When there was no case, they fished, and at the earliest, the island had not yet developed, and they were the boatmen in charge of the ferryman from the island to the opposite Gulangyu Island, and there had been no cruise ships before, all of which were rocked with the manpower of wooden boats.

Because long-term in the seaside crossing people, often see drowning people floating on the sea, the police in the case, always have to pick up the body, but Minnan people are very jealous of these things, so it is a high price for people to fish.

At that time, the ferry business is not very good, after all, there were not many tourists at that time, his customers are residents on Gulangyu Island, they went to Heron Island to purchase daily necessities, need to cross the sea back and forth, so there is this business.

But later a lot of competitors, and after the development of tourism, the government bought cruise ships, they did not need these wooden ships.

Without work, they have to find a way out, some people choose to go out to sea to fish, and some are at home to engage in farming, but some of them choose to help the police to find the body, because the money is fast.

Before there were still three families doing this business, and then felt bad behind them, there were two who did not do it, leaving only one old man still doing it, and this year it has been more than 60 years.

Grandpa said that he was going to help the water ghosts that were found when the bodies that were picked up were overdone, and they were called old ghosts.

The old ghost's house is also a tile house, there is a small yard in front of the door, surrounded by fences, the courtyard is tied with a black dog, and when we see us close to his house, we bark.

In the courtyard stood a long bamboo, a black rope hanging on the bamboo, and the bottom of the rope was hung with a gossip bronze mirror.

Hearing the dog bark, the door creaked open, and an old man with white hair poked his head, and when he saw my grandfather, he sneered and said, “What wind blows you today, blow your nose?”How many years have you been missing and you have not been contacted when you come back?”

"Old ghost, I don't have time to tell the old, I need your help to catch a person, this person is now sinking under the cloud stream, in the deep water area, it should be sinking last night."My grandfather spoke to the mountain.

“Who?”The old ghost frowned slightly, watching my grandfather look very urgent, he was not in the mood to joke.

"The old man with the tart knife."My grandfather said a few words.

“Go away!”Without saying a word, the old man said the word.

But the preparation of the line was prepared for half an hour, the most troublesome is his wooden boat, it should be Sugi village, before departure, he also gave the wooden boat a layer of tung oil, and then found a car tractor, the boat pulled to the edge of the Yunxi.

He shook the boat down the stream, and we went downstream on the motorcycle.

We arrived first, after all, the land is better than the water.

The old man arrived half an hour late, and when he arrived, his boat stopped by the stream, and he stood on the boat, his eyes straight into the rushing water.

The whole person was as petrified and motionless, but his eyes began to turbid, as green as the clouds and streams of water.

Even more terrible was his black dog, who, like him, stood straight in the boat, motionless and staring straight under the water.

“I saw it!”A moment later, the old man said, “But why is it a exercise?”

“The corpse?”I didn’t understand it, and my grandfather was a little surprised and said, “People stand upright under the water?”

"Yes, and death, and the eyes are wide open."The old ghost said, my whole body instantly got goosebumps, I don't know if I heard that the old man was dead, or because the old ghost could see through the stream of water for an instant and see the body that sank into the bottom of the stream.

"What is it?"When we were talking yesterday, he still said and laughed, and he left us a farewell in the sand above, at least to say that it should be a matter of walking.My grandfather’s face was distorted.

"Old Dao, it is not my old ghost who does not give love, this death can't really fish, you also know our rules, the bottom of the body or only a strand of hair, we are not fishing, we are fishing, not for people to avenge, this person is obviously in the heart of unwillingness or resentment, with my experience, only afraid that he will rot under the water, will never float up."The old man’s face was difficult.

My grandfather was also very embarrassed, he said: "Old ghost we also know so many years, do not say friendship, on the present person, you also know what he is doing, the lemon knife to the world, came to this end, this cloudy locusts, if not his early warning, must be a piece of death and injury."

The old ghost looked at my grandfather, turned to look at the direction of the stream, and finally the eyes fell on the old dog around him, and the old dog looked up at him, and he said, "Old dog, this man can't fish?"

Wang Wang Wang!

The old dog said three times, and the old man smiled and said, "Well, since you agree, let's send him a trip, and the good people have good returns."

The old ghost took off the gossip copper mirror hanging from the bamboo, set it in the octagonal groove of the bow of the wooden boat, and then swam past the middle of the stream with the bamboo stick.

In the middle of the stream, the old ghost tied the other end of the rope on the bamboo, before this was hanging copper mirror, at this moment, the whole rope is a ring, with this bamboo like a dog stick.

The old man took the bamboo, facing the river, and said in a loud voice: "Old man, we will send you the last journey, so that you can enter the earth for peace."

With that, he put the bamboo with the rope in the water, the bamboo is five or six meters long, the old ghost will be a section of the fall into the water, because the water rush, the bamboo center is empty, so always to float.

But the old man seems to have gotten used to it and is also skilled in controlling it.

Bamboo reached the end, left in the old ghost's hand only three times less, and then the old ghost holding the bamboo in the water a few times, then threw it up and down, showing a happy smile and said: "Clave, just under the armpit."

He tried to pull back the bamboo, but it seemed to be very motionless, the smile on his face instantly solidified, and he turned to look at the shore and said, "Old road, pull the rope."

“All right!”Grandpa said good, we quickly pulled the rope in our hands, the rope is to hold the boat, like such a rapid flow of water, if there is no boat rope, I am afraid that the boat has been washed away by the water.

Just before it was drawn, this rope was in our hands, and the rope was the same as the rope he had picked up the body.

I looked at some strange, this rope is hand-made, there are some black hair mixed in it, just now I secretly asked my grandfather what kind of hair, grandfather said is the black dog hair on the boat.

The four of us pulled the rope, and then pulled back, and the old ghost fixed the bamboo on the wooden boat, and controlled the death of his hands.

It took the strength of the two tigers, the old man's body finally showed the water, and indeed, as the old ghost said, he still opened his eyes, but his eyes were no longer eyelids, and all his eyes were white, staring at us with two white eyes, which was extremely frightening.

Thinking of him yesterday, and then looking at him in front of me, my whole body was trembling.

We pulled the rope a little up because the water was too fast and the resistance was great.

“It’s broken, how could it be?”The old man suddenly shouted, and the voice was very sad, as if he were a hell.

We also looked at the body of the old man in the stream, and we were completely blind.