Chapter 3 The Wind and Rain of the Night River
It's the feet of the spirit! The next moment, the foot retracted again.
I rushed into the sedan chair, and Lingling was like a frightened rabbit curled up in the sedan chair, clutching the back of the sedan chair and trembling.
"Lingling......" I looked at Lingling with a worried expression, she finally woke up. But why is she still in the sedan chair? Am I mistaken? However, I saw a figure being thrown out and falling into the river!
There were no cabins on the ship, only a sedan chair, and there was no third person except me and Lingling.
"Who are you? Don't come here! Lingling looked at me with a horrified expression.
Suddenly, the boat jolted again, and I fell to the ground unsteadily, impartial, and pressed against Lingling.
The spirit wanted to push me away, and the boat leaned to the side, and I shouted, "We're in the river, don't move, hold on to the rope!" ”
I grabbed the rope with my left hand, and hugged Lingling tightly with my right hand, and Lingling was also frightened, hugging me tightly.
The waves were crashing against the boat, and the wind and rain were getting stronger and stronger, and I had to go out and control the boat, or we would die here.
"Hold on to the rope, I'll go outside!" I yelled.
Lingling nodded heavily, grabbed the rope, wrapped it around his waist, and I went out to control the boat.
The river was like an angry lion, swooping down on the boat, and waves of water hit the body, as if a heavy object was smashing on the body for a while.
I have adjusted the sails and the boat will go with the wind, but the wind and waves are too strong, and I am afraid of another accident.
The sedan chair began to deform under the impact of the river, and suddenly, with a whoosh, the rope that tied the sedan chair slipped, and the sedan chair fell from the boat......
"Lingling!!" I yelled!
Lingling and the sedan chair were submerged by the river, and disappeared from my sight in a blink of an eye, and I felt a pain in my heart.
I gritted my teeth, no matter what, I must save the spirit!
I was about to dive when a whitish hand grabbed my waist from behind.
I shuddered and immediately turned around, it's Lingling!
"I'm afraid...... "I'm ...... Am I drowning? ”
I was full of doubts, "Didn't you just fall into the water?" How...... Suddenly appeared on a ship? ”
I've seen Lingling fall into the water twice, if the first time it was dazzling, the second time would I be wrong?
Lingling said: "I'm fine, the sedan chair was deformed just now, I had already come out and lay on the boat, I took off my coat, the coat stuck to my body and it was inconvenient to move, and I fell into the water with the sedan chair just now...... It should be my coat. ”
Lingling really didn't wear a coat, could it be that the light was dim, I was really wrong?
The thunder in the sky gradually disappeared, the sea gradually calmed down, and the ship finally used the wind and rain area, and Lingling and I sat on the boat and breathed a long sigh of relief.
I introduced myself and told Lingling about the arrangement of the goddess and our marriage.
"Who said they were going to marry you?" Lingling bit her lip, with tears in her eyes, and looked angry, "I don't know who you are, I'm still young, I'm not an adult, I'm not a little river demon, it's you who bullied me, all the villagers bullied me!" ”
The reason why Lingling is a little river demon is that after she came to the village, more than a dozen people die every year, especially the strange thing that happened yesterday morning, Lingling and her adoptive mother Chunman and a villager fell into the water, and when Lingling was found, she was washed upstream by the river, and Fang Shenpo arranged this marriage.
I explained to Lingling, her face was full of tears, and I wanted to wipe her tears, but she pushed her away, and she wouldn't let me touch her.
"This morning, my mother and I went fishing, and by the way, I called Uncle Li for help, I was sitting by the boat playing with my mobile phone, my mother and Uncle Li hadn't come over to pack up the tools, and suddenly ...... Someone pushed me in the back, I fell into the river, and my mother and Uncle Li found out and came down to save me. ”
"I'm also very good at water, but something seems to be pulling my legs under the river, like a pair of hands, and I can't swim at all, and then, choking, my eyes are dark...... I don't know anything. ”
A pair of hands under the river? How can it be? But seeing Ling Ling's serious and scared expression, she didn't lie.
