Wang Fugui and I went to the town first, and then found a police officer from the local police station who was familiar with Mingtong Village as a guide, and then the police officer drove us to Mingtong Village.

Although we are there to investigate the case. But my investigation is definitely different from the police's routine, so whether it is Wang Fugui or the police guide who traveled with me, they are both wearing civilian clothes, and we also agreed before we go that no one is allowed to mention that they are policemen, and I will lead everything.

It is said that the police have a temperament that is not angry and self-threatening, and even if they don't wear a police uniform, they can be recognized at a glance, but I'm not worried about that.

Needless to say, Wang Fugui's image, even if he wears a police uniform, I don't think he will be a policeman. The policeman who was our guide seemed to have been made for plain clothes, he was chubby and round, and his skin was white and tender. It's like a big steamed bun just out of the pot, and the most interesting thing is his two little bean eyes, which feel like two holes poked with chopsticks on the big steamed bun.

I sat down with these two people, and instantly realized that I was much more handsome. So I decided to take them as my best friends.

After leaving the town, the Mantou police officer drove the car like a tour guide and gave me and Wang Fugui a brief introduction to the situation in Mingtong Village.

Mingtong Village is not far from the town, and it is only half an hour's drive at most.

In the past, the village was just a small fishing village near the lake, but in recent years a large resort has been built there, although the mountain villa is not very famous, but because of the cheap price and the scenery is really good. Therefore, every year, many employees of enterprises go there collectively to go on vacation and do outward bound training.

The tourism industry has risen, and some other peripheral industries have also been driven. That is, in the last five or six years, Mingtong Village has suddenly changed from a small fishing village with no name to the richest village around the town.

After that, Mantou also specially recommended us several more famous fish restaurants in the village, and it seemed that he had completely entered the play.

After he introduced the situation of Mingtong Village, I also asked him what he thought of the legend of Mother Water.

After hearing this, Mantou smiled and said, "I grew up in the town, if there is really any legend of the water mother, I must have heard it when I was a child." ”

"So you mean that Mother Water is just like the water monster of Kanas Lake in Xinjiang?" I asked.

Mantou nodded and said: "Anyway, in my opinion, that's the case, the people in the village are just playing tricks, if you really want to find Mother Shui, then it's a pure waste of time, and when you go to the village to see on the spot, you can understand what I mean." ”

Actually, I don't have to look at it to imagine it. The idea of steamed buns is also completely understandable.

All tourist attractions have to be a bit of a legend gimmick, so as to attract tourists to play there, like the lake monster in Kanas Lake in Xinjiang. Despite all the explorations on TV, countless scientists have tried to prove that the lake monster is the big red fish. But there are still countless tourists who visit Kanas Lake every year, and most of them come to see the legendary monster for themselves.

According to Mantou, Mingtong Village is now vigorously developing tourism, and the legend of Mother Water is the best gimmick. If this legend had spread more widely and spread throughout the country, it is estimated that more people would come to the village every year.

Thirty minutes passed quickly, and a stone archway appeared in front of us, and three big characters were elegantly written on the archway: Mingtong Village.

As Mantou said, after entering the village from the main road, there are two-story inns and various fish restaurants on both sides of the road.

The most famous resort is leaning on a hill near the lake in the distance, and the buildings of the villa stretch from the foot of the mountain all the way to the halfway up the mountain, and from the entrance of the village, the buildings of the villa seem to be made of wood, which is very like returning to nature. Mantou said that the mountain was originally a barren mountain outside the village, but it was later turned into a new appearance by the developer.

Mantou drove directly to the gate of the resort, because someone saw the water mother with his own eyes forty years ago, this person now lives in the mountain villa, and his daily work is to tell the legend of the water mother to the guests who come here to travel.

Although it is winter, there seem to be many customers in the villa, and the parking lot is crowded with cars. We stayed directly in the villa as guests, and then under the arrangement of the duty manager, we met with the old man Xu who witnessed the water mother forty-four years ago.

Old man Xu has a head full of white hair, and there don't seem to be a few teeth left, but he looks full of energy, his back is straight, and he feels very healthy.

After taking his seat, Old Man Xu did not immediately tell us about his sighting of Mother Water, but asked the three of us what they thought of the legend of Mother Water.

Wang Fugui said bluntly: "I don't believe in anything sneaky, and the commercial taste here is too strong, so I don't believe in any water mother." ”

Old man Xu nodded and smiled at Wang Fugui, and then looked at Mantou and me.

