The years of reselling the haunted house

About 5 minutes later, my eyes were blurred, and then I found that the yellow paper floating on the river suddenly vortexed, went up and down a few times, and then sank abruptly.

This should have accepted my greeting post.

Sure enough, Master Jiu saw the yellow paper sinking, his body trembled, he glanced at the sky, heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, we can go out of the river."

When I came to the riverside, there were sacrifices and incense offerings. I was very busy and wasted some time.The rest of the program is sped up.

First Master Jiu walked up to Grandpa Wan and the others, and said, "Uncle, I'll do it here, you..."

Grandpa Wan immediately understood what Master Jiu meant. He nodded and said, "Old Jiu, everything is going smoothly, and he returned safely."

The people behind Grandpa Wan shouted loudly together: "Everything is going smoothly, come back safely."

Master Jiu nodded and saluted everyone, "Thanks to the good words from the folks."

The originally normal politeness and ordinary auspicious words, when spoken at this time, unexpectedly added a lot of tragic color.

Afterwards, those villagers quickly left the river bank under the leadership of Grandpa Wan.There are only three of us left here.

It seems that Hades hooked out of the river and didn't want other people to see the process.

Watching the villagers go away, Master Jiu said to the third uncle, "Dong Bin, this time I have to work hard for you."

The third uncle nodded: "What's the hard work, what do I need to do?"

Master Jiu took out a lamp from under the river worshiping stone.It was an old-fashioned oil lamp with a glass shade.It can be seen that this lamp has not been used for some years, not only is it covered with dust, but there is also a lot of sludge in many places.

Master Jiu held up the lamp and said: "I haven't used this old man for a long time. I don't usually use it when going out of the river. This time it may be unusual. I need to use it to guide the way. After we leave the boat, The lamp is about to be lit, and it is placed on the river worship stone. The lamp oil inside is quite special, and it can only be burned for half an hour at a time. You must ensure that there is always enough lamp oil in it. I have prepared the lamp oil, and it is also on the stone. under."

The third uncle nodded: "Okay, I promise to do it."

Uncle San once said that Master Jiu would arrange a job for him.It turns out that this job is to look at the lamp oil, which sounds very simple.

The third uncle may also have this idea, and the ninth master immediately told the third uncle: "Dong Bin, this job is not easy. You have to remember that some unexpected situations may occur during the process of guarding the lamp oil. What will happen, we will let you know." It’s not good. But you can’t be affected by anything, you just have to remember, don’t let the lamp oil burn out.”

Who is the third uncle, and his experience is extremely rich, and he immediately understood when Jiu Ye made a point.

This is not just a matter of guarding the lamp oil. If it is only to guard the lamp oil, it may be possible to find any villager to do it.The reason why he asked third uncle to do this must be to make things safe.

To some extent, this task may be more important than getting on a boat and leaving the river.I even think that Master Jiu deliberately left Third Uncle to guard the lamp oil.Originally, I was supposed to do this job, but my share was not enough, so it was replaced by third uncle.

Because Master Jiu said that this lamp is needed to guide the way.And this lamp is placed on the Baijiang Stone, which must point to the way home.This is directly related to whether we can return safely from the ship.

In other words, if Master Jiu and I encounter trouble in the river, this lamp will directly determine our fate.

The third uncle obviously knew this, he was never confused about major matters.

After explaining the last thing, Master Jiu waved his hand: "Okay, it's almost time, Li Yang, let's go."

With that said, Master Jiu strode towards the river, towards the black boat docked not far away.

"Eldest nephew, take care." The third uncle warned.

I nodded, and didn't say any more, and followed Lord Jiu to the river.

In my impression, my third uncle has never been so serious about taking care of me.

This made me feel a little uncomfortable.I understand Uncle San's feelings. I used to follow him around, and even if I encountered any danger, it was basically within his control.At least he can figure out a way to solve the dilemma we are facing.

And basically he was involved in all those things, doing it himself.

But this time is different, I follow Master Jiu out of the river, although Third Uncle believes in Master Jiu's ability, but he can't help with matters on the water, for me, he feels helpless.

He can't control how I go next and what danger I will encounter.

So he told me to take care and let me be careful, that was the only thing he could do.

