Chapter 206: Water Ghost
He really couldn't figure out that he had only gone out for a few days, and that the person who had smiled at him with a gentle smile before he left had turned into a cold corpse when he saw it again.
He asked his five grandmothers who are holding the child, why the daughter-in-law would throw herself into the well, and the five grandmothers actually said that she herself does not know, but also said that perhaps Yuling in the city back to the city, the pregnancy also contracted what the city's post-partum depression, and only a moment to think.
Gangzi of course do not believe, daughter-in-law always smiling at himself, where is like a person with depression it! But other than this reason, he really couldn't think of anything else.
He really does not believe that his daughter-in-law why suddenly see will commit suicide, Gangzi also said to report to the police station to go, so that people come to find out the truth.
The fifth mother-in-law is naturally reluctant, she and her daughter-in-law do not deal with everyone knows, although the daughter-in-law is their own well, but, after all, there are still their own reasons, she is afraid that she can not escape the blame.
In addition, the son is still so important to Yuling, if you know the truth, will not take the grandchildren and cut off their relationship.
Therefore, the five grannies absolutely refused to let her son call the police, but also pointed at her son's nose, cursing: "If a person is dead, then he is dead, inviting the police, can she still come back to life? Don't you look at the villages? If everyone knew that Yuling had thrown herself into the well, they would probably say that you were a wife-beater, so let's see what you'll do in the future."
Gangzi was not afraid, without Yuling, he didn't want anyone else in the future, so he said, "If you don't want to marry, I don't want anyone else in the future, I just want to give Yuling a fair deal!"
"What justice is not justice, if this spreads out, her family will not come to find us trouble ah, you married to see spent a lot of money, that still come to the money to you so blindly, and you look at this doll, crying like this you do not care about, but also think of that dead no one?" Said and pointed to the child crying in his arms.
Gangzi heard his mother scolded like this, and then remembered that Yu Ling also left himself a son, and raised his eyes to look at the wailing child in the arms of the five grandmothers, and couldn't help but be a little soft-hearted.
Granny saw her son's attitude is a little loose, then again and again, warm and persuade to: "find someone to check not again have to spend money, have the money to bring up the child is the right thing, daughter-in-law no can go again, this doll is really the root of our family na, what is not as important as him, know it?"
In this way, the five grandmothers even scolded and persuaded to coax the son, so that he no longer pursue the daughter-in-law why the well to commit suicide, but only to publicize the daughter-in-law is the middle of the night to get up, accidentally fell into the well.
Of course, this is the external statement, can not be hidden from the village, Yuling threw herself into the well that day five grandma's words are more or less heard in the neighborhood, plus five grandma usually take advantage of the absence of Gangzi always let Yuling to do this and that, everyone is also in the eyes of the people.
Later, Yuling threw herself into the well, and Gangzi didn't come back in time, but also the people in the village helped to bring the people up, so these things can be hidden from the people who don't know the truth about Gangzi and the people outside of the village, and who would know.
The village people also like Yu Ling, she stayed outside for a few years, see things more, always willing to talk with everyone knock, but not those who come back from the outside and bring a sense of superiority, never look down on people, so for her death, we are also quite a bit of words.
But the five grandmothers put the word out, said whoever dry more than one gossip about her family, is and difficult for her wife, bullying them orphans and widows, then, is to die also to die in front of his house.
Granny five is a strong person, spicy nature, a mouth powerful eight villages in ten miles is famous, there was a child and just play with the child, accidentally pushed just into the field, Granny five knew that after that is pointing at the nose of the family, stood in front of the family cursed, the whole curse for several hours did not stop, and then it is to see that the family once on the curse once, the family of the scare! From then on, the family avoided seeing Granny Wu.
In addition, the five grannies and the village chief have some relatives, everyone is afraid that offending her is the same as offending the village chief, we must know that the village chief is the biggest official in the whole village, for an outsider to offend him, it is really not worth it.
