Something happened to my sister at home!

My family lives by the Yellow River and has a small bungalow of more than 100 square meters. I live by fishing. I have three children in the family. I am a man. I am just 17 this year.

But on the day of my 17th birthday, something happened to my family. My young sister, who is lively and active, optimistic and cheerful, suddenly rushed out of the door and jumped into the Yellow River during lunch.

My father jumped into the river to search, but he didn't expect it to suddenly rain heavily and the water level increased sharply. My father was forced to stop searching.

My mother cried by the river all night, and the rain fell from noon on the first day to evening on the next day.

That night, I rowed with my father on a flashlight to find my elder sister, but after a week of wandering around, my father gave up.

A week later, my father took me to search for the water ghost on the edge of the Yellow River to catch my elder sister's body.

My eldest sister jumped into the river at that time and should have fallen vertically into the water without being washed away by the water. Besides, the Yellow River has not had heavy water in the past few days.

So my father concluded that my elder sister's body should have sank to the bottom of the Yellow River. For the sake of this, I could only ask the water ghost to help salvage my elder sister's body.

Water ghost does not refer to real ghosts, but is an nickname for the Yellow River corpse fisherman.

Water ghost is an ancient profession, similar to the Sky Burial Master in Tibet and the corpse-carrying man in western Hunan, and they all deal with dead people.

However, the Sky Burial Master and the corpse-carrying man guard the dead, while the water ghost deals with the mysterious "death" under the Yellow River.

The density of the human body is similar to that of water. After the corpse sinks to the bottom of the water, as the corpse blows, the body gradually becomes bloated. These corpse gases turn people into big-headed ghosts with ferocious faces and lips turning outwards.

At this time, as the corpse gas increases, the corpse will gradually float to the water surface. First, the upper limbs rise, and then the lower limbs. Because women and men have different pelvic bones, there is another characteristic of floating corpses, called "men leaning on women", which means these people who fall on the water, those who lean over are men, and those who lean on their bodies are women.

So according to this principle, those who die in the Yellow River will float up by themselves in less than three or five days.

At this time, the family of the deceased just need to beg the boatman to salvage the body.

These "boatmen" who make money by salvaging corpses are called "Yellow River corpse fishermen" and are also called "water ghosts".

My father and I set out.

Our first section of water is from my house to Lankao, Kaifeng. This section of road is about 200 kilometers, winding eastward in a "s" shape, and downstream along the way.

However, it was July, and May to October was the Yellow River flood season. The Yellow River had risen and the water was huge. This section of the ancient Yellow River road has not been navigated for nearly 50 years. There are many big fish and turtle monsters underwater. If you take a boat casually, you may not be unable to walk anywhere, and no one dares to take us over.

We searched at the pier for a long time, and many boatmen ran away with oars when they saw us. They turned around many times. Finally, they found an old boatman who had been sailing on the Yellow River for a lifetime.

It was a dilapidated small yard with a bamboo wormwood standing in the yard. There was a small prism with four corners tied to the top of the bamboo wormwood. There was a black little wolf dog tied to the bottom of the bamboo wormwood.

I looked at the extremely thin puppy and thought that the person who kept him was very stingy and refused to give it food.

Unexpectedly, when the water ghost who was raising him came out, I wanted to slap my big mouth. This is not a dog that can't eat. This person is so hungry, let alone feeding a dog.

I saw the water ghost wearing a torn piece of clothing, and the torn sleeves were not visible whether it was a long-sleeved or a short-sleeved one. The clothes on his upper body were even shorter, and his skinny ribs were revealed in his behavior.

My father didn't say anything, but just nodded at the water ghost who walked out. The water ghost became clear and stretched out his arm to make a gesture to let us enter his room.

I looked at the water ghost's house with disgust. Although I was curious about the mysterious profession on the Yellow River, as a mildly obsessed with cleanliness, I would never go in.

But when my father saw me standing still, he kept nodding at me. I nodded and followed me in.

The house of Shui Gui is very small, only about forty or fifty square meters. The layout of the house is very simple, with a bed, a stool and a half meter high table, and a thick stack of books on the table.

Although the house looks dirty from the outside, it is still very clean after coming in.

I looked at the table and said, "This water ghost doesn't look like he has no culture and wants so many books to do."

Seeing that my father and the water ghost were sitting by the bed talking, I had nothing to do and wanted to go through the books on the table.

"You'd better stop touching them, you can't understand." The water ghost was talking to his father when he suddenly saw me going to touch the books and said immediately.

When I heard this, I was so angry. At least I graduated from high school. Although I am not in school now, my cultural knowledge is still not bad. I still can't understand these few books!

With a half-angry and half-curious attitude, I opened the tallest book on the pile of books. Because the book cover was covered with a thick layer of black dirt, I didn't see what the title of the book was, so I opened it.

I became timid after I opened it. No wonder this old water ghost didn’t let me turn it over. It turned out that the words in it were all classical Chinese!

I silently closed the book, put it back on the original position, obediently got on the small stool beside me, and took out my phone to play.

After seeing my changes, the water ghost who was talking to my father turned his head and smiled at me, and continued to talk to him.

I fiddled with my phone, looked at the e-book, and felt it was boring, so I put on Bluetooth again and turned on the Bluetooth mailbox.

Suddenly, the mechanical girl read the latest email for me.

‘Xiaoyang, brothers are going out to do a thousand games. We are leaving you alone in S City. You should pay more attention. By the way, in another week, Xun'er will go to you. Help your elder brother take care of her for two days, and we will go back in a few days.’

Alas, after listening to this voice, I was very upset. My brother left me a big treasure and asked me to take care of it for two days, which made me feel a headache to think about it.

That's Sister Xun'er! But fortunately, she won't come in a week.

As soon as I put down this Bluetooth, my phone rang. I saw that it was Xiaochen that boy.

"What's wrong?" I answered the phone, "Oh? Is that true? Congratulations, let's talk about it when we meet."

My father was talking to the water ghost, but after hearing my words, he immediately turned around and asked me what was wrong? Who called me?

I smiled and responded quickly: "A best friend called me, saying that he had paid his salary and wanted to treat me to a meal."

My father looked at me suspiciously and then handed me a look of "If you want to go out, just let me go."

I grinned and stood up. After nodding to the water ghost, I walked out of the water ghost's house.

I rushed to the nearby pier as fast as possible. Before I could reach the pier, I saw Xiao Chen in a white suit from afar.

Reluctant, this is my evaluation of Xiaochen. This guy’s part-time job really makes me chant it. No matter how he says he is a graduate of the first-class student. What do you say is not good? He is rushing to ask for him. But he chose a career that is surprising: a smiling service provider.

To put it bluntly, it’s just about making a living by relying on your face: duck-zi. As for the reason, it’s because its official position is too special.

"Brother Yang." Xiao Chen greeted me.

I nodded, which was considered to be his. Although this guy looked in his early twenties, he still wanted to call me "Brother" in front of me, because according to the seniority of the road, I was several generations older than him.

The dock was full of eyes, and he didn't say much to me, just asked me to get on the motorboat first.

When the motorboat reached the central part of the Yellow River, he changed his leisurely appearance, looked around with his eyes floating around, and then said to me mysteriously: "Brother Yang, please help me. Brother, I'm in trouble this time."
Chapter completed!