Chapter 202: The Coffin Business
As he spoke, the man rushed to the side of the tunnel.
It wasn't until Chen Daochang walked away that I said to Liang Houzai: "What do you think about the matter of the river vein?" β
Liang Houzai smiled: "What can I see, I don't understand feng shui." By the way, the last time Luo Youfang refined the living corpse, he used the yin qi in the river veins, right? β
I squatted beside the river and touched the river water with my hand, the water was very cold, slightly sticky to the touch, and when my fingers were submerged in the water, a large amount of yin qi ran through the pores on my fingers and rushed into my internal organs, but at the same time, the cold air emitted from the black water corpse coffin pushed this yin qi out of my body.
In fact, the feeling of the cold in the black water coffin is somewhat similar to the feeling that the yin qi gives me, when they appear in the body, I will immediately feel a feeling of being in the ice and snow, but if I let the yin qi stay in my body for too long, I will gradually lose consciousness, and my emotions will slowly become irritable, but when the cold of the black water corpse coffin spreads all over my body, my senses will become more sensitive, and even my mind will become clearer.
Although the entire riverbed was glowing, the light was faint, and Liang Houzai and I could only vaguely see each other's outlines, but we couldn't see exactly what the other party was doing.
He probably heard the sound of me moving the river with my hand, and asked me worriedly, "Brother Dao, you can't go down the river, right?" β
I was happy: "Don't say it, I really want to go down." But I had to test the water temperature before I went down to the river. β
Liang Houzai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Scared me, I really thought you went down the river." What are we doing now, waiting for Daochang Chen to come back? β
I said, "Wait for him, if we all leave, there will be a mess...... Do you remember how my master and Daochang Chen opened the door of the tomb? β
Liang Houzai sighed: "Brother Dao, stop it, don't tell me, you plan to go to the main tomb to see the corpses." β
To be honest, when I said that, I really had this kind of thought.
Actually, I'm just curious if that corpse really doesn't decay, and if it's not gone for a few years, will it still be the same as before.
However, Liang Houzai obviously didn't want to have any more contact with the corpse, and I could hear it from his tone.
I smiled and said to him, "I can't see anything here, it's weird and uncomfortable, let's go out first, anyway, it's the same here as it is in the earthen house." β
After Liang Houzai and I returned to the earthen house, we found something to eat and cushioned it, and then began to wait boredly.
Fortunately, Chen Daochang installed a TV in the earthen house, and we turned on the TV and watched the never-ending medical and health advertisements, and the time was not too difficult.
Of course, we don't want to watch these deceptive commercials, but there is no closed route for television, only our county, no, our city's city station, that TV station starts to broadcast all kinds of cheap drug advertisements every night after 10 o'clock in the evening.
Liang Houzai stared at the TV screen, where an old woman with a ruddy face was being interviewed, describing the miraculous effects of the drug she had after using so-and-so medicine.
To be honest, I've always felt that kind of ad look is always going to be very embarrassing, so I just looked away.
Liang Houzai looked at it for a while, and then suddenly asked me, "Why do you say these people are doing this kind of fake interview?" β
I said, "The person being interviewed is for money, the person who is interviewing with the microphone is also for money, the person who spends money on this kind of ad is for making more money, and the advertiser who shoots this kind of cheap ad is still for money, in short, it's for money." β
Liang Houzai poured a glass of water and stared at the TV while drinking.
Seriously, I really admire him, and I can even watch that kind of advertisement.
We just watched the boring advertisement, while waiting for Chen Daochang, until the sky was getting brighter, Chen Daochang came back in the dust, to my surprise, not only followed by Wu Xiangsong, but even my master followed far behind.
After Chen Daochang entered the house, he went straight into the secret passage, and Wu Xiangsong also followed in.
My master came to me and Liang Houzai and said, "You two hurry home and pack up and follow me to Henan." β
It's only been two days since I came back, why are you going to Henan again?
I couldn't help but ask Master, "How do you deal with the matter on this side of the Mass Grave Mountain?" β
Master opened the drawer of the TV cabinet, took out a tin box from it, and said to me, "Let Lao Chen and them watch it first, this time I went to Henan mainly to take you to meet someone, and I will come back in two or three days. β
After that, the master opened the lid of the box, carefully counted the contents of the box, and then said to me: "Let Liu Shangang handle Wang Dapeng's affairs, you two don't care, hurry up and go home and pack up, the train is at four o'clock this afternoon." β
By the time he finished the last sentence, Master had already gone out.
Because the master came too suddenly, I couldn't come back to my senses for a while, and glanced at Liang Houzai, who also had an inexplicable expression.
But since the master said that he was leaving, Liang Houzai and I had nothing else to say, and followed out of the earthen house.
