Xiangxi

In the deep mountains and forests outside an ancient town

When Sister Zhao and her entourage, who found a "stay", were thinking about whether to stay for the time being or return to the town, a thin figure slowly walked from the dark staircase.

"Live...... Shop...... What——? ”

The dry, cracked lips opened slightly, and a few words were spat out.

Only then did everyone react and hurriedly responded "yes". The shopkeeper laughed a few times, lifted the lamp and candle upward, looked at the group, and said:

"Ten pieces of the living...... The remaining five pieces ......"

The shopkeeper said slowly.

"A living person?! Rest?! ”

Where did everyone understand what it meant, and they couldn't help but ask.

"Oh...... You are only the living. The shopkeeper laughed dryly again, pointed to the rooms on both sides and said, "You can choose yourself...... Quite a bit empty. ”

Sister Zhao walked over and lifted the curtain, and saw that there was only one shop in the room and nothing else, so she turned around and asked, "Where is the bathroom here, how to wash it?" ”

Looking at the store again, he had already gone up to the second floor, and replied quietly: "Just find a place behind the house, don't wander around at night......."

Although it was too simple, it was already early in the morning, and it was impossible to find other places, so everyone had to divide the men and women into two rooms to rest. After a day's journey, I fell asleep as soon as I lay down.

"Squeak—"

I don't know how long later, the door of the store was opened. Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of "knock-knock" smashing the ground, one after another, and there should be a lot of people listening to the movement.

Xiao Xu, who had been "ambiguous" with Brother Bai before, got up from the bed in a daze, it was not yet dawn, Xiao Xu turned on the mobile phone flashlight and looked at the hall, the hall was very quiet, only the non-stop knocking sound, the guests who had just come in did not talk, they seemed to be very familiar with this place, and they lined up and went straight to the opposite room.

"Hey—you guys—"

Xiao Xu usually doesn't see people with low quality, these people actually jumped up and down one by one, so he chased after him with a flashlight. "Can you keep quiet? Everyone else is resting! ”

The other party completely ignored Xiao Xu behind him, and was still jumping up and down.

"Tell me about you!"

Xiao Xu's voice was a little louder, and then he seemed to see something, and shouted in the hall: "Sister Zhao! Sister Zhao! Come here! ”

"It's not dawn yet, who's this—"

"Ahh

Everyone walked out of the room one after another, and when they saw Xiaoxu standing in the hall with a surprised face, they asked very strangely.

"Sister Zhao, you ...... You see! ”

Sister Zhao looked in the direction of Xiaoxu's mobile phone, and saw that one of the people in the queue was wearing a small bracelet made of blades of grass on his wrist.

It was made up by Sister Zhao to Brother Bai a few days ago!

"Brother Bai! Brother Bai! ”

Everyone also reacted, and when they saw Xiao Xu staring at Brother Bai in a daze, they gathered around and said happily: "Xiao Xu, what are you doing, you don't know Brother Bai anymore?!" ”

But the man with the straw bracelet didn't look back for half a minute, and was still jumping unhurriedly.

The people around looked at each other, and then they understood the reason for Xiaoxu's surprise, only to see Brother Bai's face was dead, his eyes were staring ahead, blood marks were oozing from his mouth, nose and ears, and there was a paper note with red letters on a yellow background pasted on his forehead......

How can you look like a half-living person?!

"Lao Bai, what's wrong with you, what's wrong with you?!"

Sister Zhao slapped Brother Bai's body like crazy, only to feel cold and stiff to the touch.

"Who are you?! Why did Lao Bai become like this?! Sister Zhao shouted to the other companions who looked the same as Brother Bai.

"You ......"

"Da-da-"

The shopkeeper walked down from the upper floor with a lamp and candle, looked at Sister Zhao and her party and said, "These can't be touched...... I can't touch ......" and then trembling towards the room where the group of "dead people" entered, muttering, "Which corpse do you belong to?" ”

Hearing the word "corpse craftsman", Sister Zhao and her entourage obviously knew, they had seen corpse chasing performances in some towns in Xiangxi, and the people wearing uniforms at the front were called corpse chasers, this group was originally a corpse chaser team, a young man walked up to Brother Bai and patted his shoulder and side cheek and said to Sister Zhao: "Sister Zhao, Brother Bai is too involved in the corpse performance team, even we are scared, Brother Bai - don't make trouble." As he spoke, he was going to pull the paper note that was attached to his forehead.

"This ——!" I heard the shopkeeper who entered the room shouting, "You-how did you get here without a corpse craftsman?!" What are you going to do...... Ahh

Everyone in the hall was shocked, and hurriedly rushed over to see what was going on, but before they reached the door, there was another scream behind them, and when they looked back, they saw that the young man had just touched the paper talisman in front of Brother Bai, and the latter's bloodshot eyes suddenly stared over, and he opened his mouth to reveal his black teeth and bit the finger that stretched out, and the finger snapped off at the root, and the young man screamed and fell to the ground covering his wound and couldn't stop rolling, but Brother Bai enjoyed chewing the severed finger in his mouth.

A bloody breath spread, and with a "bang", this group of "dead people" seemed to be awakened, and they all raised their heads and glared at everyone......

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Driving out corpses: Chasing corpses is not like "Gu art" that prevails in Xiangxi, and in ancient times it was a special way for the souls of the Miao people to return to their homeland, which was only circulated in Luxi, Yuanling, Chenxi, Lipu and other counties. It is said that the corpse chaser is closely related to the "ancient priest", the corpse chaser wears a Taoist robe, called the "corpse chaser", the corpse maker does not play lanterns, holds a small gong, a soul bell, and the corpse has a few yellow pieces of paper with calligraphy on his forehead hanging in front of his face.

On the way to drive away the corpses, there is a "dead corpse inn", which only houses the dead corpses and corpse chasers, and ordinary people do not live. The corpse procession arrived at the "inn" before dawn, and the corpses stood neatly against the wall behind the door panels, and quietly left after the sun set the next day.