ghost craftsman

Chapter 97 The Pond
When I heard it, my face tightened, and I quickly asked Xu Shimin, "Is it really like what you said?"

He hummed, but he didn't care too much, and he pulled Wang Jiong away, and the few of us couldn't wait to follow.

The place Xu Shimin led us to was a pond. In Xu Shimin's words, his parents would put some fish in the pond when they were free at home. During the Chinese New Year, they would catch them ashore and send them to the town for sale.

Just this morning, his parents thought that for Xu Shiqing's funeral, they would definitely have to fish. They called a few relatives early in the morning and went to the pond. His parents were almost scared to death.

In other words, the water in the pond seemed to be boiling, bubbling, and mist rising from the surface of the water. What was even more strange was that the fish were swimming happily in the water.

Then Xu Shimin was ordered to come to Wang Jiong.

On the way to the pond, Xu Shimin told us that the pond in his house has been kept by his family since the time when the fields were divided to households. Over the years, there has never been such a strange thing.

Since we kept thinking about the pond, no one asked much about it.After all, both Wang Jiong and I believe that seeing is believing.

When we came to the pond, we found that the pond of his family was close to the back mountain, and it was square, just like the poem described by the poet Zhu Xi. Once the half-acre square pond was opened, the sky, clouds and shadows lingered together. It is covered with trees of the same size, and a narrow path stretches gently from the southeast of the pond towards the back mountain.

Seeing the pond, Qin Lao San became agitated, grabbed my arm tightly, pointed to the pond and said, "Chuanzi, look quickly..."

I looked along where his finger pointed, and found that the pond was just like what Xu Shimin said. The water in the pond seemed to be boiled, bubbling, and many fish were wandering aimlessly on the edge of the pond.

When Wang Jiong saw this situation, he said to me, "Go down and check the temperature of the water."

I hummed without thinking too much. I found a fairly safe place and put my hand in. The water temperature was moderate, not too hot, but it was a little hotter than usual.

I told Wang Jiong about this.

After hearing this, he stared at the pond for a long time without saying a word.

After about a minute, he asked Xu Shimin, "Where are your parents?"

Then Xu Shimin said: "My parents saw the pond bubbling and said that the Dragon King was coming, so they went home to fetch yellow paper candles."

Hearing this, Wang Jiong and I looked at each other, neither of us said a word, but this is how it is in the countryside, usually when some strange things happen, you will mistakenly think that some great fairy has come, and you will take some yellow paper and candles to burn in this place .

Wang Jiong thought for a while, but before he could speak, all of a sudden, the fish in the pond seemed to be greatly frightened, and suddenly began to writhe on the surface of the water.

I was taken aback, could it be that the water temperature has risen?

Where did he dare to hesitate, he immediately checked the water temperature. The strange thing is that the water temperature this time is obviously lower than last time, but the fish are churning more and more happily.

Just when all of us couldn’t figure out what was going on, the bubbles on the surface of the pool were getting bigger and bigger. If we said that when we came here before, the bubbles that appeared on the surface of the pool were about the size of soybeans, and now the bubbles are at least as big as It was as big as a broad bean, and the frequency of bubbling was getting faster and faster, as if someone had increased the flames at the bottom of the pond.

"Damn it!" Wang Jiong cursed angrily, and was about to jump off the pond to see what was going on.

Just at this time, the fish on the surface of the pond suddenly stopped, and all the fish rolled their eyes and floated on the water surface. At first glance, all the fish in the entire pond appeared at this moment.

At first, the small fish and shrimps came out, and finally the ten-jin grass carp also came out.

This made us all look at each other, no one knew what was going on, but Wang Jiong was still calm, he took out his mobile phone and called the police station, meaning to send some doctors over.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Jiong told Xu Shimin not to tell the story, and asked me to accompany him down the pond. As for Qin Laosan and his two subordinates, he stayed on the shore.

Going down to the pond, Wang Jiong first found a small wooden stick, sharpened it, aimed at one of the fish and stuck it in.

I have to say that Wang Jiong's technique is quite good, he put a stick down and immediately stuck a fish. He first put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, then handed it to me and said, "You sniff it too!"

I was not polite, I shrugged my nose, and found that there was a fishy smell on the fish, but there was no other smell.

Then Wang Jiong probably felt something was wrong, so he asked me, "What do you think?"

I shook my head and said that I didn't know what was going on, but he didn't say anything more, so he squatted down, looked into the pond, and frowned, "Why is it so cold!"

As soon as I heard it, it’s not right, the water is not cold, so I immediately reached out to check the temperature of the water.

Hell, just a few minutes ago, I checked the temperature of the water twice. Although there is a slight difference, it is definitely not so cold. Now the water in the pool is completely chilled, like ice water poured from an ice cave.

At the moment, my face sank, could it be that there is something wrong with the soil in this place?
I told Wang Jiong this idea, and he immediately said to me: "Don't you ghost craftsmen have a way to test the soil? Try it quickly."

I hummed, took out the tree of the sky, and took a general look at the direction of the pond. Wang Jiong saw that I didn't move, so he pushed me and said, "Why are you standing there, hurry up and investigate!"

I ignored him, this is also a normal thing, a layman like him must not understand the rules of our ghost craftsmen, use the tree of the sky to survey the soil, if it is to measure the soil of the house, the tree of the sky must be inserted near the gate, The soil of the survey pond must be inserted at the mouth of the pond.

The so-called pond mouth usually needs to be fished during festivals, and the water in the pond must be drained. Therefore, when the pond is constructed, an opening is left and then blocked with tree stumps.

The reason why I didn't move was because I was looking for the mouth of the pond. What puzzled me was that I found that there was a pond mouth on the east and west sides of the pond.

This is very strange. Generally, the pond has one pond mouth, but why does this pond have two pond mouths?
When I was young, my parents had a pond. In my father’s words, the location of the pond’s mouth controls the prosperity of the pond. Generally, when making the pond’s mouth, they would even burn yellow paper, set off firecrackers, and set fire to the tree stump. Tie a red cloth on it to pray for the safety of the pond.

To put it bluntly, it means praying that the pond will not drown people.

Seeing that I hadn't moved, Wang Jiong pushed me again and said, "What are you doing!"

I said, "This pond has two pond mouths."

"Oh, what's the matter, it's just two pond mouths." Wang Jiong didn't seem to believe this, and his tone was quite flat.

(End of this chapter)