Chapter One Thousand and Fifteen: Chasing the Corpse
Ouyang Tian suddenly looked at Luo Tian. Something was wrong with Luo Tian's expression. He immediately reached out and touched Luo Tian's forehead. The abnormal temperature on Luo Tian's body shocked him: "Are you okay? Why are you so hot?"
"Well, my body is very hot, but the strange thing is that I don't feel any pain yet, and the temperature will go down soon." Luo Tian said: "It seems that I can't suppress the power in my body. Dad, this time the direction is
It can’t be wrong.”
Ouyang Tian waved his hand: "It can't be wrong. It feels like we are entangled with each other secretly. Could it be that there is some grudge between our ancestors and it will bring harm to us? Haha, son, let's go and find out.
Let’s explore.”
"It's so evil. I thought I had picked up a huge good thing." Luo Tian also relaxed: "After this, if I can live well, I must live well with Cheng Zhen, get married immediately, and have a fat boy, no,
Two, one for dad and one for godfather, so there is no need to fight."
"Keep your word." Ouyang Tian couldn't bear to hear such words the most: "I'm just waiting."
Luo Tian said in his heart that he had to survive this, otherwise it would be in vain. Luo Tian and Ouyang Tian discussed the departure, what things should be prepared, etc., and returned home very late. Cheng Zhen was in the study
She went online and looked up many physical methods to lower body temperature. It was rare that she worked so hard. Luo Tian put his hands on her shoulders: "Thank you for your hard work."
"Have you had a fever today?" Cheng Zhen asked.
"Yes, but I don't feel any pain now." Luo Tian said, "I feel that my body is slowly detecting changes. I gained a lot from going to dad's place today. We will leave for my hometown the day after tomorrow."
"Okay." Cheng Zhen didn't ask for details: "I will wait for you to come back at home."
Luo Tian and Ouyang Tian set off in the afternoon the day after tomorrow, and it took three and a half hours to drive. Sitting in the car, looking at the mountains on both sides, Luo Tian could not imagine that this completely unfamiliar place was his origin: "Dad, you are not
People from Beijing.”
"No, I went to Beijing with my father when I was six years old, and that's when I lived." Ouyang Tian said, "I am from Hunan, and your mother is an authentic Beijinger, a Beijing woman..."
Ouyang Tian sighed inexplicably: "She probably doesn't know what happened to us, right? If she knew, she wouldn't have to come back again. When your mother and I first got married, I brought her back once, and she liked it very much at the time.
This place is said to be full of spiritual energy. At that time, she was still painting in the mountains. The background was the mountains and the protagonist was me. Later, she also painted herself. At that time, we were here looking forward to having our own children one day, and then
Then add the child to that painting, then it will be a complete picture, ugh..."
Why do you feel that your father is a little sad? Luo Tian smiled and said: "Dad, why do you feel like you have aged many years when you think about the past? Aren't we two together now, and my mother is living a good life, and her happiness is nothing more than this.
Already."
"Then we have to solve your trouble." Ouyang Tian said.
After a three-and-a-half-hour drive, we arrived at our hometown. This is a remote town in Hunan. It is very secluded. Since the young people have gone out to work, only many old people are still at home. This place is located in western Hunan, and western Hunan is a popular place for many people to come.
It is said to be very mysterious. It is full of many different legends. For example, there are legendary corpse exterminators. For example, there are also people here who cast poisons and use poisons to control people.
"Dad, this place itself is very legendary." Luo Tian said, "I don't know if it's true."
"Half true and half false." Ouyang Tian said: "At least I know how to drive away corpses. I saw it once in the mountains when I was young."
Luo Tian was looking for a place to park his car. When he heard Ouyang Tian talking about driving away corpses, he was shocked: "No, dad, are you kidding me?"
"When I was little, I was naughty. I was playing in the mountains and didn't know how to get back. As a result, I accidentally got lost. I had to hide in a cave and wait for adults to find me. I saw it that night."
A mage wearing a green robe walked in the front, followed by six "people" wearing black cloth. At first, Ouyang Tian only thought they were pedestrians walking at night, and was about to run over to ask for directions, but he walked a few steps
, he saw that something was wrong with those "people", they were walking very stiffly, and when he saw the mage's dress, Ouyang Tian was startled when he was a child. He immediately thought of what his parents had said and hurriedly retreated, but
Risking a glance, the mage was wearing a pair of straw sandals, a green robe, a black belt around his waist, a green cloth hat on his head, a gong in his hand, and a belt bag.
Around his waist, the corpses behind him were wrapped in black cloth and followed behind him...
Although Ouyang Tian was young at that time, his courage was also extraordinary. He kept following the team driving away the corpses for a long time before he stopped. It was just out of curiosity. When Luo Tian heard this, he understood why he was so curious.
If you have such a father, you will probably inherit some of it, right?
"Dad, can the corpse really be driven away?" Luo Tian has already found a parking spot, and now they have to eat here first before going to their final destination.
"I just heard about it before, but that time I saw it with my own eyes. When I told your grandparents afterwards, they told me not to tell others. In fact, when I was a child, there were very, very few corpse chasers. Everyone was very concerned about corpse chasers.
