There is a big river in front of Li Mu's house, and the name is Dahe. The course of the river is a semi-circular shape, and both ends of the river are connected to the Yangtze River. Li Mu's village sits on a semi-circular stretch of land formed by the river and the Yangtze River. Embankments were built at both ends of the river, and sluices were built on the embankments. When the water level in the river drops, the village chief will order someone to open the sluice gate so that the water in the Yangtze River can be put in, and when the water level rises, the sluice gate will be closed, so that the water in the river can be cut off from the water in the Yangtze River.

The river is seven or eight miles long and more than ten meters wide, and the deepest place is even five or six meters deep. There are some aquatic plants growing in the big river, and there are also fish released from the Yangtze River, so many people in this village often hunt fish in the river.

Limu's village is still relatively backward, and although it is close to the Yangtze River, it does not have running water. The water in the Yangtze River is neither drinkable nor usable, and the water of the river is cut off by the sluices, so that the water flow is smooth and impurities are slowly precipitated, so this big river has become the source of water for the whole village. The women wash their clothes and vegetables in the river, and in the summer there are even some adults who are good at the water and swim in the river.

When Li Mu was a child, he once saw the neighbor's uncle swimming in the river, and he looked so unhappy, which made Li Mu, who was only ten years old, envious, so he also ran to the river and wanted to go down the river, but before he could take off his shoes, he was brought back by the adults in the family, and he ate a rattan feast. Originally, Li Mu was usually naughty and beaten, so grandma must have come out to stop him, but that time grandma not only did not stop him, but also asked his mother to beat him harder. At first, Li Mu was very puzzled why he was beaten so badly, but later he heard from his grandmother that people drowned in the river every year.

In the village, every household has a large water tank, which can ensure that the whole family has water for a week. Whenever the water in the tank is used up, the man in the family will carry two buckets to the river and fill the tank.

That day, there was no water in the water tank at Uncle Li Mu's house, so his uncle went to the river with a bucket to fetch water as usual. Everything was as usual, eating and sleeping, but it was not until the next morning that the family realized that something was wrong.

On weekdays, the uncle would get up very early in the morning, but the sun came out that day, but the uncle still didn't get up. Aunt Li Mu began to think that his uncle was tired, so she didn't rush to call him, but when breakfast was ready, his uncle still didn't get up. Then his aunt ran to the room to shout, but there was no movement after shouting.

When his aunt walked to the bed, she almost didn't scare his aunt. At this time, his uncle's face was pale and a little blue, and he still spit bubbles out of his mouth. His aunt reached out and touched his uncle's face tremblingly, and found that the tentacles were cold. This frightened his aunt and hurriedly ran to find Li Mu's father.

Li Mu's father and his uncle were also shocked by this appearance, and hurriedly asked people to send his uncle to the hospital.

When I went to the hospital for an examination, I didn't find anything wrong, which made the doctors in the hospital feel strange. The hospital also tried a variety of treatments but did not improve, so they suggested that they send Uncle Li Mu to the provincial hospital, but the provincial hospital was also helpless, and in the end, the hospital in the provincial city directly made Li Mu's family mentally prepared.

As soon as she heard that Uncle Li Mu was not saved, Aunt Li Mu cried and fainted at that time. Now everything fell on the shoulders of Li Mu's father. Seeing this, Li Mu's father also gritted his teeth and directly pulled Uncle Li Mu back, saying that he couldn't die in a foreign land.

After coming back, Li Mu's father called Li Mu and asked him to come back.

Li Mu felt that his uncle's illness was too sudden and also very strange, just when he was a little puzzled, he saw An Zhiquan also walked into the room, and even lifted the quilt covering the uncle.

"What are you doing?" Aunt Li Mu saw a stranger running in and recklessly trying to move her husband, so she immediately screamed.

Li Mu knew that An Zhiquan would not lift his uncle's quilt for no reason, so he hurriedly said to his aunt: "Auntie, he is my friend, is ...... It's a doctor, don't be nervous! ”

Of course, Li Mu would not tell An Zhiquan's identity, so he temporarily asked An Zhiquan to act as an old Chinese medicine doctor. After speaking, Li Mu came to An Zhiquan's side and asked in a low voice, "What?" What did you find? ”

"Not yet, but don't you think the yin qi is very heavy?" An Zhiquan checked on Uncle Li Mu, but found no clues for a while.

Li Mu is concerned about chaos, and his heart was messed up when he knew that the uncle might not be able to do it, so he didn't think of the psychic observation environment at all. Now after An Zhiquan's reminder, he hurriedly looked at it, and sure enough, he found that the room was shrouded in a trace of yin qi, but when he looked at his uncle, he found that the yin qi on his uncle's body was heavier. It stands to reason that it is normal for people to have some yin qi on their bodies when they are dying, but they will not have such heavy yin qi. Moreover, Li Mu could even feel that this yin qi had a wet feeling, as if it was a thick fog.

