Chapter 35: Standing Bodies Underwater
Liu Xiaoling is missing, and then I heard Uncle Liu talk about this dream in detail, Li Qianwu and I looked at each other, and we all knew that this girl was afraid that she was already more than lucky.
However, I want to make sure that a person is alive or dead, then it has to summon spirits, and it is broad daylight, so it will definitely not work.
But Li Qianwu's old business is to find corpses, and bring the corpses of the dead to his roots, so it is common for him to use the deceased's birthday to find the corpse.
So this goods asked Uncle Liu for Liu Xiaoling's birthday, saying that they should wait outside, and he had to go to the house to divide the corpse.
Seeing that I was standing here and not leaving, Uncle Liu nodded.
We waited at the gate for more than ten minutes, and Li Qianwu came out of the house and asked us if there was a waterhole in the southwest of the village.
Actually, there is a river in our river, and this river runs through the entire river from the river to the outside of the river, but it is not the rainy season, so there is only a layer of shallow ice in the river.
Li Qianwu also knows this, after all, he has lived in this river for more than half a year, but he is now asking about Shuitanzi.
With this simple sentence, I guessed that Liu Xiaoling was really dead, and it was possible that she was drowned.
Thinking like this in my heart, I didn't break it, so Uncle Liu quickly nodded and said that there is indeed a waterhole over there, because there is a small spring at the foot of the mountain, so someone has raised fish in that area before.
This is all said and done, and Li Qianwu didn't go out of his way, and directly asked Uncle Liu to lead the way, saying that this puddle is not deep.
At this time, Uncle Liu reacted, and asked Li Qianwu with a pair of old eyes, saying that something really happened to his daughter?
Li Qianwu still has that straight temperament, and directly said that Liu Xiaoling may have drowned in that pool.
As soon as he said this, Uncle Liu's tears fell, and he hurriedly led people to the waterhole.
Spring has started at this time, and the cold air of the old cold winter has not yet dissipated, but the ice on the waterhole has already been broken by this vicious old Ye Ye'er.
Rushing to the edge of the pool, many people looked around the pool several times, but no one saw the floating corpses.
Someone asked Li Qianwu if he was fooling people.
Li Qianwu was also very puzzled, saying that the hexagram looks like this piece, pondered for a while, and said Could it be that this corpse was entangled by something under the water?
Hearing him say this, Uncle Liu's cousins stopped talking, after all, in this cold day, no one wants to go into the water, let alone go to fish for corpses.
Uncle Liu was not stupid, so he came over and asked Li Qianwu, saying that he could find where the body was, and whether he could also fish it up, and said that if it was really Xiaoling's body, he was willing to pay Li Qianwu a little labor fee.
I have dealt with this Li Qianwu a little, and I know that although this person is a master of money, he never takes small money seriously.
So, sure enough, I heard that Li Qianwu rejected Uncle Liu, the reason is very simple, he doesn't know water.
I don't believe this, I think it's eighty percent because this thing sees that Liu Xiaoling's body has a problem, and I don't want to take this risk.
Seeing that Li Qianwu was a landlubber, and no one in the Liu family squeaked, Uncle Liu hit me with this idea.
It stands to reason that I am not obligated to help him.
But I'm also afraid that Liu Xiaoling's death has something to do with me, after all, a few days ago, this girl was at my house, and she almost let me be dragged away, with Liu Xiaoling's temperament, if you can't think about this kind of thing, it won't be unexpected.
After thinking about it, I took off my shirt, moved my muscles, threw two handfuls of cold water on my body, and jumped directly into the pool.
The pool is not small and deep, but it is still cold, so no one comes to stir it, the bottom of the water is not mixed, and it is daylight again, and the visibility below is also very good.
After I got into the water, I was first hit by the ice, and then I floated to the surface to change my breath, and then I plunged to the bottom of the water.
After looking around, I soon saw a female corpse.
However, this corpse is very strange, and it is standing upright at the bottom of the water.
