The seventh day of the third month.

Qingming season.

The pedestrians on the road had a layer of wet rain floating on their clothes, but their steps were unhurried.

Perhaps today is special, and the remote town of Qingshi Town is even more taboo, and most of the shops do not open until noon.

In a bottomless alley, a young man in Mai, who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, was in a hurry early in the morning, and his hands and feet were even more diligent.

After wiping down a few coffins in the store, he set up a ladder and carefully cleaned up the dust on the plaque at the door.

Huangquan Baishipu.

These five words seem incompatible with this quiet and peaceful town.

But after all, there is only one company in the entire Qingshi Town that undertakes white things, and today is Qingming, and the ingots and paper money in the shop are much better to sell than in the past.

"It shouldn't be a problem to earn him three or five taels of silver today, and if you sell a few more coffins before you go into ambush, you should be able to pay off the twenty taels of silver that Lao Cao owed before his death, right?"

I thought about it in my heart, and my hands and feet suddenly felt light.

In the tailor's shop opposite the door, a few old ladies sat around when they saw their coffins open the door, and their white eyes were full of bad luck, and then they continued to chat.

Every word in the mouth of this legendary 'mysterious intelligence organization' is squeezed out of between his teeth, where is the need for the young man to prick up his ears.

"The daughter of the Shen family in Baihe Town next door is dead!"

"I heard two days ago that the body has not been recovered yet......"

"Who doesn't know that the White River is the confluence of three rivers, the place where the nine rivers collide, the water flow is turbulent, and the dark rivers are innumerable, known as the Dragon King's Mansion, and it is also called the Forgotten River in the world!"

"There are three or five good corpse pickers in Baihe Town, but they are either dead or crazy when they go!"

When the young man heard about Baihe Shen's family, his eyes were obviously stunned, and he immediately came back to his senses and continued the work in hand.

Unexpectedly, an old lady surnamed Xu in the tailor shop suddenly leaned against the door, and said angrily to the young man: "Oh, when I said this, how did I forget the little shopkeeper of our white shop!" I said Lin Zhan! When the body of the daughter of the Shen family is salvaged, you can sell a coffin again! ”

Another old lady surnamed Dong also came over and started talking, but there was resentment between her eyebrows: "Lao Cao owed me that four taels and two dollars before his death, and I think it has fallen!" ”

Lin Zhan stopped what he was doing, and fell from the ladder to the door of the tailor's shop, looking at the gloomy eyes of several people and smiling: "The two aunts said that they laughed, then Baihe Town has its own white shop, where can this business be my turn?" ”

The old lady surnamed Dong spit out the melon seed skin in her mouth, and pointed at Lin Zhan with a look of hatred: "You guarded Baihe Town before the body was recovered, how can you not do this business?" Could it be that you wait all day for business to come to your door?! ”

The old lady surnamed Xu continued: "As the saying goes, if the silver doesn't come to you, you will go to the silver!" ”

The next thing is that Lin Zhan had an argument with the three old ladies, which probably means that the monk can't run the temple if he can't run.

"Auntie, relax and earn two silver taels, and I will give them to you."

After the argument, Lin Zhan was a little tired, so he turned around and walked towards the shop.

The three old ladies were all red-faced at this time, and seeing that Lin Zhan was gone, they sat down and sighed long.

"This kid is also something I watched grow up, when did he become so stubborn?!"

"Aren't we just looking forward to a good future for him!"

"I persuaded him to pay off the shop before, and at the age of sixteen, he can't ruin this white shop for the rest of his life, right?"

"I am half buried in the loess, I really think that I have to work hard for those four taels and two dollars! How...... How do you say that I am with Lao Cao...... That's a fateful friendship! ”

"Death?!"

"What's the way to get by?"

"Before I got married, I was pregnant with Lao Cao's child...... Then the child was gone...... Isn't this a lifelong friendship! ”

"Huh?! We've been friends for more than 20 years, why don't I know about this?! Tell me more about ......"

……

After Lin Zhan entered the white shop, he went straight to the backyard.

The entire backyard was empty, except for a small coffin no more than three feet in the corner.

It's more like a sword box than a coffin.

The red paint on the coffin was shiny, and Lin Zhan stood there at this time, gently stroking the four lines of indecipherable words engraved on it with his hand.

"Hey......"

Lin Zhan lowered his head slightly, and muttered to himself: "I didn't expect to be accurately calculated by Lao Cao, and your sisters are really miserable......

"Shopkeeper!"

"Is the shopkeeper there?!"

Although the backyard is some distance from the door, after all, the door is open, and the two urgent calls of the person at the door naturally appear more clearly recognizable.

Lin Zhan patted the small coffin in front of him, then turned around and walked towards the door.

After only more than twenty steps, Lin Zhan could clearly see the face of the shouting just now.

"Ah Qi?"

Lin Zhan looked at Ah Qi, who he had known since childhood, and was somewhat surprised.

Ah Qi looked at Lin Zhan unhurriedly, first glanced at the tailor shop behind him, and then hurriedly walked forward and pushed Lin Zhan into the white shop.

