At that moment, a master surnamed Lu next to General Lu took over the conversation and spoke carefully to the three of them. It turned out that in the area of Yumen Pass, there was a Taoist gang called "Yinshan Tang", which specialized in taking care of the dead of Han people in various countries in the Western Regions, and transported the corpses all the way back to Yumen Pass, which has a history of hundreds of years. It is said that this "Yinshan Hall" originated in Longhu Mountain in Xiangxi, and its ancestor came to the northwest alone to make a living, only to do this errand of transporting corpses, and it has been passed down to this generation, the hall master is a middle-aged Taoist priest with the Taoist name "Netherworld", and there are several brothers and sisters around to help; plus the following disciples, there are about 20 people up and down the entire "Yinshan Hall".

On the street behind the Yumen Gate, there is also a store opened by "Yinshan Hall", but it is looking for the bodies of relatives and friends. If there are relatives and friends in the Western Regions who have no news and are worried that they have already died in a foreign land, they can go to the store of "Yinshantang" to provide the gender, age, body shape and appearance of relatives and friends, and pay one or two silver as a deposit. After that, the people of the "Yinshan Hall" in the Western Regions would help to find it, and if the body was really recovered, they would be rewarded with two taels of silver, and if the search was fruitless, the deposit of the two taels of silver would be returned after three years.

Therefore, from this point of view, this errand of "Yinshan Hall" can indeed be said to be a good deed, and it is reasonable to ask people for money. But the way those Taoist priests in the "Yinshan Hall" transported the corpses was actually the legendary "art of chasing corpses". On the first day of each month, the Taoist priest of the "Yinshan Hall" would submit a list to General Lu, listing the names of the deceased who needed to transport the bodies back to Yumen Pass that month, along with the names of the Taoist priests responsible for driving the corpses. On the evening of the seventh day, if it is a dark night with no stars and moon, two turquoise oil lamps will be lit up outside the Yumen Pass, and two corpse chasers will hold oil lamps one after the other, driving a group of corpses into the Yumen Pass.

Eight years ago, when General Lu first arrived at Yumen Pass to garrison, he naturally didn't believe that there was really any "corpse chasing technique" in the world that could allow dead corpses to walk on their own, so he led troops to investigate and witnessed the whole process of "Yinshan Hall" driving out corpses. It is said that the corpse chasing team came from the depths of the wilderness, except for the two Taoist priests of the "Yinshan Hall" in front of and behind, among them, more than a dozen "people" were wearing white robes, all of them had stiff faces, and their faces were pale, which was the shape of the cheeks of the dead; If General Lu and the others hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed that there were such strange things in the world.

The corpse driving team of "Yinshan Hall" passed through the city gate, entered the Yumen Pass, and continued to walk through the street behind the city wall, and finally went to a stone house half a mile outside the street, which is where the "Yizhuang" of the Yumen Pass is located, which is used to park the corpse on weekdays. The two corpse chasers brought the corpse into Yizhuang for placement, and then came out of Yizhuang, meditated with their eyes closed at the door, and waited until the rooster crowed, and then the two got up and told General Lu and others that the "art of driving out corpses" had been lifted, and the people could enter Yizhuang to claim the corpse. General Lu and the others hurriedly entered Yizhuang, only to see that the dozen or so walking white-clothed "people" had all been lying in the coffins prepared in advance, and after further inspection, they were indeed the corpses that had been dead for many days. Compared with the list sent by "Yinshan Tang" at the beginning of the month, the identity of each corpse is also correct.

In this way, General Lu and the others no longer dared to have the slightest suspicion, and they all believed that the Taoist priests of this "Yinshan Hall" really had strange skills, and they respected them more and more. However, after this battle, all the soldiers who accompanied General Lu that night were seriously ill afterwards, and the military doctor could not see what the illness was, and in the end they could only blame it on some evil cold. The hall master of the "Yinshan Hall", the head of the Netherworld Dao, heard that General Lu and his party were sick because of this, so he hurriedly came to consult the doctor, prescribed some pills for everyone, and drew a few spells to burn them, and General Lu and the others gradually got better.

It turned out that according to the statement of the head of the Netherworld Dao, this "technique of chasing corpses" was originally a forbidden technique in Longhu Mountain in Xiangxi, and using this technique to control the corpse to walk, even the caster himself would be counterattacked, so he lost a lot of life. If an unrelated person bumps into a corpse chaser team in the middle of the night, even if they will collide with ghosts and gods and provoke evil qi into the body, they will often get seriously ill, and may even have to worry about their lives.

