Over time, the people in the southwest and other places gave up salt and replaced salt with plant ash, acid dipped in water, chili oil, nitrate and other things.

Since official salt is expensive, there are always people who have a crooked idea, some salt merchants deliberately transport salt to waterways, sell it directly to smuggler salt dealers, and then let them disguise themselves as corpse chasers, weave a human shape with straw, and fill it with salt and wrap it in oiled paper, so that merchants do not have to pay for the journey, and these salts will not be exploited by the government without going through official roads, and will become much cheaper, even if the salt merchants' bids are a little higher, they can also make a lot of money.

There is such a group of people called the mountain bandit gang, who saw that the sale of illicit salt in the border areas of Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou is a big fat meat, and they want to enter the industry by force, no one dares to say anything, can they eat and drink spicy food with brute force alone?

As the old saying goes, if you are pecked by a bird, they end up planting on the salt. This matter is still talked about by the peacocks who have heard the old generation put up the dragon gate array.

At that time, the former dynasty was in decline, the southwest was in turmoil, bandits were rampant in the countryside, and some salt merchants wanted to enter the southwest to make money, but they also had to weigh whether they had the ability to come out of the mountains again.

There is a way to be a thief and there is a way, no matter how arrogant your bandits are, you must abide by the rules you have set, but these mountain bandits do not think so, and only give these merchants two ways, either put down the goods and go home, or they will be beheaded and killed.

Salt merchants are all diligent people who do business, if they can make money, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if they can't make money, at least they can take their lives back, and simply leave the salt stall and go home; There is really that iron who wants money and does not want to die, so he directly hacked to death with a knife and threw it into the Yuanjiang wharf.

This gang of mountain bandits broke the rules, no one dared to sell salt, over time there was a salt shortage in the southwest, the salt can be compared to silver, and even to the point where there is no market, they don't know, most of the private salt is detained by the mountain bandits, and the price of salt is a little higher, so they will sell this batch of salt.

How do they sell salt? These mountain bandits tied the straw into corpses, filled it with salt, and went on the road as corpse chasers, and walked the world with a set of incisions, and those who really wanted to buy salt would definitely be able to ask, but they only carried the scarecrow back, and poured out the salt on the grounds of asking about the corpse, and they didn't know it.

These bandits have a lot of lives on their hands, and they have personally broken the rules, and they are really unrighteous and ruthless.

It was rainy and rainy on this day, and when they walked in front of the mountain temple, they went into the mortuary specially prepared for the corpse chasers, and when they walked in, they saw that there were already many corpses parked inside, and they were afraid of alarming these corpse chasers, so they also parked the corpses in the shop and pretended to rest.

After the night of wind and rain had passed, several people woke up and looked at the shop again, and the other corpse chasers had already hurried forward.

Just as these mountain bandits were also propping up the straw corpses, one person found that these scarecrows were much heavier than before, and thought that the straw was full of water, and lifted the hat on the scarecrow's head, and the scarecrow, which was originally stuffed with table salt, had become white and gray.

A few people noticed that something was wrong and were about to leave, but at this moment, these gray zombies slowly opened their dark and cloudy white eyes, stared at them deadly, their nails crunched, and even their teeth grew out.

Without exception, these mountain bandits were all disemboweled, and they died tragically in the morgue. Some people say that it was the mountain bandits who offended the heavens, and the heavens specially sent down heavenly punishments, so that they lost their lives, and some people said that the corpse chasers had long known that they were fake, and specially left the zombies to clean up the portal.

After that, for a long time, no bandits dared to provoke the corpse chaser! Ren Peacock said Now, hearing the cold backs of the people, Yue Erpao's teeth trembled and said: "Then the corpse chasers you are looking for, are they also real corpses?" ”

"I don't know, these three people are villagers from the nearby village, and they must have driven the real corpses, but if there is no business, they will also use straw to tie out villains to replace the corpses, so that pedestrians know their identities and deliberately avoid them."

"Sister Ren, can a corpse really attack a living person?" Regarding this question, Ren Peacock was obviously not sure, and shook his head: "I don't know about this, I just heard the elders talk about it back then, where is the opportunity to confirm it, but now it is becoming more and more evil, and it is impossible to distinguish the true from the false." When the four of them spoke, the gong rattle sounded in their ears, this kind of sound Yue Guanchao had also heard in Yangquanyi, and it was estimated that the three people had already arrived.

"Let's go, my three fellow villagers have arrived." A few people went downstairs and walked out of the inn, and two people in the distance drove three or four corpses to them.

These people are about the height of normal people, some are fat and thin, some are tall and some are low, arranged in a straight line front and back, wearing a stone blue coat on their bodies, their lower legs and feet are intact, they are covered by a hat from the neck, and the front and back of the heart are glued with Chenzhou runes, and their hands are stiffly on the shoulders of the predecessors, jumping and jumping forward.

This kind of corpse team, often two people in the front and back of the corpse procession, the predecessor wears a red robe coat, beating gongs and drums and reciting incantations, and the descendant wears a green robe and coat, holding a waist bell and clanging bells, if the corpse is crooked, the leather whip will be pulled back.

In addition to them, there is also a person wearing a rhombic pattern of Baina Taoist robes, with a wooden hairpin on his head, holding the Sanqing Emperor Bell in his hand, a peach wood sword talisman on his back, and a gossip cloth bag hanging obliquely around his waist.