At the end of April 2010, my phone was ruthlessly destroyed by someone, so I reissued a number and put the phone card into an orange Nokia slide music phone I used earlier. Although I am not a digital expert, I still inevitably feel unbalanced in my heart for all kinds of new mobile phones on the street, and the reason for the imbalance is that my mobile phone was deliberately broken by Hu Zongren.

In mid-May, I couldn't help it, so I took Sister Cai and me straight to the nearest digital city to my home and bought a new mobile phone that had just been on the market for a few days. That was my first mobile phone that was not Nokia, the first domestic L-shaped mobile phone, and the first smartphone equipped with a robot system, and the little girl who sold the mobile phone proudly told me that this mobile phone is 3G! So I bought a 3G phone card under her leadership. After the store clerk installed a lot of software and games that were very popular at the time, I sent text messages to my family and friends who I usually contact a lot one by one, saying that I had changed my number, including my master, Situ, Huang Poma, Mrs. Ji, Xiaojuan and others, and naturally Hu Zongren and Fu Yunni.

And it turned out that showing off my new phone in front of Hu Zongren was a very stupid decision, and for this, my ears paid a very heavy price.

Here's the thing, on the third day after I bought the phone, Fu Yunni was in a rare mood and said that she wanted to cook herself, and invited me and Sister Cai to their house for dinner. She and Hu Zongren were still living in Fu Qiang's old house in Nan'an District at the time. I learned about Fu Yunni's cooking skills when we stayed at Situ's house earlier. She is a person who can forget to use a knife to chop ribs, but directly step on them with her foot. From this point of view, she and Hu Zongren can be regarded as a perfect match. So before going to their house that day, Sister Cai and I took the lead in eating some cake or something, filling our stomachs, because maybe we will eat something strange at the next meal.

After arriving at their house, Sister Cai still went to help in the kitchen out of sympathy for the weak, while Hu Zongren and I watched TV in the living room. Earlier, because Hu Zongren broke my mobile phone, I was very unhappy with him. Because after what happened at work that night, I received that strange text message, Hu Zongren said that we were attracting attention again, and when I asked him what he meant by this, he refused to say anything. For the next half month, he didn't contact me again. It made me wonder if he didn't let me know because of some accident. But we have a rule in this industry, try not to step on the line. Hu Zongren and I belong to different disciplines, and although we have some things in common, we generally don't ask each other about other people's own affairs, unless they are willing to talk about it. So despite all the doubts in my heart, I didn't take the initiative to ask him what the poem was about.

When Hu Zongren learned that I had a very foreign mobile phone, he asked me to play it, and when I handed it to him, I warned him not to break it, otherwise our friendship would come to an end. For a long time after that, he fell in love with a game called Angry Birds that I had installed on my phone. And that was the beginning of my nightmare, and for a long time after that day, he would constantly imitate in my ears the sounds of various birds in the game, especially the bird that could fly out of the wall and throw bombs, and the sound was "Hey ~~~~~".

Just as he was enjoying himself, my phone rang. Obviously, the loud ringtone Hu Zongren jumped, he handed me the phone with envious eyes, and I picked up the phone, and the other party was a middle-aged man with a thick accent. And with years of experience in traveling south and north, I can easily hear that this man's accent is from Wansheng or Qijiang in the south of Chongqing.

The man on the phone told me that he had been asking for a long time to find my number, that there had been an accident in their village, and that it had been almost a year, and that he had also found a goddess and a man in the local area, but it was useless, and someone died every such a month, sometimes two people died in a month. Everyone in the village is scared now, so please help us anyway.

Districts and counties plus villages? This is destined that if I take this order, the commission will not be very large. Since I found it is fate, I can't say that I will refuse it, especially not because of the relationship between more money and less money. So I asked the other party what kind of relationship did he have to do with the death, and I understood that since the other party found someone like me, it means that there must be more or less traces to follow, otherwise we will always be the last straw after their normal consideration of the direction is fruitless.

The other party told me that there is a large pond in their village, although it is a pond, but it is living water, because there is a mouth that flows out of the river and becomes a stream, but the source cannot be found, and it is supposed to be due to the seepage of groundwater. Although this pond is not the only source of water in the village, it has been drowning in accidents for more than a year. This kind of thing has not happened a few years ago, and it has been repeated in the last year or so, so there are rumors in the village that there is something dirty under the water, and some people say that it is the dragon king who recruited his son-in-law and daughter-in-law, and there are all kinds of nonsense, and even some villagers say that they saw a black thing in the pond at night, and it sank to the water in an instant and disappeared. In the past two months, two children have drowned one after another, our village is far away from the county seat, the villagers believe in evil, it is also a tradition, so I found a goddess in the neighboring village, and the lively and lively also killed a sheep, used to worship, the old people in our village are all brushed to kneel on the shore and kowtow to ask for peace, but this ritual was done not long ago, just a few weeks ago and drowned another, it is the daughter-in-law of the village family, the man is working in the field, the child is still very young, we can't see such a thing, Many people come to our office to ask us to find a way to solve this matter, we are also afraid of the big thing, you know that this kind of thing is generally not a good end, so there is really no way to hear you, please be sure to appreciate the face to help us.