Because of the limited time to hold my breath, I had the courage to swim over to take a look, but found that the corpse was not wrapped in dirty things such as aquatic plants, let alone heavy objects, but she was standing straight at the bottom of the water, her hands hanging down at her sides, and there was no floating.
The hair of this female corpse was scattered everywhere, so that I couldn't see her face clearly, but this figure should be Liu Xiaoling.
I took a look, so I quickly surfaced to the surface for ventilation, and by the way, I told Li Qianwu about the situation, but Li Qianwu said, let me hug the corpse and see if I can pull it up.
This thing really doesn't hurt when you stand and talk, this Liu Xiaoling's body is obviously problematic, I rushed to drag it, in case something happens, what's the matter?
Seeing that I was floating on the water and didn't go down immediately, Li Qianwu said again, it's okay, it's daytime, even if I pick up the corpse and play with it, there will be no danger.
I glanced at it, but when I thought about it, it seemed to be the same thing, so I got into the water again, grabbed Liu Xiaoling's body and dragged it up.
But the corpse seemed to have roots, and its feet were stuck in the water, but it couldn't be dragged away.
After dragging for a while, I surfaced again for ventilation, and when Li Qianwu saw that I had returned in vain, he asked me if this female corpse was wearing too much, and asked me to take off her clothes in two.
At this time, Uncle Liu on the top stopped doing it, saying that Liu Xiaoling was still a yellow flower girl, so I couldn't do this.
Li Qianwu said, this person is dead, are you still yellow? said that if there was any more such, he would not be able to fish up the body.
Seeing that Li Qianwu was a little anxious, Uncle Liu stopped talking.
So I dived into the water again and took off the old thick cotton jacket on the corpse of this woman.
I didn't move my pants, so I moved behind the corpse, hugged Liu Xiaoling's waist, kicked the water, and dragged it up, but I still couldn't pull it.
This Liu Xiaoling has been soaking in the water for two or three days, and I still can't feel it when I drag the corpse for the first time.
But this kind of slippery is not the same as the slippery touch on a woman's body, it is slimy, not at all uncomfortable, and a little disgusting.
I resurfaced and dived down several times, but I couldn't move the corpse for half a minute.
In the end, I had to go ashore like this.
Uncle Liu was in a hurry, and said that he couldn't let his daughter soak in the water like this, so he beckoned his cousins to go into the water to salvage together.
But these people have the ability to coax, and now they saw the evil in the matter, and they all retreated one by one, and after a while, they left without a while, and there was no one left.
The ones left behind are all those who don't have any relatives, and they are here to watch the excitement.
I didn't care about these people, and when I got ashore, I dragged Li Qianwu aside and asked him what was going on.
Li Qianwu said that there must be a big problem with the corpse, but although it could not be salvaged during the day, it may float up on its own at night.
I heard that he was lying here and was cold, so I went home by myself to wash and change my clothes, and I found a lot of records related to water ghosts in "Zhou's Exorcism".
Before I could finish reading, when it was dark, Uncle Liu came to my house again, saying that the corpse had floated up, and Li Qianwu called me over.
Can this thing really float up on its own?
I was also very curious, so I hurriedly returned to the edge of the waterhole with Uncle Liu.
That Li Qianwu was in a hurry here, and his face was also very ugly, I asked him what was wrong, this Li Qianwu pointed to the waterhole, let me see it myself.
I looked at the water, but at first glance, I didn't see anything, so I asked him, didn't you say that the corpse had floated up?
Li Qianwu pointed me to a position in a dignified manner, and looked in the direction he pointed, I squinted for a while and saw that there was a black patch on the water, like a layer of hair floating.
Then I heard Li Qianwu say that this person was floating up, but he was still standing, with his head up and his feet down, it was obviously a standing corpse.
also said that this standing corpse cannot be salvaged, let me tell Uncle Liu, this matter can be settled.
As soon as this old man Liu heard this, he hugged my arm and was about to kneel down for me, and the old tears on his face said, this Xiaoling is a good child, but she can't be allowed to soak in the water all the time.
Please ask me to fish up Liu Xiaoling's body.