Chapter 727 Relief
Fatty Wang looked at him in astonishment, "There is so much knowledge in this? Zhang Hao didn't mention so much when he first taught us!"
Haoxie smiled and said, "Brother Zhang Hao gradually taught me these things later. You are too impatient."
Just as he was talking, there was a sound of soft footsteps coming from the door. An old woman, Mrs. Wang, who sells tofu in the west of the village, stood at the door and looked in with taboo on her face.
After seeing Hao Xie, she tentatively asked, "Mr. Hao, is Mr. Zhang here?"
Everyone in the village respects Zhang Hao as Mr. Da. Hao Xie glanced at Zhang Hao's room and responded, "Here, Aunt Wang, what can I do?"
Aunt Wang carefully placed a basket of tofu at the door. "This is my new tofu. I want you to try it. In addition, the village chief wants to invite you to go to the head of the village and have a look. Something happened there."
Zhang Hao happened to walk out and heard Aunt Wang's words, "Oh? What happened?"
Aunt Wang hesitated, but she still said it, "A body was fished out from the well at the head of the village, and everyone doesn't know what to do. Mr. Zhang is an expert, so I want to hear your opinion."
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Zhang Hao nodded and agreed, "Okay, we'll go over and have a look soon."
Aunt Wang was relieved and reminded, "This tofu was just made this morning. Eat it while it's hot." After that, she hurriedly left.
Zhang Hao looked at Fatty Wang and Hao Xie and said with a smile, "Let's go and take a look together. I will teach you a trick today."
The two of them suddenly became excited, "Really? What are you going to teach today?"
Zhang Hao smiled mysteriously, "You'll find out when you go there."
So, the three of them headed to the village together. After arriving, they found that the layout of the village entrance was unusual, with five forked roads and no end in sight. Moreover, there is an old locust tree and an ancient well at the entrance of the village.
Now that a corpse has appeared in the well, the villagers are worried about whether the well water may be poisoned, and they are talking about it.
When the village chief saw Zhang Hao and others arriving, he quickly greeted him warmly, "Mr. Da, you are finally here! A corpse appeared inexplicably in this well, and now everyone is worried about whether there will be any problems drinking the well water."
Zhang Hao nodded slightly, looking across the crowd in the village, and finally landed on the corpse. The village chief followed closely and asked tentatively: "Mr. Da, do you think... can this body be temporarily stored in your inn?" He explained, "Although our village has a cemetery, it is specially for the people of Fengmen Village. Prepared, outsiders are not allowed in. ”
Hao Xie and Fatty Wang looked confused when they heard this. They thought, since there is a cemetery, why put it in the Yin Yang Inn? Just as he was about to ask, Zhang Hao had already nodded in agreement.
"I know something about the burial customs in Fengmen Village." He said slowly, "Here people and ghosts live together, and the dead never leave the village. Therefore, there are bones everywhere in the village, and there are ghosts everywhere. In order to suppress these ghosts, the people of Fengmen Village will Wear a mask for the deceased. If someone from this village is not buried here, there will be no peace.”
As soon as these words came out, Hao Xie and Fatty Wang looked at each other, secretly sighing at the unique customs of this place. They have lived here for a long time but have never heard of it. No wonder you feel a chilly wind when you enter the village. With such a burial custom, how can you not be alarmed?
Zhang Hao continued: "However, the Yin Yang Inn also has rules. Not all corpses can be accepted, and not all corpses can be kept. I will first see if the corpse is willing to follow me."
When the village chief heard this, his face was full of doubts: "Mr. Da, this man has passed away, how can we know whether he is willing?"
Zhang Hao turned to Fatty Wang and Hao Xie and said calmly: "Help me find a wooden board and put the body on it. Then go back to the inn to get my peach wood sword."
Although the peach wood sword is not a ghost weapon, it is just a wooden sword that Zhang Hao whittled casually, but for the purpose of exorcizing corpses, it is necessary to have the necessary props.
Fatty Wang and Hao Xie nodded in agreement, one looked for the plank and the other returned to the inn to get the sword. After a while, the body was placed on the board. Zhang Hao held a peach wood sword, pointed it at the wooden board under the corpse, and stabbed down suddenly.
Hao Xie and Fatty Wang were confused, and the people in the village were equally confused. However, Zhang Hao stabbed three times with his sword, but failed to penetrate the board. He frowned, handed the peach wood sword to Fatty Wang, and then said to the surrounding villagers:
"I'm sorry, everyone. This corpse doesn't want to come with me, and it has a lot of resentment. It can neither be sent back to another place, nor can it be brought into the inn. Therefore, our inn cannot handle this business."
