Chapter 15 Chapter 6 Fighting with Ghosts

I listened to it and picked up some rainwater, but I couldn't smell the dirty smell that grandpa said. Although Grandpa said that rain is not suitable for catching water ghosts, Shan Dae came wearing thick rain boots.Shan Dae asked stubbornly: "Can we do it today?" Grandpa shook his head. But grandpa told me to take an umbrella, and I asked, "Why don't you go out and get an umbrella?" Grandpa said: "Come on, let's go to the lotus pond." So the three of us walked to the lotus pond together through the mud.Grandpa walked around the lotus pond and said, "This water ghost has too much resentment. I'm afraid I can't deal with it alone. Let a Taoist priest help. I can subdue it with a Taoist priest." It reminded me of the crooked Taoist next to the school.The old lady who cleaned at the school said that she often heard noises in the ruined temple of crooked Taoists. It seemed that many people gathered in that small ruined temple, but she never saw crooked Taoists coming in and out alone.I wondered if the crooked Taoists had collected many ghosts in the ruined temple.

Of course, Grandpa didn't know crooked Taoists at all. When Grandpa and Shan Dae were discussing where to find a Taoist priest, someone shouted from the south bank of the lotus pond.We turned our heads to look, and it turned out to be a woman who came to the lotus pond to fetch laundry water.The woman was carrying a wooden laundry bucket, screaming loudly into the bucket.I looked towards the barrel, and a hairy thing crawled out of the barrel, and the long black hair wrapped around the woman's hand! Shan Dae understood what was going on before us, and shouted "It's broken!" and rushed to the woman carrying water in a hurry.My grandpa and I followed immediately.

The thing sneaked into the bucket while the women were fetching water.When it rains in summer, the water in the pond is turbid, so it is difficult to find other things mixed in the water.When the water is clear, it dare not come out, and has been hiding in the lotus leaves.When the woman lifted the bucket, the thing took the opportunity to wrap around her hand.The woman dropped the bucket in fright, but the long hair of the thing was wrapped around her hand and she couldn't shake it off. Shan Dae grabbed a handful of the thing's black fur and dragged it in the opposite direction.The thing was like a wrung black sheet dangling between the hands of the woman and the father.But because of the rain, Shan Dae slipped and fell on his back.The black hair falls from the hands.The thing swung its black hair and hit Shan Dae on the face, immediately Shan Dae moaned in pain, covered his face with his hands, bright red blood seeped out from between his fingers.That thing has so much strength in the water, it makes me gasp!

The thing's black fur squirmed like a snake in the rain, pulling the woman toward the shore.The woman's face was disfigured in fright, and she sat in the mud and put her feet on the ground to resist. Grandpa walked over quickly, stretched out his index finger and middle finger, and pointed at the thing once.The black hairs of that thing were all erected like a giant hedgehog when it was clicked!It is estimated that there are some acupuncture points for it.Grandpa's finger was hurt by its burr. Grandpa quickly retracted his hand, sucked his finger with his mouth, and then spit out a cloud of green liquid.

It let go of the woman temporarily, and the black hair pointed at Grandpa like a needle.Grandpa cursed, dug some red soil on the ground and applied it to the injured area.Grandpa pushed my chest and told me to stay away.At this time, Shan Dae also stood up, with thick bloodstains appearing on his face as if he had been injured from a fall. Shan Dae clasped his palms together and begged the water ghost: "Fucking child, I am your husband, don't you know me? I beg you, please don't hurt others, okay? I beg you!" Wiping the tears and snot from the corners of the eyes and nose mixed with the blood on the face.

Grandpa said: "Don't talk nonsense with it. It doesn't remember you! If the water ghost remembers, can your son drag your wife into the water? There is rain all around, and its strength is very strong. Be careful!" Shan Dae said: "Doesn't it remember me? Then it must kill people? Then you kill me, you drag me away as a substitute. You and my son are gone, and I don't have much meaning to live. "After speaking, I cried heart-piercingly.The rain slammed on his body, and the tiny water droplets splashed on the top of his head and shoulders formed a layer of mist, like a dream.

The thing stood quietly for a while with its black hair standing on end, as if it was really listening to Shan Dae's cries.When Shan Dae cried, its fur gradually softened, as if it was also moved by his words, and it was recalling the things before it was alive.My tense nerves eased a little. Unexpectedly, the thing suddenly bounced up, flew to a height of one person, and rushed towards Shan Dae! It turned out that its black fur was softened to gather strength to jump up.On the other hand, its action paralyzes us.But it can jump so high with only those hairs, which I couldn't imagine before.Shan Dae was obviously caught off guard, watching the thing flying above his head in horror, and even forgot to run away or resist.Grandpa seemed to block it in the past, but it was too late.

That thing knocked Shan Dae down and pressed it on him, the black hair wrapped around Shan Dae's neck, strangled Shan Dae's face to vermilion, blue veins popped out, and his eyes were staring.The other black hairs whipped him all over his body.Shan Dae grabbed the thing with both hands as if tearing it apart, but this action intensified the force that strangled his neck.