Chapter 3 Chapter 2 Broken Arm Water God

My flashlight flicked, and the light beam stopped on the wardrobe in the room. The cabinet was half open, and the lock was nowhere to be found.In my memory, the wardrobe in Mr. Tang’s room was locked, at least it hadn’t been opened before I went to the Yishan Reservoir for the second time. It was then that I saw the pair of strange footprints. I stopped in my tracks and took another look with the flashlight at night, wanting to be 100% sure.In fact, the cabinet was indeed opened. I don't know if the police searched the room when they took the body away, and opened the cabinet by the way.But I heard from Jin Lele that the police believed that there was a death at the ferry, so Bumizhen wanted to get rid of it. Since they all thought so, would they still open the cabinet?

Is there any secret in Mr. Tang's closet?That's why he was killed, and why his body disappeared and reappeared? I had a splitting headache, and I didn't understand the need for the body to disappear and reappear. It would be easy to be caught by someone.It took twenty years for Hong Ke's body to appear, and now it's gone. He wouldn't sneak out again at the ferry, would he?Thinking of this, I couldn't help shivering. I don't want to see that kind of floating corpse swollen by blisters in this life. After staying for a while, I took a flashlight and ran all the way to the dimly lit office building. At this time, the wind on the river picked up and poured into the ferry with the gate open.The gust of wind passed through the two small buildings one after another, and the windows of the small building in the shade were all broken. As soon as the wind passed, crying came out.I walked into the toilet with horror, it was pitch black, the light had been broken for a long time, and Jin Lele, who was a ferry attendant, was supposed to arrange maintenance, but she muddled through, and the problem in the men's toilet continued to drag on.Besides, if a man is ashamed to say that he is afraid of going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, no one will rush Jin Lele.

After urinating in fear for a while, I hurried out, when there was a babbling sound in the quiet ferry.The houses here are all left by the boat and bridge troops. They can be said to be antiques in Yishan Town. Some of the hinges on the doors are rusted, and the doors occasionally make loud noises when they are opened.I thought that someone was going to get up to go to the bathroom and wanted to play tricks on people, but I saw a black figure striding across the grass in front of the transition field, and stepped straight out of the gate. "Who? In the middle of the night, where are you going?" I turned off the flashlight, couldn't help but tiptoed, and chased after him furtively.

The figure slipped away quickly and disappeared as soon as he went out.There are two roads outside the ferry, one goes through the camphor forest, goes around to the back gate of Yishan Teachers College, and then passes through the teacher’s college to the town’s market. Every time we go to the market to buy things, we take that road The other is the fish pond leading to the reservoir and downstream, and there are several villages near the river. The roads on both sides are not streets, and there is nothing to go shopping at night.The river wind mixed with the spring rain slammed into my face, and the drowsiness dissipated immediately. I finally heard some movement again, as if that person was walking towards the reservoir.

I didn't have time to call other people, and I was afraid of disturbing that person, so I quietly followed without thinking.To be honest, I really hope that person is Tang Erye, because until now I haven't seen his body with my own eyes, so I have a little hope, even though the police have carried the body away.After a while, I walked across a river cliff and through a forest.Along the way, the waves were so loud that it seemed that every foot would fall into the river, but I didn't dare to turn on the flashlight, for fear that the people in front would find out. After following silently for nearly half an hour, I got farther and farther away from the ferry, the sound of the waves gradually subsided, and the current slowed down a lot, which meant that I had reached the reservoir area.When I was in college, I heard people say that the villages in the upper reaches of the Yi River were massacred by the Japanese army, and the corpses flowed down the river, and there were many corpses in the lower reaches and even the reservoir.In order to suppress the Yin Qi, the people in the town built the Yishan Normal University by the river, because Mr. Feng Shui believes that the river water can accumulate Yin Qi, so that various strange things will happen at night, such as people who should not go into the water will go swimming, Then drown.

Yishan Town is located in the north of Guangxi, and it is the government resident of a county-level city. It was a post station in ancient times, and it was an important place for the Guangxi army during World War II.In addition to the "World War II" massacre, Japanese military planes bombed Yishan Town, killing many people.In recent years, there have been more and more cases of drowning people. In order to gather the yang energy of young people, the education department in the city listened to Mr. Feng Shui, and they began to apply for the expansion of Yishan Teachers College. Therefore, starting from 2005, Yishan Mountain Normal University began to recruit students from all over the country one after another. Before that, it only recruited local students.

