Chapter 7: The Legend of Huishui Bay (6)

Liu Er is strictly speaking a Taoist priest with no skills or magic, who only knows some Taoist rituals and taboos, and can handle some common cases of evil spirits, but he only knows how to do it, not the principles.

So strictly speaking, he is not a Taoist priest, but a folk “river and lake wizard.” He could not possibly have any methods of opening the eyes of heaven, nor did he have that talent. However, with such a long-term identity as a wizard, plus the fact that he has done a lot of red and white things, and occasionally deals with cases of evil spirits, he has naturally accumulated a lot of unique experience, as well as an intuition that is hard to describe.

This intuition is unclear and even hazy, but Liu Er is able to feel it. The reason he saw the worker Niu Dazhuang trembling with fear was that his intuition made him “see” that the person in front of him was almost “overwhelmed by negative energy.”

To put it more clearly, there was a layer of black energy wrapped around the man’s forehead, and Liu Er called this “the top of the yin energy.”

This situation, I have seen before, but the black aura was a light layer. Master Liu had to close his eyes and feel carefully to detect it. But the black aura on this man’s forehead was so strong that it made Master Liu feel as if he were in the dark, as if the black aura was about to pass on to him.

This intuition only brought a momentary feeling. The next moment, Liu Er’s vision returned to normal. Standing before him was a strong man with dark yellow skin. Everything was very ordinary. After all, Liu Er would not really open his eyes, and the feeling that intuition could bring was only a moment.

However, this psychological feeling still directly affected Liu’s behavior. He subconsciously shifted the stool under his butt, and the tea pot in his hand almost fell. The people sitting in the room looked at Liu strangely, after all, his reaction was too big.

“Master Liu, what’s wrong with you?” The most astute person was the second-in-command, who couldn’t help but ask.

“It’s nothing, it’s nothing.” In public, Master Liu couldn’t say that the man had a black aura. In this social environment, doing funeral rites was still acceptable to the public. It was a bit of a stretch, and it was probably just a feudal superstition. No matter how strange things were, he had to be stable.

Liu Erniang picked up the teapot and drank tea, lightly covering up the past. Only the first and second in command looked at Liu Erniang thoughtfully, but in the end they didn’t say anything.

Niu Dazhuang was a rough man. Although he thought that Liu’s behavior was a bit strange, he didn’t think much about it. He took the cigarette with the filter that the second-in-command handed him, lit it, scratched the back of his head, smiled and said, “It’s nothing to talk about. Everyone knows that the river freezes in some places in winter. Our timber transportation office relies on water power, so it’s not so busy in winter, but we still have to be busy transporting some wood. It’s almost the end of the year, and everyone wants to finish it quickly so that we can have a happy Spring Festival…

“Just get to the point,” the second-in-command interrupted, dissatisfied.

Niu Dazhuang smiled again, and for some reason, this smile made Liu Erniang feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable. He immediately made up his mind in his heart.

“Well, everyone has been working overtime these days. It wasn’t my shift last night, but Lao Wang had something to do at the last minute, so he asked me to take over. In the first half of the night, there was nothing wrong. The dozen or so of us who were working were still talking and laughing, but when we got to the second half of the night, I felt uncomfortable in my heart. I couldn’t say why, but I felt cold and It was cold and eerie. No one wanted to talk. It was like we were being watched when we talked. It was quiet on the construction site, and there was nothing to do. Then, when it was my turn to go into the water with Zhang to retrieve the wood, something was wrong. We kept hearing a woman crying. At this point, Niu Dazhuang glanced carefully at the people in the room. They were all officials. What if they said he was promoting superstition? “It’s okay, you can continue.” The boss was so engrossed in the story that he didn’t realize until his cigarette butt burned his finger. It was as if he had thought of something, and he encouraged Niu Dazhuang to continue. Now that Niu Dazhuang had the courage, he didn’t care about anything else. He took a puff of his cigarette and continued, “I’m sure it wasn’t an illusion. The woman was crying so loudly and so sadly. Now that I think about it, I’m a little scared, but at the time I didn’t know what was going on. I wasn’t really scared. I was just thinking, who’s the wife or mother-in-law who’s been bullied? She came running to the river in the middle of the night to cry. She’s got some nerve…

