Chapter 3 Chapter 1 fake work

Some people say that time is a river. In that river, memories are impacted and worn by the flowing water like sand and gravel, and finally disappear with only a little trace left. I’m afraid that’s exactly the case, at least I don’t dare to say it loudly, since I was a child, I remember everything clearly, even the apple that my distant sister snatched away when I was three years old. After all, I really don't remember what happened before I was five and a half years old.And the head hurts at the beginning of the memory, it seems that the brain is deliberately hiding this memory. However, what should come cannot be stopped after all.Perhaps it is destined that I will return to that place again, and find out the result of the doubts I had before the age of five and a half.

Remember the beginning of this story, it happened to be February 14th, which is the so-called Valentine's Day. I didn't get up early that day. After washing, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.Let the servant make a cup of coffee, casually ate a few bites of toast, and then went out in boredom. There is no Valentine's Day atmosphere on the street at all. The streets are full of lonely single wandering souls. I admit that I am one of them. After all, Valentine's Day does not belong to me at all. At least I'm not the kind of male creature who has the mood and flair, obediently waits for his girlfriend to send chocolates, not to mention, at the age of eighteen and a half, I have no plans to have a girlfriend at all.

The forest is so big, why hang on a tree? These words are quoted from the self-comfort of a single friend of mine. Like every day of winter vacation, I spent it very depressed.I didn't really want to go back to my rather deserted home at night, so I found a western restaurant, ordered a few dishes at random, and ate absent-mindedly. Suddenly, I felt that there was always a gaze behind me, looking at me vaguely.I still trust this scientifically proven sixth sense, so I looked back casually. There are very few people in this western restaurant, and the lights are not very bright. You can vaguely see a young woman sitting between two tables.

Although I can't see it clearly, but according to the lines of the face, it should not be ugly. I felt that her sight was very penetrating. The moment I turned my head, it not only penetrated me, but also penetrated a wall that was 20 meters away from me in a straight line. The location is gone. I smiled, shook my head and continued to eat the food in front of me. Not long after, the beauty behind her finally couldn't bear it and came over.To my amazement, she had a plate, fork and knife in her hand. Facing me with a surprised face, she sat down, with a smile on her face, and asked me: "Handsome guy, your food looks delicious, can I have some?" I looked up at her, As soon as his line of sight touched her face, he froze for a full 0.96 seconds.

I actually know this beauty. She is a transfer student who came from another school suddenly a while ago. Her name is Zhao Yunhan. She seems to be a beauty who is very interested in weird and supernatural events.And she herself was entwined with layer after layer of mystery, which made me unable to guess. After experiencing a very strange thing with me, she suddenly transferred to another school and left.I was noncommittal, and this beauty was not polite, she sat down without any ladylike image, pulled my plate and cut off a large piece of steak, and distributed it to her own plate. She ate happily with her head depressed, introducing herself vaguely during the meal, and finally handed over a business card.It read: Zhao Yunhan, a junior at the Folklore Department of Chenjing University.

This guy was my classmate some time ago, when did he become a college student again, and he is still studying in the folklore department. As the saying goes, women are fickle, but I have never seen such a fickle woman. Not long after, even his identity changed . She swept the contents of the plate into her stomach like a gust of wind, and suddenly she became a lady again. She gracefully wiped off her pink and slightly pursed cute lips with a paper towel, and asked me again: "Handsome, can you borrow a cup?" Do you want to use your mobile phone?" I glared at her and handed her the mobile phone silently.Zhao Yunhan dialed a number, and a burst of melodious music came from her soon after.

She giggled, smiling slyly, returned the phone to me, and then took out a phone from her skirt pocket and shook it in front of my eyes. "He already has your phone number, handsome guy, do you mind trying to communicate more with him in the future? Maybe on Valentine's Day in the future, you won't have to be alone in a dark western restaurant with eyes like a beast The devouring blood-red eyes are staring at the pairs of dogs and men all around!" Although Zhao Yunhan's words were not loud, they were definitely not too loud. In the quiet restaurant, it seemed that there were quite a few dogs and men listening nearby. When he arrived, he looked at me with some strange eyes, his skin was as thick as mine, and his color changed a little bit.

