Many people may have heard of the rural native Taoist priests, but you must not have heard of a kind of Taoist priest who manipulates the corpse to walk with a copper bell magic weapon, and this kind of Taoist priest is also called a corpse chaser.

The most important magic weapon for the corpse chaser is the copper bell in his hand, also known as the corpse bell. In addition, there are yin and yang locks, soul suppression drums, and so on.

With the changes of the times, the corpse chasers have almost disappeared, but some traces can always be found in some fictional history.

In that part of my family, my grandfather is the most famous, because he is not only a rural native Taoist, but also used to do the craft of chasing corpses when he was young, and he can be said to be the last corpse chaser in the lineage.

My name is Liu Taixuan, I am a native of Huainan, and my family lives in Liujia Village at the foot of Bagong Mountain.

Bagong Mountain is rumored to be the place where Liu An, the king of Huainan, and his eight disciples became immortals, so later generations were named after "Eight Princes". Our Liujia Village has lived at the foot of Bagong Mountain for generations, and it is rumored that it is the descendant of Liu An, the king of Huainan.

In Liujia Village, my grandfather's ability to raise the corpse bell is ringing, everyone likes to call him Liu Daring, whenever there is a funeral in the village or nearby villages to demolish the house and move the grave, I will inevitably ask my grandfather to preside.

My grandfather's rules for presiding over the funeral are different from those of ordinary village Tudaoists, and the ordinary rural Tudao priests hold funeral ceremonies, only when the coffin is raised, the coffin is fixed, and the coffin is released.

And a real Taoist priest like my grandfather, when performing these rituals, the chant he practiced in his mouth was the Taoist authentic "Taishang Cave Xuanling Bao Tianzun Du Ren Sutra", whose basic role is to transcend the dead and help the dead to be reincarnated.

In addition, my grandfather's other thing to do was to help the family survey the feng shui and choose the burial place before the funeral ceremony officially began, which is also known in feng shui as the art of Kanyu.

Of course, the most mysterious thing is my grandfather's skill of picking up the corpse bell in the vein, with a single copper bell magic weapon, you can control the corpse, come and go freely, and even use the corpse to kill people.

The art of chasing corpses is appalling, and my grandfather has always kept his mouth shut, regarded it as a taboo, and rarely used it, and I just heard about it from hearsay, and I feel more and more curious. However, when I was sixteen years old, I still saw the peculiarities of my grandfather.

At that time, the economy was not developed, folk customs and etiquette, weddings and funerals first to find a Taoist priest, Taoist priests are people who understand, so whether it is a wedding or funeral, I will ask my grandfather to give a date first.

It was June and July, in the middle of summer, the weather had just warmed up, and my grandfather was sitting in the yard teaching me how to read and write, when a strong man about forty years old came to the door.

This person, my grandfather also knows, is named Liu Fangping, and he also has a younger brother named Liu Fangliang. To say that this brother has had a bad life since he was a child, his parents died early, leaving only one acre and three points of land, he is a well-known poor household in the village, if he didn't rely on the help of the same clan in the village on weekdays, I am afraid he would have starved to death.

On this day, Liu Fangping rushed into the courtyard of my house in a hurry, came to my grandfather, and knelt down with a pop. Pulling my grandfather's trouser leg, he begged vigorously: "Old man Liu, you must be merciful this time and save my hard-working brother!" ”

He smelled of sweat all over his body, and his clothes were covered in mud, as if he was rolling in the mud of yours.

I was stunned for a moment, my grandfather frowned, nodded and said, "Look at the earthy smell of your later life, I guess what you are doing, let's talk about it!" What's going on? ”

Liu Fangping stood up and said with a sad face: "My brother...... My brother he was swallowed by a coffin ......"

"What's going on? Coffin swallowed? Could it be that you went to Bagong Mountain? You! Xiao is young, too ignorant of the sky and the earth! My grandfather raised his eyebrows, and his face became more solemn than ever.

Liu Fangping was noncommittal, paused and said: "If you want to start from the beginning, it has to go back to three days ago, our brothers went to the area of Bagong Mountain to find the ancient tomb, and accidentally found an ancient tomb with a Luoyang shovel in a ravine, and when they excavated to the bottom of the tomb, they found a very huge bronze coffin, and was about to open the coffin, there was a knocking sound from inside......"

Saying that, when the brothers of the Liu family heard this voice, the younger brother Liu Fangliang asked with a panicked face: "Big brother, did you hear any sound?" Could it be ...... Could it be that there is a big zongzi in this coffin......"

The word "big zongzi" belongs to the secret words of their inverted fight, which actually means zombies.

Liu Fangping's face was green when he heard the words "big zongzi", but he didn't turn back when he opened the bow, and after hesitating again and again, he shouted viciously: "Even if there are big zongzi in it, we don't have to be afraid, we still have glutinous rice and black donkey hooves that specialize in dealing with big zongzi, what are we afraid of him?" Man dies for money, and birds die for food. If we don't bring back a child this time, we will only have the life of drinking the northwest wind, rather than starving to death, it is better to fight to the death, in a word, ask for money and don't die! Done! ”

Liu Fangliang stared at the eldest in the family, his mind gradually calmed down, and he grew up a little bolder, looking at the bronze coffin in front of him, and the strange sound came from here.

Listen carefully, in addition to the sound of the coffin pounding, there is even a sound that seems to be like a baby's wow wow wow in it.

Liu Fangping said to his younger brother: "I'll go up and pry open the coffin and see what evil things are inside!" In case it's a corpse, you don't have to pay attention to me, just turn around and run, so that it can save your life, if it's late, you and I can't survive, remember? ”

Liu Fangliang nodded. So Liu Fangping picked up the shovel, cautiously approached the coffin, inserted the shovel into the gap between the coffin lid, and suddenly exerted brute force.

The coffin had been buried for hundreds of years, but it was just a bronze coffin that was extremely heavy, but fortunately, Liu Fangping's strength was not small, and he suddenly pried open a corner of the coffin lid.

Liu Fangliang was afraid that the big zongzi would jump out at this moment, and quickly rolled back. Seeing that there was no movement in the coffin, the clanging stopped, but the cry of a child became clearer and clearer.

The two brothers, Liu Fangliang and Liu Fangping, glanced at each other, and there was no big zongzi in a coffin dug up in a ravine, but the crying of a child, such a scene was very strange.