So, although everyone on the death of Yu Ling quite a few words, but also dare to talk about it in the back of their own homes, never dare to say in front of the Kongzi, and the Kongzi has been so in the dark.
Strange to say, the child was just born a few days ago, was very well-behaved, in the arms of anyone can stay quietly, but in the night Yuling threw herself into the well, the child was as if and the mother and telepathy in general, how to coax can not be coaxed, just a cry, no matter how the five grandma coaxed not quiet down, but also because of this, the five grandmothers tired all night, did not pay attention to what happened in the yard! Because of this, Granny Five was tired all night and didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the courtyard.
Looking at the hungry bawling child, Gangzi somewhat at a loss, but may be the nature of the father and son, he is still a little nervous from the arms of the five grandmothers took over the child, recalling those village women coaxed the child's appearance, gently swaying body coaxing him, and the child as if and Gangzi and sensory general, actually immediately stopped crying.
But five grandma took over, the child again "wow ……" howled, just a look, and hold back, the child immediately stopped crying.
They realized that the child only with the Gangzi pro, no one else with, only when the Gangzi holding the child, the child will be obedient and quiet down to drink milk.
In this way, just son on their own with just born son, a person and as a father and mother, multi-tasking, sometimes very hard, but thinking that this is the last bit of Yuling left to their own thoughts, the heart more or less have some comfort.
In this way, the day is a few months, Yu Ling left the child slowly grew up, but still sticky Gangzi sticky tight, who hugged also refused to, including the five granny, only willing to follow the Gangzi, as long as the Gangzi hold him when he will not cry.
Granny five saw, grandson always stick to the son how to become, and their own are not close, on the one hand, but also the heartache of the son, think he is a big man to take care of a doll, it is really out of shape.
So, Granny Wu's mind was alive again, and she began to organize to find another daughter-in-law for her son.
Yuling just not long, the old lady is open to find another one, just heard, naturally reluctant, he still has Yuling in his heart, the family also has a son, other women where he can look on, not to mention that this is not also a pit of other people it!
Therefore, Gangzi is resolutely disagree, but the five mother-in-law insisted on another daughter-in-law, Gangzi refused to go to see, she invited people to the home to look, and soon fell in love with the village next door to the small Fen.
Xiao Fen's family was originally and Gangzi a village, and later moved to another village for some reason, Yuling's matter because it is not the village, the family does not know, only know that Gangzi's former daughter-in-law left him a doll, coupled with Xiao Fen as a child and Gangzi played with the big.
In itself, she is also fond of Gangzi, and did not let the family consider too long, he agreed, said he was willing to marry Gangzi, but also to help him take care of the child.
Five grandmothers heard, naturally, is overjoyed, Xiao Fen is a neighboring village is also considered to know the roots, usually on their own is not to visit, and like Gangzi, let her when their daughter-in-law, five grandmothers are naturally willing to.
But Gangzi is not willing, he still has Yuling in his heart, put Xiao Fen since childhood when a sister, a playmate only, where there is what feelings.
So the mother and son began to argue again, one said that he did not want to marry again, a curse must be Xiao Fen as a daughter-in-law, and so the argument for several months.
Later somehow, Gangzi actually compromised, said he was willing to go to Xiaofen as a wife, and soon set up a wedding banquet under the joy of the five grandmothers, and then later, in the early morning of the second day of the wedding banquet, the scene at the beginning of the scene – five grandmothers threw themselves into the well.
"This is all retribution, yo!" When the woman finished speaking, she even sighed.
Retribution? Maybe it was!
The three of them, Liu Wan Diem, listened for a long time without making a sound.
"You say, is that Nguyen Ling coming back for revenge?" Looking at the attention of the people next to him on that side of the house, Li Xianzheng quietly asked.
"I guess it should be Yu Ling." Liu Wan Yan hesitated a little, but finally answered in the affirmative.
"How do you know it's Ngoc Linh?" Thanh Nhat Hanh asked.
