Chapter 19: The Yellow River Corpse Collector (I)

After returning home, Jiang Guo had already fallen asleep early, and he didn't know where he was, so he sat on the sofa on the first floor, his eyes were slightly red, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Worriedly raised his hand, looked at the bracelet in his hand like a pomegranate particle, and stroked it carefully.

"Sorrowful, give"

He didn't raise his head in worry, he reached out and took the thing that Wu Nian threw over, and looked, good guy, it was beer.

"Still a man understands a man"

Worriedly, he unbuttoned the can and took a sip.

"Yo, Garnet, yes! Ye Xin gave it to you! In Ye Xin's family, the garnet given to the boy represents a token of love, because the jade used in this garnet is carefully polished by the girl and then threaded into it with a rope."

He nodded, sighed deeply, and asked, "How do you know?" ”

Tie Wunian opened the drawer under the coffee table, took out a pack of "expensive cigarettes" and handed it to the sorrowful, took one in his own mouth, and Zorro ignited the fire and lit the cigarette.

"As long as I enter the ninth district, I have a way to know the details of the people who are coming."

He nodded and said, "But...... So what? She's gone."

"That'...... What if she reincarnated and remembered you? ”

His eyes suddenly lit up, but he lost his color in an instant, and he shook his head silently.

"Humph!!"

A cold snort sounded like a humming general, and his heart was in a trance.

I only listened to the Binding Wunian continued: "You were taken away by the Hades King, but today this girl makes you feel excited, if the Hades King knows that you have a trace of soul, I am afraid that you will be killed directly by the Hades King"

Worried's face suddenly turned pale: "How do you know"

Jian Wunian glanced at the sorrowful, didn't speak, just walked to the second floor, "I won't tell the Hades, don't worry, but ...... This memory, I'm going to help you seal it for a while."

He looked at the garnet, put it on his wrist, and fell asleep on the couch.

Jian Wunian glanced back at Fan Chou, a golden light flashed in his eyes, and he turned around and disappeared into the corridor

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The next day, Jiang Guo brought back his laptop and browsed the news at will, and suddenly, Jiang Guo exclaimed: "Wu Nian, Fan Chou, come and see!" These people are really too much, how can they be like this"

Tie Wunian and Fan Chou walked over to take a look, good guy, "The two children accidentally fell into the water, and the two college students accidentally overdrew their physical strength and drowned in order to save the children, and the fisherman asked for the price with the corpse"

It turned out that there were two children playing by the river, accidentally fell into the river, and were washed in the middle of the river, a college student jumped down to save the child, but the physical exertion of two trips back and forth was too great, and he couldn't hold on, and another college student jumped into the river to save him, and as a result, the two drowned, and the passing fisherman salvaged the two, tied the bodies to the stern of the boat, and asked the families of the two college students with their bodies.

Bind Wunian pursed his lips and said nonchalantly, "Isn't it really normal?" The darkest is the human heart, and it's good to get used to it."

Jiang Guo slapped the table angrily and said to Fan Chou who was in a daze: "Fan Chou, what do you think?" ”

Fan Chou didn't answer, his head gradually lowered, Jiang Guo gently pushed Fan Chou, and asked, "Fan Chou, what's wrong with you, what are you doing?" ”

"Alas" Fan Chou came back to his senses and sighed: "It's okay, it's just recalling the past of adulthood"

Jian Wunian became interested, moved two chairs, handed them to Fan Chou, sat down by himself, and looked at Fan Chou with expectant eyes.

Jian Wunian said: "The adult past of the ghost in the underworld is absolutely extraordinary, tell it quickly, and let Jiang Guo, a fool, open his eyes."

Jiang Guo glanced at him without thinking, the computer was closed, and he dragged his cheeks and looked at Fan Chou, Fan Chou sat down in the chair, cleared his throat, and said: "The Yellow River Ancient Road, the soul of the Chinese nation." A walking experience with a friend many years ago has always been buried deep in my heart. The peculiar experiences during this period made this trip to the Yellow River Ancient Road the most thrilling trip I have ever experienced.

The ancient Yellow River road we took started from Zhengzhou, followed the ancient Yellow River to Kaifeng Lankao, changed to a dry road at the dam, and entered the water again in Shandong, so that we went all the way to Dangshan in Anhui.

Our first section of the waterway is from the mouth of the Yellow River Garden to Kaifeng Lankao, which is almost more than 200 kilometers long, winding eastward in an "S" shape, all the way down the river.

However, this is July, May to October is the flood season of the Yellow River, the Yellow River is rising, the water is huge, this ancient road of the Yellow River has not been navigable for nearly 50 years, there are many big fish and turtles under the water, so that the boat can not be walked anywhere, so that no one dares to carry us over.

We searched for a long time at the wharf, and many boatmen ran with oars in their hands when they saw us, and finally found an old boatman who had traveled on the Yellow River all his life. The identity of this old boatman is more unique, he is not a fisherman, nor a ferryman, he is a water ghost. Water ghosts are an ancient profession, similar to the heavenly burial masters in Tibet and the corpse-carrying people in Xiangxi, all of them deal with the dead. It's just that the celestial burial master and the corpse bearer are guarding the dead, and the water ghost is dealing with the mysterious "dead and falling" under the Yellow River.

The density of the human body is about the same as water, and after the corpse sinks to the bottom of the water, as the corpse decays, the body gradually becomes bloated, and these corpse qi turns the person into a hideous-looking big-headed ghost with his lips turned out.