I asked, "So who pushed you into the water?" ”
Lingling's face was even more terrifying, "No one ......"
"No one?" I asked, puzzled, "Didn't you just say that someone pushed you?" ”
Lingling said, "Someone pushed me, and with great strength, they pushed me off the boat at once, but ...... I was the only one on the boat, and there was no one else. ”
I gasped, and although I didn't believe in these gods, Lingling said this, and my heart was furious.
I asked again, "Over the years, many people have died in your village every year, especially in the summer, and many people have died. ”
"Don't ask me, don't ask me!" Lingling looked aggrieved, "I don't know what's going on, I don't know, they are all fishing and encountering rising water, maybe they were drowned while swimming, and it has nothing to do with me." ”
As he spoke, Lingling's tears burst out of his eyes and he choked loudly.
I didn't ask any further, I understood that Lingling had endured accusations, abuse, and cold-eyed ridicule from the villagers over the years, and what she didn't want was for someone to bring up this topic.
The boat has drifted to the shallow water, and there will be no more wind and waves.
Lingling left me and sat in the stern of the boat, and she said she wanted to be alone and not let me disturb her.
I sat on the sidelines, thinking about what had happened today, when suddenly, something was behind me, cold, and pressed against my back.
I chuckled in my heart, turned abruptly, and in the moonlight, a woman dressed in white emerged from the water, stretched out her hands and grabbed my arm!
It's Lingling!
I screamed, and Lingling's strength was so great that it pulled me off the boat at once.
After falling into the water, I choked on a few mouthfuls of water, and it was dark underwater, and I tried my best to swim up, but I felt like something was entangled under my feet, no...... Something must have grabbed my feet and pulled them down!
I struggled desperately to break free of what was underneath, and as soon as my head surfaced, the underwater thing grabbed my right foot again!
"Quick, grab the rope!!"
There was a hurried voice from above, and I saw a ball of rope in front of me, and I hurriedly grabbed the rope with both hands.
Lingling pulled upwards as hard as I kicked my feet underwater, finally shaking off what was underneath me, my head out of the water, gasping for air.
I swam to the side of the boat, and Lingling pulled me onto the boat.
I was slumped in the boat, frightened, spit out a few mouthfuls of water, and glared at Lingling, "You...... Why did you pull me into the water! ”
Lingling looked at me with a puzzled expression, "What nonsense are you talking about?" I saved your life, when did I pull you into the water? ”
Lingling in front of him, wearing black short sleeves, his hair is still the same as when he got married, and the makeup on his face is spent.
The woman who had just dragged me into the water was dressed in white and had a cloak of hair that came out of the water.
There were no other clothes on the boat, Lingling had been sitting in the stern of the boat just now, never leaving, who was the woman who pulled me into the water? Why is it exactly the same as a primate?
My heart is trembling, is it a river demon?
I told the spirit what had just happened.
Lingling said that she didn't see any woman in white just now, only heard me scream, and fell into the water, and then saw me struggling in the water, so she dropped the rope and pulled me up.
I gulped for a breath and thought about tonight, the more I thought about it, the more scared I became.
First, I saw Lingling falling into the water, I rushed to the sedan chair, and Lingling was in the sedan chair; Then the sedan chair and Lingling fell into the water together, but Lingling was on the boat, and only the sedan chair fell into the water; Just now, a woman who looks exactly like the lingnan pulled me into the water, something in the water was tugging at my legs, and the spirit saved me.
How to explain all this?
Ling Ling's face was also full of panic, and he said hurriedly: "Let's go, this is the shallow water, let's row back." ”
I don't want to stay here for any more second!
But I remembered the explanation of Mrs. Fang, I had to stay on the river for one night, and besides, the villagers knelt down and begged me, and my father and I agreed, if I go back now, how can I explain to the villagers?
I told these things to the spirit.
Lingling gave me a blank look, "Is it our lives that matter, or are these things important?" You mud bodhisattva crossing the river is difficult to protect yourself, you can't even save yourself, and you still want to save others? ”