Before Tao Xun came, Bai Lao Ghost and I stayed in his small courtyard most of the time, and I listened to his stories. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the water of the Yellow River begins to skyrocket, and the white old ghost also begins to get busy.

In the past few years, due to marriage, relationship, career, accidental loss and other reasons, the number of corpses in the Yellow River has increased year by year, and the white old ghost has salvaged seven corpses in one day when he is the busiest.

There is not only one corpse digger on the Yellow River, but he is the most famous, because he is the only one who dares to dig up corpses. He wasn't bragging about the water monkeys slaughtering, and I saw with my own eyes in his utility room that there were several water monkey skins nailed to the walls.

That afternoon, we received a call from the villagers, saying that Huixiang, a silly girl from Shilidu, had fallen into the river and drowned, and her body had floated into the reeds.

I never expected that the first time I participated in the recovery of the corpse, it was actually her.

I also know Huixiang, who has a very pitiful background. When I was a child, my parents died, and when I grew up, I went to work outside and was deceived into having a big belly, and the child was not born but fell into a mental illness and was sent back to my hometown. On weekdays, she wanders in the countryside and encounters a ruffian, and she can be coaxed to take off her pants by giving her some melon seed snacks.

This business is an official errand and there is no remuneration. Huixiang is an orphan girl, naturally no one is willing to pay for her, and the white old ghost has no one on his knees and no children by his pillow, so he doesn't really value money, so he takes the job without giving in.

When we arrived at Shilidu, we saw a few villagers standing on the shore. They are all old people in the village, waiting for Huixiang's body to be buried for the sake of human sophistication. The old white ghost didn't talk much nonsense, and as soon as he greeted the principal, he drove the rotten boat into the reeds.

The boat used by the corpse collector is called a rotten boat, which does not mean that the boat is bad, but a special saying: a good boat crosses people, and a bad boat crosses souls.

Since it was the first time to recover a corpse, I was a little nervous. Although the reed sprouts are new at this time, and the reeds are not so panicked, it is also awkward to look at this wild grass.

According to the villagers' instructions, it didn't take us long to find Huixiang's body.

The four branches floated in the middle of a circle of dead branches and leaves, and their hair was black and scattered behind their heads. The buttons of the torn cotton jacket on the body have been broken, revealing a white chest and a dazzling white flower.

In the past, every time I saw it, my head and face were black, and I couldn't see the flesh and skin, but this time I finally washed it clean.

Because it was found early, the body hadn't soaked much, and it looked like it was asleep, which was very peaceful.

"Xie Lan, come this time." The old white ghost lit a cigarette and said.

"No, Uncle Bai. I'm not even an apprentice when I'm a newcomer, so I have to show me how many times before I can get into the water. I said in surprise.

"If there's anything to demonstrate, you just do what I usually teach you. The villagers are all acquaintances, and they will not make any evil trouble if they die so peacefully, just to train you to be courageous. ”

"That'...... All right. ”

I think about it, anyway, sooner or later, I have to get in close contact with the corpse, and this is indeed a good opportunity to practice my courage.

Salvage companies use fishing nets and hooks to retrieve corpses, but the corpse collectors are different.

The corpses in the water are already swollen so much, if you break the iron hook and break a lot of soup and water, how can you be embarrassed to ask the customer for money?

The corpse collectors all went into the water themselves, first covered the corpse with a white cloth, and then tied up the corpse with a rope mixed with black dog hair and carried it on the boat.

Seeing that I agreed, the white old ghost took out a piece of white cloth and covered Huixiang's corpse skillfully and accurately. I took off my clothes and wore only shorts, and I carefully entered the water with a rope in my hand and sticking to the edge of the boat.

It will be cold, and it will arouse goosebumps all over the body as soon as it comes into contact.

I slowly swam to Huixiang's corpse, first finding her right arm and tying it with a red rope around her right hand. Tie the red rope is called the deed, which is divided into the left and the right of the woman, which means that the corpse will be taken care of by me and the corpse will be brought ashore.

Because I was very careful, there was no mistake in the whole process of retrieving the body, and soon I quickly tied up Huixiang's body and fished it out of the boat. The corpse was not finished when it was on the boat, and the corpse collector paid attention to both silver and goods, and had to take something from the corpse as a reward.

But Huixiang had nothing on her body except a torn cotton jacket, and the pants on her lower body were washed away by the water. The old white ghost told me that if you encounter such an innocent corpse, if you really have nothing to take, you can only take a strand of hair from the deceased, and you must not take it empty-handed.

Hair is also known as troubled silk, Huixiang is good to say if she has no grievances after death, if she has grievances, most of them will be entangled in her hair, and whoever takes it will be unlucky.

At that moment, I and the old white ghost, you look at me, I look at you, and no one spoke.

"Ahem, Xie Lan, your eight characters are hard enough, come on."

