Why is My Second Dimension Weird?

Xu Ming was about to turn around and go back to the room, when he suddenly heard news of his interest in their conversation.

"You two secretly fetched water from the well to wash your hair again last night."

"No, no!"

The two maids quickly denied it.

The old lady smiled coldly.

"Two little girls dare to lie to my old lady!? There are two pools of water by the well, and they are already frozen!"

Now it's the twelfth lunar month of winter,

Only then did the two maids admit it, and at the same time begged the old lady not to tell the housekeeper.

"Hmph! I eat more salt than the two of you, trying to lie to me? No way!"

The old lady looked very proud.

After a while, she said earnestly:

"It's not that you are not allowed to wash up, but you can't wash up by the well at night."

"why?"

The curiosity of the two maids and Xu Ming, who was hiding and eavesdropping, was aroused.

The old lady suddenly lowered her voice and said mysteriously:

"Don't you know it's taboo?

Washing your hair by the well at night will attract unclean things and drag people into the well!

These dirty things especially like young girls like you! "

"Wu, Mama Wu, is what you said true?"

The two servant girls held hands in fear and said pitifully.

"Of course it's true, haven't you heard of it!"

Wu Ma hurriedly leaned in front of the two of them, and said with a gloomy face:

"A long time ago, there was a concubine named Zhenniang in the Chen family in Xiapi. She wore a red gauze and washed her hair by the well at night. The wife of that family happened to pass by. She was jealous that Zhenniang was more favored in front of the master of the Chen family. So he pushed Zhenniang into the well from behind!

The woman's natal family was very powerful, and Mr. Chen had no choice but to open up the relationship and settle the case according to Zhenniang's mistake and falling into the water.

A year later, it happened to be the anniversary of Zhenniang's death. The wife of the Chen family wore a red gauze to wash her hair by the well where Zhenniang was pushed down, and then jumped into the well! "

Wu Ma's deep voice and the weird story immediately made the two maids tremble with fright.

"I thought that the matter of Zhenniang's revenge would have ended the cause and effect, but I didn't expect that the matter is not over yet!

Since then, strange things have happened in the whole city of Xiapi. Someone threw himself into a well at night for no reason, someone saw tangled hair in the well, and someone saw a woman in red gauze crawling out of the well at night. ..."

"From then on, in Xiapi City, it has become a taboo to wash your hair by the well at night.

They all said that it was because the Chen family did not clean up the grievances for Zhenniang in order to cover up the truth. Zhenniang was taking revenge! "

"She, if she has a grievance, wouldn't it be better to go to the Chen family?"

A maid pretended to be brave and whispered.

"Are you going to reason with the ghost?"

Wu Ma suddenly sneered, and the wrinkles on her forehead were twisted together.

The servant girl was immediately stunned into silence.

"By the way, don't go to the lake for the next two days. I went to the market to buy vegetables this morning, and I heard a fish seller say that something happened in the fishing village near Luoma Lake.

Last night, when two fishermen were fishing on Luoma Lake, they suddenly fell into the lake. It is said that even the bodies were not found.

There are already rumors in the fishing village that the water ghost is taking his life! "

"I know, I know!"

There was also a ghost in the well, and there was a water ghost in the nearby lake. The two maids were immediately frightened, and a great shadow was cast in their hearts, especially for the water.

When they were working that day, the two of them avoided the water tank, let alone the well in the yard, as if they were afraid that something would pop out of the water tank. The housekeeper had to scold them badly.

Of course, this is something.

After eavesdropping on Wu Ma's narration, Xu Ming returned to his room.

The Zhenniang who emerged from the well should be the ghost he wiped out last night.

It's just that Zhenniang also likes to run out of the well, and her hair is long. Could it be that there is a distant relative named Zhenzi in Dongying?

Maybe it's just a coincidence...

Xu Ming was playing with that strange jade pendant exuding a cold aura.

Or maybe not...

Then I thought about what Wu Ma said about the nearby Luoma Lake where the water ghosts claimed their lives.

The fierce ghosts in Baimen Tower, the innocent souls in the well, the water ghosts in the lake, and the dead souls in Niujia Village...

It's really an 'outstanding man' to take a small piss.

Xu Ming couldn't help sighing.

His intuition told him that there might be some connection between the various incidents, but there were too few clues for the time being, and he had no clue.

Xu Ming immediately decided to go to the fishing village where Wu Ma said that the water ghost claimed his life.

Xu Ming first went to the market that Mama Wu was talking about, and found out that the story had already spread.

