I looked at the time, it was already after two o'clock in the morning, and the mountain cracked in the distance seemed to have a breathtaking magic in the moonlight, and the motor of the speedboat was activated, and the hull of the boat was rushing like an arrow.

The old man folded his hands and closed his eyes and kept muttering something, seeing that his appearance was too different from the previous excitement, and the dead skin was pasted on his face, and now he knew that he was afraid?

I asked Scar, "Why is it easy to capsize at night at Jiaziling?" ”

Scar shook his head and said: "It's really hard to say, the village says that there are strange things there that will overturn everything on the water, and that thing seems to only haunt at night, but I have heard from people, I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but my uncle should know." ”

As we were talking, the boat had already turned a corner, and not far in front of us there was a place made of wooden planks that was specially used to dock the boat, and I couldn't help but wonder: "How can there be a dock here?" ”

"What's strange about this, that's our old village, and from here we go up and over a ridge, just halfway up the mountain. The relative I told you about earlier got on the boat from here. Scar said casually, and then he stood up and looked back, and I seemed to hear Shen Laojiu's voice as well.

"Wrap away, pinch the pot!" Shen Laojiu crossed his arms at the bow of the boat, as if to make us stop.

Scar waved his hand, "Tell us to stop the boat!" ”

After speaking, he turned around, slowed down and slowly approached the dock, and before he could stop it, Scar quickly picked it up and pulled the rope and tied it on the boat pile, just waiting for Hou Jun and their boat to dock over.

As soon as Shen Laojiu stepped on, I found that he was a little dull, and his eyes kept staring at the direction of Jiaziling in front of him. Hou Jun and Zhao Anyi also came down, the latter's face was not very good, miserable and pale, at first I thought it was frightened when I passed through the hole in the belly of the fish, but seeing her eyes looking around, I immediately knew what was going on, and shook my head at the signal, which was a little reassured.

Hou Jun walked quickly to my side and whispered: "What Uncle Shen means, don't set off tonight, just stop the boat here, go to the stockade to sit for one night, and then cross Jiaziling tomorrow." ”

"Didn't you say you'd go tonight? I even prayed, and you told us to sit in a leaky stone house for the night? "I don't know where the old man got the courage to say this, where is the previous cowardice?

I kicked him in the shin and asked, "It's okay to sit all night, I also think today's decision is a bit risky." ”

Hou Jun nodded, said a few words to Shen Laojiu, and then they packed their bags, took the lead in walking towards the location of the village, just walked out of the river beach wharf, to a slope, in the distance of the river behind it, suddenly a water wave sounded, I suddenly turned around in shock and looked in the direction of the sound, the place where the movement came was the Hanoi leading to Jiaziling.

Shen Laojiu also glanced back, his expression was a little strange and a little calm. However, his nephews Scar and Ah Yu were a little overwhelmed, and they just followed behind Shen Laojiu in a little panic.

Hou Jun whispered: "When I was on the boat, Uncle Shen told me about Jiaziling, he said that when he was young, he saw that this river entered the dry period, and under the Jiaziling, there was a very deep hole, and the mouth of the hole was about five or six meters in diameter, even in the dry period, the water in it was not less, it looked black at a glance, and it was bottomless, and I heard the old man in the village say that there seemed to be a big fish in it. ”

"Fish?" I was a little surprised, "Shen Laojiu means that the one who overturned the boat was actually a fish?" ”

Hou Jun nodded affirmatively, "Uncle Shen said that he once picked up a scale by the river, the size of a fist. ”

"Nonsense, it must scare you!" The old egg leaned over and said: "Even if the Amazon Snake is not so big, it must be bragging, I heard others say that sports cars and boats are the most braggadocio of all jobs." ”

I thought for a moment and said, "Not necessarily, isn't the big red fish a strange freshwater fish?" Maybe the Yellow River has nurtured something we don't even know about for thousands or even tens of thousands of years. ”

At this time, Zhao Anyi suddenly interjected, "When I was tracking down my father's affairs before, I saw a strange record, which seems to say that a river worker once dug up a fish skeleton as big as a house, maybe Uncle Shen's words are not necessarily bragging, and there is nothing wrong with going to the village to sit for one night, what if there is really a big fish inhabiting a big hole under the Jiazi Ridge?" ”

While speaking, Shen Laojiu seemed to hear what we were talking about, turned his head and suddenly showed a smile, and said simply, "Crooked is the Yellow River, and the scales are swollen and golden." ”

Hou Jun repeated: "That's the big carp of the Yellow River!" The scales he picked up were red with gold in them. ”

I know a little bit about the big carp of the Yellow River, it is not the current Yellow River carp, it should be a more ancient species, it has long been extinct, I used to read such a report in a scientific magazine, and I thought it was nonsense, I can't imagine that there is really such a thing?

But what is it about such a big guy to fill his stomach? Other fish are definitely not good, Shen Laojiu said that the boat often capsized there, and suddenly realized that the big guy would live to this day by eating people?

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a chill.

Everyone was silent for a while, they had already crossed the not big ridge, under the moonlight a village built by the mountain can already be seen clearly, the stone house in the distance in the night and the cold moonlight, it looks gloomy and mysterious, but in my eyes there is an indescribable strangeness, especially there is a very conspicuous building in the village, standing tall, and we only know that it is a stone building when we get closer.

Ah Yu sighed: "I haven't been back for a long time. ”

After entering the village, the villagers had already slept, and the group looked very strange when walking on the road, and they could not hear a single sound. Shen Laojiu turned around and said a few words to Scar and Ah Yu, the two of them nodded, turned to us and said, "First take you to Uncle Shen's old house, and he will go to the village chief to talk about things." ”

When it was over, Shen Laojiu walked into the alley between the houses alone and disappeared into the night.

We followed Ah Yu and Scar to the old mansion, and on the way I looked up at the stone building towering in the darkness, and under the shadows, I felt more like a huge monster standing in the dark.

The old mansion is already very dilapidated, which is related to the reason why he is away all the year round, not long after putting down his bags, the wooden door outside the house creaked open, Shen Laojiu pushed the door in at this time, and an old man in a green military coat behind him also stepped into the courtyard.

Presumably, he is the village chief.