"This..." Cao Yonggui also looked uneasy.
I pursed my lips and immediately thought of last night, when we came out of Meng's house.
Meng Qiu said that as long as we dare to come to Jiuhe County, he will sink our corpse boat.
Was he the one who tampered with this ship?
I was about to speak, but my second uncle spoke first.
"Boss Cao, you go rent a boat. The boat must be stable, and then let the owner drive the boat. Even if my boat, Liu Guishou's, is chiseled today, the body will be fished out. Whoever chiseled my boat? Let's go back. Calculate."
"Anyone who dares to sink a boat to salvage corpses will be killed by water!" It was obvious that the second uncle's tone was fierce.
My heart skipped a beat, was he just saying this casually, or did he have some basis for it?
Although it has only been a few days, I have already discovered that I know too little about common sense issues about corpse-hunting people.
Cao Yonggui immediately turned around and went to find a fisherman to rent a boat.
The second uncle turned his head and glanced behind the pier, which is at the top of the county town.
He squinted his eyes and his expression became much colder.
"Second uncle...let's..."
The second uncle raised his hand and interrupted me, but he remained silent.
About two-quarters of an hour later, Cao Yonggui came back, and he brought with him a skinny, short fisherman.
"Old man Liu, I am Wang Guaizi." The fisherman put his hands together, obviously still a little timid, and called his second uncle.
I also discovered that the people on the dock, who knew my second uncle, called him the old man.
People in the city call him Mr. Liu.
The second uncle hummed and said, "Set the boat to the dock where the rice is unloaded."
Most of the piers where we are staying are used by fishermen or some boats carrying people.
The dock for unloading is still somewhere else.
When we got to the other side of the pier, we boarded Wang Guaizi's boat. This boat was actually much larger than the corpse boat. It was a small fishing boat with masts, sails, and a series of other things.
However, the corpse fishing boat has a special feature of the corpse fishing boat. The entire hull is made of willow wood. Willow wood is very dark and is even used to raise ghosts. There are few accidents after the corpse fishing is put on the boat.
This is not necessarily the case for normal fishing boats. Sometimes fishermen accidentally salvage corpses. If they are corpses, they will not be able to reach the shore, and the boat will sink halfway.
This time, my second uncle and I had no choice. The boat that retrieved the bodies was sunk, so we had to borrow ordinary fishing boats to retrieve the bodies.
But at least there are two corpse collectors on the boat, so it shouldn't be a big problem.
The distance between the two piers is not far, and in just two quarters of an hour, we arrived at the water area of the other pier.
This pier is much larger, and there are many large and small boats parked outside. There must be twenty or thirty ships.
The boat did not completely approach the pier, but at Cao Yonggui's signal, it approached a wooden ladder frame on the south side of the pier.
After arriving here, Cao Yonggui felt quite depressed. At some point, he held an embroidered shoe in his hand.
I also felt his depressed emotions and persuaded him to express my condolences.
Cao Yonggui forced a smile, his eyes were red, and he didn't answer.
The second uncle had already changed into his green linen gown. He was holding the divination knife in one hand and holding Lao Baigan's bottle in the other hand. He drank it in one gulp and threw the bottle into the hanging river at will.
"Boss Cao, is this where the animals fell into the water?" The second uncle pointed to the ladder frame half submerged in the water.
"Yes..." Cao Yonggui's voice was trembling.
"I went into the water to take a look. I'm not sure if it's here. Yin Yang, you should also pay attention to the movement." The second uncle greeted me and jumped directly into the water.
Amidst the splashing sound, a large spray of water splashed up.
However, the water splash soon became silent again, and the sparkling river surface reflected the mottled moonlight.
I looked at the water carefully and scanned.
Nothing unusual was found, everything was normal.
However, just at this moment, Cao Yonggui suddenly leaned half of his body out of the hull of the boat, and he almost didn't fall in.
I was startled and quickly grabbed his shoulder.
I asked him in surprise what was wrong?
Cao Yonggui didn't look back, his body was shaking violently, he pointed at the water and said: "Shoes...my wife's shoes..." I lowered my head and looked down. Isn't there another embroidered shoe floating on the water about one or two meters away? ? !
A quick glance revealed that they were indeed the same pair as those held by Cao Yonggui.
White background, red satin, embroidered with peonies.
But these shoes are weird. They look like they have a foot inside?
The shoe was floating face up. If you look carefully, you can see clearly that there is indeed a foot inside... It was broken at the ankle. The skin and flesh were white, and there was no blood at the broken position.
"Xiao...Mr. Xiao Li...help me get...get it up."
Cao Yonggui's expression almost made him cry.
My heart was pounding and I was about to speak.
Suddenly there was a soft splash, and from where we were leaning, a bamboo pole poked out. There was a net bag on the pointed end. We looked directly into the water and fished out the embroidered shoes.
"Boss Cao, I'll take care of the little things for you." Wang Guaizi's voice was somewhat flattering.
Cao Yonggui quickly pulled back, his body trembling even more and he was obviously excited.
But my expression changed, I stood up suddenly, stared at Wang Guaizi, and shouted in a deep voice: "Throw it away! You can't get on the boat!"
In fact, my reaction speed is already very fast.
But Wang Guaizi was faster.
And after the net bag was pulled up, his subconscious action was to flip the net bag.
There was only a soft thud, and the embroidered shoes fell on the deck.
During the collision, a pale dead foot fell out of the embroidered shoe. The shoe was tilted and water was flowing out of it.
My face suddenly became extremely ugly, and I raised my legs to kick the embroidered shoes and the dead feet.
Wang Guaizi was obviously frightened.
I don’t know whether he was frightened by me or by the dead feet falling out of the embroidered shoes.
The moonlight seemed even colder, reflecting on the soles of the feet, and the toenails on them were all dark.
"No...can't throw it away..." Cao Yonggui almost rushed over and grabbed the embroidered shoes directly into his hands.
I kicked the dead man's foot.
Originally, with my strength, I should have kicked it directly into the water, but I didn't hit it high enough and hit the edge of the hull with a bang, causing it to fall off.
Cao Yonggui immediately rolled to the side and grabbed the dead man's feet. He held the two "things" tightly to his chest and looked at me with a pleading expression.
"Mr. Xiao Li, my wife's shoes, her feet...if they were thrown into the water, and Mr. Liu fished her out later, her body would still be intact. I feel sorry for her!"
Cao Yonggui really cried, two lines of tears rolled down from his eyes and flowed down his face.
My eyelids twitched so much that I moved my neck with difficulty.
There is also a rule among corpse fishermen, which is that things floating on the water must not be touched, whether it is money or other things. Things floating on the water are not ownerless things, and they cannot be preserved.
If you pick it up, you have to drop something else to replace it...
The dead people in the water want the lives of living people!
This is the water ghost looking for a scapegoat!
I tried my best to keep my tone calm and said word by word: "Boss Cao, you have to throw it away. If you don't throw it away, something will happen to us. If it were your wife's foot, she would be looking for a scapegoat... This shoe got on the ship. , one of the three of us has to go down..."
As soon as I finished speaking, Cao Yonggui's face turned as white as a piece of paper, and he was obviously frightened.
