As soon as the words came out, Master Zhou seemed to feel that he had missed his mouth, so he hurriedly changed his words, saying that he didn't know anything about his words, and he had to ask General Lu for instructions. When the three of them saw him like this, they clearly knew the origin of this "Jade Gate Walking Corpse", but they didn't break it at the moment. That week, the master sent a sergeant to the barracks to pass the ceremony, and he accompanied the three of them to drink tea and chat, so after half an hour, a team of sergeants came outside the house to greet him, saying that General Lu respectfully invited the third lady of General Xie's family.

The three of them followed the sergeants who led the way, and went straight to the barracks on the left side of the official road. However, seeing that the military tents along the way were neat, the ranks were standardized, and all the arrangements were orderly, it can be seen that General Lu is indeed a general who manages the army. Xie Yixiang couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, as the so-called "Shibei three days, since you should be impressed", it seems that a young general under his father's command back then can now stand alone, no wonder he can sit in the first line of defense in the northwest Yumen Pass. After traveling two or three miles in the barracks, they came to a huge tent, and the sergeant stationed outside the tent asked for the intention, and hurriedly entered the tent to make a report, and then asked Xie Yixiang, Xian Jingyue and Shang Buqi to enter the tent.

I didn't expect that in this camp tent, it was so lively at the moment: on the ground in the camp tent, there was a large sand table with a square face, which was obviously a terrain model inside and outside the Yumen Pass, and it was also full of small flags of various colors. On the seats on both sides of the tent, there were more than 20 generals in total, and when they saw the three people entering, they all stood up and saluted. Looking at the seat in the middle of the camp, there was a black-bearded general in his forties, born with a high nose and a wide mouth, wearing a silver-white armor, and his appearance was very powerful. He also stood up with the generals on both sides, gave a military salute to Xie Yixiang, and said, "Meet Miss Xie San!"

Xie Yixiang hurriedly returned the salute and said, "With General Lao's concern, my father's body has always been healthy. It's just that I have been trapped in Jinling for many years and can't see my former comrades-in-arms, so I often have some thoughts and feel that it is difficult to let go. Hearing this, the black-bearded general's eyes were slightly red, and he stood for a while, and suddenly knelt on the ground and shouted: "The last general, Lu Yuanpo, ask General Xie for peace! May General Xie live a long and healthy life and live a long life!" At the end of the words, the twenty or so generals in the camp also knelt on the ground at the same time, and said one after another: "Say hello to General Xie!"

Xie Yixiang was at a loss for a moment, she couldn't imagine that this Yumen Pass garrison, which was far away in the Western Regions, respected her father so much, and you can imagine how high Xie Fengxuan's prestige in the army was. At that moment, she hurriedly humbled herself, and General Lu and the others got up and took their seats, and ordered the sergeant to show the three of them their seats. Then General Lu inquired in detail about Xie Fengxuan's recent situation, and told him about his service under Xie Fengxuan back then, and then he got back to business and asked Xie Yixiang and his party about the intentions of the three of them.

It is said that in the past two years, Xie Yixiang has traveled south and north, and for the sake of convenience, he has long been accustomed to "talking about people when he sees people, and talking about ghosts and ghosts". Since General Lu now has great respect for her father, she opened her mouth and made up a story on the spot, only saying that someone reported the case to the criminal arrest room, saying that there was a strange case of "Yumen walking corpse" in Yumen Pass. The torture and arrest room was reluctant to pay attention, but his father Xie Fengxuan said that Yumen Pass was an important place for military aircraft, and the leader of the army was stationed in General Lu, a former comrade, so there could be no mistake, which made Xie Yixiang wade through mountains and rivers and rushed to Yumen Pass to investigate the case. Therefore, her coming this time was actually not a formal assignment of the criminal arrest room, and there was no relevant documents; coupled with the long distance, Xie Fengxuan couldn't rest assured after all, so he invited Beiping Shen Arrester Buqi and Xie Yixiang's senior brother to accompany her all the way.

