Chapter 3: The Corpse Fisherman

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I didn't know what Uncle wanted to do, but when Da Kui heard this, he was overjoyed, smiled at me malice, and pushed me aside and entered the house with him.

I wanted to go in and listen, but my uncle stopped me at the door and said, "You're outside." ”

With that, he closed the door.

Although I was worried, I had no choice but to sit at the gate of the courtyard, and I didn't see Da Kui come out of the room for a long time, and I didn't know what they were talking about in the room.

waited until the sun was waning, and then I saw the door open, and Da Kui walked out of it. Seeing me, Da Kui smiled at me and said, "Your uncle is really interesting." ”

I watched him shake away step by step, and I didn't understand what he just said, and then I got up and went to my uncle's room, and saw him standing in front of an incense burner to offer incense.

I said, "Uncle, you just came to the village and didn't know that this Da Kui is a ruffian, and you must not have anything to do with him." ”

Uncle turned around, patted me on the shoulder a little kindly for the first time, and said, "Don't worry, I know it." ”

- That night, Uncle really moved out. I tried to help, but he only asked me to move my clothes and stuff there, and he was carrying something that looked big and heavy. The thing was wrapped in a black cloth and airtight, but from the outside, it looked like a coffin.

I followed him, he was on one side of the thing, the other on his hand, and I looked at it as heavy as I looked, but he walked with great ease.

The house that the uncle bought is at the mouth of the Huangsha of the Shengshan Lake, and from the window, you can see the vast smoke waves of the Shengshan Lake.

Uncle rushed into the room and put down the coffin-like things before letting me take my clothes in. When he came out, he gave me a few pieces of ocean, and told me to give it to my mother, and told me to come here and find him if I had any trouble.

It was late when I was done, so I went home, ate and lay down on my body to sleep. In the middle of the night, I was woken up by a dog barking, and when I got up and looked, I saw a group of people kneeling side by side in the courtyard, the group of people wearing white filial piety clothes, kneeling in front of my uncle's room without saying a word, and the scene under the moonlight was extremely terrifying.

I was so frightened that I didn't dare to say anything, so I turned around and fell on the bed and covered my whole body with the quilt.

I don't know how long it took for the barking of the dogs outside to stop, and I dared to get up and see that the yard was empty, as if it had never happened.

The next morning, I got up early and went straight to my uncle's place where I lived, and saw that my uncle was actually sitting in Huangshakou fishing. When I looked closer, I found that there was no line on the rod. For a long time, I have been a little accustomed to my uncle's strange behavior, and I didn't care about it at the moment, and I walked over and was about to speak, but my uncle made a silent gesture to me.

Just after I was stunned, my uncle's bare fishing rod shook suddenly, and then my uncle's arms suddenly stretched back, and I heard a "poof" sound in the water, and a corpse jumped out of the water with the lifting of the fishing rod, and fell straight to the ground in front of me, splashing me with water.

Startled, I sat on the ground with my head on my hips, my eyes staring straight at the corpse in front of me.

The corpse's face was pale, but as if it had just died, it did not appear swollen from the prolonged immersion.

The uncle wiped his hands and said to me, "Go and tell the village chief Miao, just say that his father was fished by me, let him claim it." ”

Hearing this, I was shocked again. Because I know that the father of the village chief Miao drowned in that fire as early as that time, how many years have passed, how can this corpse still be the same as the one that just died, not decomposing at all.

But when the uncle spoke, I still had to listen, I got up from the ground and ran to the village chief's house in a hurry. While running, I thought, my uncle really has two hits, not to mention that the matter of fishing for corpses with a fishing rod is incomprehensible, and what is even more amazing is that there is no fishing line on the fishing rod at all.

I ran to the Miao village chief's house in one breath and explained the situation to him, but the Miao village chief forgot to wear his shoes and ran directly to Huangshakou.

As soon as he arrived at Huangshakou, Village Chief Miao knelt down for his uncle and snorted several times.

"Decai, your great kindness, my Miao family is unforgettable."

As he spoke, he got up and went to greet the family, collected the body of Mrs. Miao, and carried it home.

- Since my uncle lived by the lake, he has caught a corpse every once in a while, all of which drowned when there was a big flood.

There is also something going on in the village, after the body is claimed, it is inevitable that he will be mourned and buried in the ancestral grave.

I took a free time to tell my uncle what happened at home that night, and my uncle nodded and said you don't have to worry about it.

I screamed bitterly in my heart, a large group of filial sons knelt in their yard and cried and mourned, you actually told me to leave it alone? I think I'll have to have that guts.

Strange to say, I have not seen anyone in white come to my yard since that day, except that the dogs outside barked every night.

On this day, I came to look for my uncle, and when I walked to the door, I saw that Da Kui had just come out of the uncle's door, and his face was very bad, how to say it, it looked very blue, that kind of dark blue.

He looked at me, didn't speak, just lowered his head again and walked forward, totaling something as he went.

I stood there looking at his back, and when my uncle came out of the house, I could smell the smell of incense on his body. I saw him come to the lake with a white spirit flag in his hand, and it was firmly fixed to the ground on the edge of the small pier at Huangshakou. As soon as the spirit flag was erected, a damp cold wind blew, and I shivered and asked my uncle what he was doing.

Uncle just said two words: "Crossing the soul!" ”

It is undeniable that Uncle Xiao has a lot of problems, from the first time he went to the lake to save people, to fishing for corpses with a wireless fishing rod, and he still has a close relationship with the Chen family Dakui, these problems make me inexplicably worried.

When the uncle was done with his business, he took out a pig's head from the house and put it on the table in the middle of the courtyard, and took out another pot of wine. I remember that my uncle had never drunk alcohol, and I don't know why I am so interested today.