I subconsciously looked around, and I really saw a woman sitting on a log crying.” Everyone present gasped at this. Not to mention the middle of the night, a woman, crying…

these sensitive words, just saying that the wood at the timber yard is usually soaked in water when it is not transported. The water in the backwater bay does not freeze, but it is cold enough.

Who would sit on a log in the water and cry? Something is wrong with this, really wrong! Master Liu Er’s face was not good either, but he was relatively calm and asked,

“What color was the woman wearing?”

Niu Dazhuang scratched his head, and now that he thought back to that night, he was a little scared, and said, “It was a little far away, and I couldn’t see it clearly.

It was like red, but also like black! Yes, didn’t the corpse come up? It was a red wedding robe… that…”

Niu Dazhuang’s face turned pale, and his dark red skin was able to show this kind of pallor. Master Liu Er’s hand shook, and the lid of the teapot fell on the teapot with a ‘pop’.

This is definitely a ghost! A ghost! He doesn’t know much, but he knows that male ghosts in black clothes are fierce, and female ghosts in red clothes are fierce.

This basic knowledge is still there… and they can still appear to confuse people. This is simply not something that he, Liu Er, can solve.

The sound of the lid closing on the teapot scared everyone in the room. The second-in-command asked cautiously, “Master Liu, what do you think about this?”

Liu Er was a bit dazed and didn’t know what to say to the second in command, so he just said, “Let him finish. Finish…”

Niu Dazhuang took a filter from a cigarette butt, threw it away, and said with a bad look on his face, “What else is there to say?

I wasn’t scared at the time, so I just went straight over. The log was about two or three meters from the shore, and the water wasn’t too deep.

I went over, and so did Zhang. But where was the woman? At the time, I was joking with Lao Zhang, saying that I didn’t know if I was missing my wife.

I just heard a woman crying, and saw a woman sitting on this log crying… As a result, Lao Zhang was scared and dragged me away, but I couldn’t walk, my body was like being hooked by something.

“Then what?” Liu Er actually didn’t want to hear anymore. He already knew clearly that this matter was definitely beyond his ability. He just asked subconsciously. ”

Then… I looked down and was really scared. My work clothes, the waterproof pants, were caught by a foot wearing red shoes. I wanted to subconsciously get it off, but I had no strength…

I was so scared at the time that I didn’t know what to do. I called out to Zhang loudly, pointing to show him that on the water,

a foot was clearly hooked on my work clothes, and I didn’t know how it got hooked on! Lao Zhang was also scared, and he shouted for someone to come…

In the end, everyone came, but no one dared to touch the foot. They pushed the wood to the shore with all their might, and the foot no longer hooked me. As a result…”

At this point, Niu Dazhuang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at the people in the room. “Say it.” The words of the first person were very simple.

“As a result… the log turned over on the shore, and the side facing the water was turned out. It was a big log, and I couldn’t carry it alone.

It turned over, and underneath was a female corpse, holding the log tightly. … wearing a wedding gown, it looked like a girl who was about to get married.

I don’t understand how she died like this. Anyway, her hands were tightly holding the wood. I thought of the previous incident and didn’t dare to look closely.

Anyway, I glanced at it and saw a face that was completely blue. Maybe it was frozen? Anyway, it was very scary. It seemed like she had just died.

Later, everyone called the captain on duty that day, and later, they carried her to the broken wooden house. Didn’t they usually put the bodies in there?”

Niu Dazhuang finally told the details of the discovery of the body. “Just like that, it spent the night?” Liu Er’s heart was pounding.