The five criminal policemen and Captain Liu were all startled, especially Captain Liu, who didn't believe in evil at first, jumped high.

"What the hell is this?"

"Wow!"

"It's over, ah! I have that too. ”

"What's that?"

"Me too, look!"

The five of them were hit on the calves without exception, and the black handprints shocked me.

Captain Liu looked at the five team members in surprise, and couldn't say a word.

In the end, it was the grandfather who took out a few red threads from his arms and tied knots on the feet and necks of the five people.

Grandpa's fingers are very thick, and the joints are very thick calluses, and the hands that seem rough are extremely flexible. The two threads drilled between Grandpa's fingers as if they were alive, and finally made a knot that I couldn't read.

Then, the grandfather sighed and explained to the others, "You go back and take some tonics, and after three days, you can find someone who kills pigs or dogs to break this knot." ”

Captain Liu looked incredulous: "Old man, why?" ”

Grandpa was so weak that he had a hard time speaking, but he still patiently explained: "Several of them have been eroded by yin energy, this knot is called the lock yang knot, as the name suggests, it is to lock their yang energy from leaking."

But people, you still have to pay attention to the coordination of yin and yang, after a long time, I am afraid of yin and yang imbalance, so I can only wear it for three days, after three days, remember this time period, must be removed.

Captain Liu asked worriedly: "Old man, is the boatman, is he still in the water?"

Grandpa didn't speak, just shook his head helplessly.

"Team Liu, I'm here, I'm here......" The policeman led by him came to him, holding his knees and panting for breath.

Originally, he came to retrieve the corpse to investigate the case, but the body has not been fished out, and a boatman has disappeared.

Captain Liu, who had nowhere to vent his frustration, suddenly had an outlet to vent and kicked on the buttocks of the comer.

immediately shouted: "Don't gasp, hurry up and call someone to retrieve the corpse!" ”

When Grandpa heard this, he immediately stepped forward to stop him: "Captain Liu, believe the old man's words, don't go today." If you want to go, when I'm ready, I'll call the marine police boat to come and salvage it tomorrow. ”

Captain Liu was waiting for this sentence, saying that he was sending someone to retrieve the corpse, but he was actually panicking.

The steps were very comfortable, and he said in a deep voice: "Director Zhou, you send a few people here to protect the scene, I will go back to the team first, and come over with the marine police tomorrow, if there is anything wrong before I come, we will all stop being police." ”

Before he could take a few steps, he turned around and pointed at my grandfather, and added, "If this uncle is in need, you can help him, do you hear it?" With that, he drove away.

Director Zhou, who didn't know why, hurriedly greeted his grandfather: "Uncle Xiaoren, what's going on?" Isn't your old man's nephew an agreement with the Marine Police? Anything else, you don't really want us to send someone to keep vigil by the river, do you? ”

This is true, Uncle Shui and several people in the village who are good at water are all "water ghosts".

Water ghosts are an ancient profession, similar to the celestial burial masters in the western plateau region and the corpse-carrying people in Xiangxi, all of them deal with the dead.

It's just that the celestial burial master and the corpse bearer are guarding the dead, and the water ghost is dealing with the mysterious dead corpse under the river.

At first, a few of them were busy farming, out of kindness, they salvaged the poor man from the river and reported it to the local police station.

Over time, they became familiar with the police station and the marine police. The water police who don't know the doorway, when it is inconvenient to salvage the body, they ask the "water ghosts" to help.

Later, it was passed around, and there was a saying of "agreement unit".

Grandpa asked a few policemen to prepare some things, and he shared the turtledoves sent by my native uncle with me to replenish some physical strength.

After making a fire, he half-lay down on the haystack not far from the river and closed his eyes to recuperate.

One night was peaceful, and in the early morning, the misty river surface was mixed with rain and sprinkled down, and in a moment it became a trickling, sometimes large and sometimes small raindrops.

At about eight o'clock in the morning, with the whistle roaring, the marine police boat arrived, and at this time, the river bank was bustling with people.

Director Zhou of the police station handed a large woven bag to his grandfather.

The sailor boat was accompanied by the family of Chen Bin, the boatman, who disappeared yesterday.

The river surface at the scene is nearly 100 meters wide and how deep it is, no one knows that the standing corpse is standing there with its eyes closed, it is very terrifying, and the lower body is full of water and grass entanglement, and the water police can't catch it alive or dead.

Captain Liu took Chen Bin's family and found my grandfather again, but my grandfather didn't respond much, but just asked Chen Bin's mother for Chen Bin's birthday.

Then he wrote on a piece of yellow paper, lit three sticks of incense, lit the yellow paper, and shouted three times to the river: "Chen Bin, Chen Bin, Chen Bin, the mother is still here, but the son has not been seen!" ”

Grandpa said to Chen Bin's family: "Call him by his name, usually you can call him whatever you want, I didn't let you stop, don't stop!" ”

For a while, the river was filled with heart-rending cries, and everyone was sad when they heard it.

But there was no reaction from the river.

Grandpa's brow grew heavier and heavier.

Subsequently, along with some of Chen Bin's colleagues, they also joined the team to shout the soul, and in the end, even the villagers on the riverbank began to call Chen Bin's name.

Suddenly, the three pillars of incense on the grandfather lit up for no reason, and the green smoke that had been soaring slowly drifted to the surface of the river, and in the end, more and more gathered, hovering over the head of the standing corpse in the center of the river, and it did not disperse for a long time.

Grandpa shouted: "Quick, forcibly salvage that dead man." Hurry up, don't miss the opportunity. ”

Captain Liu picked up the loudspeaker and shouted loudly at the police boat.

At this time, my grandfather scraped off an unlit incense and sprinkled a thread on the ground, tied a red rope around me, and finally stuffed a straw man in my pocket and told me not to cross the line on the ground.

After finishing lit a yellow talisman again, he said angrily: "Three incense sticks to the Yellow Spring, leaving no obsession in the world, the yellow paper burns the charm into it, and it is fast enough to forget three lives." ”

After saying that, several policemen on the Marine Police boat used brute force to hang the dead body upside down from the water.

A scene that hit the heart appeared, only to see the dead body entangled with water and weeds, dragged out and Chen Bin's corpse.

On Chen Bin, who was dragged out by ropes and aquatic plants, part of his police uniform was also lifted, and his waist was exposed, full of black handprints.

At this moment, an invisible force suddenly appeared, pulling me to the edge of the incense powder line on the ground.

There was no warning, and it really scared me.

In a panic, I grabbed a bush next to me and froze my body.

The two bodies hanging from the marine police boat suddenly fell down most of the time, and the two bodies that had just been hung out were about to fall into the water again, and they were suddenly stuck by something and hung between the water and the hull.

Grandpa suddenly looked back at me and said sharply, "Don't panic, hold on tight......