I still can't explain it, so I can only admit it.

"Thank you, I'm too greedy and cause trouble to everyone, so I'll go back." I bowed my humility to everyone and got up to go home.

When I was holding my hand on the ground, I noticed it, and when I looked down, I saw that I was wearing an emerald green bracelet on my wrist, which was the one I found at the bottom of the well last night!

Raising my hand, I looked at the jade bracelet on my wrist in a daze, the shock in my heart was indescribable, what was going on?

I vaguely remember that I was bitten by a small snake in the center of my eyebrows, and then I lost consciousness, but I didn't die at the bottom of the well, and I floated up again, what happened during this period? How did the bracelet end up on my hand?

The only explanation that seems to make sense is that I put it on myself, but didn't I pass out during that time? Or......

An even more terrible thought came to me, maybe I wasn't in a coma, I was awake during that time, and then I did something, only then all the memories were gone.

Trembling, I quickly got up, this inference was too terrible, I didn't dare to think about it anymore.

After saying goodbye to the villagers, I returned home in a daze, boiled hot water and ate a bowl of noodles, and then sat on the bamboo bed in a daze.

Just last night, there was a female corpse lying on this bamboo bed, but now, there is no trace, as if it has evaporated from the world. The only thing that can prove that this female corpse has appeared now is this bracelet of unknown origin.

Take off the bracelet and take it in your hand and look at it carefully.

I'm not good at jade, I can't see what the texture of this bracelet is, I only feel that this jade is very transparent, green light flows, but it doesn't give people a flashy feeling, deep and introverted.

The carving is indeed a snake, the head of the snake is twisted with the tail of the snake, the knife work is not exquisite, it looks simple and heavy. In addition, this snake is a little unusual, it has a single horn on its forehead and the center of its eyebrows, which is very small, like a young shoot that has just broken through the ground.

Looking at it, I found something in the inner ring of the bracelet.

It's a word, a script that very few people know now, oracle bones.

The top of this word is the mountain, the bottom of the mountain is the people, and the bottom is the water, this is the word "spirit"!

The oracle bone inscription does not have a fixed glyph, especially the word "spirit", there are many ways to write it, this is one of them, if I don't happen to study archaeology, it is impossible to recognize it.

Thinking of something, I hurriedly took out the brocade bag that my adoptive father had given me, took out the paper from it, and compared it. On the paper is written the eight characters of birth, and at the bottom, there is another word - spirit!

At first, I didn't understand what it meant, but I didn't expect to see this word again.

Now I can be 100% sure that it was this woman who handed me over to Ding Lao Gong back then.

It's a pity that all kinds of clues are disorganized, and they can't be strung together at all, and I'm still confused, and the series of things that happened yesterday are too unbelievable and beyond my cognition.

Just as he was pondering, there was a shout outside the door, it was the old village chief Guo Jiazhu who came.

"Xiao Xi Yanzi."

The village chief walked directly into my door and asked, "I heard that you soaked in the well this morning to enjoy the coolness, and you didn't freeze badly, right?" ”

Guo Jiazhu was tall and dressed ordinarily, and when he stood at the door, the room immediately darkened. I hurriedly stuffed all the bracelets and paper back into the brocade bag, put them in the cupboard, and got up to invite him in.

This old guy has been the village chief of Aconitum for half his life, and the previous village chief was his father, and then his grandfather, and then ...... All in all, his family has been the village chief here for generations, and Jiwei doesn't know how many generations, and no one in the village dares not to listen to him.

If you want to say the only exception, I'm afraid it's only me, I have a twist in my bones, I talked to him a few times when I was a child, and I was taught a lesson by Ding Laozhu. However, as I grew older and more experienced, I realized that these were meaningless, and that my adoptive father was dead and I was alone, so I valued the emotions of the people in the village even more.

"Uncle Zhuzi, are you going to Huaishui to catch water monkeys?" I asked politely.

I may be the only person in the village who has despised his majesty, but his attitude towards me is more polite than anyone else, and he smiled and waved his hand when he heard this, "Don't worry, Xiaoxi, the time has not yet come, and Uncle is here to talk to you." ”

After speaking, Guo Jiazhu walked into the room by himself, looked back and forth, and sighed.

I couldn't help but feel sad that my adoptive father was gone, and the family had become even more deserted......

"Xiao Xi, are you twenty years old? It's time to start a family, I think the daughter of the Cuiyun family is good, you two have also eaten a mother's milk, do you want your uncle to tell you and make peace? Guo Jiazhu suddenly said something strange.

I opened my mouth, I couldn't imagine that he, the head of the big village, would care about my life's affairs.

Aunt Cuiyun was the number one beauty in the village when she was young, and she is still charming, as for her daughter Xiuxiu, she is indeed very beautiful, and she studied until she graduated from high school, which is very rare in this remote Wutou Village.

