Standing by the embankment.
Watching the situation on the river.
Fang Zheng, who was mistaken for a fishing enthusiast, turned to look at the nearby villager.
It was a villager who was a boat worker. He should have lived on the river for generations. He was bending over to tie the rope to the boat while shouting at Fangzheng.
Fangzheng's heart moved, so he asked politely: "Uncle, why do you say that the river is not peaceful at night?"
On the riverside in summer, the wind is a bit cool.
Cool breeze.
It is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there are rivers flowing through it. According to metaphysics, Feng Shui is good, and it is much cooler than the sweltering city with heavily polluted glass curtain walls.
After the villager finished tying the rope, he got up and was about to go home. He said to Fangzheng earnestly, "As long as there is water, many people will definitely drown. You still need to have a little sense of awe."
"I heard from people in the old life that water has a strong yin energy. Anyone who drowns in the water will have their souls and grievances trapped by the yin water and cannot be reincarnated. Moreover, people who drowned either died in vain or died unjustly. After death, the resentment will be even greater. Therefore, it has been a saying since ancient times that people who drowned, because of their resentment, will pull people into the water to take the place of the dead ghost, so that they can be reincarnated."
Fangzheng stood by the river embankment, blowing the slightly cold river wind at dusk, and said with a smile: "If people are really reincarnated after death, then I think these water ghosts will definitely not be able to reincarnate even if they really pull people into the water as ghosts for the dead, so this The folk rumors must be false."
The villagers had already approached and asked curiously, "Why do you say that, young man?"
"Because there are Hades, Book of Life and Death, Nie Jingtai, and Naihe Bridge in the underworld. The wicked can't even pass the Naihe Bridge, let alone the second trial of the Book of Life and Death, which is the final trial of Hades. So, you can't even pass the first trial, don't It is said that he has been reincarnated, and the hundred-year-old Daoshan oil pot set meal is waiting for him." The setting sun slanted, Fangzheng's cheeks were rendered with a golden glaze under the setting sun, and the figure gave a sense of emptiness and unreality.
Uncle: "..."
"You young man is a bit interesting, even the second trial and the final trial have come out."
"Young man, you should go back early, the river is indeed not peaceful at night."
"Uncle, you have always said that it is not peaceful. Did something happen in this river? Or, uncle, you have been sailing for a living all year round. Did you encounter anything on this river?"
The uncle waved his hand and continued to walk home. Obviously, he didn't want to talk to Fang Zheng, a foreigner.
But I don't know.
At this time, there was a sound of crying and crying, and a middle-aged rural woman was seen, supported by several relatives, wearing white silk on her head by the river embankment, crying heartbroken.
"The members of the Guo family are going to die. They died in the seventy-two gates of ghosts. How can they recover their bodies?" The villager uncle looked at the heartbroken rural woman who was crying by the river, Shaking his head, he said regretfully.
The biggest sting in life is when a white-haired person gives a black-haired person.
Fangzheng listened.
I feel like there's a drama going on here.
The uncle knew the rural woman, who seemed to be from the same nearby village.
"Uncle, listen to the meaning of your words, do you know that poor mother? Do the seventy-two ghost gates refer to the river in front of us? Why do you say that people who fall into the water and drown can't retrieve their bodies?"
Fangzheng asked half-truthfully, trying to get more information from the mouth of the villager uncle.
"Poor? Oh, Guo Chengzhi's mother is indeed pitiful. A white-haired person gives a black-haired person, but Guo Chengzhi's death is not worthy of sympathy at all. If he is not greedy for money, this person will not be gone, and he will not be troubled." It's someone else."
The tone of the villager's uncle suddenly changed, becoming somewhat complaining.
Perhaps it was because this incident had been suppressed for a long time, and he could not tell the villagers about it, for fear of damaging the relationship with the neighbors, the villager uncle started talking about it, and then began to tell the general cause and effect to Fangzheng, a foreigner.
It turned out that the village woman who sent the white-haired man to the black-haired man was indeed from the same village as the villager uncle.
Then Guo Chengzhi didn't drown for no reason.
died of greed.
Some time ago, there was an entrepreneur’s son who took a boat on the upper reaches of the river. As a result, the boat seemed to hit a rock or hit something in the river. The boat capsized accidentally, and many people died. Some of the bodies were salvaged, and some were found no.
If the body cannot be found upstream, it must have been washed downstream.
Among them was the entrepreneur's son.
The entrepreneur had a lot of assets. Later, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources and spent several days and nights, but he couldn't find the body in the downstream. So some people speculated whether the body was drifting from the upstream. Entering the seventy-two gates of ghosts with complicated waterways in the middle of the mountain, got stuck in a crevice in a certain rock in the water cave, and didn't rush downstream
Where is the seventy-two ghost gates
The local villagers know it best!
It is a forbidden place that has been taught by ancestors since childhood, and no one can set foot in it. That place is too dangerous. It is said that there are ancient tombs buried there. There are only three kinds of results for those who enter.
It's either getting lost, or getting confused.
The worst ending is that he will not be able to get out for the rest of his life. It is natural to imagine whether this person will live or die.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that the villagers who have lived by the river for generations never enter the seventy-two gates of ghosts, that place is too evil.
In addition, according to what the village uncle said, I heard from the older generation that during the war years, a large number of corpses floated down the upstream, all of which were stranded in the complicated water holes with twists and turns, and none of the corpses floated out. fierce.
The entrepreneur did not listen to the advice of the villagers, and insisted on sending professional divers into the seventy-two ghost gates to retrieve the corpses.
As a result, several times before and after, it was all in vain.
According to the divers who came back, they had to enter seventy-two ghost gates when they dived. As a result, the water caves in the mountainside had complex terrain, harsh environment, very fast water flow, and many undercurrent vortexes. People couldn't see things clearly. Just lost the way.
If it weren't for the ropes on the boat, they might not even be able to find their way back.
It was not good underwater, so the entrepreneur found many nearby ships and entered the seventy-two ghost gates together. As a result, these ships lost their way as soon as they entered. The water caves in the mountainside are complicated and the water flow is turbulent. The fleet was quickly dispersed, and each was brought into different fork water caves by the turbulent undercurrent.
After suffering a lot, these ships did not come out the same way until a few days later.
How did they come out
It's all about asking three questions.
I only know that they have been advancing in the water cave in the mountainside. The water cave has nine twists and turns, and the field of vision is pitch black.
"Young man, tell me, are these seventy-two ghost gates closed by evil ones? In the connected water holes, the sun does not shine all year round, and the air is heavy. No matter day or night, people are like being trapped by ghosts. I got lost, like a ghost hitting a wall, quickly lost my way, and finally came out by myself in a daze." The villager uncle said with lingering fear.
Fangzheng nodded thoughtfully.
"There are indeed some evil ways."
Fangzheng raised his head and looked towards the distance of the river, where there were many mountains, all kinds of mountains were winding like a snake's back, rising and falling one after another, the shrubs on the mountains were lush, and the canopy covered the sun.
And among the mountains, there are countless water holes, and the terrain is complex.
"Then did the entrepreneur salvage his son's body?"
"Uncle, is the death of Guo Chengzhi you mentioned related to salvaging the body of the entrepreneur's son?"
Fangzheng looked away, looked at the villager uncle beside him, and asked more curiously.
(end of this chapter)