The Witch of Xiangxi

Chapter 132 Drowning

After a lot of effort, Xia Xiangxi heard "monster" besides "ghost" from the mouths of the two children.

Grandpa said that he probably encountered a water ghost.Ma Po shook her head as she watched the man still salvaging in the water.People who are dragged into the water by water ghosts can't find their bodies. After three to five days, the original water ghosts are reincarnated, and the new water ghosts don't want their bodies to be hidden in the mud forever. Find a way to push your body to the shore and have someone help it bury it.But the body is buried, but the soul remains in the water, hoping that another unfortunate person will fall into the water, so that it can go into reincarnation.

The mother of the child who fell into the water looked into the water as if her eyes were bleeding, crying and calling her son's name.

Xia Xiangxi's heart ached when he saw the mother's appearance.

The rescuer did not find the child who fell into the water.Exhausted, everyone came ashore and sighed regretfully at the dirty yellow water.

Ma Po used the ghost test talisman to test whether there are water ghosts, but the answer she got was surprising.Ma Po said that there is no ghost energy in the water, that is to say, there are no water ghosts.But those two children who saw everything with their own eyes, how could there be ghosts and monsters?This is very confusing.

He Xuan said it might be an otter.Xia Xiangxi has also seen otters in the animal world on TV, but she really doesn't know otters in real life.

He Xuan said that otters are very common in the south. This is a carnivorous animal. Although its diet is fish, it also catches small birds, small animals, frogs, shrimps and crabs, etc. In some places, otters have hurt people. Therefore, when people swim, if they accidentally encounter otters, it may be fatal.Otters have sharp, muscular canines that give them great strength in water.They tend to bite people's feet first, let the blood out, and then tear people into the water.Because adults are stronger, the chance of escape is relatively high, but children are different, they are no match for otters at all, and they can only be killed alive when they encounter otters.

Because of the flood, it is likely that otters living in waters far away from people were washed here by the flood.It also happened to meet those three naughty and disobedient children who went into the water.

Xia Xiangxi sighed inwardly, as far as he was concerned, whether it was a water ghost or an otter, the drowning child might not be found anymore!Seeing the child's mother so sad that she was about to go crazy, she couldn't express the uncomfortable feeling in her heart.

Afterwards, Xia Xiangxi found out that the child who fell into the water was called Bingzhe, and it was not a child from this village, but a child from the nearby Daming Village.The child's grandmother lives in this village.Bingzhi's mother is Lingying, who was a well-known beautiful girl in Xiaomiao Village when she was less than 30 years old.married at that time.Life after marriage is not very happy.Divorce alone has caused several troubles.The main reason is that the man always suspects that the child born to Ling Ying is not his.

It is said that the reason was that Ling Ying's husband had an accident shortly after their marriage, which seemed to have hurt the most important part of the man and affected fertility.Ling Ying loved that man very much, and her family members advised her to leave quickly!How can you be happy living with such a disabled person?Especially after the man was injured, he treated Ling Ying very badly.But Lingying is always reluctant and can't be cruel.She said that if she got divorced, which woman would still marry that man?Then his life will be ruined.

However, Lingying's kindness did not bring her husband's gratitude. The neighbors of Lingying's mother-in-law's family can always hear Lingying's screams at night.It is said that after the man failed in a certain aspect, he became a little mentally ill, and he always liked to bully and torture Lingying in different ways.Lingying once cried to a daughter-in-law she had a good relationship with, saying that every time she was tortured by her husband, she would bite the pillow cover every time she cried, not daring to make a sound, and let the tears go down her stomach, but sometimes she couldn't bear it. I can't help it, what she feels is not what human beings feel.

Once, when she slept until midnight, she woke up suddenly, and saw her husband staring at her like a hungry wolf, and then pressed her with his body. It was like smashing garlic under Lingying's body... the pain caused Lingying to yell out and pass out.When she woke up, Lingying found a pool of blood rolling under her body...

