As the old saying goes, the mountains are not the waters.

Feng Shui says that the earth belongs to yang and water belongs to yin.

Since ancient times, the human race belongs to the earth, living on the earth, dying on the earth, and burying them in the earth after death.

Rivers and oceans were not people's territory at the beginning, and there were also intelligent beings in them, and people wanted to divert water for irrigation and rely on water to survive, and these processes were only in brief contact with water, and the well water of both sides did not interfere with river water, so there was no conflict.

It wasn't until later that people began to walk the waterways by boat, and they had to use the waterways to transport people and carry grain by water, which was a cross-border for the creatures in the rivers, lakes and seas, and some of them would attack the people on the boats if they wanted to defend their territory.

There are also those who specialize in attacking people because they find human flesh delicious, or they practice cannibalism.

Water monkeys are the latter.

They especially like to attack the platoon, because the platoon passengers are on rafts and bamboo rafts, wooden rafts and other small boats, the protection is very poor, the water monkeys are lightweight, they can patiently hide under the boat, and when someone comes to the side of the boat to relieve their hands, they will send a swift blow and drag people into the water.

Once dragged into the water by the water monkey, there is a good chance that the person will be gone.

The other water monkey moves quickly and silently, which raises a question:

They are excellent underwater assassins, when people are awake, they will hide under the boat and wait for people to get close to the water, and when people are asleep, they will be arrogant, they will just flip onto the boat and drag people.

This is very frustrating people, once the passengers are on the waterway, they are often a long journey, during which they eat, drink, and sleep on the raft, and the water monkeys are specially used when people are pulling and sleeping, and it is impossible to prevent it!

Therefore, there will be many terrible things when walking on the waterway, such as water ghosts pulling people, water rats ecstasy, and water demons, but the most feared by the guests is the water monkeys.

When Liu Dazhu, the leader of the queue, knew that someone in the queue had disappeared quietly, he chuckled in his heart, and immediately thought of the water monkey.

The platoon guests who worked with him also guessed this, so when the big guy gathered around Liu Dazhu with a raft, there was an irrepressible fear on his face.

Liu Dazhu looked at the frightened faces, and his heart sank a little.

He was a new platoon leader, and he used to live with a platoon gang on the water, but they met a madman among the water monkeys, called the water butcher, and the whole platoon gang was killed and almost wiped out.

It was Liu Dazhu's luck that he propped up his water and discharged it to the shore halfway, so that he escaped the poisonous hands of this water butcher.

After he left the platoon gang, he returned to his hometown to farm and work as coolies, but at that time, the emperor was immoral, the land was thousands of miles away, the people were sinned, and they couldn't plant the land at all, and the coolies were not easy to do, and they couldn't make money by doing crimes, and it was difficult to feed a family.

The villagers knew that he had the ability to live in the water, and some coolies who also couldn't support their families came to find him, saying that they wanted to eat water with him.

Even if you can make more money in a small queue, you can make more money than you can dig in the field, and it is no problem to feed a family.

Liu Dazhu refused several times, and in the end, the family really couldn't eat, so he could only grit his teeth and return to the water.

There are two main reasons for daring to let him return to the water, one is that the coolies who defected to him set up a life and death situation with his family, and the waterway is difficult to walk, no matter who dies on the water, it has nothing to do with Liu Dazhu, and he will not come to trouble the Liu family.

The second reason is that there is a saying in the business of eating on the water, that is, if you don't die, there will be a blessing, and those who can escape from the water butcher will have great wealth, and the water butcher is a very rare thing, and it is very rare for a person to meet once in his life, and no one will meet a second time.

It is also for this reason that some local water and rice eaters are willing to join his queue, thinking that at least they will not meet water butchers in his life.

It is precisely with these good players joining the team that Liu Dazhu dares to return to the water again, otherwise how can he have the confidence to command a team of poor villagers to line up and walk the waterway?

If you have people, you have to have boats.

But these people are all poor and can't survive so they decide to eat waterways, how can they have the money to buy boats?

