Chapter 39: I heard there is a ghost under the bridge
A few days, our brothers and sisters to eat lunch, even after the nap is not rest, seven or eight people together to the embankment to skate, not for anything else, is to see where there are small children bathing, a few brothers and sisters immediately rushed over to the side of the river, standing on the river, waiting for any accidental situation, and then jumped into the river to save people, by the way, can catch the old bastard spirit the best.
We can not be idle all day long to guard the river to play, have to pick a time period, the general morning bathing people are very few, even the gang of children, also rarely go to bathe. Besides, since we encountered the evil in the river, and risked his life to save the three children, the village adults look at the children to see all the tight, afraid of children to go to the river to bathe in an accident.
Once the adults took a break after lunch, the village children would sneak out and bathe in the river. Just in time for the afternoon is the hottest time of the day, this group of children naturally in the home can not stay, they do not care what the river what scapegoat ah wangbajing a class of dirty things, in their young minds, play the pain, is the most important thing.
I, Chen Jin, Chang Yunliang, Xue Zhigang four people in that bravely save children in the water after the incident, in the village reputation, can be said to be a resounding hero. So other buddies naturally envious, a heard to go to the river to catch a chance to save people catching Wang Bajing, so one like eating rat poison, excited, a not more than a high motivation, can not wait to the river to catch a few small children suddenly encountered danger, and then a few brothers and sisters jumped into the river, heroically rescue the children from danger, of course, the result of nature is that those children crying and shouting back home to tell their parents! Shouting back home to tell their parents in the river how how they encountered a dangerous situation, so-and-so a few big brother stepped forward and sacrificed his life to save us …… and then after that, those who are the parents when the mother to lead the children to the door to thank you, and then the village began to publicize so-and-so bravely save the children in the water… …
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it.
A few buddies said these words, I simply cried and laughed, laughed and scolded: "You're not fucking sick? The mother of all things is not good it? Why do you have to look forward to the expectation of other children in the river encountered danger ah? Really if drowned, you did not save people up, I see how you face the village folks!"
Chang Hanqiang said disdainfully: "Come on, with our buddy's water, from the head of the river to fish up a few small children, that is not the crotch of his own bird, hand to hand!"
"That is, a few of you can become a celebrity ah, full of people do not know hungry people hungry, say sneers it ……" Guo Chao also said on the side.
Chang Yunliang said: "Go go go, we celebrity ah? To say the most famous, or people Yinle, now the village who do not know Comrade Zhao Yinle that is the top man, dare to fight with the demons and monsters, and defeated the evil things ……"
"Right right, as for the three of us, but also just do as a good citizen of the People's Republic of China should do their duty, not worth mentioning not worth mentioning ah ……" Chen Jin immediately followed Chang Yunliang words cheerfully said.
At that time, I listened to their words how so not a flavor? I said: "all fucking less bullshit, keep a close eye, in case of a situation, the good thing to save people to save you, I also want to go down to the water to capture the old bastard essence it."
"Come on, I'm not responsible for saving people, I'll go with Yinle to catch the bastard spirit, if I really catch it, I'll skin it alive and drink the soup, it's definitely a great tonic, and it's not good for prolonging life and living a long life." Chen Jin was also very humble and turned down the honorable task to his other buddies.
Yao Jing this kid is the most practical, he said very seriously: "in, catching Wang Ba Jing thing is too dangerous, we a few want to help also can not help, no good accident still have to you two save, this will become a help, alas, you two rest assured to go, as for those who encountered the danger of the children, teach a few of us to save can be."
The brothers and sisters immediately all aimed their cannons at Yao Jing and fired at him.
I said, "That's all you've got, isn't it true that you're still exclusively responsible for pulling people upwards from the shore? You don't even need to go into the water."
Chen Jin said, "Hey, if I say Yao Jing this kid, a quasi is to do the information material, once you see the danger appeared, he will be able to go back to the village as fast as possible to call people to go, haha."
"Come on, put people Yao Jing said how bad ah, if I say, really out of the matter, Yao Jing will not hesitate to jump into the river, brave to save the children in the water." Chang Yunliang pretending to be a good person said with a bad smile.
Yao Jing immediately said, "That's right, our buddy is not that timid person."
"But ……" Chang Yunliang words turn, said: "Yao Jing you motherfucker can not jump in to save people, or else, we gangs of people still have to go back to save you this asshole thing? You motherfucker in the river, in addition to the dog paddle, nothing else will ah!"
Brothers laughed out loud, Yao Jing angry face red neck thick, froze can not say anything.
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That said, these days, our brothers and sisters spirit, always ready to cope with the likely danger, after all, the old bastard spirit last time wanted to drag away the small Liu Min but did not succeed, it will never let go, will certainly come back.
However, there had been no movement for several days in a row, making a few of us a bit jaded in our hearts.
