Chapter 4: Bizarre Suicide
The girl asked me to think about the simplest reason, why a new fishing boat would suddenly break? How could this be the case if it weren't for the fact that the fishing boat itself had a dark disease. In addition, the girl asked me to take off the sacrificial boy's vest, which I tore to reveal a large pile of withered yellow powder. The girl told me that this was sulfur powder, which in the water emitted a smell that could not be smelled by the human nose, and that the thing that pulled me into the water had no vision, so it was the smell of the sulfur vest I was wearing that I was able to catch me accurately.
"It's so obvious that someone deliberately used the pretext of sacrifice to cause you to be eaten by something underwater after you fall into the water."
The girl told me that according to the methods of such a person who harmed me, this person should not be easy. I was a little scared and asked the girl, what should I do?
Just as I was talking to the girl, a middle-aged bald man came over, wrapped himself tightly in a tight leather coat, and nodded respectfully in front of the girl: "Miss, are you okay?" ”
The girl shook her head slightly, and the bald man glanced at me vigilantly, pointed to the distance not far ahead, and told the girl that she had already inquired about the news, and that there was Fukuzawa Village in front of her.
The girl hummed, and after only saying something to take care of me, she followed the bald man and left.
I lay on the ground and rested for a while, thinking in a daze, what the hell was going on, who was trying to harm me?
There is also a girl who said that there is no female dragon king in Zijianghe, only one thing that has eaten so many fishing, what is that thing?
When I was lying down and resting, I heard a lot of noisy shouts, it turned out that my lame father led the people in the village, looking for me along the Zijiang River, when a group of people saw that I was safe and sound, my father was even more excited to hug me, I saw that his eyes were red and must have shed tears, my father asked me what was going on, why did the fishing boat sink? I told the story as it was, including being rescued from the water by the girl, my father was immediately furious when he heard this, and pulled the collar of the village chief Gao Chunlin, so frightened that Gao Chunlin's face trembled, if it wasn't for the others in the village to stop him, his father's fist would have beckoned to him.
My father angrily scolded Gao Chunlin, why did he do anything on the sacrificial fishing boat, did he deliberately want to kill me!
Gao Chunlin was shocked and trembled, saying that he was only responsible for paying for this sacrificial ceremony, but the specific operation was not held by him, but by Fang Daochang, including the arrangement of this sacrificial fishing boat, and the waistcoat with sulfur on it! When my father heard this, he wanted to settle accounts with this Fang Dao Chief, but at this time, the village found out that Fang Dao Chang, who was originally looking for me with him, had disappeared!
In addition to being surprised by his father, he questioned Gao Chunlin's details about the head of the road, only to know that this head of the road was a "master" that Gao Chunlin found from the streets of the city, and he was alone and had no fixed place, and there was no way to find him. My father could only swallow this evil breath helplessly, but fortunately, I was still safe, even if it was a blessing in all blessings.
However, some people in the village asked me, saying that I had something that wanted to harm me under the water of the Zijiang River, and there were still so many fish bones, is this thing true?
Some people think that such a statement is too shocking, it will be a lie made up by a child of mine, almost everyone in the village thinks that there is a female dragon king living in the Zijiang River, and there will definitely be nothing to stir up trouble, it must be that my child does not understand anything, and the fishing boat is rotten and fell into the water and is too frightened.
When I came back home, I was lying on the bed, and my father boiled me some refreshing ginger soup, and he didn't ask me what I saw in the water, but who was the girl who saved me? After all, people are desperate to save each other, we have to express our gratitude, and we can't let people talk about it behind our backs.
I told my father that I didn't know about this girl and that I had never seen her before. My father said that in a small mountain village like our Fukuzawa Village, there are few people who don't know that birds don't poop in the backwoods, and the girl I met and the bald man should be foreigners. Listening to their conversation about our Fuze Village, my father guessed that they would come to our village, and if this is really possible, I will come back to thank them for saving their lives.
