The floating corpses of the Yellow River are not uncommon for those of us who live on the banks of the Yellow River, and you may not believe it, but in fact, there are at least hundreds of people who die in the river every year, and half of them cannot be found.

Under normal circumstances, "the people do not sue, the officials do not prosecute", especially in the flood years, many corpses washed down from the upstream, no one wants to meddle in affairs, sometimes when there is no one, a certain department will send someone to secretly drag the corpses washed ashore back into the river, let her go down the river.

Speaking of floating corpses in the Yellow River, I remember when I was seven or eight years old, there was such an incident in the village:

Because of the problem of family composition, among the brothers surnamed Wei in the east of the village, the elder brother is an old bachelor. In the minds of the common people, a single person cannot be reincarnated, even if he dies, his family and relatives will think of spending money to find someone to marry a yin relative, which is commonly known as "looking for dry bones".

The so-called yin relatives are the unmarried daughters who died unexpectedly.

The family surnamed Wei was not wealthy, and if he found a "dry bone" at that time, it would cost tens of thousands of yuan, and the cheapest one would have to be more than 10,000 yuan, and his family couldn't take it out at all.

Coincidentally, in the summer of that year, a floating corpse in red clothes floated in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. In the summer, the temperature was high, and the corpse had been soaked in the river for a long time, and its whole body was swollen and rotten, and it was impossible to recognize the face at all.

Originally, he should have called the police station to inform him of this incident, but no one wanted to get involved in it, and the reporter had to record a confession and be questioned over and over again. At this time, the elder brother of the family surnamed Wei had just passed away a few days ago, and the younger brother was blaming himself for the fact that his brother had always been a bachelor, and after seeing the floating corpses that washed ashore, he suddenly had an idea.

He first bought a few boxes of cigarettes, handed them to the neighbors who were watching the bustle, and then spent a few hundred yuan to find a few people working in the crematorium, put the body in a prepared coffin, and secretly buried it in his brother's grave at night.

How can there be an impermeable wall in the world, this matter soon spread throughout several nearby villages, the villagers of that era were all simple, this matter was also rumored to be a good story for a while, all said that if this floating corpse in red clothes is a woman, then the old Wei family will make a lot of money, saving tens of thousands of yuan, if it is a man, then it is okay, it should be on the Huangquan Road to find a piece of chess for his brother.

I inserted this story just to show that floating corpses can often be seen in the Yellow River, but no one thought that floating corpses in the Yellow River would exist in this way......

I looked at the floating corpses lying on my back on the surface of the river, and after a few minutes, I came to my senses and asked my uncle, "Wouldn't it be to see these corpses when you brought us here?" ”

The uncle smiled slightly, shook his head, and said, "I first want to prove whether my judgment is correct, and if it is correct, then the only remaining Yellow River Dao people in the world will come in handy." ”

"Huh? You and me? What can we do? I asked.

"We can temporarily suppress the Yellow River, so that the evil things in the river and the ancient Gu worms cannot be combined for the time being."

I felt that I vaguely understood what Uncle Shi said, so I nodded and waited for his instructions.

However, after Uncle Shi took the compass and looked at it for a long time, he didn't do anything, but asked Lao Hu to row the boat to the shore.

Chen Laosan and Li Xiaobai also looked confused, looking at him with puzzled eyes.

Uncle Shi didn't speak, and after going ashore, he took out five hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it to Lao Hu, and then he waited for us here at three o'clock in the afternoon, promising to give him another five hundred yuan at that time.

After the four of them got into the car, Uncle Shi breathed a sigh of relief and asked Li Xiaobai to drive to the nearest coffin shop.

Coffin shop? The three of us are even more blindfolded, could it be that Uncle Shi wants to bury those floating corpses in the river in the coffin? At this time, the expression on Uncle Shi's face was very gloomy, which made the whole atmosphere a little depressing, and none of us asked.

Soon, Li Xiaobai parked the car opposite the funeral home, where there were several coffin shops.

Uncle Shi walked into a coffin shop with a large storefront, and picked and picked around, as if he was choosing clothes.

In the end, Uncle Shi fell in love with a dark red coffin.

This coffin is slightly larger than the others, and the coffin board is also obviously backed up, Uncle Shi touched the coffin board, and a strange smile flashed on his face.

The owner of the coffin shop came over with a smile on his face and asked Uncle Shi where to send the coffin, and Uncle Shi said that it would be sent to the side of the Yellow River Bridge, which had collapsed. As soon as he said this, the smile on the coffin shop owner's face immediately froze, and he was stunned for several seconds before three "good" words came out of his mouth.

It took four big men to lift the coffin onto a four-wheeled pickup truck, and Li Xiaobai drove the car in front to lead the way, and soon the car stopped again and heard the place we had been before (on the shore on the side of the Yellow River Bridge). The four big men carried the coffin down and looked around, there was no grave here!

Even if they do this kind of work, no matter how curious they are, they won't ask a word more, this is the rule of the industry.

When the four big men left, they kept looking back, and their faces were full of "100,000 whys".

Soon there were only four of us left on the side of the Yellow River, and Uncle Shi still didn't say a word, just looked at the Yellow River, squinted his eyes, and looked thoughtful.

"Uncle Shi...... What is this for? Finally I couldn't help but ask.