Xie Yixiang's lie was seamless, and General Lu was immediately convinced, and couldn't help but be a little flattered, and hurriedly thanked the general for his care. Then he groaned for a while and said, "I can't hide it, Miss Xie San's so-called 'Yumen Walking Corpse' is known to the general, and in this Yumen Pass area, almost all women and children know about it. Eight years ago, when the general was ordered to come and garrison Yumen Pass, the matter already existed, and according to the local people, it had even existed for hundreds of years. However, this matter can be regarded as a good deed, or a local custom, how can someone report the case to the Jinling Detention Room and call it a 'strange case'?"

Hearing General Lu's words, the three of them were puzzled, and hurriedly asked what the word "walking corpse" was. But I heard General Lu ask rhetorically: "A few well-informed people, I don't know if you have ever heard of the 'corpse chaser' in Xiangxi?"

The so-called "corpse chaser" in Xiangxi is actually an errand, but also a craft. To put it simply, it is to transport the body of the deceased who died in a foreign land back to his hometown, so he is also called a "corpse delivery person". Because this errand is a chore, and it is looked down upon by the world, no one is willing to do it. Over time, an organization was formed that specialized in this errand, especially the corpse chasers in Xiangxi were skilled and full of tricks, so they were the most famous.

However, the transportation of the bodies of the deceased, after all, is a bit appalling, and it will inevitably make people think about it, and gradually it will involve ghosts and gods, and all kinds of crazy words will be heard. Among them, the most widely spread is that the corpse chasers in Xiangxi are all equipped with strange skills, and they can make the corpse of the deceased die without stiffening, and even walk on their own like a living person. So the corpse chasers did it in the middle of the night when no one was around, and let them transport the corpses to "resurrect", and the corpse chasers led them in front and led a team of lively corpses to hurry.

At that time, there was a widely circulated story that two people stayed in the hotel at night, one of them wore a hat and a black cloak, covering himself tightly from head to toe, and did not speak, and all the affairs of the hotel were taken care of by another fellow Xiangxi man. The shopkeeper was timid and fearful, worried that this man wearing a hat was a wanted criminal, so he asked his man to report to the official overnight. When the yamen came to inquire, the Xiangxi man began to hesitate, and finally recruited a serious minister, claiming that he was the corpse chaser in Xiangxi, and the person wearing the hat was actually the corpse he was going to transport this time;

But where was the tolerance and the store willing to believe, they still insisted on sending the two to the yamen. Seeing this, the Xiangxi man had to sigh, and compared himself for a long time, saying that he had unlocked his spell. Sure enough, the man wearing the hat fell to the ground on the spot, and remained motionless, and everyone took off the hat and untied the cloak, which was clearly the body of a man who had been dead for more than ten days, and it also emitted a foul smell.

The man from Xiangxi explained to everyone that he was not trying to make a fool of himself, but that the corpse was to be sent to his hometown thousands of miles away for burial, and it would take at least one or two months.

In addition to this story, there are many similar legends, all of which say that the corpse chasers in Xiangxi have great powers. Xie Yixiang and the others had naturally heard a lot, but they didn't know why the general Lu in front of him, who commanded a garrison of 100,000, would ask such a question.

I saw a wry smile on General Lu's face, and said: "The last general has been in the army since he was a child, and the last thing he believes in is this ghost and god theory. However, the corpse chasing team at Yumen Pass has been witnessed many times by our own eyes over the years, and we can't help but believe it. To tell you the truth, in the middle of the night on the seventh day of every month, a corpse driving team will come from outside the Yumen Pass to transport back the corpses of the Han people who died outside the pass. And the transportation technology they used is exactly the same as that of the legendary Xiangxi corpse chaser, which is to make the dead 'resurrect', let the corpses of the deceased line up in turn, follow the corpse chaser and walk on their own, just like this all the way into the Yumen Pass. ”