Chapter 3 The Way Is Not the Right Way
Chen Rong, who was hiding behind the cloth, was very excited, his position had a good line of sight, and he could see the coffin in the darkness thoroughly. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info so close, it was better to peek, Chen Rong never thought of having this opportunity.
He knew that when the master of the corpse was driving, outsiders were not allowed to be on the sidelines, and he needed to avoid it.
"Don't move here, I'll go out and have a look." Just as Chen Rong was thinking alone, the corpse chaser suddenly spoke. What made Chen Rong feel strange was that the object of his speech was the corpse that was standing motionless.
After speaking, the corpse catcher put down the wooden box behind him and walked out.
Chen Rong laughed in his heart, this corpse chaser was really lonely to chase corpses on the road, and he could talk to a corpse. However, Chen Rong can think about it, driving the corpse slowly and long, more than a month, or as little as three or five days, during this period, he is alone, can he not find someone to say something and put up a dragon gate array? Although the object is more special.
Didn't you say that corpse chasers all accept apprentices? Why, this corpse chaser is alone, and he doesn't even have an apprentice.
After coming back to his senses, Chen Rong stood behind the dark altar, staring at the corpse in a daze, stunned for a while, at a loss. He really wanted to come forward and take a closer look, but he was afraid of startling the corpse.
According to the villagers, the corpse chaser has to avoid it, and now he has broken the rules here, if he comes again, how to explain to his uncle's family if he messes things up. And Chen Rong is full of fear in his heart at the moment, and it is rumored that if the corpse undergoes corpse transformation, it will become a zombie, murderous and likes to drink human blood. The worst thing is that if a person is bitten and poisoned by the corpse, he will also become a walking corpse.
After a brief mental struggle, in the end, curiosity overcame fear, and Chen Rong decided to go forward and find out.
This corpse was shrouded in a shroud and its head was covered, just like an ordinary person. Doesn't it mean that after the corpse chaser's practice, the corpse's head is pasted with a piece of talisman paper, and the body is as hard as iron? Chen Rong wanted to lift the light veil and touch the iron-like body again.
I thought, if there is really this craft and it is publicized, the Eight-Nation Coalition can fight to Beiping?
Just do it, if you miss the opportunity, you will be gone, and you will regret it later.
Standing on tiptoe, just about to start, Chen Rong's feet accidentally touched the drum used by the Taoist priest, and made a dull light sound of 'jumping'. In this silent hall, Chen Rong felt even more amazing than the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder.
Chen Rong stayed where he was and didn't dare to move any more, and hurriedly looked up at the corpse, afraid that it would really wake it up.
But it's okay not to look at it, but when I looked at it in a panic, Chen Rong was so scared that he almost peed his pants.
I saw that the corpse standing still turned its head slowly and looked in the direction where Chen Rong was!
Chen Rong hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand, really afraid of being scared. Secretly regretting it, angry with yourself, really blinded by lard, just stay still, why are you so restless? Hey, curiosity kills cats!
Although he regretted it, Chen Rong's heart hung high, and he was really afraid that it would come over. Chen Rong could hear his heartbeat at this moment, his legs trembled slightly, and he almost couldn't stand steadily. In my heart, I prayed to every Bodhisattva and all the gods I knew.
Fortunately, the corpse just turned its head to look at it, and after noticing nothing unusual, it turned back without even half a step under its feet. Although time is short, for Chen Rong, it seems as if time has stopped. Even if you are careful to breathe, you will almost suffocate yourself.
After such a fuss, how dare Chen Rong have a trace of delusion, he doesn't even want to stay here for a while. But the one outside stood there, and Chen Rong could only pray that the master would come back soon.
Looking forward to the stars and the moon, the corpse chaser finally returned, Chen Rong didn't have time to rejoice in his heart, and fell into fear again.
The corpse driver trotted back, a little panting, and he had long lost the indifference of the master. He patted the corpse on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Okay, you put your things down and go out to get the wind." ”
The corpse came to life in an instant, what kind of corpse is there? It's clearly a living person. The man took off his hat, and the face of a man in his thirties, the inside of the house was too dark to be seen clearly. He put down the wooden box behind him and complained, "Why did you go for so long?" Is it necessary to be careful, those people are so scared that they still have the courage to come and see? ”
With that, the man had already left the hall gate.
This, this...
In just a few moments, Chen Rong's brain was clogged and he couldn't figure it out! The whole person stayed numb in place.
