smuggler

Chapter 186 Fate
"Drown on the bed?" I couldn't believe it. Now that we are on the river, these words always make people shudder.

The thin villager said with horror on his face: "The walls and floors of that house are covered with water, as if a flood had just occurred. Uncle Liu was lying on the bed straight, his face pale and swollen from the water."

"It was when his daughter-in-law was having breakfast that morning. The first time I saw it, I was so heartbroken. I happened to live next door, so I went over to take a look. Uncle Liu was lying on the bed, his eyes wide open. The eyeballs were bulging outwards, as if they were about to explode, and I don’t know what scary things I saw.”

"His ten fingers were covered in blood, his nails were all turned over, and the bed was covered with bloodstains from his nails. Anyway, it was a miserable situation."

I was terrified when I heard it, and felt a chill in my back, because I suddenly thought of the scene of encountering a boat with corpses on the river.

Looking back at Chu Yuan, his expression was also full of dignity.

Because my appearance became unnatural, the thin villager looked at my words and expressions, and obviously saw some eyebrows, and asked me with a somewhat guarded look.

"Did something happen when Uncle Liu sent you to Fengshan Village?"

I hesitated for a moment. There was nothing to hide about this kind of thing. With a hum, I told the story of the boat being anchored on the river and the corpse hugging the boat.

The faces of several people on the boat turned pale after hearing this.

After a while, the skinny villager sighed and said, "No wonder he drowned on the bed. It seems that he was probably entangled by the God of the River."

I now know that the river gods that the local villagers talk about are those dirty things under the water.

The helmsman said beside him: "It's also his fault that he is an old money addict. It's not that he doesn't know that he can't take the boat this month. In my opinion, he has been on the boat for most of his life and feels that he has experience. At this time, there is no one else. Run, I can ask for whatever price I want, if I am not greedy for money, I will not lose my old life."

When he said this, the steering wheel glanced at us with a bad look.

Several other people did not refute.

Because this boat is powered by diesel, the speed is much faster than the old man rowing with his hands when he came in. Looking back at this time, Fengshan Village has become a small spot.

Except for the few of us on the boat, the other two fishermen kept silent. One was sorting things out, and the other was at the bow of the boat facing the river, throwing paper money every once in a while.

After a while of silence on the boat, I tentatively opened my mouth and said to the skinny villager: "The old man said that at this time in July, boats are not allowed on this river. Are you here to fish?"

In fact, we can all see that these fishermen don't look like they come to fish at all.

I also wondered how they came here since they couldn't take a boat on this river this month.

It may be because the fishermen go on boats all the year round, and the relationship on the river is not very social. Several people are not good at talking, and they are busy with their own affairs.

The skinny villager was sitting on the boat, and he liked to chat. After hearing what I said, he waved his hand and said, "July and a half has just passed. If you fish on this river at this time, sometimes you will go down with a net and drag it to the river." What comes up is not necessarily a fish."

After saying this, he continued to add: "We are here to find someone."

"Find someone?"

I was taken aback for a moment, wondering who to look for on this river at this time.

"Like you two, you are foreigners who come here to travel. In fact, every year there will be foreigners like you. It's not my uncle who said that you are living a good life outside. However, I don't know you when you come to such a ghost place to suffer. What do you think, but it's hard to say whether the two of them are as lucky as you."

I suddenly realized that we had been wandering on the river for a long time, and we should have reached the shore long ago, but these villagers have been walking on the river, especially the one who sprinkled paper money in front.

I said a lot: "Uncle, is something wrong?"

The skinny villager sighed, and said: "The donkey friends who came from the provincial capital rented a boat by themselves because no one took the boat. At first, they could still be contacted, but after entering the river, there was no news. Two days later, there is no news, the family found this place, and paid a lot of money to let us come in and look for it!"

I understand, these people were attracted by the bounty.

When mentioning this, the skinny villager thought of something, and said: "It is very likely that the two provincial capitals came here because of the rumors in Fengshan Village, and they wanted to go in and find out."

Having said that, he asked us if we found anyone else in the past two days.

Before I could speak, the man at the helm said, "Two, maybe four!"

The man who sprinkled paper on the bow smiled back and said, "Do you believe what that old lunatic says?"

I was confused.

Seeing the doubts on our faces, the skinny villagers said: "This matter is also a bit evil. I don't know how many people came in. I can't tell you."

This is even more puzzling.

How many people came in? Since there are people who have been in touch, then once you inquire, ask the person who rented the boat or saw it, and you will know.

The skinny villager seemed to know what I was thinking, so he said, "Actually, many people have seen it, but some said it was two people, and some said it was four people."

I frowned, how could even a few people not be sure about this kind of thing.

"It's fine if only one or two people say that. There were quite a few people at the river bank that day, but those people saw it with their own eyes. Some said there were only two people, but some saw four people on the boat."

During the few days when Chu Yuan and I were in Hualong Village, I heard him ask me if I saw anyone else.

Immediately, I thought of the lunatic in the padded jacket. As for the other explorers, the two of us had never met before, so we just shook our heads and said we didn't know.

But what the skinny villager said was a little strange, obviously full of contradictions.

"When we got on the boat, we ran into an old lunatic at the port. He pulled us and said that there were four people on the boat, including a man and a woman, both of whom were water ghosts, and their pants were still dripping water. The other two people on the boat Can't see."

After he finished speaking, my head buzzed, and I thought of the two couples, a man and a woman, whom I met on the boat to Fengshan Village. They were ghosts transformed by resentment.

This kind of ghost needs to find a substitute. Thinking of this, I am mostly sure in my heart that the two on the boat must be ghosts.

Because, the old lunatic mentioned by the skinny villager.

It was the one I met before boarding the boat. When the boat was rowing away, he was staring at me on the shore. I still can't forget those eyes looking at the dead.

(End of this chapter)