Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 6 Xunjiang Fish Demon (1)
After the three of them hurried ashore, a partner said that the adults said that water ghosts would turn into fish to lure people to catch them, and when they got to deep water, they would be dragged down and drowned to find a substitute.The three little friends couldn't help wiping off their sweat because they had just rashly entered the water.

Besides, such a big fish is very strong, how can we catch it?They all felt that they were too stupid to go into the water just now.At this moment, the big carp swam back to the shore again. After they came to the so-called water ghost incarnation, they definitely didn't dare to go down and catch it.But seeing such a big fish on the shore, I felt itchy not to catch it, so I decided to go home and get something to set up a trap to catch it.

They went back home and made a big fishing cage out of bamboo, and put the skinned dead mice in it as bait, and they came to the river again.

At this time, it was already dark, and I couldn't see the situation in the river, only the dark water surface.They threw the cage into the water where the carp appeared during the day, left a rope and tied it to a tree on the bank, and then went home, intending to collect the cage tomorrow morning.

It was only slightly bright the next day, so Xiao Fu asked the other two to go to the river to see if they had caught any fish.After Xiaofu called a partner, he went to call the second partner, but he was not at home, and he didn't know about it when he asked his parents.So Xiaofu and another partner went to the river to get the cage.

It was just dawn when they reached the river, and the rope that bound the cage was still tied to the tree, but the bark where it was tied was worn away, so they knew they might be caught.

After a lot of effort, they finally pulled the cage out of the water, but they saw that there was not a big carp in the cage, but a dead man. The dead man was another 12-year-old fish catcher.

The two of them were so frightened that they rushed to call the adults, and after a while they called an adult who was grazing cattle by the river.The adult found a few more people, and after a while, he passed on to ten, ten to a hundred, and dozens of people came by the river. Later, the police also came, and so did the family of the dead friend.

The family was so pitiful that they rolled up the corpse on a mat, while Xiaofu and another partner were taken away by the police.

Although the family of the deceased suffered from the pain of bereavement, they did not lose their minds, and they did not believe that it was Xiao Fu who killed their son.The police station quickly released the two of them back, just to ask questions, and Xiaofu and the others answered truthfully.

After returning home, Xiaofu and his partner also told the adults before and after they caught the big carp.After the adults heard this, they preliminarily judged that the water ghost had bewitched the child and made him run to the river to throw himself into the river in the middle of the night.

But the judgment is the judgment, and it is still necessary to find someone to look at it, so they came to find Goddess Zhang.

After Goddess Zhang finished listening, she asked the woman to tell her the horoscope of the deceased and the place where he drowned.After the woman spoke, Goddess Zhang washed her face and came to the altar, and asked me to prepare a bowl of rice and a stick of incense. After she sang a few songs she didn't understand, she kowtowed on the table just like that day not moving.After she woke up, she said that the dead child was doomed to have this calamity in the year of his birth, and that the horoscope was too light and hard enough to escape.

And that big carp was possessed by a water ghost, it was no longer as simple as a fish, but a fish demon, and became a spirit.

I became interested as soon as I heard it, and asked Goddess Zhang what a fish demon is, and the young man also asked the same question.

Goddess Zhang told us that every river and every mountain is guarded by something.Big mountains and rivers are called mountain gods and river gods, and small reservoirs and small rivers and small hills are called water ghosts and mountain ghosts. What they have in common is that they cannot leave the place where they die, unless they find a substitute to guard them instead of themselves.

Year after year, the water ghost cannot find a substitute and cannot be reincarnated. By coincidence, it possesses the body of the fish and becomes a fish demon. It often drowns swimmers and absorbs the essence of human souls, so it grows very large.In order to absorb more soul essence, it often swims to the shore to tempt people to catch it, and then drags it to the deep water area to drown for its own enjoyment.Ancient books say that these spirits live for hundreds of years, and if they escape the lightning, they may turn into dragons, and then they will become river gods.

What is it to become a dragon?I was puzzled and asked Goddess Zhang
Goddess Zhang couldn't answer, she only said that it was said in ancient books, but no one has seen it in reality, and who knows if there is such a thing, so if you hear it, you should talk about ancient times.

After eating and sending the mother and child away, Goddess Zhang said that she was going to the town to buy something to prepare, and that she was going to see the fish demon tonight.

In the afternoon, Goddess Zhang came back and bought a few catties of pig blood. At around nine o'clock in the evening, Goddess Zhang called me, took a flashlight and a kerosene lamp to the river bank where the fish demon appeared.

There was no moon at night at the end of the month, and there were no villages around the river, so it was dark and desolate.Goddess Zhang lit a kerosene lamp, covered it with a lampshade and put it on the side of the road. I asked her if she had any preparations for catching fish demons?

Goddess Zhang smiled and told me that there was nothing to prepare for, and I just came to see it now.This fish demon is bloodthirsty, she lures it out with pig blood, as long as she sees it appear, she will have no chance to catch it.

Goddess Zhang told me that the fish demon is also a fish, but it can charm people with light characters.For most people, it is just a big fish. If it is unlucky, it will be fished out and chopped with a kitchen knife, and it will become a good dish on the table.

