"Zhang Ruoxu, come quickly, there's a 'big fat man' floating from the other side of the stream, go and take a look. If you don't hurry up, you won't be able to see it. "My neighbor's Zhang Xiaoxian, who was a year older than me, ran over and yelled at me.

'Big Fat Man' is what we say about floating corpses in our area, the village is next to a stream, and people drown every year, especially in the upper reaches almost every summer, there are people who swim and drown down the river, pass by the water at the edge of our village, and then continue to be washed downstream, so that the people who are drowned, after a long time, they form a giant view, and we call the dead corpses 'Big Fat Man'.

Because after drowning, after soaking in water for a long time, it will ferment, deteriorate, and decay, and the skin that floats to the surface of the water is purple, and the torso will become very thick.

These drowned people naturally confirmed what Grandpa Chang said about 'water ghosts', which made us future generations even more afraid to go into the water to swim and bathe.

"Whew, whew...... Zhang Xiaoxian! Slow down, I can't outrun you, you have to wait for me. "My body is weak when I am small, and Zhang Xiaoxian is older than me, and she is still a recognized scud among the children in our village, so I naturally can't keep up with Zhang Xiaoxian's fast legs.

"What's the matter with you? Girly. Zhang Xiaoxian's footsteps were dragged by me, so he simply stopped, and turned back with a complaining expression, he was worried that if it was too late, the big fat man would be washed downstream along the stream.

"Cut, I'm so shy! I, I'm the ...... with the handle" Although, my physical development is slow, but my mind is developing normally, six years old I already have a certain concept of men and women, knowing that Zhang Xiaoxian said that my mother's femininity is belittling myself, and I was busy arguing.

"Not girly! So what do you do with a big pendant all day long? Isn't it just stinky and beautiful? Zhang Xiaoxian turned her head and pointed to the longevity lock I hung around my neck.

"Our family has said that only the female baby only brings this thing all day long."

At this time, a few more boys came to the village, and when they heard our conversation, they followed Zhang Xiaoxian to coax!

"Oh, Zhang Ruoxu is a female baby."

"Zhang Ruoxu is wearing a necklace and stinks beautiful!"

"Shame, shame, shame, shame, don't play with Zhang Ruoxu."

They laughed at me as they jumped and ran towards the stream, and soon left me far behind.

I was left in the middle of the road, biting my lower lip, tears from my eyes sliding down my cheeks.

"Wow...... Wow......" I cried out loud, "I'm a man, not a girl, I'm not a girl." ”

I also lost my temper, and pulled the longevity lock hanging on my neck, the thin red rope had no strength at all, although my neck was strangled by the red rope, but I still ripped it off, and then threw it into the ground, crying and running in the direction of the stream at the entrance of the village.

When they arrived at the stream, the 'big fat man' had really been washed down, and from a distance, the 'big fat man' had become a black spot, and several children were so anxious that they beat their chests by the stream, and Zhang Xiaoxian, who was bold, rolled up her trouser legs and stood barefoot in the shallow water area of the stream, stretching her neck vigorously to look into the distance.

"Hey, it's still late, I put down my meal and didn't eat, so I came over to see the 'big fat man', and I was disappointed."

"That's it! Usually, my mother doesn't let me see the 'big fat man', but now she is not at home, and I still haven't seen it. ”

"No, I ran from the east of the village to the west of the village to see, but I still didn't catch up."

The children of the village stood indignant, complaining and turning their heads to look at me.

"Hmph, Zhang Ruoxu, it's all your fault, your legs and feet are so slow, so none of us can see it." As he was talking, a bear child who was a little older than me walked up to me in three steps and punched me in the chest, and there were a lot of bluestones that had been hit by the water all the year round by the stream, and they were very slippery, and I was hammered hard by him, and I fell backwards and squatted, but fortunately the bluestone surface was very slippery, so it didn't hurt me.

I was still very unconvinced and replied: "You didn't see the 'big fat man' when you came late, what's in my way?" I didn't tell you to wait for me. ”

The bear kid who pushed me down, seeing that I not only didn't admit it, but was quite reasonable, became even more angry, picked up my collar, and was about to beat me when he came up, but was stopped by Zhang Xiaoxian who came ashore and said: "Don't fight, we won't take Zhang Ruoxu to play in the future." So saying, a group of children walked along the dirt road where they had come, and walked to the village in a noisy manner.

