Despite this, the people in the village still have palpitations and dare not wash their clothes and swim in this pond. So, there was a small pond on the opposite side of the road. The laundry and vegetable washers naturally moved to the small pond.

Daddy decided to transfer this dangerous woman to Big Pond because Big Pond had this story. In this way, the stone ox in the pond can suppress her and prevent her from harming others.

So, Daddy and Millet waited until the dead of night to come to the big water tank again and pulled the woman out again with silk.

"Let's go, I'll take you somewhere else." Daddy ordered.

She was a little frightened and asked, "Where to go?" ”

"You'll know when you get there." Daddy said.

"But I can't stay out of the water for too long, or I'll die." She said timidly.

"Don't you want to die?"

A bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and she said: "People want to kill themselves, if it's not for love, they just don't want to be tortured before they die." Me too. I want to die a good death, a happy death. But you let me leave the water and die of thirst, and the process of dying was too tormenting. ”

"I've only heard that water ghosts can't leave the water, but you don't look like a water ghost, so why are you afraid to leave the water?" Daddy is confident that it is more than enough to deal with water ghosts, and this woman's strength is not something that a water ghost looking for a stand-in can have.

"I'm not a water ghost, I'm a water guest. The way to die is different, but they are all inseparable from water. If you hadn't wrapped the silk around me that day, I wouldn't have come out of the water. She said.

"Waterman?" Grandpa had never heard of such a title.

"You called us eight-eyed ghosts." She said angrily, "It's an ugly name! We call ourselves water people. ”

"Oh, it's an eight-eyed ghost!" Grandpa nodded. The eight-eyed ghost is easily thought of as a water ghost, but it is very different from a water ghost. As long as the water ghost finds a stand-in, he can get rid of the confinement of water and re-enter the cycle of reincarnation. The Eight-Eyed Ghost is a vampire in the water. If it catches someone, it will bite the person's blood and suck the blood dry when it drowns the person. It is very difficult to re-enter samsara, and only by constantly sucking people's blood can the soul be maintained.

The eight-eyed ghost actually does not have eight eyes, and is called eight-eyed because people who are sucked by it will hallucinate due to lack of blood, and when they see it, they often overlap their eyes, thinking that it has eight eyes.

Grandpa had been to a seaside town when he traveled before, and heard a rumor that more than 50 people were imprisoned in a cave connected to the sea near the sea, and more than 50 people were half on the surface of the water and half under the water. These people were not criminals, nor were they kidnapped by bandits, but were caught by the eight-eyed ghost when they went swimming in the sea. The eight-eyed ghost gave them good food and drink, and raised them well, but at night they bit the blood vessels of their lower body underwater and drank blood. Later, the cave was discovered and more than 50 people were rescued. More than fifty people, all of whom had their upper bodies intact, and their lower bodies were littered with rotten holes that could not heal underwater. But it was a male eight-eyed ghost, and more than a dozen women in it were all violated by it. Fortunately, no monsters were born later.

"You don't have to worry. We'll take you to a big pond that won't let you die of thirst. I have a lot of questions for you. Daddy said.

Grandpa saw that Zhu Luozi happened to come to his feet, so he said: "Zhu Luozi, you go and explore the way for us, don't let Luo Buzhai and them see it." ”

The bamboo slipper immediately ran out and soon returned, grabbing his grandfather's trouser leg and signaling that he could now go out.

The sailor did not want to come out of the tank, and begged, "I saw you take a fishing rod and a small wooden bucket that day. Can you fill the cask with some water and bring me in the cask? ”

"Can such a small place accommodate you?" Grandpa remembered the scene of Chu Guihou's fighting ghost crawling out of the crack in the stone. The elasticity of some spirits is incredible.

Grandpa asked Millet to bring a small wooden bucket over, scooped some water from the large water tank and poured it into the small wooden bucket.

The water guest climbed out of the tank and plunged headlong into the small wooden barrel. There seemed to be a bottomless pit underneath that little barrel. After the water guest's head was put in, his body actually shrank in.

Millet shook the small wooden barrel, there was only clear water in it, and there was no water in sight. However, that piece of silk is still in Xiaomi's hands.

Grandpa lifted the small wooden barrel and found that the weight had not increased much. No wonder Xiaomi was able to catch the sailors alone.

Grandpa and Millet carried the small wooden barrel to the entrance of the village, tied it to the stone stake on the shore, and then poured the water from the small wooden barrel into the large pond. When pouring water, Daddy heard a "pop" sound, like a ball of stones falling into the water.

The sailor's hands and feet were bound by the sting, so she didn't worry about climbing to the shore to untie the stake from the stake. She couldn't even climb ashore.

The stone stake was tied to the stone ox at the bottom of the pond, but now it was tied to an eight-eyed ghost.

This large pond is usually not approached by people, and the silk itself is so small that it is almost invisible, so it basically does not attract the attention of passers-by.

