"But the young man just now obviously had some abnormal hearing. ”

"If I'm not mistaken, your eardrums must have been punctured. ”

After a pause, he glanced at the old man deeply: "Because of this, you can be like a fish in water." ”

"Ringing golden throat, straight ears. ”

"Yin and Yang cross-border extradition of people. ”

"I don't know, am I right, or am I not right?"

Hearing this, the old man's expression changed drastically, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

Zheng Shaoqiu looked at the soles of his shoes quietly, and said unhurriedly: "This sand is obviously not from the shore, this color is only available at the bottom of the river." ”

When the old man heard this, his face was decrepit, and as soon as his knees were bent, he was about to kneel.

Zheng Shaoqiu's eyes were quick, and he directly pulled out his collar and lifted him up: "You are old, I can't afford it." ”

The old man kept his head shut and didn't speak, his face was a little ugly, and he didn't know where to put his hands.

"Don't be nervous. ”

Zheng Shaoqiu handed over a cigarette, and the old man took it tremblingly, and his arms trembled slightly.

There is an old saying that is good, and it is safe to enter the earth, which is the deep-rooted concept of all ordinary people, even if their relatives are buried in the river, they will try their best to find their bodies.

Salvaging the body is a technical job, and even if you are not careful, you will even get into it, and there are also artists who are bold enough to do it, but at the beginning, it has not yet formed a profession, it is just to help.

This continued until the fifties and sixties, and as the demand increased, it gradually evolved into a new profession - corpse scavengers.

Those who do this business are "evil" in the eyes of outsiders, but this is not up to their own choice, most of the corpse diggers are forced by poor family background, after all, dealing with corpses all day long, the common people will be more or less a little evasive.

Of course, due to the great difficulty, being a corpse digger is undoubtedly very profitable, and most people have been corpse diggers all their lives after becoming corpse diggers.

Among them, the most fundamental reason is not to make money, but to do other work as a corpse collector, which cannot be accepted by others, because often dealing with the dead and making money from the dead is unlucky in the eyes of others, just like the current mortuary and forensic doctor, of course, compared to these two, the corpse collector is even more unpopular.

They traveled in small boats on the river, searching for the bodies of those who had fallen into the water, and then returning them to their loved ones, seeing too much death and tears, and at the same time bearing the strange eyes of people in life.

When they are needed, they are extradition people who cross the border of yin and yang, and when they are not needed, they are a group of "people who make money from the dead".

Of course, there is also a lot of attention to this thing, and there has always been a rule of "three fishing and three non-fishing".

Sanlao is actually a false finger, maybe in the past there were really strict rules, there were a lot of people who were not allowed to fish, and now they just need to give money.

However, three no-fishing is a dead rule, and no one can break it!

First, the corpses standing upright in the water will never be fished, because they can no longer be called corpses, but are called sha, just like touching the zongzi called by the captains of Jin.

The second is that on a rainy day, you will never go out to the boat to retrieve the corpse, because the rainy day is too cloudy, and no matter how hard your life is, it is dangerous.

In the end, if the same body is salvaged and not caught three times, it cannot be fished again, and legend has it that this kind of person still has an unfinished wish, and if he forcibly salvagates it, he will be haunted by evil spirits.

In addition, the corpse digger also has an obvious characteristic, that is, he has a big addiction to smoking.

Zheng Shaoqiu found that the old man's right middle finger and index finger had been smoked yellow by tobacco.

This is because corpses fished out of the river water generally smell very strong, and smoking can not only remove the smell of the body, but also promote the expulsion of poisonous gases inhaled into the lungs.

Zheng Shaoqiu snuffed out the cigarette butt and glanced at the old man: "Is there a problem at home?"

The old man sighed and replied in a deep voice: "My granddaughter has just been admitted to college, and the tuition fee has not been settled, so I ......"

At this point, he didn't continue, but the meaning he wanted to express was already very obvious.

Zheng Shaoqiu nodded: "Which university?"

"Jiang Da. The old man didn't think about it, and said directly: "My granddaughter has always been good at studying, and she is one of the best in our country, and this time she was admitted to university, and the family's money was not enough, so she came to Pingjing." ”

"There's no way, I've been in this business for a lifetime, and no one accepts anything else if I want to, and I don't have the ability to do it. ”

"Now that you know, I don't want to say anything, just don't tell my granddaughter that her future is bright. ”

After speaking, he took a sharp puff of his cigarette, choked on Leng Buding, coughed violently, and let out a trembling sound of Mingjin.

While the two were talking, the young man came over after settling the account and handed the recovered change to Zheng Shaoqiu.

Zheng Shaoqiu took it in his hand, stood up, and said lightly: "Something, I want it." ”

Hearing this, the old man shuddered violently, stood up tremblingly, his lips twitched, he wanted to say something, and finally swallowed it back.

......

By the time Zheng Shaoqiu returned to Yuanbao Villa, an hour had already passed.

A faint red light appeared at the end of the sky, and the sun hung in the west over the top of the mountain.

Seeing him coming, Li Henian sighed, and hurriedly greeted him: "What are you doing here? Why is it so long?"

"But it makes me anxious. ”

"How did you get this Zhangzhou military salary?"

"And this Ruyao Shuixian Basin, where is it?"

Zheng Shaoqiu explained a few words in a low voice when he heard this, and then didn't say anything more.

Li Henian complained a few words, and then suddenly remembered something, walked behind the screen, and whispered a few words.

When he came out again, he was followed by a man in his fifties and sixties, dressed in a refreshing manner, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, although his hair was a little gray, but his complexion was excellent, and there was an elegant temperament on his body, which made people look comfortable.

"This is my classmate from college, named Zhang Chunlai. ”

This person is not small, he is currently the director of the Zhonghai Provincial Museum, and he is also the head of the Department of Cultural Relics Bureau.

Zhang Chunlai didn't have the slightest arrogance on his face, he walked over with a smile on his face, and secretly looked at the young man in front of him.

It's not very well dressed, it doesn't look like a solid family, but the eyes are very sharp, and there is a faint frightening momentum on the body.

You must know that in the antique industry, the class is very obvious, those folk Tibetan friends, when they see professional-level professors, they are just like fans who see little fresh meat, and they can't help themselves.

And this young man, not at all.

His face was very calm, and his eyes were ancient, like an old well that people couldn't see through.