After finding a corner, he hurriedly said: "Something happened to the second miss of the Shen family, you know, right?" ”

Lin Zhan nodded: "I just heard about it." ”

Ah Qi glared at him: "Then why are you like a nobody!" Anyway, you and the Shen family still have a marriage contract before! ”

Lin Zhan sighed secretly: "The matter of the marriage contract has not been counted since the death of the eldest lady of the Shen family ten years ago. ”

Ah Qi was so anxious that his eyebrows were about to burn: "It doesn't matter...... Anyway, now that the second miss of the Shen family has drowned, the body has never been able to be recovered, so you should help......

The third uncle said, the eldest lady of the Shen family was also carried by you from the water back then, and now you are the only one...... Maybe ......"

When Lin Zhan heard this, he wanted to go out.

Maybe Ah Qi heard the third uncle say that if you don't invite Lin Zhan, you will break your leg or something, so she sat directly on the ground and hugged Lin Zhan's leg and didn't let go.

Lin Zhan was dizzy when he heard the old things ten years ago, and Ah Qi's appearance directly made Lin Zhan fall to the ground in a thousand thoughts.

Ah Qi was also stupid at this time, and he was about to help Lin Zhan up, but he was stopped by Lin Zhan, and then asked: "The third uncle didn't say that if I carry the body on my back, how many taels of silver will I have?" ”

Ah Qi hurriedly replied, "Twenty taels of silver." ”

Lin Zhan held his breath and scolded: "Tell that old thing, I want fifty taels!" ”

After Ah Qi left nervously, Lin Zhan, who was already lying on the ground, also completely relaxed his body at this time, and thousands of thoughts poured out of his brain.

Lin Zhan only knew that he had been by Lao Cao's side since he could remember.

And the title of Lao Cao has never been an honorific title such as master or father-in-law.

It will always be the word Lao Cao, which is specially instructed by Lao Cao himself.

Ten years ago, Lao Cao was still a famous fortune teller in these ten miles and eight towns.

I don't know why, he announced that he was a hexagram, and since then he has opened this Huangquan Baishi shop to make a living.

It was at that time that Lao Cao set a family affair for himself and the Shen family.

Just when Lao Cao and the Shen family were discussing marriage, Lin Zhan and Shen Rou, the eldest lady of the Shen family, secretly ran out to play in the Baihe River.

At that time, both of them were young, and they went into the water together to play sex.

Shen Rou lay on Lin Zhan's back, and Lin Zhan could only carry her out of the water.

After going ashore, I found that Shen Rou's abdomen seemed to have been dissected, and her internal organs had long been gone.

Looking back into the river, a meandering stream of blood swirled and rolled in it, like schools of fish vying for food.

But Lin Zhan clearly remembered that he was fine when he carried Shen Rou.

Unless something slapped her belly against her back before carrying her ashore.

After the incident, Lin Zhan was like losing his soul, and was taken home by Lao Cao with a high fever for more than three months.

It was also after that that Lin Zhan was able to enter the water at the age of six to carry the corpse, and the name of the Water Dragon King's mouth to grab food spread around.

Carrying corpses into the water has existed since ancient times.

The White River in Baihe Town is the place where three rivers converge and nine waters collide.

The water is turbulent, and there are countless dark rivers.

Known as the Dragon King's Mansion, it is also called the Forgotten River in the world.

So people often drown in the water.

Some corpses can be salvaged casually, while others are untouchable by ordinary people.

The corpses that can be found with the help of the corpse collector are often found after someone goes to salvage the corpse, but the corpse is not fished out, and they put themselves in.

Among them, the most dangerous ones are the severed head, backward drifting, the corpse of the mother and the child, the unmarried woman, and the childless man.

At this time, it is necessary to fish out the corpse, according to different genres, it is divided into three types: carrying the corpse, diverting water, and calling the return, the most dangerous of which is the corpse.

Because except for carrying corpses, people from the other two schools dare not have physical contact with corpses.

These things were also told to him by Lao Cao after Shen Rou drowned ten years ago.

Nine waters collided, and countless corpses were fished.

As far as Lin Zhan knew, there were still a few corpse collectors in Baihe Town who had the means, and coming to look for them at this time meant that they either didn't dare to take it, or they all folded.

The longer the body soaked in the water, the more fierce it became, so Lin Zhan didn't dare to delay for a moment, put the three-foot red coffin standing in the backyard behind him, closed the shop and hurried towards Baihe Town.

The three old ladies in the tailor's shop, it was the first time in these years that they saw Lin Zhan so energetic, and their faces showed long-lost relief.

"It seems that I have figured it out, and I went to Baihe Town to look for business with the coffin on my back!"

"But how can I look at the coffin, the second miss of the Shen family, I heard that she should be thirteen years old, can you put it down?"

"Whatever!"

"Since Lao Cao is gone, Lin Zhan's whole person seems to have lost his spirit, and now it's finally like this, let's not say anything more."

"That's it! I think otherwise, how about our three sisters scrape together the savings in their hands and look at finding an errand for Lin Zhan in the yamen? I see that he has also learned some rough kung fu from Lao Cao since he was a child. ”

"It's a good thing, but I'll make it clear! We don't have a lifelong friendship with Lao Cao, so you have to have a big head! ”