Chapter 72: Assistant Curator
At this moment, a question arose in Ling Cheng's heart, could the assistant curator 'Du Jingde' be the 'Doctor Wu'?
But it's a bit unlikely to think about it, the 'Doctor Wu' who made the corpse alive also has an identity of 'President', and Yu Zhiqian was respectfully called 'President' behind his back, indicating that that person has a high status and is unlikely to come here as an assistant to the curator.
And Jiangxi Longhu Mountain is one of the birthplaces of orthodox Taoism, since ancient times are famous and upright, to support justice, spread orthodox Taoist culture, eliminate adultery and eliminate evil is famous all over the world, the evil technique of making a live corpse is undoubtedly damaging the reputation of Taoism, so those famous and decent people will not teach the 'evil arts' to make a live corpse, but they hate those 'evil magicians', and there have been many incidents of killing evil magicians in history.
The most famous is in 89 A.D., Emperor Liu Wei of the Han Dynasty died, and Emperor Liu Zhao of the Han Dynasty succeeded to the throne not long after, the political situation was unstable, and the Wushan 'Goddess Sect' took the opportunity to cause trouble, kill people and gather souls, form Yin soldiers, refine corpses into evil, control corpses as puppets, use Yin soldiers and corpses, rob and kill people, and attack the city.
Emperor Han and Emperor sent troops to quell the rebellion many times, all ended in failure, heavy losses, the imperial court at that time for the practice of 'magic' can summon ghosts and corpses of the goddess sect traitors, simply helpless, and finally Longhu Mountain, Wudang Mountain, Emei Mountain, Qingcheng Mountain, the orthodox sect of the Four Great Avenues, united to play a fold, encircled and suppressed the Goddess Sect.
At that time, the four major sects sent a total of 384 Dao masters to Wushan to attack the Goddess Sect, and under the tragic battle of losing more than 100 Dao masters, they finally attacked the main altar of the Goddess Sect and exterminated all the members of the Goddess Sect.
Now the Wushan Goddess Sect has long ceased to be, but the name of the Wushan Goddess is popular, there is indeed a "Wushan Goddess" in history, according to legend, it is the daughter of the Southern Tang Dynasty Emperor (Emperor Yan), one is the daughter of the Queen Mother, her real name is Yao Ji, she is a legendary figure who helped Dayu to control the water and benefit the living beings. She died unmarried and was buried in the sun of Wushan, so she was worshiped as a goddess by later generations.
As for the 'Wushan Goddess Sect', in fact, it has nothing to do with the 'Goddess', it's just a group of unscrupulous folk cultivators, gathered together to keep warm, established the 'Goddess Sect' in Wushan, and developed the sect with the help of the goddess's name.
Such evil deeds are contrary to the way of heaven and morality, and they will be punished by heaven.
So in the end, it was completely wiped out by Longhu Mountain, Wudang Mountain, Emei Mountain, and Qingcheng Mountain, the four famous and decent families.
This historical event has been recorded in the Republic of China, after the founding of New China, the ideology is based on science, and ghosts and gods cannot be superstitious, this historical event is eliminated from the official history, but it can still be found in the wild history, such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Wanli Ye was compiled, and the Yunzhong Chronicle and so on.
Because of Ling Cheng's ghost-catching mission, he must pay attention to the information of demons and monsters, and during this time, he will search for this information every time he goes online, so he also has some understanding of these events.
"Although Du Jingde has practiced magic in Longhu Mountain for many years, he shouldn't be able to make a living corpse, because such a famous sect will not teach this kind of evil art at all."
Ling Cheng followed Hu Dayang forward, thinking about these things, of course, there are exceptions to everything, and all speculations and judgments cannot be absolutely conclusive until they are proved to be facts by conclusive evidence.
"Is Du Jingde the 'sorcerer' who made it into a living corpse?"
With curiosity and a desire to find out, Ling Cheng followed Hu Dayang and continued to walk forward.
At the foot of the hillside on the right side of the recess, there is a row of two-story houses, mainly the accommodation and office area of the funeral home staff, and there are two large rooms on the first floor, which are the consultation room and the rest room for the bereaved family.
