Shuheng and his mother were all rocks on the river beach, although most of the strength was removed, but the baby in swaddling clothes was only a few months old.

The skin is delicate, the bones are not fully developed, and if you fall to the ground, you will be injured even if you don't die.

At this critical moment, Ning Nanxi, who was standing beside him, rushed out of the crowd like an arrow from the string, and caught the baby who was about to land, and then rolled several times to a safe place.

The villagers who were watching applauded after Ning Nanxi rescued the baby, and the Chen family saw that the child was rescued, and the hatred that was difficult to vent was even more added.

Chen Jiangming turned his head to look at Ning Nanxi not far away, and said in a cruel voice with red eyes: "I don't believe you can save a pair if you can save one, push Li Qiuyan, a shameless woman, into the river and drown me, I want to seek justice for my son Shuheng!" ”

Several young people were all descendants of the Chen family, and they did not dare to disobey Chen Jiangming's order, and in an instant, several people pushed the pig cage containing Li Qiuyan into the river.

Because there were several head-sized stones in the pig cage in addition to Li Qiuyan, the pig cage was submerged in an instant when it entered the water.

At this time, Ning Nanxi was holding the baby in her arms, and her knees and arms were also scratched by rocks, and she was powerless to be distracted to save Li Qiuyan who fell into the river.

I don't know if I can successfully save Li Qiuyan this time, but I know that I have to sacrifice my life, because this is not just a life, but also the fate of the entire village, so even if I die, I will save Li Qiuyan!

Now it is late autumn weather, and it is the middle of the night, the temperature of the river is only about 10 degrees, and I feel the nerves in my body being stabbed as soon as I get out of the water, as if I have been pricked by thousands of needles.

I endured the cold and stinging pain and turned over and dived into the water, but now the sky is unknown and the river water is even more chaotic, and I can only use my hands to keep groping for the traces of the pig cage.

In a matter of seconds, I was already underwater, my body in the air, and my arms were groping for the bottom of the river.

The impact of the river and the problem of vision caused me a lot of trouble, and it was not until a dozen seconds later that I found something that looked like a flat plate.

It looks like it was made of wood, covered with a layer of mud and sand, and its width and length are more than a meter.

Although I was curious, I didn't waste much time, after all, my priority now is to find the pig cage.

Now more than half a minute has passed since I went down the river, and the limit of normal people's breath-holding is about one minute, if I continue to delay, even if I find the pig cage, I am afraid I will not be able to save Li Qiuyan.

Thinking of this, I sped up and swam under the water, and finally after seven or eight seconds, I groped for the pig cage at the bottom of the river, and the pig cage was shaking constantly, and it seemed that Li Qiuyan was struggling in it.

In addition to Li Qiuyan, there were several stones in the pig cage, and it took a lot of physical strength to dive to find me before, and I couldn't drag the entire pig cage at all.

In desperation, I had to quickly look for the strap on the side of the pig cage, and at this time, the struggle inside the pig cage was getting smaller and smaller.

I could sense that Li Qiuyan could barely hold on, and she would definitely drown if she continued like this.

After finding the strap, I tore it desperately, but the strap was made of hemp rope, and it seemed to be tied to a pig's trotter buckle, which became tighter and tighter, and it was very difficult to solve.

I couldn't see the hemp rope in the dim water, and just as my heart was anxious, I suddenly remembered that I had a short knife stuck in my waist.

I had stuck my short knife in my waist after killing the Casting Hall's Spiritual Artifact in case I needed it, but now it came in handy.

Happy, I immediately pulled out a short knife and began to cut the hemp rope with a sharp blade, and soon the hemp rope was cut by me, I opened the pig cage and pulled Li Qiuyan from it, at this moment she had no reaction, like a dead dog.

My physical strength has almost reached the limit, and the oxygen in my body is almost exhausted, just when I have some more than enough strength and suddenly there is a violent sound of water slapping above my head, and then I heard a faint voice coming from the shore: "Chen Mo, come up and grab the rope, hurry up!" ”

Hearing the sound of the water, my original desperate mood instantly ignited my fighting spirit, I hugged Li Qiuyan and kicked down with both feet, and the whole person instantly went towards the water.

Just when I was less than a meter away from the water, I finally saw the hemp rope hanging in the water, I put one hand around Li Qiuyan's waist, and the other hand violently pulled the hemp rope, the villagers on the shore felt the hemp rope trembling and immediately began to pull hard, and soon I was pulled out of the water by this powerful force, and I gasped for breath when I was exposed to the water, and the violent heartbeat was finally relieved.

"Chen Mo, are you okay?" When I heard the familiar voice, I looked up and saw that Li Hai was pulling the hemp rope with the villagers, and there was a worried look on his face.

"It's okay, hurry up and drag her ashore, she's fainted now!"

As I spoke, I tied the hemp rope around Li Qiuyan's waist, and then Li Qiuyan was pulled ashore by everyone, and then began to press on her abdomen.

After seeing Li Qiuyan come ashore, I breathed a sigh of relief, and just wanted to swim to the shore, when my ankle suddenly seemed to be grabbed by something, and dragged me underwater.

