Chapter 259: The strange incident of sealing the coffin, and the half-immortal delivering the corpse
"The person who puts nails on the coffin is called a coffin sealer. The nails used by each coffin sealer have special marks. People who know the art can identify which coffin sealer nailed the coffin by the nails. p>
"The coffin sealer is responsible for the coffin he has nailed. If a tomb robber pries open the coffin, it is his fault.
What Zhou Shi did not say is that sealing the coffin can also prevent corpses from mutating. If something goes wrong with the corpse in the future and it comes out to harm others, the nails on the opened coffin will be evidence of the crime of the person who sealed the coffin.
"Furthermore, coffin sealing is also a very dangerous job. As the last person to come into contact with the corpse, he is the most contaminated with yin energy, which will inevitably harm himself. Therefore, coffin sealers often have short lives and have no offspring.
"Due to the special nature of the coffin sealers, they are not on the same road as the white-collar team. At most, they have some personal friendship. What they want from you is not the reward, but their food money."
"So, my old man's coffin..."
Zhou Shi sighed: "This nail is hammered into the bottom of the coffin and the coffin is nailed into the ground. It is a warning to you. You should hurry up and invite me back to apologize."
As soon as the filial son took off his white hat, he rushed out of the mourning hall. Zhou Shi pulled up a bench and sat down. After waiting for less than an hour, he came back with an old man with a hunchback.
"I don't understand the rules and I slighted you, sir. I will apologize to you." The filial son bowed repeatedly and said, "My father has done good deeds throughout his life and does not deserve this retribution. Please let him rest in peace."
The man who sealed the coffin ignored him and secretly looked at Zhou Shi, who was sitting next to the coffin with a formidable aura.
"This is an expert invited by the landlord. Thanks to his advice, I can repent. Sir, you see..."
The dutiful son winked, and his wife immediately brought out a plate of silver.
The coffin sealer shook his head slightly and said: "Four taels of silver, no more, no less, this is the rule."
"Yes, yes."
He came to the coffin with a hammer and took a look inside. Seeing this, Zhou Shi moved the bench aside to make way for him.
"Well..." When Zhou Shi saw the face of the deceased, he noticed that his eyes narrowed.
"The day will be auspicious, the heaven and the earth will open, and the coffin will be closed, good luck and great wealth——"
Xiaozi and Zhou Shi closed the coffin lid together, and the coffin sealer drove the nails into the coffin one by one while chanting.
"One letter of blessing from the heavenly official, two blessings of good health to the underworld, three blessings of longevity to strangers, four blessings of white evil spirits disappearing, five blessings of prosperity for future generations!"
After five nails were driven in, the coffin sealer clapped his hands and said, "Okay, take it away."
"Thank you sir!" The dutiful son shouted to the executive team who was waiting outside the door and called in temporarily, "Everyone has been waiting for a long time, let's go to the funeral!"
After three days of tossing, the old man could finally be laid to rest. The filial son and daughter-in-law, who had already cried all their tears, tried their best to squeeze out some and followed the gongs and drums beating team as they cried and walked north.
As soon as they left, Mrs. Jin’s face appeared at the door, smiling and saying:
"Xiao Zhou, I really belong to you! Okay, I'm going to prepare for the formation of the contract. I'll meet you here after lunch!"
Zhou Shi said goodbye to her, turned around, and grabbed the coffin sealer who was about to leave.
"What are you doing?" The hunchbacked old man stared at him warily.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious." Zhou Shi took out the nail with a smile and handed it back with both hands, "Old man, collect your things and don't do this kind of thing again next time."
"What do you mean?"
"Their family has underestimated you, so you just have to teach them a lesson. But what do you mean by putting these fangs in the mouth of the deceased? They are made of ceramics, right?"
"What does it have to do with you? Farewell."
The coffin sealer turned around to leave with a displeased look on his face, but Zhou Shi grabbed his shoulder firmly and was unable to move.
"If a newbie in the underworld, or a family member of the deceased who opens the coffin by himself, sees this pair of fangs, he will definitely think that it is a corpse, and he will crush the old man's bones and scatter them into ashes. This old man has not provoked you, there is no need for him to
Are you taking it out on yourself?"
Zhou Shi returned the pair of porcelain fake fangs to the coffin sealer and said slowly.
"Be a human being, keep a thin line, and give in to reason. Our Yinmen have our own rules. How can they know this as a layman? Please behave yourself."
After that, he turned around and left without looking at the coffin sealer's expression.
After opening the coffin, he thought it was a mutated corpse at first glance. Fortunately, he was already proficient in the art of looking for energy, and then he discovered the trap left by the coffin sealer and saved the old man's body.