I took a deep breath, resisting the urge to overturn the table. Jade Emperor, Valentine's Day without a lover is already miserable enough, why did you let me meet such an annoying creature! "Yunhan, what the hell are you doing?" My voice was deep but clear. "It's nothing, it's Valentine's Day without a lover, of course I'm as bored as thousands of single wandering souls in the world, so I drank a cup of coffee after waking up, ate a few bites of toast, and ran to the street." "And then ?” “Then, I came to this western restaurant alone for dinner.” “And then?” “And then, I suddenly realized that I didn’t bring my wallet with me when I came out.” “So?” “So I lied that my boyfriend hadn't come yet, and asked the waiter to pour me a glass of free lemonade. Then I drank it while thinking about how to get out. After all, if I leave like that, it would really hurt my face as a lady. And it just so happens that my poor stomach is starting to get hungry too!" I snorted coldly: "I don't think I'm thinking of a way out, but looking for a substitute." Prince Charming has appeared." Zhao Yunhan showed no embarrassment at all, this woman, in a sense, is probably more difficult than I imagined.

"I'm not Prince Charming, I'm a yellow race, and I can't get white." My voice was like uncooked rice mixed with water, hard and cold. Zhao Yunhan pouted her mouth and dragged out the ending: "No grace, didn't you say you were going to marry someone before?" I almost fainted when I heard this, she still remembers this stinking joke from so long ago, I He shook his head, "That was before. You were my classmate at the time, and I thought you were about the same age as me, but who knew that you actually used sinister means to hide your real age. Hmph, the junior sister is Well, it should be over 20 years old. I will never marry an old woman older than me even if I am silent at night!" "What old woman, it's too ugly!" Her face finally covered her face Bo Shuang, "I'm ignorant, don't you know that there is a way called 'jumping' in this world?" "You jumped too far, and I'm not a fool, of course I don't believe it." I deliberately turned my head away.

She stared hard at me with hatred, suddenly, she smiled again, and asked: "Xiaoye, have you heard the legend of the 'Golden Baby'?" "Golden Baby?" I frowned, "You mean Yangma Riverside The legend of that area?" "Yes, you really know." Zhao Yunhan cheered up, "I'm from the Department of Folklore, and I'm preparing to write a thesis on the superstitious legend of the 'Golden Baby' recently, so I want to take a look at it by the way. I went to Yangma River to see if I could collect any useful information. Ah Ye, aren’t you curious at all?” “Not at all!” Although I answered decisively, I still showed a slight hesitation in my actions.

