While we were talking, an old woman came in. She is the five-guarantor next door.

She pushed open the door, trembling her hands, and said, "I heard your conversation, I know the green-haired water demon, and I know what the whole thing happened. ”

"You know?" Grandpa asked.

She said very seriously: "I said a long time ago that the woman was going to become a green 'hairy' water demon, but her family didn't believe it, and blamed me for talking in a confused way." ”

"Her family?" Grandpa asked, "Does she still have a family?" ”

The old woman nodded, and continued, "It seems like many years have passed since that incident, and my wife has not died at that time. The old woman fell into her memories. She spoke slowly and slurredly, but her memory was clear.

The old woman's approximate meaning is this. Many years ago, I don't remember exactly how many years. Across the old river from Thrush Village is Fangjiazhuang. There is a famous and beautiful woman in Fangjiazhuang who went out to work at the age of seventeen or eighteen. The woman's name was Bingbing.

Bingbing is not from Fangjiazhuang, she was picked up by a pair of old people in Fangjiazhuang on the side of the road. At that time, the patriarchal mentality was very serious, and it was common to pick up baby girls. The old man didn't want Bingbing either, but the old man had no children under his knees and was lonely, so he wanted this baby girl as a companion.

Bingbing grew to the age of seventeen or eighteen, and came and fell like a hibiscus. However, it seems that beauty is always associated with illness, and Bingbing has a strange disease...... You can't go down to the farmland. Her feet would be frighteningly swollen as long as she stood in the paddy field for half an hour.

However, the two old men really couldn't move, and they had to bring the food to their mouths. If there was no one to do the work in the field, the family of three would starve to death. So, Bingbing went out to work and regularly sent her salary back to the elderly to live.

The days went by like this, day after day.

When Bingbing was twenty years old, the two old men thought to themselves that when the daughter they picked up reached the age of talking about marriage, it was time to find a son-in-law. In this way, the son-in-law can help with the farm work, and Bingbing does not have to work hard outside.

At that time, there was no telephone, so the two old men asked a nearby elementary school teacher to write a letter to Bingbing in the distance, asking Bingbing to come back on a blind date. But Bingbing didn't come back, and he didn't reply to the letter, so the money was still sent back regularly.

The two old men were a little unhappy, suspecting that their daughter had studied badly outside and didn't want to go home. Although there is money to send back regularly, it is better to have a son-in-law to plant farmland. The two of them came up with a trick and asked the elementary school teacher to write a letter saying that the two of them were sick and asked Bingbing to come back and see each other for the last time.

This trick really worked, half a month later, Bingbing came back, crying all the way, and knelt on the ground and couldn't get up when he walked to the door.

The two old men opened the door in good health to welcome their daughter, who had not seen each other for a long time. Bingbing looked at the two happy old men and was dumbfounded.

The two old men were also dumbfounded when they saw Bingbing. Behind Bingbing stood a strange man.

The two old men hurriedly pulled Bingbing into the house, asked what was going on, and shut the strange man out.

Bingbing said that the man outside was met by her part-time job, he was from other provinces, he was very honest, and he often took care of her when she was working.

Have you talked to someone yourself? The two old men asked nervously, and their faces became unsightly.

Bingbing nodded.

Or is it out of town?

Bingbing nodded again.

No way! The old man insisted in one breath.

Why? Bingbing asked anxiously, but when she saw the expressions of the two elders, she knew that no matter how much she struggled, she would not impress them.

The field is unreliable. In case he runs away, who will provide for us? The old man squirmed his wrinkled lips and said stiffly. Also, what do you do?

The old lady patted the old man's body and said, "Are you confused?" Isn't he here to be a son-in-law, he's going to take Bingbing away. Where is the field? You can't see each other for a year and a half, right? I don't want to agree, how good is it to find a local, and the other place is more fragrant than the local one? Better than the local ones? I don't think so!

Bingbing begged for a long time, but the two old men were indifferent.

The man waited outside until it was dark, and he didn't see Bingbing come out, and he was so anxious. He didn't dare to break in, for fear of giving a bad impression to the two old men, and things would make things worse later. He had to be out there in a hurry.

The two old men did not allow their daughters to go out, locked Bingbing in the back room, and threatened, if you go out, our second elder will drink rat medicine on the spot and die in front of you. Bingbing persuaded and made trouble, but the two old men didn't eat hard and soft, an iron lock locked Bingbing in the back room, and dropped a sentence, think about it, don't be deceived by outsiders at that time, and blame our two old men for not persuading you.

After the old man locked Bingbing, he went out and raised his broom to drive away the strange man. The man didn't dare to fight back, so he kept hiding and ran to the side of the old river.

After the man saw the old man go back, he sat down next to the old river, drank some water from the old river, and ate some things he brought with him. He took off a piece of clothing and put it on the turf, then lay down and waited until the next morning.

However, the next day, he did not wait for the good news of the old man's accommodation, but waited for the bad news...... Bingbing drank rat "medicine" and "committed suicide"!

The two old men opened the lock on the back room the next morning and saw Bingbing foaming at the mouth. She swallowed the rat poison that two old men had hidden in their closets. The old man bought the rat "medicine" originally to poison the rat in the house beam, and he didn't really want to threaten Bingbing with it, but Bingbing actually ate it first!

It came so suddenly, no one was prepared. The two old men wailed and cried, and the white-haired man sent the black-haired man. They buried Bingbing next to the reservoir. At that time, the water level in the reservoir was not as high as it is now. Later, the flood flooded and the water level of the reservoir rose a lot, submerging the ice graves.

When the strange man saw that Bingbing had killed himself, he yelled like crazy and beat his chest. Shortly after Bingbing was buried, he hanged himself on the top of a hill next to the reservoir. When the woodcutter found his body, he also found a suicide note. He said he hoped to be buried on this hilltop after his death, looking at his beloved by the reservoir every day. The nearby residents simply buried them on the spot as he requested.

Not long after, the two old men also died. So when the water level of the reservoir rises, no one pays attention to the graves of Bingbing. Besides, when the flood is flooding, who has the heart to pay attention to this woman who has picked it up?

When Bingbing was buried, this old woman of the Wubao household deliberately went to Fangjiazhuang and said that she was afraid that Bingbing would turn into a green "hairy" water demon after the reservoir rose. But no one believed her.

"All right now," said the old woman, "Bingbing has really become a green 'hairy' water demon." ”