Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 7 Xunjiang Fish Demon (2)
Before I could react, I was pushed out two or three meters and fell directly into the river. Fortunately, I learned to swim in summer.The icy river water made me wake up immediately. When I came out of the water and looked at the side of the road, where there was still a little girl, I immediately realized that I had been fooled.

Fortunately, less than one meter away from the river bank, he reached out and grabbed the grass on the bank, and was about to climb up the bank and escape. At this moment, he didn't care about Goddess Zhang's orders!Already freaked out.

As soon as my hands climbed onto the shore, and as soon as my legs left the water, something grabbed my heels. I turned my head in horror and saw that it was a pair of hands grabbing my heels.

The owner of these hands was the crying girl on the side of the road.At this moment, the lower body of this naked little girl was submerged in the water, while the upper body came out of the water and grabbed my feet.

I was so frightened to death that my caught leg kicked wildly and scrambled towards the river bank. The little girl was held so tightly that I dragged her to the bank and did not let go.I didn't know where I found a stone that was bigger than my fist. Regardless of whether she was a human or a ghost, I threw it on the little girl's head with all my strength.

Two times and three times, the little girl's head was bloody and bloody from my blow, and a sharp cry came from her throat.I don't know how many times I smashed it, but the little girl kept holding on to it, and suddenly she opened her mouth, the big mouth split to the sides of both ears, and bit my leg.As soon as the little girl bit me, my whole body went numb, and I couldn't even catch the stone and fell to the ground. The little girl seized the opportunity and dragged me into the river.

It was over, I was very anxious and desperate, but I had no strength at all.

At this moment, I think of my sister who is far away in Hunan. I have been separated for seven years. Will I never see her again!I resented Goddess Zhang for asking me to come here alone to catch some big fish.

When I think of Goddess Zhang, I think of the needle she gave me, and that needle is wrapped in paper and put in my trouser pocket.I reached into my pocket with all my strength and got the needle out, but I didn't have the strength to prick the little girl.

With a plop, I was pulled to the river and fell into the river. Is it the end of it?Maybe it was the instinct to survive. I suddenly grabbed a small branch on the bank with one hand, but I didn't have much strength, and I couldn't catch it within two seconds.The strength under my feet dragged me to the deep water area, and I held my breath and prepared to hold on for just a few seconds.

Just when I was about to give up in despair, the knife that the fairy gave me fell out of my pocket.The knife was emitting light all over the body, illuminating the area around me, and at the same time, the force dragging my feet was much smaller, and the numbness in my whole body suddenly disappeared at this moment.

Taking advantage of the light, I took a quick look, and there was a little girl dragging my heels. It was clearly a big red carp biting my feet and swimming towards the deep water area.This carp is so big!Bigger than that little rich man said, like a small buffalo.

I don't care if it's big or not, the needle I hold in my right hand is piercing its head.It stands to reason that the skull of such a large carp is very hard, and it would take a lot of effort to use a hammer and nail, let alone a needle the size of a pencil lead.But the needle given to me by Goddess Zhang must be unusual, so I inserted it easily.

After being stabbed, the big fish immediately let go of its mouth, and swam away without looking back, and the knife also sank to the bottom of the river, no longer shining.After the fish demon escaped, I loosened my body and swam back to the river and landed on the bank. I ran to find Goddess Zhang without stopping for a moment.

Before I ran to the big longan tree, I met Goddess Zhang holding a flashlight halfway. She saw that I was wet and embarrassed, and said that she had made a mistake. She forgot that tonight was already the first day of the new year.

The first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year are the two days when the mountain spirits are most active and powerful. Mistress Zhang even forgot that tonight is the first day of the new year, which almost cost me my life. It is so dangerous.

Goddess Zhang blamed herself, and was relieved to see that I was fine when I came back, and said that I had escaped the catastrophe of my fate, and I must be a wealthy person in the future.I also told her the whole process just now, and she kept opening her mouth wide in shock.

Goddess Zhang was thoughtful, and finally came to a conclusion that the fish demon was definitely not just a water ghost with a fish body attached to it, it was likely that someone purposely kept it in the Xijiang River.

"Raised by humans!"

When I heard Goddess Zhang come to this conclusion, I couldn't believe it, who has such a great ability!

Goddess Zhang said that there are a lot of people who are good at the world, not to mention raising a small fish demon. This is a relatively advanced method of raising ghosts, called live raising.Using this method to raise ghosts is the least harmful, but fewer people know how to do it.I heard that there are still people raising walking corpses (zombies) in Nanchong, Sichuan, and there are also people raising Gu in the Yao people in Dashan, Guangxi and the Miao people in Dashan, Guizhou.

"Then why do other people raise ghosts? What is a walking corpse? What is a Gu?" I asked Goddess Zhang with a strong thirst for knowledge.

