Chapter 2 Water Monkeys

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Nightmares at night are a situation that many people have, but in fact, nightmares are a sign that something bad is about to happen. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info I had a few nightmares at the time, and I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but I realized it later.

After a long time of peace, my memory of the thing on the mountain gradually faded.

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The second strange thing I encountered was more ordinary, there were many legends in my hometown, and one of them was about water ghosts.

The water ghosts are called water monkeys on our side, and as long as they are caught by water monkeys in the water, no one can get up. The water monkey is extremely powerful underwater, and as long as it goes ashore, there is nothing to be afraid of, and it is useless when it leaves the water.

It is said that a long, long time ago, a water monkey was caught in a reservoir in the mountains in our village during the release of water for a year.

Later, the water monkey was put in the sun, and it didn't take long for it to be sunburned to death.

When I was about 10 years old, I passed by the river where my grandfather used to go fishing, and I saw a big red carp under the river.

At that time, I raised a lot of small red carp, and when I saw the big fish in the river, I wanted to catch them. I originally wanted to go back to my grandfather to arrest him, but I was afraid that I would be arrested by others. So he squatted on the shore for a long time, and when the red carp saw me staring at him, he swam to the surface of the water from time to time.

"Big red fish, come up to the shore and let me catch it, okay? I promise not to eat you. I said.

"Hahaha, kid, do you have such a guarantee?"

Suddenly a child spoke in my ear, and I turned my head to see a little girl with two pigtails, wearing a red floral dress.

"Ah, why didn't it dare come up, I said I wouldn't eat it." I asked naively.

"Hey, hey, hey!"

The girl covered her mouth and smiled, suddenly lowered her head and looked at me with a gloomy expression, and said, "It's not that it doesn't dare to come up, but it wants to trick you into going down, you better go home early." It's dangerous to be alone outside, and after a while it gets dark and it will rain. ”

"It's raining?"

I looked up at the sky, but the dark clouds in the sky were gathering together, and there seemed to be a sullen feeling. When I was about to ask the little girl what her name was and where she lived, she was gone, only the red carp in the river swam.

My hometown is located in a place called Longtan in the south, and it will rain heavily in the spring, and when the water in the river rises, the bridge in front of my grandmother may not be able to support it.

A few days later, it happened to be raining lightly, and I was riding an old Phoenix brand bicycle, which was not tall enough to ride, and the two bikes were too tall for my short legs at that time to reach.

You can only pass through the tripod with one leg, step on the pedal and step on the semicircle, and there is a small wooden bridge outside my grandmother's house, and I can only get to the main road after crossing the bridge.

I got up late today, I rode my bicycle directly across the bridge in order to be faster, and suddenly the bridge deck that had accumulated rainwater was a little slippery, and my bicycle happened to pass by there, so it tragically fell into the water.

The bicycle was dumped in my direction, next to the river, and the moment I fell from the river, my heart began to pound.

"It's over, it's over, I'm going to drown."

Grunt, the bike pressed on me, slowly sinking underwater, if it was normal fine, the water under the bridge was not deep.

After a few rains in the spring, the river was much deeper than usual and flowed much faster than usual. I struggled underwater, I felt like I was out of breath, and the bike was heavy for me at the time, let alone in the water.

The cold water made me shiver, and suddenly I felt another pair of hands caressing my face, the touch of the hands was rough and fluffy, and I was inexplicably flustered and then there was darkness in front of me.

My consciousness gradually became blurred, and I could hear the voices of my family saying that it was too dangerous to fall into the water. I asked for leave from school or something, and I was groggy and I closed my eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

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Tick! Tick!

"Thank you!" The soft female voice sounded in my ears, and I felt dizzy, so I ignored her, and said, "Hmm! Don't bother me, I'm so sleepy! ”

"Thank you!"

The voice sounded a second time, accompanied by this cold little hand touching my face, and then I opened my eyes to see the girl I had seen by the river a few days ago. She was now wearing a sackcloth and an oil-paper umbrella in her hand, matching her pale face, an inexplicable feeling of pity.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was you just now, by the way, what did you thank me for?"

"I'm leaving, and I'll never see you again."

"Haven't we met once where you're going?" I opened my mouth to ask, she was the little girl I saw by the river a few days ago, I didn't expect her to come back to me today, and she was still dressed like this.

"I'm ...... going to start a new life, but I have to tell you a secret before I go, you won't fall into the river again after I'm gone. After I left, the river in the river was even more unsafe, you can't swim, don't go down to the river to catch fish anymore. ”

The girl's voice accompanied my confused consciousness, and then there was darkness, and I could faintly hear a familiar voice say, "Farewell, it's time to hit the road." ”

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I fell asleep again, and when I woke up again it was already the next morning, when my grandmother brought a bowl of rice porridge, walked to my room, and said, "Good grandson, drink the rice porridge quickly, you fell into the river last night, and almost scared us to death." ”

I was a little confused, so I obediently took the rice porridge and listened to my grandmother talk about what happened in the morning.

I climbed up from the river on my own after I fell overboard, and I dropped my bicycle on the shore, and I walked to my house and collapsed at the door. Grandma heard the voice come out and saw me fall to the ground, and I muttered something out of my mouth.

"I fell into the river and the bike was on the shore?"

Then my father went to push the bike up, and I got a cold and fever because I was soaking wet and walking up from the river. I thought it was strange that when I was in the water, I had lost my sense of action, and how I ended up walking to the door of my house.

Early this morning, my parents went to my grandmother's house, and my grandmother's house was not far away, a distance of four or five miles, but my grandmother's place was relatively remote. I thought that the matter would end like this, but two days later, a news suddenly came from the top of the village, the child of the old Zhao family in the village fell into the river and drowned, and there were adults next to him at that time.

The child was about fourteen or fifteen years old, and only after inquiring later did he find out that the old Zhao family child didn't know what the demon was, and he didn't come up again after going down.

Later, there was another rumor in the village, about the stone lotus, the children of the Zhao family just saw the stone lotus on the mountain wall. The people in the village said that the stone lotus flower was changed by the water monkey, and they specially led people to go up and pick it, and when that person went down the river, they would drag people into the water.

This rumor became more and more widespread, and after a few days, it became that there were monsters living in the river, and children were not allowed to swim in the river.

This incident was gradually forgotten, and no one drowned in the river since then, perhaps because the family discipline was good, and no children secretly went down to the river to be useful, until I was in junior high school, because of the negligence of the family, a pair of boys and girls who were still in the first grade fell into the water and drowned.

The two little ones are about the same age, and they are both in the first grade, although they are not children born in the same year, and their birthdays are not more than a few days apart.

Since then, the river has almost become a forbidden area for children to go into the water, a place where children drowned, and I have swam there, the deepest part of the water is close to two meters, and that place used to be a stone bridge, and then it collapsed somehow.

Later, on a rainy day the following year, I passed by the place where a boy and a woman had drowned, and I could faintly see a shadow swimming in the water. I could faintly hear the child's cry, crying, "Mommy, Mommy, I want Mommy." ”

I don't know if it's an auditory hallucination, and even if it's not an auditory hallucination, I don't have the ability to delve into it, so I keep it buried in my heart and don't think about it anymore. Perhaps the second strange story is not particularly fascinating, but the third story I am about to tell is one of my most memorable experiences.