My grandfather said that I was brought down from the upper reaches of the Yellow River by a coffin. Grandpa said that there are tens of thousands of dead bodies in the 80-mile waters of the Yellow River, but no one has ever survived.
Whenever my grandfather said this, I would say that he lied to me, after all, who would put his child in the coffin, and why everyone else died, but I survived.
Whenever I questioned him, he always touched his white beard and smiled and said it was a secret.
I grew up by the Yellow River with my grandfather, and I have heard a lot of secret legends about the Yellow River. Most of the villages I live in live by collecting corpses. Grandpa is old and senior, and has become the main force of the corpse hunting team. I'm a little older, and I told my grandpa to let me follow him to find the dead body.
But every time Grandpa refused me righteously and didn't allow me to go.
But the other children of the same age in the village followed, and he would not say anything.
The turning point of the matter happened on a heavy rainy night. That day, I was sitting at the door for dinner with a bowl. My grandfather went for a meal with relatives and was not at home. At about ten o'clock in the evening, someone ran in in a hurry, with a look of anxious expression on his face. , He asked: "Young man, is Master Zhang there?"
Master Zhang is my grandfather. I said he was not there. He eagerly asked me when to come back. I said he would not come back for a while. When I saw him in a hurry, I asked him what happened. In fact, I probably guessed that it is not far from ten, and I must be looking for my grandfather to find the corpse.
He patted his thigh and said, what can I do? He went around in the yard.
I told him not to worry, my grandfather is not there, but there are people in the corpse hunting team, I will go find someone for him now. I hurried to the next door and found Mynah.
But the Lord said that he only recognizes my grandfather. Mynah has followed my grandfather for almost ten years. He has seen any kind of corpse. He patted his chest and said that he would have no problem going there. The suffering master saw that my grandpa was not at home, but he was anxious. I accepted it, negotiated the price and was ready to go.
I grabbed Mynah and asked him to take me with him.
Mynah held a cigarette in his mouth and said, "Don't let me go, turn around, the old man blamed him, what should I do if I trouble him
I have lived by the Yellow River for so long, and I have heard a lot about corpse fishing, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes. This time, my grandfather is not at home. I have a chance, and of course I don't want to miss it. I said to Mynah, when you look back, you will say that I ran over by myself. And for this business, I only called him, and didn't call anyone else, and I didn't pay a few people to pay back.
Mynah heard what I said, and said, "When the old man comes to blame, you just said that you ran over."
Seeing my starling promised, I hurriedly said yes.
The six of us rushed to the Yellow River. I was a little bit expectant and nervous. When I reached the Yellow River, the roar of the Yellow River came. The rain was so heavy that the river was rushing, and the downstream curve was even more unfathomable. .
Mynah said to the suffering master with a face of difficulty: "The water is so rushing, and it's a big night, it's hard to get the corpse! You have to increase the price."
Suffering Lord thought for a while, gritted his teeth and agreed. That night, it was dark. Mynah asked me to wait by the river. A few of them got on the boat and went into the river. I stood on the shore and saw one in the distance. The lamp floated around in the river.
This drift is 3 or 4 hours. When they landed, I heard the suffering master crying very sadly.
After the corpse was carried down, Starling was still muttering that this corpse was too strange.
I leaned forward and asked Mynah how weird
Mynah asked me to see it by myself, but don’t pee my pants later, I sneered and walked over, but when I saw the corpse, I couldn’t help but be stunned for a few seconds, because the corpse was a bit wrong and it was too clean. …Know that the yellow water of the Yellow River is yellow because the water is mixed with a lot of sand.
Normal corpses will not only decay if they are soaked in water for a few days, but also a lot of sand will enter the seven orifices.
And the female corpse in front of her, not only did not see the sand in her mouth and nose, but her face was white and lifelike as a living person. I asked Mynah what is going on
Myna touched his head and said, maybe he just died.
