Most of the team members are middle-aged people over 40 years old who live a relatively difficult life. They choose such hard work just to improve the conditions at home.
Among them, Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhou are the only two young people in the team.
Cleaning up the silt from the Blackwater River is a large-scale project. Once completed, food and drink for my wife and children will be provided for the next year.
Therefore, although the journey was long, after hearing the news, Captain Liu still led his team to Mingjia Village and took over the project.
On the first day, there were no surprises. Everyone was working in full swing, thinking about how to buy new clothes for their wives and take the children to a restaurant after receiving their wages.
But the next day, something happened.
Lao Lin, who was over 50 years old, was the oldest worker in the team. Because of his rich experience, he was assigned to work in the middle of the river that day.
His task is to use a high-pressure water gun to flush the silt into the river to dilute it, and then use a mud pump to pump the silt to the river bank and transport it away.
Because the river water has dried up, even the water depth in the middle section of the river is only about one meter. No one is worried about any safety problems. Each worker is more than ten meters apart.
Unexpectedly, while he was working, Lao Lin suddenly slipped and fell into the water, disappearing instantly!
At first everyone thought he was joking, but as time passed and Lao Lin never showed up, the workers realized something was wrong.
When everyone trudged over and tried to fish out of the water, Lao Lin had already floated up and had actually drowned!
Lao Lin died unexpectedly. Although everyone was sad, they didn't think too much about it.
After all, Lao Lin is old and weak, and it is easy for him to be unable to sustain such high-intensity work for a long time.
In people's opinion, he must have choked on some water after slipping and couldn't catch his breath, so he drowned in the water.
After taking care of Lao Lin's funeral affairs, everyone continued to work without daring to delay too much.
After all, the contract states that they must clean out all the mud from the Blackwater River within a month.
The day after Lao Lin drowned, another villager drowned in the river. The workers still didn't pay much attention and continued to work hard.
In order to rush for time, the workers brought their own tents with them when they came to Mingjia Village. They lived in the tents after get off work at night and continued working at dawn.
Although it was relatively hot in the tent and there were countless mosquito bites by the river, after a tiring day, the workers could not care about these and fell asleep as soon as they lay down in the tent.
However, Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhou could not adapt to this environment because they had not been in the team for a long time. After get off work yesterday, they walked around after dinner to see if there was any suitable accommodation.
It didn't take long for the two of them to happily run back and tell Captain Liu that they had found a large empty house that could sleep more than a dozen people!
Captain Liu was also very curious, so he followed them and headed north along the west branch. Sure enough, he found an empty house in a deserted forest.
Xiao Zhou and the other two suggested that everyone sleep here at night to avoid mosquito bites.
But Captain Liu was worried that this was an owned land and that if someone discovered it, it would cause unnecessary disputes and affect the progress of the project, so he did not agree.
Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhou didn't have so many worries. They simply took out their sleeping bags and water bottles from the tent, and they stayed in the house that day.
Seeing that Captain Liu could not convince the two of them, he had no choice but to let them go.
Early the next morning, the workers got up early to go to work, but when the roll call was taken, Captain Liu discovered that neither Xiao Zhou nor Xiao Liu came over!
He thought the two were sleeping in and was very angry, so he took a few workers to find them.
But when a few people arrived at the old house, they found that the house was empty. Where were the shadows of Xiao Zhou and Xiao Liu?
Captain Liu was very puzzled, wondering if these two boys were angry with him because of their quarrel yesterday, so they returned to the city early?
Seeing that it was time to start work, Captain Liu could only put the two of them aside for the time being and get busy going to work.
Not long after entering the river, a worker next to him suddenly screamed. Captain Liu hurried over and saw that the worker was pointing at the river not far away, trembling.
Captain Liu saw two "water floats" floating in the center of the river dozens of meters away.
Captain Liu thought they were dead cats and dogs, but when he directed the workers to salvage them, he suddenly discovered that the two "water floaters" turned out to be Xiao Zhou and Xiao Liu!
When Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhou were brought to the shore, they were already not breathing. Captain Liu couldn't believe the facts in front of him, so he desperately performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on them, hoping to see a miracle.
This is what we saw when we walked over just now.
"Master, you said that Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhou drowned in the river for no reason?"
After Captain Liu finished his story, he asked me with red eyes.
"Hard to say……"
I said in a deep voice: "But what is certain is that the drowning of the two people should be related to the house they stayed in yesterday. You can take us there first to have a look."
"good!"
Captain Liu responded, and then led us towards the house we discovered yesterday.
At the same time, many villagers also heard that Wutang Immortal had come to help deal with the evil spirits, so they ran out of their homes and walked with us along the west side of the tributary of the Blackwater River.
After walking for about ten minutes, a deserted forest appeared by the river. Sure enough, there was an old house hidden in the forest.
The gate of the house had collapsed long ago. I followed Captain Liu and walked in. As soon as I walked in, I felt a chill coming to my face. I couldn't help but tighten the Wu Wang Whip in my hand.
The house was built with a mixture of blue bricks, stone tiles, and wood. The yard was overgrown with weeds, and the walls were mottled and drifting. It looked like it was at least several decades old.
The front of the courtyard is the living room, with several wing rooms on both sides. There are also several stone lions carved on the eaves of the wing rooms, which is quite impressive.
"Master, Xiao Zhou and Xiao Liu spent the night here yesterday."
Captain Liu pointed to the location of the living room and said to me.
I nodded, and then walked into the living room with Lonnie, Bai Ze and the others.
There was nothing in the house, and it was extremely dark. Only the beams and walls were scorched black, as if they were traces left after being burned by fire.
I walked around the room and found nothing, so I walked out. But for some reason, I always felt something was not right in my heart.
It was as if there was a pair of eyes in the dark, always staring at what I looked like.
After walking around in several other rooms, I still found nothing. Unwilling to find nothing, I walked into the hall again.
