The shop is closed all year round, and the old man can go home at dawn, cook dinner in the evening, and go back again at half past four in the morning to receive the corpse chasers.

If you don't come, that's okay, anyway, everyone will automatically stay for the money, but when there are people, dinner still has to be made.

The old man left, Tao Bao and the others had almost eaten, it was completely dark, Lao Rongtou said, tonight they followed Mr. Lin to send the god of joy down the mountain, and then went to Mr. Lin's house.

The two of them talked a lot of code words, Tao Bao only knew that this old Rong Tou was specifically here to find Mr. Lin to do something, and what it was, she didn't hear it, there were too many jargon, too many code words, she was a layman, and it was normal for her not to understand.

It's just that when I saw Mr. Lin, the corpse chaser, eighty percent of the occupations of Lao Rongtou's father and son were related to the dead, what was it exactly, Tao Bao guessed, it might be a tomb robber, because she took advantage of Qingjiang's inattention today, and opened his backpack to take a look.

The tools in it include shovels, Luoyang shovels, metal umbrellas, ropes, compasses, flares, and some relatively small things, which are fully equipped, and they are professional at a glance.

Speaking of which, the father and son didn't deliberately hide it from her, but they didn't tell her about their careers, look at what it means, you can guess it, it depends on yourself if you guess it or not, and you don't care about it.

After dinner, they rested for a while, and each of them packed their things and prepared to go down the mountain.

Tao Bao was covered in this cheongsam and the jacket given by the female student, in the winter, no one thought it was strange that she did not bring a change of clothes for ten days and a half months, she did not salute, so she sat in the hall and waited, watching how Mr. Lin and his apprentice brought the corpse to life.

Mr. Lin had a bell in his hand, he walked to the back of the door, stood next to his body, Lin Zhao held a box of cinnabar in his hand, Mr. Lin lifted the hat on the corpse, the gray and white face of the dead man was exposed, and a yellow charm was pasted on his forehead.

Every time Mr. Lin lifted a hat, Lin Zhao dipped his hand in cinnabar, dotted a little on the yellow charm, and after all four corpses were finished, he put the hat back on.

Lin Zhao put away the cinnabar and walked to the door, grabbed a handful of dark coins in the pocket of his waist, sprinkled it into the sky with a "bang", and read in his mouth:

"Xiangxi drove out the corpses, the living avoided them, and the ——!"

After he shouted this, Mr. Lin held the copper bell, shook the "jingle bell", and shouted: "Get up!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the four corpses that were originally motionless actually shook violently, and Tao Bao was startled, but at this time, she had no expression on her face, and no one could see that she was startled.

Lin Zhao clapped his hands, walked into the house, and removed the threshold, Mr. Lin shook the bell, and the four corpses were lined up one by one, jumping out of the inn.

At this time, Mr. Lin really began to drive away the corpse, shook the copper bell in his hand, and shouted in his mouth:

"Xiangxi drove out the corpses, the living avoided them, and the ——!"

As the saying goes, people have three souls and seven souls, this copper bell is also three long and seven short, every time it rings, the four happy gods will follow and jump forward a step, this step is not short, it is a foot long.

After the brass bell rang for a round, Mr. Lin shouted a song to drive the corpses, so marching in the direction of due north, the thick fallen leaves in the forest, under the trampling of this column of corpses, rustled vigorously, and the scene was extremely strange.

Lin Zhao walked behind the corpses to prevent these corpses from falling behind, while Tao Bao and the three of them followed behind.

Lao Rong looked strange, Qingjiang seemed to have seen it, and saw Tao Bao looking at the four corpses with curiosity, and explained to her as he walked:

"The so-called driving out of corpses is talking about a Fu Daoist like Mr. Lin, who drives people who have died in a foreign land back to their hometown with Taoist techniques."

