Chapter 2: Legend of the Dragon King (Fish in a Dead Body)
???The crescent boat flowed down the water. About two or three minutes away, crowds began to appear ahead, surrounded by crowds, with noisy sounds everywhere, and people rubbing their heads.
"Grandpa Huang is here"
I don’t know who shouted, and all eyes immediately looked at us. The crescent boat passed through the crowd and was pulled by a man. As soon as the boat landed, a middle-aged man ran over, grabbed Grandpa Huang’s hand, and cried with tears in his tears.
"Grandpa, you want to save the child."
"Don't be anxious, how long has it been in?"
Grandpa Huang patted the middle-aged man on the back several times and comforted him.
"Grandpa, it's been half an hour, I'm afraid the child is..."
The man who just pulled the boat whispered in Grandpa Huang's ear.
"No, no, how could my son die? He was fine in the morning, why did he go in the afternoon?"
Although his voice was very small, he was still heard by the middle-aged man.
"You guys say that the Dragon Prince is here to lock his life? This is the third one."
I don’t know who said something in the crowd, and the middle-aged man who was originally extremely sad immediately became angry.
"Your son was locked up by the Dragon Prince. Who said he? Come out, I'm going to kill you."
The middle-aged man glared with red eyes angrily, grabbed his hands tightly, and his ferocious look scared everyone to take a step back. They all looked away, and none of them made a sound.
"Please keep your mouth in mind, you can eat and not talk nonsense."
Grandpa Huang yelled at the crowd angrily and walked to the river in front of him.
“Where did it fall?”
He turned around and asked.
"Here, just go down from here."
The man hurriedly pointed, I looked with the flow, and saw a gap in the river made of soil, with half of the footprints on the gap, and the other half were sliding traces. People should have slid down from where they were.
After hearing this, Grandpa Huang bowed his body and took off his shirt. There was a red cloth belt around his waist, and a sickle on the cloth belt, and the blade was polished to shine.
Every corpse picker in the Yellow River has a house-friendly sickle. Because there are many weeds under the water when they go into the water, this sickle is their weapon to open the way. Some people say that the Dragon King is afraid of sickle. As for why he chooses to use sickle, it is still a mystery, because the most feared thing about the Yellow River corpse picker is to talk about his profession with others.
Taking a deep breath, Grandpa Huang leaned forward, and his body slid into the water like a fish, and his hind legs suddenly kicked and disappeared.
Everyone stared at the water surface in unison. The water in the Yellow River was not clear, making diving more and more difficult. After Grandpa Huang went down, he came out after about a minute, took a breath, and dived again. After two or three times, when he came up for the fourth time, a black shadow came forward first. I glanced at it, and my heart suddenly calmed down. I knew that the person was gone.
Sure enough, what floated up first was a swollen face. As soon as the face appeared, many people were immediately scared to scream and disperse. The middle-aged man rushed down almost like crazy, hugged the body, glanced at the sky and squirted blood in his heart.
His body fell straight down.
"Save people, hurry up!"
The man shouted hurriedly, and immediately a few men jumped down and rushed towards the middle-aged man, but no one touched the body. I shook my head and jumped into the water, reached out to hold the body, and then pulled it away to let Grandpa Huang show his head.
He glanced at me, pointed to the corpse, and his brows sank.
"Take it up first, something big happened."
I didn't dare to hesitate, so I hurriedly carried the body to the ashore, then placed the body flat on the grass, took a straw mat and covered it with it.
The crowd stood quite far, and everyone was here with the mentality of watching the excitement, but Grandpa Huang was not happy.
"Everyone goes home, you should carry your wife and you should work. Have you never seen a dead person?"
"Old man Huang, just say that this guy has messed with the Dragon King and made the Dragon King hook up on his soul?"
The man who was cheering in the crowd just now shouted again, making Grandpa Huang blush with anger, and looked at the man and said viciously, "Do I want me to sit in your house tonight and talk to your father, you uneducated calf!"
"You immortal, don't think I'm afraid of you!"
The man was so embarrassed that he jumped out and pointed at Grandpa Huang and shouted.
"Xiao Shi, teach him some lessons!"
My brows sank and whispered to Xiao Shi. Xiao Shi was happy to treat such a guy. He jumped over and slapped his claws hard on his face, making the young man scream.
"You damn beast, I'm going to kill you"
The man covered his face and shouted resentfully, reaching out to grab Xiao Shi who was about to catch him and run back. I stepped forward, grabbed his body, and then locked his neck in an instant.
"You say one more thing, I promise that you will lie on the ground in the next second and will never wake up!"
"you………"
His gaze met my cold gaze, and his voice immediately weakened, and he looked slanted and did not dare to look at me.
"roll……"
I pushed him away with disgust and glared at him fiercely, scaring the guy so much that he ran towards the crowd, swearing while running.
"Everyone, let's go back, come and carry the body back."
Although Grandpa Huang is a corpse picker, his intimidation in this town seems to be very high. Perhaps people are afraid of him and always think that he is an ominous person, so they should stay away from him.