So since then, General Lu no longer asks the corpse team of "Yinshan Hall", plus the Taoist priests of "Yinshan Hall" have always kept to themselves, never caused trouble, and recovered the bodies of many relatives and friends for the people in the pass, so the sergeants of Yumen Pass also turned a blind eye. On the night when the corpse team entered the customs, the soldiers guarding the city would open the city gate in advance and tell the soldiers and the people to avoid it early, so that the corpse team could enter Yizhuang unimpeded.

Besides, the hall master of the "Yinshan Hall", the head of the Netherworld, is also a person who has come to do things, seeing that General Lu has given them this convenience, once the people come to Yizhuang to take away the corpse, half of the two taels of silver collected by the "Yinshan Hall" will be sent to the office set up by General Lu under the city wall, only saying that it is to invite the soldiers to buy wine and drink. In this way, the two sides can be regarded as courtesy, and they have saved their friendship, and they have been peaceful all these years.

After listening to Master Lu's speech, Xie Yixiang realized that the so-called "Jade Gate Walking Corpse" referred to the "art of chasing corpses" in the "Yinshan Hall" in the area of Yumen Pass. Although she didn't believe that there was really any magic in the world that could make the corpse walk, she saw that the generals in the camp led by General Lu were convinced of this, and they all said that they had seen it with their own eyes, and they couldn't guess the mystery for a while, so naturally it was not easy to refute it face to face.

Referring to the two cases of "Emei Blood Baby" and "Lanzhou Ghost Monkey" left by Ning Cui before, this "Yumen Walking Corpse" should not be as simple as it seems on the surface, but I am afraid that there is something harmful to the heavens and the truth hidden in the secret. She was thinking about it, but she heard Shang Buqi behind her suddenly say, "There are ghosts here!"

Hearing Shang Bu give up suddenly saying such a sentence, everyone was slightly surprised. But he listened to Shang Bu and added: "It's not the 'ghosts' of 'ghosts' and gods, but the Taoist priests of 'Yinshan Hall' who are making trouble!"

He immediately explained: "The so-called three hundred and sixty lines are nothing but the craft of making a living, and in the final analysis, it is to do business, and to do business, it is always inseparable from the word 'profit'." According to what you say, the 'Yinshan Hall' transports a batch of corpses from outside the gate every month, and even if there are 20 corpses at a time, and there are relatives and friends who come to pay the money to receive the corpses, the total is only 40 taels of silver, and half of it is given to the garrison of Yumen Pass, which is only 20 taels of silver; According to the laws of this dynasty, even ordinary soldiers stationed at Yumen Pass have at least five dollars of silver a month, if the Taoist priest of the 'Yinshan Hall' really knows the magic power of 'the art of driving out corpses', will he be willing to stay in this remote place and earn this two pieces of silver every month, and it will be hundreds of years to do it?"

A general next to the camp couldn't help but retort: "Maybe the Taoist priest of 'Yinshan Hall' didn't intend to make money from this, but just wanted to accumulate virtue and do some good deeds." One tael of silver a month is enough. Shang Buqi immediately snorted coldly and said: "It is not difficult to do a good deed, it is difficult to do a good deed for a lifetime, it is not difficult to do a good deed alone, and it is difficult to do a good deed together with a group of people." It is impossible to operate for a long time on such a large scale as 'Yinshantang', but only because of the word 'profit'. ”

After that, he explained: "Well, I won't talk to you about the word 'profit', but if you want to transport the body of the deceased from the countries of the Western Regions back to Yumen Pass, not counting the hard work, the cost of each corpse is only one or two pieces of silver? Although I don't know the market of Bali City Yizhuang, if I want to take away a corpse, I am afraid that the money I have to pay is far more than one or two silver. So judging from the books, the transaction of 'Yinshan Hall' is clearly a loss-making transaction!"

Hearing Shang Buqi's analysis, everyone in the tent couldn't help but nod secretly. Shang Buqi glanced around at everyone and said proudly: "Therefore, 'Yinshan Hall' can operate here for hundreds of years, and it is absolutely impossible to make a living by driving corpses. It can be seen that behind all this, the Taoist priest of 'Yinshan Hall' must have other tricks!"