Chapter 209 Are You Resentful?

San Ya fell heavily into the water with a scream, and all the children panicked in an instant.

Gousheng, as the oldest child among them, ran over quickly, dived into the water, and swam towards Sanya.

The other children breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Gousheng swimming over.

These children have been playing by the river since they were young, and none of them are bad at swimming.

But they were still too young, all children around five or six years old. The oldest, Gousheng, was only seven and a half years old, half a year away from turning eight.

Gousheng swam over, grabbed Sanya's arm and started to pull her up, but for some reason, Sanya, who was clearly moving with a pull on the shore, now seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. Even with Gousheng's strength, he was unable to pull her up.

Because San Ya was too heavy, she even pulled him deeper into the water.

The junction of the river, which was only a palm's distance away from the shallows, was so dark that the bottom could not be seen.

"Help... Gululu... Help... Gululu..." Gousheng struggled to stick his head out of the water, and the next moment he was dragged back into the water by an unknown force.

"Brother Gousheng!"

"Saya!"

"Ahhh, help!"

"Call the adults, go and call the adults quickly." The child shouted.

"Yes, yes, call the adults." Two children ran towards the village.

"Ah, help! San Ya and Gou Sheng were dragged into the water by a water ghost." A child shouted, using the words adults usually use to scare them.

As soon as these words were spoken, the two children who stayed there panicked.

“…Help…”

"Splash." A loud sound of something falling into the water attracted the remaining two children to look over.

Upon closer inspection, I discovered that the big-eyed kid who had been standing quietly by the side had torn off the rag on his head and dived into the river.

"Big-eyed baby!"

"Big-eyed baby..."

Even Brother Gousheng couldn’t save San Ya, let alone the big-eyed kid who was obviously thinner than them.

"I'm going to die. I'm going to be captured by the water ghost."

The big-eyed boy dived into the water, with the only eye on his forehead wide open, emitting a faint golden light in the turbid river water. He soon found the figures of San Ya and the other person.

San Ya had obviously fainted from drinking too much water, and Gou Sheng was still struggling hard, and it seemed that he was about to suffocate.

The big-eyed boy kicked his legs hard, and his whole figure rushed to Sanya's feet like a sharp arrow. He grabbed the black shadow that was wrapped around Sanya's ankle with both hands, opened his mouth, and bit it hard.

"Woo!" The black shadow suddenly released Sanya's ankle, and a howl of pain that could not be heard by human ears was heard, and it rippled in the river.

Big Eyes Boy reached out and grabbed San Ya's legs, and suddenly pulled her up with force. Gou Sheng could barely see Big Eyes Boy's movements in the chaos, and immediately dragged San Ya up.

The big-eyed boy floated in the river with his hands outstretched, looking warily at the dark shadow lingering at the bottom of the river, and baring his teeth at the shadow to show his strength.

On the river

"It's Gousheng and Sanya!" Several adults who were called over were about to go into the water when they found that two children were floating up from the middle of the river.

Without caring about anything else, several people jumped into the water and rescued the two people to the shore.

"Ugh, cough, cough, cough..." Gousheng knelt on the shore with weak legs. After vomiting a mouthful of river water, he coughed continuously.

San Ya, who was already unconscious, was turned over by the adults and placed on their knees, who patted her back hard.

After five or six times

"Ugh..." San Ya woke up after vomiting a large amount of black river water. As soon as she woke up, she started coughing and crying loudly.

"You damn kids, didn't I tell you not to play by the river recently?"

Seeing that both children were rescued, the adults breathed a sigh of relief and then began to scold the children with a stern face.

"There are still people in the river, cough cough...Big Eyes is still in the river." Gousheng tried hard to look into the river, but he never saw Big Eyes floating up from the water.

"Yes, yes, the big-eyed boy is still in the water." The other children also remembered the big-eyed boy.

"What big-eyed kid? There is no big-eyed kid at all." Seeing that the river was calm and that the children in the village were all there, several adults thought that the children were frightened into hysterics.

"Come on, come on, take them all back and let your parents beat you up, then you will be obedient." Several adults each held a child under their arms and strode towards the village.

"Big-eyed boy, Big-eyed boy is still in the water!" The children struggled, trying to save their little friends.

"Big Eyes, it's really still in the water."

"Big-eyed baby, big-eyed baby..."

But the adults who had never seen the big-eyed kids didn't believe what they said at all. They grabbed them and ran away, and a piece of gray rag was stepped into the river mud.

The adults ran so fast because they found a circle of black marks on Sanya's and Gousheng's ankles.

The only difference is that the one on Sanya’s ankle is much thicker, while the one on Gousheng’s ankle is only a small circle.

It is obvious that the water ghosts at the bottom of the river have begun to come out to harm people. Every summer is the time when water ghosts appear. They will warn the children at home at this time every year.

But naughty children never listen to adults, which leads to children drowning every few summers.