In an instant, my originally relaxed mood instantly pinched up, could it be that there are water ghosts in this river!

When I was a child, I heard the older generation talk about water ghosts, and they said that if you drown in water, you can't be reincarnated.

The first is that the corpse is mutilated after being bitten by the fish and shrimp in the water, and the second is that the water is yin, which will trap the soul of the person, so it is impossible to go to the underworld to be reincarnated.

Therefore, if the water ghost wants to be reincarnated as a human being, he must find a replacement for the dead ghost, that is, kill one more person to be able to get out of the water, and now I am being dragged by something underwater, and this thing is likely to be the legendary water ghost!

"Chen Mo! What's wrong with you, hurry up! Li Hai sensed that something was wrong with me and immediately shouted at me.

"I look like I'm being grabbed by something!" I shouted as I struggled.

"Water ghosts! There are water ghosts in the river! The crowd didn't know who shouted, and the other villagers retreated, but no one dared to come to the rescue.

"What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and save someone, that's my brother, please save him quickly!" Li Hai turned his head to look at the villagers and shouted.

Li Hai is a landlubber, and he has an ankle injury, so he is powerless, otherwise I am sure that he was the first to go into the water to save me, otherwise he would not have begged the villagers to save me.

The villagers have been in the mountain col all the year round, and their education level is generally low, so they are very feudal and superstitious, so they all stop when they hear that it may be a water ghost, and their faces show a look of horror.

"Chen Mo is a person from your village, he just saved someone, can't you save him now!" Li Hai was anxious but didn't have the slightest recourse, seeing that the villagers refused to help, just when he was about to try to enter the water, a black shadow rushed out of the crowd, jumped directly into the water, and when he was in the air, I found that this black shadow was Ning Nanxi.

Ning Nanxi immediately dived to my ankle after entering the water, and it took about ten seconds for her to resurface.

"It's okay, go ashore." Ning Nanxi looked at me wet and said.

Hearing this, I pedaled hard with both feet, and sure enough, the huge force before had suddenly disappeared, and then I didn't dare to delay any longer, and swam towards the shore with Ning Nanxi.

After going ashore, Li Hai hurried to my side and asked worriedly, "What's the matter, is there anything wrong?" ”

"It's okay, if it weren't for Miss Ning, I'm afraid my life would be hanging in the balance." After speaking, I turned my head to look at Ning Nanxi, who was soaking wet, and asked curiously, "Miss Ning, what grabbed my ankle just now, is it a water ghost?" ”

Ning Nanxi snorted coldly and said with a wry smile: "It's not a water ghost at all, it's this thing that hooks your pants, so you feel that something has caught you." ”

As she spoke, Ning Nanxi put her hand in front of me, and I looked down to see that there was an iron triangular barb in her palm, which looked like an anchor used on a ship, and some like a flying tiger's claw used to climb a wall in an action movie.

According to Ning Nanxi, there was originally a piece of rope behind this triangular barb, but she untied it, and she felt that there was something wrong with this triangular barb, so she salvaged it.

"Questions? It's just a barb, what's wrong with that? Li Hai looked at the triangular barb in Ning Nanxi's hand and asked suspiciously.

Ning Nanxi didn't respond, then turned to look at me and asked me if there were any villages in the upper reaches of the river.

Our village is already one of the most remote in the nearby mountainous area, so there are no other villages and no residents in the upper reaches of the river, because there are many wild animals in the mountains and forests, and it is not suitable to build a village and settle down.

"Since there are no other villages, it means that this triangular barb should be from your village, and I found that this triangular barb is very new, because this thing itself is cast of iron, and it will inevitably rust after a long time in the water, so this thing must not be in the water for a long time, do anyone in your village usually need this kind of thing?" Ning Nanxi looked at me and asked.

I took the triangular barb and looked at it carefully, shook my head and said, "I have hardly seen this thing in our village, because we mainly rely on cultivated land for a living, and we don't need this to cultivate land, and if you want to fish, you don't need to use such a big hook, but does this have anything to do with us?" ”

"It may have nothing to do with us, but it may have something to do with Chen Shuheng, when I was underwater just now, I found that one of the hooks seemed to have a broken piece of wood hooked on it, you said earlier that Chen Shuheng fell into the river and drowned after the boat capsized, then the boat is likely to be hooked by this hook, if the guess is correct, this thing should be a monkey, because he once admitted that he killed Chen Shuheng." Ning Nanxi analyzed.

Although Ning Nanxi's words have some truth, but there is no evidence at present, we can't easily make a conclusion, thinking of this, I looked at Ning Nanxi and said: "Miss Ning, there is a blacksmith in our village, named Li Daring, the villagers call him Li Blacksmith, this iron hook is very likely to come from him, in my opinion, we will go to his house to inquire about it, if it is really the monkey who asked him to forge it, it means that he did use this method to kill Chen Shuheng." ”

As soon as I finished speaking, suddenly an eager shout came from the crowd: "It's not good, the daughter-in-law of the Chen family has no heartbeat!" ”