Strangely, even though there are more and more students, the riverside still drowns people!I really don't know if people's safety awareness is not enough, or there are really water ghosts. Thinking about it, I have already walked to the edge of the reservoir. There are no trees to cover the water. In order not to disturb that person, I suppressed myself and hid in the distance to peep.At this time, the moonlight climbed into the center of the night sky. Although it was hairy, it barely allowed me to see the outline of the black shadow.I saw that figure got into a house next to the reservoir, then ran out quickly, and got into the woods more than ten meters away.

At this time, although I was afraid, I felt that there were no ghosts in the world. I struggled with my thoughts for a while, but there was no movement in front of me, so I quietly groped around.The house of the Reservoir Management Office is rotten into a pile of mud. I don’t know what that person did there. Now that he’s gone, did he go back?As soon as I gritted my teeth, I became more courageous, straightened up, and swaggered in. The doors and windows in the house were all broken, and they were half hanging on the side, shaking when the wind passed.I stepped on the broken bricks, turned on the flashlight, and took a quick look.There is nothing special here, except for a small statue of a woman on a dusty and moldy table, only that thing is not dusty, and the beam of light will reflect when it is swept.

"What is this? Could it be that person put it on the table just now?" I was suspicious, picked up the statue, looked closely at it, and couldn't figure out what that person put the statue here for. The statue is only as big as a palm. I don't know which Chinese woman it was based on, but the statue of the woman has no arms, which seems to be done on purpose.I know that there is a statue abroad called Venus. She has a broken arm, but there is a reason for that. I wonder what the background of this Chinese woman is?I gradually became fascinated, and forgot the environment I was in. I turned over the base and saw that there was a line of inscriptions on it - "Li Xiaoai".

Who is Li Xiaoai?I rolled my eyes in wonder, and thought about it calmly, I don't remember such a person in the ferry.Just as I relaxed my vigilance, a light came from outside the house, and a figure appeared at the door, blocking my way.I thought to myself, damn it, that person didn’t go back, but came back again, he didn’t think I wanted to steal this junk, did he?When I blocked the beam of light coming from the opposite side with my hand and squinted my eyes, I was stunned. "Why are you?" I asked in surprise, "What are you doing here?" "I still want to ask you?! You left me that note?"

I was so angry that I wanted to explode, but I was at a loss and couldn't speak.The person who blocked my way was Yue Mingfei, that invincible former swimming champion.From yesterday to today, Yue Mingfei has been with me, and he seems to be acting normally. Why did he come here in the middle of the night and put a statue of a woman with a broken arm in the old house of the reservoir management office? Could it be that he is out of his mind?Or is it a ghost? Seeing that I couldn't answer, Yue Mingfei said angrily, "So it's you! Fuck! You're playing dirty tricks behind your back!" "What's yin and yang? Keep your fucking mouth clean!" I saw that the other party was not kind, so I followed suit. "You still want to deny, did you stuff these into my room!" Yue Mingfei didn't bother to explain, threw a few pieces of paper over, and he turned his nose up to the sky. Confused, I picked up the papers, looked at them carefully, and couldn't help asking: "What's going on here?" "Are you still pretending? You know that I dare not tell others, and I won't call the police, so you want to play with me?" Yue Mingfei raised his voice, and the faint echo from the side of the reservoir made the atmosphere dark. There were three sheets of paper, all of which were printed, and each sheet had a sentence—"Put the water god with the broken arm in the old house of the reservoir management office before midnight on April 29, or your secret of salvaging the corpse will be exposed . " I said "Oh" soberly. It turned out that the statue of the woman was called the Broken Arm Water God, but I had never heard of this name before. Could it be some kind of broken god in the folk?I think the workmanship of the statue is average, and the material is just ordinary plaster, which is only a few catties of cabbage. Is it necessary to be so aggressive? Yue Mingfei's face was ugly, I glanced at it, and then glanced at the words on the paper.All of a sudden, I fully understood that Yue Mingfei went outside to retrieve the corpses with his back on his back.Although the monthly salary of the ferry is only a few hundred, as long as you survive five or eight years, you will have a good place to go in the future.Now the price of corpse hunting