I don't remember my father, who is said to have been killed in the old cemetery before I was born, and had all the flesh and skin off his face, leaving only the grim white skull. I heard that this incident shocked the big people in the county, but in the end it was still closed and became an unsolved case.

On the day I was born, there was a big flood at the Shengnu Lake at the south end of Shilipo in our village, which drowned many people and completely washed away the old cemetery of our old Wu family, and one hundred and eight coffins were washed out of the old cemetery, but there were no bodies in it.

The flood did not recede for half a month, and everyone pointed the finger at my family, because the flood seemed to be coming at our family, first, there was a big flood on the day I was born, and second, it simply washed away our Wu family's old cemetery. There was no way, one night, my grandfather ran away with my uncle, leaving only me and my mother at home. The run was delayed for another half a month, and the plague began to run rampant, and the people who had drowned and died of disease in the water, plus the coffins that had been washed out of the old cemetery, were all floating on the water, and it was said that the whole village was shrouded in an eerie aura at that time.

At this time, the grandfather came back, but he didn't see the uncle, but he paid for someone to build a temple on the middle of the small lonely mountain, and the god enshrined in it is said to be a ghost lady, and carved a big king eight with the mountain stone, fixed with eight arm-thick iron chains, and sank into the lake, and the water slowly receded.

Since then, every July 23rd, there will be a rain in our village, and we will go to the Ghost Niangniang Temple to worship incense in order to pray for good weather in the coming year.

And grandpa's ability is also impressed by the people in the village, they all say that grandpa is a fairy in the world, and then there is a strange disease in the village and a small disaster, they will come to grandpa to pinch it, grandpa is not disappointed, never missed.

However, since that great flood, the originally calm Shengshan Lake has begun to become evil, and the surface of the lake, which was originally calm like a mirror, is now shrouded in a layer of white mist. Deeper into the middle of the lake, the fog grew thicker, and at last there was no one on the other side. It was also at this time that accidents occurred in the lake one after another.

At first, no one cared, because as the saying goes, the cloud sails and the boat goes three lives, but one day, there was a villager named Chen Laogui, who went out of the lake to fish and never came back until the night.

There is only one old mother in Old Ghost Chen's house, and the old mother has been looking forward to it all night, but she still hasn't seen Old Ghost Chen come home. Early the next morning, the old mother came to my house to find my grandfather, saying that she had dreamed that the old ghost Chen had given her a dream at night, telling her that she had married a daughter-in-law and could not come back, so let her take care of herself.

At that time, I was too young to remember anything clearly, but I had some impressions of it. I even vaguely saw the appearance of Old Ghost Chen's mother.

At that time, my grandfather asked for the birthday of Old Ghost Chen, and slowly calculated it, and only said, "There are no more people." ”

After hearing this, Chen's mother turned her eyes away.

Grandpa's ability to break life and death with yin and yang has never missed, but this time, grandpa really missed.

Because in the afternoon of the same day, Old Ghost Chen came back. However, when Old Ghost Chen came back, he found that his old mother couldn't think of hanging herself. Because of this incident, the grandfather was also convicted for his words, and was sued by Chen Laogui to the county yamen with a piece of paper. The county magistrate concluded that his grandfather's evil words confused the public, causing Chen's mother to hang herself and die, and he was directly shot in the afternoon of the same day.

Since then, my family has been left with me and my mother, and our family and the old ghost family are also bitter and bitter, and we have never spoken.

Since then, Chen Lao Ghost has never gone to the lake to fish, and has started a paper shop in the village. And my mother relied on the one-third of an acre of land left by my grandfather to raise me as an adult.

Now, 20 years later, although the two families do not interact with each other, they are also peaceful.

On this day, as soon as I came back from the field, I saw a tall strange man squatting on the edge of the table in the middle of the hall, eating noodles with a bowl of "hulala", while my mother was wiping tears from her eyes while watching.

