Chapter 173: Nu Qing Xiangxi Corpse Delivery Technique

Huamaguaishan was good at observing words and expressions. After he finished speaking, he saw Luo Laowai's reaction and knew what was going on. Then he smiled and said: "It is reasonable to say that there are zombies in the yizhuang. It's strange. The reason is that the corpse poison is not visible on the face of Second Aunt Mouse, and it seems as if the corpse poison was poured into her mouth after she died. She is blind and ignorant, how dare she show her embarrassment in front of the two great masters, the shopkeeper and Luo Shuai."

Luo Laowai was waiting for him to say this, and told Huamaguai to listen carefully. It turned out that the custom of Laoxiong Ridge in western Hunan was strange. Seven days before a person died, corpse poison was poured into the body and left behind the door. This was called " "Stand Zombie", all zombies, no matter why they die but do not freeze for whatever reason, must have corpse poison in their bodies. If there is no secret method of "Stand Zombie", the corpse will rot and deteriorate on its own before it can be driven back to its hometown.

Except for Chen Xiazi, the other three people only heard the name of expelling corpses in Xiangxi, but did not know the actual facts. At this time, Luo Laowai said it, and they suddenly felt enlightened. Sure enough, their curiosity aroused, and the rainy night was long and boring. , I would like to ask Luo Shuai to teach me the secret.

Luo Laowai wanted to take the opportunity to brag about his experience in front of Miss Hong, and he did not refuse at the moment. He was most familiar with the matter of corpse removal, because he had been a craftsman of corpse removal in his early years. When he was a teenager I was too poor to live in Shandong, so I came to Hunan to seek refuge with relatives and friends. However, I found out when I arrived that my distant relatives had died long ago. I had neither money nor refuge, and because of my ugly appearance, I didn’t look like a kind person at first glance. , no one wants to find a place to work as an apprentice and do hard work.

In desperation, I had no choice but to enter the green forest road and do some activities of killing the rich and giving to the poor. The so-called "rob the rich and give to the poor" is just a nice word, because for the poor and poor, it is difficult to get any benefit from robbing and killing them, and it also avoids disaster. A bad name among the people, but he came from another province and didn't know the local customs, so he couldn't stand up at all. Finally, someone pointed out a way for him - to become a corpse exorcist. The first condition is to be brave, the second is to be ugly, and the third is to never marry for the rest of his life.

In western Hunan, most corpse exorcisms are done in Dao gates. In Chenzhou, Xiangxi, which is rich in cinnabar, there are two Dao gates, namely "Hu Zhai Lei Tan" and "Jin Zhai Lei Tan". The business of exorcising corpses has always belonged to these two thunder altars. To run the business under his sect, Mr. Luo Wai worshiped an old man named Jin and learned the secret technique of exorcizing corpses from Jin Zhai Lei Tan.

In Xiangxi, Hunan, there have been mysterious legends such as "sending corpses, falling into caves, and releasing poisonous insects" since ancient times. Among them, sending corpses is called "driving corpses" because the mountains in western Hunan are rugged and there are no roads in many places. There are many people coming from the north. Merchants, who traffic in wood to make huge profits, usually tie up the huge logs taken by rafts in the river during the flood season and sail southward. The merchants follow the rafts down the river, and after finishing their business, they return to their hometowns through the mountains and ridges.

Because bandits are rampant in Yidong, there are many poisonous insects, and various diseases spread. Foreign merchants who are not acclimatized to the local environment often die on the way once they get sick or are robbed. The colleagues in the industry sympathized with the situation, so they pooled their money to build a charity center and hired corpse exhumation craftsmen, so that the deceased could return to their roots and bury their bones back to their hometown.

Speaking of corpse driving in Xiangxi, it is really famous and spread so miraculously that people in the world change their expressions when talking about it and fear it like a tiger. In fact, the official name of this strange art has been called "corpse sending technique" since ancient times. In modern times, " corpse driving technique ", Westerners call it "the art of hypnosis". In the eyes of foreigners, this kind of thing is more mysterious. The meaning of corpse hypnosis.

Because of the mixed mix of Yi and Han people in western Hunan and the special geographical environment, countless dangerous rock peaks rise out of thin air. The peaks and pillars stretch one after another and reach the south sky. The terrain is difficult and dangerous. There are no roads deep in the mountains. After death, people are carried back to their hometown for burial. This is not very realistic. This requires a "corpse transporter" to deliver the corpses. However, in some places, the corpse transporters only go once every six months, waiting for more dead people to be transported together.

The deceased has been dead for a long time and will inevitably decay. In that era, cremation was still frowned upon and methods such as urns were never considered. Therefore, anyone who wants to be sent back to his hometown to rest in peace must first try to make a zombie. This is a prerequisite.

How can a corpse be made into a zombie? If you want people to survive death, you can pour mercury into the corpse, but this method is relatively expensive and cannot be used by ordinary people, and it will also damage the organs of the corpse. Some people use folk secrets. When they have a premonition that their time is running out, they start to take a small amount of arsenic regularly. Of course, the dosage is very small. The arsenic is mixed with Ningluo Dan, and also added with Gucao, Shan As long as these things are in the right proportion, they will not do much harm to the human body while the person is alive. However, once the person stops breathing and the Qi and blood coagulate, they will become stiff and incorruptible, turning into a kind of zombie made by the medicine. , so the corpse has to be mortued on the door panel for several days, and then moved into the coffin until it is completely ossified. It is not impossible to perfuse it after death, but the corpse is slightly poorly preserved and tends to stink. The corpse of the second aunt Mouse in Yi Zhuang , that is, they were given poison after death and "stood stiff" behind the door panel.

