Chapter 41: The Flood
Tong Xiaomeng and I looked at the old water ghost, and our mood was a little complicated.
The old water ghost looks like he is crazy, and we feel as if he has been hit by a huge blow, and once he is insane, how will we deal with the long night that follows.
"Big Brother White......
Tong Xiaomeng unconsciously grabbed my hand, and I didn't know how to comfort him, my eyes stared directly at the old water ghost, and the other hand held the tea jar tightly, so that I could deal with possible situations at any time.
Fortunately, the old water ghost's frantic sanity quickly calmed down.
He turned his head, looked at me and asked, "Can you lend me the blood jade?" ”
I hesitated for a moment and asked, "What is it for?" ”
The old water ghost said: "I can't tell you for the time being, but as long as we have this thing, we will not only survive tonight, but even have a great possibility to prevent you from marrying Huanghe Niangniang and becoming a monster without a human body." ”
I thought about it, and there was no better choice than to believe in him in this current environment, so I took the blood drop jade from his neck and handed it to his palm.
The old water ghost took the jade pendant, and couldn't help but be moved for a moment, then returned to normal, stood up and walked to the jade coffin, stared at the coffin for a few seconds, and then put the jade pendant in.
Seeing this, my heart moved, and I couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that the female corpse of the two estuaries can only be chased all the way here according to the blood jade?" ”
The old water ghost didn't answer, turned his head to look at the old-fashioned clock hanging on the wall, and whispered: "There is still an hour, a young Yellow River Niangniang went ashore to marry, no matter what she wanted, a flood is naturally unavoidable, I don't know how the water nature of the two is, if not, you have to find a high place to avoid it, here I can leave my old man alone." ”
Tong Xiaomeng and I glanced at each other, both of them have much better water properties than ordinary people, especially Tong Xiaomeng, who is far above me, I believe there should be no problem.
The old water ghost nodded when he heard this, sat back in his chair, looked at me and said, "Everything is cause and effect, all are caused by creation, if the old man is not wrong, you used to walk by the river when you were a child, and you encountered a lot more strange things than others, right?" ”
When I heard this, I looked at him in amazement: "How do you know? ”
The old water ghost smiled: "What have you seen?" ”
I looked at him in shock and muttered, "The coffin in the water......"
The old water ghost hurriedly interrupted me and said, "It's good that you know it psychologically, don't say it." ”
"That's what the mage told me at the beginning." I sighed.
"Yes, there are some things that are no longer tolerated by Heaven once they see the light of day, and you have not told others, which can be regarded as saving her life, and she is now considered to have saved your life."
I was even more uneasy, thinking of the female corpse that rescued me at the mouth of the Erdao River, and said tremblingly: "You mean that the owner of this jade pendant is ...... in the coffin."
The old water ghost nodded silently.
When I was seven years old, I swam with Jin Yi on the edge of the Haihe River, at that time the Haihe River was not as polluted as it is now, and the whole Haihe River was the big swimming pool of Tianjin Weiren, especially in the summer, the people in the river were like dumplings, and all the white flowers were people.
That summer, Jin Yiyi and I competed in the Haihe River, who lost and invited whoever went to eat a two-dollar popsicle, at that time two yuan was really valuable, when I went into the water, I almost all held the body to float up and wait for someone to fish, but I didn't expect that as soon as my head was immersed in the bottom of the river, I saw a black shadow floating from under my feet.
When I was a child, I heard a lot of ghost stories about the water by the river, but I didn't see anything clearly, so I was not very afraid, and I pinched my nose and continued to squat in the water.
But it didn't take much effort, faintly, I felt a stream of water rushing on my back behind me, and when I turned my head suddenly, I saw the black shadow of the water, which was stopping behind me at the moment, black is a black coffin, and the huge shadow is countless aquatic plants taller than people wrapped around the coffin, swaying, pulled by the current, but trapped in the distance.
I was scared stupid, my legs cramped easily when I was nervous in the water, and the breath in my throat and eyes came out, but when I reacted and tried desperately to swim, I felt that something was entangled in my ankles.
How can a child react when this happens?
That is, I want to call.
But he couldn't scream in the water, so he instinctively pulled up and wanted to swim out as soon as possible.
It may have been an instinctive reaction, but in the end I felt that I couldn't swim, so I stretched out my hand and grabbed the aquatic weeds wrapped around the coffin, pulling hard while desperately pedaling with my feet.
The aquatic plants were torn off one by one, and the coffin bound by the aquatic plants began to struggle as if consciously, and I watched as the roots of the aquatic plants wrapped around it broke apart, and then streams of scarlet liquid emerged from the cracks between the coffin and the coffin board, obscuring my vision, and then I didn't know it.
It's been two days since I woke up, lying in my own house, the house is full of yellow charms to ward off evil spirits, my father and mother are guarding the bedside with red eyes, and when they see me wake up, they tell me that I was pulled by the water ghost in the water.
Jin Yiyi can be regarded as saving my life, which is why I have to promise Jin Zhenbang to rescue him no matter what the conditions.
But when my father and mother left, the mage who had been invited to exorcise evil spirits secretly asked me what I saw in the water.
I told him what had happened, and he was silent for a long time before telling me, "I didn't hear anything you just said, and you must not say anything when someone asks you in the future, otherwise one day she will come up and drag you into the water to pay for her life." ”
When I was a child, I must have been scared to hear this, and even my father and mother hid this matter, and when I grew up, I gradually forgot about it, but I didn't expect that the cycle of cause and effect, until I was twenty-eight years old, I would still have an intersection with the owner in the coffin.
Sobering up from my contemplation, I looked at the old water ghost and asked, "That is to say, the one in the coffin tonight is also likely to come?" ”
The old water ghost nodded: "That's why I put the jade pendant in the jade coffin, it is not easy to practice, and it is even more difficult to practice with a good heart, thousands of years of creation, it will be ruined in one fell swoop, the old man really can't bear to look at it......"
I looked at him silently, thinking that after a long time of contact with the old water ghost, I would be able to better understand this mysterious man walking on the edge of the Yellow River, but now I found that he seemed to be a layer of fog, and after removing layer after layer, he just stepped into the depths of the fog.
Between the small talk, time has been racing towards the time when the Yellow River Niangniang went ashore, Tong Xiaomeng listened casually on the side and didn't understand much, but she was smart and could understand a lot from it, so she said: "We're going to do this later?" ”
The old water ghost said, "Do your best to survive in the water, and you don't need to take care of the rest." ”
Before the old water ghost spoke, I suddenly heard a landslide and tsunami cry outside the door, and the whole earth trembled, I was shocked, just turned my head, the sound of the flooding of the hula river had already forced to the door, and before I could react, I heard the old water ghost hurriedly shouting: "Hold your breath, the Yellow River is coming!" ”
Saying that it was too late, Tong Xiaomeng and I took a deep breath almost at the same time, and then quickly pinched our noses with our hands, and then saw that the door that was blown by the wind suddenly "banged", first exploded into pieces in sight, and then the turbid Yellow River water poured violently into the house.
The river hit the body, just like a boulder smashed into the chest, there was no time to react, I only felt that my eyes were dark, and my body was washed to the wall behind the river along the river, and I felt that my bones were going to break, but it was a matter of life and death, and I didn't let myself faint at all, but I still couldn't avoid a moment of chaos in my brain, and I hurriedly opened my eyes when I woke up again, but the water of the Yellow River was too turbid, and I couldn't see anything at all.
I was a little worried about the safety of Tong Xiaomeng and the old water ghost, and I bared my teeth and waved my hands to find their whereabouts, but at the moment of reaching out, I heard the sound of music coming from the water in my ears.