"It's all people? What about San'er? Three? ”
Looking at the corpse chaser squatting in front of him, Chen Rong's eyes involuntarily stopped on the small wooden box. There was a trace of uneasiness in his heart, maybe he had heard similar rumors before, but why was it in his own body.
Sure enough.
The box was opened by the corpse chaser, and a smell of herbs mixed with a strong aroma of wine wafted out, making people swallow it. In normal times, Chen Rong would definitely enjoy such a fragrance. Chen Rong, who knew a little bit of Chinese medicine, wanted to gag at this time, because he knew that this fragrance was just some preservative Chinese herbs, mixed with the high degree of muddy wine from the farmer's own amount and the smell of rotting meat from corpses.
This is not some home remedy or secret recipe, but the basic common sense of farmers in the entire Hunan and Guizhou regions. Farmers in Hunan and Guizhou love bacon, or rather, they come up with earthwork to prevent pork from spoiling.
Fresh pork, marinated in wine and salt, and then smoked over a firewood fire, not only makes the meat fragrant, but also can be stored for a long time.
Chen Rong couldn't imagine it anymore, so he could only stare at the corpse chaser numbly, hoping that he would end it soon and end Chen Rong's long nightmare.
The corpse chaser does his work very carefully, at least in Chen Rong's opinion, because he is so careful, slow, and attentive in everything.
The corpse chaser put his hands into the box and slowly came out holding a head, perhaps too dark to see any blood, with short hair, eyes closed, lips slightly open, teeth exposed.
The corpse chaser gently placed the head in the coffin, and then took out the limbs and put them into the coffin in turn.
Chen Rong couldn't bear to look at the coffin, and the spliced stumps were scattered at random. Just like he used to see in the Minbao that foreign archaeologists excavated those ancient corpses in the ground, and made specimens and stored them in the cabinet.
Finally, the corpse chaser took out the body from the box again, and a foul smell rushed towards Chen Rong. The smell of decay was suffocating.
Chen Rong knew that if the head and limbs in the coffin were still San'er's own body, then this body was not San'er's at all.
Moreover, Chen Rong subconsciously stared at the body, as well as the stench and degree of decay, this body was already a person who had been buried for more than half a year.
Grave?
Dig graves and steal corpses.
Chen Rong immediately understood the doorway.
It is rumored that there are indeed people who do this in the current people, and they call themselves 'corpse bearers'. Like corpse chasers, they all deal with corpses. In Chen Rong's opinion, if these things are true, then carrying the corpse and robbing the corpse is more damaging to yin virtue and hurting the heavens and reason than the Tufuzi who robs the tomb.
The corpse chaser is at least to help people and let the villagers return to their roots.
Witnessing this experience, Chen Rong didn't think so.
There was a little chill in his heart, Chen Rong felt very sad, how to chase out the corpse, it was just a rumor and a legend. It's all some unsavory deeds, and superstition kills people.
What made Chen Rong angry and aggrieved the most was that he clearly knew the truth about this matter, but he couldn't say it or publicize it, because he did it single-handedly. If you let your uncle's family know about this, how sad it will be, after the death of the third son, not only can he not look blind, but he was also divided by five horses, and the bones are incomplete.
This matter has been concealed by Chen Rong until his death, and Chen Rong has never mentioned it to anyone. But the uncle's family is grateful to the corpse chaser, and they are also grateful to Chen Rong, the more so, Chen Rong's heart is like a cat's claw, and he is uncomfortable.
Decades later, Chen Rong died a hundred years earlier, and no one knew about it. But grandpa told me as a story, and talked about some of the past of his ancestor Chen Rong since he was a child, but there were many secret things, but grandpa never mentioned them, saying that those were too terrifying and bloody, and they were not suitable for children.
I also asked my grandfather why he knew about this, didn't the ancestor Chen Rong never mention it?
However, Grandpa shook his head with a smile and kept silent.
In fact, I don't know many things, such as the ancestor Chen Rong since this incident, he has been cold to the Taoist priests and the countryside about the evil things, and no longer asks. But why, my grandfather became a Taoist priest again, and he was the master that the ancestor Chen Rong personally found, and he worshipped the master to learn the arts.
"Grandpa, are all these corpse chasers like this? Isn't that Taoism just a lie? ”
"What is the Tao? The crooked path is also the way, and this way is not the right way. ”