Chapter 13 Chapter 4 Water ghost dragging people

In this way, Shan Dae became a lonely person, no, and the old buffalo. From then on, I was afraid of seeing Shan Dae, afraid that he would ask me to call him "Dad of the Same Year".Because my partners say he is the father of the water ghost.The way he looked at me became elusive, wondering if he was looking at me or fantasizing about his son.Every time after school, if I met him herding cattle on the road, I would run as hard as I could.He often just stretched out his hand to me and wanted me to call him, and I had already run away without a shadow.I turned around to look at him a few times, he shook his hand helplessly, sighed and shook his head.

No one dared to go to the lotus pond, and everyone had a faint feeling that the father and daughter-in-law were waiting for someone to come by the water, waiting for the opportunity to pull down the substitute.Although no one there said that they heard cries at night, the old people said that such water ghosts are more clever, knowing that the cries will scare passers-by, and deliberately lure people to pass quietly. After a few days, a corpse floated up in the lotus pond, face down and back to the sky.Needless to say, this is the body of Shan Dae's daughter-in-law.Shan Dae fished her out with a bamboo pole.Her skin swelled and became thin and transparent, through which green dirty water could be seen surging inside.When poked with a stick, a hole is pierced in the fragile skin, and the green dirty water inside is sprayed out, and the smell is indescribable.Before she jumped down, she was as thin as dry wood, but now she is as fat as a New Year's pig.

Shan Dae packed her in a plastic bag that used to contain agricultural fertilizers, carried her to the Jiangjun Slope behind Changshan Mountain, and buried her. Later, I asked my grandfather, why was Bingbing's body not found, but Shan's father-in-law's body floated up by itself?Grandpa said that when the water in the pond was drained to catch the water ghost, of course they could not be found, otherwise the water ghost would have been found too.So the water ghost deliberately hid the bodies of himself and Bingbing.This father-in-law and daughter-in-law are different, she is willing to be a substitute for her son, and she may want to have a place to be buried when she dies, so she sends her body back.I thought at the time, could it be that water ghosts, like carp, can hide in the mud of ponds so that people cannot find them?When I asked Grandpa like this, Grandpa smiled and said nothing.

If it wasn't for what happened later, Shan Dae wouldn't ask Grandpa for help. The latter thing is like this.Two grandchildren from the city came to the family of the fourth grandma in the village, neither of whom knew about the lotus pond.When they saw a few mature lotus seeds growing on the north bank of the lotus pond, they couldn't help salivating.But they can't swim and dare not go into the water to pick them.So the two of them found a long stick and wanted to use the stick to pull the lotus seeds in the pond closer before picking them.In this way, I got a brown and mature lotus seed and ate it, but I still didn't want to leave, and looked at the farther lotus seed greedily.

At this time, one of the two of them saw the lotus leaf startled, so he knelt down and looked around. "Look, there's a dark thing with long hair over there." The other one also got down to look, and sure enough, a group of things with long black hair were floating in the clear water. The arms are so long that they twist like earthworms. "Brother, what is that?" asked the younger one. "You will know if you get it up?" said the elder brother. So the younger brother took the elder brother's hand, and the elder brother leaned over and tried to stab the thing with the stick in his hand.The thing swayed like a ball and drifted closer to my brother.The elder brother put down the stick, spread it on the ground and grabbed the long black hair with his hands.The younger brother immediately shouted: "Don't catch it!"

The elder brother looked back at his younger brother suspiciously, and said, "Why didn't you catch it?" His hand was less than a decimeter from the water.The long black hair trembled quietly. "That thing is dirty, it's better to pick it up with a stick." The younger brother said seriously. The elder brother was right, so he stood up.The long black hair stopped shaking. My brother picked up the stick and stabbed at the thing, and immediately the sewage flowed out from the middle of the long black hair, like a cuttlefish spitting ink.The elder brother lifted the stick and moved the thing to the shore.

The two children squatted down and looked carefully. It turned out that there was a ball-sized body in the middle of the long black hair. The sewage flowed out from the place where the stick was stabbed.The circular wound opened and contracted, and seemed to be very painful.The body like a ball is limp. "Huh? Why doesn't it have a head and hands and feet?" The younger brother looked left and right curiously, "What kind of animal is this?" The elder brother turned the thing over with a stick, and it was still a ball-like body, "I don't know either." "I don't think it's fun, just put it back in the water." The younger brother said disappointedly.

"Hey, watch me play football." My brother stood up and raised his foot to kick at that thing. At this time, the fourth grandma's stern voice sounded from behind: "Don't kick it! It's a water ghost!" My brother's foot had been kicked out and it was too late to take it back.The thing flew up with his brother's feet. The long black hair curled up his feet! The elder brother couldn't stand up, was dragged down by that thing, and slid down the embankment all at once.The younger brother turned pale with fright!The elder brother screamed and scratched out of thin air with both hands.The fourth grandma chased after her tremblingly with a porcelain bowl in her hand.

Perhaps the elder brother was startled by the fourth grandma's voice just now, he didn't use all his strength on his feet, and the elder brother didn't fall into the water completely, and his hands grabbed the weeds on the embankment.He was so frightened that he yelled desperately: "Grandma help, grandma help!" The younger brother immediately ran over and held his elder brother's hand tightly, exerting all his strength to suckle.But how could they be against the water ghosts that fell into the water?The younger brother also slid into the lotus pond with his elder brother.