For two whole days, the river was as abundant as ever, and showed no sign of drying up, and I sat by the river, never taking my eyes off the river, except when my father came to bring me food.

The village did not calm down with the death of the ghost woman, I watched the corpses come ashore from the bottom of the water, and showed them the way home, the villagers were all doused with dirty water, and could not tell whether they were people or ghosts, and people and corpses lived under the same roof, which was both harmonious and strange.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the third day that I couldn't hold on and fell asleep on the ground, and when I was half asleep, I suddenly lost the sound of the water that had been lingering for the past few days, and I woke up suddenly, stared at the dry riverbed with wide eyes, got up and ran home.

But Ji Zongbu was not at home, and his father said that he went to find Yingzi.

I was very happy when I heard it, so I waited patiently at home with my father, and when it was dark, Ji Zongbu came back.

"Let her run."

This was the first thing he said when he entered the door, and I panicked, but I heard him continue: "If you can run, the monk can't run the temple, so wait for two hours." ”

I have only heard the word "hour" on ancient costume TV, and it is strange to hear it suddenly in modern society, Ji Zongbu returned to the house after speaking, and his father quickly locked the door, and then looked at me and said, "Do you know what your master does?" ”

I said yes, he's a treasurer.

"Do you know how risky they are? Do you want to go to college in the future? ”

I said I don't care about this, as long as he can avenge his grandfather, I am willing to go up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire!

Dad's eyes were as wide as donkey eggs, and he couldn't speak for a long time, and sighed as if resigned to his fate: "It's all fate." ”

I ignored my father's emotion, and my eyes kept falling on the mud tire in his arms, which was too realistic, not at all like an artificial carving, but like a natural formation, and I don't know why, looking at it, I felt that its closed eyes were slowly opening.

Dad noticed the strangeness of my eyes, hugged the mud tire tightly in his arms and went back to the house, at this time there began to be scattered footsteps outside the yard, I don't know if it was a person or a corpse, the footsteps were in a hurry, they were all going in the direction of the river, I sat in the yard scratching my ears and cheeks and waited for four hours, there was no movement outside, and Ji Zongbu walked out.

"Let's go."

Ji Zongbu said and walked straight out of the door, and his father also came out at this time, saying that he didn't need to bring the mud tire, Ji Zongbu said coldly: "I advise you to blindfold that thing, when he opens his eyes, Da Luo Immortal can't save you." ”

Dad heard the oops and hurriedly ran into the house, and I saw that Ji Zongbu had already gone out, so I hurriedly followed.

The deathly silence in the village, without the slightest light and life, reminds me of the scene when I went to Liujia Village at night when I was a child.

And when I came to the river, I found that there was no one at the bottom of the river, and all the people in the village had disappeared.

Ji Zongbu still had that expression, stood on the shore and stared for a moment before walking towards the riverbed, I followed behind him, looking at the waterholes that appeared in the riverbed, and I was a little worried, the water boy came out of the bottom of the river, will there be monsters in these waterholes that are more powerful than it.

The riverbed of the Yellow River is not flat, and many small lakes or ponds will form after the flow is broken, the old man said that this is not actually broken, the water still penetrates downstream under the sand layer, but the small lakes above are still.

And there is an old saying in Kaifeng City, called "Kaifeng City, City Stacked City." ”

Throughout the ages, there have been countless dynasties that have established their capitals in the feudal dynasties, but they are far less than the number of times the city has been flooded.

I remember that in the early years, in the process of dredging, the ruins of the Forbidden City of the Zhou Dynasty were accidentally dug out, and then the Forbidden City of the Zhou King was dug down, and the ruins of the Daqing Hall of the Northern Song Dynasty Palace were dug up at a depth of 8 meters, followed by the Jinbian Jingcheng, the Song Bianliang City, and the Tang Bianzhou City, and three national capitals, two provincial capitals and a major town in the Central Plains were dug out at once.

In previous years, when the villagers were organized to clear the dredging every year, there were many precious objects in it, and now the riverbed is not much different from previous years, but the people in the village are gone.

I'm not worried about their safety, but I'm a little anxious about where Yingzi has gone, and I won't hide in these puddles, right?

Ji Zongbu stopped and asked me, "Do you remember where your grandfather parked the boat that night?" ”

I tried my best to remember the night in my head, and then I took him to a small pond and said, "It must be around here." ”

Ji Zongbu shook his head, squinted his eyes and looked around, and there was an extra yellow order flag in his hand like a trick and then waved it suddenly, and the order flag turned into a black line and pierced straight into a pond not far away, and then "brush, brush, brush" one after another the order flag flew out of his hand, and all of them disappeared into the pond beside him.

