Hard work

Chapter 214 The Water Ghost
This year's rainy season came very quickly, and it seemed to be such a continuous rainstorm. Lan Hua'er had lived in the village for so many years, and she had never seen such a rainstorm.

At the beginning, everyone felt that this kind of weather would not last long. After all, there is not so much water to fall from the sky.

But after going on like this for a while, everyone started to worry.If it rains too hard, today's harvest may really be fruitless.

The current government doesn't know whether to take care of the flood disaster. Although a natural disaster broke out today, it doesn't know whether to pay land taxes.When Lan Huaer went to Aru's house, she could see Aru's frowning face every day.Their family is different from the Zhao family. Not to mention the large population, they have no land on the mountain.If something really happened this time, their family didn't know if they could survive.

Later, all the crucian carps kept in the water tank at home were eaten up. Lan Huaer didn't dare to go fishing on the back mountain, and she was reluctant to let Zang Lang go up the mountain in this weather, so she could only send soup. stopped.

At this time, even Lan Huaer began to feel anxious.Especially in this kind of weather, if things are left outside, they will go bad after a day or two. She doesn’t even dare to make tofu now, for fear that the tofu will grow moldy, so she can only use all of them to make fermented bean curd .There is not enough pepper in her house now, so she can only stop tossing about those things for the time being.

At this time, Lan Huaer began to miss the modern refrigerator infinitely.

Although she has experienced many summers before, she has never missed the modern cooling and fresh-keeping equipment so much.Now it's sticky all day long, making Lan Hua'er even sticky emotionally.If possible, she would also like to help out in the fields, instead of just sitting at home all day, staring at the raindrops falling outside in a daze.

It's just that Zang Lang completely disagrees with her going out now, and is afraid that something will happen to her.

Because just two days ago, two children were drowned in the village.

They were two brothers in the same family. It must have been raining recently, so the little one could only stay at home and play. He couldn't stand it any longer, so he sneaked out of the house.Somehow, he drowned in a small ditch outside the village.

The small ditch didn't have much water at first, it was just a drainage ditch on the side of the road.There has been a lot of rain recently, and even the small ditch has been filled with water.That road is a mountain road that winds down, and that section is flooded particularly badly. When people step on the road, only the upper body is exposed.

The two brothers' family didn't pay much attention at first, thinking that they were hiding and playing at home, and they didn't see them until the evening, so they became anxious and sent people in the village to help find them.After searching for two or three days, someone saw two small corpses floating outside the village.

For three or four days in a row, Lan Hua'er could hear the sound of rain outside, accompanied by hissing and lung-piercing crying.

"It's raining so hard, why did I run outside to get caught in the rain? I happened to run into a flooded place and slipped with one foot. Could it be that I was fascinated by some water ghost, I accidentally fell." People in the village were spreading such words in private.

Although they sympathized with the two brothers and the family that lost their child, the people in the village were all superstitious, and they couldn't help talking behind their backs, wondering if the family had recruited something, and all of a sudden they were killed. The water ghost has come to the door.

At that time, Zang Lang also followed the villagers to search around, and after listening to what others said, he taught Lan Huaer a lesson.

Lan Huaer shook her head while serving ginger soup to Zang Lang, "I don't think so. Water ghost or something... who has seen it. Adults don't like being drenched, but children are different. Goofy When I was young, I was very happy to run outside when it was raining, and stepped into the water, and I was happy to come home when I stepped on it until I was covered in mud. Playful, I didn't expect... Alas, it's also quite pitiful..."

Zang Lang was already used to the ginger soup made by Lan Huaer, took a big sip of it, and then continued, "Whether you are a water ghost or not, little lady, you can't go outside. If you are not careful, Everyone is careless sometimes. Be careful, I will run more in the future, so don't go outside. "

"I'm not made of paper, nor sugar, what can happen if I'm in the rain." Lan Hua'er shook her head beside her, "Don't treat me like a kid, I will protect myself. But it's not safe outside, I know, I won’t go outside if it’s okay. It’s just feeding chickens and pigs, you should be careful when you run outside.”

Zang Lan agreed, finished the ginger soup, went back to the house and changed the dripping clothes, and then helped Lan Hua'er with work.

