Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 18 Tong Tong's Remains

At this time, another little old man in his 50s came out of the house. He was not tall, with white hair and wrinkles all over his face.The little old man saw me and asked if it was Xiao Li, I said yes, and then opened the door for me to enter the house.

This little old man is Goddess Zhang's husband, and this woman is her daughter married to Pingnan, this is the first time I have seen them.

The atmosphere in the room was quite awkward, and I didn't know what to say.Goddess Zhang's daughter asked me if I had breakfast, and I said I had.I asked my aunt if she was back. As soon as I said the words, there was a silence in the room, and then Witch Zhang's daughter began to cry, and Witch Witch Zhang's husband wailed and sighed.

Goddess Zhang's husband told me that Goddess Zhang never came back, but the immortals in her family had dreamed many times that she was still alive and that she was in Nanning, so I don't know if it's true or not.He also went to look for it a few times, but Nanning is so big where to look for it. After only a few times, he went to the family to save most of his savings, and he was unable to look for it again.

If she is controlled by someone, she can't be found if she is searched. If she is not controlled, then she will go home by herself. Goddess Zhang and her husband finished speaking helplessly, followed by a long silence.

Goddess Zhang's husband said to look for it again in May. I gave him 500 yuan as soon as I heard it. He opened his mouth in surprise and asked me where I got so much money, but he didn't accept it.

I told him that I earned it from other places in the past few months. As for how I earned so much, it’s a long story. Goddess Zhang is kind to me. It’s because I can do my part to let him accept it.

The reality is always cruel. Even with the advanced communication technology today, there are still many hints of missing people on the streets. Who is not worried about the disappearance of relatives?But what can I do? Where can I find it in such a big world!
After staying at the sorceress's house for an hour, I left and went to Concubine Xue's house. Concubine Xue's younger sister had also left the village and went to her mother's place.

After I left the village, I felt irritable, and before I knew it, I walked to the river bank where I used to catch the fish demon with Goddess Zhang. The fate of me and Goddess Zhang changed because of that fish monster catch.Goddess Zhang has changed from a respected goddess in the village to a missing person whose life and death are unknown, but I somehow got the little water ghost that she wanted to raise in her dreams. Fate always plays tricks on people and makes some cruel jokes.

The river in front of her was the waters Tongtong once stayed in. She seemed extremely excited to come back here, and the willow figure in the pocket of her jacket was shaking.I took it out and asked her if she wanted to eat people again?Tongtong told me that her remains were buried in the grove in front of her.

A few years ago, Tongtong was thrown into the river and drowned, and his body was hastily buried in the grove on the river bank. Now Tongtong has escaped from the fish and remembered the place where he was buried.Now that I have a little money, I decided to dig out Tongtong's remains and rebury them.How pitiful it is for a drowned little girl to be hastily buried in the earth like a dead mouse!

Under Tongtong's prompting, I walked into this small forest, where the wet mosquitoes were terribly many, and finally walked under a three-pronged tree, and Tongtong told me that her remains were here.

I squatted down to look, and the ground here was no different from other grounds. It was so flat that I could tell that there was a child buried in it.

I asked Tongtong if he was sure it was here?She said she would never forget it.After that, I broke a stick and dug a hole about 30 cm deep and 40 cm wide, and saw a small skull protruding from the skull.

This bone has been buried in the mud of the wet riverside forest for many years, and it has corroded and is no longer hard than tofu residue.I ended up covering it with dirt, bought a small crock pot from town, came back and dug the hole deeper, and finally the whole remains came out.From Tongtong's remains, it could be seen that he was wearing a white skirt before he died, and that skirt has almost melted into mud now.I picked up all the bones and put them in the vat, and finally came to the riverside, washed all the bones and put them back into the vat.But where should Tongtong's remains be buried?I don't know much about Feng Shui, so I don't know what's good and what's not.

Tongtong said that there is an island in the downstream river, so let's bury him there!She likes that island, and she has no offspring, so even if the burial is not good, the offspring will not be affected, and she can be buried in another place.

The island Tongtong mentioned is called Xiangsizhou. This island is shaped like a fish, about two kilometers long and about 500 meters wide. Tongtong and I discussed burying the remains here in Yuyan.

But in broad daylight, if I was holding a crock pot filled with human bones, it wouldn't do if people found out, not to mention digging a hole, so I had to wait until it got dark at night.

I hid the crock pot under the root of a tree, pulled out some grass to cover it tightly, then walked out of the woods, went to the town and took a boat to Acacia Island.When I arrived at Xiangsizhou, I walked around the island for a few times and found that there were several families on it. I had to be careful at night.

After wandering around the island for four or five hours, I finally determined the approximate location of the fish eye, so I found a few stones and piled a big circle there to mark it.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, I took a hoe and a clay pot in a snakeskin bag, stole a small bamboo raft from a village by the river, and rowed downstream to Xiangsizhou.As for choosing to come late at night, it was because most people were asleep at that time, and no one knew what I was doing.

