The water ghost is very smart, just like the fish in the water.

After fishing in the same water area for a long time, the fish will not take the bait. Some fish even peck the bait off the outside of the hook, but do not swallow the bait along with the hook. The angler clearly saw that the buoy had sunk into the water, but the rod was easily lifted, and the bait on the hook had been pecked to pieces.

The same goes for lobsters.

When I was in elementary school, we didn't have lobsters there. Later, a large truck full of lobsters passed by and overturned, and the truckload of lobsters escaped to nearby paddy fields and ponds, where they multiplied rapidly. At that time, our elementary school buddies used a fishing rod without a hook and tied a frog to the line of the rod, and it only took half an afternoon to catch a bucket of lobsters. Because when the lobster sees the frog, it uses large tongs to hold it and send it to its mouth, and even if the rod lifts it out of the water, it does not let go of the pincers, so that the lobster fisher easily catches it into the bucket and becomes a delicious bowl.

However, it didn't take long for the lobster anglers to find that this method of fishing was not working, and they had to spoon the lobster up with a shrimp net before pulling the lobster out of the water with a fishing rod. Otherwise, the lobster will loosen its pincers before coming out of the water.

After a while, the lobster angler found that he could not catch the lobster even with a shrimp net, because as soon as the silk line of the fishing rod moved, the lobster would run away.

It seems that there is a very well-informed information between fish and shrimp, and they can gradually peek into everything that people know.

The same is true of water ghosts. The news inside them spreads faster than one might think, and there are no limits to the water. After the water ghost was found to have gone ashore with lotus leaves on his head, some people in that village also found water ghosts coming ashore with lotus leaves, and news of water ghosts coming ashore came from many nearby villages. During that time, if a child plucked a lotus leaf from the pond and put it on his head, he would definitely be scolded or even beaten by an adult. At that time, children liked to buckle lotus leaves upside down on their heads, imitating the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. The shape of the lotus leaf is indeed very similar to the official hat of the Qing Dynasty, and if you add a loose rope, it will be even more like. How do these cheerful children know what the adults are worried about? Therefore, I often feel very aggrieved after being beaten. Adults patiently explain, but explanations don't do much for children. Some children, on the other hand, are more interested in the pond with lotus leaves and lotus flowers, and every time they pass by, they peek under the slim lotus leaves.

During that time, people in the nearby villages said that it was a disaster brought about by my grandfather. But during that time, although there was a lot of noise, no one drowned because of the water ghost, but there was a young daughter-in-law who quarreled with her husband and couldn't think about it for a while and committed suicide by jumping into the water. But after she jumped into the water, she choked, and threw herself in the water to call for help, and was rescued.

My grandfather was still worried about this, and he was afraid that the young daughter-in-law's family would blame her grandfather. When he heard about this, he said in front of his father: "Fortunately, she was rescued, otherwise people would say that the water ghost came to the shore to lure her into the water, and you can't explain it clearly." ”

Grandpa said: "Hey, I know her eight characters, she, she can't escape the monk can't run away from the temple, and she has to drown." ”

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the young daughter-in-law to have another big fight with her husband. This time she jumped into the water with a heavy boulder, sank directly to the bottom of the water, and never got up again.

But this time, my grandfather doesn't have to worry about my father, the responsibility lies with the stone and not the water ghost. Shimahiro carried it.

To say that this kind of worry that does not exist all the time still comes from the ghost trick named Adong. If it weren't for Ah Dong, Grandpa wouldn't have used the light-shielding technique that Miss Tie told him, and the water ghosts near Thrush Village wouldn't have known the mystery of the lotus leaf.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the ghost fighter. When the ghost fighter told Miss Iron this secret, he was indeed out of kindness and gratitude.

Miss Tie didn't treat the ghost fighter badly.

After the ghost fighter breathed in the dilapidated inn, Miss Tie took Luo Yi away. She asked Luo Yi to come out during the day and show up with an umbrella with lotus leaves. She thought about asking someone to take Luo Yi on the Eastern Railway to Russia's ice-free port, but after the death of the ghost fighter, the relationship between China and Russia became difficult, and the railway was suspended for a while. Miss Tie couldn't stay in Harbin forever, so she had to give up this idea and bring Luo Yi back to Shanghai.

Luo Yi didn't seem to have changed her temperament much because of this, she obediently followed Miss Tie, still looking carefree. Occasionally, she would ask Miss Iron about the Ghost Fighter, as if she missed him a little. Miss Tie replied, "He has something to do, and he will be back in a few days." Whenever she heard this answer, Luo Yi showed a comfortable smile, as if she could see the person she liked walking through the door in the next second.

This kind of lie has been told countless times, and Luo Yi believes it every time.

Because although the lotus leaves are protected from light, they are not as good as not seeing light, Luo Yi gradually weakened soon after, and finally turned into dry bones.

