After speaking, when he saw Luo Lao's crooked reaction, he knew that it was famous, and then laughed and said: "If you want to say that there are zombies in Yizhuang, it is also reasonable, but it is strange that the corpse poison on the face of the second aunt of the mouse is not obvious, and it seems that the corpse poison was poured into the mouth after death, the small eyes are clumsy, I don't know the level, how dare I show ugliness in front of the big shopkeeper and Luo Shuai, the two big experts." ”

Luo Lao was waiting for him to have this remark, and told him that the customs of Lao Xiongling in Xiangxi were strange, and in the first seven days after the death of a person, the corpse should be infused with corpse poison and stand behind the door panel, which is called "standing stiff". If there is no secret method of "standing stiff", the corpse will rot and rot by itself without waiting for the corpse to return to the hometown.

In addition to Chen Blind, the other three people only heard its name when it came to Xiangxi, but they didn't know the facts, at this time, Luo Lao said crookedly, only then did he have a sense of sudden enlightenment, and his curiosity really rose, and the rainy night was long and boring, and he was willing to ask Luo Shuai to teach him the mystery.

Luo Lao crooked has the opportunity to brag about his experience in front of the red girl, and he does not shirk at the moment, he is the most familiar with the matter of driving corpses, because he had been a craftsman in the early years, he was poor from Shandong when he was a teenager and couldn't survive, and he came to Hunan to rely on relatives and friends, but when he arrived at the place, he knew that his distant relatives had already died, and he had no refuge and no refuge, and because of his ugly appearance, he was not a good class at first glance, and no one was willing to find a place to be an apprentice as a coolie.

In desperation, I had to enter the green forest road and do some deeds of killing the rich and helping the poor, the so-called "robbing the rich and helping the poor" is just a good thing, because for those poor and poor people, it is rare to have any benefit from robbing and killing, and it also avoids a notoriety of harming the people. But he came from other provinces, and he didn't know the local customs, so he couldn't stand at all. In the end, someone pointed him out the way -- to become a corpse chaser, and to accept apprentices from corpse chasers, there must be three conditions, one is to be bold, the second is to look ugly, and the third is not to marry for the rest of his life.

In Xiangxi, most of the corpses are in the Daomen, and Chenzhou, Xiangxi, which is rich in cinnabar, has two major gates, namely "Hu House Thunder Altar" and "Golden House Thunder Altar", which has always been the business of driving out corpses, all of which belong to these two Thunder Altar Doors.

Xiangxi, Hunan, since ancient times, there are mysterious legends such as "sending corpses, falling holes, and releasing Gu", among which sending corpses is "driving corpses", because the mountains and mountains in Xiangxi are rugged, and many places are not accessible at all. There are many merchants from the north who trade timber to make huge profits, and most of them put the giant trees taken by the raft in the river during the flood season, and go down the river to the south, and the merchants all float down the river with the raft, and when they finish their business, they return to their hometowns through the mountains and mountains.

Due to the land of Yidong, bandits are rampant, and there are many miasma poisonous insects, all kinds of diseases spread, there are foreign merchants who are not accustomed to the water and soil, once infected or looted, often the guests die on the way. The merchants from other provinces were very sympathetic to the plight of these dead peers, so they pooled money to build a Yizhuang Savings Museum and hired corpse craftsmen to bury the bones back to their hometowns.

Speaking of this Xiangxi corpse, it is really famous, and it is said that it is divine, and the world talks about it changing color and fearing it like a tiger. In fact, the official name of this kind of strange art, since ancient times called "corpse sending technique", in modern times there is a "corpse drive", Westerners call it "corpse hypnosis", in the eyes of foreigners this kind of thing is more mysterious, Westerners have "hypnotism", that is, "hypnosis", the reason why they call it so probably refers to the meaning of hypnosis to the corpse.

Because Xiangxi Yi and Han are mixed, the geographical environment is special, countless dangerous rock peaks, rise out of thin air, the peaks and pillars stretch one after another, straight arch to the south sky, the terrain is difficult and treacherous, there is no road in the depths of the mountains, it is not realistic to carry back to the hometown for burial after death, which requires the "corpse messenger" to send the corpse, but in some places, the corpse messenger only goes once in half a year, and the dead are transported together.

At that time, cremation was still very reluctant, and methods such as columbarium altars were never considered, so anyone who wanted to be sent back to their hometown to be buried in the earth must first try to make zombies, which is a prerequisite.

How can we make a zombie? If you want to die without decay, you can pour mercury into the corpse, but that method is more expensive, ordinary people can't afford to use it, and it will also damage the corpse's organs. Some people use folk secret techniques, when they feel that their time is running out, they begin to take a small amount of arsenic regularly, of course, the measurement is very small, arsenic mixed with condensation pill, but also add the bone grass, Shanyin purple grass and other exotic herbs, as long as these things are properly proportioned, when the person is still alive, it does not hurt the human body much, but once the person stops breathing, the qi and blood coagulate, it will be stiff and incorruptible, and become the kind of zombie made by the medicinal power, so it is necessary to stop the mortuary on the door panel for a few days, and then move it into the coffin after it is completely ossified. If it is not impossible to perfuse after death, but the corpse is slightly poorly preserved, it is easy to stink, and the corpse of the second aunt of the rat in Yizhuang was infused with poison after death, and stood behind the door panel to "stand stiff".

