Early the next morning, I asked Ge Zhuang to go to Niuzi to communicate with the village chief, ask him to take the message, and ask the village chief to prepare a bag of crushed millet, a bag of glutinous rice, and a big rooster that has been raised for at least five years.

The older the rooster, the better, and it must be grown from a centipede.

Ge Zhuang shook his brain and asked me why I was preparing these things? I said to him, "Millet is for dehumidification, glutinous rice can pull out corpse poison, and roosters over five years old are heavy in yang, and hanging on the bow of the boat is used to open the way." ”

Ge Zhuang grinned with big yellow teeth and said You can really pull it, what age is this, who believes your old fashion? The rooster is still out of the way, I think you are hungry and want to eat meat, right?

The rules for collecting corpses are all left by Lao Luo, and I don't know what is so particular about it. If you want to say that there are ghosts, I really don't believe it, the big-character poster at the entrance of Niuzigou Village has not been removed, Mao Weiren said that New China wants to defeat all cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, and these doorways are the first objects to be eliminated in the past.

I glared at Ge Zhuang, "Dead fatty, why is it so barren and laborious for you to pass on a word?" You tell the village chief that if you want me to go to the Troubled Wind Slope to retrieve the corpse, these things must be prepared! ”

Ge Zhuang smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this, I'll bring you a nest of chicks back." ”

He twisted his big fat ass and left, half of his panties were exposed, and I shouted at him, "You pay attention to your image!" ”

"You know a hammer, and you can avoid evil spirits by exposing half of your pants outside!"

I was willing to agree to take this job, Ge Zhuang was in a good mood, and I could still hear him singing mountain songs with a male duck at the distance, like a wild boar, humming and walking towards Niuzigou.

I sat at the gate of the ruined temple and waited for him, and half an hour later, Ge Zhuang walked back beautifully. The village chief followed him, holding what I wanted. After entering the house, the village chief put what I wanted on the table and said with a smile,

"It's all the same, I prepared it for you last night."

"Then let's get to work!" I don't talk much nonsense, so I quickly put away my things and asked Ge Zhuang to accompany me to the reeds in the backwater bay, and the two of them worked together to push out the broken boat that fished out the corpse.

As soon as I jumped onto the boat, I saw a crowd of people on the other side of Niuzigou, and many villagers gathered around to watch the excitement.

The village chief shouted at the top of his voice, "Little pumpkin, you fish up the second cow, our village will ring the gong to cheer you on, and after the work is done, I will go to your daughter-in-law for you, and the matchmaker has found it!" ”

Ge Zhuang laughed shyly and poked me with his elbow, "Hey, did you hear me, this old boy said to introduce you to your daughter-in-law!" ”

I glanced at him, "Don't grind, hold the boat!" ”

Ge Zhuang and I slowly propped up the boat to the center of the river, and rowed up the backwater bay to the small river ditch in the back mountain.

The water in Jiandao Gorge is turbulent, and it is the season of rising water, Ge Zhuang is very difficult to hold the oars, sweat beads flow down the big fat face, and it is too hot to hold on for a while, so he unbuttons his jacket, saying that Mahler is a bastard, and he must apply in the county next month, so that they can match me with a wheel.

I said to give you a beautiful girl, do you want to bring you a yacht and have two rows of guards stand guard?

Ge Zhuang said with a smile, "Forget that thing, if one day, our brothers can get on the yacht after making a windfall, how good would it be for Yang Yuying to accompany me?" ”

I said, you dead fat man pouted a little higher, maybe you will go to heaven, I think you will die at the hands of a woman sooner or later!

Ge Zhuang said very seriously, "Comrade Little Pumpkin, I have to criticize you here, without the hard work of your parents in bed, where can you and me?" We must continue this fine tradition. ”

As I spoke, the side of the ship slammed into a reef, and the hull of the ship shook, and I looked at the waterway that had become twists and turns, and put away my joking thoughts, "Dead fatty, the trick is bright, and you are going to enter the chaotic wind slope!" ”

The water of the Jiandao Gorge is turbulent, and the canyon is long and winding, especially the canyon leading to the turbulent wind slope in the back mountain, which is like God peeing and pouring it out, and the inner side of the canyon is rocky and very precipitous. The Three Gorges is known for its strange and dangerous since ancient times, the water flow has been washed out for tens of millions of years, and countless small inlets have been "excavated" in the mountain wall, and the eighteen bays are long and narrow and roundabout.

