Zhen Rui's yin and yang face couldn't see any emotion, his fingers knocked on the table slowly, and said: "Chen Tiande was born in the Xiangxi Corpse Refining Family, and he has broken with his family, I don't know what that heirloom is, but he will definitely not come forward to pick up that thing for us." ”

Wen Min said: "It seems that it is impossible to start from him, if we come out to ask the Chen family for it, what are the chances?" ”

Zhong Gong said: "That's someone's heirloom, do you think they will give it to you easily?" ”

Lu Su narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "Money can make ghosts grind." "Speaking of heirlooms, I have been doing antiques for a year, and I have really met a lot of heirlooms, the things left by the ancestors, which may not be useful in modern times, and the future generations will inevitably be replaced by wealth. According to Zhong Gong's previous statement, this Chen Tiande was also a good person before he suffered a big change, and because of the taboo of refining corpses, he paid attention to doing good deeds and accumulating virtues.

I discussed with Lu Su and Gu Da Meinu for a while, and felt that I had to give it a try no matter what, so I asked Zhen Rui about the location of Chen Tiande's hometown. Zhen Rui said an address, it was in a rural village. As soon as I saw that it was a village, I had some bottom in my heart. Immediately, there was no longer any delay, and after thanking Yuanrui, he went straight to Chen Tiande's hometown with Lu Su and Gu Da Beauty.

Speaking of which, we have also been to Xiangxi for the second time, and the village we went to this time is called Hongya Village, which is one south and one north away from the previous Fengtou Village. The journey was speechless, and when I arrived at Hongya Village, I found that this place was a typical new type of village, and the gap was particularly large. Half of the buildings are white porcelain and red bricks, and the other half are low-rise old civil houses, which clearly distinguish the family background.

This phenomenon is now very common in rural areas, and if someone in the family goes out to work, they will have a better life and can afford to build a building. Those who are not open-minded or have no culture dare not go far away, guarding the land to live, and the poorer and poorer they become, and the same place has formed a very sharp contrast between the rich and the poor.

We inquired in the village, and as soon as we talked about Chen Tiande, an old woman pointed us in the direction, looked at us with a strange look, and said, "Are you a relative of their family?" ”

Wen Min said: "It's a friend, come and see." ”

The old woman had a strange look on her face, looked at us twice, and then avoided us as if she were avoiding the plague. I glanced at Gu Da Meinu, something was absolutely wrong, it seemed that the Chen family was quite unpopular in the village. Not long after, according to the route pointed out by the old woman, we found the Chen family.

This place is really dilapidated, I thought it would be a big family, but I didn't expect that there was only one lonely old man left in the Chen family, who opened the door when he answered the door, and looked at us through the crack in the door, revealing his eyes that were cloudy. He asked through the door, "Who are you?" ”

Gu Da Meinu smiled and said, "Old man, don't be afraid, we want to ask you for a favor." ”

I thought the old man would ask us how we could help, but he immediately said, "Don't take the job, let's find someone from the funeral home." "Then the door will be closed. I felt strange, and couldn't help but block the door and said, "Old Man Chen, do you know what we are here for?" ”

He didn't have much strength, and I blocked it, but pushed the door open. At this time, I also saw the original appearance of Old Man Chen. He gave the impression of a dried corpse, covered in skin and bones, black, wrinkled, and relatively tall. This behavior was a bit impolite, and I quickly apologized, but the old man surnamed Chen was very talkative, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, see you are covered in sweat, come in and rest." With that, he walked away and brought us boiled water.

Gu Da Mei and I glanced at each other, and we both breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this old man Chen is good, at least not Chen Tiande's personality distortion type. It is estimated that no one usually speaks, and as soon as he sat down, Old Man Chen said to himself: "You see, at my age, I can't take over the work, the current funeral parlor and the police are very capable, you can ask them for help if you have something." ”

I was confused when I heard it, but Lu Su preemptively said: "Old man Chen, what do you mean by taking jobs?" ”

Seeing Lu Su's question, Old Man Chen finally realized that we were not looking for him to work, so he said, "Then what are you here for?" Then he remembered Lu Su's question, and replied: "What I said about picking up the work is to drive out the corpse." ”

"Chase out corpses?" Gu Da Beauty was surprised: "You can still drive away corpses?" ”

Old Man Chen was quite kind, smiled, the black wrinkles on his face were layered, and said, "You don't believe it? I've lived on this all my life. ”

Gu Da Meinu was surprised: "I've only seen it on TV, but in reality, I really haven't seen it." "Old Man Chen is very talkative, and when he saw that a few of us were not surprised, he immediately talked endlessly. In ancient times, the traffic was inconvenient, and the ancients paid attention to traveling thousands of miles and returning to the roots. When you go out, it is inevitable that there will be people who have died in a foreign land, and the corpse is left behind, or missing, or the corpse has an accident and is not easy to take out, at this time, you will ask a corpse chaser.