I thought that today's sacrifice was over, and there would be no more wind and waves, but the next day the whole village exploded, and the head of the sacrificial ceremony yesterday, Fang Daochang, who had disappeared at that time, never thought that he would be found early this morning, he was wearing a Taoist robe, and he was hanged on a big tree at the entrance of the village!
Seeing the lively village people surrounding the scene, I followed my father's ass and squeezed into the crowd, only to see Fang Daochang, who was fine yesterday, grinning and wide-eyed with a terrifying look, hanging himself from the crooked neck tree at the entrance of the village! On the ground under the tree where he hanged, there was a line of blood written in blood: "I shouldn't have harmed Gong Fusheng, this is the end I deserve!" ”
Seeing this, my father couldn't help but sigh out, and the people in the village accused Fang Daochang of having an uneasy conscience, and almost killed my life and committed suicide, which can be regarded as having some conscience.
The village did not call the police about this, but a few brave strong men climbed the ladder and took down the body of Fang Dao Chang and covered it with a white cloth. Some of the old people in the village saw that they were quite pitiful, so they proposed to bury him in the open space outside the village, and most of the people in the village agreed, but at this time some people expressed different opinions: "He can't be buried, he can only be cremated!" ”
It wasn't from our village who said this, but a girl with long hair, and I instantly came to my senses, isn't this girl the one who saved me yesterday? She and the bald man actually came to our village. It's just that the arrival of this girl is interfering in the death of Fang Daochang, which is puzzling, and the people in the village are talking about this girl, saying that children should not talk nonsense, which one of the dead people in this countryside will be cremated?
In the face of the doubts of the villagers, the girl said humbly: "Although this Taoist chief died in the countryside, he was very angry before he died, and it is best to burn his body to avoid some troubles." ”
Although the girl was very serious, the people in the village didn't believe that she was such a yellow-haired girl, and even carried Fang Daochang's body to the outside of the village, and directly dug a pit and buried it.
Others didn't want to ask this girl, I pointed to her and told my father, saying that she was the one who saved me yesterday, my father saw this and hurriedly took me forward to say hello, the girl looked at me very plainly, the bald man standing next to her, and talked to my father more enthusiastically, I learned that this girl and the bald man are fishery merchants from the city, and they came to our Fuze Village to buy some good and high-quality dry fish, and they should have come to the village yesterday, because there was a delay on the way, and this didn't just come to the gate of our village. I came across Fang Daochang's suicide.
My father warmly invited the two girls to our house to express their gratitude for saving me yesterday, but the girl shook her head and said that this is a small matter, and there is no need for us to thank me or anything. But the bald man hurriedly called out to her, saying that she had finally come to this Fuze Village, and if she wanted to receive good quality dried fish here, she had to calm down and find it slowly, or at least find a place to settle down and rest, so that she had the energy.
When my father heard this, he immediately said that there was no problem, and he could stay in our house as long as he didn't dislike it, and under the persuasion of the bald man, the girl nodded and agreed to follow us.
From the conversation, it turned out that this girl had a rare surname Tu, called Tu Qianyi. The bald man's name is Tu Zhenggong, and he is the uncle of this girl named Tu Qianyi. Although they are uncles and nephews, this Tu Zhenggong calls Tu Qianyi "Miss", Tu Zhenggong laughed and said that he was used to calling him when he was a child, and now he can't change his mouth, it doesn't matter just a title.
We walked back on the road, and happened to meet an old lady on crutches passing by, the girl Tu Qianyi paused for a moment and asked me and my father, who was that old lady just now?
My father smiled and told her that this was the old mother of our village head, Gao Chunlin, who was in her eighties and couldn't see with her eyes, and usually walked around the village when she was idle. Tu Qianyi didn't say anything after hearing this, and followed us home.
However, when he walked to the door and didn't go in, a trace of essence flashed in Tu Qianyi's eyes, and he and Tu Zhenggong looked at each other, as if they saw something mysterious.