Lingying couldn't take it anymore, so she fled back to her mother's house, and then she was frightened and determined to divorce.The man came to the door crying and begging, he wouldn't fight back if he beat him, he wouldn't fight back if he scolded him, and he made a lot of promises just to coax Ling Ying to go home.Seeing her husband's pitiful appearance, Ling Ying softened her heart again, and followed the man back home despite her family's advice.Lingying went back with the wish to live a good life, but things backfired. After a few days of harmonious life, there was another violent storm.Ling Ying had no choice but to flee back to her natal family, and waited for the man to come before she begged, and Ling Ying became soft-hearted. After repeating this several times, her natal family was completely annoyed by Ling Ying, a "good-for-nothing" daughter. I don't want to take care of it.

Later, Ling Ying became pregnant.At first, her husband's family thought that their family's lucky stars were shining brightly, and that they were favored by the heavens, and they had a queen for their family.Lingying's stomach is quite upbeat, she gave birth to a big fat boy and she is Bingzhi, but as the child grows up little by little, there are more and more gossips in the village, saying that Bingzhi doesn't look like Lingying anyway. Ying's husband's son also arranged for Bingzhi to have a biological father, saying that Bingzhi was born to Lingying and a young man named Man Dong in the village.

Lingying had never seen that young man named Man Dong before, but she was pushed together by public opinion.No matter how Lingying cleans herself, she can't get clean. After a long time, Lingyin doesn't know what to think. Either she is self-defeating, or she really has a good impression of Man Dong, and the two are really together. up.

When Xia Xiangxi heard this, to put it bluntly, she felt that at some point, people's self-righteous sense of justice would turn into something that would help fuel some kind of evil.

Because usually, people like to be the self-righteous righteous person, but they don't understand that the righteous person wants to lead good deeds, instead of blindly abusing and accusing, only emotions and no reason.

Otherwise, Ruan Lingyu wouldn't have left behind the words "people's words are awesome", and would have passed away early.

The current Lingying is considered brave, not to say that she is brave when she makes mistakes, but that she can still live bravely and strong amidst the abuse of public opinion.

However, human capacity is always limited.Ling Ying later made up her mind to divorce her husband, and she wanted to marry Man Dong who truly knew how to love her.But just after she made the decision that would change her life, Man Dong suddenly lost her whereabouts.His family did not know where he had gone.

People in the village began to spread rumors again, saying that Man Dong couldn't stand the opposition of his family, couldn't bear it anymore, and didn't plan to marry a woman like Ling Ying, so he hid outside the mountain.

Lingying collapsed when she heard this. While feeling hurt that she was let down again, she refused her husband's peace proposal, and returned to her mother's house with her son.Who knows?Only a few days after living here, his son Bingzhe drowned and disappeared.

Xia Xiangxi sighed, feeling sorry for Lingying.Regardless of whether Lingying's behavior is right or wrong, when one sees how miserable she is now, one can resist kindness and not sympathize with her, so it is not worthy of the term "conscience".

At this time, it was past noon, and all the people who went into the water to salvage the cane were exhausted and starved, and they could no longer return the cane to return any hope.

A young man said: "It's been such a long time, even the buffalo that can swim the best will lose its breath after being submerged in the water for so long!"

Ling Ying stared straight at the young man who spoke, as if seeing an enemy whom she had hated for many years, and wished to drink his blood and eat his flesh.The young man was also frightened by Ling Ying's terrifying appearance, he was afraid to stay here any longer, so he left quickly.The other people were not too embarrassed to leave at first, but when they saw someone leaving, they took advantage of Lingying's inattention and gradually dispersed one by one.

In the end, apart from Xia Xiangxi and He Xuan, only Lingying's two younger brothers remained.

However, they were no longer sincerely salvaging, but just to comfort Ling Ying, standing in the water just enough to submerge their knees, and carelessly pulling back and forth with wooden sticks.

Xia Xiangxi still couldn't bear to leave. Although she couldn't help much, she felt that as long as Lingying felt that someone was willing to help her save Bingzhi, she might not be so desperate.

"Wow..." A crisp sound of water, like the sound of a water bird flapping its wings on the water surface, attracted Xia Xiangxi's attention...

(End of this chapter)