"Brother Chen, this can't be the legendary Xiangxi corpse chaser..."

The monkey walked up and looked at the corpses, at this time the corpses were all eyes closed, their whole bodies were blue, and some of the corpses had many corpse spots on them, all of which had been replaced by the man in Tsing Yi into white shrouds.

"This has let you know, not bad, yes, and said that it has improved a lot."

"Hey, I just know the skin, it's basically on TV, and now I'm a member of the Daomen, so you can talk about it carefully."

The monkey scratched his head and explained a little embarrassed.

It is said that the corpse is a part of the Miao Gu art, which is a part of the Chu Wu culture, and it is also said to be related to the Maoshan Shu Zhu Youke, also known as the spirit transfer.

It originated in the four counties of Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Lipu in Guchen Prefecture. In the Qing Dynasty, it was widely spread that the "corpse chasers" in Xiangxi used "secret techniques" to bring the corpses of people who died in a foreign land back to their hometowns and let them be buried in peace.

Legend has it that thousands of years ago, the ancestors of the Miao people, Apu and Chiyou, led their troops to fight against the enemy by the Yellow River, until the corpses were all over the field and the blood flowed like a river. After the battle was about to retreat to the rear, and the soldiers carried all the wounded soldiers away, Apu Chiyu ordered the Apu army division to return the brothers who had died in the battle to their hometowns.

So the Apu military division disguised himself as Apuchiyu, stood among the corpses of the brothers who had died in battle, and after a burst of silent recitation of incantations and prayers to the gods, all the corpses that had been lying on the ground stood up at once.

Follow the "Fu Jie" of Apu You Gaoqing and walk south in a regular manner. When the enemy's pursuers came, Apu Chiyou and Apu Junshi joined forces to attract the "Five Greater Fogs" and trap the enemy in the Ecstasy Array.

Because it was the spell of the "Division" (implementation and operation intention) of the Apu Military Division that allowed everyone to get out of danger, everyone has since called him "Lao Si"; And because the last thing that Apu Laosi used to defend against the enemy was actually the "fog technique", and the "fog" strokes were too many to write.

So it was rewritten as a "witch" character and replaced it. In fact, this witch character is also a hieroglyph: the upper horizontal represents the sky or fog, and the lower horizontal represents the earth.

And the vertical in the middle indicates the "symbol"; There is a character on each side of the vertical, the one on the right represents Apuchiyu, and the one on the left represents Apulaosi, which means that two people must unite to do witchcraft.

"The old man in Tsing Yi is the corpse chaser, and the corpse chaser has three dare, those who die of illness, those who voluntarily die by hanging their necks into the river, and those who are incomplete by thunder and fire cannot be chased."

The monk probably understood after listening to Long Xiaoqing's explanation, in fact, Chen Haodong also knew about chasing corpses, in fact, chasing corpses was also closely related to Qimen Dunjia.

Qimen Dunjia is a metaphysics in Taoism, divided into two kinds of magic and divination, originated from the nine-palace algorithm, and the corpse is closely related to Taoism.

"There are a lot of dead people in front, and now I have to send them over one by one, and the traffic is not convenient at all in this weather now, otherwise we old guys would not be late to drive the corpses."

The man in Tsing Yi said meaningfully.

"It just so happens that we're going in this direction too, let's go together."

Long Xiaoqing was surprised, it turned out to be a place, and there were many people on the road, and it could also be taken care of.

The man in Tsing Yi shook the bell in front of him with a bell, threw a few pieces of rune paper from time to time, and muttered to himself. The corpses stood in a row and jumped behind the man in Tsing Yi.

"Yin people are in a hurry, Yang people are avoiding, you have to avoid it or not, Your Excellency takes care of yourself."

"Brother Chen, what do you mean by this?"

Chen Haodong and a few people couldn't go ahead because they weren't corpse chasers, so they could only follow alongside, and the monk felt funny when he heard the corpse chaser's spell.

"The Yin people represent the corpse chasers, and the Yang people are those ordinary people, if you want to avoid it, it is that some ordinary people are bold enough to come over and see, Your Excellency takes care of yourself, that is, you are responsible for the consequences of what happens."

Chen Haodong glanced at the monkey, I really regret that the monkey brought, shame, Chen Haodong's face was thrown away by the monkey, if it weren't for Long Qianxue and them here, I really wanted to kill him.

The man in Tsing Yi deliberately walked these mountain roads and walked into the mountains, not just met Chen Haodong and these people, these corpses didn't know where to go.

"How could these corpses suddenly be transformed?"

"Hey, I don't know, there are no animals or anything like that on the road, and suddenly I ran on my own, and ran in one direction, this is the first time I've encountered this kind of thing."

Chen Haodong and his entourage chatted and walked, while seeing if there was a water source under these grasses, and the man in Tsing Yi rang the bell from time to time.

"Brother, what is your relationship with this beauty?"

Long Qianxue saw that the concubine and the kitten were chatting hotly, and a sense of jealousy hit her heart, she walked over and took Chen Haodong's arm, and asked with a pout.

"Brother and sister relationship, and that dead monkey too, why are you jealous."

"Hey, Brother Chen, you are not authentic, you actually said that I am a dead monkey."