Zhao Yunhan seemed very confident, handed me a document, and then stood up.After walking a few steps, I turned around and said softly, "Look carefully at these materials, and if you are really interested, please call me." I numbly held the materials with my hands, my heart was constantly ups and downs, and I didn't know why. Time went blank and was stunned. The so-called "Golden Baby" is an ancient legend in the Yangma River Basin. It has been passed down for a long time and cannot be verified, and there are more and more versions with the passage of time. But the most representative ones, summed up, are no more than three types, because the city I live is only more than a hundred kilometers away from the downstream of the Yangma River, so I have heard of it. The first rumor is that the "golden baby" is the secret code of the treasure. In the Tang Dynasty, there was once a wealthy businessman who was framed by the court because of his wealth and power. That businessman was not a simple character either. He had a keen sense of family ruin, and resolutely transferred all his property secretly to a place by the Yangma River, where he built a huge cellar, and he followed closely with him. His wife and children fled there.It's a pity that he was caught by the government on the way and died in the prison. It is said that when he was dying, he wrote six words on the hand of a little jailer who took good care of him: Yangmahe Golden Baby.And told him that if he could solve this mystery, his life's property would belong to him. According to this rumor, for more than a thousand years, countless treasure hunters have searched the 100-kilometer watershed of the Yangma River countless times, but they have found nothing.It is said that the treasure is still quietly lying somewhere in the Yangma River, waiting for someone who is destined to open the old door. But as far as my judgment is concerned, this legend is probably the most unfounded one.After all, the legend did not mention specific dynasties or specific names of characters, and it is not known whether it is true or not.Based on those six vague keywords, it was nothing but empty talk. The second rumor says that the "golden baby" is a kind of water ghost. There is a unique custom by the Yangma River, called "Shooting the General's Arrow", which is a form of children worshiping godfather, also known as "Looking for Baobao". At that time, due to the lack of medical care and medicine, it was not easy to bring up children, and because they lived by the river, children were often drowned by the river. Parents believed that the children had committed "off evil", so they needed a guarantor to block the "golden baby". , lest a child touch the water and be dragged by the water ghost to be a scapegoat. "Shooting the General's Arrow" is to set up an incense table with wine and vegetables at the roadside bridge or in front of the temple. With willow branches as bows and red ropes as strings, the first passer-by you meet, no matter rich or poor, invites you to drink, explain your intentions, and then Archery, recognized as the godfather of the child, and asked the godfather to choose an auspicious and long-lived name for the child. Finally, giving a belt to the godfather means please take care of the child, and the godfather also gives money and things to the child.However, this kind of godfather is mostly denied afterwards, and never communicates with each other. The third kind of legend, "Golden Baby" is the water god by the Yangma River. From more than a thousand years ago until the period of the Republic of China, there was a custom of offering sacrifices along the Yangma River.The so-called sacrificial offering means that when encountering floods, droughts, or fires in the past, monks and Taoists would be invited to perform rituals and ask the water god "Golden Baby" to bless the disaster. It is said that the content of Jiaojiao is divided into Qingjiao, Huojiao, Jiuhuangjiao and so on.Praying to pray for rain is usually held in Longwang Temple. In addition to the general procedures, the rituals also involve playing with water dragons to catch drought. During the period of the Republic of China, when I prayed for rain, I used to dress up a dog as a human and carried it through the streets. I saw it when I was a child, and I was amused by the funny appearance of those people. At that time, I was sitting on my grandfather's shoulders, and I listened with great interest to my grandfather saying that this was for publicity, the so-called "laughing dog, the sky is not sunny" is auspicious, in order to pray for the purpose of praying for rain.At that time, I didn't quite understand it, but when I saw the "Golden Baby" statue that paraded over the street at the end, I shivered involuntarily. The statue is a child wearing a red bellyband, neither male nor female, nor his appearance. It should be considered cute, but at that time, I felt a chill intuitively. In the dog-fighting weather, I was so cold and scared that I almost tore off my grandfather's few hair. Generally speaking, these three legends are all related to Yangma River, and many special methods in them are only spread in Yangma River Basin.There should have been some real events that can no longer be verified at a certain time in the past, so it created the unique customs and habits now. I woke up from the memory with a very uncomfortable feeling in my heart for some reason.Wei Wei hesitated for a while, then opened the file bag and pulled out the documents inside. Not long after, I finished reading the above things, frowned, and smiled wryly. This document is not long, only three pages, and the things mentioned above are probably the same. It is said that in the past thirteen years by the Yangma River, many children who drowned in the river suddenly died on the third day after they were confirmed dead. Come alive. Of course, they are not completely alive. The medical community secretly observed them. The "fake life" state is very short, only ten seconds, and there is no heartbeat or pulsation at all, and there is no brain wave. The reaction is basically the appearance of a dead person, but that situation cannot be regarded as a conditioned reflex caused by simple muscle contraction. Because those children who came back to life for more than ten seconds a few days after their death suddenly opened their eyes, mumbling something in their mouths, and then died completely. Someone recorded the words of those corpses, and was surprised to find that the pronunciation and voice lines of each corpse were exactly the same.In other words, they are basically saying the same sentence! But what exactly it is, has not yet been determined. Is this a coincidence?Impossible. There was a proverb in ancient Egypt that said that the first coincidence is called luck, the second coincidence is called coincidence, and the third coincidence is inevitable. Nothing that has been the same three times is still a coincidence. According to the data, since the medical profession and various other life and mystery research institutions attracted the attention, this kind of recording of death recordings has not stopped, and now there are at least nearly 60 cases. With so many cases showing similar results, it is unclear what exactly portends. I smiled wryly even louder, this Zhao Yunhan is always unique every time she appears on stage. However, she really knows my background and preferences very well, so if she gives me this kind of gift, can I still refuse it?Admittedly, I am really curious...

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