There was no way, Liu Dazhu could only take risks - he decided to go to the place where the platoon gang was defeated by the water butcher to drag the raft!

At that time, the water butcher was fierce and fast, and the raft was washed into a river bay, and Liu Dazhu remembered that place.

He took the big guy to the river bay to pick up rafts not only to save money, but also for a very important purpose: he hoped to let his subordinates see how unpalatable the bowl of rice was on the waterway, and if he could scare off some people who were not strong-willed, it would be regarded as screening talents for the team.

As he wished, when he arrived at the river bend where the platoon had fallen, the brutal scene frightened some people, and they silently left the line.

The rest of the people were either rowmen who came to join Liu Dazhu, or poor men who were forced by life to have no way out, and when they joined the queue, they all said that they had stopped putting their heads on their waistbands, and they all said that they were not afraid of death.

But at this moment, when they found out that the water monkey appeared, they were still afraid!

There is an old man named Lao Cigarette Pole among the Pai Guests, his old cigarette gun has been passed down for three generations, he is a baby, relying on this cigarette stick he escaped death on the water several times, and is a backbone in the Pai Ke.

He smoked a cigarette and said to Liu Dazhu in a deep voice: "Pai Tou, we don't need to be too scared now, maybe Chen Lao Wu accidentally fell into the water? His platoon was at the end, and he may have choked on the water when he fell into the river, so he didn't have time to make a sound. ”

Liu Dazhu nodded solemnly: "Brother Yan is right, this situation is normal, big guy, be careful, let's go forward and see." In addition, the big guys tie themselves with ropes, and they have to bring ropes everywhere they go. ”

But he knew that it was impossible, and that this could only be used to stabilize people's hearts, and he could never believe it.

The most important seat in a queue is the head of the row, and then the tail of the row, all of them are good hands after the queue is broken, although the lost Chen Lao Wu is not an old platoon, but he has a big waist and a round waist, and he has good water nature, and he will not fall into the river without even making a sound.

So after comforting his subordinates with words, Liu Dazhu glanced at the old cigarette pole and said, "Brother Lao Yan, Chen Lao Wu is gone, can you trouble you to line up and break the back?"

The old cigarette stick spat out a puff of cigarette and said: "Okay, after the old man goes to break, rest assured, the old man's ability is still good, as long as the old man is here, then you will definitely be fine." ”

He spat out a puff of smoke out of the water, and the smoke stabbed into the river like a long knife, just as a fish swam by, and the smoke knife swept past it, directly splitting it in two!

This skill greatly comforted the passengers.

Relocated, Liu Dazhu tied a short knife wrapped in linen to his waist, and he himself propped up a boat to patrol the front and back of the fleet.

The queue continues to meander forward.

The river flows quietly, and the old trees and dead grass on both sides of the river pass by the eyes like horses and flowers, giving people an unreal look.

Liu Dazhu propped the boat to the stern, and the old smoke pole nodded at him and whispered, "What kind of water monkey did you say it would be?"

Water monkeys are classified, and there are three main categories.

The first type of water monkey is called the vegetable water monkey, this kind of water monkey has not eaten much people, their obsession with people is not very big, as long as the boat takes chickens, ducks, pigs and mutton to send it down, it may leave when it is full.

There are also water monkeys who know that human meat is good, they have no interest in chicken, duck, pig and mutton, this kind of water monkey has red eyes, they stare at people, if they want to survive from their hands, they can only use force to win it, so that it will be difficult to retreat.

This is the second type of water monkey, called the Blood Water Monkey.

Both of these water monkeys are quite easy to handle, but the most difficult is the third type of water monkeys, that is, the water butchers who once almost wiped out Liu Dazhu's platoon, a kind of water monkey that has been hurt by people.

Water monkeys have very small eyes and very poisonous hearts, once they have eaten people's losses, they will remember for a lifetime, and as long as they see people in the future, they will slaughter, and they will not stop if they don't kill them cleanly, so they are called water slaughterers.

