Chapter 260: The Dark Shadow Under the Water
09000303030303 the "peers" in Huzi's mouth refers to the funeral boat.
On the water, a few dozen meters away from us, a funeral fleet came.
Please note. It's the fleet, not a separate funeral ship!
As far as the eye can see, there are ten funeral boats connected end to end, sailing mightily on the river. Leave a clear trace.
Ten black funeral boats are like ten large coffins floating on the river.
Even in broad daylight, seeing such a strange scene can't help but make people's hearts a little hairy.
The ten funeral boats were all full of people, dressed in gray and white filial piety clothes, crying heartbreakingly.
Of course, some people are really crying, and some people are pretending to cry to make money. This kind of extras are called "crying mourners" in the countryside, and they will run to cry wherever there is a funeral, mainly to set off the atmosphere of the funeral. Many wealthy families like to invite this kind of crying mourner. It is used to show off its own pomp.
Suona, gongs and drums. The sound of crying and mourning, all kinds of sounds are intertwined, making this funeral procession particularly lively.
Huzi said: "This pomp is quite big, and another rich man has died!" "
The closer we get, the more we can see clearly.
I saw a mast standing on the bow of the funeral ship at the beginning, with a black flag hanging on the mast, and a white word "lay" pasted in the center of the flag, and the flag fluttered in the wind, blowing loudly.
In the cabin is a black lacquered coffin with a picture frame containing a black-and-white photograph of the deceased.
Several close relatives gathered around a brazier and kept throwing paper money into the brazier.
As soon as the wind blew, the ashes scattered with the green smoke.
The funeral boats in the back were full of things used by the deceased during their lifetime, as well as some funeral goods, as well as offerings such as pig's head and sheep bones. Prologue Hugh.
Huzi asked Sixi to turn off the engine, stop the ship, and let the funeral fleet pass first.
Dangdang!
A crisp sound of bells wafted across the river.
Only then did we find that there was a green-robed Taoist priest standing on the deck, holding a copper bell in his left hand, shaking the copper bell while shouting loudly in a strange tone: "The dead are on the road, the living are avoided!" "
With each shout, the Taoist priest raised his right arm and threw out several pieces of yellow paper, like yellow butterflies flying all over the sky.
In the countryside, whenever someone dies, many families will invite a Taoist priest to preside over the funeral.
Especially those who died in vain, because the resentment is very heavy, and they need to invite Taoist priests to suppress the field.
Looking at the appearance of this Taoist priest, it can be regarded as some Taoism, not like the kind of charlatan who purely fools people.
A qiē seems to be the same.
After the last funeral ship sailed over, Huzi ordered Sixi to restart the engine and prepare to move on.
As soon as the engine was suddenly ignited, we saw a strange thing, the ten funeral boats did not leave. I don't know what's going on, but the funeral boat that took the lead actually circled around the river, and the funeral boat behind it also followed the end of the circle in a circle, just blocking our way.
"What are they doing here?" I didn't understand why the funeral fleet was circling the river, and I thought it was some kind of strange ritual.
At this time, I heard Huzi say: "Third master, it seems that something is not quite right!" "
Cai Sixi asked: "Is there an undercurrent vortex ahead?" "
Grandpa squinted his eyes and muttered, "No! This is clearly something evil! "
As soon as Grandpa's words ended, we saw the people on the boat running out of the cabin, looking around in surprise, and some people shouting anxiously, "What's going on?" What's going on? Oh, my God! Stop it! How do we go around the river? "
The helmsman in charge of driving the ship was also panicked at this time, and shouted in a sharp voice: "We have turned off the engine, but this ship is spinning on its own, completely out of our control!" What the hell is this going on? "
The people on the boat were panicked and frightened, and they didn't know what was going on.
"Haunted! Dao Chief, think of a way, it's haunted! The people on the boat began to cry out to the Taoist priest for help.
The Taoist priest also sensed that something was wrong, shook the copper bell a few times in a hurry, and said loudly: "Don't panic, don't act rashly!" "
The people on board were panicked, and in this situation, some people could not wait to flee for their lives.
A few hired mourners quickly took off their filial piety clothes and said in fear: "We won't do this business, and we don't want any money, let's go first!" "
These guys jumped directly from the boat into the river because of their good water skills, trying to escape from the funeral boat as quickly as possible.
But they inevitably thought that the matter was too simple, and the Taoist priest wanted to dissuade him, but it was too late, so he only shouted two words: "Don't", and listened to the sound of falling into the water, and the few crying mourners rushed to jump off the boat like dumplings.
"These idiots!" Huzi sighed, a look of mourning appeared on his face, as if to say, "These people are dead!" "
Whoa!
