After Yang Guang finished listening, he and Director Zhang looked at each other, and their expressions were obviously relaxed.
I also understand Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts. Now that Fang Ziyue is not here, at least their situation is still safe.
"Zhao Dongfang, what should we do next?" It was Gu Ning who asked me.
"What else can we do?" I murmured, "The man is already dead. It is absolutely impossible to revive him. Bury Zhang Minghao's body as soon as possible. It is not a good thing to leave his body here for a long time.
As for Fang Ziyue, I don’t know where she is hiding now, we can only find her slowly!"
After Yang Guang discussed with Director Zhang, he said, "Okay, I will notify his family as soon as possible to take away his body.
"No need, I'm already here!" Yang Guang just finished speaking.
We heard a slightly hoarse voice, and then we saw a person slowly walking towards us.
It's a little cooler now, but the person who came in was still wearing a pair of straw sandals with his trousers rolled up.
He is a middle-aged dark-faced man, not tall but very strong.
"Who are you?" Yang Guang asked curiously.
"My name is Miao Lin, and I am a corpse exterminator. Zhang Minghao's parents already knew that Zhang Minghao was dead, so they specifically asked me to take his body back!"
"Are you a corpse exorcist?" Looking at Miao Lin, I felt a little unbelievable.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Miao Lin answered me calmly.
After he finished speaking, he seemed afraid that we wouldn't believe him.
He took out a talisman from his arms, then jumped hard and stuck the talisman on Zhang Minghao's body.
Then he took out a bell and shook it, and a magical scene happened. Zhang Minghao was obviously dead, but he jumped down from the crossbar.
"Ah... it's a fake corpse!"
Yang Guang and Director Zhang were both frightened.
"Now do you believe that I am a corpse exorcist?" Miao Lin said calmly.
I nodded dumbly, "I believe it!"
Corpse exterminators are a unique and mysterious occupation among the people in western Hunan. They are employed by relatives of people who have died in a foreign land. They dehydrate the corpses and marinate them with special Miao herbs to prevent the corpses from decaying for a long time.
I thought that today in the 21st century, the ancient profession of corpse exterminators had disappeared, but I didn’t expect that today I actually saw a corpse exterminator with my own eyes!
In the early days, if you stayed in a small inn in a mysterious mountain village in western Hunan, you would most likely see a corpse walking. Before dawn, a line of corpses would stagger in front of the inn, all covered with wide black corpses.
Cloth. In front of these corpses covered with black shrouds, there is a living person holding a gong. This living person is called the "corpse driver" by the locals. In fact, it is better to say "cadaver driver" than "corpse driver".
"Carpenter", because he was beating the small gong in his hand while leading the group of corpses forward. He did not light a lantern, but shook a soul-catching bell in his hand to avoid night travelers and notify people with dogs.
Lock up the dog.
If there are more than two corpses, the exorcists will use straw ropes to string the corpses one by one, every seven or eight feet away. When walking in the dark, the corpse will wear a tall blanket hat on its head and several masks on its forehead.
The yellow paper with the talisman written on it hangs down on his face. There is a "dead corpse inn" on the road. This mysterious "dead corpse inn" only houses dead corpses and corpse exorcists, not ordinary people. Its door is open all year round.
Open. Because behind the two door panels is where the corpse rests. The corpse driver drove the corpse to the "dead corpse shop" before dawn and left quietly at night. The corpses were all standing neatly against the wall behind the door panel. Encounter
It’s hard to walk on a heavy rainy day, so I parked in the store for a few days and nights.
Those who want to learn this industry must meet two conditions: first, be brave, and secondly, be in good health. And they must be apprenticed to a master. The corpse-removal craftsmen never randomly accept apprentices. The apprentices must first establish a letter of approval from their parents, and then the corpse-removal craftsmen must interview. Generally speaking,
To be eligible, candidates must be over 16 years old and over 1.7 meters tall. There is also a very special condition, which is that they must be ugly. The corpse exorcist first asks the candidates to look at the sun in the sky, then spin, and then suddenly stop.
You are asked to immediately distinguish between east, west, north and south. If you cannot tell, you will not be hired. Because you do not distinguish between east, west, north and south at this time, it means that you cannot distinguish the direction of the corpse at night and cannot drive the corpse. Then, the corpse driver will ask you to find something.
Carrying a load. After all, the corpse is not a living person. When encountering a steep slope, the corpse cannot climb up. The corpse mover has to carry and carry it up the slope one by one. Finally, there is an interview, which is the corpse mover.
Place a tung tree leaf on a grave in the mountains and ask you to retrieve it alone in the dark. Only in this way can you prove that you have the courage to become a corpse hunter. If you successfully pass these three levels, you will have obtained the qualification to be a corpse hunter.
Possibility of apprenticeship.
The families of the corpse collectors, like ordinary farmers, still "work at sunrise and rest at sunset." Only when they receive the business of removing corpses, they dress up and go to remove corpses. Although they remove corpses,
But the term corpse exorcism is taboo. Therefore, when experts ask them to exorcise corpses, they all say: "Master, please go for a walk" or "take a walk". If the corpse exorcist agrees, he will take out a specially made
Yellow paper, you are asked to write the name of the deceased, date of birth, death, gender, etc. on this yellow paper, then draw a charm and paste it on this yellow paper, and finally hide this yellow paper
on oneself.
The dress of the corpse exorcist is also very special: no matter what the weather, he wears a pair of straw sandals, a green cloth gown, a black belt around his waist, a green cloth hat on his head, and a bag of charms hidden in his waistband.
The first thing the master teaches his disciples is to draw a talisman. This very strange talisman is something that looks like a word or a painting drawn with an ink pen on yellow paper. If there is an unexpected situation on the way, he will hang this strange talisman towards the west.
On trees or doors, they are sometimes burned with ashes and swallowed with water.
At the same time, apprentices must learn thirty-six kinds of skills before they can drive away corpses. The first skill is the "standing skill" of the corpse, which means that the dead body must first be able to stand up. The second skill is the "walking skill", which is
The third skill to make the corpse stop and walk freely is the "turning skill", which means that the corpse can turn when walking. In addition, there are also "downhill skill", "bridge crossing skill", "dumb dog skill", etc. "Dumb dog skill"
"It can prevent the dogs along the way from barking when they see the corpse. The corpse is afraid of the barking of the dog. When the dog barks, the corpse will be frightened. Especially when the dog comes to bite, the corpse has no ability to resist. The corpse will be bitten to pieces. The last function is
It is the "resurrection skill". The better the resurrection skill, the more souls of the dead body will be recovered, and it will be particularly easy to pick up the corpse. This "resurrection skill" actually uses a special herb from western Hunan to sprinkle on the corpse.