Hearing what Goddess Zhang said, I thought that the fish demon was nothing more than that, as if what we came to catch was not a water ghost and a fish demon, but a delicious red vinegar carp, and I couldn't help drooling.

Goddess Zhang sprinkled the pig's blood on the river, and hid in the bushes by the river. After a while, there was movement on the river where the pig's blood was sprinkled.

Goddess Zhang got out of the grass to look, and yelled in shock: "Blood centipede." I saw a few blood-red centipedes churning on the river with the light of the flashlight.

This red bug is no different from a centipede, except that it is very long, ten times longer than the centipede on land, like a bicycle chain.Goddess Zhang said that this kind of insect is extremely rare and extremely poisonous. Compared with it, the corona snake is like an ant and an elephant.

In the end we didn't wait for the fish demon to show up, and it was the same the next night.On the third day, Goddess Zhang said to me: "The beast may feel threatened and dare not come out, so she won't go tonight. She decided to let me go in another way, because I would let me go, no matter my age or horoscope. The fish demon salivated.

When I heard Goddess Zhang tell me to go alone, my head shook like a rattle, and I kept pushing back.I was afraid of going to the river in the middle of the night, let alone catching a big fish possessed by a water ghost, not to mention a person drowned there a few days ago.

But Goddess Zhang was also prepared to let me go alone. She gave me a needle the size of a pencil lead, and said that if I got caught in the trap of that big fish and was dragged into the water, I would use this needle to pierce it.She will wait for me under the big longan tree a mile away from the river bank. If the fish still appears in that area, I can set up a trap to catch it.

In the evening, Goddess Zhang sent me to the side of the Xijiang River, and she left.I was sitting by the river with a kerosene lamp, but I was not a witch's eye, so I couldn't see the river at all, so I found a pile of dry wood and lit a fire, and I put a big fire in it. With dry wood, the flame is higher than a person, and the sense of security is greatly increased instantly.

At one or two o'clock, people became sleepy, and suddenly there was a "plop" sound on the river, as if someone jumped from the river bank.I was startled by the plop, and I became nervous immediately, but I didn't find anything when I looked at the river.

After more than half an hour, the river began to gradually fog up, reducing visibility.I was thinking that I might have made another trip in vain tonight, and I wouldn't come tomorrow night even if I was killed.

At this moment, the cry of a child was suddenly heard not far behind me.I turned my head suddenly and saw a six or seven-year-old girl standing on the side of the road crying loudly. This little girl was naked and had nothing on, with double ponytails on her hair.

How can there be a naked little girl here in the middle of the night? It would be a lie to say that she is not scary.Although I have seen the plantain ghost last time, I have become much more courageous, but I will still be afraid of a crying little girl suddenly appearing by the river.Whose child will come here, is she a human or a ghost?Maybe the latter is more!

I heard Goddess Zhang say that ghosts have no shadows, but that little girl not only looks like a human being, but also has a long figure behind her under the light of the fire.

This little girl looks harmless to humans and animals, plus there is still a figure, if she hadn't appeared here in the middle of the night, who would think that she might be a ghost.I bravely walked towards the little girl, and took out the needle given to me by the sorceress Zhang from my pocket just in case.When I walked to a place two meters away from her, I stopped and did not dare to pass. I asked the little girl through this so-called safe distance: "Little sister, why are you crying here in the middle of the night? Where is your home? My brother will send you home." Home."

The little girl heard me speak, put down her hand wiping her tears, and looked at me with big teary eyes.

Seeing such a little girl, my heart suddenly softened, maybe I always regard the little girl as my sister who is far away in Hunan.The so-called Aiwujiwu, I don't know why, but after taking a look at this little girl, I let go of my guard and approached her.

The little girl was as high as my chest, and I took her hand and asked her why she was crying here.But the little girl's hands were so cold!I was so scared that I let go.

The little girl blinked her big teary eyes and said nothing, but pointed to the river with her finger.I looked along where her finger was, and saw a skirt lying on the riverside just one step away from the river. Isn't that the little girl's dress? Did she ask me to bring it back for her?
I asked the little girl: "Little sister, why is your skirt by the river?" I really have no way of knowing whether this little girl is a human or a ghost, and her clothes are by the river.After touching the needle in my pocket and the knife given to me by the Immortal Zhang's family, I became more courageous, and asked the little girl again: "Do you want my brother to help you get the skirt back?"

The little girl nodded, her eyes were very pitiful.

"Why don't you talk?" I asked her
The little girl still didn't answer, but kept shaking her head.

Come on, I can’t wait for the fish demon tonight, and I met a little girl, it’s hard to say whether it’s a human or a ghost, I sighed and found a stick, went to the river and hooked the little girl’s skirt with the stick.

If I were to go directly to the river to get it, I would not dare, so I could only hook it with a stick, and I would look back at this little girl from time to time, and she was looking at me by the side of the road.After two hooks, I finally hooked the clothes to my side. Just as I reached out to pick them up, there was a sudden huge impact behind me, as if a cow had hit me.

(End of this chapter)