Chapter 11: Big Fish
I put my things at the designated place, and Charles Bai gave me 500 cash, which was very cool, not very tired, but I could see blood on my shoulder, and it hurt a little. The people he brought with him were directing the work, and they had set up a makeshift tent to store things, and I didn't know all kinds of equipment.
"What are you going to do?" I asked, pulling a cigarette out of my pocket and handing it to him, he shook his head and said he wasn't used to it. I ordered it myself.
"First do the preparations, then scoop up all the hanging coffins, and then surround all the edges of the cliff with broken heads, this is what the mayor requests, you can't let people fall, it's so high, if you don't drown, you will fall to your death, and then go into the water."
"So you should believe that I couldn't have fallen from here, I was only six years old at the time, and the place where I fell was there." After saying that, I pointed to the place where Uncle Liu pulled me ashore when I was six years old.
"But didn't your mother fall from here, and you're still alive?" He asked meaningfully.
"No way, they must be talking nonsense, and no one saw my mother fall from here."
"Have you ever thought that your mother was also pushed down?" He asked.
Charles Bai's words made me almost shiver, I never thought about the question, who was so vicious to push a pregnant woman off a cliff? What is the purpose? "Do you think the people in this village are so vicious?" I asked rhetorically.
"You're the one who grew up here, someone threw you, why wouldn't someone push your mother? It's the same person. ”
"Do you know anything?" I asked.
"How is it possible, I only came here yesterday, it's just that I like conspiracy theories, because people's hearts are too evil, and the people have been poor and evil since ancient times."
"Are you righteous?" I asked rhetorically.
"I'm human too!" He spoke in a weird way, and his Mandarin was not good, so I couldn't understand what he meant.
I took a few puffs of cigarette and felt very uncomfortable, and if Charles's reasoning was correct, let me catch this guy, skin him, and throw him into a pool of water to avenge my mother.
Charles went to check the work, I was ready to go back to rest, I can earn five hundred this morning, which is very good, and see if there is any leftover from the guy who sells pork in the village, chop two pig's feet and stew them home. As soon as they reached the foot of the mountain, a group of people flocked up the mountain.
"Where did you come from, stupid, really into Guillotine Gorge." The second aunt said.
"It seems to be from out of town, rushing for money."
I also want to follow along to see the excitement, I'm still very curious about Guillotine Gorge, after all, it is closely related to me, maybe there is a way to heal the scale armor on my back.
I followed them, and when they saw me, it was like a ghost, and I quickened myself and ran ahead of them.
"If he weren't a ghost seed, I wouldn't be able to, you see such a difficult mountain road running so fast." The second aunt said.
Not bothering to pay attention to them, Charles also stood there and watched, and when he saw that I had run back again, he smiled to himself. I saw a large salvage boat in the canyon in the distance heading towards the pond, and there was a yellow-robed Taoist priest standing in the bow, with a pig's head on the wooden table in front of him, and he was dancing with a wooden sword.
"Huang Xuan, who do you think that Taoist priest is better than you?" The second aunt stood next to Huang Xuan and asked.
"It's definitely not as good as me!"
"Just blow it, your family has been engaged in these deceitful things for generations, but I have never seen you catch a ghost."
"You'll know how good I am at night." After Huang Xuan finished speaking, he covered his eyes with his palms and continued to watch.
I don't understand the meaning of what he said, it should be a leg with the second aunt, this kind of thing is really common, you pick up my wife, I pick your wife, it's very messy, it is said that the second aunt was quite beautiful when she was young, and she was short-tempered, and the old man in the village called her Angelica the first behind her back, and her work was very good. Her husband Jiang Bin has been working outside for a long time, so he is naturally a cheap village man.
I don't have a good impression of her, she is my neighbor, but she likes to show me the most face, and she wants me to die, thinking that my frustration will be contagious to her family. It seems that when I was about four years old, once her daughter gave me a biscuit, and was beaten by the second aunt and cried for several hours, I was held in my grandmother's arms, and seemed to know what guilt was, and then her daughter hid when she saw me, and I never messed with her.
It's strange to say, the Taoist priest danced with his hands, and the boat really drove a long way, until it reached the downstream of the Guillotine Gorge, and in another twenty minutes it would be possible to reach the pond.
At this time, a few people at the stern of the boat began to put the net, and soon they could see that there were so many fish in the net that they jumped out of the hole in the net, and there was no one to fish here for a long time, so they certainly did not come to fish, so the net they used was very thin, and the net hole was bigger than the human head, which was specially to fish for corpses.
"Brother Xuan, look, everyone is about to run to the pond." The second aunt said.
"Xiaohuahua, don't worry, how many masters have come over the years, it's useless." Huang Xuan said.
As soon as he finished speaking, the villagers began to make a noise, and I saw the bow of the ship slowly tilting up, and I thought it was incredible, such a large tonnage ship could be overturned. The mouth of the Guillotine Gorge is not wide, and no matter how big the ship is, it will not be able to enter at all.
