Shen Yulin smiled indifferently-

Dad said, "Then what do you plan to do in the future?" ”

Shen Yulin said: "I plan to join the army." ”

Grandpa was surprised, why did a corpse chaser suddenly want to become a soldier?

Shen Yulin saw that his grandfather was surprised, and said with a smile: "I said that I can't make a living by driving corpses, it's not that no one has asked me to drive corpses, but there are too many people who ask me to drive corpses." The times are turbulent and wars are frequent, and many people die, most of them on the battlefield. Many of my surviving relatives asked me to drive the dead back to their hometowns, and some officers forced me to drive entire platoons, entire companies, and even entire battalions of fallen soldiers to their hometowns. It's simply an impossible task. For those relatives who have been entrusted, I feel guilty when I can't do it. For an outrageous officer, he would put a gun to my head when I couldn't. Not only me, but many other corpse chasers around me have left Xiangxi and given up the business of chasing corpses, first, they can't do such heavy work, and second, they can't bear to see so many dead people. ”

"Since you can't bear to see the tragic situation on the battlefield, why do you still want to join the army?" Daddy asked.

"If I become an important person in the army, I will ask my subordinates not to ravage the people, and even if I encounter the enemy, I will try to be as bloodless as possible. Victory and defeat are actually the result of politicians. There is not much difference between the two sides and the two sides with few casualties and the two sides with heavy casualties. The loss of many people's lives is actually innocent and unnecessary. The soldiers on both sides have no deep hatred for each other, but they want you to live or die, which is all influenced by the will of those high-ranking officials or individual people behind them. ”

"You want to save the soldiers on the battlefield by joining the army. It's too hard. I'm afraid that instead of saving those soldiers from the battlefield, you'll end up bringing more people into the maelstrom, including yourself. Daddy warned.

Grandpa ultimately failed to convince him. After he arrived in Baoding, he continued to go north, went to the Northeast, successfully joined the army, and soon entered the famous Army Lecture Hall in the Northeast. In 1928, Zhang Zuolin was seriously injured by the Japanese on a train and died on the day he returned to Shenyang. Soon after, Shen Yulin left the Army Lecture Hall, left the Northeast, and returned to Xiangxi, where he became a staff member of the famous Xiangxi King Chen Quzhen. Before him, the staff of Chen Quzhen, the king of Xiangxi, was a person who later became famous everywhere, his name was Shen Congwen, a leader in the domestic literary circle. Shen Congwen's fame is partly due to the help of Chen Quzhen, the king of Xiangxi. After Shen Yulin took over Shen Congwen's position, he assisted the king of Xiangxi in promulgating and implementing the policy of "protecting the territory and relieving the people", which made Xiangxi at that time maintain relative stability under the chaos of the whole country, so that the local "pole army" in Xiangxi reached the peak period in history, and also ushered in the "golden age" of Xiangxi in the Republic of China.

Shen Yulin left the next day. Daddy is looking for a place where the ghost dealers trade.

However, after the ghost dealers arrived in Baoding, there was no movement for several days, and they were not heard to mention the location of the transaction. Even if Zhu Yuzi stayed in Wei Jiaquan's hotel night and night, he couldn't get any information.

One night, Grandpa and Millet were resting in the guest room when they suddenly heard a knock on the door.

Daddy opened the door. There was a strange handsome girl standing at the door.

"Who are you looking for?" Daddy asked.

When the strange girl saw her grandfather, she smiled and said, "You don't remember me?" ”

Grandpa Zhengse said: "I'm afraid you recognized the wrong person." With that, Daddy closed the door.

Many inns will have strange girls visit at night, and if they don't knock on the wrong door, they are basically here to do the leather and meat business. Some of these girls came out of the closed green building, and some of them had no way to beg for a bite to eat after leaving their hometowns. Daddy has met him several times. Wei Jiaquan once told his grandfather that he worked tirelessly in the dog meat business, not to make money, but to meet many different women along the way, and wait for them to knock on his door at night. He practiced Tai Chi not for martial arts, but to be more robust and powerful in sexual affairs.

Boss Wei is an alcoholic, and Wei Jiaquan is lustful. Perhaps it is precisely because of their insatiable desires that they will do this kind of dead man's business that ordinary people are unwilling to do.

But Daddy didn't come here because he couldn't get enough of it, every time he saw a strange woman knocking on the door, Daddy turned them away.

The door closed, and the knock returned.

Grandpa opened the door again, and it was still the same strange girl.

Xiaomi was childish and cut pieces of yellow sheet paper used by her father to draw talismans into the shape of various humans, horses and beasts on the table, and did not pay attention to the strange woman at the door. When he heard the knock on the door again, Xiaomi couldn't help but put down the scissors and yellow sheet paper in his hand and turned his head to see what was happening.

Several pieces of paper cut into human shapes slipped from Xiaomi's fingers and landed on the ground. A gust of night wind blowing through the door blew on Xiaomi's face, brushing Xiaomi's hair. Xiaomi's eyes closed, and she felt the night breeze caressing her face like a gentle hand. The paper figures on the ground were blown by the wind and crawled under the dark bed as if they were alive......

"Why are you still here?" Daddy asked the strange girl.