Mynah also saw this for the first time, but when the body was salvaged, we didn't care about our affairs later. We got paid and left. On the way home, Mynah gave me some red tickets and said, What happened tonight didn't happen, let me don't tell Grandpa, or we will both have to suffer when we look back.
I think mynah is right. I can't say this. My grandfather tabooed me to go to the Yellow River to see the corpse. I promised mynah.
I returned home cautiously, afraid that my grandfather had already returned, but when I got home, I found that there was no one in the house. I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After taking a hot bath, I lay down and slept.
All night without incident.
When I got up the next day, I felt a little pain in my head and touched my forehead, as if I had a low-grade fever.
I called grandpa, but no one responded. Isn't grandpa coming back yet
I was washing in the yard, but the door was quickly slammed open. A middle-aged man hurried in. He and I also knew him. He was a member of the corpse scavenger team, Erhu. Am I just going to ask Erhu what to say
He yelled to the old man when he opened his mouth, and I said my grandfather hadn't come back yet. He sighed and said, "Go and get him back quickly, something serious happened and dead."
I blindfolded my head for a few seconds, saying who is dead
He stomped his feet, anxiously like ants on a hot pot: "Myna and them are dead, don't talk nonsense, and quickly get the old man back to preside over the overall situation."
With a bang, my brain exploded, and I suddenly felt goose bumps all over my body. Mynah is dead? How could it be possible that we were still together last night. Erhu ran out without waiting for me to speak.
I hurriedly followed out. When I arrived at Mynah’s house, I saw him hanging on the beam at the gate, and there were more than one. There were also two people who went there last night. Three corpses, hanging straight at the gate, in the village. Many people were watching. Basao was crying and crying for people to put the body down, but no one dared to do it.
My uncontrollable heartbeat speeds up, my head is buzzing, my scalp feels numb, and my body feels cold.
I didn't dare to approach, and after returning to my senses, I hurried to my relatives' house to find my grandfather.
This thing happened too weird. I was so scared to death. When I ran to my relatives and found my grandfather, my grandfather asked me what I had said. Did not say that we went to collect the corpses last night.
Only three people died.
When Grandpa heard this, his expression changed abruptly, and he hurried to the village.
My grandfather is the main force in the corpse hunting team, so he has the weight to speak in the village. It is not an exaggeration. Grandpa may have seen more dead people than living people.
Grandpa entered the myna’s yard and asked everyone to get out of the way. I followed closer. After I got closer, I saw the death state of the three corpses. The death state was a bit strange, the face was white, the tongue was sticking out, and the eyeballs were out. Bulge.
But only the lips were red, as if they were dyed red by the aunt.
I could see that, Grandpa suddenly covered my eyes and yelled at me, "What are you looking at? Go back to me quickly."
Grandpa yelled, I didn't dare to speak out, I lost my senses all the way home, suffocating in my heart. Fidgeting, walking back and forth.
Not long after, Erhu ran to my house and asked me to give him the hook that hooked the corpse of my grandfather. I ran to the house and took out a hook, which, to speak of it, has hooked thousands of corpses.
I handed the hook over and asked Erhu, "Erhu, what's going on with Mynah?"
Erhu's complexion was also not good, saying, this time things are wicked, and the old man didn't dare to move the corpse, saying that he was going to invite the man who did it. I asked him, did Grandpa say anything else
Erhu said that his grandpa looked ugly and ruthless, and kept rolling up his sleeves and smoking. It seems that things are not simple this time.
After saying this, Erhu said not to chat with me, and ran away.
I think I still have to confess this matter to my grandpa, but my head will be dizzy. The fever seems to be more serious. The key is that it is raining again. No matter it, this matter must be told to grandpa. Even bigger things are too late to regret.
I ran out and ran for a while, and suddenly felt my head heavier and fainted. I stood for a few seconds, and suddenly my eyes went dark, and I fainted.
When I was fainting, I looked at a face in the blur.
When I woke up again, it was already night, with a hot towel on my forehead, and grandpa sitting by my bed... His complexion was so gloomy...