Chapter Eighty-Three: The Corpses on the River

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When my grandfather surfaced, he happened to see the small boat of Yudan'er, but fortunately the boat was not only not the bottom of the boat facing the sky, but it was still intact, he climbed into the boat and debated the direction, and rowed to the south bank of the Yellow River.

However, my grandfather's statement is difficult to imagine and convince. There are many cases of people who have escaped from the belly of a big fish in this world, but they have all paid a terrible price, and it can be said that it is unprecedented for someone like my grandfather to escape from the belly of a fish without a little injury.

My grandmother has another theory, which may have been speculated by my grandmother herself. She said that it was the dragon lord in the river who saved my grandfather's life, and the female doll fish swallowed my grandpa into his stomach, but at this time, the dragon lord appeared and bit the belly of the female doll fish, and my lord escaped from death.

Compared with my grandmother's statement, compared to my grandfather's statement, I would rather believe what my grandfather said, because there is such a thing as a dragon, whether there is such a thing in this world, is still a mystery.

What is the real situation of my grandfather's escape from the fish belly, I'm afraid no one knows anymore except my grandfather himself, maybe it's like the old man in my grandfather's dream, evil doesn't prevail over good.

Anyway, my grandfather is the most legendary person in our family, with footprints all over the north and south of the Yellow River, exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts, robbing tombs in ancient mounds, bathing in blood on the battlefield, and tracing secret places. If possible, I will write a biography of him in the future, of course, this is unlikely.

Straight to the point. Wang Caoyu and a few young people returned to Sanwangzhuang and brought clean clothes to my grandfather, and Yudan'er successfully completed the task at this time, said goodbye to my grandfather and them, and rowed back to the other side of the river.

When Yudaner left, my grandfather wanted to give him some silver taels, not to mention the ferry money, he himself also kicked off a few planks on the boat, but Yudaner didn't want to live or die, saying that if they "river patrollers" received the ferry money, they would break the rules on the river, and the dragon lord would be guilty, and Yudaner also said, in fact, he ferried my grandfather and them over today, and he had broken the rules, maybe it was because of this that the dragon lord was in trouble.

My grandfather smiled when he heard this, and was going to explain it to him, but then he thought about it, since they all thought that the female doll fish that appeared on the river was the dragon king, it was the dragon king, so why bother to explain.

On the way back to Sanwangzhuang, several young people surrounded my grandfather again and asked long and short questions, and they all wanted to know how my grandfather slaughtered the dragon lord. My grandfather added fuel and vinegar and bragged to them.

A few days later, the news that my grandfather had killed the dragon lord in the river spread on both sides of the Yellow River.

Half a month later, a fisherman in the downstream of Sanwangzhuang fished out a carriage-sized skull from the river while fishing, and the meat on the bones had been gnawed up by the fish.

After that, the people on both sides of the strait spread more and more powerfully, and they all said that my great-grandfather's son was amazing, and he was the reincarnation of the six-armed Nezha who was a pioneer officer under the control of the Jade Emperor.

But then again, if my grandfather is the reincarnation of Nezha, then wouldn't my great-grandfather become the King of Tota Li? In fact, people in ancient times liked to associate characters in myths and legends with mortals.

Although, my grandfather killed the female doll fish of Cheng Jing alone, but the next thing was not over, and it was completely unexpected by everyone.

On the third day when my grandfather killed the female doll fish, early in the morning, a corpse floated from the upper reaches of the Sanwangzhuang River, and was seen by several Sanwangzhuang villagers who went down to the river to fish early, and several villagers fished the corpse on the boat.

A few villagers were frightened, threw the body on the beach, and ran back to the village to see my grandfather. After my grandfather saw it, he immediately went back to the village to find the village chief Wang Boss and asked him to send someone to ask the county government to come over.

After the servant came, he performed an autopsy on the female corpse, and dragged out a dead baby fish from the woman's stomach. This baby fish is similar to the physique in the stomach of Liu Daqiang's corpse, and it is very effective in slashing and burning.

However, before my grandfather and the others disposed of the female corpse and the dead baby fish, news came from the river again, saying that two more floating corpses had been fished, an old man and a child......

Then, within a few days, a large number of floating corpses floated from the upper reaches of the river, and these corpses were all pot-bellied, mostly women, old people and children. In those days, the villagers who fished in the river caught as few as three or two corpses as many as seven or eight corpses every day, like the end of the world, which made the people in the area of Sanwangzhuang talk about corpses and change color, and people are panicked!

This matter quickly spread in an uproar, and the county magistrate of Yanjin County couldn't sit still, so he sent out a servant to catch a quick man, and rushed to the river bank to investigate the matter as soon as possible.