The people's heads and ears dispersed. After all, no one wanted to get involved with the dead. What were left were a few elderly people over the age of fifty years old and men who pulled boats for us.
Seeing that the crowd had dispersed, the man suddenly ran to Grandpa Huang, lowered his head and whispered softly in Grandpa Huang's ear, "Grandpa, this boy left home is probably the death of his death..."
"Don't talk nonsense, it's normal death. If you are soaked in water, where are there so many weird things?"
Grandpa Huang yelled at the man a few times, glared at him fiercely, and then took several old men to find reeds to weave a stretcher.
The man was bored and ran to the side to sulk. Seeing this, I couldn't help but take a look at the corpse, "Xiao Shi, this corpse is probably weird!"
"Well, depending on their performance, this person is afraid that he is dying strangely."
Xiao Shi was also very confused. What made me wonder was what was hidden in the death of the corpse? What was the hidden behind the big thing that Grandpa Huang said that Grandpa Huang was unwilling to mention? All of this made me inexplicably excited. They all said that curiosity killed the cat, and I quickly suffered the consequences.
Grandpa Huang and his friends weave a stretcher with reeds and carried the body back. Before the middle-aged man woke up, he was carried by the man and the body began to swell more and more.
The weather was not low, and the water inside the corpse evaporated, like a steamer, the cloth covering it could hardly be covered.
We carried the body all the way into the town. There were only two fathers and sons left home. They were already miserable. Now that the son is dead, I really don’t know how to live the remaining men left home.
When the middle-aged man was stimulating the guy, he woke up by their water. Although he still couldn't accept the child's departure, after Grandpa Huang's persuasion, he finally got better and began to take care of the child's funeral.
Because my family was cold, I couldn't afford to hire a gentleman, so I had to go there in the end. I bought a thin-skinned coffin in the coffin shop in the town and put it in the body. I asked about the age of the deceased. My biological father told me that he was only fourteen years old. According to the rules, he could not fall into the soil at the age of fourteen. Those who were not adults in our place could not be buried. Some chose to cremate, while others wrapped them directly in quilts and threw them on the mountain to carry out sky burial.
I asked Grandpa Huang about the customs of their place, just like where we are, we cannot be left to the ground.
So the ritual became simple in an instant. It only took several times of the salvation sutra, parked at home for one night, and carried it out the next day for cremation.
Because of superstition, everyone believes that those who fall into the Yellow River are all taken over by the Dragon King, so there are very few people coming to his family. People are selfish and no one wants to bring bad luck to their own homes.
This caused only a few people in the house. Seeing this scene, Uncle Li couldn't help but turn red and ran to the side to wipe his tears secretly. I felt heartbroken because I bought a thin-skinned coffin, which caused me to have no money to hold my mouth. I had no choice but to take out a hundred yuan and stuff it into the mouth of the deceased.
Everything was peaceful, but something happened when I was putting the coffin. The coffin was a standard coffin. The body was swollen by water, and its body became bigger instantly and it could not fall down. In the end, it was really impossible. I had to propose to Uncle Li Li to destroy the corpse.
He couldn't help but cry when he heard this, but he knew that he wouldn't have broken corpse and could not hold it at all. He patted my shoulder powerlessly, went out alone, sitting on the stone steps smoking a dry cigarette.
"Little guy, please do it with peace of mind."
Grandpa Huang walked to me and said, and at the same time he handed me a knife. I took it and wiped it with the talisman paper, walked to the corpse, and first broke open his arm.
The corpse was like a water bag filled with water. When the knife went down, the water and blood flowed out. After several knifes, everything except the belly was shrunk.
However, blood was flowing under his feet, and he had already gone out if he couldn't stand it, leaving only Grandpa Huang and the man who was struggling to support him.
I was about to break my stomach. As long as my stomach was broken, the body could be put on. I pulled the corpse's clothes, but the bulging belly squirmed, which scared the man to scream. I was also roared by his throat. I was not anxious to defend myself, and my hand was uncontrollably cut, and my stomach was cut, and a long knife appeared, and blood immediately sucked out.
But there are no internal organs. According to the principle, people who die from drowning should have their stomachs swelled because they inhaled too much water, but when their stomachs broke, they did not see internal organs coming out at all.
"No, there's something inside"
I was shocked because my stomach that had been broken and wriggled for a while, Grandpa Huang's face also darkened, and the man finally couldn't help it.
"I just said, this is the same as the death of those people, and that thing is back."
The man said in a lost voice. When I heard this, I immediately found a long stick and opened the belly of the corpse. I saw a green fish lying in the bloody belly. Its sharp teeth were still eating the internal organs of the corpse. The strange eyes were moving, as if mocking us.
Uncle Li heard the movement in the room and rushed in panic. He happened to see the fish in the child's stomach and immediately grabbed the bench on the side.
"I've fought with you, and you'll give my son back!"
After yelling, before I could stop him, he greeted him on the bench.
Chapter completed!