"Oh, it turned out to be from the Maoshan faction, I said, how can you tell that this person next to me is a dead person, I am just an ordinary corpse chaser" As soon as the old man heard that I was a disciple of the Maoshan faction, his nervousness instantly relaxed, and he also told me his identity.

"Old gentleman, are you a corpse chaser in Xiangxi?" I asked the old gentleman with a curious expression.

"How can I tell you this, not all corpse chasers are from Xiangxi, I am an authentic Northeasterner, and my ancestor is from Xiangxi" After the old gentleman said this, he took out a wine glass from his pocket and put it in front of me, and then poured me a glass of wine.

"Young man, drink with me, the old man, it's too boring to drink alone," the old gentleman said, pointing to the glass of white wine in front of me, and then the old man brought the peanuts in front of him to me for me to eat.

"Thank you" I unceremoniously picked up the liquor that the old gentleman poured for me, drank half a glass, and then grabbed a handful of peanuts and ate them.

"Sir, how many years have you been doing this," I asked, looking at the old gentleman as I ate peanuts.

"I started chasing out corpses with my master when I was twelve years old, and I am sixty-three years old, and I have been doing it for more than fifty years," the old gentleman first looked around, and then he whispered to me.

"Sir, can you tell me the story of your corpse chaser, I'm very curious," I asked the old gentleman with two eyes in my eyes.

"Actually, there's nothing curious about it, if I had to choose a new way of living, I'd rather not be this corpse chaser," the old gentleman poured himself a glass of white wine and drank it into his stomach as he said this.

"Actually, I really yearn for the life of ordinary people, with family, relatives, and friends, and we have nothing, no family, no relatives, and no friends, dealing with the dead all year round, eating with the dead, sleeping with the dead....." The old gentleman sighed and told me, at this time I felt a strong sadness from the old man's body.

"Old man, the transportation is so developed these days, your business of chasing corpses must not be good!" I asked the old gentleman with a sympathetic expression.

"Yes, now that the transportation is developed, our business of chasing corpses is indeed not as good as before, but it will not starve to death. Nowadays, people rarely advocate superstition, when their relatives die in a foreign country, they will cremate the bodies of their relatives first and then bring them back to their hometown for burial, few people will spend a lot of money to transport the remains of the dead back, I took this job to throw back the fare to eat and drink, and can only earn more than 5,000 yuan" The old gentleman glanced at the middle-aged man next to me and said to me, when I looked at the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man suddenly turned his head and smiled at me, I was so frightened that I almost jumped up from my seat, I looked at the middle-aged man with a look of horror.

"Don't be afraid, I manipulated him into laughing at you," the old gentleman smiled at me.

"Sir, you are really naughty, you just scared me," I said to the old gentleman with a wry smile on my face, patting my chest.

"Don't call me Mr. Li, my surname is Li, just call me Lao Li," the old gentleman said to me with an easy-going face.

"It's disrespectful to call Lao Li, you are older than my father, I still call you Uncle Li, so that it can be kinder," I said to the old gentleman with a smile.

"You kid has a pretty sweet mouth," Uncle Li complimented me with a smile.

I was chatting with this Uncle Li while drinking a little wine, this Uncle Li was very able to say, almost all of us chatted about him telling the story of driving out the corpses over the years, and I sat quietly opposite him and listened, this Uncle Li looked a little weird on the surface, but he was really good.

Uncle Li began to drive the corpse with his master at the age of twelve, and when he was in his twenties, Uncle Li took over his master's burden and began to drive the corpse alone, and it has been more than 50 years now, Uncle Li also told that when China counterattacked Vietnam, he had received a notice from the government to go to the battlefield in Vietnam to send back the bodies of some martyrs who died in the war.

"In a month's time, nearly 30,000 Chinese soldiers died on the battlefield in Vietnam, looking at those young people who died in battle, my heart hurts indescribably, those anti-Japanese war movies on TV are too fake, if you are on the real battlefield, you will never forget it in your life, stumps and broken arms all over the ground, corpses without heads, red blood, white brains are all over the ground......" Uncle Li said this, he raised his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

I talked with Uncle Li until half past three in the second half of the night, when Uncle Li fell asleep on the table drunk, and I took off my cotton clothes and put them on Uncle Lee's body and left.

"Brother Liu, where have you been?" When I returned to my seat, Xiao bravely opened his eyes and asked me.

"When I just went to the toilet, I met a corpse chaser in the front compartment, and we chatted a few more words," I said to Xiao Yongyong truthfully.

"I didn't expect there to be corpse chasers now, it's really unusual," Xiao Yongyong said to me with a surprised face.

"Isn't that strange?" I asked Xiao bravely in confusion.

"Chasing corpses is the folk customs of the Miao people in Xiangxi region, belonging to the witch culture, the most widespread time in Xiangxi to drive corpses was in the late Qing Dynasty, because at that time the whole country was in a turbulent and warlike period, warlords all over the country were everywhere, and there were many people who died in foreign lands, so there were corpse chasers who drove people who died in foreign lands back to their hometowns to settle down. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a practice of "autumn execution", and every year during the autumn equinox, the yamen of each prefecture and county would execute death row prisoners on death row with the approval of the Ministry of Punishment. After the execution of local death row prisoners, their own family members collect the corpses for burial, while the guest death row prisoners who want to be executed need to be carried back to their hometowns, usually a corpse needs to be carried by four people, which is more expensive, and the cost of inviting the corpse to return to their hometown is relatively small, and it can ensure that it does not rot or smell on the way, because the body may rot after a day. It is rumored that during the Anti-Japanese War, under the eaves of a house on Datong Street in Chongqing, there was a note on the door frame, which read: "Charge d'affaires to transport the corpse back to Hunan Province" With the development of transportation now, people's local concepts have also faded, and the industry of chasing corpses has been gradually eliminated, so I say it is strange" Xiao Yongyong elaborated on me in detail.

"Brother Xiao, you know a lot," I said bravely as I looked at Xiao with admiration.

"I usually like to read these books, and what I tell you is also introduced in the books," Xiao smiled at me shyly.

"Can you two talk quietly" You Zhipei opened his eyes and said impatiently to me and Xiao Yongyong, then snoring and falling asleep again, Zhang Yi and Fan Qing slept next to each other with a special fragrance.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the train stopped at the DD train station, our group of four people and a demon walked down from the train, when I stood up and looked ahead, I saw Uncle Lee's left hand holding the middle-aged man's right hand and walking forward, I vaguely saw Uncle Lee's right hand holding a copper bell, he would shake every two steps, the middle-aged man's walking movement was a little wooden.

"Uncle Li, do you need me to help you?" I walked quickly to Uncle Lee's side and said to him.

"No, I can do it myself, thank you for chatting with me yesterday, I haven't talked to a living person like this for many years, and thank you for putting on a dress for me last night" Uncle Li said this to me with a smile on his face and returned my cotton clothes to me.

"Okay young man, you go and get busy with you, we'll have a meeting later" After Uncle Li said this to me, he took the middle-aged man's hand and walked forward quickly, and after a while, Uncle Li and the middle-aged man's figure disappeared into the crowd.

"That old man is the corpse chaser!" Xiao bravely walked up to me with a suitcase and asked.

"Yes," I turned to Xiao Yong and nodded in response, and as soon as a few of us walked out of the platform, the little aunt called me.

"Senior nephew Liu, where are you now?" My little aunt asked me on the phone.

"Little Auntie, the five of us are out of the station now, and we are about to walk out of the exit soon," I said to Little Auntie on the phone.

"My car is parked in the square in front of the train station, you can come out and come to the square to find me," the little aunt told me on the phone.