"The corpses in this world are true and false. Fake chasing the corpse is to find a big living person to pretend to be a corpse and carry the deceased on his back, this kind of person has no real ability, and he is all made to fool people, such as Mr. Lin, who is really chasing the corpse. ”

"There are two kinds of real corpses, one is to invite spirits, and the other is to summon Gu, the so-called invitation to spirits is to invite other people's souls out, attach them to the dead corpse, and use bells to summon spirits and drive the corpse to hurry."

"This kind of corpse, the corpse has a soul attached to it, although it is not the original owner, it can be regarded as half a living person, and it is much lighter to walk. But this kind of corpse chasing is extremely dangerous, once the corpse chaser is not well controlled, the corpse of the devourer will appear, and it is easy to have big trouble, although it is fast, but it is not a particularly Taoist gentleman, and he generally does not dare to use it. ”

"There is another kind of trick Gu is Mr. Lin, this kind of corpse driving is to feed the Gu worms into the corpse's viscera, use the bell to drive the Gu away, and drive the corpse back to his hometown, using this method, the corpse is dead, the limbs are stiff, and it often walks slowly, which takes time, but it is safe."

After speaking, he stretched out his palm and swung in the direction of Mr. Lin, and said: "Actually, it's not slow, you see Mr. Lin's back, it's not slow, the mountain road is slippery and cold, slow down and save the joy and injury, and then I can explain to my parents." ”

Tao Bao nodded, smiled at Qingjiang, and said that he understood.

But according to what Qingjiang said, this Mr. Lin will still be Gu?

She hadn't thought about it before, but she hadn't noticed it, but now that she had probed into the past, she really found something unusual.

Among the four corpses, something was swimming, and it should be Mr. Lin's Gu.

She hasn't studied much since she learned Gu surgery, all the knowledge is stored in her mind, she doesn't look at it, she doesn't practice much, she doesn't know that Gu worms can also drive corpses, it seems that she has to release the water system spell first, study and study the Gu technique, maybe there will be a surprise.

With Mr. Lin's ringing bell, Tao Bao and his party have walked to the foot of the mountain, down the mountain, you can see the torch, and when you enter the point, you hear Mr. Lin's shouting, and the torch will come up.

Some people carry torches, some carry stretchers, others carry incense burners and candles, and they are dressed in ethnic minority costumes, with cloth scarves wrapped around their heads and white linen cloth on the outside, and they are the parents who have come to pick up the corpses.

Someone came to pick it up, Mr. Lin's work was considered to be the destination, he removed the talisman paper, put the corpses one by one for these parents, and very covertly summoned the Gu in the corpses, and the four families were all handed over, and watched them leave.

When the people left, Mr. Lin looked at Tao Bao and said, "Let's go, let's go to my house to rest first, and then go to the old man's house during the day to have a look, and after dealing with it, we can set off." ”

Lao Rongtou nodded, and led Tao Bao and the two to Mr. Lin's house.

After the loess road, you can hear the sound of the water, now about four o'clock in the morning, a little bright, you can see that there is a large area of terraced fields below, walk through the ridge, listen to the sound of flowing water in the ditch, Tao Bao and a few people touch the dark, along the terraces to the village below.

Under the terraces, there is a different scenery in front of you, not a loess road, but a stone road, a stilted building is on the opposite mountain, one by one, until the top of the mountain.

There is a five-meter-wide river between the stockade and the terraces, there is a waterwheel by the river, and there is a wind and rain bridge.

There is a gravel road passing through the middle of the village, and Mr. Lin's home is at the foot of the mountain, by the river, but there is no need to climb the mountain.

It was still early, and when the five of them entered, the chickens had not yet crowed.

Mr. Lin's house is a very ordinary stilted building, a vacant lot in front of the house, open the door is a long corridor, standing on the corridor, you can see the terraced fields opposite.

Walking through the corridor is the hall house, which has an altar, Mr. Lin lit the kerosene lamp, and there was light in the room, which made people feel warm in their hearts in this cold winter.