Chen Xingyong told me that his companion's name was Liu Shun, and although he was from the same town, he was not from the same village, but from a neighboring village called Liujia Village. It's a few dozen miles away, and if you hurry up, you can get to their village before dark.

However, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and the walking is okay, but this board car can suffer, the mountain road is already narrow, and the height is uneven, one time uphill, one time downhill, pushing a corpse to go fast.

The board cart is a rickshaw with two wheels and a board on which it is used for loading, or manual pushing and pulling, or a carriage and horse animal pull, which is still very common in rural areas today.

Liu Shun's body was placed on the cart, covered with a broken mat, fortunately the corpse didn't stink much, otherwise it would be really difficult. The flat place is okay, one person is okay, but it is difficult to have a smooth road in the mountain road, so Chen Xingyong and I are not easy, and often a pothole has to be difficult to pass.

It took a whole day to travel, and when I found that we were still deep in the mountains, Chen Xingyong told me that at this rate, it would take half of the night to reach the village.

I frowned when I heard this, and I thought to myself that I would rush to deliver the corpse in the middle of the night, and nothing would happen to me.

Although the corpse chasers in Xiangxi, they just rush at night and rest during the day. It is said that in the past, there was a dead corpse inn in Xiangxi that was specially used for the corpse chaser master to stay, and this mysterious "dead corpse inn" only lived in the dead corpse and the corpse chaser, and ordinary people did not live there. Its doors are open all year round, for behind the two large doors is where the corpses rest. The corpse chaser drove the corpse, arrived at the "corpse shop" before dawn, and quietly left at night. If it's hard to walk on a rainy day, stop in the store for a few days and nights.

Although the corpse chaser stays during the day and travels at sunset, but I am not a corpse chaser, and it will be a big trouble for me to send the corpse at night, not only is there a lot of dirty things on the night road in the deep mountains, but also the corpse is easy to provoke some strange evil things, which will make the corpse cheat the corpse, and the heavy will also attract all kinds of ghosts and ghosts, I have to say that it will be very troublesome.

Seeing that the sky was really dark, and there were still vast mountains ahead, I finally asked Chen Xingyong to stop the cart and rest.

After the cart stopped, I took out cinnabar and the corpse charm from the baggage, first stuffed cinnabar into the ear, nose and mouth of the deceased, and then pasted the corpse charm on the corpse's forehead. I did this just in case. In the Yin and Yang industry, it is believed that the ears, nose and mouth are the places where the three souls enter and exit, and I stuff cinnabar into the ears, nose and mouth of the deceased to prevent the corpse from being cheated, and at the same time, it can also prevent other evil spirits from attaching to the body of the deceased.

Chen Xingyong asked me what I was doing, I smiled and didn't tell him, mainly because I was afraid that after I said it, he would be scared next.

After resting a bag of cigarettes, we set off again, the mountains in the deep mountains are stacked on top of each other, although the mountains are in front of us, but it is not easy to climb over a mountain. The sky is getting darker and darker, and we have no flashlight, so we have to find a small bundle of dry firewood and light it, and make two torches to light the way.

After a big mountain, and a hill, the moon was already high, and it was close to midnight, to say the least. Looking at the mountains in front of me, there were no more important mountains before, so I asked Chen Xingyong, how far is it from Liujia Village?

Chen Xingyong told me that after crossing the hill, I would walk another two or three miles to arrive.

When I heard this, I was relieved to know that it was finally coming. Now that I have crossed the mountain, there is a hill in front of me, and the road is relatively flat, and I have heard that the hill is about to arrive at Liujia Village, so the speed is also a little faster.

The hill is very desolate, and there are no trees on either side, just a bare hill. Beneath the moonlight, it was deserted, and from time to time there was a sound of beasts or two in the distance of the hill, which sounded a little worrying.

The hill is not big, and it didn't take long for the two people to push the cart to cross the hill, but at this time, I grabbed Chen Xingyong and stopped.

Chen Xingyong was pulled by me and asked why I didn't leave?

I pointed ahead and said, "Do you see that old woman?" ”

Yes, there was an old woman sitting on the side of the road more than a dozen steps ahead, wearing a black robe, hunched over, and carrying a white lantern in her hand.

