Chapter 12: Accidental Walking Corpses
"Boss, what's ......"
As soon as Bao Weng entered the house, he opened his mouth to ask what he had to eat, but was interrupted by the woman turning her head: "There is nothing to eat, only noodles!" ”
"Oh, oh!" Bao Weng was stunned: "Then come three bowls of noodles, and, where do we sleep at night?" ”
"Over there!" The woman pointed to several closed rooms on the east side: "It's been a long time since it's been cleaned inside, you can look at it yourself, I'll go down!" ”
This woman is in business, and she is really home! The three of us smiled wryly, and were just about to get up to look at the room, when suddenly there was a sound of slow footsteps outside.
Bao Weng stood up instantly: "Xiao Rui, you are really lucky, I really let you meet!" ”
I was stunned, and naturally I knew what Uncle Bao Weng was talking about. Cautiously walked to the door, looked through the window, and saw a few black figures at the foot of the mountain not far away, walking slowly in a neat line.
"Don't look!" Uncle Bao Weng pulled me: "It's nothing to look at, just look at it." ”
I answered, stepped back, and listened, but I didn't expect the footsteps to disappear soon.
Uncle Bao Weng and the second uncle looked at the room on the side, cleaned it a little, and then walked out and sat back at the table.
"Squeak", I was wondering where the corpse chaser had gone, but the back door of the room I heard was pushed, and a short thin man less than five feet tall walked in, almost in his twenties, but his face was dark, with pig's eyes, sparse and messy eyebrows, and there were pitch-black moles on the skin of his cheeks, large and small, typical of vulgar appearance, very ugly!
Looking down, I saw that this person was holding a black cat with shiny hair in his arms, a black copper bell hanging from his neck, bright and dark eyes, lying quietly in the man's arms, looking around.
"Good!" The man nodded at us a little embarrassed when he saw the three of us looking at him together, and then walked into the kitchen on the side.
"Hey, Uncle Bao Weng, where are they?" Naturally, I asked about the corpses.
"The corpse inn, of course, there is a special place to store corpses." Seeing my expectant face, Uncle Bao Weng waved at me, stood up and walked to the back door, gently pulled it open, and walked out.
As soon as I went out, I felt a cool breeze blowing from behind the house, and I couldn't help but shiver.
By the moonlight, I saw that there were several rooms on both sides of the back of the house, which could not be seen from the front or from the inside of the house, and these rooms had no windows, but there were several round holes the size of black palms near the roof, and there was no light in them.
"This way!" Uncle Bao Weng pointed to a room on my left and tiptoed over.
I walked behind me and saw a slender iron door on one side of the brick wall with a small window on it. Uncle Bao Weng pointed to the window, and I walked over to see the scene inside.
The room was dark, and it took me a few seconds for my eyes to adjust to the darkness, and I vaguely saw the bodies inside: there were about five people, four men and one woman, neatly dressed, the woman in a white dress with long hair and a shawl.
The faces of the five people seemed to have paper charms or something attached to them, and the five of them stood in a row, motionless.
I instinctively touched the back of my head and slowly turned my gaze away: "Uncle Bao Weng, isn't this thing an evil thing?" ”
Uncle Bao Weng smiled: "Of course not, to put it bluntly, they are people who are not dead, they just missed the best time for treatment, and now they can only use other methods to maintain their body functions for a short time, and when they reach the destination, take down those paper talismans that can only be heard by corpses and can stimulate brain waves, and they will really die......"
"Grunt-" My stomach growled, loud in the mountains in the silent night.
"Let's go, go back." Uncle Bao Weng greeted me with a smile.
I nodded and walked back, and when I was about to leave, I couldn't help but glance at the corpse in the house again, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and I couldn't think of it for a while, so I could only shrug my shoulders and return to the house.
As soon as she sat down, the woman walked out with three bowls of hot noodles, put them on the table three times, threw down three pairs of chopsticks, and turned back to the kitchen.
I looked at the three steaming bowls of noodles with a few pickles floating on them, and smiled wryly, but I still ate them for the sake of my already rebellious stomach.
