Chapter 6: Overboard

Grandpa finished talking about that night. Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info looking at the flickering oil lamp in the cab. With a trance-like expression, he said, "That's the way it is! The monster followed us when we returned! And every night he jumps on the bow of the boat. ”

My mother's face turned pale with fright, and she glanced at her grandfather and said, "Will this thing be on the ship now?"

"Probably not!" Grandpa wasn't quite sure. Then his face changed and he said, "Even if you know Lao Tzu, you are not afraid!" I blasted it out of the ghost ship, does it want revenge? ”

Dad twitched his neck and said with a pale face, "Dad! Father-in-law! I think that thing must be lice, right? Most of the lice in this water are people who commit suicide by throwing themselves into the river or accidentally drown? Will hover in drowned water! Become a water ghost. This kind of ghost will wait for the opportunity to wait, tempt, or persecute people to fall into the water and die, to be their own substitute ghosts, so that the person who killed them can be reincarnated in exchange for themselves! It's written like this in the supernatural books, I don't know if that's the case? ”

"!" Grandpa glared at him and said, "Hell, hell! Have you seen it? That coffin was blasted off the ghost ship with a cannonball, and it must have something to do with it! And the monster was flesh and blood, not like a ghost. ”

When my mother saw my father being scolded, she covered her mouth and smiled, and asked, "Dad!" Surely you know what that is, right? You're done with it! How uncomfortable it is to say half of it! ”

Grandpa smiled bitterly and nodded, "Your father-in-law and I didn't know at the time, and then the monster stuck to us like a plaster." In the dead of night, I always jump on the bow of the boat! At first, we were scared half to death and hid in the cabin, but how can you say that you are also the king of the sea! How can you be scared by this ghost and shrink your head and tail on your own boat? Will you still be so muddy in the future? I came out with the gun and went around the monster! But it didn't move, just watched me quietly! ”

My grandfather pulled out a roll of parchment from his waist and said to my mother, "This is what the monster took out of the coffin and gave me!" ”

My mother took the parchment and loved it, looked at it and looked at it, and said, "Daddy! Could this thing be a treasure map, that monster is really good enough for you. ”

Dad nodded on the side again and interjected, "Father-in-law! I think that monster could really be lice! This parchment looks nearly a thousand years old, and if you say it was taken out of the coffin where it was lying, it was its burial goods. And the lice in the water are most afraid of fishing nets, so you caught them at that time. It's like a dead thing! And you put it away later, maybe it wants to contact you thanks to you!

Grandpa shook his head and said, "Maybe! But I just think it's thanks to me for getting it out of the ghost ship! Anyway, that thing jumped on the bow of my boat every once in a while. And your father is injured and not yet well. I've been in contact with it for three months. Two months ago, it suddenly started talking to me. But it's like a watered throat, and it's terrible to speak! It wasn't until we talked for a month that I could understand nine times out of ten! ”

"Oops!" My mother screamed and said, "Did it tell you?" It's going to kill that big-bellied pregnant woman at noon today? No wonder I felt like the ground was slanted when I hopscotch at noon! Looking back on it now. Damn! Is the ghost blindfolded? ”

Grandpa thought for a while and nodded, "Yes! I'm afraid it's really just lice! It said that it would follow us all the way to repay me for saving it from the ghost ship. Seven days ago, it protected us all the way to the mouth of the Oujiang River. That night, it jumped on the bow of my boat and talked to me for a while. He said he was going to be separated from me. He also said that he would kill a pregnant woman nearby and reincarnate himself. It says it's been waiting for a long time. Last night it came again, and said that a pregnant woman would fall into the river at that location at noon today, and that it could be reincarnated as a human being. ”

Dad took a cigarette and lit it for my grandfather. said, "Father-in-law is really righteous! Save the pregnant woman and the unborn child! But this time you're in a big deal with the water lice! ”

Before the words fell, the 'Zhongmei No. 1' began to shake violently! All four of them were pale......

"That'...... That's coming! ”

"Fang Yandong...... You have deceived me too much...... I want your Fang family to be sick...... Children and grandchildren will not live more than half a child......"