I followed Master Jiu to the river without looking back. I used this simple action to show my firm attitude to Third Uncle, so as to reassure him.

We walked all the way to the black boat parked on the river bank, and only then did I really see the shape of the boat.

First of all, this small boat is not big, with a clear boundary between the bow and the stern. There is a cabin in the middle, and a canopy outside the cabin.

Chapter 1660

What is even more striking is the strange shape of the ship.Because ordinary boats are basically pointed at both ends.I still remember a children's poem I learned when I was a child, which contained sentences like "the crooked moon is a small boat, and the small boat has sharp ends".

This shows that both ends of the boat should be pointed, so that the boat can reduce resistance and increase speed in the water.

But the boat in front of him was square in front and back.

Although the boat canopy is also black, like a black-covered boat, but the square bow and stern, square head and square brain, like a big box lying across the river, it looks silly, not flexible at all.

Master Jiu jumped onto the boat skillfully and motioned for me to get on the boat too.The hull shook slightly, and I quickly squatted down.

Master Jiu smiled and said to me: "From now on, you have to establish a good relationship with this boat. You must first appreciate it, and then like it. After we are in the river, it is the boat that carries our lives. Let me tell you first. Your name is Coffin Boat."

"Coffin boat?"

Master Jiu nodded: "Yes, the coffin of the coffin."

After hearing this, I suddenly realized, no wonder I saw the strange shape of this boat. After hearing what Master Jiu said, this boat really looks a bit like a coffin.The name Coffin Boat is just right.

"Our Hades Hook has two magic weapons, which are different from ordinary corpse hunters. One is the Hades Hook I want to use, and the other is the coffin boat. There is a saying that describes us. .I don’t know if your third uncle told you, but we all do water work, but the boats we use are different. You will know when you get in touch with it.”

While introducing me, Master Jiu asked me to sit in the stern of the boat. He came to the bow and pushed the bamboo wormwood to the river bank. The coffin boat left the river bank leisurely and rushed to the surface of the river.

After going through the slight bumps at the beginning, the coffin boat gradually stabilized, and under the control of Master Jiu, it went down the river.

Because it is downstream, it does not need to expend too much effort to punting.But it can also be seen that Master Jiu used no sails or oars to make the boat, and he used the bamboo wormwood in his hand to tap or row, pat or poke, and use the unique Chinese sailing method to control the coffin boat. Driving on water.

The coffin boat moved forward leisurely. Although there were small waves of the river, it was generally stable and not as scary as I had imagined before.

The coffin boat drove to the river, and I looked to the shore, but I couldn't see the scenery on the shore anymore.On the surface of the river, a layer of faint river fog naturally rose.

These fogs are formed by the splashing water droplets from the turbulent river, and they should not disperse all year round.It's just that during the day, the fog may be lighter due to the influence of sunlight.At night, the fog will become very heavy.

The fog and darkness make it difficult to sail at night.

But it seems that they have three fights and one school, and they all work at night.

Jiu Ye also took out a wind lamp from the cabin and hung it on the bow of the boat. Although the wind lamp was not very bright, it finally lit up a bright color in the night.

I watched from the stern of the boat Jiu Ye waved the bamboo wormwood, his movements were stretched, and against the sound of the water, it was like dancing on the water.

It is conceivable that if it is not at night, if we are not driving a coffin boat, if we are not trying to salvage corpses...

Then what will be displayed in front of our eyes will be fishing boats singing late, light boats rippling, and boating on the river. This will be a beautiful picture.

But at this moment, none of this has anything to do with us.

Since this coffin boat is not too big, I sit at the stern and Master Jiu stands at the bow, so we don't delay talking to each other, and we can hear each other clearly.

"Yangzi. The current section of the river is relatively gentle in the Jingjiang section, and the current is not in a hurry. I don't know what the official name is for the place we are going to. We all call it Nanguandu. The most dangerous river" Ten The "Three Ghost Eyes" is at Nanguandu. There is still a distance from the Thirteen Ghost Eyes. There are several jars in the cabin, which are full of grains. If something happens later, listen to my order and scatter the grains into the water Go, without delay and delay..."

While punting the boat, Master Jiu was talking to me about some things that might be done in a while.

