Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Pond
When I heard this, my face tightened, and I hurriedly asked Xu Shimin, "Is it really like you said?" ”
He snorted, he didn't care so much, he pulled Wang Jiong away, and a few of us couldn't wait to follow.
In Xu Shimin's words, his parents were fine at home on weekdays, so they would put some fish in the pond and sell them ashore in the town during the Chinese New Year.
Just this morning, his parents thought that they would have to get fish for Xu Shiqing's funeral, so they called a few relatives early in the morning and went to the pond, and his parents were almost scared to death.
Yes, a pond of water seemed to be boiling, bubbling and bubbling, and there was a faint mist rising from the water, and what was even more strange was that the fish were swimming very happily in the water.
Only then did he tell Xu Shimin to come to Wang Jiong.
On the way to the pond, Na Xu Shimin told us that his family's pond has been his family since the field was divided into households, and this kind of strange thing has never happened over the years.
Since we were thinking about the pond all the time, no one asked much about the specifics. After all, both Wang Jiong and I believe that seeing is believing.
When we came to the pond, we found that his house this pond is close to the back mountain, it is square, just like the poet Zhu Xi's poem described, half an acre of square pond is opened, the sky and clouds and shadows wander together, the pond is surrounded by trees of different sizes, and a sheep intestine path spreads euphemistically from the southeast of the pond towards the back mountain.
As soon as he saw the pond, Qin Laosan became excited, grabbed my arm stubbornly, pointed to the pond and said, "Chuanzi, look..."
I looked at the place where he pointed and found that the pond was just like Xu Shimin said, full of water as if it was boiling, boiling and bubbling, and many fish were wandering aimlessly on the edge of the pond.
When Wang Jiong saw this, he said to me, "Go down and find out the temperature of the water." ”
I hummed, didn't think much about it, found a safe place, put my hand inside, the water temperature was moderate, not how hot, but a few points higher than the usual water temperature.
I told Wang Jiong about the situation.
After hearing this, he stared at the pond for a long time without saying a word.
After about a minute, he asked Xu Shimin, "What about your parents?" ”
Xu Shimin said: "When my parents saw the pond bubbling, they said that the dragon lord was coming, and they went to the house to get yellow paper candles. ”
Hearing this, Wang Jiong and I glanced at each other, and no one spoke, but the countryside is like this, and when something strange happens, I will mistakenly think that a great god has come, and I will take some yellow paper and candles to burn in this place.
Wang Jiong thought about it, but before he could speak, suddenly, the fish in the pond seemed to be greatly frightened, and suddenly they began to churn on the surface of the water.
I was stunned, could it be that the water temperature has risen?
Where did he dare to hesitate, he immediately probed the water temperature, and the strange thing is that this time the water temperature was obviously lower than the last time, but the fish were churning more and more cheerfully.
Just when all of us couldn't figure out what was going on, the bubbles on the surface of the pond were getting bigger and bigger, and if the bubbles were about the size of soybeans when we came here before, now the bubbles must be at least as big as broad beans, and the frequency of bubbles is getting faster and faster, as if someone had raised a fire under the pond.
"Hell yes!" Wang Jiong scolded angrily, and was about to jump off the pond to see what was going on.
At this time, the fish on the surface of the pond suddenly stopped, and all the fish rolled their eyes and floated on the surface of the water.
At first, those small fish and shrimp came out, and finally the ten-pound grass carp also came out.
This made all of us look at each other, no one knew what was going on, but Wang Jiong was quite calm, he took out his mobile phone and made a call to the police station, meaning to send a few doctors over.
Hanging up the phone, Wang Jiong told Xu Shimin not to spread the word, and asked me to accompany him to the pond, as for Qin Laosan and his two subordinates, he left them on the shore.
When he went down to the edge of the pond, Wang Jiong first found a small wooden stick, sharpened it, and then aimed at one of the fish and inserted it.
I have to say that Wang Jiong's technique is very good, a stick went down, and immediately inserted a fish, he first put it in front of his nose and sniffed, and then handed it to me, saying, "You sniff too!" ”
I was not polite, but shrugged my nose and noticed that there was a fishy smell on the fishy body, but there was no other smell.
Wang Jiong probably felt that the situation was wrong, so he asked me, "What do you think?" ”
I shook my head and said I didn't know what was going on, but he didn't say anything more, so he crouched down and poked into the pond, frowning, "Why is it so cold!" ”
As soon as I heard it, no, the water is not cold, and I immediately reached out to probe the temperature of the water.
Hell, just a few minutes ago, I checked the water temperature twice, and although it was a little different, it was definitely not that cold, and now the water is completely chilly, like ice water poured out of an ice cave.
At the moment, my face sank, could it be that there is something wrong with the soil in this place?
I told Wang Jiong about this idea, and he immediately said to me, "Aren't you ghost craftsmen able to test the soil?" Hurry up and give it a try. ”
I hummed, took out the Tree of Heaven, and looked at the direction of the pond again, and Wang Jiong saw that I didn't move, so he pushed me and said, "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and survey!" ”
I ignored him, this is also a normal thing, a layman like him, must not understand the rules of our ghost craftsmen, use the tree of heaven to survey the soil, if it is to survey the soil of the house, the tree of heaven must be inserted near the gate, and the soil of the pond must be inserted at the mouth of the pond.
The so-called pond mouth, generally need to catch fish during the New Year's Festival, and the pond water has to be drained, so when making the pond, a hole will be left to come out, and then plugged with a tree stump.
And the reason why I didn't move was because I was looking for the mouth of the pond, and what puzzled me was that I found that there was actually a pond mouth on the east and west sides of the pond.
This is strange, generally the pond is one pond mouth, but this pond has two pond mouths?
When I was a child, my parents used to let go of a pond, and in my father's words, the location of the mouth of the pond controlled the prosperity of the pond, and when they made the mouth of the pond, they would even burn yellow paper, sound firecrackers, and tie a red cloth to the stump of the tree to pray for the safety of the pond.
To put it bluntly, it is to pray that the pond will not drown.
Seeing that I hadn't moved, Wang Jiong pushed me again and said, "What are you doing!" ”
I said, "This pond has two mouths. ”
"Oh, what's this, it's just two pond mouths." That Wang Jiong didn't seem to believe in this, and his tone was quite flat.