Maybe everything in the world is such a coincidence, as if when I just finished saying this, I returned to the Dharma Hall with Cui Mingfu, and just when my butt was still hot, I heard the voice-activated doorbell ringing, and I was thinking about how today's business could be so lively. [No pop-ups. 】

When I raised my head, I couldn't help but be stunned at the moment, I didn't expect that the person who came turned out to be Cui Mingli's senior sister, and with her was Officer Ma!

None of us thought that these two people would come to our side together, and we were very surprised by such two people, besides, since the last time we saw Cui Mingsu by the river because of the matter of the Blood Spirit Sect, we have not seen them again.

After seeing it this time, Cui Mingli was very happy, "Senior sister......" She ran over happily, grabbed Cui Mingsu's arm, and the two sisters hugged happily and gently.

It's just that...... Cui Mingfu and I glanced at each other, we know Cui Mingsu's identity, the Natural Phenomenon Research Association, and now by her side, followed by a police officer Ma, such two people came to our side, it must be the meaning of "nothing to do and go to the Three Treasures Palace".

"I see you're very idle all day long!" Cui Mingsu smiled slightly, sat down, and kept looking at our Dharma Hall, "Uncle Shi's Dharma Hall is very good, what about his old man, I specially dragged a friend from Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province to bring him the first-class Tieguanyin this time!" ”

Cui Mingsu smiled, put a mention of tea leaves, put it on the coffee table in the living room, and looked at us as if asking.

Hearing her say this, Cui Mingfu shook his head, his face distorted, "Don't mention that old nose, the dragon can't see the tail of the heavenly dragon, and this big mess of things is pressed on the three of us offspring, but I went out to travel, the key is that after we come back, if we don't do things according to his wishes, it is indispensable to shine on our faces, a meal of shoe soles, we might as well repair the shoe rack......"

Even Cui Mingli nodded slightly, and Cui Mingsu said lightly, "Uncle Shi is still like this, he can't help his temper at every turn, but he is old and lonely, let's take care of him more, after all, it's not back then!" Maybe Cui Mingsu is a little older, so she is very understanding when she speaks, and Cui Mingli can't help but nod yes.

"By the way, don't talk about us, as soon as I saw you two coming, I knew that we were busy again, what's the matter, Officer Ma, you came with our senior sister today, it's not just as simple as condolences to us......" Cui Mingfu pinched his teeth, folded his arms around his chest, and couldn't help asking.

Hearing this, Officer Ma laughed out loud, "Hey, yes, there is no way this time, I can only invite your senior sister, but your senior sister can only help me for a day, she has other things to do tomorrow, and she is also on a heavy job, so she can't get out, knowing that you are just free, I can't bear to interrupt you, so I came over......" He said as he opened his black briefcase.

The three of us glanced at each other at this moment, and look, what are you talking about, it's just something. Moreover, it alarmed the senior sister again, presumably it was also a more difficult case, and a small drum suddenly beat in our hearts.

Officer Ma took out the photos with a gloomy face and put them on the table, the photos were thick, the three of us looked at each other, stretched out our hands, picked up the photos on the table, put them in our hands, and looked at them one by one, and gasped when I got into it, and felt a cold breath running through the spine behind me, and the cold feeling of the whole body jumped from the tail vertebrae to the skull, and I couldn't help but tremble when I landed.

"Grass, no, don't you want to be so miserable......" Cui Mingfu couldn't help but scream, in fact, it wasn't him who made a fuss, even I was about to scream, seeing the scene in the photo, I was about to vomit.

How can there be such a case, is this still a human case? Seeing that Cui Mingli had already covered her chest, she walked quickly to the side, "No, I have to drink saliva and press it!" ”

Cui Mingfu and I also patted our chests and lit a cigarette suddenly, and then realized that Cui Mingsu was still here, but Cui Mingsu looked at us with a slight smile, "It's okay, smoke, I don't care about this!" ”

When the smell of tobacco burning rushed into my lungs, I felt that the churning feeling in my stomach suddenly became much better, and Officer Ma opened his mouth and said slowly, "How is it, disgusting, I don't know how many times more disgusting the crime scene is than this photo, hi...... Give me a cigarette..."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to me and Cui Mingfu, and Cui Mingfu quickly pulled out one and put it in his hand. After the cigarette was lit, his tone was calm enough to tell us about the case:

This case, born three days ago, is about 5o kilometers away from the provincial capital in a village in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the village is called Yanhuang Village, the number of people in the village is not large, and most of the people in the village take the surnames "Yan" and "Huang" as the main surnames, which has been the case since ancient times, so it was named "Yanhuang Village"!

