Chapter 1: The Hearse Taboo

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Death, solemn and solemn, not to be desecrated, but for others it is business.

As a hearse driver, I have ferried countless deceased people for the last time, I am familiar with the unspoken rules of the industry, and I have also encountered some strange things.

Once, I took a deceased person to the funeral home, and only the deceased's little daughter was followed in the car, and when I walked to an intersection, and when I needed to turn a corner, I habitually glanced in the rearview mirror, and actually saw the deceased, I don't know when, actually sat up from the paper coffin, and a pair of empty eyes were staring at me blankly.

This is clearly a "fraudulent corpse", fortunately, his youngest daughter was too tired, has fallen asleep in the car, not frightened, I was only a hearse driver for a few months, I have not encountered this kind of thing, a little confused for a while, I had to drive slowly, while asking the captain of our hearse team in WeChat: Uncle Zhou, what to do if you encounter a fraudulent corpse?

Lao Zhou lazily replied with a voice: Early in the morning, let no one sleep, wait for me to get up!

Lao Zhou just got out of the car in the early morning, and it shouldn't have been long before he fell asleep, but I couldn't wait, I stretched my phone forward as far as I could, took a selfie, and sent it to him. ”

I did so, threw the phone back in the old man's hand, and Lao Zhou began to recite the incantation, and after chanting for a while, the old man finally slowly lay back.

"Corpse Mantra", the full text is 108 words, ancient Chinese pronunciation, even if I later begged Lao Zhou to copy a copy for me, I still can't understand many places, so I can only memorize it according to the pronunciation and rote in case of emergency.

Another time, to be exact, a month ago, I dragged a young and beautiful woman back to her hometown for burial, a long distance, more than 600 kilometers, in the summer, and the temperature was 33 degrees Celsius.

There was no ice coffin in the hearse, so I had to turn on the air conditioner to the lowest to prevent the corpse from decomposing and smelling as much as possible, but my broken car was a domestic Jinbei, 10 years old, and the air conditioning performance was not good.

How do you describe the taste?

Anyway, it smells very strange, and it smells soft, and I unconsciously begin to think about it in my mind.

I vaguely felt that something was going to happen, so I immediately asked for the opinion of the family who followed the car, that is, the husband of the deceased: "Big brother, it's smelly, let's go to the front service area to let off steam." ”

Her husband in the co-pilot didn't respond, and I turned my head to look over, only to see his eyes red, his face greedily staring at the paper coffin in the back compartment, and he kept swallowing saliva.

"Hey, don't be impulsive! She's dead! "I saw that he was going to climb over, and quickly stopped him, but he pushed me away, my body shook, the car almost hit the protective railing, I looked at my arm, the place he had touched just now, left an obvious bruise, I can't imagine that his skinny body can burst out with such great strength, it seems that it is evil.

I didn't have the ability to deal with this kind of thing alone, so I had to pull over, run outside the highway guardrail and hide, and I called Lao Zhou again and asked him what to do.

"I can't help it, wait until he's done, your car is stained with corpse oil, or you won't be able to use it anymore." Lao Zhou said.

"What corpse oil?" I asked.

"You don't understand, you call the police, the man should die immediately."

Without waiting for Lao Zhou's words to land, a man's scream suddenly came from the hearse, the body no longer undulated, I had the courage to go over, and looked in through the window, the man was lying next to the paper coffin, his face was hideous, and his body seemed to have been blown up by a grenade, which was miserable.

The family of the deceased died in the hearse in an unbearable way, although it has nothing to do with me, but as a hearse driver, I still can't escape the blame, the unit ordered me to go home for reflection, leave without pay, if it weren't for Lao Zhou for me and the funeral director to intercede, I would have been dismissed.

A month later, the head of the unit called and asked me if I wanted to come back to work, of course I said yes, where to find such a high-paying job (the hearse driver himself is not well-paid, but the income other than the salary is considerable), and I still owe the mortgage!

The leader said yes, but because my car stained with corpse oil was scrapped, and the team didn't have any extra cars for me, he asked me if I dared to drive that Cadillac hearse?

"Then what is Lao Zhoukai?" I asked, the Cadillac hearse is Lao Zhou's exclusive car, and the license plate is also very special: Jiang J-00000.

"Lao Zhou resigned the day before yesterday." The leader said.

"Resign? Why? "I wonder, Lao Zhou has been doing a good job.

"Got cancer, terminal." The leader said indifferently.

“…… Well, then I'll think about it. "I hesitated, the reason why I hesitated was because Lao Zhou's hearse was specifically responsible for pulling people who died unnaturally, such as fire victims, drowning victims, car accident victims, suicide victims, and homicides.

The resentment is too heavy, I'm afraid I can't control it, and I even wonder if Lao Zhou's cancer has anything to do with driving that hearse?

"What to consider! How many people are rushing to pick up Lao Zhou's car, can you drive it, don't drive me to others! The leader said impatiently.

"I'll drive! I'm open! I hurriedly said, although there may be "danger", but that car, after all, is the top brand in the city's hearse industry, when the work is good, the monthly income of 30,000 or 50,000 is not a problem, in our third-tier city with a population of only 5 million, it is already considered a "gold collar" level of income, who will not get along with money?

"That's right, Xiao Wu, good luck, quack!" The leader smiled weirdly and hung up the phone, his laughter made me creepy, and I always felt that I had been cheated.

Anyway, I finally got back to work, the sun rose every day, and the days had to go on day by day.

The next day at work, I got the keys to Lao Zhou's Cadillac, but it was a very peaceful day, only 18 people died in the city, all of them died normally, and it was not my turn to get out of the car.

After work, I bought some fruits and flowers and went to the hospital to visit Lao Zhou.

I haven't seen him for a month, Lao Zhou, who was originally in good health, has been tortured by cancer and only has a handful of bones left, and his face is thin and out of shape, knowing that I took over his hearse, Lao Zhou's eyes suddenly widened, grabbed my hand tightly, and whispered hard: "Xiao Wu...... Drive my car, there's ...... There are three...... Three taboos, you must ...... You have to remember! Otherwise...... It will ...... Like me...... By...... was robbed of Yangshou ......"

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