They all have a vague mentality. On the one hand, they are curious, and on the other hand, they are a little afraid." Ouyang Tian said: "I was young at that time, and after seeing this, I became interested in many things in western Hunan, especially some legends.
Folk customs and so on, but that was after I left here, and I don’t know if my parents cared much about my encounter with corpse exorcism, so they took me to Beijing not long after."
"What kind of person is my grandfather?" Luo Tian asked.
"He is a very knowledgeable person in this small town. Probably because of this, he yearned for the outside world, and finally led me out of here. Speaking of which, I would also like to thank him. In that era, he dared to
There are not many people who do this, especially we are just an ordinary family." Ouyang Tian said: "Having said that, it seems that our ancestors are very remarkable people. We will check the genealogy later to see who our ancestors are.
What are you doing? Last time I came here, I only cared about Ouyang Yi."
"I'm so hungry." Luo Tian said, "Dad, is there anything delicious here?"
"Of course, let's take you to an old store. It was open when your mother and I came here. I didn't expect that after such a long time, the business is still very good." Ouyang Tian led Luo Tian into a store that looked like
A very simple shop: "People in my hometown like to eat pickled vegetables and chili peppers, so you have to be able to eat spicy food. You have lived in the south for so long, so you may not be used to it."
Luo Tian blurted out: "As long as there is something to eat, I've never been picky. I'm just not used to eating Western food."
This shop is famous for making sour fish. The pickling of sour fish in western Hunan is quite popular among ancestors - the ancestors' refuge and migration from Jingchu to Jianghan, the raging and rampant floods, droughts and tyrants, the encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers of all dynasties, and the banditry.
, it is destined that the food in Xiangxi is hot and sour, so that the food can be stored without deterioration and become a life-saving food in times of disaster. The Miao Village Tujia mainly eats sour food, and sour fish is the best dish for hospitality in Xiangxi.
Delicious dish. Savor the long, sweet and sour, spicy and delicious taste of the sour fish, which is unique when paired with the fragrant and spicy Baogu roast.
The best fish species for making sour fish in Western Hunan are the lively carps found in the rice fields of Dehang Miao Village. When the late rice is heading and filling after the beginning of autumn, the water in the rice fields is drained and the fish are caught in baskets.
Carry it home, cut the belly open, wash and dry it, fill the fish belly with glutinous rice flour, mix in pepper, ginger, garlic, five-spice powder and other ingredients into the jar, a layer of fish, a layer of salt, a layer of glutinous rice flour or corn flour
Mix in dried chili powder, pile it on top of each other, tightly, seal it and place it in a wooden basin filled with water. There is also a practice of burying the altar in the soil. This kind of sour fish with water and soil blocking the air can be as little as 100 grams.
It can be kept fresh for one or two years, and it can stay fresh for eight or nine years at most. When the jar is opened, bursts of fragrant and sweet and sour smells go straight to the internal organs. After being served, the sour fish can be steamed or fried.
Luo Tian was hungry for a long time. It seemed that the shop owner and Ouyang Tian were already very familiar with each other. The two were joking in their hometown dialect. Luo Tian couldn't understand a word. He could only watch Ouyang Tian say something in his hometown dialect, okay?
Yi Yi waited for Ouyang Tian to finish the conversation, and Ouyang Tiancai said: "I ordered sour fish, bacon, porcini mushrooms, and a vegetable sprout. How about it?"
"Very good, Dad, why are your hometown dialect so good?" Luo Tian asked curiously.
"It's hard to get rid of local accents. Don't you understand this truth?" Ouyang Tian said: "In fact, I should have asked you to come back for a long time. I didn't expect to come here under such circumstances. These things are really..."
Luo Tian didn't want to talk too much about this topic, so he asked, "Dad, what's going on with that corpse extermination thing?"
"The origin of corpse driving is recorded in folk books: According to legend, thousands of years ago, the ancestor of the Miao people, Apu Miaoyu Chi You, led his troops to fight against the enemy by the Yellow River, until corpses were everywhere and blood flowed into the river. After the battle, he wanted to go to
After the rear retreated and the soldiers carried away all the wounded soldiers, Apuchiyou ordered Apu's military advisor to send the brothers who died in the battle back to their hometowns. So Apu's military advisor dressed up as Apuchiyou and stood over the bodies of the brothers who died in the battle.
In the middle, after silently reciting incantations and praying to the gods, all the corpses that had been lying on the ground suddenly stood up and walked southward in an orderly manner behind Apuchiyou's high-raised talisman. This was the earliest version of corpse driving.
"
While they were talking, some side dishes had been served, and the two of them were eating and talking. "In the Qing Dynasty, there was a custom of "Autumn Judgment". Every year during the autumn equinox, all state and county yamen would execute death row inmates with the approval of the Ministry of Punishment. After the local death row inmates were executed,
It is up to the family members to collect the body and bury it, while the guest death row inmate who wants to be executed needs to be transported back to his hometown. Usually, four people need to be hired to carry a body, which is very expensive. However, it is relatively cheap to ask the boss to drive the body back to his hometown, and it can be done
Make sure it doesn't rot or stink during the process, because the corpse being carried may rot after a day, so this practice of corpse driving became popular."