Chapter 5: The Adventure of Chasing the Dead 2
While the three of them were talking, Xu Xiaozi's apprentices Chen Dafu and Zhao Ping also arrived.
Zhao Ping is forty years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a tall and burly figure. He also brought two young men with him.
The master Xu Xiaozi introduced Shao Yuanjie, Xu Xiaoqi and two other young people, who turned out to be the apprentices of the master who had washed his hands, the tall and thin one named Sun Song, who was called "fishing rod", and the black and fat one was named Luo Biao, who was called "Luo Fatzi".
After the four young people saw the ceremony, according to the advice of the master Xu Xiaozi, the four young people were ranked according to their age - they were the master brother Luo Biao, the second senior brother Sun Song, the third senior brother Shao Yuanjie, and the fourth senior brother Xu Xiaoqi.
Interestingly, the masters of these four precious brothers have their own people, and only Xu Xiaozi is their common master.
Xu Xiaozi explained a word, and asked the six disciples and grandchildren to pack their luggage and go out.
This trip was not lonely because of Zhao Ping and Luo Fatzi, who love to brag, and they were not lonely along the way. Seeing beautiful women and girls on the road, Zhao Ping loved to say some half-meat teasing words. Although Chen Dafu doesn't like to talk much, they are familiar with each other, and they also make a few vulgar jokes from time to time.
Although everyone is young and orderly, they are not as strict as other sects, after all, they are all corpse chasers who beg for food in the rivers and lakes - to put it mildly, they are actually hard people. Everyone walks together and contributes together, if there are so many rules, wouldn't they be uncomfortable with each other.
On the way to Luxi, because there was no corpse, everyone was not easy and happy. Luo Fatzi likes to be lively the most, he always takes the lead in teaching everyone to roar a few times, and everyone is very happy.
The six corpse chasers are on the empty and uninhabited road, and you relay and sing one sentence at a time.
Luo Fatzi sang: "No firewood is added to the stove hole to cook rice";
The fishing rod sings: "It's rare to dry clothes on rainy days";
Zhao Ping sang: "The talc slab points to the bowl of beans and is empty and dry";
Chen Dafu sang: "Glutinous mud is planted with a large ball of red lettus";
Shao Yuanjie sang: "Young people grow beards and pretend to be old men";
Xu Xiaoqi sang: "It's really ugly to wear flowered shoes on big feet."
After singing a "big truth" song, everyone burst out laughing.
Luo Fatzi came up and shouted, "One more song!" Everyone laughed and said, "Come on!"
So Luo Fatzi led everyone to sing a witty and interesting "scolding the matchmaker" song:
You want to wear shoes as a matchmaker, and the birds in the trees can coax you.
If you are a matchmaker and want to drink, the monkeys on the mountain can coax you away.
A few baskets of rhetoric, don't worry about the money in hand.
It's like my gluttonous dog, the east eats the west and leaves......
In the afternoon of this day, the six of them rushed to Luxi County and met the local intermediary in charge of liaison, Lao Ai, who was fifty years old, with gray hair and beard, but his body was still quite tough. Lao Ai has been doing this business for many years and is a well-informed native.
It turned out that the corpse chasers in all parts of Xiangxi had fixed intermediaries in neighboring states and counties to be responsible for liaison, and every time a guest died in a foreign land, the middleman immediately came to negotiate the business, and passed the news to the corpse chaser through the person in charge of liaison along the way. After the corpse chaser takes over the business, the middleman takes a commission from it.
Lao Ai speaks loudly, he always likes to laugh a few times when he listens to others, and he has no sense of restraint towards anyone. Lao Ai said that he was very busy today, and someone in the neighborhood sent a girl to marry and asked him to help.
Zhao Ping complimented Lao Ai as a person with authority, saying that people like him must be very busy from time to time, and let him take care of the neighborhood first.
Lao Ai is very fond of these compliments. He asked Zhao Ping to rest in the backyard house first.