In ancient times, most people could only learn the introductory technique of corpse refining, and then eat the bowl of rice to drive away the corpse. Chen Tiande's corpse refining technique is relatively advanced, not only can it drive away corpses, but it can also refine corpses for their own use. However, with the thinness of future generations and the neglect of the foyer, many advanced skills and later generations know the Taoist method, but there are not many who are really connected.

The corpse chaser and the tomb robber are called incompatible in the rules of the trade, not because they have enmity, but because they clash with each other. Because tomb robbers shuttle through the ancient tombs all year round, they will naturally carry a gloomy corpse aura on their bodies, and this breath will collide with the corpses driven by the corpse chasers, and the corpses will become deceitful corpses. Therefore, out of respect for the professions of both parties and the consideration of personal lives, if the tomb robbers in the past encountered someone who was driving the corpse, they would quickly avoid it, and the two knew it, but they would not meet.

This corpse chaser also deals with corpses all year round, there is a way that people are humane, ghosts have a ghost way, and chasing corpses is the same as robbing tombs, which belongs to the abnormal category, that is, the realm that the living should not touch. Therefore, in the line of chasing corpses, in order to accumulate yin virtue for themselves, it is strictly forbidden to do evil, and there are also rules of conduct, and you can't use the art of refining corpses to collect money.

Old man Chen is lonely, he has always lived very poorly, he begged a daughter-in-law when he was young, and after getting married, Old Man Chen revealed that he was a corpse chaser, and he was immediately disliked. It sounds like a very majestic thing to be able to make a dead man walk, but in real life, which girl wants her man to talk to the gods every day, chant scriptures and mantras to deal with dead people? The daughter-in-law asked him to change careers at first, but Old Man Chen refused, after all, this skill is ancestral, besides, the current corpse chaser is almost extinct, and this craft cannot be defeated in his own hands.

The most embarrassing daughter-in-law regressed, saying that let Old Man Zhao collect money with this, in fact, as long as you really want to make money, it is very easy. Old man Zhao was also unwilling, so he followed the training of the group and persuaded his daughter-in-law: "If you really do this, our old Chen family will cut off children and grandchildren, and if you accumulate too much evil, you will definitely not die well." Daughter-in-law, don't embarrass me, I will definitely work hard and not make you rich, but I will do my best to support you. "I just got married for a few years, the favor is still there, and the daughter-in-law has endured it, and within two years of the birth of the child, I finally can't help but leave this poor and gloomy home.

Of course, yin qi is the adjective of his daughter-in-law, and the old man Chen feels that his home is quite normal, except for the placement of some things to worship gods and ghosts, which seem to be a little dazzling, everything else is the same.

After his daughter-in-law left, Old Man Chen took his son to live alone, and this son was naturally Chen Tiande.

Although there are fewer people who are now aware of the way to drive out corpses, there are fewer people who ask people to drive out corpses, but the wages have increased. Now they are still looking for people to drive out the corpses, most of them are corpses except for accidents, such as falling off a cliff and getting stuck in a rock crevice that is difficult to get out; Another example is that there is a big flood and a dead person, and the body is washed away somewhere, and the family can't find the body. After a person dies, the corpse chaser can find the body for his family by using the corpse search trick through the eight characters of his birthday.

However, it is now difficult to get rid of the dead due to the increased capacity of the funeral parlors and the police, the ease of transportation, and the availability of professional corpse transport companies. Most of the time, Old Man Chen and Chen Tiande live on thin land, and they only take on work when they have work.

In some places in Xiangxi, it can be regarded as famous, after all, the father and son are the descendants of the most ruthless in the same vein.

Chen Tiande is more honest than Old Man Zhao, he looks ordinary, he usually blushes when he sees the eldest girl, and the girl asks him to help, so he has enough stupid strength to do it, and the people in the village often bully him to be honest and play him as a fool.

Later, because of an incident, Chen Tiande left the house.

Although Old Man Chen was talkative, he also knew that Taoism should not be ugly, so he said it without saying much, and then asked us what we were doing, and I said, "We know your son." Old Man Chen became excited and said, "Where is he now?" How's it going? ”

I sighed in my heart, and said in my heart: This father and son surnamed Chen are not wicked people, but now they are left alone at home, and their son has become a murderer who does not blink an eye against humanity, it is really a pity, seeing that the old man Chen looked nervous and earnest, I lied and said: "It's very good, he is self-reliant outside, but he doesn't like to talk." ”

I didn't tell this lie to excuse Chen Tiande, although I don't know what happened to Chen Tiande, but the old man's worried look at his son made me feel uncomfortable for a while, and my heart softened, so I was so comforted.