The outside of the house is shabby, and the inside is not much better. It is very simple and has only one stool. The old man asked the two policemen who had come from afar to sit on the wooden bed while he sat on the small bench.
There was freshly cut watermelon on the table. We originally planned to sit down and chat while eating the watermelon, but the old man had no appetite. He described what happened that day in a serious tone.
"It was such a sunny day that day. I took Xiaojun to the reservoir to fish. I asked him to stay on the shore and fish while I took the boat to deeper waters. There were few fish in the reservoir, and you couldn't catch fish on the shore. Xiaojun Jun is very well-behaved, and every time we come to fish, he will stay calmly on the shore and wait. In order to prevent him from getting bored, I also made him a fishing rod, and occasionally I can catch a few small fish."
"The reservoir was very quiet that day. I don't know why. I fished in the reservoir for more than an hour, but there wasn't a single fish. I spilled a lot of rice, but not a single fish took the bait..."
Li Xianyu interrupted him and frowned: "When did there start to be no fish?"
This is very important. Generally speaking, if there are suddenly no fish in the water, it is very likely that something has come to that area, and the fish have either been eaten up or escaped.
"We come here to fish about twice a week, and the fishing was good last time." Old Man Xu said.
Li Xianyu nodded, "You continue."
In other words, if something does come into the reservoir, it will be in those few days.
That's right. If there are always monsters in the reservoir, there won't be any relevant rumors in the village. The child was eaten, and the villagers did not believe what the old man said. It shows that there was nothing in the reservoir before.
"I closed the fishhook, and the earthworms on it were so swollen that even the small fish didn't come to take a bite. I was about to row the boat farther away to try it, but suddenly I heard Xiaojun shouting to me. He said that there was no water in the water. There is something, it's a big fish. I don't believe it, let him wait where he is, don't go into the water, don't run around, and just row the boat on his own."
"After a few strokes, I heard Xiaojun shout again: "Grandpa, there is a big fish in the water, and it is swimming toward me." "I turned my head and took a look. The water was very calm. Just when I was about to scold it, a monster came out of the water and took Xiaojun away in one mouthful." At this point, the old man looked very painful and beat himself in tears. Knee: "If I believed him, I might be able to save him. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have brought him here."
"What does that monster look like?" Li Xianyu asked.
"It can't be seen clearly. It moves very fast. I only see the black back, but it is very big, bigger than a cow. It is a monster." The old man said.
Li Xianyu frowned. The old man couldn't lie. He probably really didn't see clearly.
The black back... is it a crocodile
When a crocodile hunts, it will lie motionless in the water, waiting for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to its prey. The moment of hunting is as fast as lightning, so the old man turned his head and saw that the water was calm.
The above is the brainchild of Li Xianyu, a lover of animal world programs.
"No one believed what I said. Everyone said that I didn't take good care of the child and caused him to drown. But the drowned body will always float up. Without a body, Xiaojun would have been eaten by monsters." The old man slapped his knees excitedly again.
This is indeed an unreasonable place, but compared to the absurd statement that monsters appear in the reservoir, people are more willing to believe that the body cannot float for some reason, such as being entangled in water plants.
After this happened, my son and daughter-in-law rushed back from Zhejiang Province and were heartbroken to learn that their son had drowned and not even his body could be found. But the father categorically said that the child was eaten by a monster. In the eyes of the young couple, isn't this an excuse to shirk responsibility? You can imagine how they feel.
The son and daughter-in-law made a big fuss at home, severed the father-son relationship with Old Man Xu, and left immediately after attending his son's funeral, saying they would never come back in this life. His wife couldn't forgive him and kicked him out of the house.
"You have been living near the reservoir, are you planning to find it?" Li Xianyu asked.
The old man's eyes burst out with hatred: "Yes, no matter what it is, I will catch it. I will avenge Xiaojun, and I will avenge myself even if I die."
The thick nets outside the house could easily catch sharks, and they were obviously intended to be used by the old man to deal with monsters.
"But I didn't find it. I dug a lot of wooden stakes in the reservoir. There were nets on the wooden stakes. As long as it passed by, it would be caught in the net, but it didn't appear. I would go fishing in the reservoir by boat every day, and the fish gradually There are less. I checked along the edge of the reservoir and found no strange traces. So I guess it must still be in the water."
"But what if..."
If it were still in the water and you were floating around in the water every day, you would have fed the monster's belly long ago.
The thing happened a month ago. Although I don’t know why the monster came here, it is obvious that this is not its territory. Maybe it has actually left
Li Xianyu felt that there was a high probability that his trip would be in vain... No, it would not be in vain.
He raised his head and looked at the beams, which were covered with cobwebs and had a yellow paper charm stuck in the middle.
"Uncle, you didn't build this house, right? It looks quite old." Li Xianyu asked casually.
"This is where the former reservoir manager lived." Old Man Xu said.
Grandma, who had always lowered her head to eat watermelon, suddenly asked: "Has anything happened to this room before?"
Old man Xu was stunned and looked at his grandma. It was not that she was beautiful, but that she was right.
"In the past, a power plant was built here at the reservoir, just across the mountain, so there had to be an administrator to look after it. The administrator was a widower and had been living here. Later, the daughter-in-law of a family in the next village went out to herd sheep and never came back. , I couldn’t find her anywhere. Half a year later, the widower turned himself in at the police station and said that he had hidden the little daughter-in-law."
"He confessed his crime. He saw his daughter-in-law herding sheep alone in the mountains six months ago. He got interested in her and knocked her unconscious and brought her back here. He knocked the woman unconscious during the day, tied her up and locked her in a box, and then violently raped her at night." The old man pointed to the bottom of the bed, "The box is buried in the ground, covered with a lid, and then sprinkled with soil. If the person faints in the box, no one can find her. As time goes by, no one will look for her anymore."
"Then why did you surrender?"
"I heard that there was a time when the binding was not completed, and the woman hanged herself on the beam. The widower buried her body on the mountain. After that, he would dream about a woman sleeping next to the bed every night. Sometimes he would wake up in the middle of the night and open the door. It was open, but he clearly remembered to lock the door before going to bed. He knew the house was haunted, so he surrendered. But the police said he was under too much mental stress and hallucinating."
"Is the woman pregnant?" Grandma said again.
Old man Xu looked at her as if she was seeing a ghost, and told her again: "After the police dug up the body, they found that the woman was four months pregnant."
After saying that, the old man looked a little nervous and said, "How do you know."
Li Xianyu smiled and said: "We are the police, it's just simple reasoning. If a woman has been imprisoned and raped for half a year, it is natural for her to become pregnant."
The fact is that the woman is hanging above Old Man Xu. Her face is the color of pig liver, her tongue is sticking out, and her cataract eyes are staring at the three people below, which is weird and terrifying.
In addition, she had bruises and scars on her body, her belly was slightly bulging, and she was only wearing clothes that were so tattered that they could barely cover her body. This is what she looked like before she died.
She didn't leave, she stayed in the house. However, the yellow paper talisman on the beam held her down, otherwise Old Man Xu would have died at the hands of the female ghost who hanged herself before he could avenge his grandson.
(End of chapter)