It turned out to be a horrifyingly swollen floating corpse.
ah! !
The moment I was frightened, the yellow talisman that Liu Ruxiang had just attached to the wooden pole fell to the ground, and in the blink of an eye it spontaneously ignited into a trail of ashes.
"not good!"
None of us expected that something would happen at this time. The red egg floating under the water immediately sank to the bottom and disappeared.
The wooden pole in his hand also broke with the sound and broke into two pieces.
I happened to be standing backwards, but my center of gravity became unstable and I fell straight onto my back.
"Alas!"
I quickly got up and looked at the water. By this time, the water had already returned to calm, and there were no more waves.
Only the body that was swollen and soaked in water was left, and it was completely unrecognizable as a man or a woman.
My whole face was soaked like a white ball of paste. I just glanced at it and quickly lowered my head. I felt uncomfortable and even wanted to vomit.
Liu Ruxiang came up from behind, with a gloomy face, and came up to observe the floating corpse in the water.
After a long moment, she sighed.
"Master, why did that pole break?"
Liu Ruxiang pointed to the floating corpse on the water and shook her head: "It was originally possible to catch that thing, so that it could be cast or caught directly. But the bad thing was that a floating corpse suddenly appeared at the bottom of the water. This floating corpse contains Yin Qi, which directly destroys the balance between the spell and the talisman, otherwise the wooden pole would not be broken."
"Then, what should we do now?" I turned to ask Liu Ruxiang, feeling very anxious.
"Go back first. There are corpses in this pond, and I have to call you villagers to come over and see who belongs to them. And I suspect that there may be more than one corpse in this pond, and maybe they are all sunk at the bottom of the pond. "
Liu Ruxiang was still calm. She took off her master's robe and mask, and returned to the village with the box.
We went directly to the village to find the village chief.
The village chief of Mojia Village is called Mo Ershi. He is a tall and tall middle-aged man. Although he is irritable and irritable in his actions, his speech is very reasonable, and the people in the village are more convinced by him.
I pushed open the door of his house in a panic and shouted into the house: "Uncle Ershi, a dead man floated up in the old persimmon pond to the east of the village!"
The village chief came out of the house and immediately became flustered when he heard my words.
"What, a dead man, what does he look like?"
I tried my best to remember: "I can't see anything anymore. It's all white. I can't tell whether it's a boy or a girl."
The village chief looked pale and trotted out. He walked to the middle of the village road and started shouting. He immediately called for seven or eight laborers and brought various tools such as ropes, sticks, and fishing nets.
"Go, go, go over now."
The group of people trotted through the woods and came to the persimmon pond.
When everyone saw the giant corpse floating on the water's edge, they couldn't help covering their faces and retching.
"Come here, put a net on your neck and hit him, quickly."
It took everyone a lot of effort to get the corpse floating in the slippery water to the shore. Then it was pulled with a rope and dragged with a dip net. Even the soaked skin was worn away. After a while, they finally dragged up the body that exuded the stench of decay.
"vomit--"
An aunt turned around and vomited.
Everyone else also stayed away for fear of contaminating anything. Only the village chief Mo Ershi stepped forward, knelt beside the floating corpse and pulled something with his hands until he saw a red rope on the foot of the corpse, with a Dog tooth pendant.
Immediately he lay on the ground and cried loudly, shouting with tears streaming down his face: "My son——"
Relying on a few villagers next to me, I also understood what was going on.
About half a month ago, one afternoon, Mo Ershi had a quarrel with his son. That night, Mo Ershi's son slammed the door and went out, and did not come home at night.
That day, Mo Ershi's family members urged him to go out and look for him, but he stopped him and said, "If your son runs out, just let him run away and never look for him. He won't tolerate it."
Afterwards, Mo Ershi's son didn't come back for several days, and inquiries at relatives' houses yielded no results, and there was no one in the town. A big living person seemed to disappear out of thin air.
At that time, some people speculated that something might have happened to him. Mo Ershi didn't believe it and said he might have gone to the city to work.
Who knows, now the truth suddenly pops up before our eyes.
After a while, people from Uncle Ershi's family came over one after another, placed the body on the door panel, covered it with a cloth, and carried it to the threshing floor at the entrance of the village.
If someone dies mysteriously outside, the body cannot be brought home because it will bring illness to the family.
There is a very common saying called death of a person, which does not mean death in the general sense, but has a strict definition.
It must be that the person dies of old age naturally. There must be no disease or injury, no pain, but a feeling that the body is getting old and the end is approaching. When he is dying, he has a premonition and tells his descendants to come back and see him for the last time, and then in the hall of the main house where he lived during his lifetime. A door panel or a haystack is set up in the middle, so that the dying person can lie on it to say goodbye to his descendants, relatives and friends. At this time, people's vitality has declined, and there is no water or rice. At this time, the house is full of children and grandchildren, accompanied by relatives and friends, and he dies peacefully in a peaceful environment. This is called the end of life.
Therefore, those who died of illness, those who died in other places, in a side house, or those who had no children or descendants around them cannot be said to have died of old age. However, descendants use common words and gradually pay little attention to his meaning.
Ahem, that’s too far off topic.
The village chief Mo Ershi knew that Liu Ruxiang was his master, so he came to find her and wanted her to help his son bury him.
The cook agreed, but also made a request.
"This pond is located in a remote place. It swallows people's lives. There must be dangers under the water. That's why I came here to do this. And to tell you the truth, there might be other corpses under this pond." Liu Ruxiang said what he did at that time was suddenly beaten by the floating corpse. After describing the scene once, a look of horror appeared on Mo Ershi's face, and he understood immediately.
"Okay, I'll go back and call in some people to turn this pond upside down."
It was not the busy farming season, and it was such a life-and-death matter. The villagers learned that there was something strange about the pond, and rushed to help with tools.
The plan is to dig out the pond first, divert the water to a canal a hundred steps away to the east, and then salvage the silt and clean the bottom of the pond.
While all the villagers were there, Liu Ruxiang went around to chat and ask questions.
"In the past two years, have there been any people in the village who have disappeared or died in strange ways?"
Missing people or dead people are important events in the village, and two of them were discussed immediately.
In addition to the son of village chief Mo Ershi's family, there is also a son missing from the Wei family in the south of the village.
Wu, a widow in the west of the village, and her only son are also missing.
As for the very strange death, the villagers looked at me and said it was my grandma.
Being bitten to death by a snake is indeed rare.