is more than 10,000 yuan, and there are more than 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. If the corpse hunter asks, their identities can be kept secret. This is to prevent each other from disturbing each other. No wonder Yue Mingfei dared to give it a go. . But people are not as good as heaven, if it is a secret, it will be exposed.Everyone always has ulterior secrets, if others find out, the end will be ruined! At this time, Yue Mingfei saw my dumbfounded expression, and his anger subsided a lot, and he asked: "You didn't give this to me? Then why did you follow?" "I went out to pee and saw someone slipping out of the ferry, so I thought who it was, so I followed..." I was not honored to follow people, and I didn't have the confidence to answer. "If it wasn't you..." Yue Mingfei was at a loss for words, "Who would it be? Who knew that I stole this statue from Tang Erye? No one should have seen it at the time." "You stole this?" My hair stood up. If it was stolen from Second Master Tang, could it be that Second Master Tang turned into a ghost and came back to ask for the "Broken Arm Water God"?But Yue Mingfei shook his head and denied it. He said that the three pieces of paper had been stuffed for three days in a row, and at that time Erye Tang hadn't had any accidents.Yue Mingfei thought for a while, the statue was worthless anyway, so he simply followed the requirements on the paper and released the statue.This was the third day when he received the note. Yue Mingfei was afraid that the other party would be impatient, and the time would be up. He couldn't sleep well, so he simply ran out at night to see if he could catch the person behind the scenes. "Today is April 29th, so you received the note on the 27th, and Tang Erye had an accident on the 28th..." I thought about it, "There is no connection between these things, right? You stole this statue, Have you ever asked Second Master Tang what is the Broken Arm Water God? Could it be something inauspicious? Look, the hands are broken, how creepy!" "I just thought it looked good, so I grabbed it, who would have thought..." Yue Mingfei sighed suddenly, thinking he was unlucky. "By the way, there is a name under this statue - Li Xiaoai, you came earlier than me, was there such a number one person in the ferry before?" I asked seriously. Yue Mingfei is not like me, he has no intention of investigating the case and getting to the bottom of it, he just wants to end the matter and go back to sleep well.He saw that I already knew the secret and understood my personality, so he begged me not to tell the truth. If there is a chance in the future, he can introduce me to be a swimming instructor. That kind of work is much better than fishing in the river.As for the broken-armed water god, Yue Mingfei wanted to throw it in the house and not take it away, he didn't care if anyone came or not. There is a sentence engraved on the stone: "The Broken Arm Water God is in Huang Dingyi's hands, come and get it if you have it." Yue Mingfei disregarded the responsibility, but he was still worried, maybe he was a little sensitive because of the note.I talked left and right, even telling the strange things about the three footprints in exchange, and Yue Mingfei agreed to let me pick up the water god with the broken arm. This time, Yue Mingfei didn't catch the person who teased him, but shifted his burden, and his mood suddenly became lighter.I have a clear conscience and am not afraid of anything, but as soon as I went out, I saw changes in the reservoir not far away.Yue Mingfei and I nervously took a few steps forward, held our breath and looked around, thinking to ourselves: What is the secret under this reservoir, that there is such a strange scene at night? The moon in the night sky was blocked by a dark cloud, and the reservoir was like a pool of ink. At this time, there was a group of red light flashing underwater.The light was deep in the water, and we couldn't see clearly, and couldn't tell what it was shining.The Yishan Reservoir is not an ocean, and there can be no rare treasures underneath. At most, there are a few corpses.But I have never heard that ghost fires can burn underwater, which is not scientific. Yue Mingfei was amazed, it was bigger than my reaction, originally I wanted to ask him for advice, but seeing him like that, I stopped talking.The will-o'-the-wisp flashed a few times, and before it was over, it moved upstream again, rushing quickly toward the upper reaches of the Yi River.At this time, I wished I could jump into the water and chase after it. This was the first time I saw something strange in the Yi River.After a few minutes, the red light went farther and farther away, and I couldn't see it anymore, so I remembered to go back to the ferry quickly. About the will-o'-the-wisp under the river, Yue Mingfei and I couldn't explain it, we just thought it was a ghost at night and didn't think too much about it.I often walk by the river, and