He didn't want to argue too much with the coffin sealer. He just wanted to give a small warning. There will always be someone who can see through your tricks. Don't be so ruthless in the future.
"Lu Wenshan has left... I don't know what he will say when he sees Deng Zeen. Alas, Lu Wenshan is just a middleman and has good intentions. I hope the guild will not embarrass him because of me."
When he returned to the inn, he first reported to the guys the news of finding a good shop, and asked Agui to prepare the banknotes and sign the lease in the afternoon.
"Where is Zheng Yaoren?"
"Oh, Master Zheng said he still had things to do and left after dinner."
Well, the inspector of the Zhenyin Division is really busy.
He returned to the room, not even using the yellow beam pillow, and told the guys to wake him up in the afternoon and then fall asleep.
Perhaps he had such a solid sleep that when he returned to the inn after signing the lease that night, he was not sleepy at all.
He asked Dashu to quietly explore the inn, sneak into an empty room, bolt the door, take out the fire folder, and contact Lu Yan using the fire viewing method.
This time, all he saw from the yin fire was darkness. He wondered if Lu Yan was still in Duke Hu's tomb.
"What's the matter?"
"Senior Lu, I have arrived in the capital, on my way north..."
He briefly reported on his encounter with the God of Plague, focusing on his experiences at Ermu Mountain.
"...This is what you asked me to investigate. It seems that the Bai Family Immortal was uprooted and his disciples went crazy or died violently. There may be something wrong with the Bai Family Immortal Ancestor."
Finally, he said what he was thinking:
"Do you think this was the work of the corpse carrier?"
Lu Yan replied almost without thinking: "Of course."
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"Well, you said that the corpse-carrying man is only half-immortal at best now. How can he shake the Bai family's immortal ancestor, one of the five immortals?"
"You still remember 'Happiness at First Sight', right? Don't you think it's a bit aggrieved to use such a powerful method to tease ordinary people?"
"You mean... the corpse-carrying man replaced the Immortal Ancestor of the Bai family with 'Happy at First Sight'?"
"Otherwise why would he spend hundreds of years studying this method?"
"Then why is he still a half-immortal? Aren't the five immortals all immortals who have attained enlightenment and ascended to heaven?"
"A complete 'happy at first sight' can completely switch the corpse-carrying man and the target, from appearance, to memory, body, and soul. Taking you as an example, if the corpse-carrying man had used a complete happy at first sight to switch with you, then
You will become the person who carried the corpse, and the person who carried the corpse will become you. Apart from changing the positions of the two of you, there is actually no meaning.
"But when one of the swapped parties is a deity who is no longer in the mortal world, the situation is different."
Zhou Shiruo had some realization: "The corpse-carrying man will be sent to...is it called the fairy world? And the gods will be thrown into the mortal world?"
"That's right. But after all, Youxi at first sight is an existence that goes against heaven. Even if the corpse-carrying man is transferred to the fairy world, he will not be able to obtain the divine status and will eventually fall to the mortal world. There is evidence that he has used Youxi at first sight many times.
Going to the fairyland."
Boundless fear surrounded Zhou Shi, and there was actually a being who could freely travel between the immortal world and the mortal world... Will the corpse-carrying man gain nothing in the immortal world? How powerful is he?
"Senior Lu, forgive me for overstepping my bounds, why are you telling me this now?"
"Haha, in the past fifty years, I have been committed to dealing with the corpse man, finding his true identity, and curbing the folk belief that respects the gods he has replaced... However, every time I thought that I was about to fight with him,
During the head-on confrontation, he disappeared like a wisp of smoke. I even felt that God wanted him to become an immortal...
"And when my 'shadow' saw you for the first time in Jiangdu Prison, I knew that God was on our side."
"Me?"
"Although the corpse-carrying man intervened, you still stood at the entrance of the Dahuan Underground Palace with An Rudao's relics. The corpse-carrying man risked being intercepted by the gods and punished by heaven, and became the person he is today.
The half-immortal who is neither human nor ghost is looking for his master, An Rudao."
"But An Rudao is dead..."
"Strictly speaking, he no longer exists in the mortal world as a human being. Some people who know the inside story - there are less than ten such people in this world, have various speculations about An Rudao's whereabouts, but they do not believe that he is dead.
.There are two more reliable guesses: one is that he has ascended to immortality, and the other is that he did not come out after entering the Dahuan Underground Palace.
"The corpse-carrying man also believed that one of the two must be one, so he took a two-pronged approach, going to the fairy world to look for the master, and at the same time searching for news about the Dahuan Underground Palace, preparing to find out."