She told me: "There are various purposes for raising ghosts. It's hard to say all of them, but most of them are for changing luck, harming people, and seeking money. But I heard from Miss Zhou at Jintian (the Jintian mentioned earlier) Goddess) said that there are still people raising them to steal things and hunt for treasures. As for the walking corpses, she doesn't know much about them. She heard from Sister Zhou that they are usually raised in Yin Juying places and caves.

Goddess Zhang and I walked while talking, and when we got to the river, we shined the flashlight on the river, and saw that big carp finally turned its belly.It was in the water grass no more than seven or eight meters away from the shore, and its whole body turned black and lost a lot of scales.

Goddess Zhang asked me if I could swim, and she told me to go down and drag the fish back.

I nodded, and then jumped into the water without taking off my clothes, it was all wet anyway.I walked to the side of the big fish and stood on the bottom of the river until I reached my chest. As soon as I grabbed the fish's mouth, I dragged it to the shore. Finally, we tied the fish carcass with vines and soaked it in shallow water.

Goddess Zhang pulled the needle back from the fish head, and I asked her what the needle was made of and why it was so powerful.She said that she didn't know that it was dug out from the mountain by an immortal attached to her body, and it was deadly poisonous to monsters, and she couldn't live if she pricked it.

Goddess Zhang said that once the fish body died, the water ghost would have no shelter. It is very fragile now, so I will take it away today.Goddess Zhang asked me to guard the fish carcass here, and she brought something.

After Goddess Zhang left, I lit another fire and dried the clothes by the way.The experience just now made me a lot more courageous, just like people who came back from the Palace of the King of Hell, it’s a pediatric thing to sleep in the cemetery, and I don’t feel afraid to stay here alone.

When Goddess Zhang came back, the crooked moon came out, indicating that it was almost dawn.She took a wooden tablet engraved with runes and threw it into the water.

I asked her why she threw it down?
Mistress Zhang told me that it was a specially made pagoda wood tablet, which was used to gather souls. The water ghost had no possessions and was very fragile at this time, and needed to find something to get into to rest.But it doesn't know it's a trap, I can take it back in three days. "

After listening to Goddess Zhang's explanation, I admired her a little more, and became more interested in learning this.

Finally, Goddess Zhang cut open the belly of the fish corpse, and took out a milky white stone the size of an egg and a swim bladder as thick as a thigh.Goddess Zhang said that the milky white stone was called a demon egg, which was formed by ingesting the essence of the souls of those who drowned.With such a big monster egg, this fish monster killed at least 50 people in the Xijiang River within 20 miles, maybe her poor son was killed by it.

This demon egg is used to boil water and drink it, and no water ghost will dare to approach it wherever it goes.Just like if you have the smell of a tiger on your body, animals will be afraid of you wherever you go.And the big fish maw was taken back to dry in the sun, so that women in the village will give birth to children, and they will no longer be afraid of dystocia and bleeding.

After Goddess Zhang took out the demon eggs, the stench of fish corpses became stronger several times, and it melted into black mud after a while. I cut off the vines and let the river wash away.

It was already 06:30 in the morning when I got home, because I killed the fish monster, so Goddess Zhang said that she would cut the monster egg in half and give it to me.But I am still young, she will keep it for me later, but first cut a little bit for me to go back and boil water for drinking.I took the fingernail-sized monster egg cut off by Goddess Zhang, and touched it, and it felt as elastic as a rubber ball.

When I got back to my third aunt's house, I didn't talk about what happened last night. Goddess Zhang also said that it's good for those who are in this business to know about it, and don't talk about it to others. If you talk too much, your life will die.

Three bowls of soup were boiled for this fingernail-sized demon egg. After the demon egg melted, the water became like milk.But it was indescribably bitter to drink, and I frowned while drinking.The third aunt asked me what is so bitter, I just said it was ginseng.

Rural people in the 90s only knew that ginseng was extremely precious, but they never knew where it was sold, and they couldn’t afford it, and those who could afford it thought it was fake.I only heard that someone used to catch a child somewhere, and then the child turned into a thousand-year-old ginseng. After going to the city to sell it, he got a lifetime of money. Of course, this is just a story told by the old man.

In short, ginseng is a very good thing. It is nothing to boil it bitterly. Even if it tastes like dung soup, I want to drink it every day.

Sangu and I each drank a bowl of this monster egg soup, and left the other bowl for Sister Xuefei to drink after school.After drinking, because I didn't sleep last night, I climbed into bed after taking a shower and fell asleep, and I had a dream.

I dreamed of the naked little girl last night. She was squatting on a stone in a snow-white skirt, shivering from the cold, and crying very sadly.

(End of this chapter)