I nodded in agreement, opened the curtain, and looked into the cabin.It turned out that the cabin was full of things, which should have been prepared by Master Jiu during the day.There are a few jars on the side, which should be grains.

I looked at it and asked curiously, "Jiuye, isn't your coffin boat used for picking up corpses? If you pick up the corpse, where will you put the corpse? There's no room for it?"

Master Jiu laughed: "My boat is for people, how can corpses sit on this boat? Besides, sometimes I want to fish for more than just one corpse, and most of the time I fished out eighteen corpses at a time. Then If a lot of corpses are transported by boat, how big a boat do I have to be? So, unless there are extremely special corpses, I will let them onto the boat, but instead of lying on the boat, I will stand on the boat like me. Most of the other corpses, after we fished them up, we used boats to lead them and lay them down to walk underwater, just like driving corpses on land.”

After hearing what Master Jiu said, I was very shocked.It seems that it is really 360 lines, and every line has its own merits.

"Jiu Ye, up to now, can you tell me what we are going to do this trip?" I asked across the cabin.

Master Jiu nodded: "Of course. Actually, you can guess it. I'm just a corpse hunter. I must be doing my old job when I go out of the river."

I questioned: "That is to say, Master Jiu, you promised Mr. Sheng Yu that you would help him find a corpse in exchange for helping the village mediate the dispute with Jiang Pizi?"

Master Jiu nodded: "That's right, that's about it. We have to take care of the corpse after we find it."

I asked again: "Jiuye, I heard you talking about Sheng Yu, he seems to be a powerful person. Why does such a powerful person like him ask you to help him find the corpse?"

Master Jiu snorted coldly: "I'm afraid there are not many people in the world who can retrieve a corpse from the eyes of the thirteen ghosts in Nanguandu. What's more, what he wants me to retrieve is a thousand-year-old corpse."

"Thousand...thousand-year-old corpse? A corpse soaked in water for 1000 years? Can we still find it? Not long ago..."

Before I finished speaking, Master Jiu waved his hand: "Don't be disrespectful to the corpse. Since Sheng Yu asked me to fish it, the corpse must exist."

"Oh." I replied, not daring to speak nonsense anymore.There are many taboos in this area on land, and now I can see from Master Jiu's reaction, there may be a lot more taboos on water than on land.

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Jiu Ye continued to control the coffin boat down the river, but Jiu Ye didn't relax at all, he kept waving the bamboo wormwood in his hand to control the direction of the boat.

I looked up, and there was fog above the river, but in a space close to the river, the fog was very light.It seemed that the surface of the river was full of darkness.Compared with the shore, the night on the river is more direct, as if you can touch it with your hands.

Master Jiu stopped talking, and I could only hear the sound of rushing water and the sound of bamboo wormwood beating the surface of the water.

The boundless night seems to swallow this boat, and a lone boat on the water looks very insignificant.

Our small boat was moving, when Lord Jiu suddenly swung the bamboo wormwood and slammed it under the surface of the water.The boat suddenly settled in the same place, despite the beating of the waves, it still remained motionless.Looking at this posture, it's like dropping an anchor.

I was taken aback, and quickly asked: "Master Jiu, why don't you leave? Are you at Nanguandu?"

"No, why is Nanguandu so peaceful?" Jiu Ye pointed to the front of the river: "Look over there."

In fact, I have already lost the southeast, northwest, and can only rely on the direction of the water flow to judge the direction. The location Jiu Ye pointed to should be in the southeast direction.In the already low night over there, a thick black mist seemed to rise again.

Master Jiu said in a low voice again: "Passing through the black mist ahead, you will be at Nanguandu, and you will be at the first sight of Thirteen Ghost Eyes."

But why did Master Jiu stop the boat when he saw the destination?

Master Jiu seemed to see through my thoughts, and explained: "I'm waiting, waiting for the most suitable time to enter Nanguandu."

Saying that, Master Jiu took out something from his body and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Dudu..."

There was a sharp whistle, which turned out to be a whistle.

Before the time was up, the sound of splashing came, and a black shadow flew over the water behind the boat.It landed on the canopy with a swish, and it turned out to be that starling, Lord Ba.

