Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 13

So that's the case, no wonder I was able to go ashore to charm me that day, but it turned out that I could only show up on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year.The little water ghost can let me call her Tongtong in the future. She will temporarily live in this dilapidated pagoda tree sign, and then "move" after I finish the willow figure.

At this time, the sky is getting dark, where can I find the willow tree?Willows generally grow near water, and like pagoda trees, they are trees with strong ability to gather shade.As the saying goes, no locust tree is planted in front of the house, and no willow tree is planted behind the house. During Ching Ming Festival, a willow branch will be planted at the door of our house. I don’t know the purpose.

After Tongtong possessed the pagoda wood card, I picked it up and put it in a bag, turned on the flashlight and walked along the river bank to look for willow trees.The battery of this flashlight has been used for several days, and it feels obviously much darker. After passing through a village, I went to buy another battery.

Finally, I found several large willow trees by a river bend. For the convenience of collecting materials tomorrow, I planned to spend the night under the roots of the trees.Next to this place is a village, the distance is only 200 meters, so I can go to the village tomorrow and borrow a knife to chop.

It has been five or six hours since I left Uncle Huang's house, and I was a little hungry because I was walking, but there was nothing to eat in the bag.After thinking about it for a while, I came up with an idea, took out the pagoda wood card and asked Tongtong to go down to the river to get me a fish for me to roast and eat.

I put the pagoda tree into the water and waited for Tongtong to bring the dinner ashore.Sure enough, after a while, a fish weighing two or three catties came out of the water, hit my shoulder and fell to the ground.

When I saw such a big one, how could it be so cooked!He caught it and threw it back into the water, and asked Tongtong to make a smaller one.As soon as I finished speaking, another fish weighing about one catty flew out of the water and fell to the ground, which made me applaud excitedly.

The little water ghost Tongtong is really talented, if she can catch fish and let me sell it, wouldn't she be rich?Thinking of this, I no longer worry about how many dollars I have left, which is great!

After I picked up the pagoda wood card, I picked up some branches and lit a fire, and I was going to make a grilled fish dinner for myself.Less than 2 minutes after the fish was grilled, an old man in the village came to me with a flashlight.

He seemed to be very angry and scolded, which wild boy is still playing with fire here at night, and if the sky is dry and the things are burned, he will arrest you and go to jail.What made me happy was that the old man actually spoke Hakka. It turns out that there are people in Huangyao area who speak Hakka, and I feel very kind.

I told the old man, "I'm not from this village. I want to exchange a three-jin fish for a hatchet."

The old man asked me, "Where is the fish?"

I told him to get up at seven o'clock tomorrow morning and come here to get the fish, remember to bring out the knife.

The old man responded and went home.

After the old man left, I built a small puddle in the ditch by the river. After the puddle was built, I asked Tongtong to bring me a three-jin fish.

The pagoda wood card was put into the water again. I was full of anticipation and shone the flashlight on the river surface, ready to welcome a fish weighing three catties.But to my surprise, the river remained silent, making me wait for nearly 10 minutes.

I couldn't help but worry, fearing that something might happen to Tongtong. In my heart at this moment, she didn't seem to be a water ghost, but a real little girl.

In the end, it proved that my worry was unnecessary. After a while, a big fish jumped out of the water. I immediately caught it and put it in a small puddle. I will use my knife to cut willow trees tomorrow.

At this time, Tongtong appeared, and she exposed half of her body in the water and said to me: "There is a very big black fish in this river, which is bigger than the fish she had attached to before." The reason why she didn't respond after entering the water for so long is because Just follow this big black fish.

I asked her if it was true or not, what kind of fish is so big, is it a fish demon?
Tongtong shook his head, and within a few seconds of getting into the bottom of the water, a small pond fish the size of two fingers was thrown up, saying that the big black fish looked like this.I got it, it turned out to be a big pond fish, and Tong Tong told me that this big pond fish is not a fish demon, it just grew so big because it has lived for a long time and often eats human flesh.

This sentence surprised me, this river is not too big, only less than one-tenth of the Xunjiang River, where can there be human flesh to eat it!

There is such a big fish in such a small river, it is not a good thing, it is a potential danger.I asked Tongtong to get into the pagoda wood sign and put it away, planning to ask the villagers tomorrow.

The fire on the shore hadn't gone out yet, so I added another handful of dry firewood to pick up the uncooked fish and continue roasting.Although no oil or salt was added, the fish became more fragrant the more it was grilled, and it was so fucking delicious when it was finally cooked.

I picked up the pagoda tree and asked Tongtong if she was hungry. She said that she would not be hungry without a body, and that the demon eggs digested tonight were enough for her to support her soul body for more than a year.

After eating the grilled fish in two or three bites, I walked around the river bank with a flashlight. I didn't feel sleepy until midnight, so I found a big rock and fell asleep on it.

When it was dawn, the old man woke me up last night. It turned out that he came out with a hatchet at seven o'clock.When he came to the place where I grilled fish last night, he didn't see anyone, but he saw me sleeping on a big rock not far away, so he came over and woke me up.