It is also said that it is because in ancient times, most of the residents in this village made a living by drying salt and reselling the yellow sand in the Yellow River, so it was called "Yanhuang Village", and finally it was homophonized as "Yanhuang Village"!

But in any case, most of the young people who live in this village have come to the provincial capital or go south to work, only those who are old, weak, sick and disabled are in the village, most of them are still fishing by the river, reselling sand and soil, and exchanging some money to earn a living, but there is also a special profession in this village, called "water ghosts"!

Of course, water ghosts are not real ghosts, but they are just another name for an industry, and those who are similar to their profession are "corpse diggers"! But they are very different from the "corpse diggers", they are a group of people who are on the verge of life and death, and they are also known as yin and yang cross-border people!

Water ghosts are an ancient profession, similar to the Tibetan celestial burial masters and Xiangxi corpse bearers, who meet with the dead every day. It's just that the celestial burial master and the corpse bearer are guarding the dead, and the water ghost is dealing with the mysterious "walking corpse" under the Yellow River.

As we all know, the density of the human body is about the same as water, and after the corpse sinks to the bottom of the water, the body gradually becomes bloated with the corpse, and these corpse qi turns the person into a big-headed ghost with a hideous face and turned lips outturned.

At this time, as the corpse gas increases, the corpse will gradually float to the surface, first the upper limbs float up, and then the lower limbs, because the pelvic bones of women and men are different, so the floating corpse also has a characteristic, called "male and female prostrate", which is to say that these dead people floating on the water, it is a man who leans over, and it is a woman who leans back.

Therefore, according to this principle, people who die in the Yellow River will float up on their own in three or five days. At this time, the family of the deceased only needs to beg the "corpse digger" to retrieve the body. However, the deceased's family had to invite the boatman to have a vegetarian meal at home, and before leaving, they had to tie a strip of red cloth three inches wide and one foot long to the middle finger of the boatman. These are all for the purpose of warding off evil spirits, and they are also the ancient rules of the Yellow River.

They only fished out the corpses, used a long bamboo pole to pick up weeds and branches floating on the Yellow River, covered the corpse with a white cloth, and then took a hemp rope mixed with black dog hair and tied it to the waist of the corpse, and hung the corpse on the cliff in the shade, waiting for the family to identify and recognize it clearly, and then carried the corpse ashore.

Strange to say, after many people die in the water, the corpse does not float up, and when the corpse is fished out, it is still as if it has just died, and the corpse is still the same as before. Not only that, but these underwater corpses will always stand upright in the water, maintaining a walking posture, and the corpses will slowly move forward with the waves, as if they are walking slowly.

Many times in the dry riverbed, you can see clear footprints underwater, step by step to the deepest depth, and after reaching the end, you will turn in another direction and continue walking, just like walking underwater, these are the "dead"!

It is said that these people who died on the Yellow River were so angry that they refused to leave, and they had to wait until they killed others before they would fall. This legend is very scary, once someone if you crossed the Yellow River by boat, the boat went to the center of the river, you looked down, and you saw a person walking underwater, and he would smile at you as he walked.

If such a "walking corpse" is encountered, then the family of the deceased will have to go to find a water ghost. Water ghosts are the name of the corpse diggers on the side of the Yellow River, this kind of water ghosts are not simple corpse fishers, they are all hereditary, they all have unique skills, and their unique ability is to ask for trouble.

It is said that the water ghost is an ancestral secret method, and the behavior is strange and strange, and outsiders have no way of knowing. Some people say that water ghosts have used a secret potion to wash their eyes since they were young, and after decades of practicing water watching on the edge of the Yellow River, their eyes can penetrate the turbid river water, and they can see the walking corpses underwater at a glance.

Cui Mingfu and I glanced at each other, and when I heard this, I felt that Officer Ma seemed to be a little off topic, and he talked about so many corpse diggers, does it have anything to do with today's case? Cui Mingfu couldn't help but urge him, "Don't keep hanging our appetite, don't you keep talking about it......"

Officer Ma frowned slightly, lit another cigarette, took a sharp puff, and coughed violently, maybe this puff was really sucked more violently, it seems that he is also nervous, "I will explain it clearly to you, and it will also help you understand the truth, isn't it?" I've been a police officer for so many years, and I really haven't seen such an evil case, in short, there are people in the police force now, this case is too suspenseful, there is almost no clue, hey, it's a real headache......"

As I looked at the photographs on the coffee table again, I was lost in thought...... Does this case have anything to do with the "walking corpse" under the Yellow River?