Twisting and turning, I carefully paddled with my pickaxe to avoid the impact of the rocks. The deeper I walked, the faster the mountain wind blew in the canyon, and the fierce wind slapped on people's faces, like a blunt knife cutting meat, and Ge Zhuang and I couldn't help but squint our eyes.

Ge Zhuang and I walked into the Troubled Wind Slope for the first time, this place was full of strange rocks, wolf teeth protruding, and steep mountain peaks were like sharp knives slanted into the river.

I can't use the boat alone, I looked back and saw that it was more than two meters backwards, and said that the dead fat man, you will pit me, lift the bottom of the pot and pay it back, hurry up and hold the boat, don't shout so blindly!

The two of them finally propped the boat up to the turbulent slope, the water was more rapid, the bow of the boat couldn't stop shaking, and it was turning in the turbulent river, I pulled out a hemp rope, tied the bow to the raised mountain wall, fixed the hull, and greeted,

"Fatty, get into the water!"

Fishing for corpses in the Yangtze River, being able to swim are all necessary conditions, I have been forced by Lao Luo to soak in water all day since I was thirteen years old, and I have also practiced underwater skills, as for Ge Zhuang, just looking at his fat body does not look like a goods that will sink into water!

When the freshness passed, Ge Zhuang was stunned, holding a big belly, and his mouth trembled by the mountain wind, "Dog. The day is so cold, my flesh is frozen hard, and the water is cold and cold, so you should go. ”

I said that's not right, go into the water to thaw your fat meat?

Ge Zhuang muttered, saying that my body can't sink, or you go down, I'll give you the palm lamp!

"Holding the lamp" is the jargon, the corpse must be lit on the bow of the boat first, the lamp rope is hung on the waist of the person who launches the water, and someone on the boat is left to take care of it.

The underwater operation environment is complex, and the corpse collector may drown once he chokes on the water, and the key to tying the rope is to save his life: the other is that because the water ghost haunts people, he will catch the corpse collector as a substitute for the dead ghost, and with a lamp on his head, the water ghost will think that this person is yang and dare not make a mistake.

Putting on the lamp rope, I took a deep breath, and a fierce man plunged into the river and lowered the net along the waterway.

Ge Zhuang sat at the bow of the boat and pulled the net for me, and said while putting it down, you should be slow, be careful to hang the iron hook that catches the corpse, and let the buddy catch two fish at the same time, it will be too hard.

"Fishing for fish" is also jargon, begging for a living on the river, you must not offend your friends underwater, so you use fishing instead of fishing for corpses.

This kid's mouth is so bad that he can't say anything, and I don't bother to bother with it, so I slowly put down the shroud, careful to avoid the iron hook on it.

This shroud net is different from ordinary fishing objects, except for the use of fine Luolong ropes, each knot is tied with virgin hair, and it needs to be soaked in the blood of a black dog for 7749 days, and then exposed to the sun for 3 days before it can be put into the water.

The big iron hook is also exquisite, and the craftsman is mixed with cinnabar powder when polishing it, in order to restrain the evil spirit on the drowned body. There are many drowning in the water, and the people who die are all evil, and only with these two things can the "resentment" of the corpse be suppressed!

The old-fashioned superstitious statement, Ge Zhuang and I disagreed. Anyway, that's what Lao Luo said when he took me into the water.

I dragged the fishing net through the waterway, and for about ten minutes, the boat suddenly shook, tilted down a corner, and the draft was very deep.

Ge Zhuang jumped up with the lamp rope, "It's so quick to 'hook', there is a door!" ”

The sinking of the hull proves that there must be something hanging in the fishing net, and as for whether it is the corpse of Niu Laoer, you have to get it up and see it to know.