Ling Qi sank when he touched the water, Ji Zongbu squinted, his ears fanned quickly at a very fast frequency, and in less than two breaths, he suddenly stretched out his hand and pushed behind me, and a black shadow "rubbed" out of the pond in front of him, and then fled into the darkness as if flying.

I was pushed to sit in the mud, looking at the dark shadow and shouting, "Don't let her run!" ”

But Ji Zongbu stood still, sneered and said, "It turns out to be a treasure that can drive these water boys. ”

I didn't understand what he meant, and said with some confusion: "That wasn't Yingzi just now?" ”

Ji Zongbu ignored me, but looked at the waterhole in front of him, nodded and said, "That's it." ”

Then he looked at me and said, "After I go down in a while, something will come out of it, and it is up to you whether you can avenge your grandfather or not." ”

After speaking, he didn't even take off his clothes, and plunged his head into the pool, and his body disappeared into the water, leaving only a long string of bubbles.

I was the only one left in the empty riverbed, and I remembered the scene of my grandfather going into the water that night, which was somewhat similar to now.

I stared nervously at the waterhole, my heart pounding, and from time to time I observed the environment to my left and right, and the slightest stain of water seeped out of the mud under my feet.

The Yellow River has just broken off, and the silt at the bottom of the river has not dried up, and it is a mud pit when you go down, and at this time, the mud pit under your feet is actually oozing blood!

The blood covered the riverbed as far as the eye could see, and wisps spread between the various waterholes, like the Yellow River was bleeding.

Frightened by the sight before me, I stood up and looked around, my vision was stained with bright red, and the full moon hanging in the sky began to be enveloped by a dark cloud, and the sky and the earth were darkened.

At this moment, I heard a "bang" in the waterhole, and a figure rushed out at a very fast speed, I thought it was Ji Zongbu, but I could see the appearance of that person, it turned out to be Yingzi!

Yingzi's whole body was soaked with water at this time, her hair was scattered, her eyes were full of panic, the clothes on her body were cut into strands of rags, and one arm was broken along her shoulder, and her body was dyed red with bright red.

Yingzi was also stunned when she saw me, I went up with red eyes and was about to catch her, but a thunderbolt suddenly shook overhead, and the whole riverbed trembled slightly, and the soles of my feet were unstable and fell into the mud, and my whole body was red with blood, but when I looked up again, Yingzi was gone.

Another two minutes passed, and as the water fluctuated again, Ji Zongbu came out.

Ji Zongbu's face turned a lot paler after he came out, and he looked at me with a frown, I was about to say something about Yingzi running away, but he made a silent gesture, and there was a loud "boom" like a mountain collapse in his ears.

Ji Zongbu's face changed slightly, he grabbed me and resisted on his shoulder, and then ran towards the shore quickly, and when he got to the shore, his father was standing on the shore waiting for us, and when he saw the two of us coming out, his face was happy, Ji Zongbu hurriedly said, "Leave the village quickly!" ”

The three of them ran towards the entrance of the village in a desperate manner, the loud "boom" behind them became clearer and clearer, and the ground under their feet trembled, accompanied by a landslide and tsunami-like roar, and I heard the sound of a flood crashing.

The three of us stood on the hillside not far from the entrance of the village, watching the flood engulf the entire village, and I suddenly understood what was going on in Liujiawan back then.

"Grandpa!"

I knelt down towards the flooded village, and in the end I couldn't avenge him, Ji Zongbu stood beside me and sighed, "I didn't expect the things at the bottom of the river to have reached this level, it seems that it will be another three years of waiting." ”

I recalled the previous scene and asked Ji Zongbu: "Why are you still in the water after Yingzi came out just now, aren't you trying to avenge my grandfather?" ”

Ji Zongbu said: "Yingzi is just a pawn, the real lord is the thing at the bottom of the river." ”

The thunder on the dry land and the bleeding of the Yellow River were all done by the thing in Ji Zongbu's mouth?

"An acquaintance is here."

Ji Zongbu said that, and saw a person slowly walking up from the other end of the hillside, it was the corpse fisher with a sand fish tattooed on his neck.

When the corpse collector came to us, he looked at the scene below and took the mud tire from my father's hand, and I realized that the mud tire had a red cloth belt wrapped around its eyes.

"If someone asks, just say Nanshui Ji Eighth Master, I will come back with this child in four years."