Chapter 8: Nosy

The whole village was completely empty, I had no need to go back, I sat by the melon field for a while, got up and walked towards the river beach, the quiet river beach was covered with messy footprints, but no one was seen, thinking about so many people jumping into the river one after another, the weirdness made my heart chill. I pushed the boat back into the water, jumped on it and walked in the direction the empty boat had disappeared.

This time I walked very slowly, trying my best to observe the signs of abnormality around me, I don't know how many times I have walked this section of the river, and the familiar can not be more familiar. In fact, at this time, I already knew very well in my heart that if I wanted to find the stone coffin, unless it was willing to show itself, it would be difficult to reach the sky.

Young people always have a stubbornness, and if they recognize something, they will go to the end. As I had expected, I wandered from morning to noon, and then into the afternoon, searching with all my might, but finding nothing, and when it was dark, I docked and slept on the boat for the night, and continued to look for it the next day.

In this way, I searched around for four days in a row, and thoroughly searched the section of the river where I usually patrol the river with my grandfather, and gradually, I walked out of the Xiaopanhe Village watershed, planning to go to Dapanhe Village to inquire about it, and ask the people who usually walk by boat if they have found anything unusual in the past two days.

There was a sixty-mile waterway between the villages of the Great and Small Panhe, and that section of the waterway was located at a great bend in the river, and the river widened abruptly to slow down the speed of the water, and when I came here, it was just before dinner, and the sky was very gloomy, as if it was going to rain, so I planned to land on the shore so as not to be affected by the wind and rain. But before I actually landed, I saw two people standing on a big rock on the shore, bending down to look at the river, one of them holding a rope and iron claws in his hand, presumably salvaging something.

The people by the river eat by the river, some are boaters, some are fishermen, some are sand mining, and some are specialized in fishing in the river, which is not surprising, I didn't care at first, but when I got closer, I saw that the two men were dressed differently from the boaters, and they seemed to be from the city, and there was a very young girl among them, and because of this, they caught my attention.

At first, I didn't know what they were trying to catch, but as the distance got closer, I saw a clump of black stuff slowly floating on the surface of the river beneath their feet. It's a thing that's very familiar to people who walk boats all year round.

Hair, it must be a clump of hair submerged in water that slowly floats with the current. There is no doubt that the owner of the hair is definitely dead, a floating corpse.

Looking at the floating hair, my heart immediately tightened, and I couldn't help but shout at the two people on the shore: "Don't move it!" "

The reason why I am nervous is because this floating corpse is quite dangerous, and if it is not a person with good skills, once it is really provoked, it will die a miserable death.

Most of the people who drown in the river will float on the surface of the river in a prone position, which is a normal floating corpse. There is also a floating corpse lying on its back on the water, this kind of floating corpse is not easy to mess with, and if the boatman with little experience tries to salvage it, he may be entangled in his hands, but in the end, there will not be much danger. The most terrible thing is that the floating corpse in front of me seems to be standing upright in the water, fierce and tight, and it is rumored that people who die in the river with extreme resentment will desperately entangle anyone who comes close to it in the water.

This kind of floating corpse is the most vigilant one of the "three non-fishing" in the ancestral training of the river.

As soon as I shouted, it immediately caught the attention of the two men on the shore, and the distance between the two sides was not too far, and the young girl raised her head and said to me, "What did you say?" "

"Nothing." I felt a little panicked in my heart, touching the scene, and a sadness that I couldn't control quickly spread to my whole body, I rubbed my eyes and said, "Don't fish anymore." "

In the past, when I was cruising the river with my grandfather, when I occasionally encountered this kind of floating corpse that seemed to be walking in the water, my grandfather's face was ugly, and he would ignore the ancestral teachings and forcibly drag the floating corpse to the river bank and let the sun shine.

Grandpa hated this kind of thing, because my father died at the hands of this kind of thing.

When my father died, I was not more than two years old. No matter what happened in the past, my father was a motherless child since he was a child, and my grandfather loved him very much, and helped him take him to his twenties to marry a wife and have children. When I was cruising the river that year, there was a boat carrying people on the river in Dapanhe Village, and it was estimated that he had encountered a corpse boat, trapped in the river and couldn't walk, and a boat of people was scared to death or alive, and the people of Dapanhe Village ran a long way to ask grandpa for help. Patrolling the river is a routine business every day for the river, the thunder can't move, grandpa doesn't want to break the rules, so he thought about it, left my father to continue patrolling the river, and he himself followed the people of Dapanhe to rush to save people.

At that time, my father had been cruising the river with my grandfather for more than ten years, and he had seen almost all kinds of messy things. Grandpa knew his father's temper, and when he left, he specially explained to him, do what he should do, don't cause trouble, and Dad agreed.

