The old man came to a thatched hut, turned his head and said, "We are here."

Then he shouted into the room: "Yun'er, there are guests at home."

There was a sound from inside, "Father, you brought that back again?"

Before the words finished, a man came out from inside. Qingde and I took a look, isn't this the middle-aged couple we met?Such a coincidence?
"Daddy is back, let's get ready for dinner!"

A woman inside spoke, and came out after the man.

When they saw me and Qingde, they were as surprised as we were.

It was the woman who was the first to react and said, "Why did you two come to my house? Didn't I tell you to get out of here quickly!"

The woman seemed to be very afraid of the old man, but the old man just coughed lightly, and the woman lowered her head and stopped talking.

The old man's son whispered to the old man: "Father, didn't I tell you? Our village doesn't allow outsiders to come in, why don't you listen!"

The old man glared at his son and asked, "Who said we don't allow outsiders here?"

"The High Priest."

After the woman finished speaking, she quickly lowered her head again. Just as the old man was about to get angry, when he saw us present, he suppressed his anger and said, "High priest, high priest, you have been high priests all day long, look at your high priest taking us What has the village looked like!"

Seeing that the old man was really angry, his son and daughter-in-law didn't dare to say any more.

The old man turned his head and smiled and said to us: "It's okay, let's go, let's eat first."

As soon as he heard "eat", Qingde regained his energy immediately, and he didn't worry if the old man would harm others, so he came to the table and started to gobble it up as soon as he sat down.

I had nothing to do, so I wanted to tease him with something, so I whispered to him: "Didn't you want to beat him just now! Why are you eating better than anyone else now!"

Qingde's mouth was full of rice, and he said in a spurt, "Eat your fill first, and you will have strength after you eat."

Regarding Qingde's behavior, I can only shake my head helplessly.

"Is Genber home?"

While eating, someone shouted outside.

Only then did we know that the old man's name was Genbo, and he was the oldest and most experienced person in the entire village.

Genber beckoned us to continue eating, and he went outside.

"Yo, Kiko! What's the matter?"

The man named Xiao Jizi looked inside, Genbo saw it, and explained: "It's my friend inside, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Only then did Xiao Jizi say: "The high priest asked me to come to you and said that he wanted to discuss with you about tomorrow's sacrifice."

Genber said "oh" at first.Then he said: "Didn't I tell him a long time ago? He can decide what to do, don't ask me."

Xiao Jizi said in embarrassment: "But the high priest said that this year is different from previous years. He would like to ask you to go over and discuss it. After all, you have traveled all over the world and you must know more."

Gen Bo refused again and again, but Xiao Jizi just stayed at the door of the house and refused to leave. In the end, Gen Bo had no choice but to go with Xiao Jizi.

Before leaving, he said goodbye to us and told his son and daughter-in-law.

"They are my distinguished guests, you can't neglect them, or you will look after me when I come back."

Seeing Genbo's serious face, Yunzi and his wife did not dare to slack off, they could only be obedient.

After Gen Bo left, Qingde and I chatted with Yun'er and his wife.

"Brother Yun, what did Gen Bo do before? I found that he is quite respected among you."

Hearing the praise of her father, Yun'er looked proud and said: "My father has traveled all over the world and has seen a lot, so naturally he is respected by us."

Qingde said hesitantly: "Then why are two fingers missing on his right hand?"

Upon hearing this, Yun'er was like an eggplant beaten by frost, and sighed: "Oh! Don't mention it, there is no way to not get your shoes wet when you often walk by the river. If you walk a lot at night, you will inevitably run into ghosts."

Yun'er and his daughter-in-law interjected: "Where did you encounter a ghost, your father is a corpse chaser."

"what?"

Qingde and I opened our mouths, looking at Yun'er in horror.

Yun'er glared at his wife, who got up and left.

After the daughter-in-law left, Yun'er said: "That's right, my father was a corpse exorcist in his early years. He wandered outside all the year round. In order to help the souls of the dead in foreign lands return to their hometowns, he chose this profession."

"What does that have to do with his missing two fingers?" I asked puzzled.

Yun'er sighed: "Oh! Don't mention it, that night he followed the deceased's will and brought the eight deceased back to Yunnan from Hebei, and the downpour continued that night.

He and the corpses could only rest in a ruined temple. A Taoist priest happened to come in to take shelter from the rain that night. There were two big living people and eight dead people. The atmosphere of the scene didn't need to be explained too much.

My father is a talkative person, he took the initiative to strike up a conversation with the Taoist priest, and learned from the Taoist priest that the Taoist priest also went to Yunnan.

So my father made a total calculation, how can we go, not just go!So he discussed with the Taoist priest to go on the road together, and the Taoist priest didn't refuse, and readily agreed.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, a gust of wind blew in, and eight dead bodies surrounded my father. Looking at the Taoist priest, he was standing aside, still chanting incantations.

After all, my father is an old Jianghu, and he could tell at a glance that the Taoist priest was using Maoshan's sorcery - the exorcism spell.

This exorcism spell can manipulate the corpse, let the corpse do whatever the corpse does.

No matter how powerful my father is, he can't stand up to the gang fights of those dead bodies who don't know the pain.In the end, my father thought of playing dead, and he began to lie motionless on the ground. The Taoist didn't give up, so he went to check it himself.

Punching and kicking was not enough, he took out the dagger and cut off two fingers of my father.

In order to survive, my father has been holding back, but he didn't make a sound, which made the Taoist think that my father is dead.

It turned out that the Taoist priest was an opium dealer. He was worried about being found out, so he came up with a way to smuggle it with dead bodies.

In fact, he didn't meet my father by chance at all that day, but he had stepped on it a long time ago. It's just that my father is more pure-hearted.

Since then, my father has returned to our village and never went out again. "

"Taoist?" I am very sensitive to the word "Taoist" now, as long as I hear others say it, I can't help but ask a few more questions.

"Do you know what he looks like?"

Yun'er shook her head and said: "My father said that it was too dark that night, and he didn't look carefully. He only remembered that the Taoist priest had a mole on his face and that he had six fingers."

"Six fingers?" My eyes lit up, and I thought: It should be him.

"Do you know which side it is?"

Yun'er shook her head like a rattle. "I don't know, I forgot. When my father comes back, you can ask him! Maybe he can know."

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