Chapter Twenty-Seven: Weighing Stones and Floating on Water

"I'm rubbing, why didn't you say it earlier?"

As soon as I heard that last night was so thrilling, a baby girl ghost came to him several times, the mouse was so frightened that he jumped up suddenly, and his back was cold, and he said that he was fortunate to be young and vigorous, otherwise both of them would be in danger.

The old man replied quite reasonably: "How would you react if I had told you at the time?" ”

"Then you don't need to ask, hurry home, you won't stay here for a second, it's terrifying."

"Isn't that over, you young man has fast legs, I definitely can't catch up, I don't dare to be too presumptuous with you in that female ghost, if you run away, I'm alone, what will happen to you?" That's why I won't tell you, lest you be afraid. ”

"You can do it, next time don't say that I will accompany you to see the well, don't even think about it."

Rats said this, the rest of the things are lackluster, such things are not too unusual in the countryside, many people have heard similar legends, but the real experience and hearsay are completely different.

At this point in the story, everyone listened to the creepy, even I felt that my scalp was fried, my hair stood on end, and at night, a group of brothers sat together to tell ghost stories, and most of them were personal experiences, and this infectious force made everyone present feel uncomfortable.

At this moment, there was a sudden terrible wolf howl outside, which frightened everyone to stand up at once, and shined out through the window with a flashlight, and it was pitch black outside, and the moon was covered by dark clouds, as if it was going to rain soon.

After taking pictures for a long time, nothing was found, not to mention that there could be no wolves in this place, and even if there were, we couldn't find it, because the wild grass around was waist-high, and there was a wolf hidden in it, just like playing, and it was impossible to be discovered.

"There won't be wolves around here, will they? I didn't hear of a wolf when I came? ”

Xiao Qiang asked us tremblingly, as if he would be relieved to get a positive answer from us, but none of us dared to give him a positive answer.

Supposedly, I have done a very thorough investigation before coming, there can be no wolves here, but there are no absolutes in the world, God knows if the cage of the zoo in the nearby city is not closed, and one or two escapes?

In the early years, there was such an example, there was a zoo keeper in a second- or third-tier city who was careless and forgot to lock the cage after feeding the old tiger, and as a result, in the middle of the night, the tiger ran out of the cage and went to the downtown area, causing extreme panic among the citizens.

Of course, the tiger did not hurt anyone, and was knocked down by the police with a tranquilizer gun and sent back to the zoo.

I'm the foreman, and if something like this happens, it's naturally my responsibility to take a look, and if there really is a wolf, everyone will have time to prepare.

To be honest, I really didn't want to go, but I couldn't go if I didn't go, so I could only copy a steel pipe and turn it around outside.

Supposedly, I should have gone to the place where the wolf howl was heard, but I was also frightened, even if I had the amulet that Lao Wu gave me, but the amulet could only protect me from the attack of evil things, but it could not protect me from being bitten to death by wolves.

Therefore, I only walked around the house and then came back straight to the errand, with no one to accompany me, and I really didn't have the courage to look for something that howled in the middle of the night.

When everyone saw that I didn't find anything, they naturally knew that I didn't really go over to look for it, but no one could say anything, because they also knew that even if they let them go, it would be the same result, and they were not heroes with a bear's heart and a leopard's guts.

After the story of the mouse was finished, and we had another round of trouble outside, we quickly went back to the room and sat down, this time there was silence for a long time, and no one spoke, and the scene seemed a little weird.

The old grandson coughed and said: "Let me tell you a thing that I once experienced, this incident happened in the sixties of the last century, and half a century has passed, but I have always remembered this incident very deeply, until now I feel as if it just happened when I close my eyes......

Lao Sun Tou is approaching seventy this year, and it stands to reason that he should no longer suffer from the wind and sun on the construction site, and should have enjoyed Qingfu at home a long time ago, but he is an idle person, although he is old, but he works very hard, how much strength he has, don't worry about him being lazy.

It was because of this that I drove the young man in his twenties away and left him behind, and the story told by the old grandson happened when he was seventeen or eighteen years old.

At that time, their family planted some fresh vegetables, and whenever there was a fair, they would use a small tricycle to carry some beans, tomatoes and other vegetables to the market to sell.

Nowadays, electronic scales are used in the market, even illiterate people can quickly grasp it, but there were no such advanced high-tech gadgets back then, and they all used plate scales or hook scales at that time.

Although Lao Sun Tou's house is also in the countryside, it is less than ten miles away from the old county seat, and there is not a meeting every day, but once every other day.

Every time there is a rally, he will ride a small three-wheeler with fresh vegetables just picked from his own field from four or five o'clock in the morning to the market to catch up, at that time there is no chengguan, but there is no need to worry about being driven away, but there are many people selling vegetables in each market, so you need to rush to occupy a good position as soon as possible.

