Water Ghost: It has no hair, it only has a big head, two hollow eyes, and a big mouth, it has no neck, and its whole body is black, which is what the village elders described to me when I was very young!
But in fact, the ancestors of the village have never seen the real appearance of water ghosts for generations, and the legend of water ghosts in the village has to start from the grandfather of the Wang family's grandfather.
Our village is close to the Yangtze River, and we used to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water for a long time, so our ancestors all made a living by fishing, and fishing needed to go to the fishing net in the middle of the night and then collect the net in the morning.
That night, the grandfather of the Wang family went to the river to lay the fishing net as usual, and when the net was halfway down, he felt a force on the other side of the fishing net pulling at him, and he stopped what he was doing, and looked at the location of the fishing net in the river by the faint light of the lantern.
This look directly frightened the ancestors of the Wang family's grandfather into the river, but fortunately, there were dense white coats on both sides of the river to hold him up.
After being rescued the next day, he was unconscious, but he kept muttering: "The water ghost, the big head, the big eyes, the big mouth, the black, it's going to eat me, so I stayed up for three days with nonsense, and the grandfather of the Wang family passed away."
Since then, the legend of the water ghost in the river has begun to spread in the village, and it is said that the ancestors of the Wang family's grandfather were entangled by the water ghost and taken away.
So since I was a child, my parents told me that I was not allowed to go to the river to play, because there were water ghosts in the river who would swallow you into its big mouth, which is why I was a child living by the Yangtze River who couldn't swim, but in fact, what really made me afraid of water was when I was ...... ten years old
There were two younger sisters of the same age as me in the same village, a Chen sister was eight years old, and a Mao sister was four years old.
At this time, Sister Chen looked at the river and asked me: "Sister, sister, have you ever seen a water ghost, Mao Xiaomei and I both shook our heads, and replied: "I haven't seen it, but the adults said that the water ghost will pull people into the river and eat it, I haven't seen it either, I really want to see what it looks like, or let's go to the river to have a look!" Sister Chen proposed, Once people's curiosity is opened, the body is like being injected with magic, and the brain can no longer control it, not to mention that we were all children at that time, ** self-control.
So we slowly approached the river, staring intently at the bottom of the river, but slowly we were attracted by the small fish and shrimp inside, and completely forgot about the water ghosts, we sat on the riverbank, put our little feet into the water, the little fish pecked the soles of our feet, and we all squeaked and laughed.
It was almost noon, because I wanted to go back to cook, so I urged my sisters to go home, but neither of them would leave, so I asked Sister Chen to take care of Mao Xiaomei, and I went home first.
In the afternoon, I was woken up by my mother in my sleep, and my mother anxiously asked Mao Xiaomei where she went**? I couldn't answer a word with a confused face.
Seeing me like this, my mother slapped me on the back and said anxiously: "You child, my little sister is gone, Aunt Mao is going crazy!" Think about it, where did my little sister go? ”
I was woken up by my mother's palm, and suddenly remembered that we played in the water at noon, so I told my mother, and we came to Sister Chen's house together, Sister Chen had just been beaten by her aunt, and she was crying there, it turned out that not long after I left, Sister Chen also left, leaving Xiaomei alone by the river.
Sister Chen and I were stunned at the same time! A bad omen flashed through our minds, and we took the adults to the place where we played in the water! The adults began to jump into the river and search!
About half an hour later, I heard someone shouting: Found it! We ran over to see that the little sister was floating on the river, stuck in the dense white water!
My little sister was floating like this, and that scene scared me and Sister Chen into crying!
The adults fished up the little sister with all hands and feet, and Aunt Mao sat on the ground and cried! After the doctor in the brigade came to see it, he kept shaking his head and saying that it was useless!
At this time, the adults began to talk about it, all accusing me and Sister Chen, and we were so frightened that we hid in the arms of our respective mothers, and kept shedding tears!
At this time, a sentence suddenly appeared in the crowd: Why is this doll's eyes gone!
Suddenly, the sound of the crowd stopped, and the doctor of the brigade immediately went to look through it, and when the little sister's eyelids were turned out, there was a black hole left inside!
At this time, I don't know who said it, hurry up and open your stomach and take a look! At this time, the brigade doctor immediately took out a knife and cut it on the stomach of the little sister, when the little sister's stomach was cut open, everyone present was frightened, the inside of the little sister's stomach was also empty, and all the internal organs were gone! "The little sister is taken by the water ghost, hurry up and get the pot ash to smear the little sister! (Note: Local customs and rumors say that the person who is taken away by the water ghost will become a new water ghost, and the original water ghost can only be reincarnated after getting the real body of that person, so only by blackening all the people who fall into the water, the water ghost can not be found, so that the person who falls into the water can be spared from being a water ghost, because once you do a water ghost, unless you can find a stand-in, otherwise you can only be a water ghost in your life!) ）
After a while, I saw the little girl covered in pitch black, just like the water ghost we had described! Later, my little sister was lifted onto a tractor, Aunt Mao packed up a few of my little sister's clothes, got on the tractor and left, I asked my mother: Where is my little sister going? My mother covered my eyes and said, "My little sister followed the water ghost!"
Since then, I often come to the river secretly, and I stare into the river every day, and I fantasize that my little sister can come out of the water! I'm no longer afraid of water ghosts, I want to see her every day, and I want to ask how my little sister is!
One year, the brigade organized the digging of river mud, so that the river would be drained, I was looking forward to it, I wanted to see what the water ghost looked like, and I wanted to ask him where he took his little sister! But after the river drained, I didn't see the water ghost, and I didn't see the little sister. The adults seemed to have said yes, but they didn't say a word, so I didn't dare ask.
About another three years later, Aunt Mao became pregnant again! My mom happily told me that the doll was back! It turned out that the aunt gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, a boy and a girl, and the female baby had a big round head and two big eyes! It's exactly the same as the little sister who was sent away that year!