Chapter 16 Chapter 7: The Mountain Father Throws Water

Grandpa didn't dare to pull the thing, he was afraid of strangling Shan Tao to death, so he was in a hurry.The woman only realized it at this time, and she ran away in fright, and after running for two steps, she didn't forget to stop and pick up the bucket lying not far away. I pretended to be smart and imitated my grandfather's right hand and two fingers to poke at the thing. Before I poked it, its black hair curled into my hand, and a huge force pulled me down.I fell a pig and ate mud, and my knee hit the rock and it hurt terribly.The fall was hard enough that my limbs were briefly paralyzed and I couldn't move.

The black hair of that thing plucked at me, and when it landed on my body, it was hot and painful.My paralyzed limbs regained feeling under the severe pain.My left hand touched a stone on the ground, so I picked it up and threw it at the thing's body. A stream of green liquid splashed on my hand, and the sharp-pointed stone scratched its skin.I felt a spasm in it, and the black hair loosened at the same time.Grandpa saw it and kicked it, just like the one kicked by the fourth grandma's grandson, the thing flew to the pond, but this time it didn't catch Grandpa's feet, because its black fur was almost wrapped around On me and Shan Dae.

The thing sank into the cloudy rain and disappeared.The green liquid on my hand was as sticky as glue and smelled disgusting.Looking at Shan Dae again, he has been strangled into a coma.I just tried to stand up with my hands on the ground, when my right hand suddenly hurt like a pinprick, and I couldn't bear the slightest strength at all, so I fell on the ground again and took a mouthful of muddy water. Grandpa stopped and said: "Don't move!" He put one of my hands on his shoulder and pulled me up.At this time, the woman brought a few people over and lifted the delirious Shan Dad up.

As soon as I stood up, I was in a daze as if I had drunk a drug, and my eyelids drooped heavily.It is estimated to be a side effect of the green liquid.I tried my best to open my eyes, and saw the lotus leaves on the other side trembling slightly under the impact of raindrops, but there was one place that was visibly vibrating.It hides again, orchestrating its next opportunity. As long as it is still in the lotus pond, there is a killer waiting for an opportunity to ambush by our side.Let the people in the whole village be on tenterhooks and feel restless. I lay in bed for two days before I felt the groggy feeling in my head.When I regained my consciousness, I asked my grandpa, "Did the ancient book tell you about your two fingers poking water ghosts?"

Grandpa smiled and said: "My two fingers are useless, the key is that you hit the stone well. The female water ghost's skin is thin, and something a little sharper will break." I asked: "Is the skin of male water ghosts different from that of female water ghosts?" Grandpa said kindly: "The male water ghost's skin is thicker than cowhide. Not to mention rocks, even scissors can't cut it. I used to know a Taoist priest who catches ghosts. He made a pair of shoes out of the male water ghost's skin." , I haven’t had a single hole after wearing them for more than ten years.” As soon as Grandpa mentioned Taoist priests, I thought of crooked Taoist priests again, wondering if he was wearing ghost leather shoes.

Grandpa said again: "But the male water ghost's skin is afraid of fire. If it is not wet with water, it will turn into ashes when it sees fire." I changed my mind and asked, "Is Father Shan all right?" Grandpa was silent for a while, then said slowly: "Shan Dae is dead." I got up from the bed all at once: "Did you get strangled to death by the water ghost?" Grandpa said, "No." I asked in surprise, "Then why did he die?" Grandpa replied, "He dived himself." "Did he dive by himself?" "Yes. He is willing to dive into the water by himself to be the substitute of the water ghost, so that his wife can be reborn."

At this time, my mother opened the door and came in, holding a bowl of steaming soup.Mom said: "Shan Dae said that he became a water ghost instead of his wife and promised not to harm others." Listening carefully to my mother's narration, it turned out that Shan Dae woke up the next day, but I was still comatose because of the water ghost's sewage.It's just that his limbs were scarred by the black hair of the water ghost, and he couldn't get off the bed, and couldn't hold the chopsticks in his hands. He looked twice as fat as usual.Shan Di said to the people who came to visit him: "Our family is no longer a burden to the folks in the village. I am willing to throw water to be my wife's substitute. I promise not to harm the children in our village. I promise with my conscience. Please believe me !"

The relatives and friends who came to visit him only thought that he was frightened by the water ghost and talked nonsense, and didn't take his words to heart.Besides, Shan Dae's body was swollen like a steamed bun, he couldn't even get out of bed, and he had to be fed, how could he go to the lotus pond to throw water?So everyone sincerely or falsely persuaded them and dispersed. But who would have expected that he really went to the lotus pond to throw water that night, and no one knew how he got out of bed and walked to the lotus pond.The person who delivered his meals the next day found that Shan Dae was no longer in bed, and searched around the house several times.I saw the old buffalo raised by Shan Dae for five or six years in the cowshed, holding the rein with its hard horns and pulling desperately, as if trying to break the rein with its horns.