"Water ghosts, aren't they drowned ghosts?"

"It doesn't have to be drowned." Bai Ze coughed lightly, "Okay, Li'er, what you said is right, that is, the drowning ghost." ”

"Drowning ghosts are drowning ghosts, I thought you could say something different."

"It's—of course not." Bai Ze touched his nose: "Whoever drowns and dies will hold back a stream of resentment before he dies, and if such resentment cannot be released, he will become those extremely vicious ghosts." If the ghost is on the ground, it will be seen by the patrol messenger of the underworld, and if it is voluntarily going to the ghost gate, the messenger will lead them there. If they do not want to go, they will be forcibly detained and taken away. But this underwater world is so cold that even the messengers of the underworld are unwilling to go down, and those ghosts can only wander underwater all day long, endure the erosion of cold water day and day, taste the underwater loneliness night after night, day after day, night after night, waiting for the next drowned person to come and take over. ”

"Have you ever been a water ghost?" Bai Li walked up to Bai Ze, bent down, raised his head, and looked at him with both eyes: "If you haven't been a water ghost, how do you know what the water ghosts have gone through, how do you know what they are thinking." ”

"I-"

"What am I, I know you're guessing."

"That's a guess, Li'er is right."

"I'll tell you the truth, I've seen a man drowned." Bai Li recalled: "When I was about four or five years old, one day, I saw a bunch of people in front of the ruined temple at the entrance of our village, I was curious, so I leaned over. A child, about my age, was lying wet on a very tattered mat. Later, I found out that the mat was picked up from the garbage heap. I asked the elders in the village why they didn't bring him home. The elders told me that he had secretly drowned in the river and that he had died unexpectedly, and that if he was brought home, the family would be in trouble. What kind of theory do you say this, your own child died, and you didn't take him home because you were afraid that he would make a fuss? Isn't the dead child his own child? ”

"Li'er—"

"The onlookers were just watching the excitement, and after watching for a while, they dispersed. It's strange to say, on a hot day, I actually think that it is cold in front of the broken temple, and I can faintly hear the crow cry. I've only seen crows in books, and I've never heard crows, but I know in my heart that it's crows.

I looked at the child, lying alone on a broken mat, his whole face white. I felt sorry for him, so I wanted to get closer, but my mother came and insisted on taking me home. I asked my mother what to do with the child, and my mother said that he would be temporarily placed in a ruined temple while his family discussed his future. Later, I didn't know. ”

"Finished?" Bai Ze asked.

"It's over." Bai Li nodded: "Oh, by the way, the place where he drowned was later filled in and turned into a flat land. If you did what you just said, where did his ghost go? Are you still in the water, or have you gone to the ghost gate? These mountains and rivers are all changing, and the mountains of thousands of years ago may be rivers now. Rivers from thousands of years ago, and now they may also be mountains. So, the water ghost doesn't stay underwater all the time, as long as it lives long enough, it can always come to the ground, and it can always be seen by those ghosts, right? Well, what you just said doesn't hold up, does it? ”

"It seems that there is a little bit of truth, and what Li'er said is something I never thought of before." Bai Ze leaned over: "Then Li'er, what else do you want to tell me?" ”

"No, it's you, you haven't told me what's going on with the ghost ship, why is the ghost ship involved with the red bean girl."

"Did the red bean girl tell Li'er about her and Gao Gongzi's previous affairs?"

"I said a little, not so long ago."

"Is there anything to do with the boat?"

"Boats? Let me think. Bai Li thought about it carefully: "There is a plot, but I don't know if it's related." The Red Bean Girl once mentioned to me that she wanted to trick Gao Gongzi into leaving Huaxi Town with her, but she got on the boat and found the bully on the boat. Later, a fight ensued, and one of the bullies' men fell overboard, and by the time they were fished up, they were already dead. Gao Gongzi was also charged with manslaughter because of this incident, and was also locked up by the people in the government. Later, it was the red bean girl who committed herself to the bully, and the bully asked someone to release Gao Gongzi. ”

"The bully's subordinate didn't fall into the water and die."

"Didn't you fall into the water and die, or was you killed by the water ghosts in this river?"

"Li'er, what do you think...... It's really a surprise. I mean, he didn't fall overboard, he deliberately fell while he was in the chaos. ”

"I guessed, but I couldn't figure out how this fell from the ship and died. This ordinary boat is not very high above the water, and the boat is still parked on the shore, so it is impossible to drown as soon as it falls. It would take a lot of luck to come across such a good thing. ”

"Naturally, it's not a coincidence but artificial, this bully has already made two arrangements, he first arranged for this person to fall from the boat while the chaos was in chaos, and then arranged for another person to hide under the boat, and when this person fell, before he could react, he took the opportunity to press him into the water, causing him to fall into the water and drown, so as to blame Gao Gongzi, causing Gao Gongzi to have a prison sentence later."

"You figured it out too?" Bai Li asked curiously.

"Naturally not, these things were found out by the Gao Gongzi himself, and the seven or eight-year-old children in Huaxi Town knew about it."

"And then? You don't want to tell me that this ship has become a ghost ship, right? ”

"It's the boat, it's true, but it's not because of it. Did the red bean girl tell you that she was planning to follow the bully to Liyang City? ”

Bai Li shook his head.

"The red bean girl was going to follow the bully to Liyang City, but she didn't expect that an accident happened when the boat just ran into the middle of the river." Bai Ze turned around and looked at the calm water: "Sailing during the day, everything on the water is real. As soon as the boat reached the middle of the river, a dark hole appeared in the originally clear river. After a while, a white skeleton emerged from the hole. ”

"White bones? Human bones have come out of the river. ”

"It's a human bone, and it's a man's bone. There was still a garment on the bone, and the garment was very familiar to the bully. ”

"It can't be that person, right?"

"It's him, the bully's subordinate who was designed by the bully himself and sent to the ghost gate. The bully had seen him buried, but now, his bones had appeared in the water, and the bully's boat had begun to spin with the bones, as if it had been stopped by a water ghost. ”