The corpse on the Yellow River is a mysterious water ghost.

At this stop, we came to the Yellow River to visit one of the most mysterious and ancient professions on the Yellow River, the "corpse digger".

The Yellow River is the birthplace of our country, giving birth to tens of thousands of Chinese sons and daughters, so we affectionately call the Yellow River "Mother River" but this great mother also has anger and anger, we all know that the Yellow River was originally an above-ground river, the water surface is turbulent and magnificent, attracting many people to stop and visit, the same river has swallowed countless fresh lives from ancient times to the present!

For example, some people who were swept away by the turbulent sea water while playing on the banks of the Yellow River, who fell into the water on a boat, who committed suicide by jumping into the river, or some who killed themselves for money and discarded their bodies in the river, in short, there are all kinds of corpses.

It is for this reason that the special profession of corpse collectors on the side of the Yellow River has been derived, and their job is to salvage the corpses that have been counted ashore, and the families of the deceased will come to claim them.

On the Yellow River, we often see a boatman holding a small boat floating on the river, they are not boatmen, they are not fishermen, they have a very special name called "water ghosts"!

Call it water ghosts, they are not real ghosts, but living people like us, but they often deal with corpses and dead people to have such a name, some people have a lot of reports have said that the profession of corpse diggers, it sounds a bit scary and bizarre, most people think that this profession is so special must be a lot of income, at first I also thought so, but what none of us could have imagined is that the corpse salvage is completely free, no money, the state will give them some subsidies, some very inappropriate metaphors are similar to those police uncles and other state officials, but there is no charge for serving everyone。

There is also a reason here, every line has rules for each line, and there are more things to pay attention to in the line of corpse fishers, one of which is to talk about the issue of remuneration, because salvaging corpses belongs to making money from the dead, and if you collect money, this belongs to "bad luck" and it is unlucky to get it in your hands.

There is also the fact that the corpse digger must be a water life, and it is a man, because women are yin and are not suitable for this profession, in addition, the corpse diggers are passed down from master to apprentice, there is a rule that a master can only accept one apprentice, this apprentice must be carefully selected and courageous kind, if there is no courage at all, it will not be able to withstand the acquired training.

After receiving the apprentice, the first thing to do is to replenish the corpse qi, that is, let the apprentice soak in the corpse pond for seven days and seven nights, which can be regarded as bathing and fasting for him, and only after seven days can he officially go out of the customs, so that he can go to sea with the master to salvage the corpse.

In addition to these rules for salvaging corpses, there are also a lot of rules, such as what must be taken on an iron boat, every time you go out to retrieve a corpse, you have to bring a big red rooster on the boat, etc., because the corpse collector I visited is a foreigner, old and speaks in a very heavy dialect, and some are not clear, I can only guess a half-understood specific details, but after my soft grinding and hard bubbles, this old water ghost promised to take me with me to salvage the corpse once, which is actually breaking the rules, but the reason why I agreed to such a request is mainly because my profession is also relatively special。

In order to be able to write more and better stories, my daily task is to explore those strange places, to visit those special professionals who are full of bizarre colors, and to the scene of those occasional unexpected events, I will use my pen to record all this, I feel that I am the spokesperson for these things that we can't see, and make them no longer mysterious in my pen!

The special way of speaking of the old water ghost, so that I lost the interest in continuing to talk with him, I just hope to be able to see the process of salvaging the body sooner, the general corpse collector is to find the corpse to be claimed by the person, and some people take the initiative to find the corpse to help salvage, this time we were invited by a middle-aged couple to salvage their little daughter who fell into the water when they played.

The density of our body and water is basically the same, because the corpse will decay after death to produce a lot of decaying gas, that is, we often say corpse gas, causing the corpse to swell and float on the water surface, so it is very convenient to salvage, generally use a rope to cover a certain part of the corpse, but some of the more corroded ones need to use a large fishing net, otherwise the corpse will be torn off, which is disrespectful to the deceased.

The time when the little girl fell into the water was seven days ago, and now that the body has been soaked for so long, it should have floated on the surface of the water a long time ago, which makes it even more difficult to fish, because no one knows where the body has been floated by the river, and we can only follow the current all the way down to find it slowly.

This is a long and boring job, because even if you are entrusted to come to salvage the body, if you encounter other corpses on the way, you have to help salvage it back, and the boat for the recovery of the body is very small, and generally as long as you find a corpse, you must send it back quickly, so that the families of the deceased can find and claim their relatives as soon as possible.

Today I don't know why it's so strange, it seems that the corpses in the Yellow River have been met by us, and we haven't reached the place where the little girl's mother said that the water fell into the water, we have salvaged four corpses along the way, that is to say, we have gone back and forth four times, this is the fifth time to come out to salvage, the old water ghost told me that this is also the last time, if the little girl is not better, it can only be tomorrow, this is also the rule of this line, the rules are really unusual!

I just hope that this time I don't find my target again, losing a child is a very painful thing, if I know that the child is dead and can't even find a body, then how sad his parents must be!

However, we came to what we were afraid of, and we met a corpse floating on the water halfway, and the old water ghost did not hesitate to row a small iron boat close to the corpse, which was already the fifth corpse, and I was used to seeing these things, and I had no interest in the dead corpse, and even lay on the boat and took a nap.

The river splashed on my face for some reason, and the sudden cold stimulation on my face woke me up from my sleep, and I looked at the sky around me to see that it was already a little dark, and I was still lying in the boat, next to the corpse covered by the black cloth, and the old water ghost was still standing expressionlessly in the bow of the boat rowing the boat.

The scenery on the Yellow River under the sunset is also very good, I raised my eyes to look into the distance, I vaguely heard a voice shouting, this voice is getting closer and closer to our boat, only to hear a little girl shouting again: "Take me back with me", but I can't see the shadow of the little girl.

The voice was very ethereal, as if it disappeared in a trance, I looked at the old water ghost and saw that his expression did not change in the slightest, I thought I must have had auditory hallucinations just now, but what I didn't expect was that when our ship docked, I found that there was a little girl's body under the boat......!

Where are we going next?