After these guys entered the water, they flicked their arms desperately to swim away.
But before they could swim ten meters away, several mourners shouted in horror, this time the cry was not faked, but from the depths of their hearts, and the sound made people tremble.
"There's something underwater!"
"My ankle was caught!"
"Who's arresting me?"
"Let go! Let it go! "
A few of the mourners were thrashing in the water, and everyone was surprised to find that something seemed to be dragging them underwater.
In just ten seconds, the mourners quickly sank into the river, disappeared without a trace, and the shouting stopped abruptly, leaving only a few gurgling blisters on the water, and then the river quickly returned to calm, as if nothing had happened.
Witnessing this bizarre scene, everyone on the boat looked at each other, and suddenly became very quiet, and an unspeakable atmosphere of death hung over the river.
I saw the whole thing with my own eyes not far away, and I was naturally horrified in my heart, what was there underwater?
With the experience of the previous experience, no one dared to jump off the ship to escape, and the people on the boat did not even dare to approach the side of the ship, and all retreated to the cabin or deck, for fear that the things in the water would drag them down.
"Ghosts! Hell yes! Shrill shouts pierced the tranquil river.
Several relatives of the deceased dressed in filial piety clothes rushed out of the cabin, and the fat man who ran at the end was almost a foot and rolled out of the cabin in a hurry like a ball like 93, and hugged the feet of the Taoist priest: "Dao Chief! Fast! Go see my dad."
The fat man's face was pale, and the cold sweat of the beans was rolling down, and he was so frightened that he couldn't even speak.
"Grandpa, look, why is the flame in that brazier blue?" I looked beyond the deck of the funeral ship and landed in the cabin, and at a glance I saw the brazier used to burn paper money in front of the coffin, and the flames that had been burning turned into a strange blue, reflecting the cabin in a miserable light. Blue flames shrouded the coffin, and the surface of the coffin glowed with strange light and shadow, adding to the sense of mystery and horror.
Before Grandpa could speak, Huzi had already spoken first: "This is fucking troublesome!" "
Grandpa nodded solemnly: "That's right!" It's just a trouble! "
Huzi said: "Why did you run into trouble when you went out?" What a bad luck! "
"Father-in-law, what is the trouble?" Cai Sixi turned around and asked.
"Yes!" I also looked at my grandfather: "What's the trouble?" "
Grandpa explained to me and Sixi: "Evil is similar to cheating corpses, but scheming is more ferocious than cheating corpses." The corpse is just a kind of corpse transformation, and the evil is the ghost of the deceased running out! The causes of the occurrence of evil are complex, but the main reason is that the resentment in the body of the deceased does not disperse, and under certain conditions, it is possible to cause evil! "
Sixi and I were shocked when we heard this, it turned out that the ghost of the deceased ran out to make trouble, and this is a big trouble!
Huzi crossed his arms and sneered: "The cause of this old man's death is a bit strange, otherwise he wouldn't be so resentful, and he could do it to his own family?" It seems that the old man's death has something to do with his children! Look at that fat man, judging from his face, he is not a good type! "
Cai Sixi said: "Father-in-law, are we going to help?" "
Although Cai Sixi is only eight years old, in the face of such a situation, he has no fear on his face, and even wants to go up to help?
I'll admit it, I really don't have the guts to match him.
Huzi waved his hand and said, "Let's take a look at the situation first!" Besides, aren't there Taoist priests on their ships? It's better for us river patrols not to expose their identities lightly! What do you say, the third master? "
Huzi asked Grandpa, and Grandpa nodded and agreed with Huzi's opinion: "Let's take a look first!" "
"Not good! It's a mess! The Taoist priest's face changed greatly, and he stepped on the seven-star step and jumped towards the cabin.
Bang!
There was a sudden sound in the cabin, and the blue flames in the brazier suddenly rushed up, like a blue wall of fire, swaying wildly, and the ashes scattered in all directions.
The Taoist priest was forced back by the flames, and staggered back to the deck, slapping his robes desperately. His robes were ignited by the flames, and he was in a hurry, looking rather wolf-like.
Woooooooo
A cloudy wind blew on the river for no apparent reason, and the calm water began to churn and stir up vicious waves.
The wind poured into the cabin, and the burning ashes swirled and rose into the sky.
In the astonished eyes of everyone, those ashes slowly assembled in the air, and they actually converged into a big word "death".
The black word "death" hung above people's heads like that, and even though the sun was in the sky, the people present felt a complete cold chill.
The fat man was completely frightened, cold sweat fell like raindrops on his face, he crawled behind the Taoist priest, and howled in horror: "Daoist help! Dao Chief, help! "