there is no one who does not get wet shoes. Most of the predecessors who fish for corpses have strange experiences. On the way back, Yue Mingfei stopped being entangled in the will-o'-the-wisps, and asked me worriedly: "Is it true that you gave me those three pieces of paper?" "Don't ask if you don't believe me." I said coldly. "I just feel that something is wrong. Since that person asked me to come and put the statue there tonight, why didn't I come to pick it up? Did you startle them, so...you didn't meet anyone on the way?" Yue Mingfei asked. I answered patiently: "If I meet you, I wouldn't be scared to death. Who would go to the reservoir for a stroll in the middle of the night like you. But then again, your matter is not simple. I think it is most likely that you are in the ferry. Someone did it. Think about it, that person knew that you salvaged the corpse outside without permission and stole the statue, it's not like outsiders can know." Yue Mingfei scratched his head while walking, he admitted that he had thought about this a long time ago, but the people who crossed the field had nothing against him, so there was no need to do that.Fishermen often pass by near the ferry, and college students sometimes come to swim, but they are all strangers, so they should not embarrass him. I secretly smiled, Yue Mingfei was careless, how many people did he offend?I don't know how many people can't understand his arrogant and arrogant personality.If Yue Mingfei and I hadn't collided with each other today, we wouldn't be able to communicate with each other for a week, and we would treat each other as air.We made a lot of inferences on the way, and finally agreed that the ghost is a cover, and someone must be deceiving on purpose, but we still don't understand the reason for doing so. After returning to the ferry, Yue Mingfei saw that I promised not to reveal a single word to others, so he went back to his room to sleep satisfied, and even said thank you when he entered the door.I smiled politely, and walked back to my room, then put the water god with the severed arm on the table and went to sleep.As soon as I lay down, I fell asleep. I don't know why, in a daze, I always felt that Master Tang came to call me, and that feeling was very real.However, I couldn't get up, my throat was dry, and I couldn't make a sound, like a vegetable who couldn't move.This feeling of helplessness tormented me for half the night, and when I woke up, it was dawn. Originally, I wanted to get out of bed to drink some water, but my eyes were still foggy, so I was startled when my feet hit the ground. "What's the trick?" I rubbed my eyes, stood up, and found that the door was open, and the water god with a broken arm on the table turned around and looked out of the open door.I clearly remember that I turned the front of the statue towards the wooden bed, closed my eyes and took a special look.Moreover, I closed the door after I entered the room, so it couldn't be opened... Could it be that Second Master Tang really came back? Suspiciously, I picked up the water god with the broken arm. It is now facing away from the wooden bed, and for some reason it turned half a circle.Of course, if it's just such a small situation, it will definitely not scare me, a salvageman. The problem is that a broken arm has grown out of it!I watched in disbelief, my mouth was wide open, and I forgot to drink water.There is also the word "Li Xiaoai" on the base of the statue. The statue is the same as yesterday's, except for an extra slender arm. At this time, Yue Mingfei walked past my room from the outside and saw me holding the statue in a daze, so he urged me to put it away quickly.Before I could tell about the statue, Jin Lele yelled outside, telling me to hurry over, someone was looking for me.My mind was empty, I didn't think about anything, I closed the door and left.Yue Mingfei muttered a few words in the back, not knowing what to say, while the others were drying their clothes, or were in a daze. Jin Lele is in Xiaolou's office. As soon as I come, she will ask me to go to the People's Hospital in the town alone.It turned out that the police did not classify Erye Tang's death as a homicide, but just asked me to question him.However, Captain Hu and Yue Mingfei didn't have to go. The reason why they only came to me was because Jin Lele told the police that I knew Erye Tang best.I nodded, admiring Jin Lele's big mouth, thankfully the police didn't think it was murder, otherwise they would have pushed me down the Yellow River. Here, please allow me to spend more time to explain why I went to see the police, instead of going to the police station or the Public Security Bureau, but to the People's Hospital in the town. In reality, many places are not like TV dramas. Forensic identification centers and law enforcement agencies are not in the same place, and dissection rooms are not available in every place.In economically backward areas, some autopsies are