At this time, as the corpse gas increases, the corpse will gradually float to the surface, first the upper limbs float up, and then the lower limbs, because the pelvic bones of women and men are different, so the floating corpse also has a characteristic, called "male and female prostrate", which is to say that these dead people floating on the water, it is a man who leans over, and it is a woman who leans back.

Therefore, according to this principle, people who die in the Yellow River will float up on their own in three or five days. At this time, the family of the deceased only needs to beg the boatman to retrieve the body.

To salvage the bodies of the dead, the boatman will never accept money, and it will be unlucky for three years to collect this kind of bad money.

However, the deceased's family had to invite the boatman to have a vegetarian meal at home, and before leaving, they had to tie a strip of red cloth three inches wide and one foot long to the middle finger of the boatman. These are all for the purpose of warding off evil spirits, and they are also the ancient rules of the Yellow River.

They only fished out the corpses, used a long bamboo pole to pick up weeds and branches floating on the Yellow River, covered the corpse with a white cloth after finding the corpse, and then took a hemp rope mixed with black dog hair and tied it to the waist of the corpse, and hung the corpse on the cliff in the shade, waiting for the family to identify and recognize it clearly, and then carry the corpse ashore.

Of course, the corpse collectors do not fish for everything, if they encounter a corpse standing upright in the water, and there is only a touch of hair floating on the water, they will turn around and leave, and will never try to salvage it. In this regard, their explanation is: they are just picking up corpses on behalf of people, not redressing grievances on behalf of ghosts, and this kind of death standing upright in the water is not a corpse, it is a kind of evil.

Strange to say, after many people die in the water, the corpse does not float up, and when the corpse is fished out, it is still as if it has just died, and the corpse is still the same as before. Not only that, but these underwater corpses will always stand upright in the water, maintaining a walking posture, and the corpses will slowly move forward with the waves, as if they are walking slowly.

Many times in the dry riverbed, you can see clear footprints under the water, step by step to the deepest point, and when you reach the end, you will turn in another direction and continue walking, as if you are walking underwater.

It is said that these people who died on the Yellow River were so angry that they refused to leave, and they had to wait until they killed others before they would fall. It's a terrible legend, if you think about it, if you cross the Yellow River in a boat, and the boat goes to the middle of the river, you look down and you see a man walking underwater, and he smiles at you as he walks. With this feeling, your trip to the Yellow River will definitely not be comfortable. If such a death is encountered, then the family of the deceased will have to go to the water ghost.

Water ghosts are the name of the corpse diggers on the side of the Yellow River, this kind of water ghosts are not simple corpse fishers, they are all hereditary, they all have unique skills, and their unique ability is to ask for trouble.

It is said that the water ghost is an ancestral secret method, and the behavior is strange and strange, and outsiders have no way of knowing. Some people say that water ghosts have used a secret potion to wash their eyes since they were young, and after decades of practicing water watching on the edge of the Yellow River, their eyes can penetrate the turbid river water, and they can see the walking corpses underwater at a glance.

This kind of water ghost generally lives alone on the edge of the Yellow River, has no children and no daughters, has a black dog at home since childhood, and has a large penny in the courtyard, on which is tied an octagonal mirror, these are all objects to ward off evil spirits.

When the water ghost came home, the first thing he did was to call the black dog, then look in the mirror, and if it was all right, go back to the house to cook and sleep. If the black dog barks incessantly and there is blood in the mirror, he will turn around, go to the edge of the Yellow River and walk around again, remove the obscure objects on his body and come back. ”

"I have long heard that there are corpse collectors in the Yellow River Ancient Road area, but I didn't expect it to be true, to be honest! I've seen a lot of corpse chasers in Xiangxi."

Jiang Guo also nodded, and sighed: "I didn't expect that there is really anything in this world, but I don't know if there are still corpse collectors in the Yellow River area."

Fan Chou shook his head and smiled: "The world is so big, there are no surprises, this world is confusing, after so much time, I don't know if there are still corpse diggers in the Yellow River."

After all, so many years have passed, and the world has changed so much, whether there are still corpse collectors in the Yellow River, it is estimated that the older generation who know the Yellow River area knows.

A cold glint flashed in Jian Wunian's eyes, stood up, and walked to the neutral automatic coffee machine on the side (Jiang Guo bought it yesterday)

Pressing the brew button, a cup of fragrant coffee was brewed, and Wu Nian blew the coffee lightly, took a sip, and said, "Since you want to know so much, then...... Hurry up and clean up, early tomorrow morning, we will set off and go to the Yellow River Ancient Road to see what is going on, I happen to be a little tired recently, and I should give myself a holiday" Jiang Guo jumped up excitedly, high-fived Fan Chou, pulled Fan Chou to ask for the car keys to Jian Wunian, and went to the supermarket to prepare to sweep around and buy some snacks.

After the two left, Jian Wunian drank all the coffee in the cup, threw the coffee cup on the ground angrily, and said angrily: "Damn, if you commit something in my ninth district, it's like running to the Yellow River Ancient Road, it's useless to run anywhere."

Jian Wunian turned around and walked to the second floor, and a magnetic voice rang out in the empty hall on the first floor.

"I will judge you for your sins"

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What was it that made Jian Wunian so angry, and he committed a crime with someone and ran to the Yellow River Ancient Road.

Respectfully, please, and wait

The next episode is exciting