Liu Dazhu said with a gloomy face: "Brother Yan, let me be honest with you, I feel in my heart that the real thing we met is not necessarily a water monkey." I met a water butcher on my last voyage, and I ran into a water monkey on this voyage? Is my luck so bad?"

The fleet had been sailing on the water for less than two hours, when someone suddenly shouted: "Front, leader, my brother is gone!"

Liu Dazhu was shocked and hurriedly rowed over.

A young man cried and said, "My brother went to just now, and then it was gone." ”

It just so happened that a cloud was blowing, the sun was blocked, and everyone in line felt that their bodies began to chill.

Liu Dazhu's heart was also messed up, but he knew that he was now at the head of the line, and he couldn't mess up, once he was scared and messed up, the whole team would really be finished.

He held the short knife at his waist and asked, "When did your brother go to, when did he not have it, and what about the rope?"

The young man picked up a piece of rope in horror.

The rope was broken, and the fractures were uneven, as if they had been torn by force.

Among them, the top of the rope break was wet, Liu Dazhu picked up the rope and smelled it, and suddenly sighed in his heart.

The fishy smell of silt underwater!

This is also the smell of water monkeys, because they usually like to burrow into the mud to hide their bodies and avoid being spotted by their prey or their opponents.

At this time, if you are in line and are either targeted by the water monkeys, you are deceiving yourself, Liu Dazhu's face was blue and red.

He didn't expect his luck to be so bad that he ran into a water monkey twice in a row!

Throwing away the rope, he said with a gloomy face: "Open the altar!"

This is the way to deal with the vegetable water monkey, open an altar, throw the chicken, duck, pig and mutton as a sacrifice to feed it, if the vegetable water monkey follows the person, a meal of chicken, duck, pig and mutton can feed it and let it leave.

The head boat opened the offering table, put the statue of the dragon king, Liu Dazhu burned incense and burned paper, and then led people to kowtow reverently, and then threw the prepared chicken, duck, pig and mutton into the water.

A man unwillingly came up to stop him and said, "Leader, our brothers don't know what the taste of meat is for a long time, so throw such good meat into the water to feed the ghosts? Stay, it doesn't matter if he is a water monkey or a water tiger, damn it, the brothers did it with it!"

Several people were quietly swallowing spit.

Not to mention the meat of chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, they can't even eat coarse grains such as sorghum and wheat bran.

Liu Dazhu shook his head and said, "Da Gao, you retreat, there is no place for you to speak here." ”

He looked around at the brothers who were staring at the meat and swallowed their saliva, and he couldn't help but feel sad, and said: "The goods are delivered and the money is obtained, and the brothers eat stewed chicken together, and they can eat until they are satisfied!"

Chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep are all alive, and after untying their gaiters and throwing them into the water, they immediately begin to flutter, their eyes widen and their mouths open, but no sound comes out.

Ducks are good swimmers, as are chickens, pigs and sheep, but they don't swim away after being thrown into the river.

The flotilla continued to swim upstream, and the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep disappeared in place.

Silent.

Seeing this, Liu Dazhu and some old paddlers showed a look of joy.

They knew that the sacrifice was eaten by the water monkey, and from this point of view, they ran into a vegetable water monkey, because the blood water monkey only eats people when there are people, and the water butcher is wary of people, and will not eat what people throw down.

The old cigarette stick breathed a sigh of relief, spit out the cigarette and said, "Now it's okay, so I can save the lives of the rest of the people." ”

This was said too early, everyone thought that they had escaped the catastrophe, but the catastrophe did not leave, and the people in line began to disappear intermittently, some went to the stern of the boat to pee and disappeared, and some of them took a dip on the side of the boat.

As long as you are near the water's edge, there are no people!

What's even more terrifying is that at night, every day at dawn, Liu Dazhu counts the number of people, and he will find that there is a person lost in the team.

Everyone is losing quietly.

