My name is Qin Sanmo, and I am a water police officer.

When I first graduated, I went to work as a soldier in Tibet. Born and raised in Tianjin, when I first went to Tibet, I was really tortured by the harsh climatic conditions, but the adaptability of human beings is much stronger than imagined.

Although they all have a police word, my position has nothing to do with the police and is not in the police establishment. To put it bluntly, it is responsible for salvaging the nameless corpses of drowning and preventing illegal fishing.

The most ridiculous thing is that there is no one else in the entire Ministry of Public Security on the water except me, and because there are now more and more professional salvage teams in the private sector, even if there is a case, I just go to register it, and I have nothing to do at all, so that almost every day I look at the Haihe River outside the door in a daze, and I go home from work when I spend time.

The huge gap in life changes made me, a resolute young man who was still high-spirited a few years ago, seem to have aged by 20 years all of a sudden, and I was also contaminated with the smell of greasy philistines.

And the reason why I went to the distant Tibetan area just after graduation was to escape from Tianjin, but I didn't expect to go around and around, and finally succumbed to my mother's threat: "Your father and your grandfather are gone, you have to have three long and two short outside, and your mother and your grandmother are no longer alive".

The ancestors of the Qin family have made a living by dealing with river drifters since the Republic of China, and to put it mildly, it is a family that relies on the dead. Everyone said that it was because of this that it was not easy for the daughter-in-law of the Qin family to give birth to a child, either miscarriage or early death, although the grandfather and father were good at water, but they had always had old diseases. I am the eighth generation of the Qin family, maybe a fool has a foolish fortune, and my body is quite strong.

In addition, there is also a good thing left by the ancestors, that is, a special set of apnea holding methods. My grandfather was able to go down the river alone at the age of five, and at the age of twelve he was already a well-known "water ghost". Not to mention swimming fast, it is said that he can stay in the water for six hours straight, which is beyond the scope of human beings, but for grandpa it is a piece of cake. So at that time, in the whole city of Tianjin, if you want to say that the water is good, my grandfather said second, and no one dared to call it first.

Of course, in addition to these hard skills, the Qin family can become a famous underwater overlord in Tianjin, and there is also a special helper, which is a blood toad with a red body and the size of a fist. No one knows how long this blood toad has lived, only that since the ancestor entered this industry, it has been offered by the Qin family as a god, so in the past, the old water ghosts in the city respected the men of our Qin family as "Toad Master".

However, it was such a powerful grandfather, but in the end, he ended up dead without a body.

This is also the reason why I was born in the Qin family and has an ancestral underwater ability, but I never go down to the river, and even want to leave Tianjin.

Although I couldn't escape in the end, I never imagined that when I came back, I would be in such a state of life of eating and waiting for death every day. But after a long time, sometimes I feel that it is good to be so stable, marry an ordinary daughter-in-law in two years, give birth to an ordinary child, live an ordinary life, and then grow old ordinarily.

Until something happened.

I was on duty that night, and as usual, I was still playing games with nothing to do. Sixteen rounds of Spider Solitaire came down, and when I looked up and saw that it was already eight and fifteen, I put out my cigarette and got up to close the door. Before I could lock it, two people suddenly pushed the door open and came in. One of them I still know, is our land to protect the old fire.

This so-called land protection is an identity between black and white, which can solve a lot of troublesome things that are inconvenient for black and white, and he is a capable person.

I know Lao Huo very well, after all, I usually see him the most except for the river drifter, and just when I wanted to say hello to him, I noticed the person following behind him, and my eyes suddenly narrowed.

The person who came was dark-faced, walked without making a sound, and stood there like a deep pool where he could not see the bottom with his eyes, and the whole person looked very gloomy.

I don't dare to say that I can judge people by each other, but after so many years in the army, I still have basic observation, especially sensitive to a person's momentum, in short, this person around Lao Huo makes me feel very uncomfortable.

The atmosphere in the room was suddenly a little awkward, Lao Huo saw my stiff face, laughed a few times and said haha: "Brother Mo San, it's really because I came to disturb so late today because there is something urgent, don't blame the old brother." ”

I politely let them in, and quickly took the portrait of the beautiful woman on the table into the drawer before they were paying attention.

Without waiting for me to speak, the gloomy man looked me up and down a few times before he spoke, "You are Qin Sanmo?" ”

I nodded and said suspiciously, "You are?" ”

"Please come with me, someone wants to see you." The man said with a blank face.

