This is too strange, even if this dragon lord statue is a clay sculpture, it is also fired, where is it so easy to break?

When we carried it back from that temple, we bumped into it, but it didn't happen at all.

I stepped forward and looked closely at the fragments of the idol.

The fragments were all very small, and they were clearly broken from the inside, and the two old men really weren't lying.

But Nameless was still furious, scolding the old gray and the big head, saying that they were wastes who had not achieved enough and had more than enough to lose.

But no one knows why the idol shattered on its own.

And what is the huge shadow we saw in the upper reaches of the Luoshui River just now?

I went to ask Wu Zixuan's mother, did she know the origin of the monster that was suppressed under the dam?

Wu Zixuan's mother shook her head, saying that she had only heard from the old man in the family, and it seemed to be a black dragon-patterned coffin.

"Dragon-patterned coffin? What's in the coffin? I asked.

"I don't know, you have to go to the elderly who experienced this incident personally back then to ask, and you can't ask ordinary people......"

At this time, Wu Zixuan's mother suddenly lowered her voice.

"You're going to ask the old water ghost."

I was stunned, thinking to myself, where are we going to find the water ghosts?

Do you have to be old water ghosts, water ghosts are still old and young?

Nameless furrowed his brows and asked Wu Zixuan's mother: "Is there a water ghost in Jinsha Town?" ”

"In the villages and towns by the water, why don't there be water ghosts? What else will happen to those who drown? Wu Zixuan's mother said.

I only then understood that the water ghosts mentioned by Wu Zixuan's mother were the names of the corpse diggers in their local dialect.

Corpse harvester is an ancient profession, similar to the Tibetan celestial burial master and Xiangyin corpse bearer, all dealing with the dead.

It's just that the celestial burial master and the corpse bearer are the dead people guarding the ground, and the corpse collectors deal with the underwater "dead and falling".

In the Luoshui River, there are often drowning people, and the drowning people are generally extremely scary.

This is because the density of the human body is about the same as that of water, and after the corpse sinks to the bottom of the water, as the corpse decays, the body gradually becomes bloated, and these corpse qi will turn the person into a big-headed ghost with a hideous face and turned lips turned out.

At this time, as the corpse gas increases, the corpse will gradually float to the surface, first the upper limbs float up, and then the lower limbs, because the pelvis of women and men are different, so the floating corpse also has a characteristic, called "men and women look up", which is to say that these dead people who float on the water, it is the man who leans over, and the woman who leans back.

According to these principles, under normal circumstances, a person who dies in the water will float up on his own within three or five days.

At this time, the family of the deceased does not need to ask for a corpse salvage, but only begs the boatman to retrieve the body.

To salvage the bodies of the dead, the boatman will never accept money, and it will be unlucky for three years to collect this kind of bad money.

However, the deceased's family had to invite the boatman to have a vegetarian meal at home, and before leaving, they had to tie a strip of red cloth three inches wide and one foot long to the middle finger of the boatman.

These are all for the purpose of warding off evil spirits, and they are also ancient rules that are customary on the water.

But if the body of the drowned person does not rise to the surface and cannot be found anywhere, in this special case, it is necessary to find the corpse finder.

Wu Zixuan, who was on the side, said that he had a high school classmate who drowned in the water while swimming in the summer, and he couldn't find the body everywhere, so he was helped by the corpse collector.

And the corpse digger also has the rules and means of the corpse digger.

They usually float on the water, use a long bamboo pole to pick up the weeds and branches floating on the river, and then put the weeds and branches in a bowl of clean water, and judge whether there are corpses under the water by observing the pictures that appear in the bowl.

After the body was found and recovered, they would cover the body with a white cloth, then take a hemp rope mixed with black dog hair, tie it to the waist of the body, hang the body on the cliff in the shade, and wait for the family to identify and recognize the body before carrying the body ashore.

Moreover, the corpse diggers do not fish for all corpses.

If a corpse is standing upright in the water, with only a trace of hair floating on the water, they will turn around and leave, never trying to salvage it.

In this regard, their explanation is: they only collect corpses on behalf of people, not on behalf of ghosts, and this kind of "dead" standing upright in the water is not an ordinary corpse, but a special kind of water zombie, called a water corpse.

Wu Zixuan also told me about this before.

It is quite infiltrating, after many people die in the water, the corpse will not float up, and when the corpse is fished out, it is still as if it had just died, and the corpse is still the same as before.

Not only that, but these underwater corpses will always stand upright in the water, maintaining a walking posture, and no one knows where they are going.

Many times, in the dry riverbed, you can see the extremely clear footprints on the underwater mud and sand, step by step to the deepest depth, and after reaching the end, you will turn in one direction and continue walking, just like those corpses walking underwater!

It is said that these people who died in the water were so angry that they refused to leave, and they had to wait until they killed others before they fell.

This statement is terrible, and it was once the shadow of Wu Zixuan's childhood.