Xiuxiu is as old as me, it is said that at that time, my aunt held one in one hand, and I nursed with Xiuxiu, and Ding Laogang would always be on the side and said: "These two babies, how well matched, how good it is to let them start a family when they grow up." ”

Aunt Cuiyun usually calls him for being old and indecent at this time, and the people around him laugh loudly......

I felt that my face was starting to get a fever, and I hurriedly smiled, "Uncle, let's talk about this later, and don't mention it now." ”

It's not that I was admitted to the university and have a high vision, to be honest, I didn't think about these things at all, not to mention that my adoptive father had just passed away, and it was not suitable to do a happy event immediately. The most important thing is that Guo Jiazhu usually never talks to me much, but today he is suddenly so enthusiastic, I feel very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, he didn't continue to dwell on this matter, and chatted casually, and I didn't respond with a partner.

Unconsciously, it was close to noon, Guo Jiazhu stood up and beckoned to me, "It's almost time, Mr. Wang, they should have arrived, let's go, don't miss the hour." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, but it was over, to be honest, it was so stressful to chat with him, I would rather go catch the water monkeys.

By the time we got to Huaishui, the whole village was already there.

The young men were all gathered by the river, and the women and the old men were a little farther away, watching over the children. There are two boats floating in the river, and there are several people standing in each of them, both of whom are the best men in the village.

Surrounded by the villagers, Wang Blind set up an altar by the river, lit incense, and was doing it.

Catching water monkeys is a big deal, and every family has to do their part.

The water monkey is not just dragging people into the water, the legend says that whenever the water monkey makes trouble, there will be a big flood this year, once the embankment breaks, the flood is monstrous, and the house collapses and the corpses are all over the field! The method is simple: catch the water monkeys and kill them, then set them on fire to ashes on the river beach.

Seeing me coming, the blind man stopped casting the spell, stretched out his hand like a chicken's paw, grabbed me, opened a mouthful of yellow teeth, and said with a strange smile: "Son, the hour is just right, hurry up and prepare to go into the water." ”

"What's going on?" I was stunned.

I've heard stories of catching water monkeys in Huaishui before, but I've never experienced it before, so I don't know what to do.

Next, the blind man began to explain to me that he was going to do this.

If you want to catch the water monkey in the Huai Shui, you must first have a "fishing bait", that is, me. They would tie a rope around my waist and go into the water to attract the water monkeys.

This "bait" is not something that anyone can do, the water monkey is between life and death, and the yin energy on the body is much heavier than that of the beast, so he likes to drag the living into the water to eat the soul. In the words of the blind man, I am the only pure yang life, and it is perfect to use it as this bait.

"You guy, as long as you go into the water, even if you are ten miles away, the water monkey will be hooked." When the blind man said this, his face twitched, and his smile was very ugly.

I smiled bitterly in my heart, thinking that this pure yang life was a terrible thing, and my feelings were suitable for using evil as bait......

The so-called bait is to let things bite first, and there is definitely a danger, but looking at the worried faces of the villagers, I can't bear to refuse, so I agreed to it.

The people in the village are kind to me, and I will take a risk to help them, even if it is to repay the favor.

The villagers breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that I agreed, and there were sporadic sighs.

"Brother Xiaoxi, you have to be careful later, when you see the water monkey, you pull the rope, and my sister will immediately drag you up." Mai Xiang's sister-in-law shouted loudly. She is strong and can be a man, so she stands on the front line.

Guo Dajiang was also there, this kid was still laughing, and joked to me: "Xiaoxi, let's not talk about anything else, we must protect the bottom, if the root of my life is bitten off...... We don't have the ability to take it back for you. ”

"your balls, shut your crow's mouth." I was so angry with him that I almost vomited blood.

There was a lot of laughter around him, and he made such a fuss, and the originally dignified atmosphere became lively.

I also saw at this time, the legend says that the water monkey is only one meter tall, that is, it has a pair of fangs and claws, and it cannot cause any fatal damage, and the main means of killing is to drown under the water. I'm very good at the water, and with so many people helping, what's there to be afraid of?

One more thing, until now, I don't think it's really a water monkey......

As I spoke, I had a thick hemp rope tied around my waist, and I was ready.

The blind man grabbed a handful of incense ashes, sprinkled them on me, choked me and coughed, and then shouted: "All ready, listen to my orders, and go into the water!" ”

Everyone shouted, and the atmosphere immediately became tense.

Looking back, Sister-in-law Mai Xiang and Guo Dajiang stood at the front, holding the rope and nodding solemnly to me. They are the closest people to me in the village, and the rope that threatens my life is in their hands, and I have nothing to worry about.

Then, in the silence, I took the rope and stepped on the river beach, step by step towards the rolling water, and in a blink of an eye I was drowning to my waist.

In front of me, on the river, two small boats slowly gathered together, and in the bow of each stood a strong man with an anchor hook in his hand. Behind them, each of them had a fisherman, with a fishing net in his hand, ready for battle.