The view of steamed buns is naturally the same as Wang Fugui's, in fact, after I entered the village, I also felt that the water mother was a little unreliable, but I still showed a look of interest and replied: "I believe!" I don't think you're a liar for money. ”

"Well said!" Old man Xu was very happy to be fooled by me, he continued with a smile: "Let me tell you this, I am seventy-seven years old this year, I have never done anything to lie and deceive people, the deepest part of the big lake is more than two hundred meters, there are big fish, and there are even more things that eat big fish, and Mother Water is a strange thing in this lake!" I've seen it with my own eyes, but the young people of your generation don't quite believe me. ”

"Are there more believers now?" I asked.

Old man Xu smiled meaningfully, and then swept his eyes towards Wang Fugui and the steamed bun and said, "Basically, everyone listens to it as a story, and there are few who really believe it." Besides, if anyone really believed it, they wouldn't have rented a boat to go to the lake to play, let alone lived in the village for so long, and it would have cost them their lives. ”

"But there's already a murder! It's still 4! I said.

"How do you know?" Old man Xu seemed suspicious.

I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "Since you are going to travel, you naturally have to ask clearly, but ...... How to say it, the more people are killed, the more interesting it is. "Zhen is a low farmer.

Old man Xu showed a smile after hearing this, he nodded and said: "What you said is really to the point, the person who had the accident was angry with the water mother, they deserved it, none of the tourists have had an accident so far, as long as they abide by the rules of the village, what should be feared must be feared." ”

"Yes, we naturally understand the rules of following the local customs. Or let's talk about the water mother, what is it like? I asked as I dragged the topic back to the point.

"That's a big guy. Back then, I went fishing on the lake with the second son of the Guan family, but as soon as the net went down, I suddenly felt that something was wrong. We tossed and turned all day, from morning till dark, and finally we finally got the thing up! ”

Old man Xu said that he deliberately sold Guanzi and took a sip of tea, so I could only wait patiently.

Waiting for him to put the tea bowl down before continuing: "That thing's mouth is the size of a basin, full of fangs, it looks like a big catfish with teeth, its body is very thick, its tail is slender, and it has a pattern like a python, and it has hands and feet, but the hands and feet are not big, and they are more than a foot long. Old man Xu gestured as he spoke.

"This is Mother Water?" I asked.

"Hmm." Old man Xu nodded and said.

"So how big is it? How long? I continued to ask.

"Later, after I caught it ashore and measured it, it was more than three meters! After it came ashore, it was still fanning its gills for several hours. If anyone touches it, it will turn around and bite with all its might! You see, this is the scar left after being bitten by it. ”

After Old Man Xu finished speaking, he pulled his trousers, leaving a row of fan-shaped black scars on his entire right leg, which spread from calf to thigh. From this scar, it can be clearly seen that the biting thing has at least a big mouth more than one meter wide, such a big mouth, and a body more than three meters long, it is estimated that it is no problem to swallow the person whole.

"What did this water mother do with later?" I asked.

"At that time, there was an old man in the village who said that this thing was the god of the lake, and it should not be angered, so let us let it go. However, Guan Erxiao didn't listen to the old man's persuasion, and sold the water mother for thousands of yuan, but he had an accident a week later. I remember the time very clearly, on the seventh day when he sold the water mother, he went to the lake to fish again, and then the boat was overturned, and finally only one of his legs floated to the shore, and his body was torn apart and eaten. Later, Guan Erxiao's son also had an accident at home, when his house was as smelly as a dung pit, and the smell was exactly the same as the smell of the water mother we caught! ”

"That fish stinks?" I asked.

"Well, it stinks!"

"And someone else buys it to eat?"

"I don't know about this, maybe I bought it to collect it as a specimen, or maybe it smelled bad and tasted good. But the people who ate that thing definitely didn't end well, in the past few years, many people have drowned in their homes back and forth in the village, and the dead people's houses also have a foul smell, and the smell of the second small house has not dissipated until now. ”

"You mean that the house where the Guan family lived before is still there?"

"Nope." Old man Xu waved his hand, "The house has long been demolished and a new one has been built, but the new house always has a strange smell, and people who have lived in that house say that strange noises can always be heard in the house." The house has been empty for three years now, so if you're interested in it, you can check it out. ”

A foul house with a stench...... I'm really interested in seeing that.

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