Daddy took the spoon and put it in and fished it out, but the water rattled, but he didn't see anything.

"I'm going to talk to her. You bring a bucket and I'll take the scoop away. Daddy said to Xiaomi. He didn't want Xiaomi to do a little physical work, but now that he has pain in his chest, he can only let Xiaomi do it.

Xiaomi smiled whimsilyly and said, "Ma Xiucai, don't be so troublesome. ”

"Didn't you say you had to spoon the water out?" Daddy asked. He didn't know anything about the visitor in the water.

Millet walked over to the water tank and groped for his hand on the mouth of the tank.

Grandpa saw that there was nothing on the cylinder.

But Xiaomi seemed to touch something, then pinched it with her fingers and handed it to her grandfather.

Daddy immediately understood.

"Every time I saw her, it would be too troublesome to ask for a spoonful of water, so I left a piece of the silk that bound her outside. If you want to see her, all you have to do is pull out the silk. Xiaomi said.

Grandpa looked at Xiaomi, and for the first time felt that she was really not to be underestimated. The Huigen in her previous life is still there, and the spirituality is still there, so she can catch the woman in the water tank like a fish, and she can also think of how to control this woman after catching it. Her current strength is far inferior to Xie Xiaomi, but as long as Huigen and spirituality are still there, maybe when she will break through and become a blockbuster.

Seeing that her grandfather was looking at her stupidly, Xiaomi lowered her head and didn't dare to speak.

Grandpa shook his head, came back from his contemplation, and tugged hard.

As soon as she strained, the water in the tank fluctuated. Immediately after, a woman's hand came out of the water and rested on the mouth of the tank. The green sleeves hung down on the arms, wet like algae. Then the woman stuck her head out, looked at her father, then at Xiaomi, and asked a little tiredly, "Is there anything wrong with me again?" ”

She said "again" because Millet had already scooped the water to summon her out once. She seemed to be a little afraid of Xiaomi, and her eyes looked away, but she glanced at Xiaomi quickly from time to time, and her momentum was not as arrogant as in Lao He.

When she was on the bank of the old river, her father didn't have time to take a closer look at her, but when he looked at her again, he found that she was very handsome, her skin was very delicate, and she could be broken by blowing. This may be the reason for her long-term potential in the water. Her hair is long, and the tank is almost covered with her hair. The hair is not pure black, but black with a bit of an odd green in it.

"Why are you hurting me? Did someone tell you to do this? Daddy asked.

She shook her head and said, "No." It was your fishing line that attracted me. ”

Daddy asked curiously, "Do you know what kind of thread this is?" ”

She nodded.

"Now that you know, you should be afraid of it, why are you still attracted?" Grandpa thought to himself, sticking the word deaf on the door can make the little ghost retreat, and the deaf silk can kill the ghost, and the ghost should be afraid to avoid it when he sees it. Why did she still come to the door?

"Because I want to finish myself," she said. ”

This answer was unexpected.

"I need it to kill myself, but you won't give it to me, I can only kill you first, and then use this silk to end myself." Her face was calm. It's terrifyingly calm.

"Why self-destruction?" Daddy asked.

She was silent.

Daddy was afraid that the others would come in and see her, so he told her to go back into the water and cover her with the lid of the tank.

"We're going to move her to a place where she doesn't do anything to get revenge. And the water in this tank should not be drunk, so as not to get sick and diarrhea. If Yu Youyang is uncomfortable, I will have to settle accounts with her. Daddy said to Xiaomi.

"Where to go?" Xiaomi asked.

Grandpa said, "Put her in the pond." ”

"Then she's not going to run?" Xiaomi worried.

"No, it won't. We took her to the big pond at the entrance of the village. Tie her hands and feet, and tie the silk to the stone. Daddy said.

From the old river to the village, there are paddy fields and ponds on both sides of the road. Not far in front of the bend of the avenue, there are two ponds, one slightly larger and the other slightly smaller. The water of the large pond is shallow, but many people drown. The small pond is deep, but no one has ever drowned.

According to the village elders, there is a reason why there are two ponds at the entrance of Thrush Village that are so close to each other. It is said that more than 100 years ago, there was only one large pond at the entrance of the village, and there was no small pond across the road. At that time, there was a monkey trickster passing by here, and by the way, he begged for money by playing monkeys at the entrance of the village. The monkey showers come here in the hot summer months. After begging for money from house to house, the monkey performers decided to take a swim in this large pond to cool off when they were about to leave Thrush Village.

The monkey puppeteers put their money bags and monkeys on the shore and plunged into the water to swim themselves.

When he swam to the middle, he suddenly shouted for help.

