"Chase out corpses?"

I was stunned for a moment, and for a moment I wondered if I had heard it wrong, you must know what age it is, why did someone still ask you to drive the corpse?

The so-called corpse drive, as the name suggests, refers to the transportation of the dead body back to the hometown. Chasing corpses is actually a profession, called corpse chasers, also known as moving spirits, shadows, walking corpses, belonging to the Maoshan Shu Zhu Youke, originated in Xiangxi Yuanling, Filter, Chenxi, Xupu four counties. Before the liberation, because most of these areas were mountainous and difficult for vehicles to pass, there was a trade in the removal of corpses, and the warlocks were generally driven back to their hometowns for burial when the corpses were not decomposed.

The people who drive out the corpses are generally two mages wearing Taoist robes, and no matter how many corpses there are, they are driven by the master and the apprentice. Corpses are generally draped in a wide black corpse cloth, with a tall felt hat on their heads, and several pieces of yellow paper with charms written on their foreheads hanging down their faces. The master and the apprentice, without lighting the lantern, shook a dementor bell in their hands, and struck the gong as they walked, so that night walkers could avoid it, and those who had dogs locked up the dogs. The corpse chaser was the one who struck the small yin gong in his hand while leading the group of corpses forward, each corpse had a spiritual talisman on its forehead, and after muttering a mantra, each corpse stood upright, jumped behind the mage's back, and jumped forward. The general journey is day and night, but the corpse is just the opposite of day and night, because the corpse needs to be carried out at night, and the sun cannot be allowed to shine on the dead body, so as soon as the rooster crows, before the day will break, the mage will lead the dead corpses to stay, until the evening, before leaving, the mage will check the talisman on the corpse's forehead one by one, if there is no problem, will continue to drive the corpse.

For many people, the above method of "driving out corpses" is half-believed, because the fact that dead bodies can beat is too incredible and unbelievable. However, from the standpoint of the number of techniques, it is not impossible to "drive out corpses", because this is within the scope of "mountain techniques" in the "five arts" (mountain, medicine, divination, life, and physiognomy).

Although chasing corpses is an old profession, these days, because of the car, even if you die thousands of miles away, you can transport the corpse back, so the industry of chasing corpses has become extinct. Now, I suddenly heard Tang Zhaofu say that he had taken over a business to drive corpses, can I not be surprised?

Tang Zhaofu said with great certainty: "Yes, drive out the corpse." ”

Hearing his affirmative reply, I was a dog, and someone really asked us to drive out the corpses these days? Could it be that the deceased died in some deep mountain? I asked the doubts in my mind.

Tang Zhaofu said: "Do you know Jack Ma? His father died, and he offered us a high price to get his father's body back. ”

"What? Jack Ma, please? "I was shocked.

Tang Zhaofu said: "What, I'm talking about Ma Yun, the richest man in our county, not Ma Yun on Taobao." ”

I wiped a cold sweat and quickly pulled out a cigarette to suppress the shock. The richest man in our county is indeed called Ma Yun, who made a fortune in real estate, and it is said that his family's assets have long been hundreds of millions, and he is a powerful figure in our county.

I took a puff of my cigarette and asked him what the hell was going on, why did he ask us to drive out the corpses when people died?

Tang Zhaofu said: "Mr. Ma passed away a few days ago, and the body was originally parked in the funeral home, but what people never dreamed of was that the corpse ran away by itself in the middle of the night the night before yesterday, so today the Ma family found me, hoping that I could help drive Mr. Ma back." ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but be surprised, and asked, "Is this a fucking corpse, or is it resurrected?" ”

Tang Zhaofu said that he didn't know the specific situation, but he was worried that he wouldn't be able to handle it alone, so he wanted to ask me to help.

I said, "Old Tang, I haven't figured this thing out, in case this thing is too tricky, once it is not done, I will smash the craft." ”

Tang Zhaofu said: "It's a corpse when the sky is high, and two of us are afraid of a ball." Moreover, the Ma family paid a lot of money, and the matter became a labor fee of 50,000 yuan. What's the matter, you're just going to do my brother a favor? ”

To tell the truth, although Tang Zhaofu and I have only known each other for a few days, when we were in the broken temple of Niutou Mountain, we can be regarded as friends who have experienced life and death together, and now he wants to ask me for help, I really can't refuse, not to mention that there is not a labor fee of 50,000 yuan?