"You really don't remember me, do you?" She asked.

Xiaomi felt that the hand on her face had disappeared, and when she opened her eyes, she saw the girl standing at the door. Xiaomi said: "Aren't you the person next to Miss Tie?" ”

After being reminded by Xiaomi, Grandpa suddenly remembered that the girl in front of him was the one who followed Miss Tie to Thrush Village last time.

The girl's gaze crossed her grandfather, smiled at Millet at the table, and said, "You still have a good memory!" ”

Grandpa hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I forgot." ”

The girl said: "This is reasonable, Miss Tie is so beautiful, people who look at flowers only remember flowers, where do they remember the green leaves next to flowers?" ”

Xiaomi couldn't help it, but she still helped her father speak: "This sister is too mean to speak." Our family's Ma Xiucai is not a womanizer. ”

"Please come in and sit down." Daddy said.

The girl waved her hand and said, "No." Our Miss Tie knows that you are here, so let me invite you to sit with her. I wonder if the two of you are free right now? ”

Millet replied before her grandfather: "Of course I am free." You see I'm too busy cutting paper to play, how can I not be free? ”

Grandpa thought it was not good to visit a woman late at night, and planned to go tomorrow during the day. But Xiaomi had already said so, so he had to nod as well.

Coming out of the hotel, my father saw a classic car at the door.

The girl opened the car door and said, "Please." ”

Grandpa and Millet sat up.

In less than half an hour, the classic car stopped in front of a mansion. At the door of the mansion stood two big men in black coats and blue pants, menacing. The girl led her father and millet in through the door and went up to the second floor.

The girl knocked on the door.

"Come in." A woman's voice rang out inside. The voice is like a yellow warbler out of the valley, and it is graceful to listen.

The girl pushed the door open and made a gesture of please.

Grandpa and Xiaomi walked in, and when they saw Miss Tie leaving the desk and walking towards them, her face was full of joy but slightly nervous.

"Horse ...... Ma Xiucai. She said.

Daddy nodded and smiled.

She stared at her grandfather for a long time before she looked sideways at the millet beside her grandfather and said with a smile: "Xiaomi." ”

"Miss Tie, long time no see." Millet replied to the old man.

"yes. Long time no see. Sit down. Miss Tie invited.

Grandpa and Xiaomi sat down on the sofa. Miss Tie was busy pouring water for them. The girl was about to do it, but Miss Tie blocked it and motioned for her to come by herself.

Grandpa took a sip of water to moisten his throat and asked, "Is there anything important that Miss Tie called us over in such a hurry?" ”

Miss Tie was stunned for a moment and said, "There is nothing important, I heard that you have come to Baoding, and I happen to be here, so I will do my best to be a landlord." ”

Grandpa asked, "Your intelligence system is really good, we have been targeted so quickly." ”

Miss Tie waved her hand and said, "Don't misunderstand Ma Xiucai." Anyone who came here from out of town would be targeted by my father's people. ”

"If there's nothing important, let's visit us next time. It's too late today. Daddy got up to leave.

The girl was upset for her master and said, "Ma Xiucai, you don't give face to our young lady." As soon as you arrive in Baoding, we will know. Our young lady learned that you had come to Baoding, and hurriedly put down what she was doing and rushed over from Chengde. You've been hanging around here these days, while our young lady is jolting on the train. ”

Miss Tie glanced at the girl and scolded, "Don't talk nonsense. ”

Miss Tie added: "It's not completely unimportant. Aren't you looking for a few ghost dealers? In fact, we are also paying attention to them. I can help you if you need it. ”

Daddy asked, "Do you know when they traded?" I still have things to do, and I can't stay here all the time. ”

"It's coming. They will have trading hours twice a year. We already have a clear grasp of it. It's just that my father is busy with other things, and he can't take care of them for the time being, and he doesn't have a competent and competent person to do this, so he doesn't do anything to them. If you can help me with this, that's what I can't ask for. ”

"No, it doesn't help you. Even if there is no hostility between you, I will do it, so this is my business. Daddy said.

"I knew you would answer me like that. They will trade on the night of the fifteenth day of this month, at the Liujia Dog Meat Restaurant in the north of the city. When the time comes, several ghost dealers of different factions will go there. They were heavily guarded, and no one was allowed to enter, except for ghost dealers with Horcruxes. We don't know how the ghost dealers trade once they get in. I advise you not to rush in so much, and wait another year and a half for us to get to know better. ”

"Why?"

"I sent two ghost fighting masters in, but none of them came out."

"You want to see people in life, and you want to see corpses in death, right?" Daddy asked.

Miss Tie shook her head and said, "I didn't see anyone, and I didn't see a corpse." The next day our men found only two blood skeletons. ”

"Two people turned into two skeletons overnight? Where is their flesh and blood? Daddy asked.

"It seems to have been gnawed off by some ferocious animal. I still have palpitations when I think about it now. ”

"Ferocious animals?"

"It's just our guess. We don't know exactly what they did with it. But the cruelty of the means is terrifying. ”

"Didn't your people find any clues other than the Blood Skull?"

Miss Tie thought for a moment and said, "The blood skeleton has some cat hair stuck to it. ”

"Cat's hair?"