. Let me cherish it, there will be no chance in the future.

When I arrived at the end of the day, sure enough, there was a woman who crossed the river with a child in her arms, and when she reached the middle of the bridge, I pulled her into the water at once, and in the eyes of outsiders, it was the woman's own feet that slipped and fell into the river, in fact, we grabbed the feet and necks with our hands, and pulled the person into the water, and after getting to the water, the woman was not struggling in the water, but holding her child with both hands, so that her child was exposed to the water, and the water did not flood.

The child in the woman's hand cried, this cry I softened again, so I silently let go in the water, the woman was saved, my heart was also dead, this is the last chance given to me by the city god, I can only be a water ghost, never turn over, just like this day I was in the water, lying in the mud at the bottom of the water.

In the evening, when I heard the sound of joy, I wondered in my heart, at this time, it must not be a person in the yang world who married, but only a dead person who married, so I surfaced to see, only to see a sedan chair coming, followed by a few errands, they went directly to the river, dropped the sedan chair, and an official came down from the sedan chair, and the official held a piece of paper in his hand, and asked me to listen to the announcement.

After reading it, I learned that the city god saw that I was kind-hearted, and would rather suffer than hurt the innocent, and Tern allowed me to go ashore and go to the city god temple on an errand, so in this way, I became a ghost fairy, although I did not have great power, but I was also rich among ghosts. As for that old ghost Li, after his death, with my help, he made a boat on the Santu River. ”

After Hou Laogui finished speaking, he took a bowl of wine and drank it all, wiped his mouth after drinking it and said: "Refreshing, really refreshing, refreshing to say, refreshing to drink." ”

In this way, we pushed the cup and changed the lamp, drank a drunk Fang Xiu, and they also drank a lot, when drinking, I secretly looked at them a few times, this drink showed a pink face and peach blossoms, indescribably good-looking, so I can't help but think of the drunken concubine. After drinking almost, Hou Lao Ghost said: "No, I have to leave quickly, today with my brother's body, I have a good time, but after all, I am a ghost body, after a long time, this brother will not be able to stand it." The green mountains do not change and the green water flows for a long time, if there is any urgent matter in the future, as long as you light three incense sticks on the ground, and then shout three words to the West, Brother Hou, I will appear, and there will be a period later. ”

After speaking, he arched his hand to us, and then his body fell to the ground weakly, and we hurried to help, at this time Baoguo opened his eyes and said to me in confusion: "Strange, why did I sleep on the ground?" ”

I said, "You are possessed by Brother Hou." ”

"Am I possessed?" As soon as Bao Guo said this, he suddenly covered his stomach, his face was a little painful, and I quickly asked what was wrong? Baoguo frowned and said: "I don't know what's going on, obviously I haven't eaten or drunk, but my stomach is so swollen, no, I have to go to the thatched house quickly." ”