Poverty

Chapter 19 Song Saburo

"Especially the latter. In many places, lynchings are serious and the punishments are extremely cruel. There are five punishments, sawing, burning, human pigging, cooking, skinning, etc."

"These people have a lot of resentment after death, and sometimes they will make trouble! The worse the death, the more violent the trouble."

"At this time, we need to carry the mortuary craftsman industry, and some people call it the corpse craftsman."

"Each industry has its own taboos and rules. For example, in the industry of corpse-carrying, people who have been cut in half need to be taken very seriously."

"Some people are very resentful after being cut in half. Such two corpses cannot be buried in one place, otherwise there will be trouble."

"The place where the two corpses are buried needs to be extremely cautious, and it needs to be able to block the evil spirits. It is a common place by the stream and river."

Li Yanchu briefly talked about it, but Wang Butou's eyes had changed even so.

He was just asking tentatively, but he didn't expect Taoist Yan Chu to understand so well at such a young age.

Wang Butou said, "Daoist Master Yanchu is truly extraordinary."

Li Yanchu, who was already immune to Lao Wang's bragging, felt a twitch in his heart.

Li Yanchu asked, "What happened to Catcher Wang?"

Wang Catcher nodded, and said with a wry smile, "That's right, if Daoist Yan Chu hadn't mentioned something, I would have only a half-knowledge, and I'm afraid I'd make a big mistake."

"I received a report from the county government office today. An old man, a young man, and two morticians passed by Weicheng, but they both disappeared and their whereabouts are unknown."

"It wasn't until today that one of them came to the yamen to report the case, and wanted to ask the yamen to send someone to find him. I didn't remember it in my heart. If it wasn't for the explanation from Taoist Yan Chu just now, I almost missed a big deal."

Li Yanchu: "."

Lao Wang, what kind of physique do you have, why do you have a meal together? Either this or that.

Compared with Wang Butou, Li Yanchu is well aware of some taboos in the profession of body artisan.

Those who carry corpses on long journeys like this probably had a lot of resentment and a miserable death before they died.

Such a corpse is extremely prone to accidents.

Li Yanchu frowned and said, "I don't know what corpse the mortician carried away this time?"

Wang Butou sighed, "It's just a two-part corpse of unknown origin."

Li Yanchu's heart sank, and he asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Butou said: "According to the mortician who reported the case, they are from Liujia Village, Yang County."

"That day, a villager in Liujia Village got married, and the whole village went to drink the wedding wine. Only the man who fell to his death when he went up the mountain to collect medicine a few days ago kept a vigil in his home."

"I didn't expect that the corpse that had been in the coffin for seven days had disappeared and turned into a strange two-part corpse."

"Almost frightened the villagers who were guarding the spirit to death. Li Zheng immediately reported to the police, but the body of the man who fell to his death has never been found."

"Furthermore, the local county government did not execute the prisoner who was cut in half. No one knows the origin of the two corpses."

"However, strange things began to happen in the village. First, the livestock died inexplicably, and then many villagers became unconscious with fever."

"The old man in the village felt that something was wrong with the strange corpse, so he sent someone to invite the most famous mortician in the neighborhood to deal with the two corpses."

"These two corpse bearers are a pair of uncles and nephews. When they passed by outside Weicheng, not only the elderly corpse bearer, but also the strange two corpses all disappeared."

Li Yanchu's eyes revealed a thoughtful look, it seemed that this matter was not that simple.

Weicheng has been peaceful for many years, but recently it seems to be a little restless.

Wang Butou said: "I know that I have troubled Taoist Master Yan Chu many times, and I am really sorry, but now that the Tsing Yi Temple Fair is approaching, there is really no trouble, so please ask Taoist Master Yan Chu to go with me to search for the corpse-carrying craftsman and the two paragraphs. corpse."

Li Yanchu knew that Catcher Wang would say this a long time ago, so he was not surprised.

It was just the four words Wang Butou said about Tsing Yi Temple Fair that caught his attention.

"Could it be related to the recent Tsing Yi Festival?" Li Yanchu thought to himself.

Li Yanchu still agreed to Wang Butou's request.

He has already integrated into this world, and it is good to be able to do what he can.

It is definitely not for the rewards of the yamen and the merits obtained from killing evil spirits.

On the main road, wind and dust billowed.

Two carriages drove out of town.

Each carriage is driven by a servant with a knife.

Li Yanchu sat in the first car with Wang Butou.

Following Li Yanchu's suggestion, Catcher Wang did not bring many people here.

There are only four shrewd and capable yamen servants and another young corpse-bearer.

This world may be due to the abundance of aura, and the carriage runs faster.

Soon came to a village.

The eyes are full of desolation, the walls are covered with withered vines, every house is deserted, and the whole village is so quiet that it is frightening.

The carriage stopped on the side of the road.

A young man with broad ears stepped out of the second carriage, and his figure was a little thin.

"This is where my uncle disappeared."

The young man's voice was hoarse.

He was the young mortician who came to the yamen to report the crime, and the missing man was his third uncle.

Li Yanchu and Wang Butou came down and looked around.

Wang Butou said to Li Yanchu: "Master Yanchu, this place was originally called Zhangjiazhuang, but there was a strange incident, more than a dozen villagers were beheaded overnight and placed neatly at the door. "

"The case caused a sensation at the beginning, but the murderer could not be found after many days of exclusion."

"A famous wandering Taoist said that it was haunted by ghosts, and evil spirits claimed their lives. With the tragedy of Zhangjiazhuang, the villagers of Zhangjiazhuang gradually moved out of this place, and it became a deserted village."

Ever since Wang Butou experienced Zhao Butou's transformation into a corpse, he now feels terrified when he hears such ghosts and corpses.

I went to the county to check it out, but I didn't expect that the place where the mortician disappeared turned out to be a vicious village.

At this time, there was a trace of unknown tension in Wang Catcher's voice.

Li Yanchu nodded, but he didn't have much emotion.

He sees ghosts and evil things much more lightly than ordinary people.

how to say.

This is what I do professionally, is it okay to be afraid of ghosts?
Li Yanchu used the look-out technique to check the village, but found nothing.

If it wasn't that there were no problems here, it was because the evil here was so strong that he couldn't see anything abnormal.

He didn't tell Wang Butou the truth, but just said something careful.

The young body-carrier was called Song Sanlang, and Li Yanchu confirmed again: "Are you sure that your third uncle disappeared as soon as you woke up?"

Song Sanlang nodded and said, "That's right."

"The mortician has dealt with the dead all the year round, and he also has his own unique methods. It is said that he will not be easily victimized by evil spirits." Li Yanchu said.

What he said was right, corpse-carrying craftsmen were all skilled, and their fate was very hard, otherwise they wouldn't be able to do this job.

(End of this chapter)