It's almost certain that she's the one who brought me in back then, maybe it's still my own mother, as long as she can come back to life and ask questions, all doubts will be solved.

Judging from the physical signs, this woman's skin is very elastic, and her demeanor is not distorted at all, and when she holds it in her arms, she seems to be a sleeping living person.

I thought she had drowned not long ago and was likely to be saved, but in the end I was disappointed.

I've been tossing and turning for hours, and I'm already tired, the woman...... Now it's time to say that it's a female corpse, and there is no reaction at all.

Somehow, I actually cried, you know, I didn't cry when my adoptive father Ding Lao Pole died. I have no feelings for this female corpse at all, I don't even have any impression, and I don't feel sad, but the tears are just disobedient and rolling out.

In addition, I don't have any fear in the face of this corpse, I can't say why.

I scooped up the chain from the water and examined it carefully.

The chain should be bronze, and the surface has completely turned green due to age. There are double ring buckles at the end of the chain, which are buckled on the ankles of the female corpse, and locked with a bronze lock.

The origin of this female corpse is unknown, and it will definitely not be saved, and the matter is full of weirdness. But she came to see me as promised, and it was probably my relative, and she couldn't be left to soak in the water, and at least she had to be buried.

I pulled out my keychain, sat down in the water, and started picking the lock.

This kind of bronze lock is very primitive, and it is completely incomparable to the current sophisticated locks, and it is easy to pry open.

After trying all the keys, I finally used an ear picker to clean the patina of the keyhole, and after some reversing, the lock opened with a "click".

The heavy bronze chain broke free from its restraints and immediately retracted with gravity, and the snake swam back into the water.

The moment I broke free, a sigh came softly in my ears, and I jumped up in fright.

Looking at it again, the female corpse was still quiet and half-lying in the water, without any abnormality.

It seems that I am nervous......

I smiled bitterly, put the female corpse on my back, one foot deep and one shallow, and walked towards the village with difficulty.

After this, it was already dark, there was a dead silence by the river, and the village in front was brightly lit, and someone was faintly talking loudly.

According to local customs, people who die by mistake cannot be buried at home, but can only be placed in the middle of the village, and then they have to ask a mage to do more than that. It seems that the fifth aunt has been determined to be dead, and what is being done there.

I carried a female corpse on my back, and it was difficult to ram the villagers, so I walked around the village and returned home from the field.

By the time I got home, it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, and the rituals were still going on in the middle of the village, and there was no one on the left.

When I got home, I put the woman's body on a bamboo bed, wiped her with a towel, and thought about how to bury it. After the funeral for my adoptive father, the family has no money, and a thin wooden coffin is a few thousand years bigger.

was worried, and the voice of the village chief Guo Jiazhu came from outside the courtyard gate, "Xiao Xi, come out quickly, the mage asked you to go and help." ”

Guo Jiazhu was a ruthless man when he was young, I heard that he had strangled the evil wolf on the Qinling Mountains with his bare hands, he was not afraid of heaven and earth, and in previous years, when he was in a great drought, he led people to fight with other villages for water sources, and almost killed people, and there was no one in this area who was not afraid of him.

Hearing this, I hurriedly agreed and went out of the house.

After I went out, I realized that not only me, but the young and middle-aged people of the whole village were greeted and gathered towards the center of the village.

In the middle of the village was a clearing, and there was a well, and by the well lay a bamboo bed, on which the body of the fifth aunt was placed, and her face was covered with a wad of papyrus. Her man knelt beside her, crying and crying, burning paper money one after another.

I know the mage who came this time, he is from the township, and he is well-known in this area, his name is Wang Yunfeng, and he is nicknamed Wang Blind.

Wang Yunfeng is already in his seventies, thin and withered, his eyes are not very good, he is wearing a fancy robe, holding a peachwood sword in his hand, and he keeps circling around the corpse of the fifth aunt, babbling in his mouth. There were all villagers around, all of them were silent, and they didn't dare to breathe.

I have something hidden in my heart, I don't have the heart to look at it, it's muddy.

At this moment, someone touched me lightly, and when I turned my head, it was Guo Dajiang.

His face turned pale, and he leaned over and whispered, "You don't know yet, do you?" The fifth aunt is not as simple as drowning! ”

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

Guo Dajiang shook his head and pointed at the foot of the fifth aunt's corpse.

At this glance, my scalp immediately exploded.

There was an electric light in the open space, shining like daylight, and the fifth aunt was not wearing a shroud, and her feet were exposed. From my point of view, I could clearly see that there were four scratches on the surface of her left foot, the skin was open, the wound was turned outward, and it was blistered white.

