Chapter 176: Drowning
Before the words fell, wisps of black gas suddenly emanated from the top of Ergouzi's head, which was very faint and almost undetectable, but the old Chinese medicine doctor still saw it.
After pulling out the needle, Ergouzi recuperated at home for nearly a month before recovering, and since then he has never come back very late, and he came out of the mountains before it was dark.
Listening to his words, we all had a great interest in that Liu Laohan and Lao Langzhong, because it is not difficult to see from his narrative that Liu Laohan should also be a person who knows a little magic, otherwise it would be impossible to go to the cemetery in the middle of the night.
Not to mention the old Chinese medicine practitioners, although there are many people in the standard fellow practitioners, although there are many people in the poll bureau, there are more hidden masters in the people, most of these people are unknown, their names are only circulated in a small area, especially in a small mountain village like this, if it were not for our arrival, maybe no one would ever know that in such a small mountain village, there is also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, hiding such a master.
Just when we were about to ask the village chief to invite Lao Langzhong and Liu Laohan to come over to meet, there was a sudden sound of wolf howling outside, which was so terrible and distant that I, a plainman who had never lived in a mountain village, stood up all of a sudden.
"Don't be afraid, it's just wolves, they don't dare to come into the village, they just wander outside the village." The village chief comforted me, and at this time, when the meal was almost finished, the outside proposed to leave the field and take a walk outside.
Of course, the village chief didn't have any opinions, so he asked Ergouzi and a few other villagers to accompany us around the village, because there are always supernatural events, and the people in the village close the courtyard doors almost at night, and use the ashes of the pot to block a line at the gate to prevent dirty things from entering their own doors.
Since it is in the countryside, every household has a ground fire, and the ash at the bottom of the pot is easy to find, and I don't want to be in the city. Every household either uses a gas stove or a rice cooker, which is trouble-free and clean, but there is only one disadvantage, that is, there is no floor fire.
In ancient times, the most important thing to judge whether a house is popular is to see if the house has a fire, and if there is a fire, it will be popular, and the popularity without fire will be more than a cut worse.
After having the experience of a small village, I already have some instinctive resistance to this kind of mountain village, for fear that it will be some kind of zombie or something.
But this time is different from the past, and there are many people here. Even a few elders have come over, and if there is any abnormality, I will definitely not be able to hide from these people's eyes, so I don't have to worry about it.
Building houses in mountain villages is completely different from those in the plains, because the layout of the houses in the plains is almost the same, while in the mountainous areas, in order to build houses, they must choose some places with good lighting and relatively flat ground, while the terrain in the mountainous areas is complex, and often only a few families can be accommodated in one place. A village, sometimes far from that house.
Walking on the trail of the mountain village, we checked the feng shui landforms in the village as we walked to see if there was anything unreasonable. At the same time, use your super sixth sense to feel if there is anything dirty around you.
I was nervous, but the old guys didn't seem to be nervous at all, and they talked and laughed with the villagers.
Although this village is a mountain village, it is close to the mountains. But they also grow wheat, rice, vegetables, and the like, so that if you rely on game alone, you won't starve people.
Therefore, there is also a threshing floor at the head of the village. This is a place with good feng shui, the first lighting is very good, even better than some houses, and the overall ground is also very flat, and next to the threshing floor there are some ancient things that can only be seen on TV, such as stone stones, lao stones, grinding pans, etc.
The full moon hangs high, the clouds are light and the wind is light, if you don't know that this village is haunted, now this kind of scene is most suitable for the goddess to spend the moon together.
"It's better in the mountains! The air is unpolluted, and even the stars are exceptionally bright, much better than the smog in the city. ”
Seeing this beautiful and peaceful night scene, Qin Yue couldn't help but revel in it, after all, she was still a little girl, although her personality was a bit of a woman, but when she encountered this kind of romantic night, she couldn't help but expose her romantic nature.
When we walked here, everyone was tired, so they randomly found a place to sit down and chatted while resting.
Because we all know magic, we try to avoid talking about ghosts and the like in our chats.
According to these villagers, every once in a while, a person in their village dies mysteriously, and the death is strange, some of them hang themselves inexplicably, and some of them fall into the water, especially if they fall into the water, which is particularly weird.
This is what another person told us, in that waterhole south of their village, there was once more than one person drowned, and Xiaohong was just one of them.
Ten years ago, one day there was a heavy rainfall, the flow of water upstream suddenly increased, and the water level of the waterhole also increased, the waterhole itself is not deep, it is more than one meter less than two meters, and the spring water is clear, you can see the bottom at a glance, even if someone falls into the water, as long as you maintain a standing posture, you will never drown.