Chen Jin and I led the brothers to look for Hu Laoshi once again, but Hu Laoshi said: "Don't be anxious, the opportunity will soon come, haven't you heard? The village is going to build a river god temple at the bridge of the downstream river, think about it, when the river god temple is built, who will live? Who will enjoy the offerings? That old turtle spirit definitely can't be bored, it will come."
"What if it doesn't come? Isn't it what you said, this thing it doesn't care about people's offerings ……," I said doubtfully.
"Do not care? That is the wrong time, when the village is full of evil things, the old turtle spirit lazy to come to the village to compete for that bit of oil, and, I and the old age of the village, it dares to come?" Hu Laoshi said seriously, "But now it's different, this thing is the most revenge, and has always been able to give you time, in its heart, the gentleman revenge ten years is not too late words but remembered clearly, it can have plenty of time to accompany you to spend ……."
Chen Jin said: "Yes, a thousand years, a thousand years of tortoise, it is long-lived simply perverted, but not willing to spend time with you?"
"That's not right ah, the old woman years old living time is also long enough ah." I said.
"This has nothing to do with the old turtle spirit, you think it and the white fox spirit so smart ah?" Hu Laoshi said with a smile, "The old turtle spirit ah, just think they live a long time, I do not believe that I can not wait for the opportunity, and so on to wear you all to death, I will then take action, this thing is a chronic, not at all anxious, and now that the old taiyouyi is gone, it will certainly come to the village to enjoy the offerings proudly."
Chen Jin laughed and said sarcastically, "It seems that the other old bastard spirit didn't take you, Immortal Hu, as a dish at all!"
Old Hu laughed and didn't take it seriously as he said, "Whether it takes me seriously or not, as long as it lives inside the temple and leaves the water, then I have a way to trap it."
"But that's still your own guess, what do you do if it just doesn't enter the temple?" I said somewhat stubbornly.
"This ……" Hu Laoshi was a little angry at my stubbornness and said, "If it doesn't enter the temple, I'll go and burn incense every day, inviting it and begging it to enter the temple, okay?"
I spread my hands and said to my brothers, "Everyone heard that, isn't this a waste of time? Come on, let's just do it ourselves!"
"Hey hey, if you ask me, it's better to grasp both hands together, and both should be hard." Chang Yunliang in the middle of the mud, said: "We continue to be careful of that old bastard to do bad things, Master Hu, be ready, in case the temple is built, the old bastard really went in, we will get it dead!"
Brothers all nodded in favor, I also had to nod to agree, really need to do so, otherwise, what to do? Can't we all jump into the river and swim a little bit to get the old bastard out?
This is not bullshit?
It is true that the village people in that a few old lady flirting, also do not mind the weather is hot, on the riverbank inside, the bridge began to build a temple.
But this time the scale of the river temple is really not like, let us a few feel that this is also too shabby a little bit.
This river temple, sitting south to north, north and south is only one meter five wide, east and west less than two meters long, height, hey, to the top of the child is less than two meters, even so, but also built in style, red brick and green tiles, two small windows, a small door, in the head is really honored with a two-foot-high clay statue of an old man's likeness, and the old man with the life of the star long difference, with the root of a crutch.
I really admire the village gang of old ladies and those old men, imaginative enough, how do they know that the river god looks like that? They were not afraid of being sued for violating their portrait rights by the god of longevity?
Thinking about it now, probably at that time is really embarrassed to call on the villagers to contribute more donations, because this half a year, the villagers in order to repair the temple to build the temple, has been a lot of money a lot of strength, and then so tossed down, is a little too much. So this time the scale of the river god temple, also so little.
Because of the small size of the reason, so this river temple from the cover to the decoration, to the villagers began to go in the leadership of the old ladies to incense worship kowtow on the offerings, a total of not more than three days time.
High efficiency, right? To be honest, if the workers and leaders of those state-owned enterprises had half the enthusiasm of these old ladies in our village to build temples, the size of the enterprise would have to double in less than a year.
Our gang of buddies looked at the river god temple can not help but laugh, I look at the temple on the angry, and brothers said: "I said, just for the size of the temple, if I am the old Wang Bajing, absolutely do not live in, shabby who is this?"
"Come on, it's over! Hurry up and inform Hu Laoshi, just say that the old wangbajing definitely won't come to live in the River God Temple." Chen Jin immediately hung his head and said.
"Bullshit, how did you know that?" I asked.
"Didn't you just say you weren't going in?" Chen Jin said seriously.
"Fuck you!" I immediately cursed, feeling that this kid was cursing me in a roundabout way.
The brothers all tried to laugh and coaxed.
Our gang jokes, just from the river temple is not far from the mouth of the river embankment, and the river temple in front, the few old ladies and the village a few women comrades are there to worship the river god, a few old ladies also specialize in getting a big red silk to hang on the small temple door.
