Chapter 15: The Corpse Inn

After explaining for a long time, the people in the village didn't listen, but just urged me to leave quickly.

I had no choice but to leave the village first, but I also kept an eye on it and quietly put a sound transmission Gu on the child while the villagers were not paying attention, and I found a random place outside the village to hide.

After a while, the sound transmission Gu returned to the villagers' voices.

I listened carefully to the old man's voice: "How did you two do it, how did you let Xiaohu escape? Hearing this, Wu Lao Lao secretly wondered in his heart, this bandit from Oolong Mountain is so special and robs children.

An honest man's angry voice came: "I'm really sorry village chief, neither of us and my wife paid attention to it, let Xiaohu run out, we must have taken care of the child when we go back this time." "It turns out that the tiger-headed child is called Xiaohu.

The old man, the village chief, said in a deep voice: "Then you must take care of the children when you go back this time, and then disperse." ”

Soon, a cacophony of footsteps faded away.

I only heard a woman's reprimanding voice: "Xiaohu, why are you so disobedient, if you sneak out and get caught by the bandits in the mountains again, they will eat your meat." ”

The honest man's voice also came: "Okay, don't scare the child anymore, let's just watch him." ”

As he spoke, there was no sound, and Wu Lao Lao simply cut off the connection with the sound transmission Gu.

Wu Lao Lao had just come out of Phoenix Mountain, and he had already been a little angry when he saw that the bandits here were rampant and domineering, and even children had to be arrested, and he relied on his ability to learn from Phoenix Mountain, so he got up with the idea of going to the bandit village in Wulong Mountain to find out.

Now that he had made up his mind, Wu Lao Lao directly carried his burden and went straight to the mountain.

Although Wulong Mountain is not so tall, it is very dangerous, but fortunately, Wu Lao Lao is also the master of catching fish, birds and rabbits in the mountains since he was a child, but he did not find it difficult to walk.

It was relatively late to go up the mountain, and the sun was already slanting to the west, but Wu Lao Lao was lucky to catch a fat rabbit.

With the rabbit's two ears in his hands, Wu Lao Lao looked for a flat place and planned to survive the night.

After a while, Wu Lao Lao saw a lonely house in front of him.

Wu Laoshao took a closer look, it was a dilapidated wooden house, exuding a cold atmosphere, Wu Laoshao was not afraid, but he always felt that this wooden house revealed weirdness, but it was weird and couldn't say.

However, the artist was bold, and Wu Lao Lao strode in directly.

There was the rotten smell of wood inside, Wu Lao Lao glanced at it, there were a lot of black wooden coffins lined up in this wooden house, and the rotten smell of wood that had not seen sunlight for many years was emitted by this coffin.

The sky outside was completely dark, the starlight all over the ground seemed to be a layer of frost, and the sound of insects and leaves on the mountain made Wu Laoscoo's vigilance because of this wooden house half of his vigilance. That is, while letting down his vigilance, his stomach growled, Wu Lao Lao smiled bitterly and teased the rabbit who was stuck motionless on the ground with his legs tied: "Brother, I'm really sorry, I'll take you to dinner today." ”

After speaking, Wu Lao Lao walked out with the rabbit in his hand.

Not long after, he found a stream in a sunny place, cleaned the rabbit with the dagger he carried, washed away the blood stain on his hand, wiped the dagger and put it on his waist, and went back with the rabbit in his hand, and broke a few branches on the way back.

When he went back and put the rabbit in place, he was about to go out to find some branches to make a fire, and was about to go out, when he patted his head and said to himself, "Why should I go out to find it, this is not a ready-made firewood." ”

Saying that, Wu Laoshao found a relatively dry coffin and kicked it over, the coffin was scattered all over the ground after a while, Wu Laoshao picked up some and quickly lit the fire.

The wooden branch brought back skewered the rabbit and put it on the fire and watched slowly, about half an hour the hare was roasted and golden, and the fat left by the rabbit dripped on the fire with a slight squeaky explosion, with that sound, a rushing fragrance had drifted away, and before Wu Lao Lao had time to eat it, there was movement outside.

"The yin people are on the road, the living are avoided, welcome God!" a series of hoarse voices came, from far and near, and soon reached the door of the wooden house.

"Greetings to God. The hoarse voice shouted outside.

At this time, Wu Lao Lao Lao had a chill down his spine and finally figured out what was wrong with this wooden house, and when he came in, Wu Lao Lao remembered clearly, there was no fucking threshold in this wooden house.

Wu Laoscoo's master said that there is only one kind of house without threshold, and that is the corpse chaser inn for the corpse chasers and the dead to rest.

Wu Laoscoo also asked curiously what this was, and the master said: "The corpse inn, as the name suggests, is a place for the corpse chaser and the dead to rest." What do you think, people in this world care about falling back to their roots, especially those who have left their hometowns, but the moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have joys and sorrows.

Since life and death are fateful, it is inevitable that some poor people will end up with a tragic ending of dying in a foreign land. But if such a person wants to go home for burial, it is obviously not possible to transport the body back in the usual way, you think, even if you use a carriage or boat to walk on the road, it will take a few days, if it is far away, it will not be able to do it for ten days and a half months. At this time, there was the industry of corpse chasers, who resealed the souls of the dead in their own corpses, and combined with corpse chasers and charms, they could make the corpses walk back on their own and ensure that the corpses would not decay in a short time, which was the walking dead.