Then the ugly corpse chaser came out, and the black cat followed behind with a piece of food that he couldn't tell what it was, and he himself held a bowl of noodles in both hands, and there were several large pieces of meat piled up on the noodles!
"Alas, the treatment is different!" I sighed, and when I saw that Uncle Bao Weng and the second uncle were eating with relish, I lowered my head and continued to eat.
"You're outsiders?" The corpse chaser asked with his mouth open as he heard us speak with a foreign accent, and ate his noodles with a stinging mouth.
When I heard his voice, I was stunned: this life is extremely ugly, and the voice is very good, although I really can't get used to hearing the accent of Hunan and Hubei, but if I only listen to the voice, it is like a pleasant bell, which can be comparable to those baritones who sing national songs.
"Yes, outlander." The second uncle smiled.
"This is from Miao Village?" The corpse chaser looked at Bao Wen, who was dressed in gold and silver, and dressed in a flowery robe.
"Yes, yes." Bao Weng still chewed slowly.
"My name is Ah Ping." The corpse chaser said with a smile that he also knew that he couldn't eat with me, and that most people would feel bad luck eating with the corpse chaser, and walked to the table and sat down as he spoke.
"Okay, how long will it take to get to your destination?" Uncle Bao Weng talked nonsense without a word.
"Here we are." Ah Ping said: "My home is on the mountain, but after my old mother died, I didn't go back much because of work, so I lived here." ”
Ah Ping said as he pointed to a room on the west side.
"What about them?" The second uncle pointed outside, indicating that it was the corpses.
"These are wild corpses." Ah Ping said.
"Wild corpses? What is a wild corpse? I asked.
"The wild corpse is that the people in the old family are scattered, either die or leave, no one is left, and even has been an orphan since childhood, this kind of person goes out to beg for a living, and after he dies, he is called a wild corpse, and he is brought back to his hometown, and he can find a place to bury it." Ah Ping explained.
"Excuse me, what kind of work, five people died at once?" The second uncle had a chattering expression.
"The Mines of the North." Ah Ping stretched out his hand and pointed to the north again: "When I blew up the mine a few days ago, the gunpowder was placed in the wrong place, and many people were buried in it, and we died in this place. ”
The second uncle nodded, munching on the few noodles left in the bowl.
I had almost eaten in my bowl, and when I glanced at the time, it was already half past ten in the evening.
"It's so full!" I stroked my stomach and burped contentedly.
"Rice money, six hundred yuan!" The woman came out with her apron on, stretched out her hand to wipe it on the apron, and said, "The house money, one thousand and five, a total of two thousand and one hundred dollars!" ”
The three of us looked at each other, thinking that this is too dark, a bowl of noodles costs 200 yuan, and the dirty inside the broken house is only a bed, 500 yuan per person?!
"This ...... Is it okay to wipe a small change, a thousand yuan? The second uncle bargained with a smile.
"No way!" As she spoke, the woman pulled out a kitchen knife from the pocket of her apron!
"Okay, good, have something to say!" The second uncle didn't want to make trouble, so he counted out two thousand one thousand yuan from his wallet and handed it over.
I got up to go back to the house to rest, I walked for so many days, and I was almost caught during the day, and I was tired enough.
As soon as I walked to the door, there was a "bang" outside, and it turned out to be like the iron door where the body was stored was knocked open! However, there was no one in there, it was a corpse!
With a "bang", Ah Ping came back to his senses, hurriedly reached out and threw the noodle bowl on the table, and shouted at us as he ran out: "Don't go out, be careful!" ”
I was stunned for a moment and looked at Uncle Bao Weng: "Even if it's a 'fraudulent corpse', that person who is already dead has so much power?!" ”
Uncle Bao Weng frowned slightly and shook his head, not sure what was going on outside.
We walked to the side, and we could see the dim outside of the house from the inside, Ah Ping ran to the iron door, and after seeing the situation inside, he patted his thigh and shouted, "Not good! Walking corpses! ”