Zhang Yi has heard of the word corpse picker for the first time, but he has heard the old Taoist once said that the bones of the rural people are buried in the mortuary, and it is said that the custom of stopping burials after death is still maintained in the Dabie Mountain area of Anhui Province.

The so-called burial is that the person is not buried in the soil immediately after death, first put the coffin on the surface of the soil, and then build a rectangular closed house that can shelter from the wind and rain on the coffin, which is stopped, and then after three or five years, find a piece of feng shui treasure to demolish the house and bury the coffin in the soil, which is the burial.

In the process of burial, a person needs to open the coffin lid to clean up the bones and rearrange the shape and appearance of the bones is the skeleton mortuary, of course, this word is also Zhang Yi, and it is unknown what they call it in dialect.

However, as far as Zhang Yi knows, this line is estimated to have been extinct for only two years, because I have seen on the TV news that these places are about to be cremated, and once people die in the future, they will be burned to ashes, so these traditional folk customs will gradually fade out of people's field of vision, and this profession will never be traced.

"You may have thought of the corpse picker now, yes, a profession that is about to disappear, and I have also been reduced to an old janitor" The old man smiled self-deprecatingly.

"You're a very different person"

The old man's slightly hoarse voice sounded again, and when he heard this, Zhang Yi's body tensed again, and he suddenly understood that the core topic that the old man had asked him to talk about finally surfaced, did he know that he was the corpse that ran out of the morgue.

Zhang Yi opened his mouth with questions and vigilance, "Why do you say that?" ”

"From the moment you entered the morgue, I felt a particularly strong yin qi on your body, although I was in a semi-comatose state at the time, but as a long-time person who has worked with corpses, I am very sure of this, of course, this is not enough."

"So you use your nephew to verify and tell me how you died?"

The old man lifted the curtain slightly and looked outside, only to see the young man standing there quietly outside the window with his hard hat against the railing, he looked up with a slight smile at the high-rise buildings under construction in the distance, once he might have worked there, and built this beautiful city with his industrious hands.

"Alas! His name is Liu Bing, he is only 18 years old, and he followed me to the city construction site this summer to work as a temporary worker to raise tuition for the next college trip, but just a week ago on a rainy night, I saw the little soldier covered in mud, but ...... But he is no longer human, and has become a lonely ghost...... ”

Speaking of this, the old man couldn't cry anymore, and his body trembled terribly.

Zhang Yi sighed deeply, patted the old man on the back to help him relieve his breath, and after a long time, he whispered, "Why did he die?" ”

The old man shook his head, "I don't know, this child is very sensible, his parents are disabled, so he will feed pigs and cook at the age of five to take care of his parents, the money for studying over the years is based on his usual part-time work, but I don't know why he died this time, I have called the police, but a week has passed and there is still no trace, I can't tell the police that I saw the soul of the little soldier, then they will definitely think I am crazy." Now the creep doesn't know that he is a ghost. ”

Zhang Yi patted the old man's hand, nodded, and then turned around and walked out of the ward.

Liu Bing saw Zhang Yi walk out, smiled at Zhang Yi, and lowered his head a little shyly.

Zhang Yi walked over with a smile and patted a hand on his shoulder and smiled: "How is it, young man, do you like big cities?" ”

"I like, if I have money in the future, I will definitely buy the top floor of the floor, take my parents over, and let them see the whole city as soon as they open the curtains."

Liu Bing said very happily, with a happy smile on his face, but only Zhang Yi knew that this would always be a dream in his mind.

Zhang Yi sighed deeply, and immediately pulled his hand away from Liu Bing's body, just now, the moment Zhang Yi touched Liu Bing's ghost, he saw the thick hemp rope around Liu Bing's neck, saw his purple face and spit out a long tongue.

It was his true appearance after death, and since he didn't know that he was dead, his true appearance was still not revealed, and the appearance of his soul was still the vigorous young man he was before he died.

"I hear you sigh, don't you believe it?" The young man looked at him with a suspicious look, this is the bold temperament of a standard country child, once he opens the chatterbox, he will no longer look shy, he will treat you as a good friend and sincerely reveal it.

Zhang Yi woke up from his trance, and immediately said in a firm tone: "Faith, of course I believe, you are so smart, sensible and capable, you will definitely have something to do in the future, but the top floor is not very good, I suggest choosing about 20 floors, because the top floor is too hot in summer." ”

Liu Bing's eyebrows immediately danced, he leaned on the windowsill and opened his eyes wide to look at the beautiful garden-style high-rise bungalow at the edge of the city, at this moment in his heart must fly to that beautiful house, and live happily with his family.

When Liu Bing was still looking forward to a better future, Zhang Yi dragged his heavy steps back to the ward, his face was very pale, and he looked at the old man helplessly.

"Little soldier, has he encountered any knots that he can't untie recently?"

"No, he has been very happy, although the construction site is very hard, but he is very diligent, the workers and contractors on the construction site are very good to him, I have been to see him twice, every time he hums a little song and mixes the concrete."

After the old man said this, he paused slightly, then sat up on the bed abruptly, and asked Zhang Yi hurriedly, "What do you see?" ”

"Alas! If everything is as strange as you say, he hanged himself. ”

The old man jumped up from the bed in shock, he grabbed Zhang Yi's hand and said excitedly: "How is it possible, Xiaobing, he is a lively child, how could he commit suicide, he has known since he was a child not to abandon his disabled parents, how can he leave his parents alone." ”

Zhang Yi pulled his hand out of the old man's hand with difficulty, bent the index finger and thumb of his right hand into a circle and placed it in front of the old man's eyes, and motioned for the old man to look at Liu Bing from this circle.

The old man looked at it for a moment, and immediately looked away, and plunged into the bed, and began to cry.

He didn't understand what kind of grievances made a young man with great prospects and ambitions choose to end his young life by hanging.

At this point, Zhang Yi basically understood what happened, the old man was exhausted and sick because of Liu Bing's death, he always saw Zhang Yi when he was in a coma, and felt that he had a strong yin qi on his body, so he hoped to ask for help in Zhang Yi.

"Uncle, the matter has come to this, crying doesn't have any effect, you definitely didn't call me to listen to you cry, say, how do you need me to help you."

The old man pulled his head out of the bed, wiped his red eyes, and said, "I beg you to help me find the corpse of the little soldier, and then see why he is looking for a short time, it must be unusual." After speaking, he knelt in front of Zhang Yi with a plop