"Remember yesterday when we had our wedding banquet?" Liu Wan Diem looked at his two best friends and said, "That's when I saw a black shadow behind that fifth granny, but the light was too dim at that time so I couldn't see it, it was blurry!"
"Are you sure there was a black shadow?" Li Xianzheng asked.
"Of course I'm sure!"
"That's right." At this time, Cheng Kexing also said, "At that time, I saw that the five grannies red, red also clothes but the face of the red with some black gas, at that time, I thought that this will see the fork in the road!"
"Then why didn't you say earlier?" Li Xianzheng words with some reproach, "have seen, you should remind them at that time!"
"How to remind?" Liu Wan Yan replied with some amusement, "Yesterday was someone's wedding day, we just rashly went to say, your old lady is going to have an accident, this is not looking for scolding?"
Saying this, he added, "Moreover, I see that although this Yu Ling has thrown herself into the well and died, she has not yet turned into a severe ghost?"
"Hasn't turned into a ghost? It can't be, if not, how did that fifth granny throw herself into the well?" Li Xianzheng was puzzled.
"I'm Yuling is turned into a ghost, but not a severe ghost, if it was a severe ghost, the five grannies would have died long ago, how could it be possible that people would still let people save it?" Liu Wan Yan replied.
"This, how?"
"General want Yuling this kind of death, just now I counted, in fact, it is also drowned in the water, general drowning back into a water ghost."
"Water ghost?"
"Yes, is the old people often say water monkey. If Yuling had turned into a water monkey, she would not have been able to let go of the five grannies, and would have left time for people to save them." Liu Wan Yan said.
"Why?"
Seems to anticipate that Li Xianzheng will ask this question, so replied: "Water ghosts, commonly known as 'water monkeys', all over the body are long hair, red eyes and black face, it is said to be the wronged souls of people drowned in the water similar to the ghost of the devourer, must be drowned one person instead of the water into the water force is great, the ashore is not binding chicken power, often change a variety of Objects in the water to attract people close, take the opportunity to drag people into the water to suck human blood, and finally drowned."
"You say, if Yu Ling became a water ghost, or water monkey, the five grannies would not have been fished up so easily, not to mention the five grannies, or even a grown-up strong man, the water ghosts are also able to pull him in." Liu Wan Diem added.
Frightened.
In fact, there is a story in there about the origin of the water ghost, or water monkey.
There used to be a man named Ah Fu, who was the only one in his family who lived with his mother, and he was terrible at many things, such as throwing sandbags, making bows and arrows, and other childish things he was extremely bad at, and so he was often ridiculed by everyone.
But whenever he talked about water monkeys, he always showed a look of excitement, saying that he had seen water monkeys, saying that they were very small animals that looked like monkeys, and that they were the same as ordinary monkeys on dry land, except that they had dark green claws ……
Whenever Ah Fu told the story of the water monkeys, even the adults in the village would sometimes stop to listen to his childish but soothing voice that would make people tremble from time to time.
At that time, Ah Fu was like a king, a king who was held in high regard.
Of course, there were those who doubted Ah Fook, but every now and then, Ah Fook would tell even more frightening stories of water monkeys hunting for food to amaze those skeptics.
"The monkey uses its tail to curl around something on the surface of the water and pulls it desperately into the water, then it clasps the prey's throat with its claws and bites it with its teeth! Suck …… this time ah, if the man struggles, it drags him into the water, the strength is very big miles …… "Afu said so.
But on this early morning, Ah Fook in front of a large group of children took off his stained lab coat, wearing only a pair of shorts jumped into the reservoir behind the village, just a few minutes ago, there is a little friend after listening to his story of the water monkeys expressed strong skepticism, at one time asked him to catch a water monkey up to show everyone.
Ah Fook, of course, refuted the boy's words and added that there must be water monkeys.
So, with that, Ah Fook went into the water, and after a few dabs in the water, he began to slap the surface of the water, a slap that did not seem to be intentional, but was with the force of a great desire to survive.
