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When I was a kid, I was timid, and I loved to listen to "haunted" stories from adults.
Adults say that children as young as 12 years old can see "ghosts". Every night when I went to sleep, I didn't dare to open my eyes, I always closed my eyes tightly, went to bed in the dark, and got into the bed without moving. Sometimes I wonder if I can really see "ghosts" when my eyes are half-open and half-closed, especially when adults tell stories about water ghosts, which makes people feel creepy after listening to them.
But at the age of twelve, he can see "ghosts"
There is a river in the north ditch of my village, which flows in a tumultuous manner all year round, and the river water is crystal clear. There is a bridge on the river, which is the only way to Yuhuang Mountain, and the bridge is not wide, and only one tractor can be crossed. There are several stones neatly placed on both sides of the riverbank, clean and smooth. People in the village would go to the river to wash their clothes, and if they went late, the smooth stones would be taken possession by others.
In the summer, the banks of the river are even more lively. After a tiring day, people have dinner, bring a few pieces of clothing, and take their children to the river to wash clothes or take a bath.
One night, Zhao Fuge in the village may have come back late from work, and there was no one on the riverbank, so he took his five or six-year-old daughter to the river to bathe. (If you want to see what the author of this article, Mr. Wang Qiufen, wrote last time, please click the link below: True Story: Memories of more than 40 years ago can never be erased)
When he got there, he sat down on the stone where he washed his clothes, and after washing a few pieces of clothing, he went into the water to bathe.
At this moment, his daughter said, "Father, you see a long-haired woman in the water, and she looks at me very much." He didn't care and continued to swim in the water. After a while, he said, "Father, you see, the long-haired woman in the water is still glaring at me, and I am afraid." After hearing this, Brother Zhao hurriedly jumped out of the water, didn't wear any shoes or clothes, hugged him, and trotted all the way home.
The next morning, when he was at the dinner party and talked about what happened yesterday, several elderly people said, "Don't you dare to go too late, it must be the 'water ghosts' in the river who are looking for a replacement for the dead ghosts." ”
Since then, the people of the village have gone to the river to bathe in groups at night, and no one has gone alone.
Wrap it into the river and not sink to the bottom
A few months after this, it was noon, and there were hardly any people on the bridge. At this time, there were two little girls, the younger one was seven or eight years old, and the eldest was ten years old, who came from other villages, and they carried a big burden on their backs, which was to send cotton clothes and a few bags of animal biscuits to her sister's children. The sisters came over the mountain, and they might have been a little tired when they walked to the bridge, so they sat on the edge of the bridge railing to rest, and the burden they carried was also placed on the railing.
I don't know what's going on, but the burden suddenly fell into the river. The anxious sisters hurriedly went to the river to salvage, and the burden fell to the center of the water, but it did not sink, and it floated on it. It stands to reason that the buoyancy of water cannot withstand the gravity of clothing.
The sisters didn't catch it, but they found a long branch to salvage it, and the burden had not been washed away in the center of the water, and the two of them cried anxiously.
At this time, not far away, an old man was driving the sheep home, passing by there, and saw the sisters desperately salvage, so he said loudly: "Xiaoni, come up quickly, don't fish." The two little girls didn't twist their heads, crying and fishing, and touched the water with branches, hoping that the burden would move to the river. The old man went down to the river, snatched the branch from Xiao Ni's hand and threw it into the river, and grabbed the two Xiao Ni's hands with two big hands, and pulled them to the bridge.
The old man gasped and said to the two little girls: "You can't fish anymore, you can't catch it, you two hurry back to your relatives' house and let them come to fish." The sisters cried and went to her sister's house, which was not too far from the river. When they arrived at her sister's house, they cried and told her sister about the situation. Her brother-in-law brought some young and strong men to the river.
Seeing that the burden was still floating in the water, several of them went into the water together, swam into the water, and fished up the burden. The contents of the animal biscuits were washed away by the water bubbles, leaving a few empty bags floating in the water.
Later, the adults said that they could not go down to the river at night, nor could they go at noon or after lunch. It is said that the ghost shows his head at noon, and even the old man who has been herding sheep by the river all the year round will not go.
The "water ghost" was angry
The river is narrow and tens of meters wide, and in the wide places there are often people standing on wooden boats to fish.
There was a fisherman who carried a fishing boat to the river every day to catch fish, and always returned with a full load at night. Why did he always catch a lot of fish? He said that as soon as he cast a net in the river, all the "water ghosts" in the river would catch fish in his net.
One night, he had a dream in which he saw a water ghost in the river telling him that he would no longer catch fish for him from tomorrow, saying that the water ghost was about to be reincarnated and that he was going to find a substitute for the dead.
The fisherman asked, "What kind of substitute ghost do you look for?"
The water ghost said, "Find a man with an iron hat." ”
When the fisherman woke up, he thought to himself that he couldn't let him find a substitute for the dead ghost. The next morning, the fisherman came to the river with a wooden boat early, and sat on the boat without casting his net, to see who was going to pass by with an iron hat, and he was ready to save the man.
The fisherman smoked a cigarette while watching the people passing by on the road, and sat straight until two or three o'clock in the afternoon, when he saw a person with a big pot on his head, hurried to the river, saying that it was a very hot day, and he went to the river to wash, and then hurried away.
When the fishermen saw it, they hurriedly shouted, "Don't come down, you can't wash it today." When he heard that the pot was on fire, he said, "It's hot like this, I will put it on my head as a hat when I buy the pot, and go down to the river to wash it?" The fisherman said, "I won't let you wash it today." I've got this river. The person who topped the pot walked away angrily, and shouted as he walked: "Today, I met a person who is mentally ill and does not let him go down the river if he doesn't fish."
Besides, the fisherman, when he saw that the man with the pot had gone away, he pulled the boat to the shore and cleaned up, and went home happily with the fishing boat.
After that, he could not catch a single fish, because the water ghost was angry, and before he could find a substitute for the dead ghost, he drove all the fish in the river elsewhere. Later, I heard that the fisherman had changed his profession and stopped fishing.
Legend has it that "water ghosts" are a kind of water ghosts in folklore, those who accidentally die in the water or commit suicide in rivers and cannot be reincarnated. In fact, these legends are mainly to remind adults to take care of their own safety when swimming, and to warn children not to go down the river without an adult's guidance to avoid accidents - but who can tell these stories about water ghosts that are both true and fantastical?
【Author's profile】Wang Qiufen, a native of Yuzhou City, is a primary school teacher.
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