I said goodbye to Mr. Zhou and his aunt in embarrassment, and it was already dark outside at this time, and the lights were on. On Tuesday, I called a rickshaw on the corner and helped me into the car! The coachman pulled up the car and shouted, "Let me come!" …… Let's go! ”。 There was no one on the street, and the rickshaws were ringing and running wildly. I lazily turned my head and waved at Tuesday!

Tuesday also seemed to bow his hand respectfully to me, I sat in the body of the rickshaw, blowing the gentle evening breeze, but I had already made up my mind: "Old man Zhou's matter, I can't get involved!" ”。 The wheels of the rickshaw were beating rapidly on the bumpy road, and I felt sick for a while. I straightened up and saw that the shops on both sides of the street were closed, and the occasional shop was lit up!

In the darkness, I could see that the person pulling the cart was a young man, he was wearing a coarse shirt and trousers, barefoot, and his arms holding the handlebars were dark-skinned, and the kerosene lamp on the front of the car shone with a jet-black reflection! On the front of the car, the air dead wind lamp covered with a glass cover shook violently, shaking the surrounding lights and shadows into a mess!

The guy in a shop on the side of the road was hanging a lantern when he heard the rumble of a rickshaw, so he turned his head and said in surprise: "Is it Brother Dog?" ”。

The driver who pulled the cart let out a "uh-huh" and shouted, "It's a river monkey?" I'm done with my work, I'll go back to you ......!" ”。

The guy named Jiang Monkey threw the lantern and ran to the middle of the street, looked at the rickshaw that was getting farther away, and shouted: "Brother Dog, I'm waiting for you to ......!" ”。 I thought to myself, what a strange thing this is, so I whispered to the young man pulling the cart, "Is he your friend?" ”。

The young man did not turn his head, so I could not see his expression. He just said flatly, "Yes! ”。 I suddenly had a little curiosity about this inconspicuous young man in front of me! I curled up in the car body, stared at the young man's dark neck, and silently thought, "What kind of man is he?" ”。 The wheels are rolling as if they will never stop!

I leaned over him and whispered to the young man, "Where are you?" ”。 The young man seemed taken aback, he turned his head, looked at me, and said, "The little one is ...... from the nearby countryside!" ”。

I nodded and continued to ask him, "Why did you go to the city to pull a cart when you weren't farming at home?" ”。

The young man slowed down and said lightly: "The family has suffered a disaster, and many people have escaped!" ”。 I looked at his back and didn't ask anything more! The car turned an alley, not far from where I lived, so I asked the young man to pull over to the side of the road. The young man took me by the hand and helped me out of the car. I finally saw his appearance clearly by the faint moonlight!

He helped me out of the car and grabbed it again. So I asked him, "Aren't you going home?" Your friends are still waiting for you! ”。 He smiled heartily, revealing a mouth full of snow-white and fine teeth!

The evening breeze gently blew and sent a burst of floral fragrance, and I turned my head to see that the flowers on the side of the road were in full bloom! I paid the lad for the car, and he counted the money, and said to me in astonishment, "Sir, you overpaid!" ”。

I shook my head, smiled and said, "That's what you deserve!" ”。 With that, I walked away! The young man took the money, looked at me with a smile, and bowed to me without humility or arrogance! On the way back, I couldn't help but think proudly, "What a civilized person I am, not only did I give him more money, but I also regarded him as a human being...... I'm more civilized than most people in the world! I've done a lot of bad things, but they don't seem to be very important, as long as I do some good deeds at the same time, I can cancel them out and wash away my sins! Doesn't Chinese Buddhism say that you should put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha? It can be seen that demons and Buddhas can often be transformed into each other! Now that we have thought about the afterlife, we have to think about reality! Mr. Zhou's plea is really a headache, and I decided to leave Beijing to hide for a while in the next few days! But where do you hide? It occurred to me that a few days ago an antique dealer had sent me a letter with a very ridiculous content! In his letter, he complained to me that there had not been a single rain in their area for a year, that all the crops in the fields had dried up, and that if it didn't rain again, all of them would starve to death! The local squire thought it was a problem, so he built an altar to pray for rain, but it didn't work for several days! There was a knowledgeable person inside, and he said to everyone, we don't rain here, I think it's mostly for the drought!

When everyone heard it, they all felt that it made sense, as the saying goes, there are no dates, let's hit a few poles first! So they all speculated, where can this drought fish hide? One of the villagers told everyone that he had been in Zhengjia Village and had heard that there was a female ghost on the mountain where they were going to come out at night to harm people, and so far several people had died there! When everyone heard this, the matter had an eyebrow, so they scraped together a sum of money, invited a mage in this town, and went to this Zhengjia Village together!