The fishing village on the shore of Luoma Lake is only thirty or forty miles away from Xiapi City. Fishermen fish at night, and in the morning they load the night's harvest into a horse cart or donkey cart, drag it to Xiapi City to sell, and then return to life. Necessary daily necessities.

Now that something like this happened, the whole market suddenly seemed panicked.Xu Ming easily found out the location of the fishing village from the vegetable farmers.

In order to save time, Xu Ming hired a carriage and asked the driver to drive him directly to the fishing village.

Three hours later, Xu Ming was woken up by the driver from the swaying carriage.

"Guest officer, Xiaowangzhuang has arrived!"

Xu Ming paid the reward, and at the same time agreed with the driver that he would come to the fishing village to pick him up at this time tomorrow.

As the carriage drifted away, Xu Ming turned around and walked towards the fishing village.

The fishing village in front of him was no different from the Niujia Village Xu Ming encountered on his first day here.

That is, the vegetable field at the entrance is gone, and it has been replaced by a shelf made of bamboo, on which a lot of seafood such as fish, kelp, and seaweed are dried.

Before Xu Ming entered the village, he heard a burst of crying and screaming from a small courtyard at the end of the village.

Xu Ming's heart moved, and he hurried over.

There were already many people around the house, and a peasant woman and a little girl in filial piety were crying loudly inside.

There was a spirit-calling banner at the door, and large pieces of white paper money were scattered into the surrounding sky.

But the strange thing is that no matter in the courtyard or indoors, the most decisive thing in funerals-the coffin, or the remains was not seen.

Xu Ming hid in the distance and observed carefully, and found that the mother and daughter did not seem to be acting.

Wailing in front of the clothes tomb, Xu Ming immediately thought of the family that Wu Ma mentioned had an accident.

He moved over calmly, and soon heard the low-pitched discussions of the crowd.

"The daughter-in-law of the Sun family is really pitiful. Her husband and his apprentices were all killed by water ghosts..."

"Hey~ I said long ago that you can't go to Luoma Lake at night, but some people don't believe it. Something happened, hey..."

"Old Chen and the others originally planned to go to Luoma Lake to try their luck tonight.

What happened to the old grandson, they didn't dare to go at night..."

From their conversation, Xu Ming learned a lot of useful information.

After a while, Xu Ming left Sun's house and walked towards the nearby pier.

After Xu Ming's back and forth, it was already around four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun would soon be setting.

The incident of the water ghost's death made many fishermen dare not stay on the lake, and they sailed back to the pier next to the village early.

Fishing boats, large and small, almost filled this relatively small wharf.

The fishing boats leaned against each other, and with a gust of wind blowing from the lake, the fishing boats swayed with the waves, making a burst of collision sound.

The whole pier was in depression.

Xu Ming managed to find a fisherman who was still on the boat.

This is a white-haired old man, his face is full of traces of sun and rain, his skin is dark, and the surface is full of dry and cracked wrinkles.

Xu Ming said hello, and then chatted with the old man.

In the words, the old man revealed that it has been 40 to [-] years since he took over the oars and fishing nets from his parents when he was young.

Xu Ming was secretly happy, this might be the insider he was looking for.

After chatting for a while, Xu Ming thought to himself that he really found the right person.

The old fisherman told him that Luoma Lake was peaceful decades ago, and there were no rumors of water ghosts taking their lives.

Later, about 30 or [-] years ago, a group of water thieves came near Luoma Lake. These guys took advantage of the nearby princes attacking each other and had no time to care about others, so they took the opportunity to hide near Luoma Lake.

Although Luoma Lake is called a lake, it is actually the junction of Yishui and Surabaya. The hydrology here is complex, and there are large and small islands by the lake and at the entrance of the two rivers for them to hide.

These water thieves gradually became popular, gathering hundreds of people, wantonly robbing passing ships on Luoma Lake.

Their methods are extremely cruel. After stopping the ship, they will rob all property and women, and kill all men including children.

When this group of water thieves rampaged on Luoma Lake, they killed many people.

The blood of these people who died in vain stained the entire Luoma Lake.

Of course, this group of water thieves did not end well.

After Cao Cao almost unified the Central Plains, he began to make great efforts to clear the bandits, water thieves, and robbers in the territories under his rule.

This group of water thieves were killed and captured by officers and soldiers, and the captured water thieves were dragged directly to Xiapi City and beheaded for public display.

The water thieves were wiped out, but the innocent souls who died in Luoma Lake did not give up.