Chapter 19: Beheaded Corpses
The wind is blowing for a hundred days, and the scenery is flowing westward. Time is merciless, and eight years have passed in a flash.
Qingshui County, in a small township in Langzhou, a tall and sturdy man went straight to a magnificent mansion.
The man came to the door, looked up and saw the word "Gaofu", and then knocked on the door.
After a while, the door opened, and a man dressed in gray cloth clothes poked his head out, and saw that the man in front of him had an angular face, a pair of bright and deep eyes, and a scar on the right side of his face that looked sinister, and then asked cautiously:
"Who are you looking for?"
"Qiu Hu, the second disciple of Guzhang Daoren in Xialao Mountain, came to take over the person who returned to his roots." The man clenched his hands into fists, and his voice was loud and full of energy.
"Oh! It turned out to be a gentleman, please, the lord has been waiting for a long time. When the guy heard this, he hurriedly opened the door of the mansion and welcomed Qiu Hu in.
"Master, Mr. Qiu has come to pick up someone." The guy walked briskly in front of Qiu Hu and shouted into the inner room.
With the sound, a middle-aged man dressed in a gorgeous costume with a forty-year-old face walked out. This person has a short figure, a fat head and big ears, walks and sways, and a beautiful woman accompanies him on his right.
"Ouch, Mr. Qiu is here, and there is a loss of welcome." The middle-aged man smiled with a smile on his face, and saluted Qiu Hu with a fist, his bulging belly making him look reluctant to bend over.
"You're polite." Qiu Hu replied.
"Come on, come on, please come in first." The senior officer waved his hand to open the way, and then shouted to the guy, "Ah Sheng, hurry up and ask the back kitchen to prepare some wine and food, and wash the dust for Mr. Qiu." ”
"Okay." The man hurriedly bent down in agreement.
"No, let's go and see what is going on first." Qiu Hu hurriedly stopped and said to the senior officer with a straight face.
"Okay, sir, please." Gao Yuanwai immediately nodded, then glanced at the guy, and took Qiu Hu to the morgue.
When Qiu Hu came to the house, he saw the corpse covered by the bloodstained white cloth on the ground at a glance, and came to the corpse in a few big steps, and the woman outside the senior and the woman next to him stood outside the door.
Qiu Hu lifted the white cloth, and his eyes immediately froze.
It turned out to be a decapitated corpse? The neck of the deceased was neatly knifed, and it was clear at a glance that it was the executioner's executioner.
But the head of the deceased stood beside the corpse, his eyes wide open, his mouth and nose wide open, and his face distorted, and he must have uttered a final cry when the knife fell, so that the corpse stiffened and maintained this countenance.
Senior brother didn't say that he was a murderer, right? Qiu Hu was a little puzzled at this time, but this errand was supposed to be the job of a dog baby, but that guy recently got along with the daughter of a butcher, and he was thinking about how to sneak away and steal joy all day long, so he directly pushed the job to Qiu Hu.
Thinking that it was not easy to find a woman who fell in love with him based on the appearance and identity of the dog baby, and this trip was not far, and there were only five or six schedules back and forth, so he simply agreed. But when it was over, the dog baby walked too fast, and he didn't have time to ask what kind of difference it was.
Qiu Hu sighed, took out a piece of yellow paper with a talisman in his arms, and unfolded it, and asked the senior officer who was covering his mouth and nose at the door: "An Ren, Gengchen year Xin Siyue, born in Jiayin Day, died at noon on Gengshen day in Wushen year, twenty-eight years old, is there a mistake?" ”
"No, no." Gao Yuanwai hurriedly shook his head.
Qiu Hu nodded, and then began to work on the decapitated corpse in front of him.
Qiu Hu took out a pair of thicker needles and threads from his waist, and then recited a spell to quickly sew the deceased's head together. Then take out the cinnabar and place it in seven places of the deceased's head, back heart, chest and heart, left and right hand plates, and palms of feet, each place is pressed with a rune, and then tied with five-colored cloth strips.
Immediately, a backflip came to the deceased's head, took out cinnabar and stuffed it into the deceased's ears, nose, and mouth, and then blocked it with a rune, and in an instant, the originally quiet corpse suddenly shook all over his body, and the two people outside the door hurriedly screamed and left.
