Chapter 33: The Wooden Man Kills the Snake

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You can't eat before the corpse, I'm afraid I don't need to say more, everyone can imagine that you are full of food, and your stomach is full of big fish and meat, and even your throat is full of meat, at this time, you see a rotting corpse, and you have to go into the water to fish......

I guess I can't talk about fishing, I can spit it out at a glance.

For these corpse fishers, especially for this kind of corpse, there must be a certain amount of physical contact with the corpse, and if they are full of food at this time, the result can be imagined.

Another point is that after a person dies, the sweat, spit, tears, and blood of the living cannot be stained on the corpse, which is likely to cause the corpse to rise up, or the ghost to turn into a ghost, like a TV or movie staged, a person dies, and the living person holds his corpse and weeps bitterly, like this kind of scene will not appear in reality, because once the tears of the living person are stained on the dead person, especially the tears of relatives, it will cause the deceased to be uneasy, and it will melt within two or three years of burial, and the ghost will run to the house to mess around.

The old corpse collector must know the above, if he doesn't eat to pick up the corpse, one is afraid of vomiting, and the other is afraid of splashing on the corpse, if it is really splashed, within three years, their family should be unlucky.

Before the three ancestors and grandsons came to Cai's mansion, the housekeeper Cai Zhang had already given them a brief explanation of the situation, of course, he didn't tell them that the two people in the well had melted and Cai's mansion had been making trouble for more than a month.

Without further ado, after greeting and greeting the three grandchildren, my great-grandfather took the three of them, as well as the old housekeeper Cai Zhang, and a dozen young and strong family members to the garden well. My great-grandfather told them to carry everything they had prepared.

After coming to the well, my great-grandfather first asked people to take out the incense and burning paper, and a family member held an incense burner with incense, and the green smoke curled around the well, and whispered in his mouth, "The king of the well dragon is gracious, not intentionally offensive"; A family member squatted at the mouth of the well, lit the burning paper one by one, threw it into the well, and said, "Xiaolan, Zhang Jiang, come and collect the money." ”

Burning incense around the mouth of the well is to worship the King of the Well Dragon, and to go down the well to salvage the corpse will disturb the purity of the King of the Well Dragon, and you must ask the King of the Well for mercy. Burning paper and throwing it into the well is to send yin money to Xiaolan and Zhang Jiang's ghosts, mainly to attract the attention of their ghosts, and lay the foundation for the souls to be collected later, just like fishing, first put the bait to make a nest, attract the fish, and then hook the fish.

At this time, my great-grandfather took advantage of the time when the family was burning incense and burning paper, and asked the old man who was going to go down to the well to collect the corpse, because the wellhead was too small, and only one person could go down.

Without waiting for the old man to speak, the young man in his twenties said that he wanted to go down, and the middle-aged man in his forties next to him hurriedly stopped him, and the middle-aged man said that he wanted to go down.

My great-grandfather looked at the two of them and felt that this young man was stunned, not as stable as the middle-aged man, so he agreed to let the middle-aged man go down the well. Then, my great-grandfather untied the middle-aged man's big braid, braided the prepared wormwood into his braid, and tied the six-foot-long red rhombic around the middle-aged man's waist.

Writing here, no one will ask, how do men comb their braids, don't forget, this time is the Qing Dynasty, men comb their braids, keep their hair without their heads, as I said earlier.

Wormwood and Hongling are both used to ward off evil spirits, for fear that middle-aged people will be entangled in something unclean after diving into the water. At this time, if you are still like in the past, with chicken blood on your forehead and a Liujia Yang charm on your chest, it will be unrealistic, because the chicken blood and paper talisman can't withstand the blisters, and they will disperse when you see the water.

When the incense and paper were burned, my great-grandfather had the two bamboo tubes and two wicker sticks brought over. Both bamboo tubes are the thickness of an adult's calf, more than a foot long, and there is a wooden stopper wrapped in coarse cloth on the top. This bamboo tube was generally used to hold water or wine in ancient times. The two wicker sticks can be the thickness of chopsticks, and there are several slender leaves on the left and right.

My great-grandfather took a wicker stick and put it into a bamboo tube, the bamboo tube was not plugged with a lid at this time, and the middle of the bamboo tube was tied with a rope, and then slowly put it into the well, and after the water surface in the well, the rope was stopped, so that the bamboo tube floated naturally on the water surface.

At this time, my great-grandfather shone a torch into the well, lying on the mouth of the well and shouting into the well, "Xiaolan, Xiaolan, go home, don't get into the bamboo tube and don't come out, grab the wicker and don't let go, take you home......"

After shouting this three times, the bamboo tube slowly turned in a circle in the water, as if there was an external force stirring up the well water, but in fact, the well water did not move.

After a few turns, the bamboo tube is filled with water, and then slowly sinks into the water.