It is said that the seven-stack wharf that night echoed with a terrible ghost cry, and the 'Zhongmei No. 1', which my grandfather had spent a lifetime working on, sank at the pier for no reason.

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"Nothing?" I asked urgently. And he said, "What about the aftermath?" My grandfather died like this in the harsh winter? ”

There's no more to it here. Actually, there are some things in it that I don't understand. If the monster that came out of the ghost country god ship is lice, it stands to reason that it has been in the ghost ship for thousands of years, right? How can a pregnant woman be reincarnated as soon as she comes out? Although it is said in ghost movies that ghosts can be reincarnated if they harm people, but that ghost thing comes all the way to the mouth of the Oujiang River to harm people? Although my grandfather said that the ghost was to repay the favor and escort them, except for the theory of ghosts and gods, it is logical according to reasoning, but I always feel that this thing is too unbelievable.

The old man was silent for a while, and when he saw that I was looking at him unforgivingly. only to explain "Later? Have you ever met your grandfather? Your father and your grandfather rescued your mother from choking on water. I think your grandfather was probably killed by water lice. After that, your family never found his body. ”

With a look of disbelief on my face, I shouted at the top of my voice, "Impossible! My mom said my grandfather was missing at sea?! If it was according to you, there was no way she could lie to me. And my grandfather, he can't be my grandfather's first mate, he has been the dean of the second hospital of the city, how could he run to the water? ”

As excited as I was, the old man ignored my consciousness. Shaking his head, he said, "Believe it or not, it's up to you!" I just have a story in my heart, and I'm too idle here, so I'll tell you about it. ”

Idle yarn, don't you go to jump into the river when you're idle? I cursed in my heart, and said in my heart, who is this old man? How do you know so much about our family? The third watch came here in the middle of the night to tell me so much, and I felt that this matter was strange and real. There's no reason for this old man to come to me for a nonsense story, right? But my water allergy is a curse thing similar to a zombie king, that's!

I looked at him secretly, this strange old man can't be my grandfather, right? Thinking about it, I don't think it's right, there are a lot of old photos of my grandfather in the photo album at home, and I don't feel half similar to the old man in front of me at all. And this old man is only 1.6 meters by eye, my grandfather and I are about 185, even if you are old, it is impossible to shrink by 25 centimeters all of a sudden, right? He asked, "Uncle, are you really just here to fish at night?" ”

The old man coughed lightly, turned his head to look at me with dim eyes, and said, "Of course not, I have another purpose. ”

I was stunned and asked, "What is it??" ”

He smiled at me secretly, and now he understands what it means to be smiling without smiling. He beckoned to me, "Come here, I'll tell you!" ”

When I heard this, I hesitated a little and stepped forward. Approaching the old man, he asked, "Can you tell me now?" ”

"I'm here to take your life!" The old man was close to my ear, and an eerie voice sounded in my ear.

I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't know what consciousness he had. Suddenly, his back was slammed hard, and his whole body fell from the stone dam on the shore......

'Poof' I felt a spirit on my body, the cold and biting river water soaked into my body, and then the burning sensation of drilling my heart, my scalp was numb in pain. After choking a few mouthfuls of water, I desperately swam to the water, and as soon as my head came out of the water, I felt a hot pain in my face and neck.

I struggled desperately in the water, looking up at the stone dam, trying to see the old man's face. The old man watched me struggle silently. His face was expressionless, and his eyes were hidden in darkness, as if there was a chilling and ghostly aura in the dusk......

I suddenly realized that the old man had been lying to me from the beginning of his appearance! He said that he was the grandfather of the third engineer! I finally remembered now that the third engineer on the ship was not a GI? And the GI was sent to the hospital by me, what does his grandfather think he might be here again?

I thrashed desperately, and my consciousness began to blur more and more. The cold river water, the burning skin, this kind of torment of ice and fire is really painful. I felt a tearing pain in my lungs due to the water in my mouth, and my body sank to the surface of the river.

I've dreamed countless times that I've died in the water, and this time I know it's not a dream......