Draft.

The water ghost ran away, and my grandmother turned her head to look at me, throwing away the soul rope in her hand and waving at me, but I couldn't hear what my grandmother was shouting, because the train that was passing behind me was like a huge monster, and the ground trembled with a boom, and all my grandmother's voice was swallowed up.

I quickly slipped down the railway slope and ran to my grandmother, who held me by the shoulders and said in my ear, "Pack up your things and go home, and think about it again tomorrow." ”

After the things were packed, the hateful train also ran past, and I looked at the tail of the train and cursed loudly, "You damn bastard"

As soon as I finished scolding, I was slapped on the back of the head, and when I looked back, my grandmother was glaring at me with a black face, and my grandmother said: "Jikoude, don't swear again in the future, and if you swear once, you will lose one point of luck." With that, Grandma glanced at the water and sighed.

On the way home, I asked my grandmother, "Grandma, the water ghost looks like a white child."

My grandmother looked at me and said, "It was also a human before it was born, and it drowned in the water, but what we saw was its soul, and its body was still in the water." ”

"Aren't ghosts invisible?" I asked again.

"The water ghost can see that if you go to the water's edge at night, if you drown someone in the water, sometimes you can see people walking around the water's edge, and if it knows your name, it will call your name, and if you go with it, it will say, look, look, there's something in the water, if you look into the water, it will go around behind you and push you into the water."

"Are they looking for a stand-in?"

"It's not looking for a stand-in, water ghosts are generally corpses that have not been fished out of the water, ghosts have turned into ghosts, they have no companions in the water, and they pull people to be their companions. The one we met was a child, and there were also adults. With that, I went home with my grandmother.

Nothing to say all night, early the next morning, Ming Jun and his father came to find grandma, Ming Jun and his father said that Ming Jun's fever has subsided, and people have also woken up, that is, the finger prints on the feet and necks have not yet receded, and grandma told him that he will retire in a few days, rest assured, it's okay.

Today, my grandmother took me, but we walked back and forth in a puddle of water, and when I saw someone fishing by the pit, or swimming in the water, I persuaded people to leave.

Grandma patiently explained to them that this piece of water is not clean, and if it is not done well, something will happen. Those people don't believe that if anything happens, we can all swim. Grandma told them that there were water spirits in the water.

It's good that my grandmother didn't say that, but when I said that there were water ghosts, a group of people laughed and laughed nakedly, thinking that my grandma was a crazy old woman with Alzheimer's. Misunderstandings like this have happened more than once, and at my time, more, causing me to be disheartened for a while.

Nowadays, people are afraid of nothing but poverty

I followed my grandmother around the water for a day, but fortunately nothing happened, but at that time, from the bottom of my heart, I really wished that the little water ghost would come out and drag them into the water for a few time, and see if they were still smiling.

In the evening, my grandmother told me to go to bed early after dinner and go to the pit in the middle of the night. I know that if the water ghost is not caught early, grandma will not be at ease.

When I slept late at night, my grandmother woke me up, and when I saw that it was exactly twelve o'clock, my grandmother didn't seem to have slept in the first half of the night.

Grandma took her baggage on her back and went out with me again.

On the way, I asked my grandmother, "Grandma, can you catch the water ghost this time, will we scare it?"

Grandma said, "It's not us who frightens it, it's the train, don't stay on the railway slope this time, wait on the embankment north of the pit." ”

"Why?"

Grandma looked at me and asked, "Why didn't the train call early or late last night, when it came to us?"

I shook my head, and my grandmother continued, "Just because you are sitting by the railway, the driver of the train must have seen you, and there is a child sitting on the railway slope in the middle of the night, what will the driver think?"

I blinked twice, was stunned for a moment and said, "Think of me as a ghost."

Grandma looked at the train track not far away and said, "Almost." ”

In the past, it was the kind of steam-style black locomotive, which looked like a black god, and those who drove the train were particularly lacking in morality, as long as they saw us children playing on the railway, they would whistle from afar, and the sound of the flute was particularly sharp and harsh, and sometimes it would spray water outward, probably from the steam engine to the outside, and I saw someone walking on the railway slope, pulling the valve to open the air, and putting it all the way, and it was very similar to the fog, and there were water droplets hanging in it, and the train caused you to get wet up and down after the train passed. I can only scold at the tail of the train. The most disgusting thing is the ticket bus, sometimes after the ticket bus comes, there are water droplets, if those water droplets fall to the mouth, don't lick them with your tongue, they are all salty and urine.

