My name is Huang Shuilong, and I am a corpse digger.

There are some rules in this line of work, which must not be broken, otherwise you will lose your life.

I was born and grew up by the Yellow River, and my mother gave birth to me and died in the third year, leaving three people in the family, namely my father, my eldest brother and me.

My father is a well-known corpse digger in that area, and my eldest brother has been learning from him for more than ten years.

In addition to my family, there is another family that also fishes up corpses, but he is a monk halfway, unlike my family, which is passed down from ancestors.

At that time, our place had the name of "South Zhang and North Huang", which was the Zhang family in the South Village, and our old Huang family in the North Village.

When I was 10 years old, I spent the summer vacation, which happened to be the "Dragon King Festival" for half a month in our place.

In the past half a month, there have been a lot of particulars, the boat does not go out of the dock, and there is an unwritten rule in the body fishing industry, that is, no matter what the reason, you can't fish out the body.

As soon as I got up that morning, I heard from my eldest brother who had come back from outside that a boat had capsized in the river yesterday and a few people had fallen into it.

When I asked, I found out that it was someone from out of town who paid to hire a boat to go into the water.

According to what the eldest brother said, the boat had just gone down and walked not far before it was overturned by a wave.

This matter also spread in the village, saying that it provoked the Dragon King, and the few people who fell into the river would definitely not survive.

My father was smoking a cigarette there, spit out a puff of cigarette, and scolded "a few turtle calves", saying that this person who dared to go out of the boat also made money and died.

When we were eating, more than a dozen people came to my house, and the leader was Han Laosan, the richest man in the village.

Before his family, it was the poorest family in the village, and there were no decent clothes in the family, a shirt and trousers, and whoever went out wore them.

However, in the past few years, Han Laosan has been on the list of capable people in the town, and he has made a lot of money by secretly reselling river sand, and the house at the head of the family has been renovated three times.

The people in the village are not less greedy, and this Han Laosan also dragged a few village heads, who were originally ruffians like him to do this kind of business.

However, my father said that the money Han Laosan earned was not clean, and sooner or later he would have to be punished.

This time, Han Laosan came over and directly said that he wanted to ask my father to help him go to the river to retrieve the corpse, and asked my father to tell me the number.

My father didn't want to mess with this kind of person, and he was a villager in the township, so he didn't look up and looked down, so he lied and said that he was sick and couldn't go to retrieve the corpse.

When Han Laosan heard my father say this, he wanted my eldest brother to help.

My father told Han Laosan again that the rules of the Huang family for scooping up corpses are that only two people can do it, and one person can't do it.

Hearing my father say this, Han Laosan didn't leave immediately, and said a few more times.

But my father had already made up his mind and was not moved at all.

When my eldest brother and I sent Han Laosan's gang away, my father said that Han Laosan must have gone to Nancun to find Lao Zhang.

Then, my father asked my eldest brother to ride the 28 bars and hurry to Lao Zhang's house in Nancun, so that people should not respond to this matter.

In my father's words, if anyone dares to dig up corpses on this day, it is purely a matter of disregarding their own lives.

I asked my dad why, but he didn't tell me much at the time, and scolded me for "what the big guy is doing here".

The eldest brother only came back from Nancun at noon.

My father asked him if Lao Zhang should come down, but the eldest brother said that he agreed to come down.

Hearing my eldest brother say this, my father scolded at the time, "Motherfucker, stupid donkey!" ”

My father asked my eldest brother carefully, and only then did he know that Han Laosan was riding a motorcycle, much faster than my eldest brother.

When my eldest brother arrived at Lao Zhang's house in Nancun, Lao Zhangtou's daughter-in-law was left at home, and Lao Zhangtou took his apprentice and son, and Han Laosan's gang to go to the river to fish for corpses.

In the process of Lao Zhangtou's corpse, I didn't need my father to go out to inquire, and someone came to my house to talk about it.

Speaking of which, this old Zhang Tou is also very powerful, four people were fished out of the river in one go, but there is still a dead person, this old Zhang Tou can't be fished out.

Han Laosan's gang of people had to continue to fish for Lao Zhangtou and toss until the evening, but they still couldn't catch it.

Listening to Han Laosan, the one that was left to be fished out was the younger brother of the capable man in the town on his list, and people said that they would see people in life and corpses in death, and they were willing to spend as much as they wanted.

Anyway, Han Laosan told Lao Zhangtou that he had to fish people out, and if he couldn't get it today, he would continue to fish it out tomorrow.

As soon as my father waited for the people who said these things to leave, he said that the old man would not live for a few days.

I was skeptical of what my father said, but my eldest brother was convinced.

The next day, Lao Zhangtou and Han Laosan's gang were busy for another day, but they still didn't catch the last one.

Later in the night, I was awakened by the thunder outside.

My father and my eldest brother stood at the door and looked out.

There were one after another of the thunderbolts outside, one after the other, and I have never seen this kind of thunder for as long as I can remember.

It was estimated that it took more than ten minutes before the movement stopped.

My father smoked a cigarette and said that this thunder was evil, and he was afraid that something from the river had come ashore.

After dawn, whenever I met people in the village, they all talked about thunder at night.

And I heard some old men and women in the village say that they have never seen this kind of thing in their lives.

My father asked my eldest brother to go to Nancun again, saying that he wanted him to go and see Lao Zhang's family.

As a result, the eldest brother didn't come back before noon, but the rumor in the village had already spread that something big had happened in Nancun.

said that Lao Zhangtou's family and his apprentices were all dead!

Moreover, their deaths were extremely miserable, they all died with a blood gourd, and the skin on their bodies was peeled off.

I remember clearly, when my father heard this, his face turned white all of a sudden, and the cigarette pot he was smoking in his hand fell directly to the ground.

My father stayed where he was, at least for two or three minutes, and didn't say a word.

It wasn't until I picked up the pot and handed it over that my dad recovered.

My father told me to stay at home, saying that he was going to Lao Zhang's house in Nancun.

Originally, I wanted to go with my father, but my father scolded me directly and almost beat me.

It wasn't until seven or eight o'clock in the afternoon that my father returned, but he still didn't see my eldest brother.

Moreover, my father's face became more ugly, and I was afraid to talk to him.

But I listened to my father's mouth, muttering something about "dragon king skinning".

At about ten o'clock in the evening, I slept in a daze, and heard that someone seemed to be coming to the house, and it seemed that my eldest brother's name was mentioned.