I was born in a small village called Banyue Village in the west of Henan.

The year I was born, Banyue Village suffered a drought that was rare in a century, the water source was exhausted, and the village was full of mourning.

But the masters came wave after wave, but as long as they entered the back mountain, one died more miserable than the other!

Banyue Village is not rich, and it is not a matter of inviting masters, and the drought is getting longer and longer, and the water source is completely cut off, just when the villagers are planning to move collectively, a Taoist priest covered in blood came to the village.

This Taoist priest was dressed in a long robe stained red with blood, his body was full of wounds, and he was still holding a baby less than a month old in his arms, as if he was being chased and killed.

When the Taoist priest heard that there was a drought in the village, he decided to kill the demons for Tianxingdao and keep the party safe.

The villagers said: "Our village has no money. ”

The Taoist priest said, "Don't take a penny!" ”

The villagers said, "We don't have any food." ”

The Taoist priest waved his hand: "The particles are not collected!" ”

The villagers were puzzled and asked, "Then why are you helping us?" ”

The Taoist priest said, "I have only one condition! ”

The Taoist priest put forward the condition that it was about the baby in his arms, and he said that it was okay to eradicate the drought, but he had to find a baby in the village to exchange it with the baby in his arms, and only then would he do it.

The people in the village are not stupid, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Taoist priest seems to be fleeing, and he proposed to change the baby in his arms to foster the baby in Banyue Village, and then change the baby from Banyue Village for him to take away, the purpose is to protect the baby in his arms.

Moreover, the Taoist priest did not hide anything, bluntly said that the baby to be replaced might die a tragic death, and advised the villagers to negotiate well.

Half Moon Village has been in drought for a long time, and there should have been no women to give birth, but it happened that more than ten days before the Taoist priest came, the Xiang couple in the village gave birth to a baby boy.

After the Taoist priest's conditions were spread, the village chief and the villagers knelt at the door of the Xiang couple, begging the Xiang couple to give their biological son to the Taoist priest in exchange for the baby in the Taoist priest's arms.

The biological son whose blood is thicker than water, the Xiang couple is naturally unwilling, and the Taoist priest did not change the baby, and he refused to make a move, so it took two days.

In the end, the village chief gritted his teeth and led people to rush into Xiang's house overnight, knocked out the Xiang couple, gave the child to the Taoist priest, and then handed over the baby in the Taoist priest's arms to the Xiang family.

No one saw the process of the Taoist priest subduing demons and eliminating demons, only that three days later, the Taoist priest returned to the village covered in blood, personally kowtowed to the Xiang couple three times, thanked them for their great kindness, and then stayed alone with the two babies at Xiang's house for one night.

That night, a villager said that the kerosene lamp in the taxi room had been on all night, but they didn't know what he had done to the baby!

The next day, the Taoist priest took the child of the Xiang couple away, on the night he left, it rained heavily in Banyue Village, and it rained for three days in a row, solving the drought that was rare in a century, and the Taoist priest left this way is more than 20 years without news, and the baby he left behind became the child of the Xiang couple, named Xiang Nan, that is, me!

I lived to be twenty-six years old, but I didn't know my own origins until the beginning of this unbelievably strange story that involved twenty-six years ago.

My family was very poor, and I only married a daughter-in-law from a neighboring village at the age of twenty-six, named Xiaowen.

Xiaowen is a woman who belongs to the kind of small family jasper, and she is very good to me, but before half a year of marriage, the hospital found out that Xiaowen's uterus could not be fertilized and could not get pregnant, and she needed to go to Beijing for surgery, which cost hundreds of thousands, which was difficult for me to climb.

In order to make up for the medical expenses as soon as possible, I quit my relatively idle job and met a foreman who was building an embankment by the river through my father.

The foreman's name is Lao Liu, a lame middle-aged man, full of smoky yellow teeth, extremely greedy for money, he asked me to build a river embankment with him as a riverworker by the river, and after the project is completed, there will be an income of 40,000 or 50,000 yuan.