performed in hospitals, even in the open air, and the dead bodies are kept in the hospital mortuary.This situation is not only in China, but also in some small towns in the United States. As for the police, it is even more different from the TV. Unless there are some special factors, they will not hold on to the case. Sometimes you begged for thousands of dollars, but he didn't even bother to investigate the case.Like Tang Erye's death, the police generally would not classify it as a homicide, otherwise, the local crime rate statistics would increase, and if the case cannot be solved, it would affect the detection rate and the official career of the bureau chiefs.Qualitative suicide is not a homicide case, and it does not need to be included in the incidence of major criminal cases. The local crime rate statistics report is good, and the police can save time and trouble. I can know these things because I have seen with my own eyes in the ferry. Some people drowned, and the police can't wait to announce that the dead are suicides, without any criminal investigation at all.Some of the dead bodies have not been claimed for the time being, and they were picked up by the people at the ferry, and sent to the morgue of the People's Hospital in the town. That place can be said to be another place of work for us. About half an hour later, after I brushed my teeth and washed my face, and had a simple breakfast, Jin Le was happy to see that I hadn't set off yet, so she came to urge me again.It happened that Mrs. Han was going to buy vegetables at the market in the town, so I followed her and left Duchang and walked through the camphor forest, and we walked into Yishan Teachers College together, from the back door to the front door.On the way, I asked Mrs. Han if she had ever seen a will-o'-the-wisp under Jiang Xin, but her expression changed unexpectedly. "A few days before my husband's accident, I asked me the same thing. You wouldn't..." Sister-in-law Han didn't want to frighten me, so she didn't continue. I walked nervously on the path of the teacher's college, looked at the college students passing by, and asked, "This is really the case? Are you sure?" Sister-in-law Han didn't want to continue this topic, so she said, "I think you'd better not go to the water's edge, you'll be staying in the ferry these days, just help me wash the vegetables." "During this time, the leaders of the Teachers College have banned students from going to the riverside. It should be no big problem, unless the leaders of the town tell us to go and collect the rubbish at the bottom of the river." As soon as I finished speaking, a female teacher walked towards me, Look straight at it. Mrs. Han was in a hurry to buy vegetables. Seeing that I was going to talk to the young female teacher, she told me to seize the opportunity in a random manner, and then walked away in three steps at a time.The female teacher was Tang Ziyue, who taught in Yishan Teachers College. She came to the transition field several times because she wanted to ask Yue Mingfei to teach students how to swim, participate in city competitions, and how to save themselves or rescue them when they drown.Because Captain Hu refused to let him go, this matter has never been negotiated. Tang Ziyue walked up to her, and she said with a sorry face: "I heard about Mr. Tang, what a pity, he consulted me about something the day before yesterday." I thought Tang Ziyue was going to talk about teaching swimming again, so when I heard this, I hurriedly asked: "The day before yesterday? What did Mr. Tang ask you for? Did he want to teach swimming?" "No." Tang Ziyue denied, and then replied, "I teach in the Department of Political Science and Law, and Mr. Tang wanted to consult with me about some laws, saying that if he personally wanted to publish some confidential documents, it would be considered a crime. That was a month ago. , At that time, Master Tang suggested that I go to the ferry to find someone to teach the students how to swim, otherwise I would not know that there is a ferry at the back of the school. Seeing him, who knew that that evening he would..." I was so surprised that I couldn't speak for a moment. Second master Tang actually consulted with the teacher of the teacher's college about legal matters before the accident. How could the people on the crossing have anything to do with the law?Of course, as long as they are humans, they will have a relationship with the law, but not everyone has to consult.According to Tang Ziyue, Tang Erye wanted to ask if an individual wanted to publish confidential documents, would this be considered a crime, and would that be the reason why he was killed? My mind was spinning quickly, and I immediately remembered the plot in a foreign movie where the protagonist was hunted down because he wanted to reveal the alien's secret.Then, I came back to my senses and anxiously asked Tang Ziyue if Erye Tang had revealed what kind of confidential document it