This Jiang Shi was adopted by Jiang Pan. It was easy for me to understand that Jiang Pan did those things to benefit the people, and he was probably a compassionate person himself. It was normal for him to adopt some children when the war was in chaos.
It's just that Jiang Shi said that he couldn't retrieve the body, and there were no body retrievers in southwest Guizhou... This made me suspicious.
"Tell me carefully, what does this mean?" I did not speculate rashly, but asked Jiang Shi directly.
Jiang Shi's wrinkled old face trembled slightly, his expression became much more lonely, and he said: "There used to be many corpse collectors in the Panjiang River Basin, and there were also several very powerful corpse collectors in our Red River. I still vaguely remember I remember, I was still a child when my sister committed suicide by jumping into the river."
Jiang Shi's trembling voice was filled with irrepressible sadness. These words seemed to take us back to that era.
"Afterwards, my father was released. He was in agony beside the Red River. It was at this place that he knelt and cried for a day and a night." Jiang Shi raised his hand and pointed to the place where I stood.
I immediately turned sideways and took two steps away, my eyelids twitching slightly, because this is where I just saw Jiang Pan's shadow during the Great Yin...
I didn't interrupt Jiang Shi.
Jiang Shi paused for a long time, then shook his head and continued: "No one dared to help my late father go against the squire, but when my sister jumped into the river, there were people who were willing to help retrieve the body. The person who retrieved the body back then was named Gou. Gou Xuan, I heard, is a real orthodox corpse collector. Due to special reasons, he broke away from his family and came to settle in Honghe. He volunteered and my father was very grateful to him at that time."
"It's just...he went down to the river and never came back up."
My pupils even shrunk into small dots.
Gou?
Xuanhe Gou family?
He was indeed an orthodox corpse collector, inheriting the bloodline of the ancestor of corpse collectors and the technique of corpse collectors.
But he actually died in the Red River? What else is down here?
Obviously, Jiang Shi hadn't finished speaking yet. He continued: "After that, the rest of the corpse collectors from the three counties on both sides of the Red River all gathered together to form a small team. They all went into the water, and the result..."
Jiang Shi sighed heavily, shook his head and said: "No one came up. My late father felt extremely guilty. He lost more than a dozen lives by fishing for his sister's body. He expressed his unwillingness to fish for the body again, so he went to seek revenge from his enemies. .”
"After that, he killed the squire's whole family, let one of the squire go, and left Wang County himself, without trace."
When the words reached this point, Jiang Shi's tone was no longer so low, and he said: "In the following years, as Wang County became better and better, some of the villagers who my father had helped with back then gradually became prosperous, and they repaired Jiang Panju and wanted to My sister was fished out and buried as a memorial to express my gratitude to my late father for the help and contribution he had made to his neighbors. Over the years, they have been looking for the body fishermen from around southwest Guizhou, and offered a lot of money to hire people to fish out the corpses."
"A few more people died here and there, and the last group of people came up. But after they came up, they became half crazy, saying that under the Red River, people were digging for corpses and burying them in caves. Whoever entered would die. After that, As long as it is in the Panjiang River Basin, troubles have begun to happen. People who fished for corpses were killed at home without going into the water. Even in other places, they were not allowed to go ashore after going into the water. This thing is getting more and more weird. Everyone thinks it has something to do with the Red River. The matter was related, and gradually everyone left Qianxinan..."
Jiang Shi finally finished narrating the whole thing. He paused and stared blankly at the water of the Red River.
At this time, a ship with blackened wood coincidentally docked at the edge of the old pier.
There was both fear and a bit of desire in Jiang Shi's eyes.
I understood his emotion. He wanted someone to salvage what he called his sister, Jiang Pan's daughter, but he didn't want to see anyone get into trouble again. This was an extremely contradictory psychology.
So even though he knew the matter was serious, he still got the boat according to Feng Bao's request.
At this moment, the old man next to him, Uncle Li Fang, cautiously asked, "Can we see Mr. Jiang's body?"
I waved my hand and motioned to Feng Jun and Feng Bao to take them to see it.
They walked to the car, Jiang Shi and Uncle Li followed, and the juniors behind them also walked over.
At the end of the day, Jiang Shi turned his head and glanced at me, with complex expressions in his eyes.
I am even more sure that my judgment of his thoughts is correct.
No longer looking at Jiang Shi, I took two steps forward and boarded the black willow boat directly.
There is a small pilothouse in the front, and there is a dark and thin young man in it. He is controlling the boat and grins at me, showing his white teeth.
I looked down at the deck. There were a series of things on it, two diving oxygen bottles, a diving mask, and a tights. Of course, ropes are indispensable.
"He said so much, do you really want to go down?" There was a slight sound of landing next to her, and Shen Ji also got on the boat.
"It's too dangerous. If you really want to recover the body, you should inform Liu Wensan." Shen Ji frowned.
I turned my head to look at Shen Bun, then looked at the other side of the car, and said, "Danger is danger, and maybe it's also an opportunity? Jiang Pan's body resting here and not leaving should be an opportunity. It's true that so many people have died. , it is even more impossible for me to let Uncle Wen come. There is obviously something under the river targeting the body fishermen.