When Ling Cheng followed Hu Dayang to pass there, he took a few looks, and they were all well decorated, with air conditioning, sofas, TVs, water dispensers and other facilities.
There are a few people in the consultation room who are consulting about funeral matters, angry and sad and dull, but the atmosphere in the lounge is more relaxed, those people sit in the lounge mainly waiting to receive the ashes of their loved ones, at this step, the funeral is done, the body is burned, and the grief in their hearts is gradually relieved, they sit there, while waiting to receive the ashes, while talking and laughing.
In a room next to the lounge, several strong young men were playing cards and chatting.
Ling Cheng also glanced at this room twice, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, those young people were naked, and they could see that they all had tattoos, which was obviously a social gangster.
How can there be a gang of social gangsters in a funeral home?
"Uncle Hu, what are those people in the room doing?"
Ling Cheng asked Hu Dayang curiously.
"They're hired thugs in the funeral home."
Hu Dayang replied.
"Hire so many thugs, who are you going to deal with?"
Ling Cheng asked curiously again.
"I'll tell you the truth, our funeral home has monopolized the funeral business in Xitang District and several surrounding districts, which dead people in these districts must come here for cremation, if you dare to secretly pull the body to other funeral homes, those thugs are not vegetarians, they will not be able to eat and walk around, in addition, if the family of the bereaved is dissatisfied with the service here and dares to make trouble, there are also those thugs who are responsible for dealing with it." Hu Dayang said.
"This ...... Isn't it too lacking in morality? ”
Ling Cheng felt a little disgusted by this funeral parlor's monopoly of the funeral business in Xitang District and several surrounding districts, as well as the behavior of raising thugs to protect his monopoly interests.
"Lack of virtue?"
Hu Dayang turned his head and glanced at Ling Cheng very unhappily, "This is called having ability, ability, and courage, our curator Gong Hongsheng has a way to make money, understand!" ”
This guy was completely a hooligan with different values, and Ling Cheng didn't bother to argue with him about this kind of thing, so he asked instead, "Where does your cousin work?" ”
"Upstairs, here."
Hu Dayang took Ling Cheng and walked into the staircase.
Up to the second floor, he took Lin Cheng into a room, this room is very well decorated, the furniture is high-end, divided into two rooms, the inside is separated by a glass wall, and the steel-plastic glass door that enters the inner room reads'The words 'Curator's office, non-please do not enter'.
There was no one in the director's office, except for a man in his fifties in the outer room, sitting at a mahogany desk, sketching something on paper with a brush.
The middle-aged man has a thin face, a goatee, and a bun on the top of his head, but he is wearing a suit and tie, and he looks nondescript, which should be Du Jingde, the assistant to the curator.
"Brother, this person wants to apply for a handyman."
Hu Dayang said to the middle-aged man.
"Oh?"
Du Jingde put down the brush in his hand and looked up at Ling Cheng, his eyes flashing with a cold and shrewd light, "You are here to apply?" ”
"Yes."
Ling Cheng's demeanor was serious, but he didn't mean it, naturally he had another purpose.
"Okay, 8000+ bonus, including food and accommodation, show me your ID card, I'll register you now, and you can come to work tomorrow." Seeing Ling Cheng's serious demeanor, Du Jingde believed that it was true.
"What does a handyman do?"
Ling Cheng's application is fake, the real purpose is to secretly investigate the evidence of Gong Hongsheng's crime of 'reselling corpses', his behavior has undoubtedly become a hostile relationship with the other party, so he can't just hand over his ID card to the other party for inspection, beware that the other party will retaliate at that time.
"Your job is mainly to help in the cremation room, and after you are familiar with the process and operation of cremation of corpses, you can officially serve as a cremation chemist, and you will be given a salary increase."
Du Jingde said seriously.
"Young man, let me tell you, if you officially become a cremation chemical company in the future, you will be developed, not only will the salary be high, the bonus will be high, and the family of the bereaved will also give red envelopes, a total of no less than 20,000 yuan per month."
Hu Dayang on the side echoed.