was.Tang Ziyue sighed, and bluntly said that she had never seen it from the beginning to the end, and did not know what confidential documents Tang Erye had in his hands.Now the ferry has no military function for a long time. It is like a decoration, where there are confidential documents that can be exposed.In Tang Ziyue's eyes, she also thought that Master Tang's death was accidental, not as much as I thought. Tang Ziyue said a few words to me, when the class bell rang, she hurried away.However, Tang Ziyue still wanted to invite Yue Mingfei to teach the students swimming and drowning self-rescue and rescue precautions, so that students would not die every year.I promised to intercede with Captain Hu in the future, Tang Ziyue just smiled and left me a mobile phone number, telling me to contact her if I have any news.For some reason, when I got that phone number, my heart beat a little faster. After a few minutes of delay in Yishan Teachers College, I continued to rush to the People's Hospital in the town. There was a policeman waiting impatiently, and when he saw me coming, he put on a bad face.The policeman was named Qin Wang, he was dark, and people at the crossing called him Black Cat Sergeant privately.I knew Qin Wang because Qin Wang was in contact with the crossing field when salvaging the corpses and criminal evidence, and they were half acquaintances with each other, and he didn't make things difficult for Second Master Tang. After complaining a few words, Qin Wang took me around a corner and walked to the back of the People's Hospital. The mortuary is in the basement behind the hospital.As soon as late spring arrived, Guangxi became hot, but the mortuary was chilly, and every time I went in, I would shiver.Qin Wang led me into the mortuary without saying a word, except for the two of us, there was no one alive there, and the cold-colored lights would flicker a few times, making people involuntarily scared.After walking in, Qin Wang turned around and stared at me. "What's the matter? What's the matter with...calling me?" I stammered. Qin Wang stopped his sharp eyes and said to me: "It's okay. Most of the old people on the ferry have no relatives. You are familiar with Mr. Tang. Come and sign. When you are ready, hurry up and help Tang." The second master is preparing for the funeral." "Then Second Master Tang...what happened to him?" I asked carefully. "The doctor did an autopsy and said he died by drowning. I'm not talking about you guys. Be careful in the future. Remember to wear a diving suit and an oxygen cylinder when you go into the water. Don't worry about it." Qin Wang finished his lesson and handed me a list. signed it. I held the list and pen, and my whole body froze. Mr. Tang went into the water wearing a diving suit and an oxygen bottle, so how could he drown?Moreover, Second Master Tang disappeared underwater, which was also witnessed by everyone.I really couldn't believe it was an accidental death, so I boldly told Qin Wang about the suspicious points, except for the Broken Arm Goddess, I said everything, even Tang Ziyue and Jiang Xin's will-o'-the-wisp. Sure enough, Qin Wang didn't believe it at all, and thought I was playing tricks on him.If it weren't for my doubts, I would have gone to the police a long time ago, so I wouldn't have waited until now.In fact, I wouldn't believe all of these things were true if I hadn't experienced them myself.When I finished signing the form, Qin Wang told me that after contacting the crematorium, remember to bring the form to the hospital to collect the body. The time should not exceed seven days, otherwise the hospital will charge you money. Arranging a funeral?Contact the crematorium?I left the hospital in a daze, and walked back to the ferry with heavy steps, thinking about how to deal with Mr. Tang's funeral.Thinking about it, I don't know how long I've been walking. As soon as I got back to the ferry, Jin Lele came to ask me what the police said. Jia Xiazi also came to join in the fun, standing aside and listening carefully. I said it briefly, handed the list to Jin Lele, and then asked her to get the crematorium's phone number, Erye Tang's funeral cannot be delayed.Jin Lele obviously didn't want to have any contact with the crematorium, so she threw the list back, turned around and said that she was looking for the phone number, and I was still in charge of the contact.I never thought about passing this matter on to someone else, and I was about to walk away with a wry smile, but Xia Xiazi suddenly pulled me aside, and when he heard that there was no one around, he asked in a low voice, "Are you sure Second Master Tang is dead?" ?” "Can we still lie to you?" I replied. "That's weird. Last night I clearly heard Mr. Tang calling me, and then I opened the door, but I couldn't touch him, and I couldn't hear his voice. But... I found it on the ground outside the door. This." Blind Jia took out something from his pocket mysteriously, held it out