Zhengjia Village is not far from the town, and the people who live there are all surnamed Zheng, and they are relatives and relatives between each other, so they are all old acquaintances! After everyone entered the village, they found the chief of the security guard and inquired, and sure enough, there was such a thing! The chief also said that he had already reported the situation to the superiors, but there has been no movement, now it's okay, you are here, we have hope in Zhengjia Village!

The group asked the chief again, "When will it stop raining here?" The chief rolled his eyes, thought for a while, and said, "It seems that there hasn't been rain since the beginning of spring last year. Why didn't this god open his eyes and see? If it doesn't rain, this man will die! ”。

Then the mage asked the chief of the body, "When do you start dying here, apart from the drought?" The chief of the security guard pouted his teeth and said, "I can't say for sure, it seems that the dead man and the drought are the things of the front and back feet......!" ”。 Everyone glanced at each other, and they all felt that there was something strange in this! The mage said to the chief, "Prepare the meal quickly, and I'll help you hunt ghosts tomorrow!" ”。

According to the records in ancient books, there are two kinds of dry fish, one is the beast fish, which looks like a monkey, has a cloak and walks on only one foot! The other is called the ghost, after hanging, it turns into a zombie and comes out charming! If you catch a drought and burn it on the spot, you can make rain fall from the sky!

So everyone rested in Zhengjia Village for a night, and the next morning they took knives, guns, and sticks and went up the mountain. Everyone walked on the road, guessing that the demon on the mountain was probably a ghost. Everyone walked to the bottom of the mountain, looked up and saw the vast mountain, and couldn't help but worry! The mage encouraged everyone and said, "That ghost is on this mountain, and everyone has caught her, what a great merit!" ”。 As soon as everyone thought about it, they all arrived here, how could there be any reason to retreat? So they allocated their men and searched the mountain!

This big mountain is high and densely forested, and when everyone walks into it, it is like a mud cow entering the sea! At noon, everyone finally found that they had picked up an embroidered shoe in a ravine! There is a peony embroidered on the toe of this embroidered shoe, and there is a shining pearl in the heart of the peony!

I don't know who gave the pearl, and the remaining embroidered shoe was handed over to the mage! The mage took the embroidered shoes and looked left and right, smelled them again, his face changed, and said, "There is a corpse smell, this is the shoes of the ghost!" ”。 So they went down the ravine and looked inside, and when they turned a corner, they saw a piece of burnt wood on the edge of the ravine, and a big hole in the ground!

When the mage saw the big opening, he waved his hand to stop everyone, and he himself stepped forward and picked up the weeds on the ground, only to see a coffin revealed in the open opening! When everyone saw that there was a coffin in the crack, they couldn't help but be amazed, guessing that it was the thunder that split the soil layer, which made the coffin under the ground revealed!

Under the command of the mage, everyone dragged the coffin up with a rope, opened the coffin and looked, and there was indeed a female corpse with white hair lying in the coffin! The crowd then hooked the woman's body out of the coffin with an iron hook! Take a closer look, the female corpse is missing an embroidered shoe on her foot, and there is actually a child in her arms in the crook of her arm! The kid grinned like a monkey! Seeing a stranger approaching, it hissed and suddenly jumped up a big tree!

The people were afraid that they would run away, so they surrounded the big tree! The rest of the people gathered firewood and grass and covered the body of the female corpse, set a fire, and burned the female corpse clean! Before the fire could be extinguished, the sky suddenly darkened, and after a thunderclap, it began to rain heavily!

When everyone saw the heavy rain falling from the sky, they all knelt down and kowtowed. There was a distant relative of an antique dealer in the crowd, when he was slack, he had also collected things in the countryside, and he knew a little about antiques, he knew that foreigners were rare in this ancient corpse, and when they saw that everyone burned the female corpse to ashes, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity, it's a pity!" If this thing is shipped to Beijing, it will be worth a lot of money! ”。 He saw that it was raining heavily and the crowd had dispersed, so he came up with the idea of a little dartfish on the tree! He thought to himself, "This little drought, although it is not as valuable as the big one, is it much better than nothing, right?" ”。 So he beckoned two good friends, and caught the little dartfish with a fishing net, and put him in a cage!

One of his distant relatives came to his shop overnight and asked me to write to me if I was interested in the only living marry. The signature of the letter is: Brother Zheng Nanpo, bow to the head of a hundred bows, and be terrified!

This antique dealer named Zheng Nanpo once sent me something, I wonder if the drought he mentioned in his letter this time is true?