The mystery of sending corpses in Xiangxi, unless it is a person who has been a corpse delivery craftsman, outsiders cannot know what is going on in this industry at all, because this industry is extremely mysterious, and the magic used in it will never be passed on. In the Daomen, there is no mention of the corpse and the corpse, it is all called by outsiders, and the people in the Daomen are called by "water repellent".

"Water repellent" is the official general name, and the code word on the underworld is called "a bowl of water", it is very unlucky to hit the team that sends the corpse, and such a thing on the green forest road is called hitting the water, and now it also refers to the meaning of "hitting the evil and the ghost", because in the process of really sending the corpse, its magic is all based on a bowl of water, and it must be used by two people.

The two of them were divided into one before the other, one corpse giver was in front of the cloth banner, guided by magic, and the other walked at the end with a bowl of clear water, no matter how many dead bodies were sent this time, those dead corpses walked in the middle of the team, and the corpse giver was sandwiched back and forth.

In this line, the most important role is to hold the water, and to add a spell to the water bowl when you go for a while, this charm is the "burning charm to gather water and awaken the soul": open the heavens, make people immortal, three souls and seven spirits, return to the gods, three souls on the left, seven spirits on the right, listen to God's orders, and do not know the details, no one sees the line, no one knows when sitting, and it is as urgent as the law! This talisman must be Xiangxi's "Chenzhou talisman", and if it is replaced by the talisman of another family, it will not work at all.

As long as the bowl of water in the hand of the person holding the water does not fall and break, the corpse will not fall. In the process of sending the corpse, the dead body is no different from the living, except that the mouth cannot speak, and its walking posture is slightly different from that of the living. This kind of corpse sending team, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty in Xiangxi is too common, Hunan proverb "three people live in the hotel, two people eat", refers to the corpse person, which means that the one who can not eat among the three is the dead person.

The day before the corpse sending team arrives at the deceased's hometown, the deceased will entrust his dream to his family, and the family will immediately put the coffin in order to complete it. As soon as the corpse arrives at home, it will stand in front of the coffin, and the person holding the water will splash the water, and the corpse will immediately pour into the coffin, at this time, it is necessary to quickly bury the deceased, otherwise the corpse will immediately change, showing the shape of decay, if it has been dead for a month, it will immediately appear that the decay process of a normal person after the death of a month will appear.

In fact, the strange art of this bowl of water, which was all done in the early years, has been lost in the Qianlong period, and the reason for its loss is probably that it is too secretive, and there are fewer and fewer people who know this secret art, and the most knowledgeable people only know such a general idea, and the principle of bringing water to the corpse is even more impossible to say.

Until the Guangxu period, many people in order to seek huge profits, the opium produced in Guizhou was trafficked, so they started the idea of walking the corpse and sending water, taking advantage of the people's fear of sending the corpse, using it as a cover, reselling tobacco, soil and arms, they used the corpse as a cover, which was very different from the ancient business of sending the corpse, but it was more mysterious. Although Luo Laowei didn't learn the secret art of sending corpses, he used his identity as a corpse chaser to traffic black goods, and he made a fortune with this, and finally became a big warlord who was rampant in Sanxiang, so Luo Laocrook was so relieved of the ugly female corpse, because he and Chen Blind knew that the dead corpses in this Yizhuang were poured with antiseptic drugs to control zombies, and it was impossible to produce corpse changes.

The dead people who have accumulated here will be the skin pockets of those who drive away the corpse dealers to smuggle goods, but after those people use the dead to traffic black goods, they will also find a way to send the corpse back to their homeland for burial, which is not a benevolent morality, but if not, there will be no way to bluff people under the guise of "driving the corpse" in the future.

Hua Maogui and the Red Girl and others are all amazed, don't look at Luo Lao's crooked mouth and crooked eyes, vulgar behavior, and "eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, killing people and setting fires" There is nothing he doesn't do, but he knows these folk secret techniques in such detail, he is indeed worthy of being the warlord leader of the deterrent side, and he is the worship brother of the thief in the mountains, and he has his superiority. Hua Maogui hurriedly picked up his thumb and flattered: "Gao Ming, it's really Gao Ming, Luo Shuai turned out to be from a Taoist sect, no wonder there is such a genius!" ”

Luo Lao crookedly poured two sips of soju, looking very proud, but in front of the thief Chen Blind, it was really not good to show off too much, laughing at himself: "He is a **, what a genius crooked, Lao Tzu was too young when he learned to drive out the corpse, and the master did not learn ten percent of his skills, and often did not know how to pretend to understand, I heard my adjutant say that recently there was a gentleman in the south who did learning, and wrote a good article, he said that there was no understanding in this world, but there were many people who pretended to understand, and they slowly understood." What the gentleman said was reasonable, and in the future, the commander would invite him to come over and talk about it, and give me more knowledge about his grandmother. After saying that, he shook his head and smiled, and drank the pot of soju to a trickle.