I'm a bit of an introvert, and since my grandfather's accident, few people have come to my family. I stood by the door, and I didn't go inside, I stood there in a bit of a daze.

As soon as my mother saw me, she said, "Little Chengzi, come and meet your uncle." ”

I've heard about an uncle I had who was taken by my grandfather and his whereabouts are still unknown, but I never expected him to come back. I saw that the uncle in front of me looked a little similar to me between his eyebrows, but his eyes and expression were very cold, staring at me all over my body.

Then he smiled at me, and I smiled at him, and walked over to my mother.

My mother brought the noodles to me, turned back to my uncle and asked, "Where have you been all these years?" I couldn't get any news. ”

His expression was still cold, even when he smiled at me just now, it hadn't changed.

"Fencheng."

He said briefly.

My mother began to wipe her tears again, and began to talk to him about my grandfather, but my uncle didn't respond, but kept eating noodles, and finished eating noodles in a blink of an eye, and gently put the bowl on the table, and the chopsticks were neatly placed on the bowl noodles, which was very regular.

After listening to my mother, my uncle's expression was very flat, and he said, "Sister-in-law, I know about this." I won't leave when I come back this time, it's not easy for you to pull Xiao Chengzi so big. It is said that the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and you will take care of the future, and I will give you a pension and send you to the end. ”

As soon as I said this, my mom cried again.

When the uncle said this, he glanced at me, then felt through his clothes for a long time, took out a few pieces of Yuan Datou and put them on the table in front of my mother, and said, "Take this money first, and if you can use it later, I will send it over." ”

When I grew so big and saw so much money for the first time, my eyes straightened immediately.

My mother said: "I can't ask for this money, you are so big, you have to say that your daughter-in-law, you can keep it for yourself, I have a little Chengzi here, it is enough." ”

The uncle didn't say anything, and he didn't get the money back, but just stood up and looked at me, and said, "There is another room in our courtyard, and I will clean and clean it, and I will live there." ”

With that, he walked out the door.

I stared blankly at his departing back and asked my mother, "Is this really my uncle?" ”

My mom nodded and said, "Is that fake?" The birthmark on his neck is clear and can't be wrong. ”

I think it's also true, my family is poor and white, and I don't have a lot of money, who would have nothing to do to pretend to be this poor relative. Besides, people come here to give money and take care, if it weren't for the fact that blood is thicker than water, who would do this?

After I finished eating noodles and came out of my house, a large group of people hurried in the direction of Shengshan Lake. I saw that those people's expressions were wrong, and they talked about what happened to Zhang Dasha's family as they walked, and they never came back from fishing in the lake. When I heard this, I followed them to the lake.

I saw that the lake was full of people, Zhang Dasha's daughter-in-law and her children kept looking into the lake, and a few people who had just come back from fishing next to them were talking about something, and Zhang Dasha's daughter-in-law and the children were crying and screaming, and the scene was a mess.

I walked over and heard only one person say, "Dasha was originally with us, but as soon as he took a cold breath, he disappeared, and my brothers and sons have been looking for a long time on the lake, and even the people and boats seem to have disappeared out of thin air." ”

The other also said: "I'm also evil, we have been on this lake for so many years, where should we go and where we shouldn't go, our hearts seem to be like Spiegel, and we can't go wrong with our eyes closed, this is also strange, did he go to Xiaolongkan?" ”

Since that big flood, there is a place in the lake called Xiaolongkan, which is close to the temple of the goddess of Xiaogushan, which is different from other places on the lake, where the fog is like a white cloth that cannot be torn apart, and some people say that they have heard the sound of dragons and tigers roaring there.

There were a lot of fishing nets that entered there before, but they didn't come back, and since then, no one has gone to Xiaolongkan again.

As soon as he heard this, the faces of everyone present changed, and Zhang Dasha's daughter-in-law cried even more.