I have an intuition and a guess. I can confirm it after I go down and take a look. Only by solving this matter can your Yin Yang Technique be successful. Otherwise, if I give you Tian Yuan Xiang Technique, it will be equivalent to not giving it. I will owe you. It is not easy for the Qiang people to account for a debt. "
Shen Ji wanted to speak, but I took a deep breath and raised my hand to interrupt him.
"If there is really no way, then Jiang Pan will not leave us here. However, everything is unknown. Moreover, the corpse collectors are indeed powerful, but they are just corpse collectors after all, and they will always have something to do with Mr. Yin and Yang. It’s different, believe me.” My tone was serious and determined.
Shen Ji lowered his head and finally stopped talking.
I squatted down and picked up the things I had prepared. Originally, I wanted to change clothes, put on a diving mask, and install an oxygen tank.
But I still hesitated for a moment, roughly what Jiang Shi said happened in my mind. After thinking about it again and again, I gave up changing clothes. The Tang suit stayed with me, and Mr. Yin Yang's guy didn't leave me either.
There was danger under the water, many people who fished for corpses died, and the strange things that happened after that were even more targeted at the people who fished for corpses.
Then, maybe I can't be such a corpse hunter...
After thinking about it clearly, I put everything down except hanging the mask around my waist, the rope around my shoulders, and the oxygen bottle on my back.
I don't take these things with me until I get into the water.
After a pause, I reached into my neck and pulled, and took out a dark jade stone.
After concentrating for a moment, I handed the Gu jade to Shen Ji.
Shen Ji looked puzzled. After taking the Gu jade, he looked at it carefully and asked doubtfully: "This is it?"
"Gu jade is a must-have for anyone who fishes for corpses. It was a meeting gift given to me by Third Uncle Wen when I recognized him as my godfather." I answered.
"You want me to go into the water with you?" Shen Ji's tone was full of questions, and then he said truthfully: "I'm not good at..."
Before she could finish, I interrupted directly: "I'm not asking you to go into the water, just hold this Gu Jade for me."
Shen Ji's face became even more confused. She asked me, since I wanted to go into the water, why didn't I bring this Gu Jade with me?
I shook my head and explained to her later that it would be fine to just hold it now.
Regarding Shen Ji, I have some thoughts in my mind. After all, she has been in Ji Niang Village before. She has not experienced anything in the world. She does things cleanly and has strong skills. However, her analytical ability is obviously not very strong. This should be related to the fact that Mr. Yin has been deceiving her. This must be to restrict her thinking.
If it were Liu Wensan and Chen Xiazi, they would definitely know my intentions.
Of course, these are all grown up step by step, and I learned them at a lot of cost. A simple sentence or two cannot enlighten Shen Ji. After this incident, I will remind her.
After taking the Gu Jade, Shen Ji said nothing more.
I went back to the old dock first, and she got off the boat with me.
About an hour later, during this period, I noticed that someone got on the car, obviously going to drive. However, it was not Feng Bao and Feng Qu who got on the bus, but the young people brought by Jiang Shi and Li Fangshu. .
It was obvious that they wanted to drive away.
But in the end they all got off without success.
They tried to lift Jiang Pan's body again, but it still didn't work at all, and finally looked at the trunk dejectedly.
Time flies by like this, and it's almost sunset.
The group came back to me again. Jiang Shi just looked downcast and said nothing.
Feng Bao brought dry food and mineral water to Shen Ji and I respectively.
Uncle Li, who was slightly older, looked at me and hesitated to speak.
I simply took a few bites of food, and without much hesitation, I told them directly that I wanted to drink the water. This was what Jiang Pan meant.
I can't guarantee whether I can fish the person out, but I will definitely do it.
And Jiang Pan's body will not be moved until I do this.
The two old men nodded, and the others looked at each other and talked in low voices.
Time passed by, and the dusk became heavier and heavier.
I waited until it was completely dark and a full moon hung in the night sky before I hung up the diving mask, wrapped the rope around my shoulders, and hung the oxygen bottle on my back.
As for me not changing clothes, Feng Bao and Feng Jun didn't ask. Jiang Shi asked instead, and I just smiled and didn't answer.
When I got on the boat again, Shen Ji's face looked a little solemn. She said that she would follow me. She couldn't go into the water, but she could wait on the boat. If there was any emergency, she could help me.
I didn’t refuse this. Liu Wensan took me with him when he was traveling, and I pretty much played that role.
After getting on the boat again, the dark and skinny young man in the wheelhouse started to sail the boat.
He also pulled his neck and asked me, where does he want to drive the boat?
I paused for a moment and did not answer him immediately. Instead, I asked Shen Ji to use the Yang Gong Pan to determine the direction and see where the yin energy was the strongest in the water surface!
A corpse that has been in the water for more than half a century must be an old corpse, and with so many dead people trying to find the corpse, the place where the corpse is must be full of gloomy energy!
