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Maternal grandfather and water ghosts.

His maternal grandfather repaired shoes for generations, and in his generation, there were two brothers, he was the eldest, inherited the sideline shoe repair since he was a child, and his younger brother was admitted to Beijing Medical University with his support.

When my grandfather was young, there were many people who supported his family by repairing shoes, and people lived frugally, so when there was a problem with the shoes, he would hand them over to a shoemaker to repair.

Therefore, many cobblers have been walking the streets and alleys for a long time, repairing shoes in the countryside.

The same is true of my grandfather, who lives close to Beiguan Village, so he goes north every day to help people repair their shoes.

If you have the right time, you can often go home before dark.

One day, because there was too much business, I missed the time, and it was already dark when I walked back.

It was getting darker and darker, but my grandfather was lost, and the road he usually walked on was easy to recognize, but somehow he walked into a cornfield.

After walking for a while, he came to the edge of a river, there are very few Zhuozhou rivers, and the only main river has dried up a lot.

The river in front of my grandfather was flowing very fast. And by the moonlight, he could see a lot of arms waving in the river.

If it was someone else, he might have fled, but his grandfather was a man who liked to be more real, and he firmly believed that ghosts could not be better than others.

So he cried out, "I have all the knives and awls here, which of you wants to try it?" After saying that, he picked up and threw the shoe repair knife into the river.

The river immediately calmed down a lot.

My grandfather walked on the shore for a while, and soon found his way back.

My grandfather said that my grandfather had encountered water ghosts, which were not actually ghosts, but monsters in rivers that often dragged people into the water and ate them when they were swimming or crossing rivers. There is often a legend that a certain river has to die several people every year after there are many dead people, and people think that it is the so-called substitute ghost so-called, but it is actually a phenomenon after the water ghost is addicted to cannibalism.

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