There is also a person in our village, who was hit in the shoulder by a woman who fell from the ticket car, and I didn't know it at the time, but after I went home, my family looked at it, why is there blood on your shoulder, I took off my clothes and saw that I was not injured, and then I thought about it carefully and won the jackpot. It once became the laughing stock of our village after tea and dinner.

Getting back to the point, I followed my grandmother to the place of yesterday, and set up the mirror and buried the candles according to the way I did yesterday.

This time I hid far away on the embankment north of the pit, although I didn't think about it well, it was better than another train to scare the water ghosts away.

However, after waiting for more than an hour, I didn't see any movement in the water, and after waiting for more than half an hour, I saw my grandmother pull up the wooden figure in the water and began to clean up the mirror candles.

I ran over and asked, and my grandmother said that the water ghost had left this area, and when my grandmother said this, she had a sad face. Maybe everyone who does our job is like this, I don't know it's okay, but if I know where it's not clean, if I don't clean it, I feel uncomfortable. Because what, who told you to do this, you won't forget it, since you will, that's your responsibility, if you pretend to turn a blind eye, if something happens, you will be condemned by your own conscience, and I feel the same way I feel when I encounter this kind of thing, just like my grandmother felt at that time.

Grandma told me that we haven't heard of anyone's children having an accident, and many people have drowned in the coal ash pit upstream, and the water ghost may have come from the coal ash pit.

The coal ash pit, located in the west village of Da Nandi, still belongs to the drainage ditch of the factory and mine, we have the pit when we have the factory and mine here, it has existed for many years, and the wastewater was cut off there before, and then the wastewater may have increased, which dug up our village and connected it with the coal ash pit. It is equivalent to the upstream of this puddle in our village, which is the coal ash pit.

How to say that the area of the coal ash pit is special, it is a place where the yin qi is particularly heavy, after you get there, you will have a sense of desolation, the demon is rampant, listen to my grandmother, in the past, there was a mass grave in their village, when digging the coal ash pit, but also dug out a white-haired zombie, and then the zombie was exposed to the sun for three days and three nights, buried in the north of their village.

The coal ash pit was not far from us, it was about four or five miles, and we didn't even have a handlamp, so we walked there in the dark.

I don't know how long I walked, anyway, I finally arrived, the pit here is not as wide as ours, but it is much deeper than ours, and it has accumulated over the years, and the mud below is very deep, and I heard that people who drown in coal ash pits generally drown in the mud, and there is also a saying that there is something in the mud, and if you grab your legs, you won't let go.

When I got to the coal pit, I looked around, and honestly, this was my first time in the coal pit. It was full of grass on both sides, unlike our pit, which was narrow and steep on both sides, and in some places at right angles to the ground. Grandma found a place with a gentle slope and pulled me over.

When I came to the edge of the pit, my grandmother kept looking at a stone not far from the edge of the pit, and I was about to ask my grandmother what she was looking at, but my grandmother signaled me not to make a sound, and then motioned me to find a grass nest to hide.

I watched my grandmother in the grass nest, and my grandmother squatted down when she walked to the rock, and it was very strange, and after a while, I heard my grandmother talking in a low voice, and where my grandmother was talking, it seemed to me to be quite panicked.

I waited for more than an hour, and when my grandmother came back, she said to me, "Let's go, let's go home." ”

I was confused and pulled back by my grandmother.

After walking a short distance, I asked my grandmother what was going on, why didn't she do anything and go back

Grandma said, I'll tell you later.

After walking for two miles, when we arrived in our village, my grandmother said, "Grandma met an acquaintance by the pit just now, and this water ghost has finally fallen." ”

I was even more confused and asked, "Grandma, who did you meet, why didn't I see it?"

"Just sit on that rock and fish."

"There's no one on the stone?"

Grandma smiled and said, "You can't see these crafts in our family, and you will understand them when you reach my age." ”

I really don't understand, I still don't understand, is it just like Confucius said, fifty to know the destiny of heaven, sixty to obey the ear, seventy to do what the heart wants, not to exceed the rules

I asked again, "Grandma, who is that acquaintance you met?"

Grandma smiled again, "Do you remember grandma telling you that our family has offered rat fairies"

I thought about it and said, "Did you say that there was a famine in the past, you dug up the food of the rats with your grandfather and grandfather, and then the rats stood in our yard and cried?"

Grandma smiled and said, "Yes, Grandma just met the son of the white-bearded old man." ”

"So what does it say to you?"

Grandma kept smiling, I didn't seem to have seen her so happy for a long time, grandma said: "He told grandma a lot, there are things in the past, things in the present, and things about his father"