I was left sitting on the rocky ground by the stream, my nose was sore, and I couldn't help crying again.

At this moment, I saw several black finger prints on Zhang Xiaoxian's left ankle, the thumb print on one side, and the other four finger prints on the other side, the black and purple color as if someone had pinched it fiercely.

I remembered that Zhang Xiaoxian had just rolled up his trousers and stood in the stream for a while, and the water just overflowed his calves. I couldn't help but glance at the stream, only to find that the 'big fat man' who had been drifting with the tide had floated back again.

This is one of the things that impressed me the most when I was a child, although I was only six years old at the time, but as a child who grew up playing by the stream, I still have a little understanding of the waters in my hometown, the stream in our village, it is not a backflow pond, the stream from top to bottom still has a certain slope, although the angle is not very large.

Drifting objects are always just passing by, without making any stops, and the 'big fat man' who should have continued to drift down is flowing back for the first time, and it is clearly in defiance of gravity.

Seeing the floating corpse drifting closer and closer, I finally saw the appearance of the corpse that was so swollen that it could no longer be swollen, she was a flower girl, she was smiling strangely, and she did not have the distorted and painful expression of drowning at all.

The corpse of this woman was indeed dead, and she stopped in front of me, no longer fluttering. Suddenly, a woman wearing the same clothes as her stood on the other side of the stream, but unlike the 'big fat man', the woman on the other side did not swell, and maintained a normal human body, very slender.

I noticed that he was wearing a floral shirt like a dead body in the stream, but the woman standing had very marked features and a very delicate appearance, and her long black hair hung down to her waist. If there is anything different from a living person, it is her complexion, which is a sickly pale, even whiter than white paper, so white that it makes people's hearts hairy.

I looked at this woman and the female corpse soaked in the water, my heart was furious, and I turned my head to shout Zhang Xiaoxian and them, but Zhang Xiaoxian's gang with sharp legs and feet had long disappeared. Then I reflexively twisted my head back, and the woman on the other side of the stream was gone, leaving only the 'big fat man'.

The stream was still flowing slowly, and the 'big fat man' began to drift slowly downstream, and I blinked and opened it again, and this opening of my eyes scared half of my life away.

Above the 'big fat man' stood the woman who had just disappeared, smiling at me with her white teeth bared......

I was so frightened that I don't remember how I got home, and the happiness of my childhood children passed by in a flash, but the psychological shadow could accompany me for a long time. When I got home, I was placed on a wooden washboard that had been used by adults for more than ten years.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and several of our village dolls met to go to the stream to see the big fat man, and the big mouth of the village was exposed. This is a taboo for the adults in our village, because in our village along the stream, it is the biggest taboo in the village for underage children to go to the stream to play without permission.

My mother also told me that people drown in this stream at the edge of the village every year, and the adults in every family are afraid that their children will become the 'big fat people' that we say by word of mouth.

It's because of us naughty children who have committed the taboos of the adults in the village, and we are all inevitably beaten. The same was beaten, but it was of varying severity. As the youngest child in the village, my body was not very strong and could not withstand the beating, and my father didn't have much strength to beat me, but just hit my ass a few times with his thick palm. Don't look at these few moments, my ass was swollen, seeing this, my mother hurriedly stepped forward to stop my father, afraid that it would be a good fight, so my father only half pushed and half stopped beating me, but he still didn't lose his anger, punished me for not being allowed to eat dinner, and knelt on the washboard to reflect on it.

However, Zhang Xiaoxian is different, he is the most troublesome child in our village, and he is our leader, and he went into the water barefoot, so he was naturally cleaned up the most. Zhang Xiaoxian was dropped on the beam of the house by his father with a temper of livestock, with a belt and a stick, and was beaten from the evening until it was dark, so he stopped beating - it is said that his father was beaten so that he was put down.

Although I was punished by my parents to kneel on the washboard for reflection, I did not have any remorse. His mind was full of the appearance of the big fat man and the strange woman by the stream, and then there was Zhang Xiaoxian's handprint at the ankle. As for my swollen ass that was beaten by my father, I have long forgotten why I can see the big fat man floating back? And the woman who smirked at me, didn't she stand on the stream, wouldn't she be afraid of drowning?

I couldn't think about it, and when I was thinking deeply, I was called back by my mother's cry, but my spirit was still very wandering, and it wasn't until my mother scolded me again that I came back to my senses.