I was stunned, it was always the police who said to the suspect, "You come with me", and asked the police to go with me before I saw him.

Thinking of this, I straightened up and showed the majesty of a police officer who was not very good: "I'm on duty tonight, if you have any urgent matters, you can tell me in detail, and I'll make a record first." ”

I heard that in the past two days, there has indeed been a non-governmental organization that used fish cannons to illegally bomb fish in Haihe, but the source is not very reliable, and the gloomy man came so late, he wouldn't have to report the case, right?

The gloomy man saw that I had no intention of leaving, he pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Do you know 'Ghost Crying Stream'? ”

As soon as these three words came out, I couldn't hold back the smile on my face.

This ghost crying stream is located in a large mountain around Jixian County, Tianjin. The surrounding area looks like birds and flowers, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and it is no different from ordinary mountains and forests, but the peculiar thing is that the mountain formed a very special fault valley due to the movement of the earth's crust hundreds of thousands of years ago. The quiet water of the river upstream suddenly fell in this valley, like a 10,000-ton boulder tilting, and the sound was deafening. The valley is dimly lit, and the entire waterfall is more than 120 meters high. Beneath the waterfall has been washed into a huge lake in the shape of a bag, and no one knows how deep it is.

Because no one has survived the lake until now, whether it is a tourist who has lost his footing or a water ghost who has gone to collect corpses.

He took me there once before my grandfather died. He pointed to the glass-like lake and said to me, "This ghost crying stream is a veritable evil place where ghosts can never return, you kid must remember, don't get close to this place without knowing how to go."

"We know that the Qin family has long since stopped doing the business of scooping up people's corpses over the years, if it weren't for the fact that there was really no way, I wouldn't have come" The gloomy man continued to speak, put the leather bag in his hand on the table and slowly opened it, full of a pile of red tickets, "So my boss asked me to come, just to ask you to go into the water and fish up the corpse!" ”

With a salary of 2,008 a month, I saw the leather bag, and I did admit that I was almost confused by the smell of capital, but when I heard his sentence "go into the water to fish for corpses", I instantly sobered up and shook my head again and again.

"It's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I can't help with this favor. One is that the ghost crying stream realm is too dangerous, don't talk about me, even if the old lady is here, he may not be sure. The second is... As you know, I swore I would never go into the water again. ”

I sighed, and then asked the person out: "The name of the Qin family's water ghost, when you get to my grandfather, it's over." ”

Twenty years ago, that strange case caused a sensation in the entire city of Tianjin

At that time, the first person who found out that something had happened to his grandfather was a fisherman named Dysentery Three. I heard that although this man is idle, but he has the ability to cast a net, that morning after he lost the gamble, he wanted to catch some fish and go back to the book, but he didn't want to go down the net and didn't see half of the fish, not to say, and the net was wrapped with a meaty thing.

The leprosy scolded in his mouth, took the thing down and looked at it, and was so frightened that he almost didn't lose his breath. It turned out to be a whitening human skin that had been soaked in seawater.

The police immediately put up a notice calling for people to come and identify the body. The family was still a little unsure, after all, it was indeed very difficult to identify the other corpses, but the grandmother recognized it at a glance, holding the human skin and crying, and almost committed suicide by hitting the wall on the spot.

Later, I asked my grandmother why she was so sure that it was my grandfather, and my grandmother said that he saw a dark blue handprint behind the human skin, which was left by the corpse poison and silt when my grandfather broke through the sea and river, and it will never go away.

Something so big happened, the police station mobilized the police force of the whole city to search for more than half a month, but there was still no progress, let alone finding grandpa's body, not even the slightest clue could be found.

In the end, it was only found that my grandfather had gone to find another river worker before going down to the river, and something happened shortly after that.

The police immediately arrested the person for interrogation, but the river worker did not know what to tell the police, and the police announced the next day that the grandfather's death was completely accidental, not murdered.

The family naturally didn't believe it, and the father went to ask for an explanation, and at the end, the old policeman in charge of the case sighed and said something inexplicable to his father.

"Brother, don't bother, what can you do if you find out, you can spoil people like this, that's not something you and I can afford to mess with."

After hearing this, my father went home and locked himself in the house without eating or drinking for three whole days, and finally went to the Haihe River to salvage my grandfather's body on a windy autumn night despite the obstruction of his family, and there was no news from him since.

After going to school, I also secretly checked a lot of information, but there was no progress, and the matter of my grandfather and father seemed to have become an unsolvable puzzle.