After all the noise on the river bank had faded, a pitch-black head emerged from the water. He swam from the middle of the river to the shore and picked up the rag that had been trampled into the mud.

He carefully rinsed the rag in the river water, wrapped it around his head, and slowly left the river.

Seven days later

At the door of Sanya's house, after hearing three bird calls, he picked up a hundred-year-old wild ginseng at the door, which just saved Sanya who was terminally ill after falling into the water.

One month later

San Ya's body finally recovered. She didn't know about the wild ginseng and only thought that Big Eyes had died at the bottom of the river in order to save her and Gousheng.

A group of friends secretly came to the river, stole incense and candles from their homes, and started worshiping by the river.

That night, a dark shadow sneaked into the small fishing village. The next morning, the villagers found that their children could not be awakened no matter how hard they called.

The anxious parents hurried out with their children and met each other in the village. They found that more than 20 children under the age of ten in the village had all fallen into a coma for unknown reasons.

The village chief asked someone to invite a doctor to check on the children, but he couldn't find out what was wrong. Just when everyone was getting anxious, someone suggested asking the famous He Po to come and take a look.

The others had no better idea, so they pooled their money and invited He Po.

The Hepo, who was in her sixties, had a head full of silver hair but bright eyes and was full of energy. As soon as she entered the small fishing village, she frowned. After seeing the unconscious children, she took off their shoes directly.

Only see

All the children who were in a coma had a thumb-sized black spot on the sole of their right foot.

He Po was certain that these children were cursed by the river god, and there were only two ways to save them.

The first solution is to kill the river god.

The second method is to ask the river god why he cast the curse and then satisfy him.

The villagers looked at each other in bewilderment. They wondered how many years the water ghost in the river had survived. Every year, people from their small village along the river would drown in the river, but this year it would be this village, and next year it would be that village.

They are just ordinary villagers. If someone in their family drowns, they can only blame themselves for their bad luck. If it weren't for the fact that all the children in the village were in trouble, the villagers would not have pooled money to ask the river goddess for help.

They didn't have the ability to kill the river god, so they chose the second method. They gathered three animals and five livestock, and led by the river lady, they held a sacrifice altar by the river.

After the sacrifice, He Po received a message from the River God, asking them to catch a small monster to sacrifice to it, and it would let the children in the village go and bless the riverside village with good weather for ten years.

When the villagers heard that it was a small monster and that the river god had guaranteed good weather, they could not resist the temptation. They gathered the young and strong men from other villages along the river, picked up weapons such as wooden sticks and hoes, and rushed to the monster's residence.

They saw the monster in the dilapidated temple. It looked like a thin child and was protected by a group of small animals.

Seeing how weak it was, all the little worries they had disappeared. They rushed forward viciously, beat the small animals to death with wooden sticks and hoes, and pulled out the little monster that was trembling and crying.

Someone pulled off the rag on the little monster's head, and saw that there was only one eye on its face, a big eye that grew horizontally on its forehead.

Some people who were originally soft-hearted, when they saw the appearance of the monster, muttered that it was indeed a monster, so they tied it up and dragged it down the mountain.

The little monster was placed high on a pile of firewood. He was so young that he didn't know why he had become like this. He had been obediently hiding from the adults, so why was he still caught?

He looked at the adults with blurred faces below the stage, and thought of the little animals that died to protect him. He couldn't help but feel sad, and big tears fell from his big eyes.

In the crowd, Sanya's mother looked at the child tied to the platform and felt sorry for him. "He's just a child who looks a little strange, and he saved our Sanya."

Sanya's father looked at the crazy villagers around him, shook his head at Sanya's mother, and motioned her to look at the unconscious Sanya in her arms. If they didn't sacrifice the monster to the river god, their Sanya would not be saved.

San Ya's mother looked at her child on the platform, then looked at her own San Ya, and finally she could only turn her head away and not look at the platform.

"River God, River God, River God..." Led by the river goddess, the villagers knelt down to worship.

A majestic old man wearing a crown and gorgeous clothes floated up from the river in response to the crowd's calls. When the villagers saw him, they became even more pious.

"River God, it's Lord River God."

The little monster looked up. In his eyes, it was just a disgusting black shadow dripping with river water. He couldn't help but shout, "He is not a river god, he is a water ghost, a water ghost!"

The little child's voice was drowned out by the villagers' fanatical worship.

"Sacrifice!" The river god opened his mouth, and his majestic voice resounded in the ears of the villagers.

"Burn the monster to death and offer it as a sacrifice to the river god." A voice shouted, and the torch was thrown into the firewood pile, and the fire started in an instant.

The raging flames engulfed the little monster's figure, and his screams became the villagers playing music to please the "River God".

"Is this your past?" A tall, translucent figure floated in the air, watching everything happening below. His face showed no sadness or joy, and his rough voice slowly uttered a few words.

"Are you resentful?"