Chapter III

Respect the corpse

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Lao Hu is a strange person! Especially for Lin Fei, Lin Fei, who returned home late that night, talked about meeting Lao Hu with his best friend An Kang.

provoked An Kang to be shocked: "How do I feel that your master is like a master in the world?" ”

"You think it's weird, right?"

"It's not weird!" Ankang suddenly clapped his hands and said loudly: "It's so amazing!" ”

"Huh?" Lin Fei looked at An Kang, who was excited, with a confused expression.

"Letting you go to the morgue for a new apprenticeship, is this something a normal person can come up with?" An Kang laughed wantonly: "I'm looking at you! It's true that your master is going to use the corpses of the morgue to train your guts!

"Hey, why don't you ask? Why did they ask you to be that forensic doctor? ”

"It's not that I don't ask! I didn't dare to ask! Lin Fei expressed his concerns with a bitter face: "If they really make a mistake, won't I have a job again?" It's better to wait until this month, at least one month's salary to make ends meet, and even if it's time to fire me! I don't care......"

"Decidely, you don't even want the lower limit for money!"

"People die for money, birds die for death!"

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The location is the only government morgue in Seongnam City, and all the corpses of several major district offices in Seongnam are generally stored here.

This place where all kinds of dead people are stored, the first thing that made Lin Fei think of it was the four-character idiom "deep yin qi".

Along the corridor, Lin Fei followed Lao Hu all the way to the morgue slowly.

"Others teach their disciples, and they all demand respect for their teachers!" Lao Hu said to Lin Fei: "And in our business, I only ask you to respect the corpse!" ”

"Hmm!" Lin Fei, who couldn't react to the difference between the words "teacher" and "corpse" for a while, could only deal with it like this.

"Now get down on your knees!" Lao Hu stopped and spoke.

Lin Fei looked around, and there were only two people in the empty corridor, he and Hu Buwei. He thought to himself: I'm afraid this is what Lao Hu said about the apprenticeship!

didn't dare to hesitate, although he hadn't seen Lao Hu's skills with his own eyes, but his rumors made Lin Fei have to believe that this Lao Hu had his unique skills.

The so-called "art is not pressing"! Although Lin Fei is not sure whether he will continue to follow the path of forensic medicine in the future, he may leave here to go to the film and television circle of his original dream after saving enough money! But at this moment, he urgently needs to live on this salary, and the most direct way to get this salary is to learn this skill from the old Hu in front of him......

With a "bang", Lin Fei knelt quite simply! And in order to show his sincerity, he deliberately increased his strength, and hit his knee on the floor, which is called a pain!

Lin Fei looked at Lao Hu in front of him, and thought in his heart: This sincerity is very sufficient!

Who knows, Lao Hu's face suddenly became angry! slapped Lin Fei directly on the head and scolded: "Are you stupid!" I've said it all, you have to respect the corpse! It's not for you to worship me, it's for it......"

Lin Fei hurriedly turned around following the old Hu's scolding, and looked towards the empty corridor that Lao Hu was pointing to, but ...... No one?

Wrong! When is there an extra basin? An iron basin full of fire marks!

Only three steps away from Lin Fei, Lao Hu squatted on the edge of the brazier. "Whether you're here for money or something else!" But from now on, you'll have to kowtow to me every three steps! And with sincerity! ”

"What does it mean to be sincere?" Lin Fei asked in confusion.

"Say silently in your heart: 'Respect the corpse and renew the way'!" Lao Hu glared at Lin Fei. I don't know where to take a box of bags, and take out ingots, yellow paper, and incense from it.

A match crossed, and three sticks of incense with a dark color suddenly ignited three gray and white smoke traces that rose straight up!

There was another movement, and the iron basin full of ingots and yellow paper suddenly ignited, making a warm feeling emanate from the corridor.

I saw Lao Hu holding three sticks of agarwood, bowing three times to the end of the corridor, and "squeaky woo" in his mouth, I don't know what he was muttering?

After he finished muttering, he immediately instructed Lin Fei: "Kowtow!" Three hits! ”

Lin Fei hurriedly complied, not forgetting in his heart that what Lao Hu had just arranged should be sincere! At first, I just silently recited in my heart: "Respect the corpse and re-enlighten"! Then I couldn't help but make a noise...... The hallway began to hover with the sound of these four words.

Lin Fei got up after worshipping, Lao Hu's feet moved, and the brazier was touched by Lao Hu's toes and slid forward a little distance to stop. Lao Hu immediately said: "Go over and continue to knock!" ”

At the beginning, Lin Fei also did what Lao Hu wanted, but he kept muttering in his heart: Is this still studying forensic medicine? Why is it more and more like you want to learn Taoism? And looking at Lao Hu's very skilled appearance, he is completely no different from an old man!

"How can there be a rhythm of being pitted?"

Lin Fei secretly tinkered in his heart. After all, he is a young man in the new era, and he is naturally against superstition, but growing up in a small county town, he has heard some strange things in the countryside!

For example, he remembers that there was a river next to the village near his grandmother's house in the countryside! The water is not shallow, and when the river pond is abundant, the water depth can reach more than 20 meters! Of course, these are the longest things to see in the countryside, but there is one thing that is hard to find anywhere else!

That is, there is a deserted grave in the middle of the river.

That deserted tomb has always existed in the vague memory of Lin Fei when he was a child, and the local people called this tomb "He Ma Niang's Tomb". As he grew older, Lin Fei also roughly understood the meaning of this title. It must be a woman surnamed Ma who married into a family with the surname He, hence the name!

As time went on, fewer and fewer people knew who built this tomb! And after so many years of changes, there are no people with the surname He within a radius of ten miles from the river, and most of them have the five surnames of "Liu, Li, Zhang, Zhu, and Kuang"! And Lin Fei's grandmother is one of them, surnamed Li......

