As long as it is something that has nothing to do with the case of the Gu Li Rao family - or the Gu Li Rao family, Rong Gaotang is still very willing to say: "In addition to the fact that the water on the west side of the pond is very deep, it is also a little unclean. ”

"A little unclean? What do you mean? ”

"There are many tombs on the west side of Datang, and after the people of Guli Village are gone, they are all buried there. The people of Guli Village live in the east, north and south of Datang, and except for the annual Qingming Festival, the people in the village do not go there. ”

Since the west side of the pond is a cemetery, the ancient pond will definitely have something to do with ghosts.

Rong Gaotang's next words confirmed Liu Dayu's guess: "The people in the village do not allow children to go to the pond, in addition to the depth of the water, there is another reason. ”

"What is the reason?"

"The pond is often haunted."

If there are ghosts, then the ancient pond is indeed not very clean. In the vast rural areas of China, ghost culture has always been dominant, and in addition to ghost culture, there is also fox fairy culture. Judging from the geographical environment of Guli Village, there is the soil of ghost culture here, not to mention that Guli Village is located in such an environment surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water on one side.

"Do the people in the village say that the drowning children have something to do with water spirits?"

"That's what the old people say, that's what our ancestors have said for generations. Drowning people is pediatric in comparison. ”

"Is there anything more evil than drowning a man?"

"Why not? To this day, there are still two boats lying under the water to the west of the pond. A few years ago, when Lao Chen was fishing, the fishing net sank under the water, and he couldn't pull it up, so he went underwater to take a look, good guy, guess what, the fishing net scraped the iron crossbar of a wooden boat. ”

"When did the two boats sink to the bottom?"

"It's been a while, and I wasn't born when the two boats were in trouble?"

"How old are you?"

"Forty-six years old. According to my father, those two boats were in 1948 -- that is, the year before liberation, the eldest of the Da family, Da Youdao, escorted two boats of white noodles to the town, and when the boats reached the west side of the pond, a strong wind suddenly blew, and after the two boats turned around on the water more than a dozen times, they slowly sank to the bottom of the pond -- when they arrived, you see, that is.

While talking, everyone came to the north bank of the pond, and their horizons suddenly broadened a lot.

Everyone looked in the direction of Rong Gaotang's finger.

Liu Dayu finally understood that if the boat from Guli Village wanted to enter the Guli River, it had to pass through the deepest waters west of Datang.

"Are there a lot of boats in Guli Village?"

"Most people have boats, but in our territory, they have a boat at home, so it's convenient to come and go!"

"Do all ships have to pass through here?"

"More than 20 years ago, the village dug a river on the east side, and after that, all the boats went to the east side of the river."

No wonder Liu Dayu and his entourage walked for a long time, only saw a few boats docked at the water's edge, and did not see a single boat walking on the river.

"The ship sank, did anyone drown?"

"That's not true, the two boats of flour all sank into the pond, this loss can't be considered small! The Da family was greatly injured because of these two boats of flour. Old Man Da fell seriously ill, and the Da family's grain business in the town also closed down. ”