and said, "Look, what is this!" I wasn't in the mood to listen to Blind Jia's nonsense at first, but when I saw what was on his palm, I couldn't help but took a deep breath and asked stammeringly, "This...is this really what you picked up last night?" The things Jia Xiazi picked up were not scary, anyone had touched them before, and that was money.Money is nothing to be afraid of, everyone likes it.The problem now is that the total amount of money is 83 yuan and 20 cents. Such an accurate figure really makes people break out in a cold sweat. The day before Tang Erye's accident, that is, on April 27, he went to the street to buy a painkiller, which he said would cost 16 yuan and 80 cents.Erye Tang asked me to borrow money on the pretext of being short of money, but I had just given the money to my family and I had no cash with me, so I asked Erye Tang to ask Blind Jia to borrow it first. 16 yuan and 80 cents is not a big amount. Jia Xiazi generously dumped a 100 yuan red note and said that he could use it.Tang Erye thanked him again and again, and promised to pay back the money on the 29th. He just didn't turn around for a while. "He said, pay me back on the 29th. Look, how punctual it is." Blind Jia interrupted my thoughts, and kept touching the 83 yuan and 20 cents. I was silent, looking at the overgrown ferry. Others were in the room, but no one came out.Only Jia Xiazi and I knew about the borrowing of money, and Jia Xiazi also admitted that he had never mentioned this matter to anyone else.After all, Second Master Tang is an elder, how can the younger generation publicize the elder's borrowing money? Not everyone is Jin Lele.I didn't even mention it. If I hadn't seen the amount of money, I would have almost forgotten about it. "I think Second Master Tang is still alive." At this moment, Jia Xiazi added. I took a deep breath and said, "I went to the People's Hospital today, and the corpse was placed in the mortuary there. I even got back the formalities. You think the police are fools, and they can even confuse the identity of the corpse." Besides, when Tang Erye’s body was found that night, you were all in the ferry, and everyone saw it.” "That's what I can't figure out." Blind Jia said while touching the money. Although he couldn't see, he had keen hearing and could even figure out the amount of money. "Forget it, don't think about it. This matter is over." I sighed, turned around and walked into my room, ignoring Blind Jia's deduction. People can't be resurrected after death, and it's impossible for Tang Erye to come back to life again, but who will help him pay back the money?Who knows what only the three of us know?Perhaps, Second Master Tang didn't want to die and pay back the money, so he turned into a ghost to pay back the money.I was so hungry, I was going to the Wafang cafeteria opposite to see if Mrs. Han had finished lunch, at this moment I glanced at the broken-armed water god on the table, fuck it, how can this be called Broken arms, both broken arms have grown back! I muttered a few words, picked it up, and saw that the two hands really grew out, not like they were glued on again, and they looked absolutely seamless.This morning, when I woke up, the door of the room was wide open. The broken-armed water god only had one arm, but now it has two. Could it be that she is a mutant gecko, which can grow back quickly after being broken?I was worried that someone had changed the statue. When I turned over the statue, the three words "Li Xiaoai" were still on the base, and it didn't look like it was re-engraved. Just as I was in a trance, the shirtless Yue Mingfei came to my door in a ghostly way, saw no one else around, walked in, and closed the door.As soon as I saw this situation, I hurriedly told Yue Mingfei to open the door, you must know that Jin Lele's office is facing my dormitory, if she saw it, she would think that Yue Mingfei and I had some shady secret.Yue Mingfei didn't understand these people's sophistication, he only asked me if I had received the note, but he still didn't seem to come out of the shadows. I shook my head, and then passed the statue over. Yue Mingfei looked around and asked, "Why are there two extra hands? Did you find someone to make a new one?" "How do I know? When I woke up this morning, the door suddenly opened, and the statue had an extra hand. When I came back at noon, both hands had grown together. This is really evil!" I said, He didn't want to touch the statue again, and asked Yue Mingfei to throw it on the table. "I advise you to put it back to the reservoir, maybe it's really a ghost, why bother with that." Yue Mingfei made sure that this matter had nothing to do with him, so he opened the door and walked out, ignoring it. I also feel that asking for it is boring. Now that Tang Erye's body has been found, the police will not hold him accountable, so why think too much.There are so many unexplainable things in this world, I have to figure out everything, I might