As a result, they heard a few of us not far away from the laughter, and the river god temple pointing, full of disrespectful look. The old ladies were not happy, and the women were not happy either.
The old ladies were already prejudiced against us, and the women thought we were mocking them, so they all glared at us.
We a few face full of indifference to smile at them, face written with the word wronged two words, but also show a sentence: "grandmothers, aunts, why so eye eye fierce look at us, we did not provoke you ah ……."
After a long time of hatred with our gang, they finally chose to helplessly tolerate, who all know, this gang of young people are not to be messed with, previously in the village of fierce reputation, and now is the village of the famous heroes, really want to reprimand us for a meal, it is clear that we are a group of people can not afford to eat half of the Lord of the loss, and will certainly counterattack, and then they are so old, they can not stand up to do so how to do? They are the ones who will lose face,…….
We were quite shameless at that time.
The river god temple built up, not yet three days time it, the village began to have unfavorable rumors about the temple, it is said that the front street Xu Erdog and Zhang Qingping two people can not sleep at night hot, go to the river together to bathe on the bridge, and as a result, ran into the headless ghost.
Well, at that time, at night time, men and women would seize the bridgehead position. Because bathing in the bridge is the most comfortable, because the bridge on both sides of the river bank, built two more than a meter wide stone steps, also has a depth of more than one meter, under the bridge, the water flow from the top and down, because there is a dam, down after the water level than the above is a little lower, After the bridge hole, both sides of the stone steps just exposed, people wash clothes on it in the daytime, to the night, sitting on it to bathe, rub their bodies, and cool, but also the body of the body. Rubbing body, and cool and comfortable, rubbing the body, jumped directly to the bridge hole sub water a wash, clean, fresh and clean.
So men and women will compete for the position here, who first arrived, undressed and began to wash, then the other party failed, wait, until 10:00 p.m., but still can not take your turn, because too many people bathing.
In this case, mostly women have the advantage, nine out of ten days is the women's night to stand on the bridge at the advantage of the geographic location of the bath, because women wash clothes during the day, ah, to the evening, a look at the passing of fewer people, simply take off their clothes on the bath, this wash, female compatriots took over, you have not yet finished washing, they came again, so the men had to go elsewhere, jumped to the river water to wash.
So, the summer night, usually to that eleven or two o'clock after the clock, there will be some did not sleep on the big old man to run to the bridge to take a bath to go, cool off and go home to sleep, sleep ah.
Xu two dogs and Zhang Qingping two people this year are forty years old, according to them both said, that night the two people to go to the bridge in front of the bath, the result is sitting on the stone steps rubbing each other's body it, suddenly found that three holes in the middle of the bridge hole in the hole, there is a bright light a flash.
Two people wondered how this is the matter ah? So the two people bravely jumped into the river and slowly walked over to the middle of the bridge hole, the two people are terrified, they saw a person without a head is in the bridge hole in the turbulent water back and forth in the walk, the hand is also held high in the hands of a kerosene lamp, the light flickering.
Now the two people were frightened, even clothes did not care to wear, bare feet ran back, the next day both bedridden, scared to start a high fever.
After this happened, the villagers began to establish this river temple have doubts, have discussed whether it is a waste of money, the establishment of the river temple was intended to let the gods protect our village, the children after the river is not dangerous, the results of this scapegoat has not been driven away, and then came to a headless ghost with a lamp, but also in the river temple is directly across the bridge under the river, the river god did what went?
In order to relieve the villagers of their own ability to doubt, the old women of the village put the blame for this on us young people, saying that we that day in front of the river god temple, said a lot of big talk, said a lot of treacherous words, angered the river god, the god of the river sent headless ghosts, ready to punish us young people, as for the rest of the villagers do not need to be afraid of the headless ghosts are not harmful to them.
You don't believe me? If you don't believe me, you can ask Xu Erdog and Zhang Qingping, although they encountered the Headless Ghost that night, they were afraid of the Headless Ghost, did the Headless Ghost harm them? No.
What did the headless ghost do with the lamp? It is to shine, see clearly who in the end, if it is our group of young people, then it is going to scourge us.
Well, the villagers really believe these words.
I said this is not nonsense, the old ladies really blind, froze out of such a sound also special reasonable story to.
Brothers and sisters in a discussion together, said that the fuck is true is false, we go to see this headless ghost at night, if it is really aimed at us, we just kill it, the first to strike, after the first to suffer, grandmother's dare to cross with the little masters, is not asking for trouble?
If it is not looking for our trouble, then it is also good to say ah, we happen to be righteous, for the village to get rid of this scourge!
But in the end there is no headless ghost with a lamp, in the absence of seeing before, we do not have a bottom line in our hearts, as the saying goes, hearing is not believing, and then again, this is related to a few of our reputation, and even personal safety issues.
What we have to say after twelve o'clock at night, go to a trip to the bottom of the bridge, will be the legendary headless ghost with a lamp.