This is equivalent to a year's salary for me, I excitedly agreed, and after working for almost two months, the project came to an end, and during this time, I also got acquainted with Lao Liu.

Lao Liu belongs to the kind of people who were extremely poisoned by feudal ideology in the last century, and he especially believes in the theory of ghosts and gods, and often tells us to pay more attention to the construction of river embankments, and be careful that water ghosts pull us into the water as a stand-in.

I was noncommittal about this statement, until that night, when it was raining heavily, and as soon as I finished talking on the phone with my daughter-in-law in a temporary prefabricated house by the river, Lao Liu rushed in and shouted: "To the south, follow me to the riverbank to inspect it." ”

As soon as it rained, we would all go to inspect the embankment to prevent it from collapsing, so we immediately took an umbrella and rushed towards the embankment with Lao Liu.

Outside, lightning and thunder, wind and rain were urgent, we patrolled around the river embankment, just about to return, I saw a black shadow floating down the river in the distance, I hurriedly took a flashlight, but found that it was a figure.

"Lao Liu, there are people in the water!"

I shouted eagerly, a little anxious, I have been working as a river worker for several months, and we have also fished out a lot of corpses that died in the river, but most of them are livestock corpses, and it is the first time I have seen someone fall into the water, so I am very anxious.

Lao Liu squinted his eyes and glanced at it, shouting, "To the south, get the hook!" ”

Before Lao Liu's words fell, I hurriedly rushed to the prefabricated house on the side of the embankment, which was stacked with the tools we used to build the embankment, and I rushed out with a hook after a while.

Lao Liu walked to the edge of the river embankment with a hook and sighed: "With such a heavy rain, you must have lost your footing and fallen into the water, and most of you won't survive." ”

I hurried over to take a look, only to find that the man had long since died, and that there were signs of decay on his body, and from time to time there was a stench of corpses.

"Call the police station!"

I hurriedly took out my mobile phone to make a call, but Lao Liu yelled: "Don't panic first, look at what this thing is?" ”

I was immediately stunned, and when I looked down, I found that there was a round jade pendant with a whole body of turquoise hanging from the neck of the corpse, with bright colors, even in the dark night, I could see that the jade pendant emitted a trace of turquoise light, and Lao Liu stared at the jade pendant with straight eyes, without blinking.

"What is this?"

I asked Lao Liu suspiciously, and Lao Liu said with a golden light in his eyes: "To the south, we have made a fortune, this is antique jade, at least worth hundreds of thousands!" ”

Boom!

Hearing that it was worth hundreds of thousands, I couldn't help but swallow my saliva and said, "Lao Liu, don't talk nonsense, can this broken jade pendant be worth so much money?" ”

Lao Liu tore the jade pendant off the corpse's neck, first stroked it, and then brought the jade pendant to his eyes and studied it for a long time before he said: "It's true, I stayed in Ruili for a while a few years ago, and I studied these jades a little, this must be real jade." ”

I didn't expect that Lao Liu, who has always been superstitious, would still have research on jade, but Lao Liu is not only greedy for money but also loves to gamble, maybe he really gambled on jade in Ruili before, and immediately said: "I really didn't see it, this person looks like he is in his forties, and he is not very well dressed, so he would wear such an expensive jade." ”

Lao Liu nodded and suddenly said, "Xiangnan, why did you resign to become a river worker?" ”

I stared at Lao Liu with straight eyes and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Lao Liu said: "This is a windfall sent by God, let's take the jade and sell it, and add five points to it." ”

I swallowed my saliva and said, "It's not very good, don't you often say that dead people's things can't be touched?" ”

Lao Liu is superstitious, and often instills in us some taboo things about the dead, and often says that the dead man's things cannot be tampered with, otherwise he will encounter unclean things.