When I asked my uncle, I told me, "There is a guest here today." ”

As he was talking, he saw a figure on the path slowly walking towards this side in the distance, and when he got closer, he realized that it was actually Old Ghost Chen.

Uncle waved his hand and asked me to go first. I looked at my uncle curiously, my heart was full of questions, many questions were blocked in my chest, but in the end I still didn't ask them.

I don't know what Uncle Chen said to Old Ghost Chen, but at noon the next day, I heard people in the village talking about the daughter-in-law that Old Ghost Chen bought before hanged herself last night.

I was taken aback, so I followed everyone to Chen Laogui's house, and when I arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I saw that it was already full of people, but there were only Chen Laogui and Chen Dakui in the courtyard.

Chen Lao Ghost has a strange temperament, since the death of her mother, he rarely interacts with the villagers, even when he is doing paper business, he doesn't have a good face when talking to people, not to mention that he has a bad reputation in the village because of this woman's affairs, and at this time, there is an accident at home, and no one is willing to come over to help.

Old Ghost Chen was sitting in the courtyard and smoking, in front of him was a new coffin, the lid of the coffin had been nailed shut, and in front of the coffin, there was a photo of the woman before her death.

At this time, Village Chief Miao pushed aside the crowd and walked in. No matter how you don't treat Old Ghost Chen, as the head of a village, how can you get red and white ceremonies, this is the rule of the village.

Village Chief Miao came to Old Ghost Chen's side, first put incense on the coffin, and then asked Old Ghost Chen: "Old Chen, when is it?" ”

Old Ghost Chen didn't reply, just smoked a cigarette.

Village Chief Miao was bored, and his old face turned red, but he still continued: "You mourn, everything has happened, and people can't be resurrected after death." But what about the aftermath, you tell me, I'll ask the villagers to help. If you can't keep your own hands busy, it won't look good. ”

Old Ghost Chen didn't even raise his head, and said: "Those who died horizontally, it is not appropriate to stay in the mortuary for a long time, and they will be buried tonight." ”

The village chief Miao asked, "Have you chosen the cemetery?" ”

Old Ghost Chen turned his head at this time, but instead of looking at Village Chief Miao, he cast his gaze straight at me, I don't know why, at that moment, I saw a hint of evil smile on his face.

"Just go out of the funeral at Huangshakou, and the coffin of Shengshan Lake will be sunk!"

Hearing this, everyone exploded. What kind of place is Shengshan Lake, Chen Lao Ghost didn't know, and I was even more taken aback, and suddenly thought that my uncle's house was on the edge of Huangshakou.

I couldn't listen to a word of the latter words, and I always had the sentence in my head that went out of the funeral, and I turned around and went straight to my uncle's house.

When I arrived at my uncle's house, I saw that my uncle was sitting on the edge of the fishing rod fishing, and when he saw me running over in a hurry, he said to me, "Old Ghost Chen wants to choose to go out of the funeral in Huangshakou?" ”

I was taken aback, I don't know how my uncle knew about this.

Uncle smiled and said, "Don't worry about this matter. As he spoke, he handed me a gold ingot, and asked me to give it to Old Ghost Chen, and told me that I don't need to say anything.

At this time, I really muttered in my heart, the ill-intentioned expression that Old Ghost Chen looked at me before, said that this matter was obviously for the uncle, the uncle can pinch the person is not known, how can he still send gold to people?

Seeing that I looked puzzled, the uncle didn't say anything, patted me on the shoulder, lay on the chair and closed his eyes.

It seems that Uncle doesn't want to say anything to me, so I can't help it. I have the impression that he is such a cold person.

I took the gold ingot and ran to Old Ghost Chen's house, and in front of Village Chief Miao and everyone, I put the gold ingot in front of Old Ghost Chen, and said, "My uncle gave it to you." ”

Old Ghost Chen didn't say anything, but everyone who watched the excitement talked about it.

Village Chief Miao's face was a little wrong, and he said to Old Ghost Chen: "Old Chen, you also know that De just came back, and now he lives in the old mansion on the edge of Huangshakou, so it's a bit unauthentic for you to do this." You see, the people of virtue and talent even sent Chengzi to give this big gift, I think you should forget it. ”

I knew that Village Chief Miao would definitely be wrong about what Uncle meant, but I and Old Ghost Chen both knew that this gold ingot was definitely not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

Old Ghost Chen snorted coldly and said: "Go back and tell the man surnamed Wu, what happened twenty years ago has nothing to do with me, if he doesn't believe it, if there are any means to rush at me, but it will not harm his wife and children, I don't understand this rule, be careful of retribution in the future." ”

As he spoke, he picked up the gold ingot and threw it directly at my feet.

I didn't know what to say, but I heard everyone on the side talking: "Now the old Wu family and the old Chen family have become more close." ”

"It's not, I haven't spoken for more than 20 years, and this Wu De just came back, it seems that he wants to ease this relationship, but this old ghost Chen is indeed a bit excessive."

"If you look at the yellow and clear gold, you can also see the sincerity of the old Wu family, this old ghost is really old and confused."

I didn't say anything when they said this, but I bent down to pick up the gold ingot, only to find that five handprints were pinched out of thin air on the gold.

It must have been pinched when Old Ghost Chen picked it up just now, but I didn't expect Old Ghost Chen's hand to be so strong, so I didn't say anything at the moment, and ran back to Huangshakou with the gold under the gaze of everyone.

Uncle took the gold and looked at it, silently without any expression, and then he waved his hand and actually threw the ingot of gold into the lake, I was surprised, but I heard the uncle say: "He is quite smart." ”

Hearing this, I knew something big might be happening.