"Huh." I couldn't help but sneer.

It's okay to coax me into the water, and now you want to trick me into cutting the hair of the dead, this white old ghost is not ordinary thick.

"Two thousand?"

"Huh." I continued to sneer.

"Five thousand. I can't do it any more, today's incident was originally an official errand, I'll post 5,000 If you don't do it, buy a ticket back to Guangzhou tomorrow. ”

The old white ghost made up for it with a serious word, and then I couldn't laugh anymore. However, 5,000 yuan is a lot, and I don't necessarily save 5,000 yuan a year when I work in Guangzhou.

At that moment, I cut off a strand of Huixiang's forehead hair, put it in my pocket, and the white old ghost drove the rotten boat to the shore and handed it over to the villagers of Shilidu for burial.

The trip went well, I took the money and practiced my courage, the only awkward thing was that Huixiang's hair had to be kept for seven hundred and forty-nine days before it could be burned. On our side, there is a saying that after death, a person will not be cut off from the world until 7749 days have passed, and he must not do anything disrespectful to the deceased before that.

Since I fished out Huixiang's body, the white old ghost seemed to have eaten me, and let me go into the water whenever there was business in the days that followed. And I was really born to eat this bowl of rice as he said, and after a few times, I no longer have the slightest scruples, and only regard myself as a porter.

The corpse is indeed profitable, and at this pace, I only need to do four flood seasons in the Yellow River to save enough money for marriage. When the time comes, I will buy a car for another year, and my life will not be too comfortable.

Young people are forgetful, I only care about collecting corpses to make money, and I have long forgotten about Huixiang.

It wasn't until I attended a special wedding that I learned that Huixiang's affairs were not so simple, and it all started with a strange wedding I attended.

There are many customs in rural areas, and marriage with yin is one of them. I had a relative's son who died when he was only 16 years old, and his family was afraid that he would be lonely, so they married him in a secret marriage.

Secret marriage is also marriage, and I have sent a post to my family a long time ago.

My father and mother were disgusted and unwilling to go, and my brother was at home with my sister-in-law to have a baby, and even more refused to go, so this matter fell on me.

Alas, just go, just take it as a long insight, and say hello to the white old ghost to go to the wedding.

There is nothing to talk about in the wedding process, all the paper ties, and the highlight is the burial of the bones, because when the bones are combined, you have to watch the ceremony.

The man had been dead for half a year, and his body was badly decomposed, and the stench was far away.

The woman seems to have just died, except that her face is swollen and she can't tell who it is, her appearance is quite complete, and I heard that my relative bought the female corpse from the tomb robbers for more than 50,000 yuan.

To be honest, I really admire the people who are willing to spend all this money, and I admire the people who dare to do this business. Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, the way of heaven is good reincarnation, and digging up graves and digging corpses is a matter of God's damnation.

I was bold, and when I was watching the ceremony, I stood relatively far forward, and I inevitably looked at the female corpse twice.

It was precisely because of the two more glances that I saw a big problem: the female corpse was missing a strand of hair on the left side of her forehead.

At that time, I couldn't help but feel excited, because when I salvaged Huixiang's body that day, I cut off the hair on the left side of my forehead!

At first I wanted to comfort myself that it was a coincidence, but when I saw the red mole under the corpse's neck, I didn't want to lie to myself anymore.

This female corpse is none other than Huixiang.

Only a month has passed since the calculation time, and it will never reach the time limit of breaking seven.

She was originally drowned, and after her death, she was dug out of the soil and sold to others for a yin marriage, not to mention whether she agreed or not, and even her name and birth date were given nonsense by tomb robbers, can this tone be calm?

It's true that Huixiang is a stupid girl, but she is stupid because her body and mind are stimulated, not because she was born with an incomplete soul. The body is only a container for the soul, and it is certain that one will regain one's sanity after death.

After seeing that the female corpse was Huixiang, I no longer had the heart to drink the wedding wine, so I said that there was something at home and rode back to find the white old ghost.

"What? You said that Huixiang was poached and married to a yin marriage? ”

The old white ghost was drinking tea, and he almost choked when he heard me talk about it.

"Uncle Bai, will she come to me?"

"Isn't that nonsense! There is a debtor and a debtor, you are the one who tied the red rope and signed the deed, and her body will naturally be taken care of by you, and now that this kind of thing has happened, who is she not looking for you? After speaking, he muttered again, "Fortunately, it wasn't my hair that I cut at the beginning." ”

I didn't expect the old white ghost to dare to say cool things at such a juncture, and I was so angry that I rolled up my sleeves and wanted to beat people.

"Young man, don't be impulsive, even if she comes to you, you won't be fine."

"Why?" I asked him with a strong grip on it.

"Don't divulge the secrets, you'll know when the time comes." The old white ghost said mysteriously.