Once, Wu Zixuan followed his uncle out of the river to fish, and the boat went to the center of the river, Wu Zixuan was sprinkling fishing nets into the river, and when he looked down, he saw a woman wearing a green dress, walking at the bottom of the river.

The woman noticed Wu Zixuan's gaze, raised her head, pulled up her pale and swollen face, and smiled gloomily at Wu Zixuan.

Wu Zixuan immediately screamed, and the uncle came over to take a look, but he was also frightened, and hurriedly drove the boat away from this water.

As a result, that night, Wu Zixuan fell ill, with a high fever that did not go away, talking nonsense in his mouth, saying that if he jumped into the river, he would not be hot or sweat.

The family knew that Wu Zixuan must have fallen into an evil spirit, so they hurriedly went to invite the "water ghost" to come and see.

In fact, strictly speaking, "water ghosts" and corpse diggers are not exactly the same, they are not ordinary corpse diggers, they are all inherited by the ancestors, and they all have unique skills, just like the distinction between inner and outer doors in the traditional industry.

And their unique ability is to ask for trouble.

It is said that the water ghost is an ancestral secret method, the behavior is strange and weird, outsiders have no way to know, and the water ghost has used a secret potion since he was a child to wash his eyes, and after decades of water watching practice on the side of the river, his eyes can penetrate the turbid river water, and he can see the walking corpse under the water at a glance.

This kind of water ghost, generally living alone, no children and no daughters, a black dog has been raised at home since childhood, and there is a large penny in the courtyard, and an octagonal mirror is tied to the penny, which are all objects to ward off evil spirits.

When the water ghost came home, the first thing he did was to call the black dog, then look in the mirror, and if it was all right, go back to the house to cook and sleep.

If the black dog barks incessantly and there is blood in the mirror, he will turn around and go to the river to walk around again, remove the obscurity from his body and come back.

In Jinsha Town, there are many more things about water ghosts.

Some people say that the black dog raised by the water ghost is the dragon dog in the Yellow River.

It is also said that water ghosts have fed on water corpses since childhood, and they can only get close to the walking corpses in the water.

However, these claims are closer to legend and nonsense, and they are not to be believed.

At that time, Wu Zixuan's mother saw Wu Zixuan's heretical nonsense, and the doctor in the town hospital was helpless, so she immediately carried snacks and canned food to find the most legendary corpse collector in Jinsha Town, named Wang Wu, who was nicknamed "Water Ghost King" when he was young.

The Water Ghost King and Wu Zixuan's family were a little related, and after hearing the reason for the incident, they went to Wu Zixuan's house with the black dog.

After seeing Wu Zixuan's situation, the water ghost king plucked a dog hair from the black dog, put it in the water bowl, and fed Wu Zixuan to drink.

After a bowl of water, Wu Zixuan immediately came to his senses, and his fever subsided.

Wu Zixuan's family members are all grateful to the Water Ghost King, the Water Ghost King only said that it was a trivial matter, Wu Zixuan was just "dead" and collided with his soul and committed hysteria, as long as he didn't come into contact with the woman in green clothes at that time, there was no big trouble.

Wu Zixuan said to me, the water ghost king is still alive now, and he lives in the town, and he is also old when he counts his age.

If you ask about the demons suppressed under the dam, as well as the rebellion in Dragon Palace City back then, it is best to find him, it just so happens that he still has some friendship with Wu Zixuan's family.

So, Nameless and I, as well as Xiao Xiyue, went out with Wu Zixuan.

We came to the southernmost part of the town, next to a tiled house on the bank of the river, which was very dilapidated, and it seemed that the life of the water ghost king was quite unruly.

Wu Zixuan sighed helplessly, saying that the Water Ghost King has always been a rebellious person who doesn't care about money, and although he was famous when he was young, he didn't save any money.

Moreover, since the liberation, the whole country has been breaking superstition and sweeping away the four olds.

At that time, the penny in his yard was broken, and the octagonal mirror was smashed and thrown into the river, leaving him a black and thin old man guarding a skinny black dog.

He may have been heartbroken, and since then he has not helped people to retrieve corpses, but only occasionally has a kind heart, helping the townspeople who have been hit by the water evil to exorcise evil spirits, and after finishing his work, he is extremely stubborn and does not accept money and things.

Fortunately, the government saw that he had no children and no daughters, so they designated him as a five-guarantee household, and gave him some food during the New Year's holidays, otherwise he would have starved to death.

I thought to myself that this person's character is really high and stubborn among the older generation of Taoists, I don't know what his ability is?

At this moment, Nameless tugged at the corner of my coat and told me to look at a boat in front of the door of the tile house, leaning alone on the river.

"I thought before, this old man's name is the Water Ghost King, which is a little arrogant, but when I saw this ship, I knew that he was really a person, not to mention calling him the Water Ghost King, it would not be an exaggeration to call him the Water Dragon King." Nameless said. ()

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