I apologized repeatedly, got up and took him to the puddle where the water was released last night, and gave the old man the big fish weighing more than three catties.The old man lifted the vine through the gills of the fish, but he was so happy that he insisted that I go to his house to eat breakfast.

I didn't refuse either, because I couldn't find a place to have breakfast, because Tongtong couldn't go out to catch fish during the day.As for cutting willows, it would not be too late to come out after breakfast.

The old man's house is not far from the river, less than 5 minutes' walk, and he is the only old bachelor in the house.The house is a mud-brick house, with an old bamboo raft in front of the door, an old and broken couplet at the door, and a picture in the middle of the wall inside the house, which is **** Zhu ​​De*****.After entering the room and sitting down, the old man poured me tea and asked which village I was from.

I turned my head around and heard someone speaking Hakka in Huang Yao a few days ago, so I told the old man that I belonged to Huang Yao.The old man believed it, because the old man was from Gongqiao, and Huang Yao was from the next town.The old man asked me again why I came here, did I leave last night?I just said that those who come to catch fish are easy to catch at night.

The old man said he had rheumatism and hadn't crossed the river for several years. When he was young, he caught fish every night!As he talked, he killed the fish.

I sat in the lobby of the old man's house and waited for breakfast. After a while, he brought up a plate of fish with pickled cabbage and a plate of peanuts.

It can be seen that the old man is very happy, perhaps because he has been alone for a long time, and someone can have a meal with him and talk to him.The old man poured a bowl of rice wine and asked me if I would drink it. I said no. The old man said that wine is a good thing and you have to learn how to drink it!
I ate this sauerkraut fish with great relish, and the old man suddenly asked me how many grades I was in, which made me blush.So I changed the subject and asked the old man if anyone in the nearby village had drowned in the river recently.

When the old man heard my question, his voice became quieter, and he told me quietly that a child drowned in the village next door the day before yesterday, and the person has not been found yet!

I asked him, "How do you know you've drowned if you don't find it? You can't tell where you went to play and didn't go home."

Seeing that I doubted what he said, the old man compared the truth with me, and said in a loud voice with his eyes wide open: "Eight children went swimming, but he didn't come up. Didn't he drown? Did he fly to the sky and become a fairy?"

I asked the old man: "Then why can't people be found? This river is not too big! The shallow one is no bigger than the navel, and the deep one is no bigger than the roof."

When the old man heard my question, his voice became quieter again, and he said, "It must have been buried under the sand at the bottom of the river by the water ghost."

I became more interested when I heard it, and asked him: "Are there any water ghosts in this river? Have you ever seen them?"

The old man picked up the bowl to drink, but when he heard my question, he put down the bowl again, and said with a serious face: "Yes! Why not? I have lived in this village for more than 60 years, and three people have drowned in this village alone. Not counting the neighboring village."

Afterwards, the old man became more and more mysterious, so I lost interest in this topic and interrupted him, saying that I caught a big black fish as long as two people in the river last night.

The old man laughed and said that I was so young that I was in front of his face (bragging). He has eaten more salt than I have eaten rice. He has lived in this village by the river for more than 60 years, and he has never seen it. Such a big fish.Although I said that if I lied to him, I would be born to a sow, but he didn't believe me, and he recognized my bragging.

After breakfast, I took the old man's knife and went to the river bank to cut a section of willow tree. I cut off an arm-thick piece and put it in a bag, intending to use it to carve a villain.

It started to rain lightly at noon, and I was carving willow wood at the old man's house, and my hands were blistered.But for Tongtong, I continued to carve until evening, and a pretty good little wooden figure was finished.

But if Tongtong wants to change from the pagoda wood card to the willow card, he has to wait until the first or fifteenth day of junior high when Tongtong is at his strongest, and find a water area where the sun doesn't shine all year round.This is what Goddess Zhang once said, it would be great if she was here now.

It was still dark, and I was walking by the river with nothing to do, and suddenly I had the idea of ​​catching this big pond fish.Thinking of the fish demon in the Xunjiang River in Guiping, I have already taken care of it, not to mention that I have Tongtong to help me now.The old man said I was bragging, then I will let him see the world, don't think that there are many things he has seen at a young age.

Catfish usually hide in caves or sand at the bottom of the river during the day, and come out to hunt for food at night. This catfish must be very sophisticated, so almost no one has seen it.

But Tongtong is a water ghost who ate more than a dozen virgin boys and possessed the body of fish for seven or eight years.This big pond fish has only eaten the corpses of some drowned people, and in front of Tongtong, it looks nothing like a big witch.

Of course, this is for Tongtong, but for ordinary people, the strength of this big pond fish in the water is no less than that of two big buffaloes. After all, one person can lift two or three times the weight of the ground in the water.So no matter how many people there are, it can't do anything in the water, unless it is blown up with explosives, but it is not stupid, it will stay still and blow it up for you.

To catch big pond fish, Tongtong has to come, but it is only the 23rd now, and she said that she will have to wait until the first day of the new year, and the first and fifteenth day of the new year are her strongest two days.

(End of this chapter)