Chen Xingyong was startled when he saw me say this, and asked me where I was, and then looked in front of me, and then his brows furrowed, and he said, "Why is there an old lady running here in the middle of the night?" ”

After speaking, Chen Xingyong was about to step forward, I grabbed him, and I said, "What are you going to do?" ”

Chen Xingyong said: "I'll go to see who the old lady is, why did she come up to this hill in the middle of the night." ”

I hurriedly told him not to come, and I said, "That old lady is not a man, but a ghost, and it seems that she may have come to get in our way on purpose." ”

Chen Xingyong was so frightened this time that the whole person trembled, saying that no wonder he felt that the old lady was very angry, and several surrounding villages had never seen her, so it turned out to be a ghost. So he immediately retreated and asked me what should I do?

I told Chen Xingyong not to speak, just follow me, and let me deal with everything.

Although Chen Xingyong was scared at this time, he also knew my Taoism, and the red-clothed ghost of the Wang family had been dealt with by me before, so after hearing me say this, he was naturally not too worried, so he followed closely behind me.

The old lady saw us coming towards her, squinted her eyes, then turned her head back and looked straight ahead.

At this time, we also got closer, and we looked closely, and saw that this old lady looked almost eighty years old, and her face was wrinkled, which was a little scary. One hand crutches, the other hand holding the lantern, but the lantern on the black character is the word "road", there is also a stone tablet next to the old lady, the stone tablet looks like it has gone through the cangsang, has been covered with moss, the stone tablet is written on the three big characters: the road god position.

There is a road god on the road, I know this, about the road god, it is said that there are many versions of the folk saying. There is a folk legend that says that in the 33rd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese invaded the land of Wu, and the people organized righteous armies to resist the enemy. Among them, He Wulu is the most brave and is an anti-Japanese hero. He led the rebels, fought bravely against the enemy, and finally died heroically defending his homeland. In order to commemorate this hero, people set up statues to worship, but because of why the five roads are ordinary people, there is no fame, according to the regulations of feudal society, the people can not be placed in the main hall, so they can not be put into the main temple. He Wulu is a grass man without an official title, so he can't enter the God of Wealth Temple, so he can only live in a corner and set up a roadside hall outside the house to worship, so he is called the god of the road.

In the folk, there are still many places where the god of the road will be worshipped, but the times have changed, and some places in the folk regard the god of the road as the god of wealth. There are also places where the god of the road is believed to be a woman, and it is called the Bodhisattva of the road. For example, in Wudi, especially in rural areas, most of the elderly over 70 years old know that the fifth day of the first lunar month is the "birthday of the Bodhisattva at the head of the road". Every family wants to take the Bodhisattva to their home, celebrate his birthday, and pay homage to him; If you can get on the road god because of this, and everything will be cleared as soon as the road is passed, then this year will definitely be full of money. When the outsiders saw that the people of Wu were having a good time, they all came to ask the people of Suzhou: "What is the God of Wealth?" The people of Suzhou replied: "It is the God of Wealth who is connected!" "It's word for word, it's just a matter of tone.

There is a saying among the people: "The Bodhisattva of the head of the road - I can't afford to offend!", and the people have always regarded the "head of the road" as a very important god.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help muttering, "Did you meet a Bodhisattva on the road?" ”

When Chen Xingyong heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then he said: "Whoever offends the Bodhisattva at the head of the road will be cornered for a lifetime, and that is not a joke." Do you want to go and pay a respect? ”

I took a closer look at the old lady, couldn't help but sneer, and said, "Do you believe in things that scare people?" That's not a road god at all. ”

Yes, this old lady in front of her doesn't look like a bodhisattva no matter how she looks. And when I looked at it carefully, I found that there was still a straw rope under the old lady's feet, and I immediately understood that the old lady in front of me was a ghost pretending to be a road god to block the way.

"Who is calling me the god of the road?" Then the old lady turned her head and stared at the two of us, making a hoarse voice that sounded like a tingling of the scalp.

Chen Xingyong said: "Sir, she ...... She said she was the god of the road, we can't afford to offend, right? ”

I said, "It's a hangman, don't take her word for it, it's a lie." ”

Yes, in fact, I can see it at a glance, not to mention that this old lady doesn't look like a god, and there is a long straw rope dragging at her feet, this is not a hanged ghost, what could it be?

The so-called hanged ghosts, as I have said before, because they are unwilling or resentful, they are unwilling to go to the underworld to reincarnate, so they will wander in the world and cause chaos. Moreover, there is a crooked-necked tree behind the old lady in front of her, and it is hoped that this old lady has found a short distance in this tree when she was alive.

At this time, the old lady suddenly glared at me, her eyes showed a fierce light, and she looked very scary, and said angrily: "What a rude hairy boy, you dare to scold me for being a hanged ghost and offend my Bodhisattva, I will make you desperate for the rest of your life!" ”