When the bamboo tube sank to a certain extent, and the rope tied to it came to the feeling of pulling, my great-grandfather quickly pulled the rope up, and after a few clicks, the bamboo tube was pulled up from the well, and he looked into the bamboo tube, and saw that the wicker was still in the bamboo tube, and he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly plugged the mouth of the bamboo tube tightly with a wooden stopper.

At this point, Xiaolan's soul can be regarded as contained.

Then, my great-grandfather began to collect Zhang Jiang's soul, just like when he collected Xiaolan's soul, put wicker in the bamboo tube, and then shouted at the well.

However, this time my great-grandfather shouted more than a dozen times, and the bamboo tube did not turn in circles or sink, which shows that Zhang Jiang's soul did not drill into the bamboo tube, let alone attach to the wicker, and it also shows that this Zhang Jiang's ghost is much more cunning than Xiaolan's ghost. This made my great-grandfather very confused, because Zhangjiang is a new ghost, and he shouldn't be so scheming, and there seems to be something else strange in this.

After shouting a few more times, the bamboo tube still did not move. At this time, it was already halfway past noon. Noon is the best time to go down the well to fish for corpses, and it is also the heaviest time of the day, if you go down the well after noon, no one can say what kind of variables will appear, and at that time, even my great-grandfather does not dare to guarantee anything.

My great-grandfather finally pulled the bamboo tube up from the well and motioned for the middle-aged man next to him to go down immediately.

At this time, the middle-aged man was braided with wormwood, red cloth silk tied around his waist, and a long and strong straw rope tied to him.

When the middle-aged man saw my great-grandfather signaling him to go down the well, he was not ambiguous, and greeted the dozen or so family members who were pulling the straw ropes, and pressed the edge of the well with both hands and was about to go down.

At this time, my great-grandfather took out a peach wedge from his arms, quietly stuffed it into his hand, and whispered to him that if he saw anything in the water, or felt that something was wrong, he would poke it directly with the peach wedge.

All this was seen by the old man next to him, that is, the middle-aged man's father. The old man looked suspicious, and after the middle-aged man went down the well, he asked my great-grandfather, why did it take so many procedures to get a corpse?

My great-grandfather was honest, so he told the old man the truth. After hearing this, the old man's face immediately changed, and he pulled the rope to drag the middle-aged man up from the well. My great-grandfather hurriedly stopped him, comforted him and said that it would be fine, and that no accident would happen if everything was in place.

As soon as my great-grandfather reported the names of himself and his master Wang Shoudao, the old man's face changed again, and he said emotionally that Wang Shoudao had saved the lives of their whole family.

As mentioned earlier, the old man used to make a living by fishing in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and occasionally, he also went into the water part-time to fish out corpses. About ten years ago, on one occasion, the three of them fished out a bare-bottomed female corpse, and after putting it in the cabin, they covered it with a black cloth, and they didn't care. But in the evening, the female corpse did not know what was going on, but came to life, and it was the old man's grandson who was in charge of guarding the corpse in the cabin, and the old man and his son had gone ashore to rest.

After the female corpse lived, she seduced the old man's grandson, who was fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, and was afraid at first, and then he didn't know how, as if he was lost in his mind, so he did that kind of thing with the female corpse......

Early the next morning, the old man returned to the fishing boat with his son, and found his grandson unconscious in the cabin, cold and lying beside the female corpse, who was now covered with black cloth and legs apart supporting the plank, maintaining that position. The father and son were shocked and frightened!

At this time, Wang Shoudao had already accepted my great-grandfather as an apprentice, and he happened to be looking for a boat to cross the river, maybe something was wrong, there was no boat on the river to ferry guests, so he found their fishing boat.

The old man, father and son, where did they still have the heart to do business at this time, so they wanted to blast Wang Shoudao away, Wang Shoudao saw that the old man's face was wrong, so he asked him what happened, and the old man was also sad, so he told Wang Shoudao. At that time, the old man didn't know about the resurrection of the female corpse, which he later said after his grandson was rescued by Wang Shoudao.

The old man doesn't know what's going on, it doesn't mean that Wang Shoudao doesn't know. When Wang Shoudao heard this, he immediately understood what was going on, and when he went to the cabin, he was even more sure that this was the beast of the immortal cultivator who used the body of the female corpse to suck the yang energy of the old man's grandson.

After Wang Shoudao's practice, he found the beast that cultivated immortals, and it was a water snake in the river that became a essence.

Later, Wang Shoudao carved a wooden figure with redwood wood, and used wicker to use the wooden man as a sword, invited Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, to cut the water snake, saved the life of the old man's grandson, and also saved the old man's whole family.

Han Gaozu Liu Bang used the Chixiao Sword to cut the White Snake Sacrifice Flag uprising, it is estimated that many friends have heard of it. It is said that Liu Bang is the nemesis of snakes, and some snake catchers who catch wild snakes and poisonous snakes for a living, and the family worships Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty