Water ghosts look for stand-ins, this is a saying that has been around since ancient times. At first, it originated in Buddhism, because many Buddhists, especially the ghost-hunting disciples, believed that water was the most special substance in the world, and it could be both tangible and intangible. It can be calm or manic, and its nature itself is gentle, but it can destroy anything in this world. Life comes from water, and it also dies because of the loss of water, so in the eyes of the Buddhists, water is something that can trap death. At the same time, Buddhism believes in reincarnation, a dead soul is trapped by water, and it wants to be reincarnated, so the only way is to find the next person who dies and let it become its own substitute.

Although this is a saying that has been handed down for a long time, it has been proven that there are traces of all this. As for the reason, whether the water ghost harms people because it wants to be reincarnated or what, why it can become a rare physical dead thing, these are all because the time is too long, so no one can say the intermediate reason. Hu Zongren said that in their Taoist culture, the so-called water ghosts looking for stand-ins originated from another tradition.

As early as ancient times, the Yellow Emperor inherited the Taiping Sutra of the Fuxi clan, thus founding the "Taoism" at that time, and using the techniques and virtues in this religion to govern the country diligently. When it came to the great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, that is, the well-known Dayu, suddenly there was a flood in the whole country, and Dayu was ordered by Emperor Shun to control the flood. The most serious area is the Yellow River Valley, and an immortal told him that if you want to cure the Yellow River, you must have three things: a mountain opening axe, a water avoidance sword, and a river map. There are mountain axes and water-avoiding swords, but there is no river map. And the river map is the root of the gossip that Fu Xi realized from the patterns of the unicorn beast in the early years. After Fu Xi died, he became an immortal and handed over the river map to the god of heaven, and later there was a filial son named "Feng Yi" who drowned when crossing the river, but was named the river god by the emperor of heaven and handed over the river map to him to take charge of.

Hu Zongren said that Dayu got the river map from the hands of the river god. Then he laughed and said that there was one river god in every body of water, but later, many people who had the same experience as Feng Yi - those who were drowned in the water did not have the good luck of Feng Yi, so they began to pretend to be the river god and bring disaster to the world. This is why there is a legend of "the river god robbing relatives" that has never been interrupted for thousands of years.

I asked Hu Zongren, so these people say that "the dragon king recruits his son-in-law", in your Taoist culture, is it the river god who robs his relatives, right? Hu Zongren nodded and said yes, but he also said to Village Chief Wu and Sister Wu that in fact, it has always been a myth that has been passed down for thousands of years, and the river god has gradually become afraid of the common people from the positive image at the beginning. Since the Han Dynasty, the image of the river god has been relatively fixed in the folk, saying that it is short in stature, with a turtle shell on its back, a groove on the top of its head, and water in the groove. I asked Hu Zongren, do you remember when we were children, we all watched a children's TV series called Xiaolongren?

Hu Zongren said of course he remembered, he sang that song to this day, and then began to sing. I'm a little green dragon little green dragon and I have many little little ... Then, probably finding himself quite shameless, he didn't continue singing. I gave him a blank look and said, when my master told me about the water ghost, he also mentioned the river god, but the shouting method is different, called "water tiger", and the appearance is similar to what you said, at that time I asked my master, said that in the previous little dragon man, there was a turtle old man who stole food is the river god, the master told me, that is. At that time, the master also said that our country was a powerful country during the Han and Tang dynasties, so many surrounding countries have absorbed and learned our culture, among which the most fierce learning is Japan, and many of the descriptions of spirits and ghosts in Japan today are mostly from Chinese myths and legends, but they are just given a story that belongs to Japan.

I said to Hu Zongren, my master said that the Chinese river god is the Japanese kappa. To put it mildly, this is the water ghost in everyone's mouth, the water monkey. After hearing this, Hu Zongren nodded proudly to the village chief, and then said to them, See, this is the real water ghost, the place where the water ghost is haunted, there will never be more than two people killed at the same time, it must be one after another. He turned to Sister Wu and said, "The cry for help you heard on the way home that night is the most common way for water ghosts to trick people into approaching the water's edge, and they will simulate the sound of children drowning to attract the attention of others." And the man and the woman who died after you, I bet they must have heard the cries for help in the water that day, and the cries for help were the voices of his loved ones in the family. Because the water ghost will also learn to speak, learn the voice of the person you care about the most, so that before you lose your mind and react, it will be too late.

Hu Zongren then said to Sister Wu, Sister, you are really fierce enough, you actually used a flashlight to fight the water ghosts, and you really repelled it, strong... I really appreciate you. I looked at Hu Zongren's rather obscene expression, and then saw that Sister Wu was satisfied with Hu Zongren's praise, rolled her eyes in my heart, and then said to the village chief, Village Chief Wu, you see that this time is not early, it will be dark soon, can you please ask someone to inform the villagers, don't go out tonight, we will go to the scene after dinner, and think about cleaning up this thing as soon as possible.