However, the rainstorm ten years ago came very strangely without warning, one moment the sun was shining, the next moment it was cloudy, lightning and thunder, and then it was a downpour.
As the water from the mountains washed into the pool, and the water near the village also pooled into the pool, the water level rose sharply, and the water became muddy and unclear.
Because the rain was falling rapidly, a teenager in the village was grazing sheep on a hillside near the waterhole, and when he was hurrying to drive the sheep home, suddenly a sheep rushed towards the waterhole like crazy, and the boy was afraid that the sheep would be scolded when he returned home, so he hurriedly chased after him.
Animals such as pigs, dogs, and sheep are naturally instinctive swimmers, and after jumping into the pool, they quickly swim towards the center of the pool.
Although the boy was worried about the sheep, he didn't dare to go into the water at this time, so he could only drive the sheep home, and when he got home and told his father, his father was anxious at that time, a sheep, even according to the current market price, is worth a lot of money, even if it is dead, it can be killed to improve the life of the family.
So, when the rain had stopped, he took the boy to the waterhole in search of the sheep, and this search was found at once, and it was floating on the water, and he had drowned.
At this time, the father didn't care much, took off his clothes and went into the water, however, not long after swimming forward after entering the water, he felt his legs cramp together, as if he couldn't swim.
People in the mountains are relatively wild, go up to the trees to dig birds, go down to the river to catch fish, it can be said that they are proficient in everything, and they can swim at a very young age, but at this time it seems that they can't.
The children on the shore were frightened and hurriedly shouted for help, and as soon as the rain stopped, everyone came out, and they ran over to this side when they heard the cries for help.
When I saw someone falling into the water, they took off their clothes and jumped down to save people, but seven or eight people jumped down, and when they got to the water, they were completely inappropriate, as if their bodies were not their own.
The people on the shore were so anxious that they jumped to their feet, but it was useless for too many people to go down, so they could only point out on the shore.
"Backstroke!"
"Fast breaststroke!"
"It's right next to you!"
“……”
Countless people came up with ideas, and these people who dared to go into the water to save people were all recognized as people in the village who had better water quality, however, after going into the water, they seemed to be at a loss, and there was nothing at all, and some people sank without stopping.
The water level in the waterhole itself is not deep, but after this rainstorm, because the water in the vicinity also poured into the waterhole, the water level suddenly soared, no less than three meters deep.
After shouting for a while, the people on the shore also realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly went to the nearest house to bring some long bamboo poles and other things to stretch into the water, and save those who were closer to the shore to come up first.
After some intense busywork, five of the seven or eight people who went down to save people were rescued, and the other two sank into the water with the boy's father.
Because the water in the pool is turbid, I can't see where the people below are, because of such a strange thing, other people with good water properties don't dare to rush into the water.
After sinking under the water, people's consciousness is blurred, and they will keep moving, which my father told me, my father is an old man with excellent water quality, and is nicknamed a water ghost by the people in the village, and he can float on the water for three days without any trouble, and he can swim out of twenty or thirty meters when he plunges down.
My father once told me that people who don't know how to swim will keep drilling in the water once they are drowning, and it is usually difficult to save people if it is not a coincidence.
My father once saved a man who fell into the water, according to him, the person who fell into the water will scratch in the water, and you must not let him catch you, otherwise both of you will be in danger, you must start from behind him, one hand around the armpit of the person who fell into the water and the other hand to paddle.
The so-called life-saving straw comes from here, even if the person who falls into the water grabs a straw, he will not let go, and he will not let go until he dies, so once he is caught, he will easily drown like the person who fell into the water.
After about an hour, the person who fell into the water gradually surfaced, and by this time his stomach had already been drunk and he was not saved.
My father told me about a rescue operation in which he personally participated, that is, in the pond behind our village, a person fell into the water, and more than 30 people went down, and the whole pond was full of people.
However, the truth is often unexpected, and in the end he really couldn't be rescued, for no other reason, the man didn't know how to do it, and he actually got into the pond by himself.
If he had stood up, the water at the edge of the pond would have reached the crook of his legs, but he deserved to be drowned lying face down.
That time, three adults with good water properties drowned at once, and since then this waterhole has become a forbidden place, and no one will come to bathe even if it is hot, and it is said that there are water ghosts in it.
However, after ten years, there are still many people who have fallen into the water and drowned in this pool.
This is nothing, the most surprising thing to us is that an old man said that we don't know when he came, and he appeared so silently.
What he said was: "Since two years ago, on the night of the fifteenth day of the new year, the whole village will become a ghost, and the night sky will be full of ghosts and ghosts. (To be continued......)