Subsequently, all the corpses were transported to the north bank of the river by the people in the county government, and dozens of bodies of all ages, young and old, were carried out, and the catchers had to erect a few thatched huts on the north bank of the Yellow River to temporarily store the corpses.

It's still the county government's servant, or the head catcher, and the head catcher came to Sanwangzhuang to invite my grandfather to help. The servant didn't stop all day long, cutting open the big bellies of those corpses one by one, and unsurprisingly, all of those corpses had a small baby fish in their stomachs, and they were all about the same size. Most of these baby baby fish are dead, and only a few are alive.

It is inferred that the corpses were first hidden somewhere upstream by the female doll fish, which should not be far from Sanwangzhuang. After the death of the female doll fish, these corpses were left to take care of them, and they floated out of the river and floated down the river to the area of Sanwangzhuang.

In the dozens of small baby fish cut out, only two knives can not be cut and burned without burning, and they are all alive, and finally my grandfather stepped on the tail with a wicker to draw into two layers of skin, these two layers of skin, and brought home to my grandfather, said to study and study, it can be seen that my grandfather at this time, is still worried about the disappeared baby fish corpse in the iron cage before, and wants to find some clues from these two little baby fish.

As for the other little baby fish, just like the little doll in Liu Daqiang's stomach before, they were cut into several sections by the catchers of the county government with official knives, burned into charcoal with fire, and then found a place to bury them.

The same baby fish, the physique appears in a different state, because of this, I have asked my grandfather, my grandfather shook his head and said, wait for him to take the time to take him home The "two layers of skin" to study it. However, no matter how much my grandfather studied, he couldn't study a meridian until my great-grandfather returned to Sanwangzhuang, and my great-grandfather gave him an answer. That's a story for later.

The identities of the bodies drowned in the river were also identified a few days later. The county lord sent someone to the upper reaches of the Yellow River to inquire, the previous heavy rainstorm, that is, the heavy rain that came after my grandfather led the villagers of Sanwangzhuang to smoke the river monster, which led to the flooding of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and a village in Luanchuan County was swallowed up by the river, washing away a small number of people in the village, most of them were women, the elderly and children.

It is speculated that the female baby fish may have also been active in the area of Luanchuan County before, because there is no record of the baby fish here in Sanwangzhuang.

Seeing that so many people were drowned, the female doll fish took advantage of the situation to lay fish eggs in the stomachs of these people, and it may be that the female doll fish and these corpses came to the waters around Sanwangzhuang by the big water.

At this moment, these corpses died of natural disasters, and then they were laid eggs in the stomach by the female doll fish, which is also in the past, but Liu Daqiang in Liu Zhuang obviously did not drown in that big water, how did he die, did he kill people?

On this day, while he was still busy dissecting the corpse in the grass shed, outside the grass hut, my grandfather sat on the river beach with the head catcher, watching the rolling eastward river and chatting.

My grandfather asked the head catcher curiously, "Uncle Wu, how is the investigation of Liu Daqiang's drowning case, have you caught the murderer?" ”

This head catcher's surname is Wu, what is the specific name, my grandmother doesn't know, I don't know, this "Uncle Wu" is also the head catcher himself asked his grandfather to call it like this.

When the head catcher heard this, he showed a difficult face, sighed and said: "This case, it is difficult to say, it is easy to say, but it is actually very simple." As he spoke, he turned his head to look at my grandfather, "Bing Shou You are also surnamed Liu, your father was also a person from Liu Zhuang when he was young, you are of the same clan as Liu Zhuang and Liu on Zhuang Shang, and you have some words...... I'm not afraid to tell you, in fact, Liu Daqiang's drowning case was committed by your Liu family. ”

My grandfather was very surprised when he heard it, and the head catcher continued: "After my investigation, I have locked up a person in your Liu family, and now he still lives in the village, but because there is no evidence, it is not good to order the arrest, those who know are also the people of your Liu family, one by one, there is no witness cooperation, there is no physical evidence to check, only with the bruises on Liu Daqiang's feet and neck, this case is difficult to handle, now, we can only peel off the cocoon, little by little to ......"

After listening to the head catcher, my grandfather thought in his heart, since we are members of the Liu family, who would do such a poisonous hand and kill each other?

In the evening of the next day, after a busy day, he stopped, and signaled the head catcher at the exit of the grass hut, and the head catcher hurriedly called the catchers to finish work, and this is the end of today, and it will continue tomorrow.

As soon as my grandfather heard that the head catcher said to call it a day, he was about to go to the ferry to find a boat to cross the river and go home, at this time, an old man came to the embankment, and the old man came over and grabbed my grandfather's arm, "Bingshou, why are you here, take a walk, go home with the second uncle." ”

My grandfather turned his head to look at the old man, he knows, and if he doesn't know anyone, he has to know him!