"Chachachacha..." Eighth Master walked back and forth on the boat canopy, seeming very excited.

I always thought that Master Jiu should have left the starling at home when we set out on the boat, because we went to the riverside for sacrifices and other activities, but the bird never appeared.Unexpectedly, it actually chased here.

I was surprised, and couldn't help but praise: "Master Jiu, this starling is so powerful. We have traveled so far, yet it can still find us."

Master Jiu explained: "It didn't come after us from our village, but it's always been not far behind us. I use it to observe the surrounding water potential. If there is something strange, it can pass it to me. It's my training. A good help came out."

"So that's how it is." I suddenly realized, and still praised: "That's powerful enough. I always thought that mynah is a pet bird, so weak that it learns to talk to others to make fun of others. I didn't expect it to be trained like this."

Master Jiu laughed: "Li Yang, do you really think it is a starling?"

I was taken aback: "It...isn't it just a starling?"

Master Jiu shook his head: "Actually, it is a water crow, it should be a kind of crow, but it likes to live in areas with water. Besides, it just looks like a starling. In addition, it can also learn how to speak. , so everyone who sees it will think it is a starling. Later, I simply stopped explaining and named it Baye.”

"A crow that can... talk, this... this is incredible."

I stared at Baye on the canopy, dumbfounded.The third uncles all thought it was a mynah, but they seemed to be deceived by its appearance and ability to learn tongues.

And Ba Ye seemed to be enjoying this moment very much, pacing back and forth on the boat canopy proudly, staring at me with a kind of haughty eyes.

Jiu Ye said again: "Ba Ye is probably not an ordinary crow, it is just a species of Corvidae, I have consulted others, and they are not sure about its specific name, so I think it is a kind of water crow. It is said that crows are the smartest birds. This Baye is full of spirituality and can learn everything quickly. It can also make some very simple gadgets according to the environment. This skill is only available in some advanced mammals Yes. And it can talk, even better than starlings. Although I haven’t been out of the river for so many years, I have been training it, hoping to use water crows to explore the water, maybe it can help us this time.”

I nodded and said, "It turns out that you don't know its exact name. Master Jiu, if you want to know what kind of bird or crow it is, it's actually easy to handle. I'll find it for you when we finish our business. A tall man. I don't think there is any creature in the world that he doesn't know about."

"Really? That's a good thing. It can also rectify Ba Ye's name." Jiu Ye smiled and looked at Ba Ye on the boat canopy, his eyes were full of love.

The expert I mentioned is naturally Ma Di.Leaving this matter to the old horse is simply a piece of cake.

Master Jiu looked up at the sky for a while, it was covered with fog, and he didn't know what he could see.In short, he looked at it for a while and said: "I guess it will take at least half an hour, let's sit down and have a rest."

Saying that, Master Jiu also came to the stern from the cabin, took out the wine brought by the village, and poured me a bowl.

We sat in the stern, drinking and waiting for the moment to come.

When drinking on the shore, the feeling is not so obvious.When I got to the river, I drank a few more sips of wine, a faint fragrance of rice flowed through my mouth, and a warm current flowed from top to bottom, making my chest and abdomen warm and comfortable.

After drinking a bowl of wine, I asked about the thirteen ghost eyes.Because these thirteen ghost eyes, in the eyes of Master Jiu, are simply more terrifying than the Palace of the King of Hades.

While staring at the black mist in front of him, Master Jiu told me the ins and outs of the thirteen ghost eyes intermittently.

According to legend, when Dayu controlled the water, he mainly controlled the Yellow River.But at the same time, there were frequent floods in the Yangtze River, especially in the Jingjiang section, so Dayu sent his assistant Boyi to explore and manage it.

Hearing this, I interjected and asked, "Master Jiu, what you said are all legends, or is it true?"

Master Jiu smiled: "Believe it or not, and don't believe it or not. There are many historical events, which are all confirmed according to the ancient books left at that time. We are not the parties involved, so just listen to this matter. But Dayu is sure It is true that there was such a person, and his disciple Boyi also existed in history, and these are well documented. But it is said that Boyi was originally a descendant of the divine bird swallow in the sky. He understood the language of birds and beasts, He was also the inventor of digging traps and digging wells. That has yet to be verified."