as well die.However, things were far from as simple as I thought. Just when I wanted to let go, a pair of male and female college students came to my door. That day, I contacted the crematorium, and I was full of emotions. I walked out of the ferry alone and wanted to see the Yi River after the sky cleared.As soon as I came out, there was a rustling sound in the camphor forest behind me, and then a man and a woman came over and asked me if I was from the ferry.I saw that the man and woman were college students, and thought that the teacher Tang Ziyue from the Department of Political Science and Law was unwilling to give up and wanted to hire someone to teach swimming, so I said that the ferry is very busy recently, as long as it is not for corpses, everything must be dealt with later. Hearing what I said, the male student replied nervously: "Tang Ziyue is our head teacher and department head. She did what she did for the benefit of the students. However, we didn't come here for that matter, we just wanted to ask, to find the dead body." The person...is the corpse of Second Master Tang...was the body recovered?" "Why do you care about this?" I asked strangely, and looked at the pair of male and female college students. The female college student hurriedly explained: "The corpse Erye Tang was going to retrieve that day was our classmate. If it wasn't for him, Erye Tang would not have had an accident. We just came here this time to..." I got angry when I heard that, without this group of college students who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth, Second Master Tang would not have died, and there would not have been so many troubles.On a rainy day, college students actually went to swim in a remote old reservoir. Isn't that courting death?If it wasn't for seeing that old woman crying miserably, I would have taught her a lesson, and don't drag her down.Maybe I was too angry, the expression was written on my face, and the college students told me not to get excited, they went to the reservoir for a reason. It turned out that these college students took a class on the law of cultural relics not long ago, which was about the ownership of the cultural relics dug or salvaged.Tang Ziyue told them many cases. In order to make the classroom vivid and close to life, she talked about the salvage dispute case in Yishan Town many years ago.During the "World War II", Yishan Town was bombed many times by Japanese planes because it was an important place for the Guangxi Revolutionary Army. Two Japanese planes were destroyed and fell into the Yi River. A Japanese plane has been salvaged by a fisherman. He cleaned up the wreckage of the Japanese plane and sold it as scrap. He was held accountable by the government for this.Another Japanese machine is Raiden, which is the Mitsubishi J2M model, which was designed by Jiro Kokoshi, the father of Zero War.However, after the thunder and lightning fell into the Yi River, it has not been salvaged. In order to avoid future salvage disputes and clean up the river, the government once organized pontoon bridge troops to salvage, but they did not find it from upstream to downstream.People speculated that the Yijiang River was flooded every year, and it was estimated that the Raiden fighter jets had been washed out of Guangxi long ago, or someone secretly picked them up and sold them as scraps. When I heard this, I interrupted: "Wait, what are you talking about? Could it be that the devil's plane is in the reservoir? How is this possible? If it was really there, the reservoir would have been discovered when the reservoir was built." "Maybe when the reservoir was built, the plane hadn't been washed there by the current, and the resistance of the reefs and silt at the bottom of the river must be considered..." the female college student argued. “也许？你们就凭一句也许，那天就冒着雨跳进水库里了？”我气道。 “水库截住了彝江，雷电战机不可能冲出去，一定在那里面。我们虽然没有捞到，但陈十万第一次下水时，很肯定地告诉我们，他在水下发现情况了。”女大学生完全不理解我的心情，还在纠结他们的事。 陈十万？我苦笑一声，那人就是唐二爷要打捞的对象吗？话说回来，陈十万的家人一直没来问过唐二爷的事，就像渡场的人死了是应该的。女大学生见我脸色不好，于是转移话题，告诉我她叫余雨雨，男大学生叫毛猫猫。我听了这两人的名字，居然不争气地笑了笑，气氛一下子就不那么严肃了。 顿了顿，我就说：“你们不是政法系的学生吗？怎么干起打捞的事了？就凭了唐紫月老师的一堂课？会不会太夸张了？” “当然不是了。”余雨雨否认，“陈十万的妈妈得了癌症，家里借不到钱治病了，他想起打捞战机的处理案例——当时政府收回了战机残骸，可象征性地给了那个渔民五万块钱。陈十万心想，要是能捞起另一架战机，他也能赚一笔，谁知道……” 我听完这话，彻底地泄了气，想发火都没力气了。原来，大家都是苦命人，那就没必要再去责怪陈十万了，他也是为了自己的妈妈在卖命。可怜啊，陈十万没有成功，反让白发人送黑发人，世上最大的惨剧莫过于此。接着，我心软之下，把唐二爷的遭遇告诉了他们，毛猫猫和余雨雨听说尸体找到了，悬着的心就放下了。末了，他们还说，幸亏唐二爷没有其他亲人了，否则痛苦还要延续下去。这话虽然不中听，但有道理，我就没再与他们斗气。 当毛猫猫和余雨雨两人要离开时，我忽然想起来，又劝他们别去水库了，免得会遇到危险。水库年久失修，水闸有时关不稳，很容易在水底形成漩涡，潜水的人容易走入死局而不自知。哪知道，毛猫猫竟然说他们不会再去打捞了，并毫不脸红地承认，他和余雨雨都不会游泳，因此陈十万遇难时都没能帮上忙…… “这群鲁莽的大学生！上大学都学了些什么！真是糟蹋粮食！”我无奈地骂了一句，准备要走回渡场，这时竟也禁不住地想，“二战”时的雷电战机真的被冲到水库下了吗？那晚我和岳鸣飞遇到的江底鬼火是不是和日本鬼子有关？过了这么多年，唐二爷如果真是因为日本鬼子而丢掉性命，那就太冤枉了。 渡场的人都不知道陈十万的事，也没人去问过，我回来后没有把事情讲出来，更不知如何说起。如今人命去了两条，干脆就别让陈十万的妈妈多添一份悲痛了。就这样，在狭窄的食堂里吃午饭时，渡场的人一起商量唐二爷的火葬问题，我就一直沉默着，半句话都没说。胡嘉桁以为我难过得失语了，于是不停地安慰我，其他人一听，跟风地说了一堆安慰的话。 我将每个人都谢了一遍，好似死去的人是我，可就在我放下了碗筷时，口袋里的手机就响了一下。我借故要看短信，打断了大家的话头，免得他们安慰得没完没了。怎料，我掏出了手机，点开了那则信息，犹如晴天霹雳，当场整个人就僵住了。