Chapter 16: The Corpse Lodge

With the faint light of the flashlight, he began to look for the way back to the camp, and occasionally heard a few wolf howls on the way, so frightened that he hurriedly turned off the flashlight, and had to grope forward by a little dim moonlight, and from time to time there would be a few wolf howls, so he had to cut a stick in his hand to prevent accidents. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After walking for a while, I found that I seemed to be lost, so I took out the compass and looked at the compass inside and began to find the way, maybe the magnetic field induction of the deep mountains and old forests was too strong, and the compass seemed to be not very bright, flickering and flickering.

Jiang Yang asked me anxiously, "What should I do then?" When we go back to camp, I'm freezing to death. ”

The eagle also got anxious, the temperature in the mountain was very low at night, and our clothes were soaked, if we didn't find a place to bake clothes and drink some hot water, it was estimated that we would really freeze to death in the mountains to feed the wolves.

I relied on the direction I probably knew, so I had to stop in front to lead the way, although it was cold, but let everyone cheer up and pay attention, after all, any monster in the primeval forest may appear, I carefully explored the way in front, Jiang Yang and the eagle followed behind, and there was often the sound of animals brushing the road in the forest.

"Well, there seems to be a wooden house in front of you, let's go and have a look." I said excitedly.

Seeing that Jiang Yang and they didn't speak, they looked back and saw that Jiang Yang and the eagle were already shivering from being frozen, so they just nodded hurriedly. I reminded me to hurry in the direction of the house, and after a while, I came to a path, and then a thought popped into my head: this can't be the place where the bandits live, right? I began to worry in my heart.

But remembering that the two people behind me were already shivering from the cold, I asked the two of them to wait here, if it was really a bandit, someone would still come to save me if I was caught.

After saying that, I went straight to knock on the door, only to see that the door was closed, I tried to knock for a long time and no one answered, so I had to push the door in, and found that it was not locked, and it was pitch black inside. I lowered my voice and shouted a few times, but I didn't pay attention to me, suddenly I didn't know what I stepped on the ground, and I screamed and screamed, and I took a flashlight and saw that it was a fire that was boiling water, and the tinkling was a kettle, which scared me into a cold sweat.

I swept around with a flashlight, and found that there was a lot of space inside, one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom, which is simply the standard configuration of the metropolis, but it seems that no one has lived in it for a long time, the whole house is covered with dust, there is only one empty bed left in the room, there is a kitchen next door, there are some tableware in the kitchen cabinet, but it has been covered with dust, and no one has been here for a long time.

Thinking of having a fire, it's better than freezing outside, I went out and shook it with a flashlight, and asked Jiang Yang and them to come over quickly, two black shadows quickly ran over, I turned my head and looked up as soon as I entered the door, and found a sign above the door, and took a flashlight to shine it, and was surprised. ”

Because now the three of us feel a little weird when we hear the word "corpse", we look at each other, and Jiang Yang asks if we want to go in? I thought that although I didn't know what this place was, the three of us were soaking wet, and if we didn't go in, there would be wolves outside and it would be cold, and we might not be able to find a camp, so I might not be able to find a camp.

I didn't say a word, but I decided to go in, no matter what kind of demons and monsters he is, I will kill him, even the ghost corpse king, we have dealt with it, and I am afraid of his eggs, so I want to go in as soon as I think of taking a step.

After entering, I went to the kitchen to get dry firewood and grabbed some thatch and lit the fire, seeing the fire in front of me, I wanted to tear off the wet clothes on my body, the more the fire burned, the more we took off the soaked clothes, came to see each other naked and roasted the fire, because everyone is gay, so it is not so particular.

While we were baking clothes, the eagle said that he was hungry at this time, and he didn't feel cold when it was cold just now, and now the eagle suddenly said that he was hungry, and my saliva was about to come out. He took out the little dried beef and wine jug that were left in the bag, and drank a few sips of white wine to go to the cold, eating the dried meat as if he had lived until last night, eating and drinking while joking, as if the things of the day had never happened.

