If it weren't for what happened later, I guess my grandfather would never have explained to me the mystery of the night I caught the water ghost. Just like the previous ghost catcher, this time the water ghost also left a legacy of trouble. As the saying goes: "Once born and twice ripe", it is inevitable that grandpa caught some flaws in the first two ghost hunts, but the aftermath left by the second time he caught water ghosts cannot be blamed on grandpa's negligence, and the person who buried the mountain father can only be blamed for not choosing a good place for the grave. As a result, the water ghosts did not make any more trouble, but something more fierce than the water ghosts appeared. In order to tell my experience of ghost hunting with my grandfather one by one, I had to arrange the storyline in chronological order. What happened to the grave of the mountain father in the end, and what new troubles it brought to the village, I will tell you in detail later.

Now let's talk about my grandfather explaining to me the mystery of catching water ghosts. A year later, when the people of the village went to look for my grandfather again, he said to me in confusion: "I really didn't catch the water ghost that night, but the water buffalo of the mountain father has drowned and replaced him!" What's wrong again? ”

I was surprised and asked, "You said you didn't catch the water ghost?" Didn't you say that the water in the burlap bag was made of water ghosts? ”

Grandpa explained, "I already knew that I was no match for the water ghost that Daddy had turned into, and I was trembling when I untied the burlap bag. When I poured it out and saw that it was water, I was also puzzled. If you think about it, either it will come out and fight me, and it will have a better chance of winning, or it will hide and not come out. What does it mean to get a bag of water? ”

It dawned on me: "It turns out that the water was made by the mountain daddy, not what you want to catch!" ”

Grandpa nodded: "Later, I figured it out, the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water!" I didn't have much contact with your father in the same year, but I know that he has a good heart and is honest. I was quite speculative when I talked to him. He didn't come out himself, and brought me a bag of water, which meant that we were gentlemen's friends, we could trust each other, and what he said about not hurting the people in the village counted. In order to comfort the nervousness of the villagers, I had to pretend that the water ghosts had turned into water. This is a secret agreement between me and your dad of the same year. Then the old buffalo drowned, and I was really relieved. A buffalo will not become a water ghost if it falls into the water and drowns, because it is water by nature, so it will not be a water ghost. ”

I asked, "Did the old buffalo do it voluntarily?" ”

Grandpa sighed, "Yes. The old buffalo was out of strength, and the mountain daddy wanted to kill it, but he was reluctant. This time, it may be that the old buffalo voluntarily repaid the favor. There are only two of the most faithful animals, one is a cow and the other is a dog. ”

Cows are faithful animals. Speaking of which, there is an experience that has to be mentioned. Once, my grandfather's cow was left at my house, and I was asked to help my grandfather watch it for a while after the holiday. I watched the cow for more than ten days without any problems, but one morning when I went to the place where the cow was hinged and wanted to get the cow out, the cow was no longer there. A small part of the reins was left tied to the stone, and the severed head was shaggy, and the ox rubbed the reins back and forth with its horns and broke the rope for a night. Cows like this when they have a bad temper.

I immediately hurried to tell my parents. My parents didn't eat breakfast, so they looked for cattle everywhere in the village. I said that I was a lazy guy, and I didn't care about watching the cows, I just hoped that the cows would be full quickly, pull them into the pond, ride them on their backs, and swim and play. Therefore, the cattle often get lost sometimes, and then our family looks for them everywhere. The path that cows like to take is very familiar to us. My parents went looking for the cow as usual, but the cow was not found where we expected.

It wasn't until it got dark that we looked for any place where we used to see the cattle, and we came back dejected. Dad said it might have been stolen from someone else. During that time, cattle theft often happened in the village, and the owner found that the cow was missing, and after looking for a few days, he found a discarded cow bone in a certain mountain. Those out-of-town cattle thieves are clever and have never been caught.

Dad went to Grandpa's house to report bad news, but Grandpa who was lying on the bed laughed. It turned out that the cow found his way to his grandfather's house by himself. That day, the grandfather happened to be sick and unwell, and the cow was going home to visit the sick grandfather. That morning it walked through the door to his grandfather's bed, knocking it on the edge of the bed with its hard horns.