My mother still felt sorry for me, so while my father was asleep, she heated up the leftovers at home and asked me to go into the kitchen to eat. Maybe it's still too young, I don't know how to recognize my watch and I don't have any concept of time, I just know that I should go to bed when it's dark and wake up when it's dawn. Now that I think about it, it should have been nine o'clock in the evening, and it was just dark for a while!

Because, our village is one of the best poor villages within a radius of dozens of miles, and there are few rooms at home and no decent furniture, but the big wardrobe that my father is sitting on and the big wooden box that my mother marries are separated by a wall. A red curtain was put up in the middle, which was divided into the inner and outer rooms, I slept in the inner room, and my father and mother slept in the outer room.

When I went to bed, the uncle and aunt next door were still ravaging Zhang Xiaoxian. Their house is next door to ours, and the sound insulation of the adobe house is not very good, I didn't sleep in the first half of the night, and I could always hear Zhang Xiaoxian's screams and his father's beating and scolding......

In the second half of the night, I suddenly wanted to pee, which was a problem I developed when I was very young, and my father and mother complained about it. Said that I didn't know to urinate before going to bed at night, and I always had to get up in the middle of the night and ask an adult to pee for me. Later, my father and mother were also impatient, so I got a used cooking oil drum, cut off the neck of the bucket, and used it as a urine bucket for me, so as to avoid the trouble of going out to the toilet in the middle of the night.

When I got up to pee, I couldn't hear the screams and scolding next door, and my family was poor, and I was reluctant to light the kerosene lamp, and it was pitch black. At this time, the father and mother were already asleep, and they were afraid of waking them up. I was thinking about sitting up and looking for a urine bucket in the corner. But I didn't expect it, but I couldn't sit up, I felt that the air on my body was like a thousand pounds of weight, and I vaguely saw that it was a white thing, or an irregular human shape. I wanted to borrow my hands to support myself, but I found that I couldn't move my arms and felt like I had no hands. I tried to move my feet again, moved my body, and couldn't move at all - at this time, I was finally scared, I wanted to shout but couldn't shout, and now my five senses had been deprived of three senses, especially my body had no other feeling than breathing and being able to feel pressed.

Is this - being pressed by ghosts?

I was panicked, frightened, I wanted to shout, but my vocal cords couldn't vibrate, I could only be frivolous in my throat, I just couldn't make a sound. I will never forget that uncomfortable feeling. Seriously, this is not the first time I've been pressed by ghosts.,I was born when I was ten years old.,I'm a light character.,It's easy to be pressed by ghosts.。 My consciousness was clear, but my body was restrained, the crickets outside the window were crisp, the breeze was soft and the curtains were soft, but my body was not mine—not even if I wanted to move my toes.

It really didn't feel good to be pressed by ghosts, and suddenly, I felt like there was a so-called person sleeping next to me......

Who is sleeping with me? My sweat was dripping down, and my heart was pounding, who would sleep in my bed? Is it a mother? It's impossible, my mother hasn't slept with me since I didn't cry or make trouble. Is it Daddy? It couldn't be, he snored too loudly in his sleep, and he never slept in the same bed as me. Could it be that this is my delusion?

Soon, I denied myself again. Because, this feeling is so real, it is real. Although I couldn't move and it was pitch black, I really felt the person lying next to me, after all, my sense of touch had not been deprived.

In the hot summer, the one lying next to me was cold, wet, and the cold of the swishing went straight to my bone marrow. Not only that, but I also felt a sullen and whiny dampness, which made people panic, and even the cold couldn't stop the big beads of sweat from sliding down my cheeks.

At this time, the figure lying next to me became mischievous and playful, rolling back and forth on my body, going left and right for a while. Finally, I was born, and I felt him or her watching me again, staring at me. But he has been silent and has not moved.

I cursed in my heart: "You are hairy, you don't dare to sleep at night, you can't pee, I want to cry but I can't cry." ”

It was at this time that I felt my face being rubbed against two soft things, what was this? It just feels cool and soft. After a while, my nose felt hairy and astringent, a little like the keen feeling of wet hair skimming my nose when my mother or aunt and aunt took me to the bathhouse, which made people feel so uncomfortable.

It feels familiar, but ...... I'm so scared! Big, soft twin peaks, wet hair, sullen air, and cool body! This...... This...... Is it the 'big fat man' I saw during the day or the woman who smirked at me, they both had a pair of proud and tall breasts, and long wet hair!