I mean, it's time for dinner, it's time to eat. The village probably understood what I meant, so I took a few village cadres to find a restaurant that was probably the largest restaurant in the village on the market, and warmly entertained us.

After dinner, Hu Zongren and I asked Village Chief Wu to take us to the edge of the big pond, and then prepared two flashlights for us. We left everything that couldn't get into the water, such as the phone and wallet, in the car, and we only carried the necessary things with us. I didn't even bring my compass, just a rope and grave or something, just in case I was attacked suddenly, so I wouldn't be helpless. The reason why I didn't bring a compass is because the water ghost is underwater, first of all, my compass can't be detected, and secondly, even if the water ghost goes ashore, it is very weak, and it is a waste of time to find a weak reaction in such a large area.

We searched along the shore in several places that were not easy to walk to, and after searching for a long time, Hu Zongren found traces on the edge of a bush pile. I walked over to see that it was a place where a small amount of dirt was exposed, and it looked like someone had been here. In fact, there are bushes behind it, and there is no way to walk directly here from the shore road, but there are bare places where grass does not grow here near the water, which means that the water ghosts have come.

I leaned down to turn on my flashlight, and on the roots of two shrubs less than a meter apart, I found a few mud-stained paw prints, probably about the size of my palm. There are also marks on the ground, as if a person has climbed from the water to the shore and has to pick at the mud with his hands. The position we are standing in is relatively close to the middle of the water compared to this irregularly shaped pond, which Hu Zongren said is also in line with the activity of water ghosts.

In my eyes and Hu Zongren, the water ghost is a relatively low-level ghost, because it suffers because of itself, and the way to get out of this situation is to find a replacement for the dead ghost. Not to mention that the ghost will not be destroyed for himself, this kind of behavior alone is doomed to be burned and destroyed.

There are also many ways to deal with water ghosts, and some of them are profound, and they will directly slap a spell into the water and beat it to ashes. However, this kind of master generally doesn't care about such trivial things as water ghosts. Hu Zongren had caught water ghosts before, and his methods were almost the same as mine. They are all fishing methods to fish out the water ghosts, for what to say like fishing, here to explain, the principle of fishing is to put the fish love to eat on the hook, so it will be hooked, although the fishing water ghost does not have any bait for it to eat, but the principle is basically the same. Hu Zongren and I found a stone of about the same size and carved a mantra root on the stone as a "bait". Then I tied the stone with a rope, and then I connected all the ropes on my body, and about two meters away from the stone, I tied a piece of wood larger than the stone, so that when I could catch water ghosts, the wood would float on the water. and then handed the end of the rope to Hu Zongren, there is no special principle at all, it is purely because of his brute strength.

I drew a well character in the dirt on the ground, and then I circled it many times to form a maze, and the purpose of this charm is that when we catch it, we have to think of bringing it to this charm, so that it gets lost and can't get out, so that we can slowly clean it up.

I asked Hu Zongren if he was ready, and he said yes, so I picked up the stone bait with the spell engraved on it and threw it as far as I could. Then I stood beside Hu Zongren and waited quietly. After waiting for a while, I began to break a piece of bush, and flapped and fluttered at the water's edge, making that sound of playing in the water, and after a while, Hu Zongren suddenly whistled at me very softly, and I knew that he had caught it.

So I stood back to him, and he also began to wrap my rope around the palm of his hand, reflecting the light of the flashlight, I saw the wood floating on the water float and sink slightly, and then began to seem to be carried back and forth by something to shake back and forth, and then Hu Zongren appeared to be grabbed by something and pulled into the water, after a few consecutive strokes, he shouted at me, this thing is so powerful! So I hurried to help him, and we kept pulling the rope, but it didn't reel in, and it was just like fishing, and when the thing was running out of strength in the water, we pulled it up again.

It was so stalemate for nearly twenty minutes, and there were a lot of ripples on the water because of the relationship between the wood floating back and forth, and Hu Zongren and I were not small, so we were also a little struggling, at this time, the float suddenly stopped moving, and the water surface returned to tranquility.

Originally, Hu Zongren and I were a little struggling, so suddenly stopped, we didn't know what the road was for, just when the two of us looked at me and I looked at you, suddenly there was a huge force on the rope in our hands, Hu Zongren and I wrapped the rope around the palms of our hands, and we didn't have time to let go, we were both pulled out of the lungs.

With a plop, we fell into the water, and I took several sips of water due to being defenseless. Hu Zongren and I are not bad at water, we both know that after choking on water, we have to float to the surface of the water as soon as possible, so after I floated, I hurriedly looked everywhere for Hu Zongren, he was not far away, and I soon found him. I asked him, you're okay, what's the going on?

He said I don't know....Before he finished speaking, Hu Zongren was torn off the water by something.