A few people talked and laughed, time flew by, and it seemed that it was about to reach the fifth watch and still found nothing.

"It's been a day's journey, and there is a place for friends to rest not far ahead, do you want to go and rest for a while."

The man in Tsing Yi looked up at the moonlight and took the initiative to remind him.

"Then go for it."

Chen Haodong saw that these people were very tired, and he dared to travel for a day, so he agreed.

The people in Tsing Yi led the way, and the pace under his feet became faster and faster, and soon he came to a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere, and the yard was very dilapidated.

The courtyard was desolate around it, the gate was open, and there was a plaque at the door, but it had fallen to the ground.

"What kind of place is this? Is this place to live? ”

Chen Haodong and his entourage walked in and looked around, the yard was originally overgrown with grass, but at this time all of them had withered, and a large vat in the yard had already run out of water, the monkey scratched his head and asked.

"This is not for you to rest, this is for these corpses to rest, this is called a post station and also called a yin shop,"

And the people in Tsing Yi lined up these corpses once again against the door panel that came in, and then glared at the monkey and said.

"It's just that now the transportation is developed, few people drive the corpses, and no one has come to sort out these yin shops, they are all deserted, but the recent drought and inconvenient transportation have used corpse chasers."

Long Xiaoqing took over the conversation and said.

A long time ago, there was basically a post station set up in forty or fifty miles on the side of the M people, and these post stations were set up by local villagers, and from time to time there were special people to clean them.

For the corpse catcher to rest during the day, and at night the corpse catcher quietly leaves, and if there is a storm, he will rest for a few days, and when the rain stops, he will go on the road.

Moreover, in the past, government robbers in this area of Xiangxi basically did not go to the post station to ask for food, nor did they bother the corpse chaser.

"I see."

A few people walked inside, it was tattered, but it was clean, there was a table of eight immortals, a few stools, and a small room with a bed in it.

However, this bed basically can't sleep people, and it is estimated that the sleeping people are going to collapse, and there is a simple stove, which is also convenient for the corpse chaser to cook some meals to eat.

The man in Tsing Yi lit a few sticks of incense and walked out often, putting the incense in front of the corpse. Muttering to himself.

"Where are we going to stay?"

Ma Xiaoxuan looked around, can anyone live here? The conditions are really too bad, worse than the conditions in the illusory space.

"Sleeping underground, of course."

Chen Haodong took out a little compressed biscuit from his backpack and distributed it to everyone to eat, and also gave it to the people in Tsing Yi.

"It's embarrassing to eat your stuff."

The man in Tsing Yi said a little embarrassed, but he took the initiative to take the biscuit honestly.

And not long after a few people ate a little something, they just found a place to fall asleep against the wall, which can't blame Chen Haodong and them.

I never rested again when I came out of the illusory world I walked more than fifty miles last night, and I didn't have a chance to rest until now.

"Girl, you don't sleep so much? Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. ”

The man in Tsing Yi took out his dry tobacco and leaned against the wall while washing it, looking at Ma Xiaoxuan and said with a smile.

"Can't sleep."

Ma Xiaoxuan looked at the dust everywhere, there was already a thick layer of dust on the stool, and he couldn't sit or stand, but seeing that Chen Haodong was sleeping soundly, he was still hesitating.

"When I go out, I have to be content with a place to stay, I think when I just came out to learn the craft, I haven't suffered anything, and the conditions are much more difficult than now."

The people in Tsing Yi didn't know if they were talking to Ma Xiaoxuan or if they were talking to themselves.

"My family is five, I am the youngest, at that time I was poor in order to survive in my family, I gave it away, and my life was also tight, I met my master later, and my master taught me the art of driving corpses,"

And Ma Xiaoxuan was here listening to the people in Tsing Yi talking about the past, and couldn't help but open his eyes wide on the ground and listen carefully, was he surprised, frowning from time to time.

"After that, I started the profession of corpse chaser, and it has been more than 30 years."

The man in Tsing Yi sighed meaningfully,

"You're so old, you don't have to chase corpses outside, you can enjoy Qingfu, fish, and go outside to see how good it is."

Ma Xiaoxuan heard the helplessness of the people in Tsing Yi and seemed to be tired of this profession, so he smiled and comforted, he didn't expect him to have such an experience.

"You don't understand, you can't get married or have babies in our business,"

Ma Xiaoxuan looked surprised, what rules? Now Taoist priests and monks can get married and have children, isn't this corpse chaser also a human being?

"Alright, it's not early, let's go to bed."

The man in Tsing Yi didn't seem to want to answer his words, but stretched his waist, with a sleepy face, lay on the ground and closed his eyes directly, Ma Xiaoxuan was not good at asking anything.

In fact, the profession of corpse chaser is that you can't touch a woman for a lifetime, keep your child's body, and every master will tell the apprentices below.

Every man has an enduring fire that scares lonely spirits and dispels ghosts in the dark.

Women belong to yin, which is the most unclean thing in the world, once a man is contaminated, the man's yang energy will disappear, there is no yang energy, and there is a lack of primordial spirit.

You can't walk at night, and it's impossible to deter ghosts and drive away corpses, which will affect the effect of spells, and married people can't learn to drive corpses, which is also a rule.