"My poor baby!" The sound of crying and grabbing the ground spread throughout the village, and the heart-rending cries were heartbreaking to listen to. The people in the village gathered around the courtyard of Han Wu's house, and there was a small coffin in the middle of the courtyard.

Han's fifth daughter-in-law knelt on the edge of the coffin, hugged her hands tightly, and cried. A son who was originally alive, just turned ten years old this year, is jumping around, and if he says no, he will be gone. Everyone on the side shook their heads and sighed.

A mile from the village, there is a large well, which is said to be a well, but it is actually a large cistern, with a large area, but the water is indeed very deep. This well is also used in the village to water the ground.

Because it was summer and the weather was very hot, the children of the Han family and another child in the village ran to the well to play, and seeing that the weather was too hot, the children of the Han family said that they wanted to swim. Saying that, the two children took off their clothes, the child of the Han Wu family was a year older than the child, so after taking off his clothes first, one of the fierce children plunged into the well water, and the other child was about to jump into it, and suddenly found that in the middle of the well water, a woman suddenly appeared, as if floating on the water, beckoning to him, the child was stunned at the time, and did not dare to jump into the well water.

In this stunned kung fu, when I looked at the son of the Han Wu family again, he disappeared in the water, and only saw the ripples in the well water layer by layer, drifting away. At this time, the child was also frightened, and did not bother to put on clothes, so he picked up his clothes and ran back to the village to call for someone.

When the adults in the village came to the well, they saw that Han Wu's son had drowned in the well water, and his body was floating on his stomach by the well.

The sudden bad news broke the tranquility of the mountain village, and everyone talked about it, feeling that something was wrong. This well is bottomless, the water is dark, and even adults dare not go into the water, and although Han Wu's son is young, he is already sensible, and it is impossible not to know the danger, but he jumped into it and drowned inexplicably.

Speaking of water ghosts, Liu Wuye seems to have a deep understanding. Water ghosts, like hanged ghosts, need to be reincarnated as a substitute, and belong to a kind of powerful ghosts, which are eerie and terrifying, and extremely hateful. In order to be reincarnated, he does not hesitate to induce people in any way.

The fifth master once encountered a water ghost, and being able to pick up a life in the hands of the ghost is also a great luck in misfortune.

That was in the eighties, when the rural areas had just implemented the practice of contract production to households, and people began to cultivate their own grain crops on their own fields. The countryside is a thriving scene. Liu Wuye is still the same as before. Carrying his own set of walking tools, he continued his life in the alleys, although he was tired from running around, but his life was full enough.

It is said that on this day, the fifth master came to a village, which was quite far away from home, and he had never been here before. Although the environment is not very familiar, the fifth master still set up the family in the village, shouted for business, and took on a lot of work after a while, and he was very busy.

When the last customer took the repaired basin away, it was already sunset. The fifth master saw that it was getting late, so he packed up his equipment, and by the way, he inquired about the people in the village, and knew that there was a town five miles away from this village, and there was a big car shop where he could stay. The fifth master didn't dare to delay, so he picked up the provocation and set out on the journey.

Because the road is not familiar, the fifth master walked on the mountain road, and never saw the shadow of the town, at this time the sky was already dark, and it was estimated that it would be more than nine o'clock in the evening. Fortunately, it was summer, and the weather was not too cold or hot, and Liu Wuye often walked at night, so he was used to it. Just walked unhurriedly.

And so it was another hour away. The fifth master came to a river, the river in the mountain village is not big, maybe due to the summer rain, the river water is more violent than usual. At that time, there were basically no bridges in the countryside, and the piers were piled up with stones, and the distance was within one step, and people stepped on the stone piers to cross the river.

The fifth master is not familiar with this realm, and as the saying goes: If you don't talk about ghosts in familiar places, you can't cross the river in raw places. In addition, it was night, and the fifth master was even more inaccurate to cross the stone pier. The fifth master put down his pick, lit a bag of cigarettes, and sat down by the river to smoke. This is the habit of the fifth master, whenever he crosses the river at night, he will take a break by the river and light a bag of cigarettes.