The corpse chasers rest during the day, and spend most of the rest of the time sleeping in the house except for eating.
Everyone slept until late at night, and the busy man Lao Ai came to wake them up.
Everyone was sleepy-eyed and followed Lao Ai to the backyard of an indigenous house in the suburbs. Everyone knew in their hearts that this indigenous man was a master who specialized in dismembering corpses. Listening to Lao Ai's introduction, the owner's surname is Wang. Master Wang is in his thirties, short and obscene in appearance, and he is still a bachelor.
Except for Shao Yuanjie and Xu Xiaoqi, the rest of them were old acquaintances, and after a few words of greeting each other, Zhao Ping immediately ordered everyone to get busy.
Shao Yuanjie and Xu Xiaoqi followed Chen Dafu into the house where the corpses were stored, the indoor light was dim, Chen Dafu lit a candle, squatted down to uncover the straw mat on the ground, and saw four corpses parked on the door.
These four corpses have already been disposed of by Master Wang—only the head and limbs remain, but there is no body!
Shao Yuanjie smelled a strange smell in his nose, and knew that this was a special potion that had been sprinkled on the corpse to prevent the body from decomposing. The corpse was shriveled like air-dried bacon.
Xu Xiaoqi couldn't stand the strange smell anymore, so he ran out of the house and bent down to vomit. Chen Dafu sneered again and again.
Shao Yuanjie knew that he was timid, smiled slightly, and together with his uncle Chen Dafu, tied the head and limbs of the corpse to the "body" made of straw with strips of cloth. It looks like a scarecrow.
It is important to know that chasing corpses is a kind of Miao Gu art and is part of Chu Wu culture. The corpse is driven away with Gu poison and the Falling Flower Cave Girl, and is called the "Three Evils of Xiangxi". Gu is divided into black witchcraft and white witchcraft, and chasing corpses belongs to white witchcraft. In fact, "chasing corpses" is just "carrying corpses" and "picking corpses", and it is also a corpse without a body. This is an untold secret of the industry.
Chen Dafu said to Xu Xiaoqi: "There's a fart! Don't hurry in and change your clothes, don't be embarrassed!" Seeing Zhao Ping walking in from the next room, he was silent. Shao Yuanjie saw that Zhao Ping had changed into the costume of the red-clothed old priest, holding a rattle bell in his hand, and was secretly amused in his heart.
Shao Yuanjie walked up to Xu Xiaoqi and patted him on the shoulder, Xu Xiaoqi slowly entered the house with him, Zhao Ping saw that his apprentice was too dwarfed by Shao Yuanjie, and his face was long. Chen Dafu had a smug look in his eyes.
There are a total of nine corpses, Zhao Ping, as the old man in red, can't carry the corpse, and five people can't carry nine corpses, so they can only use the method of picking up the corpse. Because the fishing rod Sun Song was a head taller than others, no one wanted to pick up the corpse with him, so he let the fishing rod Sun Song carry a corpse alone. The remaining eight bodies were picked up by four people.
They put a black robe on each "scarecrow" corpse and put a hat on top of the corpse. Two bamboos were then threaded under the armpits of the deceased's large-sleeved shroud, so that several corpses were lined up so that the two carcers could carry the bodies with bamboo.
The corpse's arms were tied to the bamboo, and the large sleeves covered the bamboo, and the toughness of the bamboo made it sway up and down as it went, causing the corpse to also shake up and down, and in the blur of the night, it looked like a corpse jumping forward.
People and corpses are the same dress, Zhao Ping in front of the five people, nine corpses in front of the denomination of Chenzhou cinnabar, and pasted a few yellow notes with a vermilion pen with runes, this is the legendary Chenzhou Fu, Chenzhou Fu fell on everyone's face, very obscured vision, but there is no way, such a "walking corpse" is scary.
After about a meal, everyone said goodbye to Lao Ai and Master Wang, and Lao Ai and Master Wang sat in the room talking by themselves. I don't go out to see them off.
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