3. Corpse diggers
I have long guessed that Sister Xiaomei and her father are corpse diggers, begging for a living on the river, and doing an unlucky job, what else can she be if she is not a corpse digger?
The scene in front of me confirmed my guess, I think it was Sister Xiaomei's father who went to the river to fish for the corpse, but he was in danger.
At this time, there was already a circle of people on the shore, pointing to the river, they pointed to the corpse in the river with a pestle, and said that this is called a corpse, and Sister Xiaomei's father was afraid that he had touched the corpse, and was trapped in the river by this floating corpse as a companion, and he couldn't get out.
When Sister Xiaomei heard this, she cried urgently, and she was stunned on the shore.
I also heard this kind of saying in my hometown back then, saying that if the floating corpse on the river is straight in the water, it is the floating corpse that is disturbing, and the soul is shook, and even the person who has the ability to dig the corpse will not dare to fish.
But as I got older, I gradually figured out the doorway. If the floating corpse is standing upright in the water, it is not a bad thing, but it just means that there is an undercurrent under the water nearby, and the undercurrent surges to form a whirlpool, and the strength of the whirlpool rolls up the floating corpse, which makes the corpse stand upright in the water.
If you don't have a certain sense of water and wateriness, people who don't understand the undercurrent can only die in vain once they lean on. Therefore, those who fished up the corpses that floated in the river died one after another, but this had nothing to do with the corpses.
I don't know why my parents died, and I couldn't save them, but now I see Sister Xiaomei's father trapped in the undercurrent, and he is about to lose his strength and be swept into the river, I can't bear to see him die, I don't want to think about it, I just took off my clothes and ran into the river.
When Sister Xiaomei saw this, she hurriedly grabbed me and shouted loudly:
"Rong Sheng! Rongsheng! Why are you going? You don't want to die? ”
Other people also advised me not to go, saying that this is a corpse asking for my life, and I will die if I touch it, I am young, why bother looking for death?
I just turned around and patted the back of Sister Xiaomei's hand and said, "Sister Xiaomei, if you believe me, I will definitely save my uncle." ”
After speaking, a fierce man plunged into the river and swam towards Uncle Mei.
Although the undercurrent is dangerous and you are involved in it for nine deaths, if you can find out the doorway of this undercurrent, and the water nature itself is not weak, you can come and go freely from this undercurrent.
I have been soaking in the river since I was a child, and I have encountered countless undercurrents of all sizes, and I have encountered a lot of dangerous things.
The undercurrent in front of me must not be able to stop me.
When I got close to Uncle Mei, I felt the undercurrent surging under the river, and I didn't rush over, but let my body drift with the current, silently sensing the direction of the whirlpool under the water.
After figuring out the direction, I continued to swim forward, following the current to Uncle Mei's position, so that I could save the most effort.
The people on the shore couldn't understand my intentions, and they only saw me walking around Uncle Mei in circles, and they only felt that I was also entangled in corpses, and I was afraid that I would be more than lucky.
Sister Xiaomei cried hoarsely, shouting for me to come back, but I didn't bother to explain to her, waiting for the opportunity to break into the middle of the whirlpool.
Finally I felt the opportunity, I found the weakest part of the water, broke in along the direction of the whirlpool tangent, and hugged Uncle Mei's body.
At this time, Uncle Mei was exhausted, and he was completely on instinct on the water, and if I came one step too late, he would be swept under the water by the undercurrent.
While holding him, I went out in the direction of the whirlpool, first around a small circle, then around a large circle, like a labyrinth, and finally came out of the whirlpool one by one, and returned to the calm river.
Not far away, a fishing boat hurriedly rowed over and dragged our grandfather and us onto the boat, although Uncle Mei drank several sips of water, but finally picked up a life.
When the people on the shore saw that I had fished Uncle Mei out of the ghost gate, they clapped their hands and applauded me, but Sister Mei was so frightened that her legs were weak, and she knelt on the ground and trembled.
I helped Uncle Mei get off the boat, let him lie down on the shore, and hurried to see Sister Xiaomei, who hugged me tightly and cried out of breath.
I patted her on the back and said it was okay, my uncle rescued her, just drank a few more sips of water, and maybe ate a few small fish and opened meat.
Sister Xiaomei laughed, wiped her tears, held my hand tightly, and went to see Uncle Mei with me.
Uncle Mei, who picked up a life, turned pale, and when he saw me coming, he struggled to get up and was about to kowtow to me.
I hurriedly hugged and said I can't stand it, I'm a friend of Sister Xiaomei, and I'm going to call him Lao Taishan in the future.
Uncle Mei laughed after hearing this, took my hand and said that it was fate, we didn't become a family yet, I saved his life first, this is a marriage destined by God.
He couldn't help but ask me, why is the water so good? He has been floating on the river for so many years, and he has never seen a person from such a dangerous whirlpool.
Sister Xiaomei said with a smile on the side: "Dad, Rong Sheng's water is afraid that God will enjoy food, don't you know, he was knocked unconscious and thrown into the river, and he was fine all night long." ”
When Uncle Mei heard this, he couldn't help but be amazed, and said that this is not water-based, this is a good sense of water, water-based can be practiced, but the sense of water is innate, I am afraid that the prince of the Dragon Palace of the East China Sea can be reincarnated to have such a sense of water.
He asked me what my parents did and if they had grown up near the water.
I'm not afraid that you won't believe me when I say it, my parents are also in this business, and they are corpse diggers on the Wujiang River.
Uncle Mei and Sister Xiao Mei both laughed after hearing this, and Uncle Mei said that our two families are simply a good match. Sister Xiaomei also said that no wonder she felt that she fell in love with me as soon as she saw me, it turned out that this was all predestined a long time ago.
At this time, the people on the side gradually surrounded me, and they were all amazed by my water nature, and heard that I was the object brought back by Xiaomei, and they inquired about my life experience.
Before I could talk to them, suddenly a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of the Environmental Sanitation Bureau came over, he pointed to the floating corpse that was still in the river, up and down, staring at our floating corpse, and asked Uncle Mei:
"Mei Laosan, can you still catch the floating corpse? If you can't catch it, I'm going to find someone else, and I can't let it float on the river all the time, right? ”
Uncle Mei shook his head helplessly and said, "Then you look for someone else, I can't get it." ”
The uniformed man sighed and turned to leave, but I stopped him and asked:
"How much will I be paid for this floating corpse?"
When the man saw me asking, he recalled the scene when I fished back Uncle Mei from the river just now, and his eyes lit up, and he realized that I had the ability to retrieve corpses.
He decisively stretched out a slap: "Five hundred!" ”
As soon as I heard it, I was happy.
Earn five hundred at once!
I worked hard in a restaurant for a month, and I could only earn 500.