"So you've seen it too?" Wu Yun said, "We also passed by there last night and found this sacrificial ritual. The old men were villagers from the nearby mountain pass, and their village chief invited us to join in the sacrifice. Have you seen us? We stood at the very back of the villagers. ”

Xu Liangyue shook his head. "No, He Mengmeng and I just looked at it from a distance for a while, and then walked away because it didn't mean much. Maybe you arrived after we left. ”

"I guess so."

"Hey, what are they sacrificing?"

"The lake spirit, the fierce spirit you saw last night. The night before yesterday, the evil spirit had just appeared and killed a couple, so the people of the village would organize a sacrifice last night to appease the anger of the evil spirit. ”

Xu Liangyue was about to blurt out the word "ignorance", but immediately realized that the fierce spirit did exist, so he swallowed it back. "Oh, but the evil spirit reappeared last night."

Wu Yun shook his head and said, "No, I said something unpleasant, it's not a matter of sacrifice, the reason why the evil spirit haunts again is because of something you and your girlfriend did by the lake." After the sacrifice was over, Xiaofeng and I were invited by the villagers to visit their village, and after contact, we knew that the old gentleman who presided over the sacrifice was not only a trickster, but also had a lot of ability. He told us exactly where the evil spirit was when it came out that night, and of course, he was the one who suggested that the reason for the ghost's appearance was that the victim couple had made some kind of move. ”

"Okay, since you all think so, even if you're right, anyway, I don't remember any strange things I did or said anything strange with He Mengmeng last night. Okay, I'll move on. After leaving the priesthood, we continued on our way, and soon came to the reeds near the lake where we had met the female ghost. I grew up in the city, and I had never seen reeds except on TV, so I was curious and suggested going in and having a look. He Mengmeng was a little opposed at first, saying that it felt something was wrong and asked me to go back to the hotel early. I persuaded her that it was so far from the place where two people had drowned in a row, and that there would be no danger under her feet if she was careful. Then I took her hand and went into the reeds.

"The two of us carefully walked through the reeds and came to the grassy shore. I squatted down and touched the grass, which was relatively flat and soft, so we both sat down, intending to take a short break and go back to the hotel. At that time, the moonlight was very good, the wind was not too cool, there were no other people around, it was very quiet, and we drank some wine before, and the strength of the wine came up, so we ...... "In front of four relatively strange people, Xu Liangyue was embarrassed to continue.

However, Wu Yun and the others naturally guessed that this lonely man and widow faced the moonlight lake scene, and they were drunk to cheer up, and they couldn't help but be angry. Wei Xiaofeng and Yue Lin are women, with thin skin and slightly flushed faces. Chen Wendong rarely joked: "Young people, it's understandable to be so bold. ”

Wu Yun also said: "In the northern countryside, you drill sorghum fields, and you drill reeds, one meaning." ”

But it would be good to joke a little, Chen Wendong opened his mouth and asked Xu Liangyue to continue to talk about the future.

"Ahem, that, after that, He Mengmeng and I will lie on the grass by the lake for a while." Even after talking about the love between men and women, Xu Liangyue's blunt address to his girlfriend still did not change, "After a while, we sat up and leaned on each other and chatted. She asked me, do you know how the name of this beautiful lake in front of you came from? I replied, "I don't know, do you know?" She smirked and nodded. So I said, "Tell me, then?" She began to tell it, it was a poignant love story......"

"We all know that story," Wu Yun interrupted, "the hero and heroine of the story who fell in love did not want to be separated by the woman's father, so they hugged each other and jumped into the lake from the cliff of Impertuation to die in love. You can skip it, we want to know what you said or did after the story was told. ”

Xu Liangyue listened to his words and continued: "After He Mengmeng finished the story, I said, this story sounds a bit old-fashioned. He Mengmeng hammered my chest and asked, don't you think this story is very poignant? Two people who obviously love each other can't stay together for a lifetime, and after all kinds of hardships, they can only face the road of martyrdom in the lake, and the two of them do not hesitate to die, how touching is it? I said, yes, like Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Romeo and Juliet, even if they choose death for the sake of their loved ones, they will not hesitate, this kind of love is indeed singable and crying.