Uncle Shi smiled slightly, and replied, "Use the body and Taoism of our Yellow River Dao people to suppress the Yellow River." ”

He had said this, but it meant that he didn't say anything, because I still didn't understand it.

"Little bad! Go buy something to eat nearby! During this time, everyone neither slept well, nor did they eat well, so they bought more beef and mutton, and a few bottles of good wine! ”

After another period of silence, Uncle Shi suddenly said to Li Xiaobai.

These words were originally bold words, but when they came out of my uncle's mouth, the three of us were stunned, just like a thief talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality in public.

Li Xiaobai was also stunned with his mouth open for more than ten seconds before he said "um".

Since the last time they bought something brought out of the ancient tomb under the Yellow River, Li Xiaobai and Chen Laosan have become nouveau riche. Li Xiaobai has a great advantage, that is, he knows how the money came from, and he knows why it came.

Li Xiaobai went to the largest restaurant in the district, picked up two large bags of dishes, and moved a box of Wuliangye from the car.

The four of them gathered on the beach as if they had returned from the boundary between the netherworld and the yang realm that night, drinking and eating.

When you sing about wine, life is geometric, and you can talk about wine, so happy!

Even people like me, who don't usually drink alcohol, can drink the Wuliangye brought by Li Xiaobai, and this wine is very comfortable to drink in the stomach.

After a few glasses of wine, Li Xiaobai was the first to get drunk.

"Sun ...... Uncle Sun, I really want to ask you, ...... You're obviously a Taoist, what's the matter...... Why do you still drink wine and eat meat? ”

Uncle Shi also seemed to be very interested, originally he didn't bother to explain such words, but at this time, he gently patted Li Xiaobai's shoulder, and then explained.

Uncle Shi said that since ancient times, although Taoism has been very chaotic, and even beliefs and pursuits are different, but since the beginning of the Heavenly Master Zheng faction, all Taoists have a taboo in life and diet - "four don't eat", that is: do not eat beef, bird fish, wild goose, dog meat, these four foods. This is also the "four don't eat" that the ancestral master - Zhang Daoling has been inheriting since the creation of the teaching.

First of all, I don't eat beef because the cow eats grass all its life, and what is squeezed out is milk, and it has worked hard all its life and worked hard for the people, so it can't be eaten;

Don't eat birdfish because the Taoist priest of the righteous school thinks: when the birdfish reaches the spawning period, the eyes are dizzy, nothing can be seen, only starve to death and ascend to heaven, the birdfish and fish cubs are the most filial, and would rather swim into the mother's mouth, give hunger than let the mother starve to death, filial piety is really respectable! Therefore, birds and fish cannot be eaten;

In addition, the Taoist priests believe that they are widowed and lonely, live alone for life, are in a bleak situation, unswerving, no longer marry, and have a commendable spirit, so they can't eat it;

Finally, there is the dog, throughout the ages, people often say: "The son is not ugly, and the dog is not poor". Dogs follow the Lord all their lives and work for the Lord, so they cannot eat it.

As for drinking, most Taoism does not prohibit it, after all, it is not Buddhism.

The four of them quickly killed four bottles of Wuliangye. I have a dragon egg to protect my body, naturally I am not a little drunk, Chen Laosan drinks a lot, but at this time he has already spoken in circles, but Uncle Shi is only slightly red cheeks, he looks up at the sun every once in a while, and then looks at the compass that has been holding in his left hand, as if waiting for time.

I was also shocked, I didn't expect Uncle Shi's alcohol to be so large, it seems that the old guy is deeply hidden!

Finally, Li Xiaobai was the first to fall asleep on the side, and Chen Laosan also drunkenly talked nonsense, and even talked to me about my grandmother and them.

She said that her grandmother had known all this for a long time, and said that eventually I would return to that valley in Helan Mountain.

I was trying to say something while he was drunk, but unfortunately he got drunk without saying a few words.

Although Wuliangye is delicious, it is more than 50 degrees of wine after all!

After both of them were drunk, Uncle Shi slowly stood up.

"Xiao Zhen, do you know why we are called the Yellow River Taoism?"

I nodded, remembering that my brother once said that the reason why we call the Yellow River Taoism is because for more than a thousand years, the ancestors of all generations have been active in the Yellow River Valley, and it is their mission to eliminate the evil things in the Yellow River. Senior brother also said that we people in the Yellow River are actually inseparable from the Yellow River, and we have to return to the Yellow River when we die (just like the master I only met once, let me throw his body into the river), I actually never understood this.

Uncle Shi nodded, and said: "The so-called Yellow River Dao people are only called in the last two hundred miles, and they were not called this name before!" ”

"I wasn't called a Yellow River Daoist before! What's that called? I asked.

"It's called the ghost man of Yellow River Town!"

"Huh?"

Uncle Shi said: "The reason why the Yellow River has been stable for so many years is because of the contribution of our Yellow River Dao people!" Didn't my brother tell you to put his body in the river? This is also the destination of the Yellow River Dao people in the past generations, because the most effective way to suppress ghosts is to use our bodies. ”

As soon as Uncle Shi said this, I immediately felt a "buzz" in my head.

Uncle Shi smiled slightly, pointed to the red coffin not far away and said, I am going to see Senior Brother!