The secret of sending corpses in Xiangxi, unless they are people who have worked as corpse transporters, outsiders have no way of knowing what is going on in this business, because this business is extremely mysterious, and the magic used in it has never been passed down to outsiders. Among Taoists, all Not to mention the idea of ​​driving away corpses and sending them away, those are all names given by outsiders. People in the Taoist sect all call him "Water Driving Technique".

"Water-repelling Technique" is now a formal name, and the code word in the underworld is "a bowl of water." It is unlucky to bump into the team delivering corpses. On the green forest road, such a thing is called hitting the water, and now it also means "water-driving". It means "confronting evil spirits and ghosts", because in the actual process of sending a corpse, the method relies entirely on a bowl of water, and only two people must go together to be effective.

The two of them walked in tandem, with one corpse carrier holding a cloth banner in front and using alchemy to guide the procession, while the other carried a bowl of water and walked at the end. No matter how many corpses were delivered on this trip, those corpses would always walk in the middle of the procession. , carried forward and backward by the corpse-carrying craftsman.

The two corpse-carriers are called "the one holding the pan" and the other "the one holding the water." In this line of work, the one holding the water is the most important role. After walking for a while, a charm must be added to the water bowl. This charm This is the "Burning Talisman and Gathering Water to Awaken the Soul": Open up the heaven, make people live forever, three souls and seven souls, return to the spirit and return to the infant, the three souls are on the left, the seven souls are on the right, listen quietly to God's orders, and also detect ominous things, and there is no one around. See, no one knows where to sit, and the hurry is like a law! This talisman must be the "Chenzhou Talisman" from Xiangxi. If it is replaced by another Taoist talisman, it will not work at all.

As long as the water bowl in the hand holding the water is not spilled and broken, the body will not fall over. During the process of delivering the body, the dead body is no different from the living person, except that it cannot speak, and its walking posture is also slightly different from that of the living person. It completely follows the person holding the flag. The person holding the flag will follow the dead person, and the person holding the flag will stop. Even the dead will stop. This kind of corpse-delivery team was really common in Xiangxi in the late Ming Dynasty. There is a Hunan proverb that goes, "Three people stay in the hotel, two people eat." The one who doesn't eat is dead.

The day before the corpse transport team is about to arrive at the deceased's hometown, the deceased will entrust his dream to his family, and the family will immediately collect the coffin and prepare it. As soon as the corpse arrives home, it will stand in front of the coffin. The water bearer will pour the water on it, and the corpse will be poured into the coffin immediately. At this time, it is necessary to bury the deceased quickly, otherwise the corpse will immediately change and show a rotten form. If it has been dead for a month, the degree of decomposition of a normal person after one month of death will immediately appear.

In fact, the strange magic of this bowl of water was an activity in the early years. By the Qianlong period, it had been lost. The reason for its loss was probably that it was too secretive. There were fewer and fewer people who knew this secret skill. The most knowledgeable people only know this roughly, and the principle of carrying water to deliver corpses is even more difficult to explain.

Until the time of Guangxu, in order to seek huge profits, many people trafficked in duck slices produced in Guizhou, and they came up with the idea of ​​walking corpses to deliver water. They took advantage of the people's fear of sending corpses and used them as a cover to resell tobacco, soil and arms. Using corpses as a cover is very different from the ancient corpse transportation business, but it is more mysterious. Although Luo Laowai did not learn the secret technique of corpse transportation at that time, he used his identity as a corpse driver to traffic in black goods. This is how he made a fortune , and finally became a big warlord running rampant in Sanxiang, that's why Luo Laowai was so relieved about the ugly female corpse, because he and Chen Xiazi knew very well that the corpses in this righteous village were all filled with antiseptic drugs to make them stiff. It is simply impossible to transform into a corpse.

The dead people here will be the skins of corpse dealers in the future. However, after those people use the dead to smuggle illegal goods, they will also find ways to return the corpses to their hometown for burial. This is not benevolent and moral. , but if this is not the case, there will be no way to use "corpse removal" as a guise to scare people in the future. The natives do not know the inside story of corpse delivery, so they will be afraid of it, and corpse delivery craftsmen all make this profession, so naturally He is unwilling to tell others the details easily, so he appears even more sinister and mysterious.

Hua Maguai, Miss Hong and others were all amazed when they heard this. Even though Mr. Luo had a crooked mouth, crooked eyes, and behaving in a vulgar manner, he also did everything from "eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, murder, and arson," but he knew these folk secrets. With such details, he is indeed the warlord leader who intimidates one side, and he is also the brother-in-law of the Xiling Pirate Leader. It seems that he has something special. Huamaguai quickly raised his thumb and flattered: "Brilliant, really honest It's brilliant, Luo Shuai is originally from a Taoist sect, no wonder he has such a genius!"

Luo Laowai took two sips of soju and looked very proud, but in front of the bandit leader Chen Xiazi, he couldn't show off too much. He laughed at himself: "What a dick, what kind of genius is this? I'm learning to drive corpses." I was too young, and my master didn't learn even 10% of his 10% skills. He often pretended to understand. I heard from my adjutant that recently there was a scholar in the south who wrote good articles. He said that there was no such thing in the world. I understand, but there are more people pretending to understand, and they gradually understand. What the gentleman said is reasonable. In the future, I will invite him to come and talk about it, so that I, Lao Luo, can pretend to understand as long as his grandma. Knowledge." After saying that, he turned away his crooked lips, shook his head, smiled, and drank every last drop of the pot of shochu. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)