At the stern of the boat, four net-casters clung to the ropes on the boat, and their feet had fallen into the water.
"There's something in the net." Someone shouted.
There was indeed something in the net, the water splashed, suddenly the net rope broke, the bow of the boat slammed into the water, a huge strange fish came out of the water, opened its mouth of blood, and the long crimson tongue spit out of the mouth, swept it violently, and rolled the four people into the mouth, I was so frightened that I took a step back, this fish should be the one I saw in the water when I fished Uncle Liu that day, I only saw the head at that time, I didn't expect it to be so big, like a big truck.
"Water Dragon King!" The second aunt shouted, and the melon seeds in her hand fell into the grass.
The bow of the boat slowly cocked again, because the fish was too heavy to press right on the stern. Several people at the bow of the boat fell into the water, plopping non-stop, including the Taoist priest, I glanced at Huang Xuan, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was smiling, this dead perverted Taoist priest.
"Lao Tzu fought with you." A big man rushed to the big fish with an explosives bag, the big fish suddenly spewed out a column of water, and the big man rushed into the canopy, with a loud bang, the iron canopy exploded, and the iron pieces flew wildly, smashing on the fish, as if it didn't even hurt the skin, and the fish was not in a hurry to jump into the water, but stretched out his tongue and rolled up the three people who were fluttering blindly in the water, and the yellow clothes of the Taoist priest were particularly conspicuous, and they got into the mouth of the fish in a flash.
After eating the people, the boat washed up with the current to the pond, the fish changed its position, looking at the cliff of the broken head, the lower body was dragged in the water, the bow of the boat was pressed high by it, and the big blood-red eyes seemed to be staring at us, and I even felt that it was staring at me. Some villagers were so frightened that they ran away, and the second aunt stood behind Huang Xuan, only Charles Bai stood there motionless and lit a cigarette.
I thought he must be hanging, so I moved to him, and when the boat reached the pool, it didn't move, or it moved very slowly, and the big fish got into the water.
"Do you see, the fish has legs?" The second aunt shouted.
I saw it, too, with that long tongue and feet, what kind of birdfish is this. At this time, the second aunt spit out a bunch of melon seed shells from her mouth in the grass, disgusted to death, I don't know why Huang Xuan is interested in her.
"I said, Mr. Scum, do you still dare to go down?" The second aunt said that she didn't know how she remembered her name.
"Rest assured, we have spearguns, as well as torpedoes, sonar, it's easy to kill it!" Charles said calmly. But his subordinates didn't think so, they were still a little scared, as could be seen from their expressions.
"We have to find a high-pitch sonar boat, and I guess the low-pitcher of our underwater detector can't handle it." The man with glasses said that Charles didn't say anything, but turned around and left. When going down the mountain, the man with glasses seemed to be calling Ouyang Xiong, talking about what he had seen and heard today, hoping to find a high-pitched sonar boat, but what I didn't expect was that Mr. Ouyang actually agreed.
"If you look for a sonar boat, isn't Ouyang Qingqing going to die?" I asked.
He hung up the phone and said, "He's actually a little hopeless, after all, after so many days, do you think there's still hope?" ”
I shook my head and said, "I don't think there's much hope." ”
"He said to try it according to Charles's method first, but if it doesn't work, use sonar, and it will take half a month for the ship to come, and he has to drive from the sea and go through the formalities."
I watched him put his phone in his pocket, and his hands were shaking. This cannot be said that he is timid, it is indeed terrifying. The fish's eyes, in particular, seemed to be looking at me, and I was going to have another nightmare tonight, and I had to drink some wine.
As soon as I walked to the main road, I saw the second aunt running forward with a smile, there was a Jetta stopped in front, Jiang Chumei got out of the car, she is the daughter of the second aunt, two years older than me, graduated from college this year, I was a freshman in high school, and she was a junior in high school. I was a little overwhelmed by the sight of this girl who had made me think about her, and I hurriedly walked with my head down, not daring to look at her, she was now even more dazzling.
If you look at the second aunt from the appearance of her daughter, the second aunt was indeed a little beautiful back then, Jiang Chumei was wearing a sportswear, about 1.65 meters tall, with a ponytail and black-rimmed glasses.
"Xiaomei, why are you back?" The second aunt asked.
"I'm coming back to be the village chief!" Jiang Chumei said with a smile.
"You are a college student, what kind of village chief should you be, and besides, the village chief has Xiong Lao Liu." The second aunt is unhappy, her daughter has achieved success in her studies and looks like a talent, she should marry a rich and noble family in the city, and she is not happy to come back to be the village head.
"The town sent me down, saying that I should change the superstitious atmosphere in the village so that I can have better development in the future." Jiang Chumei said confidently.
"Change your fart, if you want to go back early, I'll let you go see the Water Dragon King." The second aunt said angrily.