When they got here, Liu Dazhu understood that this time they met not a vegetable water monkey, but a water butcher, because they had been floating on the river for several days, and this water monkey had been following them.

The vegetable water monkey and the blood water monkey will not follow them so far, after all, there is also a territory division in the water, and the water monkey does not dare to cross the territory easily.

But the Water Butcher is different, they hate people to death, as long as they find the fleet, as long as they are not dead, then they will definitely kill everyone, and they will not stop during the period......

The last time Liu Dazhu encountered the water butcher with the platoon gang, he followed them all the way and killed them all the way.

The hearts of the people in line have collapsed, and seeing that there are fewer and fewer people around them, they have to worry about their loss all the time, and this pressure is too great.

When the pressure is greater, it's time to count people, and before you know it, someone is gone.

Those who are gone are envied by the living, at least they don't have to be so frightened.

Something more terrible than death is waiting for death.

Chen Liuzi, the younger brother of Chen Lao Wu, was the first to stand the pressure, and he knelt down and kowtowed to Liu Dazhu on the raft: "Brother Dazhu, forget it, forget it, let's not take the waterway, let's go ashore, hurry ashore! After the water monkey goes ashore, he will have no ability, let's go ashore!"

Liu Dazhu shouted: "What nonsense are you talking about? What should we do if we go ashore to get the goods? We die here, at most we will die ourselves, if we go back alive and the goods are lost, our family will have to die, this is the rule of the platoon gang, understand? This is the rule!"

The burly and hot-tempered Da Gao roared: "Then fight with the water monkey, we still have more than 20 people here, and we are not even afraid of tigers, can't we fight a water monkey?"

Liu Dazhu's mouth was full of bitter taste, he knew the answer, just with them, he really couldn't fight the water butcher.

At that time, there were masters who knew magic in their platoon, and there was also a knife that could cut off a ten-zhang python in the water, but it was all gone after being pulled into the water by the water butcher.

This water butcher has been hiding in the dark and releasing cold arrows, not that it has no ability to slaughter the entire queue, but is waiting to drive everyone crazy.

Water monkeys are all perverts, and they like to toss their prey and go crazy before making it easy......

But it was not possible to sit still and wait for death, and under the shouts of the great shouts, everyone cheered up and decided to fight to the death.

Anyway, it's all a death, since you have to die, then you have to resist no matter what, and you must not be killed!

Water monkeys can understand human speech, which is another great thing about them.

Lined up and decided to have a bloody battle with Shui Tuzi, Liu Dazhu handed over the position of commander-in-chief of the battle to Lao Yanzhu, he traveled south and north to see a wide range of knowledge, and he also had some cultivation in practicing spells on weekdays, and everyone believed in him.

He is a wall in the hearts of everyone in line, a wall that can hold up heaven and earth!

Then, just as the old cigarette pole was laying out his battle plan with the water butcher, a wet clump of water weeds appeared on the raft he was on.

The old cigarette stick is also capable, and as he spoke, he suddenly turned around and took a puff of smoke, and the turbid smoke suddenly expanded into a ball, trapping the wet thing like a cage.

Seeing this, Liu Dazhu shouted: "Water butcher, brothers, go up!"

But in the next moment, a big duck's paw-like thing suddenly stretched out from the smoke, with five fingers like a human, but between the five fingers was a duck's web-like membrane, and its back and palms were covered with scales.

Scales like silver carp!

The strange claw stretched out very quickly, and grabbed the arm of the old cigarette stick, and the old cigarette stick slapped the cigarette gun on its shoulder, and then the raft shook endlessly, and one man and one monster fell into the water together......

It happened so fast that by the time the big guy came up on the raft, the river had calmed down, and there was no spray.

The old cigarette stick is gone.

Everyone's mentality is broken!

The solid wall in their hearts has collapsed.

Liu Dazhu immediately made a decision, gritted his teeth and said: "Dock, all go ashore, drag the boat and goods up, drag them up and find a way!"