He changed the subject, "But it's not without a solution." Seeing that no one objected at the entrance to the village, he continued, "Everyone just needs to cremate the body, bury the ashes ten miles outside the village, burn three sticks of incense, and set up three altars. Just offer wine.”
"As for this well," he paused, "you don't have to worry. Go to my store to get a charm, and every night when the dog barks three times in a row, light the charm and throw it into the well. Remember, it's when the dog barks three times in a row. You can continue to use it after three days.”
The village chief quickly stepped forward and asked: "Mr. Da, is the soul of this corpse left in the well?"
Zhang Hao shook his head and denied: "That's not the case. But the body is very resentful, and most likely it was suicide. This well is the place where he committed suicide, so it is naturally stained with some resentment. Just get rid of this resentment."
The village chief breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and quickly thanked him: "Then I will go to the inn later. Mr. Da has troubled you again this time!"
Zhang Hao waved his hand and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter. If there is nothing else, we will go back first. I will leave it to you to deal with it."
After saying that, he took Hao Xie and Fatty Wang and walked towards Yin Yang Inn. On the way, Fatty Wang asked in confusion: "Brother Zhang Hao, I don't understand. This business seems unprofitable, but flies are also meat. Why don't we do this business?"
Zhang Hao glanced at him and explained: "This is what I want to teach you today. Those who work in our Yin and Yang Inn must know what business can be done and what cannot be done. Just like the corpse exorcism technique that Hao Xie is learning now, there are three things that can be done and three things can't be done. "
Both of them looked puzzled and listened attentively. Zhang Hao continued: "Those who were executed by the government could be expelled, those who died in the war could be expelled, and those who died accidentally while working outside could be expelled. The three non-cushions were those who died of unknown illness, those who committed suicide by hanging in a river, etc. Don’t rush if you are caught by lightning, burned, or have missing limbs.”
After saying that, he glanced at the two of them and finally looked at the fat man and said seriously: "And the corpse fishing technique you are going to learn also has the rule of three fishing and three not fishing. Do you know which corpses can be fished and which cannot be fished?" "Little Zhang Hao Brother, isn't it the responsibility of the body fisher to fish the body out of the water? Is there any rule against fishing it?" Fatty Wang asked with a puzzled look.
Zhang Hao nodded lightly and explained slowly: "Both corpse collectors and corpse exterminators are professionals in dealing with the dead, but this profession is not something that can be done casually."
Hearing this, Hao Xie nodded in agreement: "It is true. It was only after I experienced Master Lin Jiu's incident last time that I realized that some corpses cannot be driven away casually, otherwise it may cause accidents."
"Brother Zhang Hao also mentioned it before," Hao Xie continued, "Before driving the corpse, you must carefully check the birth date and birth date of the corpse. Usually the employer will provide this information. But for those corpses that have not been entrusted, because no one knows their identity. The horoscope of birth and fortune often lead to accidents. ”
Zhang Hao hummed, and then said: "Master Lin Jiu committed this taboo. Those corpses looked fine alone, but the eight corpses gathered together formed a horoscope of mutual submissiveness and rebelliousness, just like a time bomb. , something could happen at any time. Fortunately, this accident happened in our inn, otherwise Lin Jiu’s reputation would have been ruined by these corpses.”
"So fishing for corpses also has its own rules." Zhang Hao added.
Fatty Wang suddenly became serious, thinking to himself, isn't this just teaching him the rules of fishing for corpses? So he looked at Zhang Hao respectfully and said, "Please give me some advice from shopkeeper Zhang!"
Zhang Hao nodded slightly and continued: "Actually, the three hauls for corpse collectors are almost the same as the three hauls for corpse chasers. In ancient times, various places had their own rules, but generally speaking, corpses that had nothing to do with them could be chased or scooped out. ”
"But it is very important not to fish out the three things." Zhang Hao changed the subject, "First, you must not fish out a corpse standing upright in the water, because it is evil. Second, you must not go out of the boat to fish out the corpse during a thunderstorm! The third is the same body After the body has been unsuccessfully fished out of the boat three times, it must not be fished out again. This is called leaving the body without touching the boat. In addition, if the body becomes very heavy after sinking into the water and four or five people cannot fish it out, then You can’t fish it out either, because it’s considered evil.”
Fatty Wang nodded, thinking that the ancient profession of corpse fishermen indeed had a lot to pay attention to. However, the more attention to detail, the better. When they first got to know the corpse chasers, they also felt that the corpse chasers were too particular. Because of this, neither the corpse chaser nor the corpse fisherman can be done by just anyone. If just anyone could do it, then this kind of profession would be ruined.
