Uncle Long's words became more and more intense, and it seemed that this Miao tribesman was still a little obsessed with ancient things. Mu Qingyang knew that some of the Jiuli remnants had opinions on the dispute between Chiyou Yan and Huang, this belonged to the contradiction of the ancient inheritance, and it was not something that could be explained clearly in one or two sentences, so he waved his hand and said: "Uncle Long, put the others aside first, I am very interested in the so-called drought in Lotus Mountain, how about it?" Would you like to come with us? ”

Looking at Mu Qingyang, who was smiling, Uncle Long secretly regretted that his mouth was too fast. didn't first determine the identity and right to speak of the monster boy opposite, but now he made himself passive.

"To be honest, I'm also a little interested in this, and there are also rumors about drought and the like that are zombies, of course, it's good if you have the opportunity to see it, but it's a pity that I'm too old now, and in the blink of an eye, eighty people are still cheeky to drag you young people back, so I can't help but say it...... So be it! I asked Fang Bian and Sui Yi to take you over, what do you think? ”

Of course, Mu Qingyang is a hundred willing, to be honest, the so-called invitation to Uncle Long to go out of the mountain is just an excuse, he originally hoped that this old man could send an apprentice or something like that to be a guide, but now the arrangement is not exactly what he wants. Of course, it is much more convenient to take two young people on the road, especially if they are experts, so it will naturally be much easier to check the matter!

"That's good, of course, but I don't know what I need to prepare?"

"No need, I have everything ready-made here, distinguished guests, you can rest here, tomorrow morning, you will go up the mountain together!"

There was nothing to say all night, and when the two of them met with the two apprentices of the corpse chaser early the next morning, it was because of Xiao Yue's unintentional words that both parties couldn't help but be embarrassed.

"Young master, these two people are so weird!" In front of this beautiful little fox, the brothers are indeed a little ashamed of themselves with a crippled hand and a lameness, but the scolding does not expose the shortcomings, Xiao Yue's brainless words really made Mu Qingyang unable to get off the stage.

"You're so unruly, go back!"

Seeing that the young master was really angry, Xiao Yue immediately closed her mouth, although she didn't cover her mouth, she was just innocent by nature, but she was not without brains, and she knew that something was wrong as soon as she said it, so now that the young master left a step for herself, she immediately didn't dare to speak.

After all, he asked others to help him, Mu Qingyang apologized to the brothers again and again, and confessed that he usually neglected to discipline his family, so much so that he offended his friend Yunyun.

Sui Yi is a jumpy character, and seeing that the other party didn't mean it, he quickly and enthusiastically explained why Uncle Long and the two apprentices were in this situation......

The folk of Xiangxi have had the industry of chasing corpses since ancient times, and those who learn this industry must have two conditions: one is bold, and the other is good health. Moreover, it is necessary to apprentice.

The corpse chaser never takes apprentices indiscriminately. The apprentice is first written by the parents, and then the corpse chaser must be interviewed. Generally speaking, it is necessary to look at the age of 16, the height is more than 1.7 meters, and there is a very special condition, the appearance must be ugly.

The corpse chaser first asks the test taker to look at the sun in the sky, then spins, and then suddenly stops, asking you to immediately distinguish between east and west, north and south, if you can't tell the difference, you can't be hired. Because you don't distinguish between east, west, north and south at this time, it means that you can't distinguish the direction of driving corpses at night, and you can't drive corpses.

Then, the corpse chaser asks you to find things and carry a burden. Because the corpse is not a living person after all, the corpse cannot climb up the steep slope. One by one, the corpse chasers had to carry and carry them up the high slopes.

Finally, there is another interview, which is that the corpse chaser puts a paulownia leaf on the grave mountain deep in the mountains, and lets you go alone to retrieve it in the dark, only in this way can it be shown that you have the courage to be a corpse chaser. If you pass these three levels, you will have the possibility of becoming an apprentice of the corpse chaser.

The corpse chaser's home, like that of ordinary peasants, is still "made at sunrise and rests at sunset". Only when they received the business of chasing corpses did they dress up and go to chase the corpses. Although they chase out corpses, they taboo the term corpses. Therefore, when insiders ask them to drive away the corpses, they all say, "Master, please go and walk your feet" or "take a walk with your feet". If the corpse chaser agrees, he will take out a special piece of yellow paper and ask you to write the name of the deceased, the date of birth, the date of death, the gender, etc., on this yellow paper, and then draw a talisman and stick it on this yellow paper, and finally hide this yellow paper on yourself. The corpse chaser's attire is also very special: no matter what the weather, he must wear a pair of straw sandals, a green cloth gown on his body, a black belt around his waist, a green cloth hat on his head, and a bag of charms hidden in his waist bag.

Master and disciples, the first thing is to draw a talisman, this very peculiar talisman is painted on yellow paper with a red pen and something that looks like a character and a painting, and when encountering an unexpected situation on the way, this peculiar talisman is hung on a tree or door facing west, and sometimes it is also burned and swallowed with water.

