After all the lights were extinguished, there were still lights in the whole village, the candles flickering on the bridge and the bamboo rafts floating in the river. At this time, Hetu sat quietly on the bamboo raft, and there were a few children's favorite toys scattered around him, and Hetu was now holding those toys and laughing from time to time.

There is a half-moon hanging in the sky, and the ripples in the river make the reflected moonlight unable to gather and disperse. The men on the shore were quietly bent on their waists, or staring at the bamboo rafts, or looking at Cha Wenbin.

Three small figures cut out of pieces of paper are hung with thin threads, which Cha Wenbin holds in his hands, while others stand on the bridge and the paper figures hang above the water.

The candles on the bamboo raft stretched the shadows of the three paper figures for a long time, and occasionally a gust of river wind blew, and those shadows danced. The children of other people's families were afraid to cry in fright when they saw this scene, but Hetu was very calm, and he was the key tonight.

The three children, Hetu, also knew each other when they were in school, and although they didn't have any contact, they were quite impressed. The river is not deep, and in the moonlight, you can even see the pebbles at the bottom of the river.

It's hard to imagine that a face will suddenly appear at the bottom of the river and smile at you, right?

If it were one face, it would be fine, but Hetu is now facing three faces that are swollen after long-term water immersion. The three faces were completely distorted and distorted, and the edema and pale skin caused by excessive water absorption made people shudder.

I don't know when, the dark clouds overhead have gradually covered the half of the waning moon, and the majesty of the river has quietly stopped.

The flames of the red candle were "fluttering" upward, and I don't know which incense burned and the ashes left on it suddenly broke off and fell into the water. With a "poof", the fire came into contact with the water, and a clump of jet-black hair began to slowly appear.

Hetu glanced at it, it was obvious that he had seen it, and his body trembled slightly, he was still a child after all. Soon he regained his composure and continued to fiddle with the toys in his hands.

A face that was already unrecognizable in the river map appeared first against the water, the first child to fall into the water, followed by the second and third faces.

They may or may not know the brother with the toy in his hand, and not every ghost has a memory of his life. But they are childlike, and they still have that childlike innocence, and toys are the last thing they can put down after death.

Children in the mountains don't have much chance to own toys, and the dazzling toys in the city malls are a luxury for them, and now they have all kinds of toys in front of their eyes that have never been seen before, and the playful nature is suddenly aroused.

"Brother, can you play with us?" A faint voice sounded in Hetu's heart, and it didn't come from his ears, but in his heart there was a child talking to him.

Hatu just pretended not to hear, and continued to fiddle with the things in his hand and let out a happy laugh from time to time.

Water is invisible, it moves wherever it flows, and the same is true of those who fall into it and die, and it is difficult for them to conjure up the appearance of some of the dead souls that they usually talk about. Therefore, most of the people who have an accident in the water will not see anything unusual before falling into the water, and some people who have fallen into the water but have been rescued recall that they have seen some incredible things in the water, such as human faces.

Water ghosts can only maintain their shape in the water, and only in the water can they harm people, don't underestimate a waterhole, if you want to drown people, even if it is only the size of a basin, it can still kill you.

As long as the water ghost goes ashore, it is almost impossible to escape from the palm of the Taoist priest's hand, but because they are invisible, if they want to go ashore, they have to attach to something, and the three villains in Cha Wenbin's hands are prepared for them.

The three faces under the water moved a little closer to each other, their mouths closed one by one, and they could not hear what they were saying, as if they were discussing.

It didn't take long for Hetu to feel that the bamboo raft he was sitting on began to shake, and this shaking power came from the bottom of the water. Because the bamboo raft has been firmly fixed with thick ropes beforehand. Hetu went to help the candlestick that was almost shaken down, and then gently threw a raw egg into the water, and in an instant the river began to become quiet.

Anyone who often runs a boat in a river knows that if the hull of the boat suddenly starts to shake when sailing on calm water, it is most likely that it has encountered something dirty, and then it is necessary to throw some tribute into the water. In the past, most of the boats were small wooden boats, unlike the steel ships with large tonnage now, which could not afford to toss and easily cause capsizing, so many people who ran the boat would prepare various sacrifices in the bow, from small eggs to half-cooked pig heads.

The temptation of toys for these children is obviously much greater than that of sacrifices such as eggs, and after a while, Hetu began to feel that the bamboo raft was shaking again, but this time he resolutely did not move, no matter how he tossed, after a while, the bamboo raft also stopped.

There was an extremely slight tremor from a thread wrapped around Cha Wenbin's fingertips, and he knew that a fish was about to be baited!

The little paper figure in the middle moved slightly, and then there was an extra child beside Hetu, who he recognized, his name was Liu Zhi, and he was the youngest of the three children.

At first, Liu Zhi just dragged his cheeks and watched Hetu play, there were a lot of things piled up next to Hetu, seeing that Hetu didn't seem to have any reaction to him, he began to be a little bolder and secretly took a small paper horse with his small hand. The legs and tail of this paper horse are connected by a mechanism, and as long as the tail is pulled, its legs will not stop moving, showing a running shape.

The kid named Liu Zhi obviously thought it was fun, and the men on the bridge could hear the "giggles" that made people feel hairy in their hearts.

Under the water, there were two faces looking forward to watching, they saw that their companions were having a good time, and they couldn't hold it back in their hearts, and soon Cha Wenbin noticed that the other two lines were also shaking.

The three children sat on a bamboo raft, dripping with water from the tips of their hair to the blistered white soles of their feet, competing with each other for toys and playing with each other, which would have been their childhood if they hadn't died.

Cha Wenbin's hand began to slowly lift upward, as long as the three paper figures were completely pulled up, the three children would never be able to return to the water, provided that they were unconscious. As long as nothing happens, the open Qiankun bag on the bridge will be their final destination.

It's a misfortune, many things are predestined in the dark, almost the whole village knows what is going on here tonight, and all the people have been told to go home and not go out, but one person missed it.

The uncle in the school cafeteria lost his job because of this incident, he was not from that village, and his son treated him unfilially, and the family couldn't stay. I thought that I could live until I died by finding a job as a janitor, but I didn't want to have this accident.

When people are irritable, they like to get drunk, and once they get drunk, they tend to forget the way home.

He's been working at this school for eight years, and he's made it his home. It is easy to drink too much inferior liquor, and the uncle is confused and follows the impression in his mind to touch here.

That uncle sang a good Peking Opera, and he hummed in school on weekdays, but now he was drunk and hummed like a mosquito.

The staggering uncle held a wine bottle in one hand and gestured in the air with the other, and staggered towards the bridge. Cha Wenbin's brows were already furrowed very tightly, this kind of juncture must not be disturbed, but now he can't shout, once the shouting alarms the children below, it will be difficult to fish again next time.

However, there is still a distance of fifty centimeters, and three paper figures can be obtained.

I don't know if the uncle felt that he was about to reach his destination, or he was really panicked, and suddenly "whooped" and raised his throat, most of the people in the village were woken up by him, and for a while the dogs in the village began to bark wildly, and the unaware people were dressed and ready to go out, thinking that there was a problem at the scene of the ceremony.

The three children were under the control of this uncle before they were born, and when they heard the voice of this uncle, they thought they were still in school, so they dropped the toys in their hands and prepared to run. Seeing that the situation was not good, Cha Wenbin pulled the thin line with both hands and pulled it upward, but he was surprised to find that there were only two paper figures left in his hand. Another slippery line in his hand, Cha Wenbin looked at it, and saw one of the paper figures staggering into the water