When there was no case, they went fishing.
In the early days, before Ludao Island developed, they were the boatmen responsible for ferrying people from Ludao Island to Gulangyu Island on the opposite side.
There were no cruise ships before, so wooden boats were used for manpower. of.
Because they have been ferrying people to the sea for a long time, they often see drowned people floating on the sea.
When the police are handling cases, they always have to pick up the bodies.
However, the people in southern Fujian are very taboo about these things, so they pay high prices to have them fished out.
The ferry business was not very good at that time.
After all, there were not many tourists at that time.
His customers were residents of Gulang Island.
They came to Ludao to purchase daily necessities and needed to cross the sea back and forth, so this business was born.
But later there were many competitors, and after Ludao developed tourism, the government purchased cruise ships, so their wooden boats were no longer needed.
Without a job, they had to find their own way out.
Some people chose to go fishing at sea, while others engaged in breeding at home, but some of them chose to help the police fish out corpses because the money came quickly.
There were still three families doing this business before, but then they felt unlucky, so two families stopped doing it, leaving only one old man who is still doing it.
He is over sixty this year.
Grandpa said that he met this water ghost when he went to help the bodies that were fished out to be saved.
He was also known as the old ghost.
The old ghost's house is also a tile-roofed house.
There is a small yard in front of the door, surrounded by fences.
There is a black dog tied up in the yard.
As soon as he sees us approaching his door, he keeps barking.
There is a long bamboo pole standing in the yard, with a black rope hanging on it, and a Bagua bronze mirror hanging on the bottom of the rope.
Hearing the dog barking, the door creaked open, and an old man with white hair stuck his head out.
After seeing my grandfather, he sneered and said: "What kind of wind blew your nose today?
How many times have you been missing?"
Years ago, I didn’t contact you after I came back.”
"Old ghost, I don't have time to reminisce about old times now.
I need your help to fish out someone.
This person has now sunk to the bottom of Yunxi River.
He should have sunk in the deep water area last night."
My grandfather said straight to the point.
"Who is it?"
The old ghost frowned slightly, looking at my grandfather in a hurry, and he was not in the mood to joke.
"The old man who lends kitchen knives on credit."
My grandfather said a few words.
"Go" without saying anything, the old ghost said "go".
But it only took half an hour to prepare the outfit.
The most troublesome thing was his wooden boat, which should be Shanmu Village.
Before setting off, he coated the wooden boat with a layer of tung oil, then found a tractor to pull the boat Arrived at the edge of Yunxi River.
He rocked the boat down the river, while we rode our motorcycles downstream.
We arrived at the place where the incident occurred first.
After all, it is easier to travel by land than by water.
The old ghost arrived half an hour after us.
After arriving, his boat stopped by the stream.
He stood on the boat and looked straight into the fast current.
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The whole person seemed to be petrified, motionless, but his eyes began to become turbid, as green as clouds and streams.
What's even more terrifying is that his black dog, like him, stands straight on the boat, motionless, staring straight into the water.
"I saw it."
After a while, the old ghost said: "But why is it a walking corpse?"
I didn't understand "Walking Corpse", and my grandfather was also a little surprised and said: "People stand upright at the bottom of the water."
"Yes, and he will not close his eyes until death, with his eyes wide open."
After the old ghost said, I suddenly got goosebumps all over my body.
I don't know if it was because I heard that the old man would not close his eyes until death, or because the old ghost could instantly see through the stream and see the people sinking to the bottom of the stream. corpse.
"How could it be?
When we were chatting yesterday, he was still talking and laughing.
He also left us a farewell message on the sand above.
At least he should have left without worries."
My grandfather's face was twisted. .
"Old Taoist, it's not that I'm an old ghost who doesn't show mercy.
You really can't fish this dead person.
You also know our rules.
We won't fish a corpse standing under the water or with only a strand of hair floating out.
We are fishing for a corpse, not a replacement.
The person who seeks justice is obviously unwilling or resentful in his heart.
From my experience, if he rots under the water, he will never come up."
The old ghost looked embarrassed.
My grandfather was also very embarrassed.
He said: "Old ghost, we have known each other for so many years.
Let alone friendship, as for this person now, you also know what he does.
He helps the world with credit and saves people with kitchen knives, but he ended up with this." , this leech disaster in Yunxi, if he hadn't warned in advance, there would definitely be a lot of casualties. " The old ghost looked at my grandpa, then turned to look in the direction of the stream.
Finally, his eyes fell on the old dog beside him.
The old dog also looked up at him and said, "Old dog, is this man going to make a profit?"
woof woof woof The old dog barked three times, and the old ghost showed a smile and said: "Okay, since you agree, we will give him a ride.
Good people are rewarded."
The old ghost took off the Bagua bronze mirror hanging from the bamboo pole, embedded it in the octagonal groove on the bow of the wooden boat, then used the bamboo pole to support the wooden boat and swam towards the middle of the stream.
When they got to the middle of the stream, the old ghost tied the other end of the rope to the bamboo pole.
The bronze mirror was hanging on this end before.
Now that it is tied, the whole rope is in the shape of a ring.
With the bamboo pole, The pole is matched like a dog stick.
The old ghost held his pennies, faced the stream, and said in a loud voice: "Old man, we are here to take you on your last journey and let you rest in peace."
After saying that, he put the end of the bamboo pole with the noose into the water.
The bamboo pole was five or six meters long.
The old ghost submerged it section by section into the water.
Due to the strong current, the center of the bamboo pole was hollow.
So keep floating.
But the old ghost seems to be used to it and is very skillful in controlling it.
The bamboo pole stretched to the end, and there were less than three knots left in the old ghost's hand.
Then the old ghost held the bamboo pole and stirred it in the water for a few times, then swung it up and down hard, and said with a delighted smile: "It's on, it's just right."
Under the arm."
He tried to pull back the pennant, but it seemed to be very heavy and motionless.
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The smile on his face froze instantly.
He turned to look at us on the shore and said, "Old Taoist, pull the rope quickly."
"Okay" Grandpa said good, and we quickly pulled the boat rope in our hands.
This boat rope was used to fix the boat.
In such fast currents, if there was no boat rope, the boat would have been washed away by the water.
Just before rowing across, this boat rope was in our hands.
This rope is the same as the rope he used to fish out the body.
I looked a little strange.
The rope was hand-knitted, and there was some black hair mixed in it.
Just now I secretly asked my grandpa what kind of hair it was, and grandpa said it was the hair of the black dog on the boat.
The four of us pulled the boat rope, and then pulled it back hard.
The old ghost fixed Penny on the wooden boat and controlled it tightly with both hands.
After a lot of effort, the old man's body finally emerged from the water.
As expected, it was just as the old ghost said.
He still had his eyes wide open, but there were no eyes in his eyes, and they were all white, staring at two eyes.
The white eyeballs looked at us, extremely scary.
Thinking of him yesterday and looking at him in front of me, my whole body was trembling.
We pulled the boat rope up a little bit, because the current was too fast and the resistance was great.
"It's broken, how could this happen?"
The old ghost suddenly shouted, the voice was very shrill, as if he had seen a ghost.
We also looked at the old man's body in the stream, and we were completely dumbfounded
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