But after the master went down the mountain of mass graves, he urged the two of us to hurry home, and he went to the east of Wangzhuang, I don't know what the master plans to do, but judging from the direction he walked, it should be going to Widow Liu's house.
When passing by Wang Dapeng's Internet cafΓ©, Liu Shangang was standing at the door of the Internet cafΓ© to make a call, and when he saw us from a distance, he took the initiative to run over, holding the call port of his mobile phone with one hand, and said to me and Liang Houzai: "You wait for me, I will finish the matter of Wang Dapeng's side and go to Henan with you." β
I originally wanted Liu Shangang to deal with Wang Dapeng's affairs first, but Liang Houzai and I came back in a few days anyway. But at this time, Liu Shangang started chatting with the person on the other end of the phone again, and I was not embarrassed to interfere with him.
Listening to the content of Liu Shangang's words, he seemed to be telling someone on the other end of the phone to do something, first saying that he should be careful when doing things, don't be caught by Zhang Hui, and then said to find a good lawyer, let Zhang Hui pay for the litigation fees, and finally said don't be too heavy, as long as it hurts enough, don't get hurt.
After talking on the phone, Liu Shangang came to me with a smile and said to me: "Okay, Wang Dapeng's matter has been tossed, I will also go home to clean up, and I will go to Grandpa Chai's house to find you." β
I asked him, "How did you deal with Wang Dapeng's matter?" β
Liu Shangang smiled: "Hehe, this kind of thing involves some network resources under Lao Bao's hands, you also know that he is a mysterious person, he told me not to reveal his bottom, and I can't talk nonsense, right?" In short, Wang Dapeng's matter will be handed over to me, Brother Dao, you don't have to worry about it, I will definitely handle it well for him. β
I frowned: "But how can I listen, are you planning to do a black hand on Zhang Hui?" β
"Actually, it's not a black hand," Liu Shangang said as he pushed me to the bicycle, "To deal with a scoundrel like Zhang Hui, you have to come with meat and vegetarians, I just want to find someone to beat him up and let him know that he is powerful." Oh, don't worry, I'm measured, nothing will happen, let's go. β
To be honest, I am really a little relieved about Liu Shangang, but my master has said that Wang Dapeng's matter will be handled by Liu Shangang, since my master has said so, then I will believe him once.
As Liu Shangang spoke, I had already unlocked the bicycle lock.
At this time, Liang Houzai asked Liu Shangang again: "Did Grandpa Chai tell you, what is the purpose of going to Henan this time?" β
Liu Shangang urged us to leave quickly, saying that he had to pack up a lot of things, and on the other hand, he said that Master took us to Henan this time mainly to meet a person named Hu Nanqian.
Liang Houzai and I rode into the car and drove towards the north side of Yongan Road, and Liu Shangang sat in the back seat of my car, babbling about Hu Nanqian.
According to Liu Shangang, Hu Nanqian is a very well-known middleman in our industry, and half of the business we took over in the first few years of the Zhengyi line came from the introduction of old customers such as the old Huang family in Northeast China and some like-minded friends, and the other half came from Hu Nanqian's entrustment.
The so-called intermediaries here are somewhat similar to what we call "intermediaries" today, who are responsible for providing jobs for practitioners like us and taking a percentage of the commission.
And the so-called "work" is what my master once said, "taking people's money and eliminating disasters for others." Wherever there is something like an evil corpse that ordinary people can't handle, Hu Nancy will try to contact the victims, tell them that she has a way to deal with these things, and negotiate a reasonable price, and when the price is set, she will contact people like us and let us go to exorcise the evil spirits and eliminate the corpses.
Since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, intermediaries like Hu Nanqian have always existed, and since the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the business related to evil corpses in the whole world has basically been monopolized by the Shouzheng line.
Our protΓ©gΓ©s are both "employees" favored by intermediaries and self-reliant traders, because when we dispose of evil corpses, we also sell coffins or urns.
As for why we sell coffins, it's because most of the evil corpses we usually deal with are the corpses of the ancestors, some because the burial place is not suitable, and some because the corpses themselves are special. But in any case, the dead are the greatest, and after we suppress these evil corpses, we still have to help them prepare a new coffin and re-enter the earth for peace, even if the evil corpse is burned when the corpse is suppressed, at least an urn must be prepared for it.
At the same time, due to the strong evil aura on the body of the evil corpse, even if it is suppressed, the corpse must be stored in a special coffin. That kind of coffin is expensive, and of course we don't have a reason to give it away in vain, and the money still has to be collected.
Officially, because of this reason, the disciples of the Righteous Lineage have been regarded as businessmen by their peers, and the business we do is also called "corpse coffin business" by our fellow practitioners.