After my grandfather followed the people of the Dapan River, my father continued to patrol the river, and when he walked out for about two or three miles, a few people lying on the ground and crying on the bank of the river attracted my father's attention. My dad got closer in the boat and immediately understood why the men were crying.

On the surface of the water near the riverbank, there was a floating corpse standing straight in the water, and the corpse was very strange, as if it had a scale tied to its feet, and it stopped motionless in the water. The people on the shore should be relatives and friends of the deceased, and they found it all the way along the river bank, and it is estimated that they are impassable and dare not go into the water to fish, so they gathered around the bank and cried miserably.

If my grandfather encountered such a thing while patrolling the river, he might not care, he is old, and he values the ancestral teachings very seriously, and he can't violate them for no reason. But my father was still young and enthusiastic at the time, and when he saw the grief of the relatives and friends of the deceased, he couldn't help but ask. At this question, a few people on the shore knelt on the ground as if they had met a savior, begging my father to help them and fish up the dead.

Although my father didn't have such a careful mind, he was not stupid, and he knew that this kind of floating corpse standing upright in the river was difficult to entangle, so he hesitated in his heart, and stopped in place with the boat at a loss. Among the people on the shore, there was a young woman, who was supposed to be the wife of the deceased, crying profusely, with a handful of snot and tears, and this woman was pregnant at that time, kneeling on the shore with her stomach up, and kowtowing to my father vigorously. My dad couldn't see this the most, so he finally agreed to try it.

The floating corpse in the river is quite fierce, after my father went into the water, he was entangled, at that time, we only had a ghost whip in our house, which was something that my grandfather carried, my father had nothing, and in that case, he could only fight by himself. At that time, I was still young, and I didn't know anything about it, and when I grew up, my grandfather occasionally mentioned that my father couldn't come up again when he went into the water, and was entangled alive in the water.

Father's early death made Grandpa extremely painful, and the ghost whip of the river family has always been passed down from father to son, and if the older generation does not die, the people below will not be able to get the whip. But because my father had an accident, my grandfather was afraid that I would have another accident, so he specially took the last bit of ancestral master's divine blood in the family and made me a ghost whip.

I knew how powerful this floating corpse was, so I didn't want the two people on the shore to touch their heads, so I stopped the boat and gestured to them vigorously to get them to leave. The young girl was very delicate, and probably a little curious about my appearance, and stood on the shore and talked to me from afar. I can't say a word or two about this matter, not to mention that they don't necessarily believe me if I say it, so I didn't talk nonsense, so I asked them to stop salvage.

"Who are you? How do you manage so much? Another man on the bank of the river lowered the rope in his hand and looked up at me with a look of dissatisfaction.

This man is not very old, twenty years old, burly and handsome, different from us riverside buns, he is very neatly dressed and clean, but his tone and expression are not very friendly, and there is a look of contempt for me.

"I'm just saying something, you can listen to it if you like it, and you won't listen to it if you don't like it." I never let people look down on me, and when I saw that the man's tone was not good, I felt a little angry in my heart, and I drove the boat and prepared to leave.

"Little comrade, you wait." The girl on the shore waved at me, she was a gentle and polite person, glared at her companion beside her, and shouted to me, "Is it okay to talk a few words?" "

I didn't want to bother with these things, and I was going to leave, but as soon as the girl spoke, I couldn't bear it, and I didn't want to watch her wait for any accidents. So he held back the anger in his heart, turned around to her again, and said, "That corpse can't be touched, just stay away from it." "

"Is there anything to say about this?" The girl smiled.

She is delicate and beautiful, and her smile suddenly makes me feel slightly shy, and I can't help but bow my head, hold the boat and say, "In short, it's very dangerous, don't ask more." "

"Is there a problem with your position?" The twenty-year-old man frowned, his temper might have been a little short-tempered, and pointed at me, "Have you ever read a book?" Is it educational? It's just a corpse, you don't scare people with alarmist words. "

"I haven't read a book." I suddenly became angry again: "You can do whatever you want." "

I was disgusted by his domineering and dog-eyed looks, so I simply ignored them, turned around in the boat, and prepared to make a detour.

But after turning my head, I was a little uneasy, probably still afraid that the gentle girl would be implicated, so I couldn't help but look back. When I looked at them, I felt a little furious in my heart, for I saw that the floating hair had suddenly disappeared on the surface of the river beneath their feet.

Immediately after, I felt the boat under my feet tremble slightly, and when I looked closely, the floating hair floated silently down the surface of the water at some point, and had floated to the side of the boat.

The jet-black hair floated up a little from the water, and I saw a pair of upturned eyes underneath the hair, which were a little exaggerated with a hint of a fierce evil light.