Not to mention that the older generation in the village always refused to let us go near the long stream at the edge of the village, and even forbade us dolls to go into the water. Could it be that there are really drowned undead people in the stream who catch the living as stand-ins, and they happen to be bumped into by me? Finished...... She's trying to catch me as a stand-in!

This day, the horrible scene I saw in the stream at the edge of the village came back to my mind, and although I tried not to think about it, my mind disobediently tried to sketch it out for me. The woman who smirked at me, wearing a floral shirt, had well-proportioned facial features to the extreme, and looked very delicate without a beautiful face, with long hair reaching her waist, but her skin was pale......

I think about what I am afraid of, and just like that, I actually saw her, she was suspended directly above me, showing her white teeth and smiling at me, laughing so much that it made people feel hairy! Her long wet hair was still tickling my cheeks, and the cold air was coming out of her seven orifices, eerie!

When I was most desperate, how I wished that my father or mother would come and see me, but it was only my own expectation.

The drowned woman floated above me and stared at me with a grin, teasing my young mind with her grim face, and now I could only be manipulated by her, and nothing could be done or effort. It was like the feeling of a lamb in the hands of a butcher to be slaughtered.

When I was desperate, I felt a wet hand grabbing my bare feet, isn't that what Uncle Chang said, the ghost in the water grabbed someone's ankle, and then pulled it into the water and drowned? This......

A warm current hit, and at this moment, at the last moment, the surrounding air instantly froze. All of a sudden, everything was back to normal, and all the damp, cold, long-haired female ghosts were gone, and wow, I cried......

My father and mother heard my shout, quickly got up and got out of bed, lit a candle and walked in to see that I had already wet the bed. The thin blanket was wet under my urine, and the capillary phenomenon caused the blanket to be half cloudy.

When my father saw my lost soul, he asked, "Zhang Ruoxu, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I was lying on the bed just now, and suddenly I wanted to pee, but I couldn't move, and I saw the big fat man floating in the river during the day. She floated on top of me suddenly, pulling me by the ankles. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, his father and mother were stunned. My father asked me again, "What's the matter with your wet patch?" Pee, isn't it? ”

I red-eyed and nodded. Dad turned his head back to sleep with a smile, and told my mother to quickly change my set of bedding and wash off the peeing bedding tomorrow morning.

Although my father didn't care, my mother took it seriously, and she paid special attention to my left ankle, which was wet but not urine. also comforted me and said, "Zhang Ruoxu, my mother will sleep with you tonight." Catch up with Ming, call the fifth grandfather to come and take a look, and drive away this evil that haunts you. ”

I clearly knew that this was not a dream, it was a real fact, and I saw the clear scratch on my left ankle.

In the company of my mother, I fell asleep groggy, this time very steady, and did not wake up again until dawn.

About the dawn of the day, next door Zhang Xiaoxian's noisy sound was very loud, very loud, my father leaned over to take a look, and when he got home, he said to me and my mother: "Zhang Xiaoxian, this child!" Hey, life is hard, I'm afraid it won't work, it's all because of his fatal father, who beat him so hard. After the fight last day, Zhang Xiaoxian still knew how to beg for mercy and speak, and his family got up this morning, but Zhang Xiaoxian was the only one whose body was cold. Now, the whole family is indulging in grief, isn't this the carpenter in the village beating the coffin! ”

After listening, I rushed to my father with a spirit, and the image of the female ghost who pressed me last night immediately appeared in my mind, and I thought of the five finger prints on Zhang Xiaoxian's feet.

Hurriedly asked his father: "Dad, what are you talking about?" Zhang Xiaoxian is cold? ”

"Hey, you doll, you don't understand anything. Anyway, I know that you and Zhang Xiaoxian had a good time, and you have to give me a long memory in the future, and you are not allowed to go to the creek at the edge of the village to play again. "My father knew that he was afraid of telling me about Zhang Xiaoxian's death, and I wouldn't be able to accept it for a while, so he told a white lie. Then he turned his head and said to my mother: "Zhang Xiaoxian, his father's family has been with our neighbors for so many years, and they have always gotten along very well, I have to go over to help." the child, you show me a good look at him, don't let this child run around again. ”

As soon as my father went out on the front foot, the fifth grandfather came over on the back foot, and as soon as he entered the door, he looked at me and kept shaking his head. Finally, he frowned solemnly and said, "Zhang Ruoxu, thanks to the child next door to prevent the disaster for you." ”

As soon as my mother heard what Fifth Grandpa said, she was frightened and hurriedly asked, "Fifth Uncle, what's wrong with this child?" ”

The fifth grandfather took out the dry tobacco from the tobacco pouch, put it in the smoke pot he had smoked for an unknown number of years, lit it, smoked it one by one, and looked at the pants and bedding hanging in the yard, and then said: "Zhang Ruoxu, this doll, is too light and easy to be followed by ghosts." This doesn't give ......"

