Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 49

Village head Zhang helped the third uncle into Wu Litao's house, while Ye Feiji and I went back to the village head's house to rest.I didn't listen to her nonsense, and I only thought about why the village chief Zhang told me that the third uncle was blinded by himself. Could it be that he saw my secret when he was picking up the corpse in the river this morning and thought Like my third uncle, I am an unusual person.

The 30 people who swam in the river from childhood to adulthood couldn't find the corpse, but I knew the location of the corpse as soon as I fell asleep, and I was the only one who dared to go into the water to retrieve the corpse.

After returning to the village head's house, I saw Xiao Jianqi crying in the living room, and Mrs. Zhang's wife, Aunt Zhang, was coaxing her.As soon as Ye Feiji and I stepped into the gate, Xiao Jianzaki rushed over as soon as he saw me, hugged my thigh and burst into tears, which made my heart ache.After asking, I found out that it turned out that she couldn't see us after waking up, so she probably thought we had sold her.The witty Ye Feiji took out a piece of candy from his pocket and gave it to her, and Xiao Jianzaki smiled through his tears. I stretched long and lay down on the bench.

Aunt Zhang went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, and it didn’t take long before she brought out several dishes. When I sat down at the table, I saw that they were all my favorite dishes, such as fried tofu, white-cut chicken, twice-cooked pork, etc., like a festival. .But it’s a pity that they all have chili peppers. Putting a piece of tofu in my mouth is so spicy that I can’t close my mouth. I really don’t understand Hunan people!

Village head Zhang's father, Uncle Zhang, an old man in his 70s, kept asking me about the corpse hunt this morning, but because of the language barrier, he asked Ye Feiji to brag for me.

At noon, there was the sound of funerals in the village, with gongs and drums beating. People who didn't know it thought someone was marrying a wife and drinking wedding wine!Ye Feiji and I had nothing to do, and she brought up the matter of asking for a salary increase. After all, it was up to her to find my sister, so I agreed.Ye Feiji said that her current wish is to earn money, and then buy a TV set for the family, so that her mother will not go to the neighbor's house to watch TV at night when it is windy and rainy.

However, the salary increase also required her to increase her workload, that is, to learn to drive.It is foreseeable that this small motorcycle will accompany me to look for my sister for a long time. It is too tiring to drive by myself every day, and Ye Feiji only sits behind me. Why not let her learn to take turns.Ye Feiji said that he had learned how to ride a bicycle from others, so as long as he had the courage to learn motorcycles, it would be a matter of course.

In the afternoon, Ye Feiji and Xiao Jianzaki were taking a nap. I couldn’t sleep and was thinking about things in bed. I suddenly decided to leave. In the morning, I was so dizzy that I wanted to stay and figure out how the grandparents who jumped into the river turned into skeletons. I forgot the purpose of my trip .Finding a younger sister is the most important thing, and it won't matter if you delay it for a day!I immediately woke them up and said that I would come here to play again next time I had a chance.

Leaving here, Ye Feiji was naturally happy, because she said that seeing me give so much money without batting an eyelid made her feel pained, so she had better leave quickly, so as not to see me giving money to others indiscriminately again.

When we told Aunt Zhang that we were leaving soon, she politely asked us to stay a few more days and come to play when we had time. We all said that we would definitely come when we were free.

When I went out to the door, I rode on the car and found that it couldn't start. The final inspection turned out to be out of gas.I have been riding this car for many days, and I forgot that the oil was almost burnt out. I lent it to someone to ride again yesterday, and I just came back in the morning.I asked Aunt Zhang if there was a place to refuel in the town, and the answer was no, only diesel fuel. After all, there are not many motorcycles in a town.He had no choice but to stay in the village, wait until the next day to take a car to the county to buy a large pot of gasoline and add it before leaving.

I couldn't walk back to the room and I was going to sleep again, when I saw Uncle Zhang running home in a panic, holding a rope for grazing cattle in his hand.Aunt Zhang was cleaning the house, and asked Uncle Zhang what happened and why he was out of breath.

Uncle Zhang poured a bowl of tea from a teapot and drank a couple of sips before he started talking to his daughter-in-law, but I couldn't quite understand it, I could barely understand that the cow disappeared in the river.

The two were talking in the hall, and Ye Feiji told me that Uncle Zhang came back from plowing the fields at noon, passed by the river and pulled the cattle to the shallow water of the river to wash off the mud on the cattle.As a result, the cow swam to the deep water area after it got down the river, and the puller couldn't hold it back. The cow sank when it swam to the deep water area, and it didn't surface after waiting for a long time.Only two people jumped into the river yesterday, and they turned into two skeletons overnight, so Uncle Zhang was scared to death by the sinking of the cow, and he ran back to the village to call for help.

After Uncle Zhang and his daughter-in-law Aunt Zhang finished talking, Aunt Zhang immediately dropped the broom and ran to Wu Litao's house in a hurry.At that time, the price of one cow in rural areas could be worth three or four pigs. Moreover, cows were much more important than pigs. Pigs were raised to sell money, while cows were used to plow the fields. Farmers couldn’t do without cows, and the cows were gone. Much more than a cow was lost.