It was noon and the sun was overhead. The population of the village is less than one-third of what it is now, and the houses have not yet reached the entrance of the village. And at noon, people will take a nap at home, and they will not come out to hang out against the sun that can bake oil. There was only a monkey trickster and his monkeys near the pond, and no one else.

The monkey heard his master's call for help and was so anxious that he squeaked on the shore.

At this time, a few children who were stealing fruit outside heard the cries for help, and hurriedly slipped down from the fruit trees and ran over. One of the children ran home to call the adults, and the rest got a branch and tried to reach into the water for the monkey trickster to catch. However, the branches were too short, and the monkey puppeteers only floated in the water, not moving.

The monkey puppeteer quickly passed away and sank like a scale. And the people who went home to call for help have not yet come.

Some of the children can swim, but the water is not very good, and they usually only dare to swim next to the shore, and never swim deep, so they dare not jump down.

The monkeys on the shore were so anxious that they screamed and jumped as if their feet were burned. When it saw that no one had come to its rescue, it jumped up on its own, jumped into the water, and swam desperately towards its owner.

But how can a monkey save a man? The monkey swam to the owner. The underwater owner may be too frightened to catch whatever he sees. The children on the shore saw a hand reach out from the water and pull the monkey down. The monkey didn't even flutter, but sank and never got up again.

By the time rescuers arrived, the water surface of the pond had returned to calm, and there was no summer wind, only the chirping of cicadas.

It was as if the people of the village had a dream together, and they dreamed that a poor monkey came to the village, and the poor monkey shook the broken bell, and the poor monkey rolled on the ground. His performance with the monkey is simple and boring, which makes people feel equally pitiful.

And now everyone's dream woke up together, and only the person and the monkey were gone.

When everyone went to look for the man's money bag, the money bag was gone. It was as if the purse had disappeared with the awakening of the dream.

The people in the village naturally knew that someone had taken advantage of the chaos to steal the money bag, but no one pursued the matter. After all, the person who played the monkey show was not local, and there was no need to offend the people in his own village because of an inconsequential person.

As for the method of removing the corpse, everyone has different ideas. Some say that the water must be released, and if the water in the pond is drained, the monkey puppeteer and the monkey's corpse can be easily found. This was supposed to be the most convenient method, but there was immediate objection. The reason for the opposition was that the rice planting was about to take place, and the paddy fields needed plenty of water at this time. If all the water in the pond is drained, the surrounding paddy fields will be starved of water, which will affect this year's harvest.

Most of the paddy fields in the mountainous or hilly areas of the south are terraced fields, and there are basically ponds or reservoirs for storing water in the slightly higher places, so as to ensure that the water supply of the stepped paddy fields with slightly lower terrain is sufficient. The time of year when water is most needed is when rice is planted. At that time, there was no machinery, and it was all human fingers that pinched the roots of the seedlings and inserted them little by little into the soil. This requires enough water to soak the field to the ground, otherwise fingers will not be able to insert the seedlings. In order for seedlings to survive, they also need a lot of water, and if there is not enough water, they will die or be stunted.

After the decision to release the water was denied, some people offered to use fishing nets to catch fish, and some people offered to go into the water to touch it.

I fished and touched for a long time, but no one found the body of the monkey trickster until the sun went down in the evening.

Someone finally got impatient and shouted: "Sooner or later, it will float, so don't fish, wait for him to float by himself!" ”

Someone chimed in: "Yes." This kind of begging person shouldn't have been allowed to enter the village in the first place, and if something happens, it will affect our big guys. ”

Everyone was not in unison, and when someone said this, everyone quickly dispersed.

But after a few days, the monkey puppeteer and the monkey's corpse did not float.

Half a month later, the body of a villager floated.

No one knows when he drowned. His family said that after the monkey trickster and the monkey drowned, he also suddenly disappeared. Because the man usually had a little money and had to go out to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble with his fox friends and dogs, and often did not come back for a long time, the family did not care about him.

His family found a fox friend who often played with him and asked. His friend was astonished when he heard the news of the man's drowning, and said that he had gone back the night before he had drowned, perhaps having drunk too much and fainted into the pond.

His family asked the friend if he had behaved abnormally in the past few days.

His friend said that there was nothing abnormal, it was just that he seemed to have a sum of money, and he was a little more generous than usual.

Almost every year since then, someone has had an accident in that pond, and the bodies have floated in the same place.

Later, the people of the village jointly paid for a high-ranking person to come and see.

The master asked the villagers to ask the stonemasons to beat a stone ox the same size as an ordinary buffalo, and then beat a stone girl, and then threw the stone ox in the pond and tied the stone girl to the edge of the pond.

Since then, no one has drowned in the pond.

Even if someone falls into the water, they will feel like they are floating on the back of a buffalo.