Chapter 43: Floating Corpses Underwater
It turned out to be a horrific swollen floating corpse.
Yes!!
The moment I was frightened, the yellow rune paper that Liu Ruxiang had just pasted on the wooden pole fell to the ground, and spontaneously combusted into ashes in the blink of an eye.
"Not good!"
None of us expected this to happen, and the red egg floating beneath the surface of the water immediately sank to the bottom and disappeared.
The wooden pole in his hand also broke and shattered into two.
It just so happened that I was standing backwards with my body upside down, but my center of gravity was unstable, and I fell directly on my back to the sky.
"Alas!"
I quickly got up and observed the surface of the water, which had long since returned to calm and was no longer rippling.
Only the body was left swollen with water blisters, and it was completely unrecognizable whether it was a man or a woman.
The whole face was soaked like a white pulp, and I quickly lowered my head after just one look, feeling uncomfortable and even wanting to vomit.
Liu Ruxiang walked over from behind, with a gloomy face, and came up to observe the floating corpses in the water.
After a long time, she sighed.
"Master, why did that pole break?"
Liu Ruxiang pointed to the floating corpse on the water and shook his head: "This was originally able to catch that thing, so that whether it is casting a spell or directly arresting it, it can be done." But the bad thing is that a floating corpse suddenly appeared under the water, and this floating corpse was full of yin energy, which directly broke the balance of the spell and the talisman, otherwise the wooden pole would not be broken. β
"So, what now?" I turned my head and asked Liu Ruxiang, my heart going up and down.
"Let's go back first, there are corpses in this pond, and I have to call your village people to come and see whose family it is." And I suspect that there may be more than one body in this pond, and that they may all be sunk to the bottom. β
Liu Ruxiang was quite calm, took off the robe and mask on his body, and returned to the village with the box.
We went straight to the village to find the village chief.
The village chief of Mojia Village is called Mo Ershi, a middle-aged man who is tall and tall, although he is frizzy and frizzy, his speech is very reasonable, and the people in the village are more convinced of him.
I pushed open the door of his house in a panic and shouted into the house: "Uncle Ershi, there is a dead man floating in the old persimmon pond in the east of the village!" β
The village chief came out of the house and immediately became flustered when he heard my words.
"What, dead man, what does it look like?"
I tried hard to recall: "It's ...... I can't see what it looks like, a white flower, I can't tell whether it's a man or a woman. β
The village chief, pale, trotted out, walked into the middle of the village and shouted, and immediately beckoned seven or eight laborers to come over, and took all kinds of tools such as ropes, sticks, and nets.
"Go, go, now pass."
The group trotted through the woods to the persimmon pond.
When everyone saw the giant floating corpse floating on the water's edge, they couldn't help but hide their faces and retch.
"Come on, use the net to jam your neck, hit it, quickly."
It took a lot of effort for everyone to get to the shore of the slippery and slippery water, and then they were pulled by ropes and dragged by nets, and even the soaked skin was worn off several pieces, and finally the corpse that exuded a burst of rotten stench was dragged up.
"Gross-"
An aunt turned around and threw up.
Everyone else was also far away for fear of getting contaminated with something, only the village chief Mo Ershi stepped forward alone, kneeling on the side of the floating corpse and pulling something with his hands, until he saw a red rope on the corpse's feet, wearing a dog's tooth ornament on it.
Immediately lay on the ground and cried, and the old tears cried: "My sonβ"
Leaning on a few villagers next to me, I also understood what was going on.
About half a month ago, one afternoon, Mo Ershi quarreled with his son. That night, Mo Ershi's son slammed the door and went out, and he didn't come home in the evening.
On the same day, Mo Ershi's family persuaded them to go out to look for him, but he stopped him, saying, let him run if this son runs out, never look for him, and he is not used to it.
Subsequently, Mo Ershi's son did not come back for several days, and went to his relatives' house to inquire to no avail, and there was no one in the town. A big living person seems to have disappeared out of thin air.
At that time, some people guessed that something might have happened. Mo Ershi didn't believe it, saying that he might go to the city to work.
Who knows, now the truth suddenly jumped in front of him.
After a while, the people of Uncle Ershi's family also rushed over one after another, put the body on the door panel, covered it with a cloth, and carried it to the threshing floor at the entrance of the village.
If you die a mysterious death, you can't go home because it will bring illness to your family.
There is a very common saying that it is called the end of life, which is not a person who dies in the general sense, but has a strict definition.
It must be a person who dies of old age naturally, can not be injured by illness, and has not been tormented by illness, but feels that the body is dying, the limit is approaching, and when he is dying, he has a premonition, so he will ask the descendants to come back to see the last face, and then build a door panel or haystack in the hall of the main house where he lived before his death, so that the dying person can lie on it and say goodbye to the relatives and friends of the younger generations. At this time, people have decayed their vitality and do not enter the water. At this time, the children and grandchildren are full, accompanied by relatives and friends, and they die peacefully in a peaceful situation, which is called the end of life.
Therefore, those who died of illness, died in other places, in remote houses, and had no children and descendants around them, cannot be called the end of life, but the descendants often speak, and gradually rarely care about what he means.
Ahem, it's far away.
The village chief Mo Ershi knew that Liu Ruxiang was his father-in-law, so he came to her and wanted her to help his son with the funeral.
The cooks agreed, but made a request.
"This pond is located in the middle of nowhere, swallowing people's lives, and there must be danger underwater, and I came here to do it for this reason. And to tell you the truth, there might be other corpses underneath this pool. Liu Ruxiang described the scene when the practice was suddenly interrupted by the floating corpse, and a look of horror appeared on Mo Ershi's face, and he immediately understood.
"Okay, I'll go back and summon the men and turn this pond upside down."
Now is not the busy farming season, and it is such a life-and-death event, and the villagers have learned that there is something strange about this pond, and they have rushed to help with tools.
The plan was to dig up the pond and divert the water to a canal 100 steps to the east, and then remove the silt and clean the bottom of the pond.
Taking advantage of the fact that the villagers were there, Liu Ruxiang talked around and asked.
"In the past two years, have there been people in the village who have disappeared or died strangely?"
Missing or dead people are major events in the village, and two of them are discussed at once.
In addition to the son of the village chief Mo Ershi's family, there is also a son missing from the Wei family in the south of the village.
The widow Wu in the west of the village, whose only son is also missing, is also missing.
As for the strange death, the villagers looked at me and said that my grandmother was one.
Being bitten to death by a snake is indeed rare.