Before he finished speaking, his face suddenly changed, and he shouted and asked, "Slow, Zhang Ruoxu, where is your longevity lock?" ”

My mother found out that the longevity lock hanging on my neck was missing, and she hurriedly asked: "Zhang Ruoxu, where did you lose your longevity lock?" ”

"Yesterday, we went to see the big fat man, Zhang Xiaoxian, they said that I was like a girl with a longevity lock, and I was so angry that I threw it to the side of the stream."

When the fifth grandfather heard what I said, he was angry, and quickly took my mother away, and asked her to go to the stream to find my longevity lock, and then asked, "Yesterday, what was the situation, tell the fifth grandfather." ”

So, I told me about the ghost oppression last night. The fifth grandfather heard this, his scalp was numb, he shook his head again and again, and said, "Hey, you kid! Your eight characters are light, and the evil likes to find you as a stand-in the most. Yesterday, the female ghost was supposed to take Zhang Xiaoxian's life, but as a result, she found out that you were such a shallow child, and she wanted to take you, but fortunately, your child's urine drove her away. The ghost then went to Zhang Xiaoxian's house and detained Zhang Xiaoxian's soul. It's also thanks to your urine, otherwise you would have died. ”

As soon as the fifth grandfather finished speaking, I pointed to the outside of the courtyard and said, "Fifth grandfather, you see a woman pulling Zhang Xiaoxian outside." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the fifth grandfather rewarded me with his calloused hand and said, "Tong Yan Wuji, you decrepit cub." Don't shout, what you see is not a person, this is the soul of a dead child taken away by the river ghost! You will stay honest with me now, and you will not be allowed to go anywhere until your mother comes and brings you the longevity lock. ”

After waiting for a while, my mother retrieved the longevity lock I had thrown away and put it on my neck. Seeing that the lost and regained longevity lock was hanging around my neck, the fifth grandfather nodded and took my hand and went out the door.

I happened to see Zhang Xiaoxian lying on a wooden board, he was only wearing a pair of briefs, his whole body was purple, he was not a little angry, his eyelids did not completely cover his eyes, and he couldn't see his pupils. The people around followed the chaos, some said that they were directly dragged to the mass grave in the east of the village and buried, and some said that they were sent to the hospital in the county seat and maybe they could be saved.

As for Zhang Xiaoxian's mother, she cried to death, if she hadn't been supported by several girls and aunts in the village, she would have been paralyzed on the ground and couldn't move. Looking at Zhang Xiaoxian's father again, with a straight face, grinning, red eyes, a painful expression, and a twitch on his face from time to time, I know that he regrets it very much now, but he doesn't know that his son is hooked by dirty things.

The adults carried Zhang Xiaoxian away like this, and the moment my eyelids left, I couldn't help but look at Zhang Xiaoxian's ankle, and I was suddenly startled at this look, the five finger prints on his ankle were still there yesterday, and now they have turned jet black.

The fifth grandfather covered his mouth, and waited for everyone to walk away before letting go and said, "Zhang Ruoxu, I know what you saw." But you can't speak, that's the mark left by the river ghost to Zhang Xiaoxian, once the river ghost grabs the ankle and leaves the mark, nine times out of ten it is hopeless. ”

I pulled the corner of the fifth grandfather's clothes, pointed into the distance, and said: "Fifth grandfather, look at the five finger prints on Zhang Xiaoxian's ankles, they don't look like ......" Suddenly, I was slapped on the back of the head by the fifth grandfather, and scolded in a low voice: "You decrepit cub, sooner or later you will have to be broken in your mouth." With that, he went back to the house smoking a dry cigarette.

The group of people was getting farther and farther away from me, and I still couldn't resist missing Zhang Xiaoxian, so I immediately chased after them and followed them.