"Look!" Seeing that Li Mu had discovered the strangeness of the yin qi, An Zhiquan reminded Li Mu to carefully observe his uncle's skin.

Li Mu didn't take a closer look at it just now, but now if he looks closely, he does find that his uncle's skin is different from ordinary people, and the miserable white and blue is obvious, but Li Mu found that the uncle, who was originally very thin, now seems to have gained weight out of thin air. Li Mu pressed his uncle's skin with his fingers again, and found that there was a feeling of swelling.

"What the hell is going on?" The abnormal changes that occurred in the uncle's body made Li Mu confused.

"Judging from the changes in your uncle, it's an evil one!"

"Hit the devil?"

"Yes, look here!" While speaking, An Zhiquan rolled up Uncle Li Mu's left trouser tube.

Li Mu saw An Zhiquan's movements and also looked at the uncle's left foot, and then he saw that there was a bruise on the ankle of the uncle's left foot.

"This ...... What is it? Aunt Li Mu heard Li Mu introduce An Zhiquan as a doctor before, and she had some expectations in her heart. So the three of them also leaned over slowly, and at this time, after seeing An Zhiquan rolling up her husband's trousers, she found that there was an extra bruise on her husband's ankle.

"Auntie, did you have this bruise on your uncle's feet before?" Li Muneng could hear from the aunt's exclamation that this bruise didn't seem to have appeared before.

"Amu, what is this, I didn't have it when I wiped your uncle's body two days ago."

Auntie's words undoubtedly confirmed Li Mu's guess, but Li Mu didn't know what this bruise was, but since An Zhiquan could find out, maybe he knew something. Obviously, it is not convenient to say these things at this time, so Li Mu stabilized his aunt first and then took An Zhiquan to his own house.

"Xiao Anzi, what is that bruise?" As soon as he got home, Li Mu couldn't wait to figure out the bruise.

"Look at it, what does that bruise look like?"

Li Mu thought carefully about the bruises on the uncle's feet in his mind, but he couldn't see what it looked like.

"It doesn't look like a hand-scratched mark." An Zhiquan saw that Li Mu couldn't think of it, so he told him directly.

"Hand scratches, you mean?" An Zhiquan said so much, which made Li Mu seem to think of something in his heart.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's a ghost scratch. Usually caught by a ghost, it will manifest after three days. ”

"Three days? But my aunt said she hadn't seen it two days ago! ”

This time, An Zhiquan thought for a while before continuing: "Maybe it's because your uncle was sent to the provincial hospital, thinking that it was far away, so the time for the ghost scratch mark to appear was affected, and it didn't start to appear until your uncle was pulled back." ”

After listening to An Zhiquan's explanation, Li Mu suddenly realized, but he had another question in his heart, that is, where his uncle was arrested by a ghost.

"According to the yin qi on your uncle's body, it can be seen that your uncle should have been caught by a water ghost."

"Water ghosts!?" No wonder Li Mu felt that the yin qi had a wet feeling, it turned out to be a water ghost.

If it is a water ghost, then Uncle Li Mu must have been carrying water when he encountered a water ghost. Thinking of this, Li Mu wanted to go to his aunt and ask where the uncle was carrying water, but An Zhiquan stopped him and told him that there was a more important thing waiting for him to do.

"Looking at the current situation, your uncle may not be able to survive tonight, so tonight we have to ensure that your uncle's soul will not be hooked away, if once the soul is hooked away, then it may be difficult to save it again."

An Zhiquan's words made Li Mu really realize the seriousness of the matter, and it seems that the most important thing at the moment is how to spend tonight safely. In order not to let the uncle's soul be snatched away, Li Mu and An Zhiquan discussed for a while before coming out to prepare the things to be used at night.

With the old hemp rope, the blood of the rooster, and a few long hairs of the two cousins, then Li Mu went to find the thickest willow tree in the village and tore off a few yellowed willow sticks from the tree, and then Li Mu prepared some other things.

At night, Li Mu asked everyone in the family to leave the house, but everyone had to ask Li Mu the reason, Li Mu only said that he wanted to treat the uncle and didn't want anyone to disturb him, but everyone still insisted on staying in the house, and in the end Li Mu had to take a step back and let them leave the uncle's room.

Dangdangdang......

The old-fashioned desk clock at home thought about it twelve times in a row, and by this time the whole family had fallen asleep. However, Li Mu and An Zhiquan were shocked by their spirits, because they knew that the people in the underworld were probably about to arrive.

The electric light in the house was not turned on, and Li Mu lit a candle. At this time, a sudden gust of wind blew, and the candlelight swayed in the wind.

"It's coming!" An Zhiquan reminded loudly.

Sure enough, Li Mu saw two shadows outside the house wearing high hats, one black and one white, appearing in sight.

"Black and white impermanence!"