After I said this, He Mengmeng got into the horns of the bull and began to ask me, if one day in the future we come to the same point as the pair of hard-working mandarin ducks in the story, the whole world will separate us, and the only possibility for us to be together is to face death together, will you die with me? I immediately nodded affirmatively and said, yes. Then I said, don't worry, this society is not the old feudal society that followed the orders of our parents and the words of matchmakers, as long as we want to be together, nothing can break us apart. He Mengmeng continued to ask, if I fall into the water one day and can't swim and am about to drown, will you go out of your way to save me? I didn't even think about it, I replied, of course! She asked again, if I couldn't escape the fate of drowning, even if it was too late to be rescued ashore, would you jump into the water and swim to my side to die with me? I replied sincerely, yes, I will die with you, because you are my life, if I lose you, I don't know what the point is for me to continue to live, as long as I can be with you, what is the point of dying? After that, she finally stopped asking, and lay down in my arms with a happy face. ”

"At the time?" Chen Wendong very keenly caught the adverb of time that Xu Liangyue seemed to add deliberately, and asked, "Why did you use the word 'then'?" Do you now think that what you said last night was not your heart? ”

Xu Liangyue sighed softly, his expression was a little lost, and he blamed himself, and said, "Uncle, don't worry, you will understand after listening to me continue." ”

The glint in Chen Wendong's eyes did not disappear, and he said, "Okay, you can continue." ”

Then we sat next to each other and said no more. Then I noticed that a light mist gradually spread on the surface of the lake, and the wind cooled down a little, and I looked up at the sky, and the moon did not know when it was covered by dark clouds, and the surroundings were darkened. So I said to He Mengmeng, it's not early, and the wind is blowing and it feels a little cold, let's go back to the hotel, right? She replied yes. Then we stood up and sorted out our messy clothes. It was in the short period of time when I lowered my head to sort out my clothes that my eyes left He Mengmeng, and when I raised my head, I found that she was supposed to be standing next to me and disappeared without a trace. I hurriedly looked around, and the shore of the lake was empty except for me. I felt very strange at the time, because He Mengmeng had no reason to leave alone without saying hello to me, and I didn't hear her footsteps leaving, not to mention that it was only a few seconds before I lowered my head to tidy up my clothes, and she couldn't run too far. But in fact, it was so strange that she suddenly disappeared from me as if she had evaporated from the world. ”

"I see!" Wei Xiaofeng slapped his thigh and said, "It's a ghost made by a fierce spirit!" It's not that He Mengmeng really disappeared from you, but that the fierce spirit used spiritual power to affect your brain, so that you couldn't see He Mengmeng's existence. ”

"Spiritual power? Affects the brain? Xu Liangyue was confused when he heard it.

Xiao Feng patiently explained: "The power generated by the obsession of the soul left in the world is spiritual power, and more commonly speaking, the power of thought. Ordinary people's minds are limited and weakened because their souls are attached to their bodies, but the power of their minds is much stronger than those of souls that can exist alone from their bodies. This power is able to affect the brains of ordinary people, thus affecting their five senses and thinking, and in turn can control what they perceive that the soul body that uses this power wants them to perceive. To put it simply, the soul body itself is transparent and invisible to ordinary people, but the soul body can make ordinary people see it through spiritual power, which is what we commonly call seeing ghosts. We often hear that ghosts press beds, ghosts hit walls, ghosts on the body, and the like are the result of the soul body using spiritual power to affect the brains of others. ”

"So that's the case, no wonder He Mengmeng disappeared from me silently." Xu Liangyue suddenly realized.

"And after that?" Wu Yun asked curiously.

After He Mengmeng suddenly disappeared, I didn't want to mention how anxious I was, and while shouting her name loudly on the shore of the lake, I looked for her to hide in the reeds and bushes around her. After looking around, I couldn't find it, so I took out my phone and called her. But at this moment, I caught a glimpse of something floating on the surface of the lake, where there was originally nothing, and I went to the shore to take a closer look, and found that it seemed to be a person drowning and struggling in the lake. I immediately thought that it couldn't be He Mengmeng, right? I looked at it carefully, and the appearance was a bit similar, and the color of the clothes was also right. I didn't even think about it at the time and desperately plunged into the lake, whether it was He Mengmeng or not, since someone was drowning, save it first. Halfway down, I saw clearly that it was really her, so I was even more anxious, and the movements under my feet also accelerated. However, I also had a doubt in my heart, how could He Mengmeng, who was still by my side just now, suddenly end up in the lake so far from the shore? And she should be able to swim, why did she drown? But then I thought about the questions she had asked while sitting by the lake, and I thought it was a whim of her who deliberately tested me. ”

"This scene must have been deliberately created by the evil spirits, because your clothes weren't wet at all when I found you unconscious on the shore of the lake." Wu Yun said.