Sun Nong calculated the time and distance and figured that he would be able to walk to the "Tingyin Inn" around four o'clock in the morning.
"Tingyin Inn" is a special inn, an inn specially set up for corpse chasers. It is mainly used for corpse chasers to rest during the day. There is a separate room in the inn to park the corpses. This room has no windows, and the door is wrapped in thick black
cloth.
Sun Nong walked along the path step by step. Looking at the position of the moon, he still had four or five hours to go.
Suddenly, Sun Nong's ear moved. It was extremely quiet in the wild at night, and you could hear any slightest movement. Since corpse hunters often walk at night, excellent hearing and vision are necessary skills.
Before Sun Nong followed his father to remove corpses, he practiced listening for two years. Finally, Sun Nong casually threw a handful of chopsticks on the ground ten meters away from his father. He could hear how many there were in total, and then he started to officially follow.
The fathers drove away the corpses.
There were people on the road ahead, three of them. One middle-aged man and two teenagers. After Sun Nong judged the number of people, he began to feel nervous.
The last thing a corpse hunter wants to encounter is not something abnormal happening to a corpse, but encountering a living person at night.
When you meet a reasonable person, you can hide from a distance and pass by. When you meet someone who is difficult to talk to, it is inevitable that you will be insulted and insulted.
I heard from people from my father's generation that there was a company that was in the business of expelling corpses. They were passing by a village a few miles away, and they happened to meet people from the village. They said it was bad luck and affected the feng shui of their village, so they asked to go back the same way.
People on both sides quarreled. One party was unwilling to return the same way, and the other refused to pass through the village. In the end, they got into a fight, and several corpse drivers were beaten to death.
Sun Nong stood there, hoping in his heart that these three people would leave quickly.
After standing for a long time, they could only hear faint laughter. It seemed that the three people had no intention of leaving at all. Looking at the sky, Sun Nong thought that he could not waste any more time and hoped that the people he met would be easier to talk to.
Sun Nong bit the bullet and shouted: "Yin people go on the road, Yang people stay away."
After walking for more than ten minutes, I saw three figures sitting on a huge rock by the road in the distance. The three people seemed to be taking a rest, because one of them, a young man, was holding a steamed bun in his hand and was gnawing vigorously.
Sun Nong was afraid that the three people did not hear his shout, so he rang the bell and shouted again.
"Yin people go on the road, and yang people avoid it."
The three people were still sitting on the boulder, showing no signs of avoiding it. One of them, a thin young man, was sitting on the edge of the stone, dangling his feet, as if staring at himself and smiling.
Seeing that he was only ten meters away from the three of them, Sun Nong inserted the short bamboo stick in his hand into the ground and pinned the soul-inducing bell to his waist. The six male corpses stood there.
He trotted to the boulder and clasped his fists in a formal manner.
"Everyone, the corpse chaser is passing by. Please give me a heads up. Can you avoid it?"
Sun Nong had already seen that these three people were not ordinary people. One of the young men carried a mahogany sword on his back. Since they were all from the world, they should be easy to deal with.
The middle-aged man sitting cross-legged on the boulder knocked the pipe in his hand on the stone, knocked off the burnt tobacco, and looked at Sun Nong with his head tilted.
"What? Blocking your way?"
"Uh, there's no blocking."
Sun Nong thought of 10,000 possible responses from the person in front of him, but he didn't expect this sentence and choked up.
"That's it, you just go and do what you want."
The man still tilted his head and stared at Sun Nong, and said something disdainful.
Sun Nong saw the young man carrying the Taomu Sword making a face at him, and said helplessly: "I'm still chasing six Yin people."
"You can go your own way. The old man doesn't mind these things."
After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he stopped talking to Sun Nong, took out some cut tobacco from his cigarette bag, and put it into his pipe.
Sun Nong thought to himself, since you are so ignorant, I will not care about you. Anyway, you will be the one who will be scared.
Pull out the short bamboo stick from the ground, tighten the red string, pick up the soul-inducing bell around your waist, and shake it.
With a "clang" sound, the six male corpses jumped forward.
Following the rhythm of the bell, a row of male corpses jumped and passed by the boulder.
The young man carrying the mahogany sword had been staring at several male corpses with curiosity on his face, as if he was studying why these male corpses followed Sun Nong so obediently.
After the last male corpse passed by the boulder, Sun Nong breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he didn't scare anyone.
"Hey, little baby, be careful tomorrow night."
The middle-aged man, smoking a dry pipe, shouted a word without raising his head.
Sun Nong felt inexplicably that he was really a strange old man.
"Master, why don't you tell him more carefully?"
The young man eating steamed buns on the boulder turned his head and stared at the middle-aged man and asked.
The middle-aged man did not answer the young man, but asked: "Qin De, what are the first two words of the Xiang Gua?"
The young man answered honestly: "Don't ask, don't tell, just take the initiative to ask for help."
"Did he ask me? Didn't he ask me why I said it? I'm not his father."
The middle-aged man continued to smoke the dry cigarette. The young man who called Qin De said "Oh" and continued to chew the steamed buns.
"Brother, it's not like you don't know the master. If you can take the initiative to remind someone, even if you look at someone differently, I would say, that little brother is quite good. It's not easy to get the master's reminder."
As soon as the young man carrying the mahogany sword finished speaking, he was kicked off the boulder by the smoking middle-aged man.
"Jira, you talk so much, I will copy the Tao Te Ching ten times during the day tomorrow. Remember to use stones to write on the stones."
The young man carrying the mahogany sword suddenly became more and more ugly. He stared at the young man eating the steamed buns. The latter had a wicked smile on his face and gave him a self-satisfied look.
Not long after, the three people on the boulder split up and walked in three directions.
According to Sun Nong's estimated time, he arrived at Tingyin Inn at around four o'clock. The owner of the inn was also familiar with Sun Nong. Seeing that Sun Nong was the only one this time, he praised him a few times, saying that there was another genius in the old Sun family.
, and then threw Sun Nong a key.
Sun Nong led the six male corpses into a special room and lit the oil lamps on the wall. There were rows of stone beds one meter wide and two meters long in the room.
After finding six stone beds next to each other, Sun Nong performed a strange trick. He shook the bell and gave the command "fall", and the six male corpses lay down on the stone bed.
After blowing out the oil lamp and closing the door, Sun Nong heard a slight noise inside the house just as the thick black wooden door was about to close.
He opened the door and relit the oil lamp. He carefully inspected the six male corpses and found no abnormalities. Sun Nong shook his head. He must have been affected by the strange old man's nonsense and had hallucinations.
With a "boom", Sun Nong closed the heavy wooden door again. One of the male corpses twitched.