One of them persuaded: "Don't worry, second aunt, maybe Dasha will come back in a while, don't worry, in this brother, he has been on the lake for the longest time, and nothing big will happen." ”

As he was saying this, he heard a cold voice sound behind him: "People can't come back." ”

I was taken aback, and when I looked back, it was actually the uncle I had just met.

One of them was not happy and asked, "Who are you?" ”

I hurriedly walked over and said, "This is my uncle." ”

As soon as they heard what I said, everyone's faces changed slightly.

"Your uncle? Didn't you get taken away by your grandfather that year and didn't come back? When did you come back? ”

The uncle didn't answer, but just walked over to Dasha's daughter-in-law and asked, "You show me his eight characters." ”

When they heard this, they all lowered their voices and whispered, and I stood far away, not knowing what they were saying. I just saw that they were talking in a low voice, and they looked at the uncle with a glance.

Dasha's daughter-in-law looked at the uncle and hesitated for a long time, but still told the uncle about Dasha's birthday.

In front of everyone's eyes, the uncle closed his eyes and pinched his fingers as if no one was around, and then said: "People are in Xiaolongkan, but they are not dead." ”

As soon as she heard this, Dasha's daughter-in-law was anxious, grabbed her uncle's hand and asked in a trembling voice, "What can I do, what should I do." ”

One of them said: "It's impossible for Dasha to go to Xiaolongkan, after so many years, how can he be so ignorant." Don't play tricks here. ”

Another also said: "You are Wu Deyou, right?" You've been out for so many years, I don't know why your father died, and you're still talking nonsense here? ”

As soon as I heard this, I was a little angry, and my uncle's face became even more gloomy, and he said: "People are in Xiaolongkan, it's too late to save it now, wait a while, it's too late." ”

Seeing that the uncle was full of confidence, those people stopped talking. And Dasha's daughter-in-law knelt down for everyone at once, begging: "Please save my Dasha, who will go to the lake to see, if my Dasha has three long and two short, and we are left with the old and young, how should we live." ”

But the uncle clearly told Dasha that it was in Xiaolongkan, not to mention whether what the uncle said was true or false, just listening to the name, no one dared to go to the lake.

What kind of place is Xiaolongkan, no one can get out when you go in.

Seeing that no one spoke, Dasha's daughter-in-law even kowtowed on the ground.

At this time, the uncle said, "Give me a boat, I can save people." ”

As soon as these words came out, the crowd exploded. I also think that Uncle is too bold to say this, what is Xiaolongkan, although I have not been to the lake, but I have heard of it. I walked over and grabbed my uncle's arm, who nodded at me, and I saw his confident gaze, and he didn't say anything to his mouth.

Then one of them said, "I can lend you the boat." ”

Hearing this, the uncle took the cable from the man's hand, jumped into the boat, stretched out his foot and kicked on the rocks on the shore, and the boat sailed like an arrow off the string towards the center of the lake.

No one on the shore spoke, and Dasha's daughter-in-law stopped crying, and they all stared at the lake one by one.

I was even more nervous in my heart, and I felt that my palms were full of sweat.

Seeing that the uncle's boat was getting smaller and smaller in sight, it slowly disappeared into the fog on the lake.

After a while, the uncle did not come back, and everyone began to talk about it. One of them said, "Don't wait, big guys, I see, this person can't come back." ”

Others also chimed in: "What kind of place is this Xiaolongkan, you can enter it if you can say it." This Wu family kid really doesn't know how thick the sky is, he has been out for so long, and he hasn't done much when he just returned to the village. ”

Hearing this, I shouted, "Don't talk about it, my uncle will be fine." ”

Speaking of which, although I have just met my uncle, after all, blood is thicker than water, and I am still unhappy with others saying this.

At this moment, I heard someone shouting, "Look, the man has returned." ”

I hurriedly set my eyes on the lake, and sure enough, in the mist, a figure was rowing a small boat towards the shore, and when I got closer, I found that it was my uncle. And at the uncle's feet, there is still a person lying down, who else can he be if he is not a big fool.