After hearing this, Lao Liu immediately sneered and said: "If you have money, you can make ghosts grind, are you still afraid of the dead?" You listen to me say to the south, this corpse will be handed over to the police station, we can't tell whose hands this piece of jade will end up in, didn't you come to build the embankment just to earn money to take your daughter-in-law to treat the disease, with it, there will be money! ”

Lao Liu said that my heart is itching, I am an ordinary person, in the face of the temptation of hundreds of thousands, it is false to say that I am not moved, but why do I feel a little lacking in virtue in this matter?

And judging from the clothes of the dead body, he doesn't look like a rich man, just like the fishermen in the upper reaches of the river, how can he have jade pendants worth hundreds of thousands?

Could it be that Yu Pei is not coming in the right way?

Seeing me fighting between heaven and man, Lao Liu said seductively: "Xiangnan, do you think about how much money you have earned after living for more than 20 years?" Your daughter-in-law has to be treated, your parents have to support the elderly, you have to buy a car and a house, and there will be a greater burden on having children in the future, and as long as we have this money, your life can be at least ten years less. ”

Standing in the rain, I looked at the jade pendant in Lao Liu's hand, and thought about the wife at home, hesitated in my heart, and after a long time, I gritted my teeth and said: "Damn, Lao Liu, you are right, this world is so cruel, I support your idea, let's sell the jade and divide it equally." ”

Listening to my promise, Lao Liu breathed a sigh of relief, but I didn't know until a long time after this incident that Lao Liu waited for me to make a decision, and his right hand had been holding the hook tightly.

I often think again, if I didn't agree at that time, would Lao Liu kill me for the sake of the jade pendant and occupy it alone?

Later, after experiencing a series of events, I realized that if I didn't agree at that time, Lao Liu's hook could really be knocked down.

In the heavy rain and no one in the middle of the night, Lao Liu hid the jade pendant in his arms, and then searched the whole body of the corpse and found the identity card of the deceased, the dead body was called Huang Zhiyuan, and the address was a fishing village in the upper reaches of the river.

I said very worriedly: "Then let's call the police station and ask them to come and take the body away." ”

I thought that Lao Liu wouldn't care about the corpse after taking the jade pendant, but I didn't expect Lao Liu to retort directly after hearing it: "Can't we call the police? ”

I was surprised and asked, "Why?" ”

Lao Liu said: "The current criminal investigation methods are so high, the police will definitely find any clues when they come into contact, and if Huang Zhiyuan's family asks about the jade pendant on his body, how can we explain it?" We are the ones who found the deceased, and the police must have suspected us at the first time. ”

I broke down and asked, "So what do you think?" ”

Lao Liu gritted his teeth and said: "We didn't see anything to do, throw the body back into the river, and continue to let him float away along the river." ”

I was immediately surprised when I heard Lao Liu's answer, I didn't expect Lao Liu to say such a lack of morality, not to mention the jade pendant that took the corpse, but also to throw the corpse back into the river, I really can't do such a lack of morality.

I immediately retreated, although my daughter-in-law's illness cost a lot of money, but I can't do such a lack of virtue for the sake of money.

Lao Liu looked at me with dodgy eyes, and said, "What are you afraid of?" We don't steal, we rob, we don't cheat, this is what God gave us, do you want to do it? ”

When Lao Liu said this, I saw an evil fire in his eyes, and in an instant I suddenly realized that Lao Liu may have gone to the extreme, he is usually greedy for money, and he loves to gamble, I heard that he owes a butt of foreign debts, and now the sky is falling, he must be going to sell the jade and then pay back.

It's just that this incident happened to me and him together, if I regret it now, Lao Liu may take a risk......

I gritted my teeth and said, "Okay, just throw it!" ”

After saying that, I squatted down and prepared to lift the body and throw it back into the river with Lao Liu, but just when I just touched the corpse, I suddenly saw something wrong.

I didn't care at first, I picked up the flashlight and took a closer look at it, and just this glance, I was so frightened that I jumped up, trembled, and my face turned white, and I almost threw the flashlight in my hand out......