In the process of eating and drinking, Jiang Yang's words aroused our thoughts, Jiang Yang said: "Why is there a corpse inn in this primeval forest?" Seeing Jiang Yang ask curiously, the eagle also wanted to listen, so I started talking.

Speaking of the origin of this corpse, it is a unique and unique phenomenon in Xiangxi, our famous Miao writer Shen Congwen has an article that wrote: "After passing through Chenzhou (now Yuanling), there is cinnabar in that place, and some people will drive the corpse." If you have good eyes, you will have the opportunity to see a group of dead bodies walking on the road, and when the car approaches, you will know to avoid the roadside, exactly like a living person. "It's about the corpse chaser chasing the corpse.

What is to drive the corpse, every year at a specific time under the imperial court branches will execute a group of death row prisoners on time, some of the death row prisoners in other places after the execution, the family needs to be transported home, or the death of the foreign party, at that time there was no freezing technology, afraid of decay disrespectful to the family, had to ask the corpse chaser to transport home, so the fee is generally higher.

What is a corpse chaser, it is the corpse transporter who came into being during this period, they transport the corpse no matter how far the road is to ensure that the corpse does not dissolve or decay, and they all use special methods of chasing corpses, using soul bells, charms and pills to make the corpse walk on its own, generally from north to south in batches of corpses, because this way to make money to buy more.

To be able to become a corpse chaser in addition to being bold but also to practice corpse fighting, it is not so easy to learn, generally poor children will go to be a corpse chaser, sometimes when encountering large families will charge a high fee, it is also a lot of money, this so-called corpse chaser inn, in fact, is for the corpse chaser and the dead corpse to live.

After listening to what he said, Jiang Yang immediately put on his dried clothes and said, "Tut-tut, I suddenly feel so itchy on my body, let's go back to the camp!" ”

When the eagle heard this, he immediately said unansweringly: "You see that it must be below zero at night outside, and even if we go out, we may not be able to find the camp." "I immediately agreed with the eagle's words, it is better to freeze to death and frostbite in the house than outside, Jiang Yang saw that we insisted so much, so he had to reluctantly agree.

After eating the dry beef, the wine was also drunk, and I found that I hadn't eaten enough, so I rummaged through the backpack to see if there was anything to eat, and I didn't find it, so that the eagles also turned over and found that there was nothing left to eat, and they turned the bag upside down, and found that there was nothing to eat, because that bit of dry beef really couldn't withstand our big men in a few bites, where could it?

This cold has been solved, but I am going to starve again, and at this time, seeing Jiang Yang rummaging through his pockets and turning out the "Bronze Tiger Talisman" that we brought out from the tomb during the day, it made me feel that I was hungry all of a sudden. I took it over and took a closer look, stroked it with my hand and looked at it carefully, looking at this small tiger talisman if it was a symbol of power in ancient times, able to mobilize thousands of troops and horses, this black mill lay in the tomb for thousands of years waiting for rebirth, I never thought that it was destroyed by our hairy boy, it is estimated that it is really dead!

Now that I think about it, Wu Mozi is dead, and their secrets will always be buried in the ground, which is a pity to think about. Just now in the tomb has not been a good look at the tiger talisman, the upper row of seal characters did not take a good look, this is written engraved: "A soldier's talisman, the right in the emperor, the left in the ......." ”

I found that there were two words on it that I couldn't read clearly, and I couldn't flip it up and down left and right, and the eagle asked me what was wrong, and I said to myself strangely: "This is the right part, so what does the left one represent?" ”

Jiang Yang saw that I was muttering alone, so he snatched it with one hand and looked around, flipped around, and said, "The one that Wu Mozi took was given by the emperor, where is the other half?" Wouldn't it, would it? I looked at it carefully, as if it was the same as what I thought, at this time I thought of a name in my mind but I didn't can't say it, then Jiang Yang and I looked at each other and laughed.