Chapter 38: Picking Up Bones

This was the first time I had gone out on a mission with my grandfather, and I helped the blind grandfather down the mountain to help the villagers dispose of some bones of unknown origin in a village.

"What? You want me to come with you to pick up the bones? "After I was injured and rested for a while, Uncle Zu told me about it and followed him to pick up the bones, which was the first time I had received such a request.

And I didn't know what picking up bones was at the time, I learned a lot of the skills of the Eight Gates Dunjia from the ancestor uncle, but this one has not really learned to pick up bones.

Uncle Zu verbally explained to me that picking up bones is actually a rule of our Bamen Dunjia, and every early spring, we must help the local volunteer group to pick up and clean up the unclaimed remains, and then seal them in the golden ring, and finally hand them over to the volunteer group for processing, which is regarded as a kind of practice and good deeds.

I agreed, after all, Uncle Zu has now begun to teach me some secret techniques of Feng Shui, so as long as he puts forward good advice, I will not refuse, but I am very unfamiliar with this matter, and I am afraid that I will make some mess, but Uncle Zu will not let me have the opportunity to do wrong things, he teaches me to do things very strictly, to ensure that I will not make mistakes.

There is a place in the village that houses some unclaimed bones, these bones are basically the victims of the case, most of them have not been identified, and the Xingshan Hall now has a backlog of bones, and it just so happens that their person in charge knows the ancestor uncle, so he took me to the Xingshan Hall to pick up the bones.

Entering the place where the bones are stored in Xingshan Hall, although the staff has stacked and sorted out the bones as much as possible, it is difficult to change the fact that the bones are chaotic, a large number of bones are still mixed together, only some of them show signs of natural degradation, and the other bones are still the same, and the messy bones are stacked in the room.

"Alright, then we'll take care of it." Uncle Zu smiled and sent away the staff, he took the bones of the corpses in the spring of each year as a blessing to the deceased, and the uncle also wanted to teach me some of the secret techniques of the Eight Dunjia slowly, so he specially arranged for me to complete the work of picking up the bones alone, a large number of messy bones are waiting for well-wishers to help them pick up the bones.

Last year, the village received several unclaimed corpses, and after waiting for the corpses to turn into skeletons, the case could not be further tried, so the bureau unilaterally sent the bones to Xingshantang, and used the incense of Xingshantang to appease these dead people.

I looked at the room where the bones were kept, and then turned my head to look at Uncle Zu, it seemed that he didn't plan to help me directly, and I could only put on a mask and gloves and slowly find out the parts that could match the messy bones, but I didn't know how to distinguish the bones at all, because the overlapping parts were too obvious for me to tell where the bones belonged in the first place.

"Hey, hey, hey, you can make a mistake with the bones, otherwise you and I will be unlucky then." Uncle Zu came to me and poured out the pile of bones from the sack with one hand, as if he wanted me to pick up the bones again.

"Uncle Shi, what should I do then? Do you still have to arrange family affairs for them? "I also refuted Uncle Zu, I really don't know how to sort out these bones piled together, I just arrange the bones according to my hands, hands and feet, in fact, I also know that it has messed up a lot, but I really don't know what to do.

"Then let me teach you." Uncle Zu came directly to me, he took out a charm from his bag, and then lit the charm with a lighter, causing the ashes to float in the air, and the ancestor still recited a few words of incantation in his mouth.

I saw some changes on the bones, some cracks appeared, these cracks only appeared in the places where the joints were connected, and the positions were still connected, and I realized that the ancestor used the Eight Dunjia Corpse Bone Attachment Technique, which used to identify the corpses in the mass grave, and now it is used by the ancestor to do good deeds.

"Look at what, don't hurry up and work." After the ancestor cast the spell, he also joined the sorting of the bones, he played with the bones from childhood to adulthood, knew the location of each joint, and the possible changes, if the ancestor chose to study back then, he might be a forensic doctor or criminal investigator in the village now, rather than a poor marcher.

It took five or six hours, according to the bone connection technique, the ancestor and I identified three complete bones, as well as a large number of unrecognizable remains, the complete bones were placed in the gold by the ancestor uncle, according to the number of the skull, and marked on the gold with very important personal information, waiting for their living relatives to pick up, the ancestor stood next to the gold and recited the mantra, he wanted to recite the sutra for the deceased, his face was as solemn as a stone elephant.

Towards evening, I successively found four undecomposed skulls from the pile of wreckage, and put these recognizable bones aside separately, waiting for further arrangements from the ancestors, who did not dispose of the bones immediately, but asked me to help them clean and seal them again.

I actually want to use a toothbrush to scrub the bones, I hold the skull in my left hand, and then I hold the toothbrush in my right hand to clean the surface and inside of the skull, a large amount of turbid sediment flows out of the skull, the ancestor told me, the basin for cleaning the skull should not pour out the water and sediment inside, he wants to use these things to identify the bones.

Ignoring the master's warning, the ancestor has been teaching me some things about the Eight Dunjia, such as the corpse bone connection technique and the spiritism this time, these two secret techniques are very advanced, and they will not be taught to me under normal circumstances, but the ancestor uncle taught me directly, he regarded me as the successor of the Eight Dunjia, and hoped that I could use the Eight Dunjia secret techniques to help others.

Bone spiritism is a unique science of the corpse gate, some ancient puppets and walking corpses will use this spell to identify the identity of the corpse, but the clues generally obtained are relatively vague, because the things left in the corpse are very limited, so even if you get the clues in the corpse, it takes time to sort out these clues.

Starting with the first skull, he laid a circle in front of me, and then recited the spell of the Bone Spiritism, allowing himself to communicate with the bone for a short time in his brain, and then get some clues from it.

"This is a fugitive prisoner, mark it and hand it over to the patrol when the time comes." Through a brief exchange with the skull, the patriarch knew its identity and past.

Then it was my turn to practice, I grabbed the second skull and stepped into the circle drawn by the patriarch.