Kowloon pull coffin

Chapter 2 Silly Girl Huixiang
Before Tao Xun came, Bai Laogui and I stayed in his small courtyard most of the time, and I came to listen to his stories.Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the peach flood season arrived, the water in the Yellow River began to rise sharply, and the old white ghost began to work.

In the past few years, due to reasons such as marriage, relationship, career, and accidents, the number of corpses in the Yellow River has increased year by year. At the busiest time, Bai Laogui salvaged seven corpses a day.

There is not only Bai Laogui on the Yellow River, but he is the most famous because he is the only one who dares to pick up vertical corpses.He was not bragging when he said that the water monkey was slaughtered. I saw several water monkey skins nailed to the wall in his utility room.

This afternoon we received a call from a villager saying that Huixiang, a silly girl from Shilidu, had fallen into the river and drowned, and her body had floated into the reeds.

It never occurred to me that the first time I participated in the body salvage, it was her who was salvaged.

I also know Huixiang, who has a very pitiful background.Both of his parents died when he was young. When he grew up, he went to work outside and was tricked into getting pregnant. The child was not born but fell into a mental illness and was sent back to his hometown.Wandering in the countryside on weekdays, when you meet local ruffians, you can coax her to take off her pants by giving some melon seeds and snacks.

This business is an official job with no pay.Huixiang is an orphan, so no one is willing to pay for her, and Bai Laogui has no one who has no children, so he doesn't value money, so he takes the job without hesitation.

When we arrived at Shilidu, we saw a few villagers standing sparsely on the bank.They are all old people in the village, waiting for Huixiang's body to be buried for the sake of sophistication.The old ghost Bai didn't talk too much nonsense, and as soon as he greeted the master, he drove the rotten boat into the reed marsh.

The boats used by corpse hunters are called rotten boats, not to say that the boats are rotten, but a special way of saying: good boats ferry people, and rotten boats ferry souls.

Since it was the first time to retrieve a corpse, I was a little nervous.Although the reed buds are sprouting now, and the reed marsh is not so terrified, it is awkward to look at the wild grass.

According to the instructions of the villagers, we found Huixiang's body within a short time.

Floating sprawling among a circle of dead branches and leaves, her black hair was scattered behind her head.The buttons of the torn padded jacket on his body have been undone, exposing his white chest, dazzling white.

Every time I saw her before, her head and face were black, so dirty that she couldn't see the flesh, but this time she was finally washed clean.

Because it was discovered early, the body hadn't soaked much hair yet, and it looked as if it was asleep, very peaceful.

"Xie Lan, come this time." Bai Laogui lit a cigarette and said.

"No way, Uncle Bai. I'm a newcomer and I'm not even considered an apprentice. It depends on how many times you demonstrate to me before I can get into the water." I said in surprise.

"If there is anything good to demonstrate, you can just do what I usually teach you. The folks in the village are all acquaintances. If you die so peacefully, you won't make any troubles. It's just for you to practice your courage."

"OK then."

I thought about it too, anyway, sooner or later you have to get in close contact with the corpse, this time is indeed a good opportunity to practice courage.

Salvage companies use fishing nets and row hooks to retrieve corpses, but corpse collectors are different.

The corpse in the water was already swollen, if the iron hook broke a lot of soup and water, how could you be ashamed to ask the customer for money?

The corpse hunters all went into the water by themselves, first covered the corpse with a white cloth, and then tied up the corpse with a rope mixed with black dog hair and carried it on the boat.

Seeing my promise, the old ghost Bai took out a piece of white cloth and covered Huixiang's body skillfully and precisely.But I took off my clothes and only put on shorts, and cautiously entered the water with the body rope sticking to the side of the boat.

The water will be cold, and just touching it will cause goose bumps all over your body.

I slowly swam to Huixiang's body, first found her right arm, and tied it with a red rope.Tying a red rope is called a deed, male left and female right, which means that this corpse will be taken care of by me, and the corpse will be taken ashore.

Because I was very careful, nothing went wrong in the whole process of picking up the corpse, and soon I quickly tied up Huixiang's body and fished it onto the boat.It's not over when the corpse is on the boat. The corpse hunter pays attention to money and goods, and has to take something from the corpse as a reward.

But Huixiang had nothing on her but a torn cotton jacket, and the pants on her lower body were washed away by the water.The old ghost Bai told me that if you encounter such a clean corpse, if you really have nothing to take, you can only take a lock of the dead's hair, and you must not take it empty-handed.

Hair is also known as troublesome thread. If Huixiang has no complaints after death, it is okay. If there is resentment, most of it will be entangled in the hair.

At that moment, Bai Laogui and I looked at me and I looked at you, but neither of us spoke.

"Ahem, Xie Lan, your horoscope is strong enough, come on."

"Hehe." I couldn't help sneering.