At the same time, the apprentice must learn the thirty-six kinds of skills before he can drive out the corpse.

The first skill is the "standing merit" of the dead body, that is, the first thing is to make the dead body stand up.

The second skill is the "walking exercise", that is, to stop the corpse freely.

The third skill is the "turning skill", that is, the corpse can turn when walking.

In addition, there are also "downhill skills", "bridge crossing skills", "dumb dog skills" and so on.

The "Dumb Dog Gong" can make the dogs along the way not bark when they see the corpse. Because the dead body is afraid of the dog barking, when the dog barks, the dead body will be shocked, especially when the dog comes to bite, the dead body has no ability to resist. The corpse will be bitten to the ground. The last kind of skill is the "soul resurrection skill", the better the soul return skill, the more souls of the dead corpse will remain, and it will be very easy to catch up the corpse.

Xiao Yue was fascinated by what she heard, so she chased the brothers all the way and asked them to continue telling the story, and then Sui Yi realized that this girl was powerful. That little face is crying when you want to cry, laughing when you want to laugh, and once the charm of shame and resentment is used, it is definitely the power of people blocking and killing, and the Buddha blocking and killing Buddhas, which makes people have no power to resist at all......

There is also a saying of "three rushes, three non-rushes" in Xiangxi.

Those who are beheaded (their heads must be sewn together), those who are hanged, and those who stand in cages and die are to be driven out.

The reason is that they are all forced to die, they are not convinced, they miss their hometown and their relatives, they can use spells to hook their souls, use charms to calm their corpses, and then use spells to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, and even get on a boat and cross the water to return to their hometown.

Those who die of illness, those who die voluntarily by hanging their necks by throwing themselves into the river, and those whose limbs are incomplete by thunder and fire cannot be rushed. Among them, those who died of illness have themselves lived in their old age, and their souls have been hooked to the king of Yama by impermanence ghosts, and naturally their souls cannot be summoned back from the ghost gate; And the soul of the person who threw himself into the river and hung his neck was "replaced". And it is possible that they are handing over, if the new soul is summoned, the old soul cannot be replaced, will it not affect the reincarnation of the old soul? In fact, the king of Yama is very disgusted with people who do not value their own lives and deliberately commit suicide. Even if he was born without doing evil, he is generally reluctant to agree to let them be reincarnated immediately, and he has to wait for someone who has also had the same suicidal experience before allowing him to be reincarnated. This may be a long process, so some ghosts who die by birth will make some bad means, and some people will lose their minds and commit suicide!

This is also the ghost looking for a stand-in mentioned earlier.

In addition, those who died by lightning strikes were all guilty of great sins, and those who were burned by fire often had incomplete flesh and skin, which could not be driven away. Most of the people who die unexpectedly are retribution, so there is nothing the caster can do.

There are also some so-called "corpse chasers" that the two brothers have seen with their own eyes, and those liars are actually just "carrying corpses".

They dismembered the corpse and then sprayed a special potion on the stump to prevent the carcass from decomposing. The scam of "chasing out the corpse" is a person who disguises himself as a dead person; The other is dressed as a "corpse chaser". If the road is far away, the roles of the two will change day by day.

The "dead man" wears a large straw hat that covers the entire head, and even the outline of the face is difficult to see. Dressed in a blue-faced robe and coat; The arm is draped with paper money and yellow watch. When walking, the paper money flutters, like a lonely ghost in an old drama; The limbs are tied with spotted bamboo strips, like a splint for orthopedics, and its function is not to bend the joints of the hands and feet, so that the legs can step on the hard branches, just like a stiff corpse! It is terrifying, and those who see it are afraid to avoid it. The "warlock" led the way in front, with a withered face, a face full of smoke, walking obliquely, turning around from time to time to take care of the "dead man" who followed behind, throwing paper money as he walked, called "buying road money"; The "dead man" moves along the "road money", and in fact the paper money becomes a signpost. The guide also carried a lantern, and the fire was half-lit and half-extinguished, flickering erratically, which was also a code to indicate where the "dead man" went. The back is towering and the back is clamped; It was full of paper money and incense wax. In this way, one after the other, slowly, eeriely, ghostly, walking in the middle of nowhere, or in the secluded alleys. Staying in the chicken feather shop at night, lighting incense wax and burning paper money, it was full of gloomy and miserable atmosphere for a while, so that people did not dare to approach it.