Not long after, Ah Fook sank after letting out a mournful cry, and that voice was extraordinarily clear and powerful in that dazzling sunlight-"Water Monkey!" .
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When Ah Fook was fished out the guys saw him again, Ah Fook's blistered and inflamed face had the pride of a storyteller, only no longer vivid; there was a circle of fearful scars on his legs, in addition to a small tooth mark.
Since then, Afu's mother went crazy, like Mrs. Xianglin, always saying "It's for the water monkey cubs, the teeth marks are so small ……".
Later, the village organized people to clean up the reservoir, only to find some water snakes, the so-called "water monkeys", everyone said they quietly went ashore.
Since then, everyone will fall into the water after the people become ghosts, called water ghosts, also called water monkeys.
When they turned into water ghosts, is the six relatives, only think to find a double for themselves, so that to go to reincarnation, does not care who is in the water, will only use more than the strength of the cattle to the water prey drowned.
Therefore, Liu Wan Diem was certain that Ngoc Linh had not turned into a water ghost.
But if she hadn't turned into a water ghost, what would she be? It wasn't a ghost, otherwise she would have harmed the five grandmothers before people realized it.
At this time, the house suddenly issued a terrified scream "ah–".
Scared the crowd, Liu Wan Yan three rushed into the house.
Only to see the five grannies angry eyes, face with a horrified expression, mouth wide open, all of a sudden sat up from the bed.
"Yuling …… Yuling is back!" The words of the fifth granny were tinged with panic.
"I …… saw her!" The five grannies waved their dry limbs, saw their son, and tightly really grabbed him, shouting, "I saw her, dripping wet, looking at me, she was looking at me ah!"
Said, five granny wow, bawling.
Gangzi on the side froze, not yet able to recover from the nonsense in front of the fifth old lady, and didn't care about the current woeful appearance of the fifth old lady.
On the other hand, it was Xiao Fen, who suddenly whitened her face, shivering her hands, unable to say a word, one hand still holding the tabletop dangerously, the whole person was a bit shaky.
At this time, Gangzi suddenly seemed to wake up in general, covered his head, squatting on the ground, burying his face in his knees, whimpering and crying, seems to know some of the truth of his daughter-in-law's suicide.
Liu Wan Yan surveyed the surrounding area, looking at all corners of the house.
"Hey hey, they said Nguyen Linh is back, did you see anything?" Thanh Nhat Hanh poked Liu Wan Diem with his elbow and asked quietly.
Liu Wan Yan once again surveyed the entire house, frowned and said, "I didn't see Yuling ah, I didn't see anything?"
"Really?" Thanh Nhat Hanh said with doubt in his words.
Liu Wan Diem nodded his head and once again affirmed, "Really nothing!"
"Then this old lady this is strange, you have not seen anything, that can not be she can still see." Nemesis Cheng exclaimed strangely.
"Who knows!" Liu Wan Diem replied, saying, "Let's watch for now and see what else she says."
On the side, the village chief saw that the fifth old lady had woken up and was actually talking nonsense, so he asked his daughter-in-law to go up and help the fifth old lady.
How do you know that the five grandmothers to help their own people threw fast, two legs backward a turn, the diameter of the bed kneeling up, kneeling well enough also while kowtowing, mouth chanting: "I'm wrong, really I'm wrong, I do not dare to, Nguyen Leng, please do not come to find me again."
Liu Wan Diem three people at this time even more strange, obviously there is nothing, how the five grannies will be like this.
But at this time, Gangzi was still alone, holding his head, squatting on the floor, as if everything in the house had nothing to do with him, and Xiao Fen also as if she had long since lost her strength, sat down on her buttocks on the edge of the table, disengaged.
Seeing such an episode, the five grandmothers' sons and daughters-in-law could not help, the village chief also had to beg the doctor to go up and give the five grandmothers another look.