Chapter 5, Drowned Corpse

On a certain day in June, a minibus was driving along the riverside road when it plunged into the Yangtze River, 200 meters away from the Xiaoshangxi Bridge. All passengers on board perished. By the end of August, as the floodwaters receded, a house in Huangling Temple was revealed from the river. The owner prepared to tidy up the room but discovered two corpses lying on their bed. Upon identification, the identities of the two corpses were confirmed: one was the ticket seller of the minibus. In 1998, the Yangtze River experienced a once-in-a-hundred-years flood, with the water level in the Three Gorges exceeding normal levels by several dozen meters. The identities of the two corpses were confirmed: one was the ticket seller of the minibus. In 1998, the Yangtze River experienced a once-in-a-hundred-years flood, with the water level in the Three Gorges exceeding normal levels by several dozen meters. Daishi, Huangling Temple, and Nan Tuo, a stretch of small residential and commercial houses along the southern bank, saw half of their structures submerged by the river. Nan Tuo is located a few miles downstream from Huangling Temple. How the corpses could drift upstream to Huangling Temple remains a mystery. The other corpse is even more perplexing; it belonged to a vegetable vendor from a fishing boat that sank in Nan Tuo. In the early hours of a certain night in July, a vegetable-selling fishing boat from Nan Tuo crossed the river to Liantuo and sank in the Yangtze River, with no survivors.

On a certain day in June, a minibus was driving along the riverside road when it plunged into the Yangtze River, 200 meters away from the Xiaoshanxi Bridge. All passengers on board perished.

At the end of August, the flood receded. In a certain residence near the Huangling Temple, a house emerged from the river. The owner was preparing to tidy up the room when he saw two corpses lying on his bed

After identification, the identities of the two bodies have been confirmed

A corpse is that of a ticket seller from a minibus.

In 1998, the Yangtze River experienced a once-in-a-century flood, with the water level in the Three Gorges exceeding normal levels by several dozen meters. The small towns of Daishi, Huangling Temple, and Nantuo along the southern bank were affected, with half of the commercial and residential buildings near the river submerged by the floodwaters

Nantua is several miles downstream from Huangling Temple. How could the body drift upstream against the current to reach Huangling Temple? No one knows.

Another case that is quite astonishing involves the vegetable vendor on the fishing boat that sank in Nantuo.

In the early hours of a night in July, a vegetable trading fishing boat from Nantuo capsized in the Yangtze River while crossing to Liantuo, with no survivors.