At this time, it was almost evening, and a round of crimson sun hung in the western sky, at that moment Liu Dazhu looked up at the sunset, feeling that all he saw was blood.

The sky is stained with blood, the river is mixed with blood, and as far as the eye can see, whether it is in the sky or underground, it is scarlet!

The landing place they chose was in an inlet, and watching his men tug cargo and tugboat on the shore, Liu Dazhu was in a trance: he vaguely remembered that the last trip he was in was slaughtered by a water butcher in an inlet.

What a similar scene!

The sun sets and night falls.

The platoon lit a bonfire, Liu Dazhu gritted his teeth, and took out all the food in the queue for his subordinates to do.

He had a hunch that tonight would be a bloody battle, and more than 20 people would probably die, since he was going to die, he would be a full ghost, and he couldn't be hungry when he died.

The night breeze blew, and the smell of rice wafted far away.

But the Papaomen had no heart to eat, and the fear of death left them with no appetite.

No one spoke.

For a moment, only the sound of the river gurgling and the crackling of dry wood burning sounded.

At this time, the sound of footsteps is obvious as soon as they appear.

After hearing the footsteps, some of the platoons picked up knives, guns and sticks and prepared to fight back desperately, and some knelt on the ground with weak legs and feet and kowtowed.

But it wasn't the water monkeys who came, but the two middle-aged brothers who looked similar.

The two of them were in rags and looked like they were living worse than them, completely attracted by the smell of rice, and when they approached, despite the angry eyes of the group, holding sticks and kowtowing, the two of them rushed to a pot and dug up sorghum rice and stuffed it into their mouths.

Da Gao still had some courage, and he dared to shout, "Who are you?"

The two brothers rolled their eyes in choke, and one of them said: "My name is Sun Jinhai, my brother's name is Sun Yinhai, our two brothers fled from the famine to the precious land, cough, cough, cough, hungry brother, my two brothers are too hungry." ”

Da Gao and Liu Dazhu didn't look like bad people, so they went up to ask where the two came from.

As a result, just when the attention of the row of customers was drawn away by the two brothers, someone happened to turn around and saw a figure staggering up from the river.

The man screamed in horror, the big guy turned his head and looked carefully, someone had sharp eyes, and shouted first: "It's Uncle Yan, Uncle Yan is not dead, he is still alive, he escaped from the water monkey!"

Someone was even more excited: "Uncle Yan killed the water monkey? Isn't it, isn't it? Uncle Yan is so powerful, the water monkey can't beat him!"

Under the joy, several men rushed to the old Uncle Yan, but Liu Dazhu, who was also very happy, found that something was wrong:

No matter what they said and shouted, Uncle Yan who came out of the river didn't make a sound, so he staggered to the shore, and his posture was very wrong......

Under vigilance, he hurriedly shouted: "Everyone stay away from Brother Yan, he is not quite right, big guy should be careful!"

The big guy was so happy, the first few people were extremely excited, they didn't listen to him at all, and rushed to the old cigarette stick so unscrupulously.

Then the body of the old cigarette stick shattered all of a sudden, and a ghost claw suddenly stretched out, pinched the neck of the nearest man, pinched his neck directly, and slapped his head into the river with a wave of his hand!

The moonlight shone silver on the ghost's claws, plastered with white scales......

The water butcher has come ashore!

It killed the old cigarette stick and pulled out all the bones of his internal organs and limbs, and made his body into a skin, and wore it itself like a man in clothes.

The water butcher is very fast, and the murderous is terrifying, it throws away a head and pounces on the person behind it, and another head emerges from the position on the chest and neck of the old cigarette stick, and grabs the person and opens his mouth to bite him in the face, and tears off half of his face in one bite!

Frightened screams and desperate wails quickly replaced the sounds of excitement and joy, Liu Dazhu watched his brothers being slaughtered like chickens by the water butcher, and in despair, he pulled out a short knife from his waist and pounced.

Two figures rushed towards the Water Butcher faster than him......