After placing the water guests, Grandpa and Xiaomi returned home.

Zhao Xianyun was a little surprised when she saw her grandfather and Xiaomi coming back with a small wooden barrel, but she didn't ask anything. She never asked her grandfather why he did anything. As long as Daddy decides to do it, she will silently support it. Zhao Xianyun always supported her grandfather like this until she died.

Zhao Xianyun brought a basin and footbasin with warm water to his father and millet, and asked his father to wash it himself, and she helped him wash it.

After washing, Zhao Xianyun went to pour water and made Xiaomi's bed again.

When Xiaomi fell asleep, Zhao Xianyun and his father lay down to sleep.

Sleeping until midnight, Grandpa and Zhao Xianyun were woken up by a burst of heavy footsteps. Zhao Xianyun wanted to get up, but her father pressed her.

The footsteps sounded like they were circling outside the window. The moonlight outside was bright, but there was no shadow of anyone outside the window.

Grandpa got up and approved a piece of clothing and went out to see.

The moon outside couldn't be fuller, and the moonlight couldn't be brighter. Every grass, stone, and crack in the ground can be seen clearly.

Daddy looked in the direction of the bedroom window and saw a majestic buffalo. The buffalo walked in circles around the window, trampling the field to shreds. The ground had been tamped, but the buffalo was wet, dripping from under its belly. The compacted soil had been soaked by water and trampled back and forth by the heavy ox's feet, and it had rotted into porridge.

Whose cow came here? Grandpa was puzzled.

Because the buffalo ploughs the land in the paddy fields all year round, it has a lot of communication with people, so it is very humane. Even if the reins are broken, the buffalo will not run around and will even walk back to the owner's house on its own after eating the grass.

When Daddy approached, he found that the buffalo's nose was bleeding, and every drop on the ground was like a blooming plum blossom.

Buffalo noses have nasal plugs. And this buffalo does not have a nose plug on its nose. Apparently it broke the nasal plug free. When a cow has to break free of its nose, it's very, very painful. It is precisely because people see the weakness of the cow's nose that they subdue the cow, which is many times stronger than a person, and make use of it. And the cow, which was originally many times stronger than man, succumbed to man because he couldn't stand the fragility of his nose.

Daddy guessed that the buffalo must have been greatly stimulated if it was able to break free of its nose.

Indeed, the buffalo is still shedding tears. Buffaloes don't usually shed tears, either because they are suffering immensely, or because they know they are about to die.

When the buffalo saw his father approaching, he stopped turning in circles, and the two cows stared at his father gently, as if they had something to say.

Grandpa glanced at it, and there was a feeling of déjà vu, as if it was a reunion of old friends after a long absence. Daddy could see a lot of surging and suppressed emotions in his eyes.

"Is there something wrong with you coming to me so late?" Grandpa couldn't help but ask the cow. He felt that the cow understood him.

The cow opened his mouth and actually said the human word: "Long time no see, you are finally here!" ”

Grandpa was stunned for a moment and asked, "Do you know me?" ”

"A hundred years ago, you threw me into the big pond at the entrance of the village!"

Grandpa's scalp was numb and said, "Are you a stone cow in the big pond at the entrance of the village?" He immediately understood why the buffalo's nose was bleeding. The stone stakes on the shore are the ones that imprison it, and in order to come here, it must break free from its shackles.

"You told me to save people in the pond and prevent the monkeys from pulling people into the water, and you said that after a hundred years I had achieved good deeds, they would release me. This year marks its 100th year. Niu said.

"I ...... Ever said something like this? Daddy was puzzled.

"Of course. Otherwise, how could I break free of my nose plug and come to you? I've been guarding it for a hundred years, and I'm finally looking forward to the end, you can't talk and don't count! Niu said.

"A hundred years ago, I wasn't born yet, how could I say something like that to you?" Daddy asked.

The cow kicked his hooves and said, "A hundred years ago, when you were passing by Fengjiazhuang, you were stopped by the people of Thrush Village and asked you to help deal with the things in the big pond. After the people of Thrush Village told you about the situation, you saw a huge stone on the way from Fengjiazhuang to Thrush Village, and asked someone to carve the huge stone into a stone ox. That was my prototype. You collect the essence of heaven and earth and give me spiritual wisdom. You collect the night's grievances and give me yin power. You say that if I suppress underwater for a hundred years, I will not only be able to benefit, but I will also purify my own grievances and become a new spirit. You said that in a hundred years, you would release my imprisonment and set me free. I remember all these things vividly, and I have never forgotten them. When I saw a man fall into the water, I put my back against him to prevent him from sinking. Later, when the monkey man saw that I was fighting against me, he stopped bothering me. I had nothing to do, so I gradually fell asleep, and in the evening a sailor broke into my territory and woke me up. I thought that the monkey trickster was going to hurt people when I wasn't looking. When I opened my eyes, it turned out that you had poured her into the water on the shore. ”