Thinking of this, I nodded and agreed to the matter, and then Tang Zhaofu gave me an address, and I looked for it.

The county seat was not very big, and according to the address given by Tang Zhaofu, I soon came to the place where he was. This street is still the old street before, quite quiet, less crowded, I raised my eyes and saw a fortune-telling hall called "God Operator", and this is where Tang Zhaofu's Taoist Hall is located.

As soon as I entered the fortune-telling hall, I smelled the smell of incense, and saw that there were many gods and Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Dharma utensils and other things for sale in the store, and behind a long table, there was a person wearing a Mao suit, this person was not Tang Zhaofu.

He noticed that someone had entered the store, and when he looked at the door, he saw that it was me, and immediately got up to greet him. After all, he wasn't a human anymore, and there were no polite words after meeting, so he made me a cup of tea.

Tang Zhaofu told me that he had told Ma Yun's fortune before, so this time the Ma family had an accident, so he called him, but on the phone, the Ma family did not say too much about the specific situation, but he had already made an appointment with Ma Yun to meet.

So, we stopped in the shop for a while, then got up and left the fortune-telling parlor and hurried towards Ma's house.

The Ma family is a rich man, the richest man in the county. Tang Zhaofu took me to the foot of the mountain in the south of the city forest park, where there is a villa community, and he told me that the Ma family lived here.

This community is really big, the greenery is also very good, absolutely tall, a European-style villa is located at the foot of the forest park, it is really enviable, yearning place.

We walked through a few hundred meters of tree-lined paths and came to the door of a luxurious three-storey white villa. At this time, there were several luxury cars parked at the door of the villa, and the gate of the villa was also open, and you could see many people inside when you stood outside.

We went straight to the closer, and then a nanny asked us who we were looking for?

Tang Zhaofu told the other party that we were invited by Mr. Ma to deal with Mr. Ma's affairs, and the other party hurriedly let us in.

The living room is very large, but because something happened in this house, the atmosphere is a little dull, there are only seven or eight middle-aged people chatting softly, and on the sofa on the other side is a middle-aged man about fifty years old, this person is the owner of the house, Ma Yun.

At this time, Ma Yun looked melancholy, looked up and saw us coming, immediately got up to greet us, grabbed Tang Zhaofu's hand and said, "Master Tang, you are finally here, I am almost jumping in a hurry." By the way, who is this? ”

Ma Yun found out that he had brought one more person at this time, so he was a little curious.

"This is my friend Mr. Chen Ergou, because I think Mr. Ma is very strange about this, so I invited him out of the mountain to help. Don't look at him younger than me, but he is very profound. If I can invite him out of the mountain to help today, I believe that there will be no problem with Old Man Ma's affairs. Tang Zhaofu hurriedly introduced him.

As soon as Ma Yun heard this, he quickly stretched out his hand to shake my hand and said a few polite words, which was nothing more than to bother the two of us.

Polite words are polite words after all, and we haven't figured out what this thing is going on, so naturally it is impossible to say that it is okay to do it all. So, after he invited us to sit down, I asked him what was going on with Mr. Ma?

"Hey! It's weird, it's weird. Ma Yun sighed, looking depressed and helpless. Then, he told us about Old Man Ma.

It turned out that the old man Ma died of illness during the day before yesterday, and then he was transferred to the funeral home the afternoon before yesterday, and the family was still preparing to invite the mage to do the magic for the old man for a few days. As a result, yesterday morning they went to the funeral home, only to find that the coffin was empty, and the old man was gone.

Later, they went to check the surveillance screen of the funeral home, and almost scared everyone half to death, it turned out that the surveillance screen captured the old man Ma crawling out of the coffin in the middle of the night, and then went straight out of the funeral home and walked to the west.

Speaking of this, Ma Yun's face was frightened, obviously very afraid.

When I heard this, I asked him, "What about then?" Have you gone looking for it? Did the old man come back to life, or how? ”

Ma Yunchang took a breath, and then continued: "We sent someone to look for him yesterday, and we searched for him along the west side and found him in the temple tomb. But...... But he didn't bring the old man back at all. ”

"Can't bring it back?" Hearing this, Tang Zhaofu and I were both stunned, and our brows furrowed.

Ma Yun nodded and said, "Yes, I can't bring it back." I sent several people to the temple tomb, and they all said on the phone that they had found the old man, but in the end they didn't bring the old man back, but the few people who were sent went crazy in the end, and they haven't been well yet! ”<