At that time, Lin Fei's biggest preference was to pester his parents and take him to his grandmother's house in the countryside before it rained heavily! It's not to find your own friends with the right temper, but to gather a few friends to go to the river pond to see a spectacle, a wonder about the "Homer Niang's Grave"!

Seeing that the rain is getting heavier and heavier, the water in the pond has risen to the top near the path that surrounds the pond!

Originally, it was impossible for the water in this pond to rise to this field, only because of the great renovation of the local village during the reform and opening up. The river pond and the east and west exits have been filled in and used for access. So much so that when it rains heavily, the original pond becomes a reservoir that fills up with water in the blink of an eye, and at this moment......

"Look! And voila! He Ma Niang's grave has floated up again! ”

Lin Fei has always minded that at this time, someone will try to pick up the stones on the ground and throw them at the tomb of He Ma Niang, wanting to see if he can use the stones or broken bricks in his hand to smash the "He Ma Niang's Grave" floating on the river surface to move half a step!

Every time at this time, Xiao Lin Fei would think of what his grandmother said: "There are gods three feet up!" Therefore, I believe that there must be something wonderful in the "Homer Niang's Grave" floating on the water. Therefore, he did not dare to try to use stones and bricks to invade the territory guarded by the thing like them, so he could only hide from aside, staring blankly at the "Tomb of Home's Mother" in the water, which was not touched even if it was smashed.

After countless attempts, everyone believed that the tomb could not be moved! The only way to get it to move is through the rain......

"When the water rises, it rises, and when the water falls, it falls!"

In this way, the tip of its grave has always been kept at a distance of one foot from the water, and even in the year of the great drought, the water in the river pond has long since dried up! When the ground was about to crack a few wrinkles, it still sat there in that desolate state. There is no story of ghosts coming out of it and mutilating the people like in the movie, there are just four words: "plain".

It is because it is in addition to that point: "The water rises, it rises, and the water falls, it falls." There is nothing else surprising except for the strange news. So much so that people in the vicinity began to forget the existence of this deserted tomb......

It wasn't until after 2000 that Lin Fei, who had been going to school in the county, learned from his grandmother that the "He Ma Niang's grave" had been dug up! It was discovered by an archaeological team in the provincial capital, and then after the application, the local government also sent a lot of people to help! But the end result was unexpected......

The tomb is empty! Not even a coffin board!

The archaeological team stayed there for two days, found nothing, and left disappointed. At this point, the wonder of "Home's Tomb" can no longer be found......

This is the deepest strange thing in Lin Fei's memory when he was young!

After so many years, he still remembers it vividly.

He looked at Lao Hu with a stern expression, he was a government employee, but what he was doing at the moment was contrary to the so-called science! It can even be boiled down to the category of "superstition".

Lao Hu, who felt Lin Fei's doubts, turned his head to look at it, and said, "There are some things that can't be asked here!" I'll explain it to you when I'm back! ”

Some words? What words?

Even Lin Fei himself didn't know what he wanted to ask! What to ask? Is it to ask if there are any ghosts in this world? Or ask Lao Hu whether he is a forensic doctor or a ......?

Three steps and one knock, three steps and one knock......

Lin Fei, who was filled with doubts, kept walking and knocking half the corridor before he realized that something seemed to be wrong?

"Wow......"

The brazier was once again kicked forward by Lao Hu with his toes, and the front ...... Three steps away!

He looked at the plain old beard in amazement, bowed to the front with incense, and took three steps forward.

Lin Fei walked to the brazier in three steps again and kowtowed sincerely. His eyes were fixed on Lao Hu, and he watched as he once again sent the brazier three steps away on tiptoe. "I'm a god! This old guy really has the material! Lin Fei sighed secretly in his heart: "Every kick is to kick the brazier three steps away, and it is exactly the same!" ”

Not only that, every time this brazier was kicked by Lao Hu, the flames in the basin not only did not go out, but became more and more vigorous! Lin Fei only remembered that Lao Hu threw the ingots and yellow paper into the brazier, and this half of the corridor walked down without adding anything, how could this fire become more and more prosperous?

And also...... Why did Lin Fei feel that the temperature around him was getting colder and colder, and there were more and more goosebumps all over his body?

At this moment, Lao Hu and Lin Fei finally walked to the end of the corridor, where the last morgue was.

Lao Hu closed his eyes, turned to the door of the morgue and said, "New disciples, I hope you will take care of you in the future!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the brazier, which had been burning extremely vigorously, suddenly ...... extinguished......

All that remained in the basin was a pile of black ashes, as black as a brazier. It was difficult for Lin Feidu to distinguish where the basin was and where the ash was......

"Take it!" Lao Hu handed three sticks of agarwood to Lin Fei and asked, "What to do next, do you know?" ”

Lin Fei was stunned, he didn't dare to hesitate! took the incense in Lao Hu's hand, imitated his appearance, immediately knelt down in front of the brazier, faced the door of the morgue, hesitated for a moment, and immediately said: "My name is Lin Fei...... I hope that all grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters, and younger brothers and sisters will take care of me in the future! ”

After speaking, he kowtowed three times in a row.

Lao Hu looked at Lin Fei with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth. He knew that Lin Fei was a clever little ghost, although he was probably full of too many doubts in his heart at this moment, but he couldn't bear to dare to ask more questions before he spoke, which proved that this kid was still a little patient! As long as you have patience, even if you don't have much qualification, it will be much easier to teach in the future.

The moment Lin Fei finished knocking his head three times, the ashes in the brazier actually ignited again, exuding the most vigorous fire.

The fire was not slowly extinguished until the three agarwood sticks in Lin Fei's hands burned out......