Because the river belongs to the underworld, there is a reason why it is said to be the underworld. It is said that ghosts come and go without a trace, but it also has its weaknesses, that is, ghosts cannot cross the river, if you want to cross the river, you can only wait for someone to pass by, grab the corner of the person's clothes, or grab the person's trouser leg, and cross the river with the person. If no one else crosses the river, the demons can only gather by the river and wait. Therefore, both sides of the river at night, because of the gathering of ghosts, belong to the land of extreme yin.

Of course, Liu Wuye knows this truth, so every time he crosses the river at night, he has to smoke a bag of cigarettes first, and then shake the corners of his clothes and trouser legs with his hands, and cross the river quickly, so as not to give ghosts a chance to take advantage of it.

At this time, the fifth master finished smoking a bag of cigarettes, and took a look at the tumultuous river by the dim moonlight, and suddenly found that the two times of the river were roads, why couldn't you see the piers made of stone in the river. I looked left and right, but I didn't find a wooden bridge. I couldn't help but mumble in my heart. I thought that the stone pier had been washed away by the heavy rain recently, and when I was hesitating, I suddenly looked downstream, and a wooden bridge really appeared not far away, spanning the river.

The fifth master was even more puzzled, he didn't see the bridge just now, why did a wooden bridge suddenly appear now? There may really be a bridge, but I was dazzled just now and didn't see it.

The fifth master picked up the pick, walked in the direction of the bridge, and came to the side of the bridge, only to see that the bridge was very exquisitely repaired, and several thick woods were neatly put together to make a bridge. Standing on the dam edge on both sides of the river, the bridge looks like it has just been built.

The fifth master was very happy in his heart, it was safer to walk on the bridge than to cross the stone pier, so he shook his trousers and the corners of his clothes as he spoke, and began to step towards the bridge.

only heard a plop, the fifth master stepped on the air, and the person fell into the water together, and he didn't even have time to react, he only felt that a mouthful of water choked into his throat, and the fifth master coughed vigorously. And the water seemed to be bottomless, and the fifth master stared at him several times, but he didn't reach the bottom of the water. At this time, he was in a hurry, and his hands fluttered upward.

Liu Wuye would have been able to dig a few times, kicking with both hands and feet, and he would not sink to the bottom for a while. At this time, the fifth master suddenly felt that his feet and necks seemed to be grabbed by a hand, and the strength was extremely great, and his feet and necks seemed to be broken, and as the fifth master struggled more and more, the strength of that hand also increased.

Seeing that the fifth master was physically exhausted, his head was immersed in the water again and again, and a large mouthful of river water poured into his mouth and nostrils, and he could hardly breathe. The brain went blank and I almost lost consciousness.

Just at the last moment, I suddenly felt that something appeared in my crotch, and I pushed it up against the fifth master, and the fifth master seemed to be riding on this thing, only feeling slippery, like a huge fish.

One is pushing up against the fifth master, and the other is pulling the fifth master's leg downward, and these two forces seem to be fighting. Suddenly, the fifth master felt that the hand that grabbed his foot and neck was loosened, and the fish between his crotch was gone, followed by a loud bang in the water around him, like a mine explosion. The fifth master only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he fainted.

When the fifth master woke up again, the sky was already bright, he was lying by the river, his brain also recovered his memory little by little, remembered what happened last night, looked up at the river, and Ben did not have the wooden bridge, and his right leg and neck, still faintly painful, lifted his trouser legs, only to see a circle of black marks on his feet and neck. On the side of the foot and neck, a large fish scale was found, and the crimson scales shimmered in the sun.

On this night, Liu Wuye had another strange dream, dreaming of a handsome young man wearing a red coat, with a black mole between his eyebrows, which was very eye-catching. The fifth master recognized this person, it was a carp that he had saved.

The young man in red bowed deeply when he saw the fifth master: "Engong, please accept this worship, last night's incident was a water ghost, fortunately, I met Engong on the road, and I had the opportunity to repay the kindness of Engong's reconstruction." ”

"Farewell to Engong, there will be a period later." After saying that, he bowed deeply again, and then disappeared into his dream.

The fifth master woke up at this time. I don't feel that I sighed, it's really unpredictable, as the so-called good people are rewarded, as long as you are kind everywhere, you will have good luck, if it wasn't for the previous chance to save the fish, the night has been harmed by the water ghost, it's really lucky.