Based on my understanding of the bull madman, he definitely heard something from Lu Jinguo's words.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the cow madman to frown and ask Lu Jinguo: "Did that old Xu Tou say who was the one who chained those ghosts with iron chains?" Does he know? ”

Lu Jinguo's eyes narrowed, thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "He only said that the man was wearing a black cloak, as for whether he recognized me or not, I don't know." ”

"Which village is that old Xu Tou from? What is it called? The cow madman seemed to be very interested in that old Xu Tou, and continued to ask questions.

"From Nanyuan Touzi Village, the person's name is Xu Dali, and he is an old bachelor." After Lu Jinguo finished answering, he asked again, "Old Niu, what are you asking him for?" Anyway, he's not here anymore, so it's important for us to solve the problem at hand. ”

"What's the problem?" Without waiting for the cow madman to speak, I asked first.

Lu Jinguo hesitated for a while, a pair of eyes glanced around, and finally seemed to have made a lot of determination, slapped his thigh, and said: "That day, the old Xu Tou was frightened crazy, and he said a lot of nonsense, and he didn't shy away from people, many people knew about the haunting on the construction site, and it was spread that the whole construction site was known, and the workers didn't dare to start working a few days ago. I couldn't help it, so my relative went to the city and invited one...... A gentleman. ”

Speaking of this, Lu Jinguo secretly glanced at the cow madman, and saw that he had no expression, so he continued: "After the gentleman came, he circled around the construction site a few times, ran a long way along the river beach, and finally told my relative that if you want to build smoothly, you have to sacrifice to the river first......"

"Have you sacrificed? How is it sacrificed? The bull madman's eyes widened, and he almost stared out his eyeballs, looked directly at Lu Jinguo, and asked through gritted teeth.

I was taken aback by the sudden change in the expression of the cow madman, I had never seen him like this in the past few years, and it seemed that Lu Jinguo's words did not know which nerve he had struck.

When Lu Jinguo saw his posture, he also seemed to be frightened, and said in a snort: "That gentleman said that if you don't sacrifice to the river, the river god will be angry, and this project will not be able to be done." For this reason, we have slaughtered three big scalpers, and the incense candle ingots have burned a whole car, not to mention, after such a toss, we can really start construction smoothly. ”

"But who would have thought that Gang'an was born for a long time, you know, the river beach is not as hard as the ordinary land, and if you want to be strong, you have to drive piles underground. Unexpectedly, there was an accident again when the pile was being driven. The first pile couldn't be driven down, not only could it not be hit, but there were strange screams from underground. The cry was horrible, like a man and like an animal. ”

"The gentleman also said that there is a very powerful thing living in this river, and it does not agree with our construction here, and advises us to forget it."

"How can you forget it? We have invested a lot of money in this project, and besides, this is the above project, and we can't explain it to the above if we don't finish it, so we discussed with Mr. and asked him to think of a way, and he mentioned it casually. ”

"This gentleman is really dark, he will ask for 500,000 yuan when he opens his mouth, but there is no way, who let us take this job. After several bargains, he finally agreed to give him 300,000 yuan, and then he mysteriously said that the animal sacrifice would not work, so he would send someone down! ”

"Originally, I didn't agree, this is murder. But the gentleman said that there was no other way, otherwise he would not be able to do this work in ten or twenty years. ”

"Then you'll listen to him?" The bull madman stared at the boss with a pair of bull eyes, and looked a little crazy.

"I don't believe in these fallacies, but my relatives believe it, and besides, the construction team is his, and I said I don't listen to him. He asked the gentleman what he was going to do with the human sacrifice. ”

"That gentleman is also a master who forgets his righteousness, and he said that he should find a place and let my relatives arrange for someone to work there, and the things in the river will naturally drag him down, and then everything will be fine when the work starts again."

Immediately, he took a compass and wandered around the river beach for a long time, and finally sailed into the river himself. Who knew that after a lot of effort, a black whirlwind arose on the surface of the river, rolling up a column of water that was more than ten meters high and four or five meters thick......"

"The workers were so frightened that they scattered and fled, and the timid ones who couldn't run kowtowed on the river beach, but fortunately, the demon wind came and went quickly, and it dissipated in less than two minutes, but then looked at the river, there was only a small broken boat, where was the shadow of Mr."

"Dragons suck water?" The cow madman came out intentionally or unintentionally, "It seems that it's not just a haunting." ”

"Did the gentleman fall into the river and drown?" Compared to those visions, I was more concerned about the life or death of the gentleman.

"It should be, this thing is too evil, everyone is frightened, no one dares to go into the water to search and rescue, anyway, we have waited for a long time and no one has come up."

"You're looking for me for this? I think he also deserved to die. The cow madman said.

"Of course not." Lu Jinguo shook his head, his face was ashamed, "I originally wanted to call the police to save people, but my relative said that he died just right, saving our lives." ”

I asked him what was going on. He said that this is called driving a pile, and also said that whenever a big project starts, most of them have to die, especially related to water, water belongs to yin, and there are many evil spirits in the yin, the reason why there are so many evil things on the construction site, it is the evil spirits in the water that are haunted, and it is necessary to find a living person to throw down to suppress the evil. ”

This made me a little creepy, so I asked the cow madman, "Is there really such a thing?" If so, how many people would have to die in the work? Who would dare to do it? ”

The cow madman glanced at me and explained: "Driving piles is a kind of secret construction technique, not a false rumor, in some more evil places, there are indeed many people who do this. ”

"Take the repair of a bridge as an example, when the pile cannot be driven, the experienced person will make up to ask for food, and go to someone else's house to ask for an old dress on the grounds that his family is poor, and when he comes back, he will nail the clothes to the pile, and he can be killed, but the person who is begged for clothes will soon die. There are also people who will put a big red envelope in the place where the bridge is repaired, and whoever picks up the red envelope will be summoned to guard the bridge. ”

"Similar customs include 'stepping on bridges' and 'plugging water outlets'. Some bridges, no matter how strong they are, will collapse in a short time, or accidents are frequent, which requires someone to step on the bridge, and a person who has a way will let a person walk on the bridge, and then he will call the person's name under the bridge, and if the person agrees, the soul will remain. ”

"What about the plugged spout? And what is it? I asked curiously.

Ever since the madman promised to teach me Taoism, he knew all about my problem: "The purpose of plugging the water outlet is to prevent flooding, and in the place where the flood control levee often bursts, stuff a living person into the drain, so that the levee will become very strong." ”

Then he admonished me, "Remember? I am not telling you this to hurt others, but to tell you not to give your personal belongings to others at will, not to covet the valuables you pick up on the road, and to hear people you don't know calling you, and you must not agree. Don't pay attention to things that are too strange, and after you learn the Tao, you may encounter these things at any time. ”

"Hmm!" I casually agreed, but kept thinking about the words he said, "very strong".