Robb asked curiously, "Then why don't you just transport the coffin back, it's so mysterious." Also, why is there such a phenomenon as corpse expulsion only in certain places? ”

Li Chai continued, "You can't cross Dongting Lake to Langzhou (Changde) in the north, Jingzhou in the east, Fuzhou and Wuzhou in the west, and Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest. Legend has it that these places are the ghost kingdom of the ancestors of the Miao people, and if they are far away, they will go out of bounds, and Lao Si will not be able to catch those zombies. The method of driving out the corpse is: the old man in red recites a mantra, points cinnabar, and sticks a rune.

There is a hotel dedicated to parking the corpse, the cinnabar gate is closed all the year round, behind the two gates is the resting place of the corpse, arrive before dawn, leave after nightfall, the corpse is behind the door and stand against the wall, when the weather is bad and can not go, it may stay for a few days and nights.

The door of this kind of inn, except for the passing corpse mage, no one moved it, because of the horror of the corpse, the back of this door has become a very mysterious, terrifying forbidden area, even the staff in the inn, no one probed to take a look, even if they knew that there was no corpse there, no one wanted to look behind the mysterious door.

The corpses came and went after nightfall and before dawn, but in fact it was nighttime, so it was not necessary to close the door in order to facilitate the entry and exit of the corpses. This kind of inn will not be stolen, and thieves will not dare to patronize it, and even if they are bold enough to steal, they will not steal anything.

It is said that the reason why corpses can beat is because of the yellow paper on their faces, so when they stop at a place, the mages immediately remove the paper charms from their faces, otherwise they will jump out on their own.

During the Anti-Japanese War, under the eaves of a house on Datong Street in Chongqing, there was a note pasted on the door frame, which read: "The chargé d'affaires transported the corpse back to Hunan Province"

People who have heard of the "corpse expulsion" have read the note and already know that it is to drive out the corpse, because he explained that "returning to Hunan Province" would not be limited to Hunan if it were not for the corpse, and at the same time, it would not be as terrifying as "transporting corpses".

According to him, the situation of driving out the corpse is indeed as mentioned above, and it is not false at all, and he does not know when and who created it, and this grotesque method is closely related to "Qimen Dunjia".

He also said: This matter is rare for outsiders to see, not because they don't show it to others, but because no one dares to see it. He said: It is difficult for this industry to work outside of Xiangxi, and first, accommodation has become a problem. Second, night walkers don't know how to avoid gongs, but instead come to see the excitement, which must be scared to death. Third, in many villages, there are no roads outside the villages, and they are bound to pass through the villages, and in most places corpses are not allowed to enter the villages, let alone the living corpses jumping and jumping? At the same time, the residents along the road did not understand the situation, and could not ask them to cooperate -- when they heard the sound of the gong, they locked up the dogs, because the corpses were afraid of dogs, and the dogs bit the clothes of the corpses and pulled them, and the corpses had to fall. Even the corpse was bitten, and the matter was serious, but there were no such difficulties in Xiangxi.

Why is there a "corpse chase" business? Because the upper reaches of the Yuanjiang River in Xiangxi are barren, and the poor mostly go to the eastern Sichuan or Qiandong areas to make a living as hawkers, collect medicines, or hunt, and those places are mostly lofty mountains and mountains, the miasma in the mountains is very heavy, falciparum malaria is often prevalent, and the living environment is extremely bad. None of the Han people who died in those places were rich, and the Han people traditionally had a deep concept of transporting corpses back to their hometowns for burial, but even if they had money on the rugged mountain roads of thousands or hundreds of miles, it was difficult to carry them by vehicles or stretchers, so some people created this strange economic method to transport corpses back to their hometowns. One person can drive several corpses, and the cost is naturally too small to be smaller.

As for embalming, it is said that all corpses transported in this way will not decompose from the moment they are transported to their destination, but they cannot be transported if they are decomposed before they are shipped. ”

Li Chai saw that he was fascinated by the two things, so he continued, "Now that the lights are bright everywhere, there has been no corpse drive for a long time. ”

He said mysteriously, "Do you know what those red-clothed old men did later? ”

The net bottle can also be heard, "What are you doing?" ”

According to legend, thousands of years ago, the ancestor of the Miao people, Apu (Miao language: father-in-law) Chi You, led his troops to fight against the enemy by the Yellow River, until the corpses were all over the field and the blood flowed like a river. After the battle was about to retreat to the rear, and the soldiers carried the wounded soldiers away, Apu Chiyou said to the Apu military advisor beside him: "We can't leave the brothers who died here alone, how about you use some magic to let these good brothers return to their hometowns?" He said, "All right." You and I change our costumes, you use the 'runes' to lead the way in front, and I supervise in the back. ”

So the Apu military commander disguised himself as Apuchiyu, stood among the corpses of the brothers who had died in battle, and after a while of silent recitation of incantations and prayers to the gods, he cried out to the corpses: "Brothers who have died, this is not a place where you died, and it is a sad mourning to die in vain." The parents in their hometown are looking forward to it, and their wives and young sons are looking forward to returning to their hometowns. Don't hesitate. Haste as a law, up! The corpses that were lying on the ground all stood up at once, and walked south in a regular manner behind the "runes" of Apu Chi You Gaoqing. When the enemy's pursuers came, Apu Chiyou and Apu Army Division joined forces to attract the "Five Great Fogs" and trap the enemy in ......the Ecstasy Array. Because it was the spell of the "Division" (implementation and operation intention) of the Apu Military Division that allowed everyone to get out of danger, everyone has since called him "Lao Si"; And because the last thing that Apu Laosi used to defend against the enemy was actually "fog technique", and there were too many "fog" strokes that were difficult to write, so he rewrote it into a "witch" character instead. In fact, this witch character is also a hieroglyph: the upper horizontal represents the sky or fog, the lower horizontal represents the earth, and the middle vertical represents the "symbolic section"; There is a character on each side of the vertical, the one on the right represents Apuchiyu, and the one on the left represents Apulaosi, which means that two people must unite to do witchcraft. This is the origin of Lao Si, and now these people who can draw talismans through Yin are all selling Gu in the ghost market. ”

Robb asked, "Just a peddler?" ”

"They deal with corpses all year round, and they know the mountain roads well, where the yin qi is heavy, where there are natural treasures, where there are deadly poisons, they all know that at that time it was to drive away corpses, so there was no time, and now there is no corpse, so the cordyceps they caught, as well as all kinds of rune paper, are very sought-after."

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