On this rainy day, Lan Hua'er also has another job.

She had to wash the wet clothes every day, and when Zang Lang was at home, she asked Zang Lang to wring the clothes half dry, then put them on the kang to dry for future wear.

That is to say, now that she has a free kang head in her house, she can free up a place to dry clothes.Otherwise, the clothes are just hanging in the room in the shade, and in this weather, it is estimated that they will not be able to be dried for ten and a half months.Lan Hua'er's wrist strength was insufficient, so she couldn't wring out such a large piece of clothing. If she spread it directly on the kang, a puddle of water would accumulate on the kang in a short while.

Zang Lang likes to work with Lan Hua'er very much. He is so strong that he wrings the clothes half dry in one go.

This is thanks to the fact that the clothes don't need to be washed much, just rinse the mud splashed on the clothes with clean water, otherwise it is really worrying to wash by hand every day.

Everyone expected that the violent rain would pass sooner, but in the end, things backfired.

What made the people in the village even more frightening was that in the next few days, three more children were drowned in the village one after another.There is no connection between these three little children, they are all in different homes, although they usually play together, but now they are only in their own homes.The elders in the family clearly forbade the little children to run outside, but somehow, with just a turn around, those little children ran outside by themselves.

Some drowned on the road at the head of the village, and some drowned in a small trail connecting the back mountain and the village.Over there, because they were afraid of the landslide, the villagers dug a wide ditch to separate the mountain and the village a little.The heavy rain flooded that place into a small river, and a child drowned in that place, only a few hundred meters away from Zhao's house.

"Is it true that something unclean has been recruited in the village, drowning children one after another." The panic spread in the village, and even Lan Hua'er became worried.

It is true that accidents are prone to happen when it rains heavily, and drowning is inevitable.But it's really strange to say that this little boy ran out one after another.Even though it was raining so hard, the people at home had warned him that no matter how naughty the child was, he shouldn't run outside.

Before the people in the village had time to discuss these matters to a conclusion, the following accident pushed the whole matter to a climax - a pregnant woman in the village pushed the door out of the house in the middle of the night , Three days later, he was found drowned on the edge of the back mountain.

That was a pregnant woman, she was pregnant earlier than Aru, she was already six or seven months pregnant at that time.I don't know what kind of stimulation it was. People in the family said that it was fine in the evening. After washing up, I lay down on the kang, and there was no sign at all.As a result, when someone woke up at home in the middle of the night, they found that the door that had been locked had been opened.

After lighting the lamp, I found that the lady's kang head was empty.

The stomach on her body is already very obvious. The people in her family estimated that she was fit and wanted to let her sleep better at night, so they let her sleep alone on a kang. They didn't expect such a thing to happen. matter.

The people at home immediately turned on the lights and went outside to search for half the night. When it was dawn, they called other people in the village.But when she found it, it was time for her to float up by herself.

"I hit the evil, I hit the evil, did something unclean come into our village?" The people in the village spread these things miraculously, "This is a living sacrifice, there must be a water ghost who wants to drag a substitute , I don’t know what else is going to happen in the village.”

Someone even vividly described how the pregnant woman was fascinated by a ghost at night, and then quietly opened the door, smiling and drowning herself in the water.

Even Lan Hua'er, who traveled from modern times, was made uncomfortable by this incident.

In theory, she doesn't really believe in these weird things.But if she were to use science to explain it, she also felt that it was a bit inexplicable.Women who are six or seven months pregnant should pay more attention to their bodies.Let alone the middle of the night, even on weekdays, it is unlikely to go outside to get wet in the rain.

Aru next door doesn't use cold water to wash things anymore.This is of course because Tie Sheng loves her dearly, but it also shows that pregnant women attach great importance to it.

In particular, there have been several accidents in the village before, and Lan Hua'er really can't figure out what can happen to make a pregnant woman run out of the house in the middle of the night, or run to such a remote place on the edge of the back mountain .

She even wondered if this was actually a homicide, someone killed the pregnant woman and pretended it was an accidental drowning.

But if you think about it this way, it seems to become even scarier.

Lan Huaer quickly dismissed the idea.

(End of this chapter)