Modern people know, what is a prime location? It is a place where every inch of land is valuable, with dense traffic and unlimited business opportunities, so that such a place can be called a prime location.

At that time, although people did not have the concept of a prime location, they also knew where to buy more, where no one cared, and everyone wanted to occupy a favorable geographical location.

On this day, the old grandson rode a tricycle to the market to sell vegetables, but because he got up late, he did not catch up with the good lot, a cart of vegetables was only sold half, and at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, there was basically no one in the market, although the vegetables were not sold out, but this was also a helpless thing, so he packed up the stall and prepared to leave.

Because this county is the old county town left over from the Ming and Qing dynasties, there is a wide moat around it, and the local people call it Haizi, which is very similar to Yanjing.

When riding to the moat, Lao Sun Tou stopped the car, took off his plate and scale, and prepared to go to the water's edge to rinse it, wash his hands and face by the way, and sober up.

However, as soon as he reached the edge of the moat, his hand slipped, and the weighing stone slipped off the scale pole and rolled into the water.

The old grandson was shocked, this scale is not like something else, if you lose it, you will lose it, this is a necessity for selling vegetables by yourself, and according to the price at that time, a scale is also quite expensive, and the profit from selling a cart of vegetables by yourself is at most to buy one, and you can't lose it.

Without thinking, the old grandson hurriedly chased after it, wanting to pick it up before the scale rolled into the water, otherwise it would be difficult to find it once it rolled into the water.

However, at this time, a strange thing happened, and the old grandson watched the scale roll into the water, but it did not sink, but floated on the water.

Scales can float, Pangu has not heard of a strange thing so far, as we all know, the scales are made of iron, and I have never heard of the saying that iron lumps can float in water.

A discerning person can see at a glance that there is something at work that attracts people to come and salvage so that it can pull you into the water as a substitute for the dead, what is it that can do such a thing? The answer is imminent, and that is the water ghost.

The moat of the old county town is very large, and the water is also very deep, and it is said that there is a spring under the water, which leads directly to the underground river, so the water depth is four or five meters all year round, and in some places it even exceeds ten meters.

And every summer, many people like to go to the moat to bathe and cool off, some people with bad water surnames are easy to drown, until now, the water in the sea around the old county town is still very deep.

Lao Sun Tou didn't think much about it at the time, thinking that the water was not deep, and once the scale was in the water, it would be difficult to roll forward after the resistance of the water.

The old grandson didn't want to lose the scale, so he came to the water's edge and used the scale rod to pick the rope nose on the scale, as long as the scale rod was threaded into the rope nose, it was easy to lift it.

However, when the old grandson came to the water's edge and stretched out the weighing rod, the weighing stone actually floated in with the water, and he saw that his hand was almost out of reach, and the water on the shore was actually not deep, as long as he rolled up his trousers and walked in two steps, he could pick up the weighing stone.

At this time, it was not dark, and it was not more than four o'clock in the afternoon and less than five o'clock, many people in the neighborhood walked in the shade of the trees to enjoy the coolness, and saw this scene of the old grandson, and someone came over on the side, ready to persuade the old grandson to give up the scale.

From ancient times to the present, I have never heard of the scale floating in the water, there must be a water ghost at work, luring the old grandson into the water, and then drowning it in the water to be his own substitute ghost.

The old grandson is not stupid, he naturally understands this, and seeing that he can't reach it with a weighing rod, the old grandson didn't go into the water, but found a longer branch nearby to continue salvage.

However, as soon as the branch is almost within reach, the scale will drift some distance farther away, and it will not reach it anyway.

"I don't want it, you can keep it and play."

As soon as the old grandson stomped his feet, he turned around and left, he also knew that he was terrible, and he must not go into the water at this time, otherwise he would definitely die.

Just after he turned around, the scale sank silently to the bottom of the water, it seemed that the water ghost saw that the old grandson was not fooled, and it was not interesting to continue the performance, so he gave up, and after he got on the road, the people nearby came to tell him that this Haizi evil door is very, just now everyone saw your scale floating in the water and knew that the water ghost was looking for a substitute, fortunately the old grandson was smart, otherwise he would have to be a vain ghost.

The old grandson was also scared for a while, and his head was a little confused at the time, but when he walked to the water's edge, he suddenly came to his senses, I don't know if it was because someone found that the water ghost didn't dare to be too presumptuous or if he was blessed with a great life, in short, he picked up a life.

He had heard such legends before, but it was just a legend, there was no real evidence, and the real surname needed to be verified, but it was too difficult to verify what was passed down by word of mouth.

The story that Lao Sun Tou heard is very short, and it can be explained clearly in a few words, so I will briefly talk about it here, and let everyone understand the tricks of water ghosts to harm people.