Rice is glutinous rice, which is used to ward off evil spirits.

Shen Laojiu's approach is not inappropriate, of course, I don't know these very well, after getting on the boat, Lao Dan whispered to me, in the novels he read, there are also some practices, which should belong to a more traditional and superficial ritual, which can be done by everyone.

The boat we took was two speedboats, but one was a little bigger than the ordinary speedboat, and there was a special box near the motor, which contained two barrels full of fuel, after all, the rest of the road was basically a waterway, and the fuel had to be guaranteed to run back and forth.

Ah Yu took Hou Jun and Zhao Anyi to sit on another boat.

The ship that Scar operated me, Lao Dan and Shen Lao Jiu was sitting on walked in front, looking at the dusk under the sun, I couldn't help asking, "Why is it so slow." ”

The scar at the stern of the boat said: "You don't take the boat much, once you drive fast, the water surface is fast, it is easy to jolt continuously, it is easy to shake you off the boat, and if you don't get it right, you will be washed away by the undercurrent, when the time comes, where will we go to find people in the muddy Yellow River water?" ”

I also know what he said, but at this speed, it is estimated that he has not yet arrived at Jiaziling until midnight, and most of the time he will have to spend time on the boat tonight, and he would have known that they are sailing like this, it is better to spend the night on the shore just now, at least it is safer to stay in the car than on the boat, and he looked back intentionally or unintentionally at the handprints on the scar's foot and neck, and his heart was a little hairy.

Dusk receded, approaching night, the boat raised the night light, through the brightness of the light, I saw the boat behind, Shen Laojiu suddenly stood up, lifted a big red rooster and walked to the bow of the boat, the chicken raised its neck, hoarsely barked, as if knowing its fate down, wanted to struggle.

Shen Laojiu took out a bright knife from behind him, and saw that his hand was up and down, and he simply cut off the head of the live chicken with a sharp knife, the headless chicken body fluttered its wings indiscriminately, and a large amount of chicken blood spurted out from the broken neck. Shen Laojiu didn't delay, after the chicken head fell into the river, he took the chicken body upside down and stretched it to the river, and the chicken blood dripped into the ripples of the boat, and then disappeared.

I asked Scar curiously, "What is your Uncle Shen doing?" ”

"Since ancient times, the Yellow River has never been crossed at night, if you want to cross the sacrifice tribute! This sentence should not be difficult for you, a scholar. Scar glanced at what was happening behind him, and said, "It was very dangerous to cross the Yellow River at night, but we will eat this line, and since you are not afraid, then we will follow you." ”

I pouted and had nothing to say, I looked at the old egg, this guy actually fell asleep with his big bag closed, my nerves were not as big as his, and my heart was somewhat nervous, especially looking at the cliffs on both sides, I couldn't see what was hanging on it, and some of the protruding rocks were big like unknown monsters lying there, which made people feel empty.

At this time, the people on the two ships barely communicated, there was an eerie silence, the old egg was dozing off again, and Scar was staring intently at the water, his eyes did not blink, as if he was about to stare at something.

Later, Zhao Anyi and the others couldn't see their expressions clearly, but they only saw the outline of their clothes. Inadvertently, I looked up at the steep cliff wall, and suddenly found a large square hole that had been reclaimed, and there was a small house inside, but the roof seemed to be dilapidated, most of it had collapsed, and the wall was also partial, revealing a gap, but I couldn't see it clearly, I turned on the flashlight and wanted to shine it over, and as soon as I took a look, I heard Scar scold: "Don't look!" ”

I was so scared that I didn't have time to take a second look, and with a shake of my hand, the flashlight fell directly to the bottom of the boat.

"That's the Great King Temple!" Scar Tie blushed and said, "Your actions just now angered the Yellow River King, remember not to look at it after nightfall, especially some things that shouldn't be seen." ”

was reprimanded, I had no choice but to sit back in my position, sit down, and found that the old man next to me was standing and trembling involuntarily, I pushed him and said, "What's the matter with you, you have a high fever?" ”

As I spoke, I reached out to touch his forehead, and as soon as I reached over, Lao Dan suddenly half-opened his eyes, stared at me with a pair of pupils and said, "Lao Li, I suddenly miss the bed in the dormitory, really!" I've never thought of it that way in my life. ”

I don't know how excited the old egg was when he came, and suddenly said these words after such a while? I glanced at him strangely, and suddenly my whole body froze, and my eyes slowly moved to the edge of the boat on his side, where a blue-black palm was picking at it, motionless.

My scalp suddenly went numb, the whole person trembled and shrank back, the old egg was almost about to cry, the scar seemed to see our abnormality, without saying a word, he directly pulled out a knife, pulled the old egg, and the knife was cut down.

With a clang, the blade slammed on the edge of the boat, and I looked at it, and the blue and black palm did not appear to be cut off, but had long since disappeared, and I stood up with palpitations and asked, "What happened to that palm just now?" ”

Scar exhaled, "Water monkey!" ”

The old man stared wide-eyed and said, "Water monkeys? Kelpie! Can't imagine that it really exists? ”

Scar put the knife away and gestured to Shen Laojiu behind him, probably telling them what they had discovered, and then Scar continued to sit back next to the motor before he spoke: "Water monkeys can be said to be water ghosts, but water ghosts are not necessarily water monkeys, you are lucky, you didn't sleep on the edge of the boat, otherwise you would have been caught, don't talk about us after you go down, even professional divers can't save you." ”

Tell me about water ghosts, I understand, but when I say water monkeys, I don't know much about them, are there still monkeys in the water?

Scar explained: "I haven't seen the whole picture of the water monkeys, these guys are actually very mysterious, but they often walk by the river, where do you not know, just last year did our line of work a colleague heard that he was dragged into the water by this kind of ghostly thing." I heard that this kind of guy looks about the same size as a three- or four-year-old child, his whole body is black, and he has infinite strength underwater, and several strong men are not necessarily opponents, and they look like monkeys, so the folk generally call them water monkeys, but many people think that water monkeys are water ghosts, which is wrong! ”

I looked at him in amazement, "Have you ever seen a water ghost?" ”

Suddenly, Scar's expression froze, and he pointed to the scar on his face and said, "This is what the water ghost injured!" ”

Before I could continue to ask, a bright light shone from behind, and after a few flickers, Scar stood up and looked ahead, and said to me, "Turn off all the lights!" ”

What's going on? The old man and I felt a little uneasy.

They even turned off the motor, and only the sound of the Yellow River could be heard on the entire water, and after a while, Scar whispered, "It's coming!" ”

What's coming? Lao Dan and I were infected by the atmosphere, and we didn't dare to come out, so we looked at the river on the boat like a scar, and in the dark distance, a shadowy black shadow floated over.

The black shadow is not big, it is long, and it rises and falls in the water with the waves.

"What is this?" The old egg couldn't help asking.

Scar scolded in a short voice: "Don't speak!" ”

PS: I participated in the essay contest, regardless of whether it can be shortlisted or not, you can try it anyway.