And because the soul of the deceased is sealed in the corpse, the corpse chaser can only go on the road in the middle of the night, find a place to rest before the rooster crows, and the place to rest is called the inn, which is the corpse chaser inn. As for how to distinguish the corpse inn? That's simple, there are coffins parked in about the same as Yizhuang, but unlike Yizhuang, there is no threshold for the corpse inn.

Because although the corpse chaser has the ability to leave the soul in the corpse to control the corpse to walk, the corpse is a corpse after all, and it cannot cross the house with a threshold, so the corpse chaser inn has no threshold. As for folklore, the corpse chaser actually uses special potions to preserve the corpse, and the corpse does not decay, and then divides the corpse into several parts and carries it back, or uses a unique technique, which is unknown. Although Wu Laoscoo's master told Wu Laoshao about chasing corpses, Wu Laoshao didn't take it to heart at that time.

Before Wu Laolao had time to think about it, a voice sounded outside: "Welcome to God." ”

As he spoke, a tall middle-aged man in a sackcloth robe with an ugly face walked in outside: "Why haven't you come out to welcome God? Don't miss the hour." ”

Only then did Wu Lao Lao understand that the person in front of him regarded him as a person from the corpse inn and hurriedly explained to the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man frowned after hearing this, walked out without speaking, and quickly walked back: "You are not the person who chases the corpse inn, what about the person who chases the corpse inn?"

Wu Lao Lao saw that the man's tone was not good, and he said angrily: "How do I know, I just came to this mountain to find bandits, what do I care about the people who drive the corpse inn?"

The man saw that Wu Lao Lao really didn't know that his tone was a little better: "I'm sorry, brother, I have a bad temper, I have been in a hurry for so long to see that the people of this corpse inn didn't come out to greet me, now that I think about it, there must be something wrong with the corpse inn here." By the way, you said you were looking for bandits?"

Only then did Wu Lao Lao tell the middle-aged man about the things in the village under the mountain.

The middle-aged man thought for a while and said, "Everything was normal when I passed by here two months ago, but now the people in the village below and the corpse inn have all had an accident, and they must have nothing to do with the bandits on this mountain." Brother, since you have the heart to explore this bandit's den, when I settle this group of bosses, I will also accompany you on a journey, which can be regarded as a response. ”

After speaking, regardless of Wu Laoscoo's reaction, he went out again, and soon the bell and the man's incantation sounded outside: "Dust to dust, dust to dust, up." With the man's voice, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and eight people jumped in under the guidance of the man.

In a voice: "Dust to dust, dust to dust, fall." The eight dead corpses that could no longer die actually lay down in the coffin one by one, only to see that the man took out an ever-bright lamp from the treasure bag he carried with him and lit it in front of the coffin, and then sat down not far from Wu Lao Lao as if nothing had happened.

Wu Lao Lao didn't say anything, but he saw that the man's eyes were looking at him from time to time, to be precise, at the hare he had roasted.

Wu Lao Lao was not stingy and invited the man: "If you don't dislike it, come and eat this rabbit meat." ”

The man seemed to have been waiting for this sentence for a long time and smiled innocently: "That's embarrassing, hehe." The man said this, but his body moved over without hesitation.

Wu Lao Lao carefully grabbed some salt from his package, sprinkled it on the rabbit meat finely and evenly, cut off a rabbit leg with a dagger and handed it to the man.

The man was not polite, he took the rabbit leg and sent it to his mouth, grinning embarrassedly at Wu Lao Spoon with his hot teeth, but it made Wu Lao Spoon cry and laugh.

The man took another bite of rabbit meat and swallowed it in his stomach, as if he thought of something, he took out a wine gourd from his worn-out treasure bag and handed it over, Wu Lao Lao hesitated for a moment and didn't take it, the man seemed to think of something again, opened the wine gourd by himself, and poured a big sip before handing it over.

Wu Laospoon took it and poured a big sip hard, the wine was strong enough from the throat to the stomach, it was a kind of unruliness, Wu Laospoon couldn't help but praise: "It's really good wine." ”

For the first time, the man smiled embarrassedly and said, "Really, I made it myself, and I learned it from a master who made wine, is it delicious?"

Wu Lao Lao praised it unabashedly, and at the same time saw that the corpse chaser was a simple man.

When the man saw what Wu Lao Lao had said, he spoke again: "My name is Mashan, and my friends are all called Mazi." ”

Wu Lao Lao Lao looked at the half-faced pockmarked man and couldn't help but smile: "Mazi, hehe, my name is Wu Lao Lao. ”

Mazi quickly finished eating his rabbit leg, and Wu Lao Spoon generously gave him some rabbit meat, and finally most of the rabbit went into the belly of Mazi.

Mazi said embarrassedly: "Old spoon, you really deserve to be called an old spoon, your rabbit is so fragrant." ”

Wu Lao Lao said modestly: "Where is this roasted, this is how fatty the hare meat is, I tell you pockmarks, another day let's take out some honey and smear it on this roast rabbit, the taste is fresh and sweet, and the fat is fragrant, it is absolutely amazing." Looking at the pockmarks so many people drooling there, Wu Lao Lao laughed.

Seeing the embarrassment, Mazi hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Old spoon, why do you have to go up the mountain and take this risk?"