Chapter 60: A Strange Legend After a Legend

(There are no classes in the afternoon, so update early and continue tomorrow.) I would also like to thank my brother for their support in the milk sandwich flavor. Thank you. ）

"Brother Cheng, believe me, this lake can't go down." Ario said. I could see in his eyes a very tough tone. But under this toughness, I seem to see something else. It seems to be frightened.

"Why?" I walked back to a tree shade and asked him as I fanned the wind with my straw hat.

Allo looked at us, and there was a tangled look in his eyes: "Brother Tao, Brother Cheng." "Actually, there are some things I haven't told you. ”

Hearing Alho say this, He Tao frowned: "What do you mean?" ”

Allo saw that He Tao's expression was wrong, and hurriedly explained: "In fact, there is a strange thing about the legend of this Ximatang, which is also a legend. ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" I asked.

"It's so weird, I don't know if I should say it or not."

I looked at Ariello's expression: "Then you have said so now, are you going to tell us?" ”

Alho looked up at me and nodded, "This matter may have something to do with me, or maybe it has something to do with my brother." ”

I was confused by what he said. What does it mean to have something to do with him or his brother? I'm here to find what I'm looking for, what does it have to do with Ariho? But the legend that Ellio said next, I didn't feel right when I listened to it. Here's the thing:

After Alleyo's father noticed the strange changes in Ximatang, his eldest son, who was Alleyo's brother, found Mr. Feng Shui to show his father what was going on. Mr. Feng Shui shows looking at Areho's house, and then at Areho's father. Finally told Ario's father that he was going to die. However, if you want to know the reason for the mysterious disappearance of the lake overnight, you can go to the bottom of Ximatang to find it.

If this were to be replaced by some people who believed in gods and ghosts, Mr. Feng Shui's words "you are dead" alone would be enough to scare to death. But Arieu's father was a proper farmer and didn't believe in ghosts and gods at all. Moreover, Alho's father himself was also skeptical of Feng Shui. So I didn't take Mr. Feng Shui's words seriously at all. But it was this "inappropriate thing" that tragedy happened. At the end of the third year after the disappearance of Ximatang Lake, Alho's father was found as a floating corpse on the surface of Ximatang Lake by passers-by.

No one knows how Areho's father died. And because of the isolation of the village, even if there is such a major event as human life, no relevant people will come to investigate.

At this point, Ellio paused and reminded us that something even stranger was coming:

Ever since Ario's father died in the Horse Pond, the lake in the Horse Pond seems to have been taken by water ghosts (or alarmed the water ghosts who sleep under the water). As long as you don't go into the water, as long as the water is deeper than your chest, you will definitely drown.

Hearing this, He Tao asked: Won't anyone save it?

Ellio nodded and said yes. He Tao said that it would be fine, what else was weird. But Ellio then added:

Those who are rescued are often rescued. Those who can save people must die in the water. And it's drowning. No matter how good the person who saves people is, as long as they go into the water to save people, they will definitely drown.

"So since my father died here," Ellio pointed to the Ximatang in front of him, "no one has dared to go down until now." ”

I raised my head and squinted at the lake in front of me. The secluded waters of the lake sparkle in the sunlight, and there is nothing wrong with it.

"Could it be that you are exaggerating this when you spread the word?" I asked.

Ellio shook his head: "There are also people who don't believe. But the man drowned himself a year ago trying to save a child who had fallen in. ”

I sorted it out a little bit in my head, and suddenly I said, "Oh, you quarreled with your brother last night because your brother didn't want you to come here, right?" ”

Ellio nodded: "This matter of my father is too weird. Combined with what Mr. Feng Shui said, my mother thought that our family was cursed because my father saw the water god appear (his mother thought that the lake disappeared mysteriously because the water god appeared), and that if we got close to it, something would happen. ”

"Then what are you bringing us here for? It's okay to pretend you don't know. I asked.

Allo smiled and looked at He Tao: "Brother Tao usually takes care of me, and I can't sit idly by when he needs help." After a pause, he said: "And I'm also a graduate student, as a person who has gone to school and read books, how could I believe in such a strange thing." ”

I looked at Elliott's confident look and thought it was funny. I didn't believe in ghosts a month ago, but when I entered the Merriam-Webster Ancestral Hall, my worldview changed.

Ellio saw that I was smiling at him, thinking that I admired him. So he said: "Actually, I know that Brother Cheng, you definitely didn't come this time for ordinary things. So I wondered if I could follow you. After speaking, he looked at He Tao, as if he was asking He Tao's opinion.

"Follow me?" I was stunned, "What are you doing with me?" ”

"I can sense that your incident this time has something to do with my father's death. If I had followed your words, I might have found the real cause of my father's death. ”

Hearing him say this, I suddenly felt a sense of pity for him. I'm here to find my dad, even though I don't know if he's dead or alive. And Ario is trying to find the truth about his father's death.

I just wanted to nod my head in agreement, but I immediately felt that something was wrong.

Ellio is Hetao's man, and if he comes and follows me without Hetao's consent, this kind of treachery will be punished with three swords and six holes.

I looked at He Tao and found that He Tao was also looking at me. I looked at him for half a second, and then he turned his head to look at Allo: "Ah Cheng is his own person." ”

"Thank you, Brother Tao!" Alochao and Tao bowed.

"Ellio is also his own." He Tao said to me.

I nodded.

After resting in place for a while, after eating something, we planned to take a nap in the shade of the trees. After all, it's already three o'clock in the afternoon, and this time of summer tends to be the hottest. We don't need to look for excitement under the sun at this time. And this time we didn't bring a day's worth of dry food, we brought enough for three days. This means that we have enough time to walk around the washing pond in front of us and carefully survey it.

We slept until nearly five o'clock in the afternoon. I have to say that in such a hot weather, it is a pleasure to hide under the shade of a tree and blow a cool breeze to sleep.

Ellio found a rocky beach for us to go over, saying that we could spend the night there. Then he carried his things on his back, and buried the fire to make food.

Alloy brought with him the chicken, duck, and other things I can't name. Thinking that it should be his brother who went up the mountain to fight.

I sat on the rocky beach and blew the mountain breeze from the lake, smelling the wild game that was already steaming with oil flowers, and suddenly I had the illusion that I was camping.