The width of the Xunjiang River is nearly 1000 meters, but the water flow is as slow as a lake, and you can't see the river flowing unless you look carefully.The river was dark at night, Tongtong had already come out of the willow figure, and now she was walking on the river not far from the small bamboo raft.

This scene should have been terrifying. A teenager was rowing a bamboo raft on the dark and wide river in the middle of the night, while a little girl was walking on the water beside the bamboo raft.But I am the one who draws the bamboo raft and Tong Tong is the one who walks, so it is not scary at all.

Tongtong walked on the water for a while, and lay down and slid on the water for a while. Seeing her having so much fun made me think that being a water ghost is also pretty good!
The bamboo raft rowed for about 10 minutes, and finally arrived at Xiangsi Island. I tied the bamboo raft and went to the island.The place where I went to the island was at the mouth of the fish, which was only 200 meters away from the eye of the fish, and I found it in a short time.

I put the snakeskin bag on the ground, clamped the flashlight on a small tree branch for lighting, rubbed my hands and picked up the hoe to prepare for digging.However, just as I lifted the hoe, Tongtong stopped me and said that she seemed to see something buried in the ground.

I asked her what she saw, and she said she didn't know, and told me to dig carefully, even if there was something, it wouldn't be damaged.

I groaned, rubbed my hands again, picked up the hoe and started digging. After a while, I dug out a pit that was one meter long, forty centimeters wide and one meter deep.Playing with a hoe is my specialty. I have picked up a hoe and weeded in the fields since I was seven years old. After I was ten years old, I dug the ground for peanuts, corn, and sweet potatoes by myself.

I took out the clay vat containing Tongtong's bones from the snakeskin bag, and was about to put it down in the pit. At this time, Tongtong suggested that I dig a little deeper.So I started digging again, and I dug to a depth of about 1.6 meters. When I stood down, only a few hairs were exposed. It turned out that I had grown so much taller.But Tongtong wanted me to dig deeper, and after digging another 20 centimeters, the hoe hit something and sparked.

No way!If there is really something, will it be another gold digging?I asked Tongtong to come over and see if he could see what it was. Tongtong came over and said it was a stone duck, as big as a cow.

I quickly scraped out the broken mud at the bottom of the pit, revealing a stone the size of a pillow, with a mark from a hoe on it.

After digging deeper, I found that the pillow-sized rock turned out to be a duck head, but I was too tired to dig it.It's really strange how there is a big stone duck here, but I can't move such a big stone duck, and the stone is worthless!
I told Tongtong that I couldn't dig it anymore, and that the stone duck was worthless if it was dug up, so stop digging!Tongtong didn't care if I was tired or not, and let me continue digging. She wanted to bury her own remains on the duck's back.

It seems reasonable to be buried on the back of a duck and let the duck lie down on itself. What does this mean to a drowned person?

At this moment, there was a sound of "pop", and the handle of the hoe broke, which made me secretly happy, and I could finally rest now.After digging for more than three hours, we retreated to the landing place and sat down on a slightly flat place, with our stomachs growling with hunger.

I told Tong Tong to catch fish quickly, and he would have the strength to repair the hoe after he had roasted and eaten enough, and he could dig when the hoe was repaired.Tongtong pouted, turned around and walked to the river, plunged headlong into the water. Not long after, a ricefield eel as thick as a child's arm emerged out of the water, weighing at least 3 catties, and crawled straight to me.

I just prepared a pile of firewood, and I was about to start a fire but found that there were no matches.I had no choice but to let it go, and it was fate.I asked Tongtong to catch some crabs, because crabs can be eaten raw, and I caught some shrimps.Sitting on the surface of the river and eating raw crabs and shrimps is also a special experience. People who are not afraid of parasites can try to catch and eat them raw.

After I was full, I stood up and stretched, but Tongtong yelled at me and told me to get out of the way.She yelled like this, I didn't know what happened, I jumped to avoid the place where I was standing seven or eight meters away, turned around and flashed the flashlight, and saw a long centipede where I was standing just now.

This centipede is really long!It is a full meter long, just like ten centipedes connected end to end.Its body is similar to that of an ordinary centipede, and it looks like an iron chain on a bicycle from a distance.

This kind of centipede is called "blood centipede", and it is very poisonous. Compared with it, Corona snake is like mung bean and watermelon.It lives in the mud and sand at the bottom of some big rivers, and it comes out to move at night, often crawling to the bank and biting people.

There is only one consequence of being bitten by this kind of blood centipede, and that is to wait for death. It is said that if you are bitten, you will have blood blisters all over your body, and your whole body will be in pain like a fire.

(End of this chapter)