When Grandpa and Xiaomi were in Baoding, Miss Tie once told Grandpa about this past, and Xiaomi deliberately entered the room for a while and left the room for a while, making Miss Tie's face red. After talking about this past, Miss Tie said to her father: "Although I still think it is a great pity that I did not send her to the ice-free port, how can she not be the envy of others?" Many people choose to live a life of weak feelings, in fact, because the people who can make her strong feelings do not have strong feelings for her. ”

At this time, Millet happened to break in again, and Grandpa didn't answer her.

When Ah Dong said that he wanted to see the sunrise, his father thought of this past and Miss Tie who was far away in the north, and then remembered that he had not met Miss Tie for many years.

After that, every night my father first recited the sutra to the fetus in Yan Yulan's womb, and then recited the "Dizang Sutra" in the place the night before. In order to prevent the lonely souls and wild ghosts from gathering here in a steady stream, Grandpa first set up a formation around Feng Junjia's village to reduce the spread of the "Dizang Sutra", and then it took Grandpa seven nights to overtake the lonely souls and wild ghosts near Feng Junjia's village.

On the evening of the seventh day, Grandpa took Ah Dong to Thrush Village. In the early morning of the eighth day, when there were still one or two stars in the sky, Grandpa took Ah Dong to watch the sunrise.

At that time, it was the day when the lotus flowers were in full bloom, and the lotus leaves were also vigorous.

Grandpa picked a large lotus leaf on the edge of the pond with lotus leaves and asked Ah Dong to wear it on his head.

Ah Dong asked, "Can this lotus leaf keep me out of the light?" ”

Daddy said, "Yes." As long as you don't take it off, you can see the sunrise as you wish. ”

As they spoke, there was a sudden sound of rushing water under the lotus leaf, as if a big carp had been alarmed, and waves swayed on the surface of the water, and the waves hit the lotus leaf rod and divided into many small water circles. A string of large blisters emerged from underneath and burst when it reached the surface.

Grandpa later recalled that it should have been the water ghost who heard the secret of the lotus leaf at that time.

Ah Dong, who was wearing lotus leaves, followed his father to the back mountain of Thrush Village to wait for the sunrise.

Seeing that there was no light in the east, Ah Dong pinched the edge of the lotus leaf and chatted: "Ma Xiucai, what do you regret most about not doing with Xiaomi?" ”

Grandpa didn't expect Ah Dong to ask this, so he was stunned and said, "I should say that I have no regrets about what I haven't done." ”

Ah Dong was surprised: "Won't it? Doesn't everyone who misses it have a defect that they want to make up for? Like me, even if I want to watch the sunrise once, it's fine. ”

Grandpa said: "Do you know where I learned that lotus leaves can be protected from light?" ”

Ah Dong shook his head. The lotus leaf rotates with it.

So, Grandpa relayed to Ah Dong what Miss Tie told about the ghost fighter and Luo Yi.

Adong said: "You see, they also have regrets, they want to go to the ice-free port but they can't do it." ”

Grandpa said the words that Miss Tie ended with again, and then said, "I have no regrets when I meet her." ”

Adong was silent.

Grandpa said again: "Miss Tie said that Luo Yi is not a person who others envy, but I have never envied others, only envy myself who was still by her side at that time." ”

Adong's face twitched.

After a while, the canopy of heaven gradually turned from black to blue, and the eastern blue edge added a jagged dark red. Daddy said, "The sun is coming out." ”

Ah Dong looked at Dongfang silently, his eyes dim and darkened.

The sun finally poked its head out in the east, and the red in the sky became more and more red.

The red reflected in Ah Dong's eyes, and there were two red balls in the middle of the black eyes, as if they were on fire.

Grandpa persuaded him: "Don't stare at the sun, after all, you are the body of the extreme yin now, and you are no better than when you were alive." ”

He didn't hear it, and he still stared at the rising sun in a daze.

The lotus leaf was really useful≥ but the sun was shining brightly, and Ah Dong was able to stand there unharmed. But perhaps because of his own fear of the sun, his hands and feet trembled slightly, like trees blown by the wind around him.

Grandpa wanted to comfort him and keep him from trembling, but he didn't know how to comfort him.

Grandpa suddenly remembered that the paper figures that Millet had cut out often came to his window when he got up, and when the first rays of sunlight hit the window, he first saw the elongated shadow of the paper figure on the ground, and then saw the paper figure on the window. As a result, Grandpa also had the slightest feeling for the rising sun, and he couldn't bear the mood swings.

The sun's rays grew stronger and stronger, and the village below grew alive, and in the distance you could hear people talking, cows mooing, chickens clucking, and children crying.

Ah Dong naturally heard the voice under the mountain, and he said emotionally: "Thank you, Ma Xiucai, I feel like I have returned to the past, as if I can go down the mountain and return to the village where I once lived, and see those familiar people...... It was as if she was still with me. ”