Ye Feiji and I were amazed, what was there in that river, people jumped into the river and died and turned into skeletons, maybe small fish ate the meat, but a big buffalo weighing a thousand catties!What on earth can pull a cow to the bottom without ever surfacing once, there can't be sharks in the river!

My name is Ye Feiji, and I will take care of Xiao Jianqi, and I will follow Aunt Zhang to Wu Litao's house. At this time, Wu Litao has woken up, and his wife has also returned home. A tearful person.

Village head Zhang squatted at Wu Litao's doorway with a group of people to smoke. Seeing his wife in a hurry, he hurried over to ask what was wrong.Aunt Zhang said that the cattle in the family did not get up in the river, and they might have drowned. She asked Village Chief Zhang to go and have a look!
After hearing this, Village Chief Zhang was also anxious, and asked me to go to the riverside with him to have a look, and then told his wife to call two more people to help.Village head Zhang ran towards the river quickly after finishing speaking, and I followed behind. I touched my pocket on the way and almost petrified on the spot. My beads were not brought back in the morning.

Thinking that Tongtong and Zhuzi were still in the river, I hurriedly ran towards the river. The village chief arrived at the river before me. Buffalo traces.

I told the village chief that I would go over there to have a look, then quickly ran to a shallow water area, took off my shoes, rolled up my trousers, walked to the knee-deep place and called Tongtong.

After shouting for a while, there was no response, and suddenly something pulled me under my feet, and I fell into the water, and my clothes were all soaked.I was so scared that I got up and ran to the bank, but at this time Tongtong's voice sounded in my ears, she said, Brother Tiaohe, why did you leave me in the morning, I was angry.

Hearing Tongtong's voice, I felt happy for a while, and quickly apologized and said that I was wrong, and I will never do it again next time.After I finished speaking, I asked Tong Tong again, did you see Village Chief Zhang's buffalo sinking into the bottom of the river?

As soon as I heard Tongtong say that she pulled it, I immediately felt guilty, feeling that I had caused a big disaster, and I didn't dare to tell Village Chief Zhang later.But Tongtong said it's okay, I can pay for so much money, and if the cow is drowned, I can take it back to kill and eat the beef or sell the beef!
Seeing that I fell into the water, Village Chief Zhang rushed over and asked me what was wrong and if I was okay. I waved my hand and said I was fine.At this time, the two people called by Aunt Zhang had already arrived at the riverside. They were the cousin and nephew of the village chief, followed by Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang, and Ye Feiji led Xiao Jianqi.

I bent down to pick up the beads in the river and put them back in my pocket. After walking back to the bank, the village chief Zhang asked me if I knew where his cattle had sunk.I couldn't quite understand what he said, so Ye Feiji immediately repeated it to me in Hakka.I asked them to wait a while, then ran to the side and took out the beads and asked Tongtong, where is the cow?
Tong Tong said that it was in the old place, where the two people who jumped into the river were buried this morning, go and get it!The beef will not taste good if it is soaked for a long time.After I put away the beads, I went back to Village Chief Zhang, and asked Ye Feiji to tell him where the cattle were picked up this morning. After hearing this, Village Chief Zhang told his eldest nephew to go home and get the rope.

After the rope was brought, Village Chief Zhang and his nephew began to take off their clothes. Aunt Zhang worriedly asked him if he was okay going down the river!The cows have been pulled down, could it be the water ghosts making trouble!
After hearing this, Village Chief Zhang looked at me. I knew Tong Tong dragged the buffalo into the water, so I told Village Chief Zhang that it was all right, and I will go into the water with you!

In the end, I went into the water with Village Chief Zhang and his nephew. We swam to the place where the corpses were picked up this morning and dived, but we couldn't find any trace of the buffalo.I saw another large pile of sand piled up on the bottom of the river, and I was terrified. Could it be that the cow has turned into a skeleton again?It only took about half an hour to drown!
Village head Zhang and his nephew also said they didn't see it after getting out of the water, so I said it must not be in the sand!We pulled out the sand to have a look, nodded to each other and dived again.The three of us got to the bottom of the sand pile and began to pull out the sand. We surfaced before and after three times of breathing, and finally pulled out most of the sand pile.

When we saw the beef leg bone, although we were in the water, we still felt like we were sweating, and we felt angry from the bottom of our hearts with inexplicable fear.But although I was afraid, we had to make sure. We continued to pull out the sand, and finally pulled out more than half of the cattle skeleton, and there was no meat left. Then we gave up and surfaced to swim back to the shore.

This buffalo turned from a big fat cow into a skeleton in more than half an hour. No one would believe it if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes.Although we found the buffalo, it is meaningless to retrieve it as a skeleton. After all, only beef can be sold for money.

After the village chief told his wife and Uncle Zhang, they were all frightened into stupidity. What kind of thing ate up the beef in one go, and there was not even a hair left.

It is the farming season at this time. It is very inconvenient to have no buffaloes. It is also impossible to borrow other people’s cattle. When everyone uses cattle, the cattle will be tired even if they are not machines. moan and groan.

I knew that Tongtong was the one who pulled it into the water, so I must pay for it, so I pretended to be an adult and told the village chief's family that the cow was gone, so I'll buy you one!As soon as I finished speaking, the village chief's family stared at me with wide eyes.

(End of this chapter)