"Master Wang said, the fifth aunt asked the water monkey to drag it into the water, and the seal was caught by the water monkey......" Guo Dajiang whispered in my ear, to the effect that Wang Yunfeng asked the young man in our village to catch the water monkey with him.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft the water, living by the Huai River, many livelihoods are inseparable from the Huai Shui, if the water monkeys who are demons are not destroyed, the big guys will not be at peace.

Unlike elsewhere, the term water monkey has a special meaning to us.

In the early years, there was a water demon called Wuzhiqi in this section of the Huai River, which caused waves and harmed countless people, and it was a monkey living in the water. Later, Dayu came here to control the water and invited the god Gengchen to surrender the water monkey, but his monkey monkey grandson escaped, and often came out to harm people in the future.

Monkeys aren't common, at least not the first time I've seen them with my own eyes. According to legend, whenever a monkey comes out of the water, there will be a big flood this year, and I don't know how many people will die.

I didn't hear what Guo Dajiang said later, I was thinking about something else, until an old call woke me up.

"Young man, are you born today?"

I looked up and met Wang Yunfeng's wrinkled face, he was blind in one eye, like a dead fish, and the other eye was covered with glass flowers, close at hand, a little crazy.

I nodded in a panic.

"Good, good." Wang Yunfeng said three good words in a row, "If I calculate well, you should be born on June 14, Shen Shi 3 Quarter, Yang Ji Destiny, with you, we can catch the water monkey." ”

"What did you say?" I didn't know why, and I was secretly shocked, I didn't think that this old fellow could know my birth date just by looking at it.

Wang Yunfeng smiled "hehe", "Don't ask more, come to Huaishui at noon tomorrow, and you will know when you arrive." ”

The old guy is mysterious, and I don't want to ask.

After explaining, Wang Yunfeng turned to the villagers and said loudly: "After the method is done, let's all go home, let the deceased stop here tonight." ”

The villagers immediately dispersed and went home.

As soon as I turned around, the voice of the village chief Guo Jiazhu came from behind, "Xiao Xi, you must come tomorrow, don't delay." ”

Looking back, the sturdy old village chief stared straight at me with a very solemn expression.

I nodded silently, indicating that I must have arrived, and left.

Along the way, I hurried home, my heart beating faster and faster, and a terrible conjecture lingered in my mind.

As soon as I pushed the door open, I was stupefied, only to see that the bamboo bed in the hall was empty, and the female corpse was gone!

"How so?" I panicked and looked around the bamboo bed.

Without waiting for a circle, I made a discovery, only to see a line of wet footprints on the side of the bamboo bed, walking towards the back door. My mind was in a state of confusion, and I didn't think about it, so I chased it out along the footprints.

Just now I found an anomaly on the scars on the corpse of the fifth aunt, and the matter may not be as simple as Wang Blind said.

I haven't seen a water monkey, but I imagine that this thing is a beast, and its claws should be very sharp, but the scars on the feet of the old fifth aunt are very wide, and the wounds are uneven, not like they were scratched by wild beasts, but like human fingernails......

The blind man's eyes were not good, and it was estimated that he didn't see clearly, so he thought that it was made by the water monkey.

Out the back door, the water stains gradually faded, but fortunately, there were still some, barely traceable.

It's strange, I remember it clearly, I obviously wiped the female corpse, how could there be such a heavy water stain?

Just when the water stains were completely gone, I chased them to the middle of the village, and when I looked up, I saw that under the cold moonlight, the well stood alone in the clearing, next to the corpse of the old fifth aunt, parked on a bamboo bed.

It stands to reason that his man should accompany the corpse to watch tonight, but there is no one next to the bamboo bed, it is estimated that the guy has a ghost in his heart, and he actually left his daughter-in-law's lonely corpse and ran away.

The next moment, suddenly, a dark figure came out of the alley next to it, and staggered towards the well.

When I saw the man, I gasped and my eyes widened.

To be precise, it was two people, a soaking wet woman, carrying the corpse of a woman I fished out of the water on her back!

It was completely beyond my imagination, the female corpse was actually carried away.

The woman carrying the corpse lowered her head, her long wet hair draped on both sides, she couldn't see her face at all, and she could only faintly hear heavy breathing, as if she was struggling to carry it. She wore a plaid top and dark trousers, both legs rolled up to her knees, revealing a pair of white bare feet.

Looking at this incredible scene, I was completely confused, and my mind went blank.

It wasn't until the woman carried the body to the edge of the well that I came to my senses and rushed out with a shout, "What are you doing?!" ”

Before I could finish shouting, the woman shrugged her shoulders, and the woman's corpse turned over like a sack and fell into the well.

My scalp exploded, my soul scattered, and I threw myself at the woman who was lying on the edge of the well and looking down. I don't know how many years this well has been, and the people in the village have all the water here, and throwing the corpse down is not harmful!

Before I could pounce, the woman suddenly jumped up, turned and ran out of the village. I hurriedly chased after me, secretly ruthless in my heart, I must catch you!