Two or three days before arriving at the destination, notify the family of the deceased in advance, prepare clothes and coffins, and wait for the "deceased" to arrive, and immediately put the dead clothes and shoes on and put them into the longevity wood. This kind of burial process is all undertaken by the person who "chases the corpse", and no one is allowed to intervene and watch, just as the corpse is "lifted out of the coffin" when setting off, peeping is not allowed. It is said that at these critical moments, as soon as the living approach the corpse, there will be a danger of "shocking the corpse", and the burial process must be in the middle of the night. All arrangements are ready, that is, after the deceased is buried, the bereaved family will go to claim it. As soon as the coffin lid was opened, the eyebrows appeared, and it was indeed a bereaved relative, looking like yesterday, but now it was sleeping in the coffin, sad and miserable, devastating, some of them cried loudly, and some of them cried silently. At this time, the "corpse chaser" deliberately persuaded everyone not to grieve too much, which made the deceased uneasy. Fortunately, he accumulated merit during his lifetime and returned to his homeland safely. I had just made a long journey and was in dire need of rest. In addition to grief, people feel a kind of steadiness, satisfaction, and relief after seeing the deceased, who still suspects that it is a scam.

In fact, all the secrets are in the back of that clip, and on the surface, it seems to be paper money and wax, all of which are tricks to hide people's eyes and distract people's eyes. Surprisingly, the bottom layer of the paper contained the corpse. To be exact, the back of the clip contains the head and limbs of the deceased, and as for the main part, I don't know which mounds buried the remains of the wanderer!

The real old priest or Maoshan warlock uses the general method of transportation. This method of driving out corpses was originally only for the corpses that died on the battlefield, and later, Lao Si also helped those who were unjustly killed by the government to drive the corpses back to their hometowns. Usually, the geographical range of the corpse can only go to Langzhou (Changde) in the north and cannot cross Dongting Lake, only to Jingzhou in the east, Fuzhou and Wuzhou in the west, and to Yunnan and Guizhou in the southwest. Legend has it that these places are the ghost kingdoms of the ancestors of the Miao people, and they are far away, and even Lao Si can't drive those zombies.

In the past, every year after the autumn equinox, the yamen of all prefectures and counties executed death row prisoners on death row with the approval of the Criminal Department. After the execution of local death row prisoners, their own family members collect the corpses for burial, and if they want to carry the executed guest death row prisoners back to their hometowns, usually a corpse needs to be carried by four people, which is more expensive, and it is relatively less expensive to ask the old man to drive the corpse back to his hometown, and it can ensure that it does not rot or smell on the way, and the body that is carried may rot after a day. Generally, on the day before the execution, the relatives and fellow villagers of the guest death row prisoners, and even those who are good at doing good deeds, will pool some silver for the old priest they invited (the practice is that two people in green clothes and two people in red clothes) will buy all kinds of goods. On the day of the execution, the two veterans, their assistants, and those who helped had to wait outside the court. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the knife and axe hand rose and fell, and the head of the death row prisoner fell to the ground.

As soon as the prisoner leaves the court, the red-clothed old man will perform the ritual and recite a mantra, and the assistant will help sew the head of the beheaded guest death row prisoner together, and place the cinnabar (the best cinnabar) in seven places of the deceased's head, back heart, chest and heart, left and right hand plates, and palms of the feet, each of which is pressed with a rune, and then tied tightly with five-colored cloth strips. According to legend, these seven places are the places where the seven orifices enter and exit, and they are sealed with cinnabar runes to retain the seven spirits of the deceased.

After that, some cinnabar is stuffed into the ears, nose, and mouth of the deceased, and then plugged with runes. Legend has it that the ears, nose, and mouth are the places where the three spirits enter and exit, and in doing so, they can remain in the body of the deceased.

Finally, the neck of the deceased is covered with cinnabar and a rune is pasted, and it is tied tightly with strips of five-colored cloth; Then put on a dumpling leaf hat (for the cover) to the deceased. After everything was done, the old man in red finished reciting the incantation and shouted, "Get up!" The dead body of the guest will stand up......

Generally speaking, in addition to the ancestral "runes" used to drive out the corpses, Dansha is also indispensable. This dansha is the best produced in Chenzhou, so it is also called cinnabar. And the technique of chasing corpses was originally called "Chenzhou Cinnabar Rune Spell", but because the name was too long to pronounce, it was simply called "Chenzhou Fu".

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Speaking of which, the two brothers Liangliang held a small bag in their hands, as well as a gong and a copper bell.

Of course, this is not a show-off, they are just showing the two strangers that they are craftsmen with a background, and they are not just two young men......

The rumors about the Lotus Mountain drought fish started last year, probably first there were mountain people over the post, saw the grave of the mountain grave was overthrown, and then there were chickens, ducks and livestock in the nearby villages for no reason to lose blood and died, the most frightening thing is that there are mountain patrol forest guards at night to see a naked "person" walking in the mountains like flying, that tall, a pair of claws like ten iron hooks grasping cattle and sheep while jumping and chewing, the monster over the mountain stone cracks, over the stream water dry, even along the way the grass and flowers and trees are also green smoke, have died, as if it was roasted dry!

Although I have not heard that any villager was killed, it is also possible that the news is ill-informed, this kind of case happened in the deep mountains and has not been exposed, and Mu Qingyang came all the way for this; In addition, he also suspected that the drought here was related to the escape of the Hundred Ghosts of the Underworld, which was the last wish of the Impermanent God Monarch, so it was also one of the reasons why he had to ask.