Seeing that the corpse was shaking, Qiu Hu immediately took out cinnabar and covered his neck, pasted a rune, and tied it tightly with strips of five-colored cloth, and the corpse immediately calmed down. Immediately put the Zongye hat with the rune on the cover of the dead corpse and put it on, and wrapped the white cloth around him directly around him, and everything was done, Qiu Hu fell back and fell on the corpse a foot away, pinched his hand, and recited the incantation:
"Open the heavenly court, make people immortal, three souls and seven spirits, return to the gods and anti-infants, three souls on the left, seven spirits on the right, listen to the divine order, and it is not clear, no one sees it, no one knows when it sits, and it is as urgent as the law!"
Then he shouted, "Get up!" The corpse that was tightly wrapped in a white cloth and wore a dumpling leaf hat stood up straight from the ground, Qiu Hu nodded with satisfaction, and then shouted at the door:
"It's alright, come in."
I saw Gao Yuanwai and the woman timidly poke their heads out of the door frame, and saw that the dead body was already standing, and the woman screamed, and Gao Yuanwai immediately scolded:
"What's it called, don't you see it?"
Then he came to Qiu Hu with a smile on his face: "Mr. is so powerful, he actually let this corpse stand up so easily, I heard that many masters of the older generation have to try a few more times to succeed." ”
Qiu Hu's eyes flashed when he heard this, and he secretly said in his heart that this high-ranking official seemed to be timid on the outside, but he also had a common vision, and then smiled indifferently: "This is called soul restoration skill, the better the soul return skill, the more souls of the dead corpse are left, the easier it is to get up, and it is naturally more relaxed after walking on the road." ”
"Hahaha, Mr. is really a young hero, I hope Mr. will enjoy his face and drink a few glasses of thin wine today, and the contemptible person has already prepared it." The senior staff hurriedly clapped their hands and applauded.
Qiu Hu nodded, and then decided with one hand, and the dead body consciously jumped behind the door, and locked himself in the room with a "bang", and the rest of the people were dumbfounded.
In fact, this meal is a matter of course, and usually Mr. Walker in the house is to prepare the wine and food and money first, but Qiu Hu is used to seeing the corpse first and placing it in the shortest possible time of death, which is not only convenient for summoning spirits, but also dedicated.
At the wine table, Qiu Hu learned the reason for the deceased: the deceased An Renren was originally a man in the high-ranking foreign mansion, and he was very loyal to the high-ranking foreigners. Just because he accompanied the young master to the market a few days ago, he met a woman who was molesting his own young master, and the woman had a younger brother who had a reckless temperament, and he punched and kicked the young master.
"Alas, what a good servant, but after all, he killed someone, although I am heartbroken, I naturally can't break the law and discipline to burden him, so please Mr. must send him back to his hometown smoothly, so it is a fallen leaf to return to the roots."
The senior officer covered his face and regretted while talking outside, Qiu Hu saw his contrived posture, and snorted coldly in his heart, knowing that this was not the case, it was estimated that his young master provoked another girl, and then killed someone, so that this servant could take the blame. But those who do their job just need to take over the work, and the reason for it doesn't have to be clear, so naturally they can't manage it.
After the meal, the senior staff sent someone to take two packs of silver money to Qiu Hu, one was the reward for walking, and the other was the pension entrusted to him to hand over to the deceased's family, but his own pension was obviously much heavier than that pension.
Qiu Hu didn't want to stay long after learning the reason, and when he saw that it was a little dark outside, he simply resigned and led the body away. The corpse can only be carried out at night, and there is a fixed behavior, otherwise Qiu Hu would not want to stay here for a moment. Of course, this high-ranking person is generous when he goes out, and the silver taels are naturally to be taken, after all, it is his own hard work.
Qiu Hu shook the soul bell while leading the corpse towards the sparsely populated mountains, this was not the first time he had walked, and he was naturally already proficient. In the past eight years, he has already mastered all kinds of techniques and kung fu required to drive out corpses, and since he returned home two years ago with his parents' notes to formally apprentice, he has received no less than 20 jobs in the past two years, and he is also well-known in the circle.
The year before, the dog baby also accompanied him to walk with him, and gradually after he took charge of himself, the dog baby was also sent by the master to pick up those long-distance errands, fortunately, the two years were quite smooth, and he did not meet robbers and robbers, nor did he encounter the corpse fighting method.
But what Qiu Hu didn't know was that when he was immersed in his thoughts, the dead body behind him was slowly oozing a little cinnabar, slowly dyed with red and sealed five-color stripes and a white cloth tightly wrapped outside......