It's fine to coax me into the water, but now he wants to trick me into cutting dead people's hair, this old bastard is thick-skinned.

"two thousand?"

"Hehe." I continued to sneer.

"Five thousand. It can't be any more. Today's matter is originally an official job. If you don't want to do it, you can buy a ticket to go back to Guangzhou tomorrow."

Old Bai Guiyu made a hearty stab, and then I couldn't laugh anymore.

But 5000 yuan is not a lot. I usually don’t necessarily save 5000 yuan in a year when I work in Guangzhou.

At that moment, I cut off a strand of Huixiang's forehead hair, put it in my pocket, and Bai Laogui drove the dead boat to the shore and handed it to the villagers of Shilitu for burial.

The trip went smoothly, I took the money and practiced my courage, the only awkward thing was that I had to preserve Huixiang's hair for seven to 49 days before burning it off.In our area, there is a saying of Duanqi, which says that people will cut off contact with the world after seven, seven, and 49 days after death. Before that, you must not do anything disrespectful to the deceased.

Ever since I picked up Huixiang's body, the old ghost Bai seemed to be determined to eat me, and let me go into the water whenever there was business in the following days.And I was really born to eat this bowl of rice as he said. After handling it a few times, I no longer had the slightest scruples, and only regarded myself as a porter.

Fishing corpses does make money. According to the current rhythm, I only need to do four flood seasons to fill the Yellow River to save enough money for marriage.At that time, I will work for one more year to buy a car, and I will not live too comfortably.

Young people are very forgetful, I only focus on making money from corpses, and I have long forgotten about Huixiang.

It wasn't until I attended a special wedding that I realized that Hye-hyang's affairs were not that simple.

There are many vulgar customs in rural areas, and yin marriage is one of them.A relative's son in my family died when he was only 16 years old. Fearing that he would be lonely, the family arranged a ghost marriage for him.

A ghost marriage is also a marriage, and I sent a post to my family a long time ago.

My parents dislike the bad luck and don't want to go, and my brother is at home with my sister-in-law to conceive and even more reluctant to go, so this matter fell on me.

Sigh, just go, treat it as gaining insight, and say hello to Bai Laogui and go to the wedding.

There is nothing to talk about in the wedding process, all of which are made of paper, and the highlight is the burial of the bones, because when the bones are combined, the ceremony must be observed.

The man had been dead for half a year, and the corpse was so badly decomposed that the stench could be smelled far away.

The woman looks like a newly dead woman, except for her swollen face, which makes it impossible to tell who she is, but her appearance is still intact. I heard that my relative bought the woman's body from a tomb robber for more than 5 yuan.

To be honest, I really admire those who are willing to spend the money, and even more admire those who dare to do business in this business.Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the way of heaven is reincarnation. Excavating graves and digging corpses is an act condemned by heaven.

I was very courageous, and when I joined the bones to observe the ceremony, I stood closer to the front, so I inevitably took a second look at the female corpse.

It was also because of two more glances that I saw a big problem: there was a strand of hair missing on the left forehead of the female corpse.

At that time, I couldn't help but shivered, because when I salvaged Huixiang's body that day, I cut off the hair on the left forehead!
At first I wanted to comfort myself that it was purely a coincidence, but when I saw the red mole under the corpse's neck, I didn't want to lie to myself anymore.

This female corpse is none other than Huixiang.

Calculating the time, only one month has passed, and it is by no means the time limit for breaking seven.

She died by drowning, and after she died, she was dug out of the ground and sold to others for a yin marriage. Let alone whether she agrees or disagrees, even her name and date of birth were made up by tomb robbers. Can this tone be calmed down?
It is true that Huixiang is a stupid girl, but she is stupid because her body and mind are stimulated, not because she is born with a weak soul.The body is only a container for the soul, and sanity will definitely be restored after death.

After seeing that the female corpse was Huixiang, I didn't feel like drinking wedding wine anymore. I just said that I had something to do at home, got on the battery car and ran back to find Bai Laogui.

"What? You said that Huixiang was poached and married to a yin marriage?"

The old ghost Bai was drinking tea, and he almost choked when he heard me say this.

"Uncle Bai, will she come to see me?"

"Isn't that nonsense! There is a wronged person and a debtor. You are the one who tied the red rope to sign the contract. Naturally, you have to take care of her body. Now that something like this happened, who would she turn to if she didn't ask you?" Wan Wan murmured and added, "Fortunately, I didn't cut my hair back then."

I didn't expect the old ghost Bai to dare to say sarcastic remarks at such a juncture. I was so angry that I rolled up my sleeves and wanted to beat someone up.

"Young people, don't be impulsive, even if she comes to you, you will be fine."

"Why?" I suppressed my anger and asked him.

"The heavenly secret must not be leaked, and someone will protect you when the time comes." Bai Laoguishen said mysteriously.

(End of this chapter)