80s Peasant Girl

She didn't go up the mountain in the afternoon, and staying at home was quite boring, so she simply went to Lin's house.

Just in time, Lin Xiaomei took the fish basket and planned to go to the river beach outside the village to collect the fishing cages from last night.

"The front is where my father often gets out of the cage."

Looking in the direction of Lin Xiaomei's finger, it is a short grass river beach, the water is not very deep, it is a good place to put a cage.

Loaches, eels, and many other small fish, and if you are lucky, you can catch larger catfish.

"This place is nice, why doesn't it look like it's often visited by people?"

Such a rewarding place gives people a very desolate feeling, and there is not even a decent road.

She didn't think that people in the village didn't know about it, and it was only a ten-minute journey from the village.

"Most people in the village are afraid."

"Fear?"

Qin Xian turned his head in surprise.

"What are you afraid of? It looks very ordinary here."

Indeed, it looks very ordinary here, and anyone with a discerning eye can tell that this is a good place to catch fish, shrimp and loach in a cage.

Could it be that, just like the deep mountains and old forests around the village, there are also life-threatening things here?

Thinking about it, it doesn't make sense, mainly because it is too close to the village. If there is such a thing, there must be many legends about it in the village.

However, she has never heard of it.

"I'm afraid there are ghosts here."

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This reason made her very speechless, Lin Xiaomei smiled and told some rumors about this place.

It turns out that this short grass river beach is really a dangerous place. A few decades ago, there was a catastrophic flood in Shan'ao Village, and half of the village was submerged in the flood.

Fortunately, there are mountains on three sides of their place, and the people in the village discovered it early, so they only lost some houses, property and food, and nothing happened to them.

The upstream was not as lucky as them. It is said that when the flood receded, dozens of soaked white corpses appeared on the river beach.

There were men, women and children, densely packed, and the scene was very shocking. Many people in the village were terrified when they had seen so many dead people.

Even after the corpses were cleaned up, many villagers did not dare to come here.

However, there will always be a few brave ones in every village, and the property on this river beach is indeed rich. After a while, some people will still come here to fish and fish in a cage.

It was alright at first, but several weird things happened in succession. The villagers said that there are water ghosts in this place, and their children are not allowed to come here.

Generation after generation of warnings, naturally no one came.

Lin Guozhang heard this legend a lot when he was a child, but, as a former soldier, how could ghosts and gods frighten him?

And his daughter Lin Xiaomei was also under his education, and she didn't feel any fear of this place.

On weekdays, she would follow Lin Guozhang to unload the cage in the evening, and when Lin Guozhang was busy, she would come over to collect the cage alone.

No, if Qin Xian hadn't come here today, she would have come to collect the cage by herself.

After understanding what had happened, Qin Xian shook his head and laughed.

"That's good, at least the resources here are guaranteed. If there were no such rumors, I'm afraid I would have been killed by those brats in the village."

Bear children are not afraid of anything, and they will harm whatever they catch.

Just like those streams and small ponds in the village, not to mention fish, even shrimps are almost wiped out by the raging children.

"Yeah, there are a lot of loaches and eels in this place."

"If you are unlucky one day, you can get one or two catties, and sometimes you can catch five or six catties if you are lucky."

While talking, the two came to the place where the first cage was, and Lin Xiaomei skillfully dragged the cage out of the water.

The harvest was good, a few loaches and three eels.

"It seems that today's luck is good, you can take some back to try later."

After the loach and eel came out, Lin Xiaomei threw a small rag bag containing earthworms into the cage, and put the cage down again.

Lin Guozhang put a total of ten cages, all the way down, luck is really good, except for the two cages, there is no harvest, others are.

"It's not bad today. I guess it weighs four or five catties."

The two were about to go back home. When passing by a reed marsh, Lin Xiaomei said that she wanted to make it easier.

He got into the reeds at one end, and only about ten seconds after he got in, he heard a terrified scream from inside.

Qin Xian was shocked, and with all his strength, his whole body was like a cheetah rushing into the reeds.

"What happened?"

"Yes, yes, dead man."

When she saw Lin Xiaomei, her little face was pale, and she pointed forward with trembling fingers.

"dead?"

Qin Xian was also startled, and turned his head to look, and sure enough, there was a large piece of reed that was crooked seven or eight meters away from them, and there was a person crawling there, with a pale and bloodless arm stretched forward.

It seemed to be calling for help, and it seemed to be crawling hard. There was still a lot of dried blood on the reeds around him.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, this is not necessarily a dead person, you go outside first, I will go and have a look."

"No, no, don't go"

Lin Xiaomei grabbed Qin Xian who was about to step forward.

"It's okay, if it's not dead, we can't just ignore it, can't we?"

The person must be dead, Qin Xian was just curious about how this person died, and said that he was not dead, because he didn't want to scare Lin Xiaomei too much.

"You're right, then I'll go with you."

"No, just go outside and wait."

Qin Xian gave her a comforting smile, then pushed aside the reed and walked towards the corpse.

Lin Xiaomei who was behind trembled and hesitated for a moment, instead of waiting outside as Qin Xian said, she followed behind and walked towards the corpse.

This is a male corpse. It looks like a man in his thirties or less than forty years old. His upper body is naked and his lower body is in tatters. He looks like a beggar.

At this time, he was crawling obliquely on the ground, his back was exposed, covered with criss-cross wounds, new and old superimposed, looking very hideous and terrifying.

"I suffered a lot during my lifetime."

She said something silently in her heart, and knelt down to check again.

The man was indeed dead, but the reason for his death made Qin Xian a little surprised.

The man's chest had collapsed, and it looked as if he had been hit by someone's fist, causing his internal organs to lose his life.

However, the punch strength of ordinary people does not seem to be so strong.

Breaking the entire sternum bone and shattering the internal organs with one punch is not something that can be done purely by relying on strength.

"Could it be killed by that cultivator?"

She had seen this kind of injury a lot in her previous life, especially when she was traveling in the mainland, she often saw it.

The reason why she was unsure was because this was Earth Col Village, and she basically knew or met everyone in the village.

It seems that no one else can do this except her.

"Xianxian. Is he still alive?"

Just as she was thinking, Lin Xiaomei's voice sounded behind her.

"Oh, it's dead."

After replying, she stood up slowly, and the moment she turned around, she caught a glimpse of the inside of the man's left forearm close to the wrist, as if there was something written on it.