I heard the other party talk about the office, so I asked him, are you a village official? He said yes, he was the village chief.

According to the other party's description, I am used to sketching out the situation in my head quickly and eliminating all kinds of unthinkable possibilities, and when he said this, I thought that this thing was very much like a water ghost.

When I thought of this, I winked at Hu Zongren, meaning that I will tell you more about it later when I have work done. I had only experienced water ghosts once. I don't know if it's a problem with my personal memory or what, but after I caught that water ghost and until I completely solved it, I was always very impressed, but when I think about it later, it always feels unreal. The unreality is not to wonder if all this has happened, but to feel a little trance, as if you have traveled to a dreamlike place and come back, as if you are unreal in another world.

And I have very little experience with water ghosts, and the last time I did it boldly, it is inevitable that there is an element of good luck, and judging from the description of the other party and the sightings of the people involved, the possibility of water ghosts is very high. I asked the other party for the specific name and address of the village, and told him that no matter whether he took the order or not, he would definitely call him back before dinner that day, and even if I didn't do it, I would recommend a master to you.

Isn't it benevolent enough? I was like that at the time, I hadn't regressed yet, so I was able to introduce business to each other. No matter how you say it, it's all within the circle. Although this kind of life has begun to make me tired and overwhelmed, I still can't change my habits after years of habit. In my wife's words, a dog can't change eating. Although her description of the extreme disrespect for the dog also made me very unhappy, it was true.

After hanging up the phone, I told Hu Zongren the description of the other party. Hu Zongren is a Taoist family, and the Taoist family is originally better at the Five Elements than me, and I think Hu Zongren is absolutely no problem dealing with water ghosts. Hu Zongren snatched my phone from me as I hung up the phone and continued to play the game, listening to me as he spoke. By the way, I told him that I once heard Xiaojuan tell me something about water ghosts.

Although Hu Zongren often heard me mention Xiaojuan, he had never seen him at that time. I told her that Xiaojuan's hometown is also out of town, and there is also a small river ditch in the local area, which becomes very wide when the water rises, and many people like to swim in the water to cool off when the water is dry. When Xiaojuan was a child, there were many times when she passed by the river, she saw some black-looking people on the water, following those swimming children, and from a distance, it looked as if they were swimming. It wasn't until Xiaojuan grew up and began to understand that she was born with yin and yang eyes, that she realized that the people she saw when she was a child who seemed to be swimming in the ditch were actually water ghosts.

Speaking of this, I told Hu Zongren, and I also refuted Xiaojuan at the time, saying that water ghosts don't have to be yin and yang eyes to see, because water ghosts have entities, and that entity is actually a shell and container, and they are often the first people to drown in that water, but after the corpse decomposes to a certain extent, it begins to be covered by some fungi mixed with the ghost's own supernatural body, and becomes black and has no bones, so it is not only the yin and yang eyes that can see.

When I said this, Hu Zongren suddenly spoke, saying that it is not necessarily, some water monkeys are physically sunk under the water, and when they want to pull people, they will first come out in a pure ghost state to find the target, and they will only start when they find it, and it will generally not come to the surface of the water, because if it is discovered, it will stay for a long time. Hu Zongren stopped the game he was playing, and I was glad that he was able to find where the pause button was. He said to me, you didn't ask the other party, what kind of body was salvaged after drowning, if the mouth is clean and clean, it's a big deal to have a little water weed, and the stomach is swollen and full of water, this kind of is unlucky to drown, if there is mud in the mouth and nostrils, and there are some inexplicable bruises on the body, then the water monkey can't do it wrong.

The water monkey in Hu Zongren's mouth is what I call the water ghost. This thing has many names in our metaphysics and everywhere, and some of them are called mythical, but in the end, it is a very inferior ghost, and the only way is to catch it, sprinkle it with salt, and burn it to get clean.

I saw Hu Zongren continue to play the game, and I was unhappy, so I snatched my phone back, and then asked him, then you give me a word, let's be together, no matter how much money is for one person and half, will you go?

He dug his nostrils and said, "Of course you go."