When he thought about having to pay so much attention to it and remembering it, Fatty Wang muttered secretly: "I didn't expect that the person who retrieved the body had to pay so much attention to it?"
"Where did this go? People who fish for corpses are very particular and very complicated." Zhang Hao said with a smile, "I will demonstrate it to you personally afterwards, and you will probably remember it."
"Hey, then there's shopkeeper Lao Zhang!" Fatty Wang bowed to Zhang Hao, full of respect.
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At the same time, in Sanjiashan Village in the Yangtze River Basin, a scream suddenly broke through the silence and spread throughout the village. The villagers all raised their heads and looked in the direction of the village chief's home, because the sound came from there.
"What's going on? It sounds like Aunt Liu's voice!"
"Hiss...it sounds weird. Could it be that something happened?"
"Let's go and have a look!"
For a time, many people in the village put down their work and ran towards the village chief's house. Among them, Tiezhu was the first one to run to the village chief's home. He knocked open the door of the village chief's house and saw Aunt Liu standing at the door of the yard, looking at her house in horror.
"What's going on, Third Aunt? What happened?" Tie Zhu asked quickly.
Seeing Tie Zhu running over, Third Aunt Liu quickly pulled his sleeve and asked for help: "Tie Zhu, look at your third uncle quickly, what's wrong with him?"
Tie Zhu frowned and walked into the door of Uncle Liu San's house. As soon as I opened the curtain blocking the door, I smelled a fishy smell. The unpleasant smell made Tie Zhu cover his nose quickly, frowning and looking into the room with an uncomfortable look. I saw the village chief sitting in the living room, holding something and chewing something, and the ground was covered with red blood.
"Uncle Third, what's wrong with you?" Because his back was to the door, Tie Zhu couldn't see clearly what was wrong with the village chief at the first time, so he asked, while walking carefully towards the front of the village chief. . It turned out that this incident was terrible. When he saw the village chief, Tie Zhu was so frightened that his legs went weak. I saw the village chief sitting cross-legged on the ground, holding a one-meter-long large catfish in his hand. The catfish was not completely dead yet. It exuded the stench of blood and kept flapping its tail. In front of the village chief, it was even more miserable. Catfish entrails and intestines were thrown on the ground like garbage. This was probably the smelliest thing. But the most impressive one is the village chief. The catfish's whiskers stuck to the blood foam on its body. As it fluttered, the whiskers hit the village chief's face. Every time it was hit, there was a blood stain on the village chief's face. However, these blood stains are not the blood of the village chief, but the blood of the catfish. The village chief looked gloomy at this time and was eating the one-meter-long catfish raw one bite at a time. There was not only fish blood on the corner of his mouth, but also catfish's unique mucus.
"Ugh!" Tie Zhu just glanced at him, then turned around and started retching, almost vomiting out all the food he had eaten in the morning. What was most difficult for Tie Zhu to understand was that the village chief seemed to be enjoying himself, with a sinister smile on his face. Not to mention how ugly that smile is.
"Uncle Third, what are you doing? Don't eat this!" Tie Zhu kindly tried to dissuade him, but his stomach churned and he started retching before he could finish his words.
"Ugh!"
The village chief seemed not to hear and continued to chew the catfish in his hand.
Tie Zhu couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to step forward and pull the village chief away, but before his hand could touch him, the village chief suddenly turned his head, his face was livid, his eyes were sinister, and he made an indistinct sound in his throat. It was obvious that It was stuck by a fish bone.
"Chi!"
Tie Zhu was startled and quickly took two steps back, keeping a safe distance from the village chief. The viciousness in the village chief's eyes gradually dissipated, and he continued to eat the catfish in his hand.
Seeing that the dissuasion was ineffective, Tie Zhu had to quietly tiptoe out of the village chief's house.
As soon as they arrived at the yard, Aunt Liu came up to her and asked anxiously: "Tie Zhu, how are you? Is your third uncle feeling better?"
Seeing that many villagers had come to the yard, Tiezhu shook his head, pulled San Aunt Liu aside and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with Uncle San? Why did he suddenly start eating raw fish? It's still a catfish with eight whiskers. This All fish eat the carrion of animals, how can he eat it?”
Aunt Liu was about to cry when she heard this. She shook her head and said with a sad face: "I don't know either! As soon as he came back this morning, he carried a big catfish into the house. I asked him where he was, and he still said He glared at me! Just as I was about to enter the house to talk to him, I saw him start to gut the catfish. I thought he went fishing last night. I kindly asked him if he wanted to eat fish, but it turned out that I would cook it for him! He ignored me and just grabbed the fish and started eating it!”
(End of chapter)