Chapter 8 The corpse inn
True God!
If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't believe what was happening in front of me.
I tried to shake the copper bell a few times again and issue different commands and instructions. The female corpse could respond differently according to my orders, but the limbs of the dead corpse were relatively stiff and looked like a manipulated puppet.
After about half an hour of experimenting, I had almost become more skilled in playing the corpse-induced bell, so I was ready to go on the road.
Chen Xiucai took out a pre-prepared hat, and the outer edge of the hat was a circle of black gauze.
I curled my lips. This hat looks so ugly. Can you not wear it?
Chen Xiucai reached out and flicked my head and cursed: "Are you stupid? This is for the dead body?"
I quickly took the hat and put it on the female corpse on my head, so that I could not see the pale face of the female corpse, and naturally I felt less fear in my heart.
I changed into coarse linen clothes, which is the standard dress for corpse-drivers.
He put a stack of yellow paper in his pocket, shaking the corpse-guiding bell with his right hand, shouting in a sharp voice, "The Yin people are on the road, and the Yang people are avoiding it!" Then he took Fang Cuicui's body out of the Wang family's yard.
Many people outside questioned Xiangxi's secret technique of corpse driving, believing that corpse driving is a mysterious thing. In fact, it is just a dwarf to carry the corpse on his shoulder. Those who don't know think that the corpse is walking. To be honest, I also had some doubts before I came into contact with the corpse driving industry, but now I really know that there is a secret technique of corpse driving in the world, which is definitely not the mysterious thing rumored by the outside world. These are all real skills passed down by our ancestors!
However, it is not as mysterious as it is performed on TV. The dead corpses do not jump around, but they walk like living people, but their body movements are relatively stiff.
I led Fang Cuicui's body and took advantage of the night to pass through the village and enter the dense forest.
The area in western Hunan is full of mountains and forests, with mountains weighing the mountains and the terrain is very complex, which also provides good shelter for corpse-driven people.
At first I was a little scared. At night, I led a dead body to travel in the wilderness. If it were a timid person, I was afraid that he would have been peeing his pants.
After walking for an hour or two, I gradually got used to it, and I still chatted with the female corpse all the time. Naturally, the female corpse could not answer me. I was the only one talking to myself and relieving the loneliness of the journey. It seems that I was born to be a material for this industry.
It is difficult to find a job in the outside world now, and people's hearts are unpredictable and the world is dangerous. It is better to be with these dead bodies and live in simplicity, and be happy to be free and easy.
Every time I walk a distance, I will grab a few pieces of yellow paper, throw it into the air with the wind, and then shout a jargon: "The Yin people go on the road, and the Yang people avoid it!"
In fact, throwing yellow paper is a skillful job. You can't throw too much or too little each time. Anyway, you must estimate the journey. You must not have a dead body yet. But the yellow paper has been thrown long ago, so it's absolutely impossible.
The night went smoothly, and I didn't encounter any trouble on the road. I walked in the mountains and forests for a whole night without realizing it.
I looked up at the sky. It was almost dawn. As soon as the rooster crowed, I would stop driving the corpse.
I was wondering whether to drive the body into the dense forest to rest, but suddenly I saw a wooden inn standing in the valley ahead. Outside the inn was a large black cloth hanging, waving in the wind.
I was delighted. It seemed that this was what Chen Xiucai said about the corpse driving inn!
I accelerated my pace, shook the corpse-guiding bell, and walked towards the inn with the female corpse.
There is a circle of half a person-high fence outside the inn. The inn is as high as two floors and looks very old and should be a little old.
According to Chen Xiucai, this is an old-fashioned corpse-driving inn.
There is no threshold for the corpse driving inn to avoid stumbling around the corpse. I went up and knocked on the door: "Is anyone here?"
The black painted wooden door creaked and opened to both sides. Behind the door was a thin figure, just like a ghost, and the sky was bright again, which scared me.
The man's voice was a little hoarse, cold and without any emotion: "This store is not open to living people! Please go back!"
The man was about to close the door and see the guests, and I quickly revealed my identity: "Hey, wait, I am a corpse driver!"
"The corpse-driver?" The man hesitated for a moment and said coldly: "Not everyone can do the corpse-driver. If you earn money from death, you're afraid you'll spend it!"
I heard what this person meant, and he must have thought I was a fake.
I cleared my throat and brought out the name of Chen Xiucai: "Do you know if Chen Xiucai from Shuiwa Village? I am his apprentice! He asked me to settle in the inn, and said you want to give me a discount!"
The man behind the door was silent for a moment, suddenly laughed loudly, and pushed open the wooden door: "I want to see, what is the difference between the disciples that the old monster Chen accepts?"
Before he finished speaking, a face that was cracked and old like tree bark suddenly came to me.
I was frightened to find that the person in front of me had no eyes, only two empty eye sockets left, sunken, dark and quite terrifying.
I exclaimed softly, subconsciously retreated, and the man grabbed my wrist: "Let me take a good look at you!"
In fact, it would be better if this weird old man didn't say the word "look". When he said "look", I felt furry all over his body and he had no eyes. What do you think?
The old man's dry fingers kept touching my wrist, making me feel goosebumps falling.
"So that's it! So that's it!! You kid is really different! Hahaha, it's really different! There's hope, Old Monster Chen, we have hope now!" The old man was crazy and said unclear words, which I couldn't understand at all.
I tried hard to break free from my wrists, and I felt a little unhappy. If it weren't for Chen Xiucai's sake, I would have cursed people. This weird old man made my wrist hurt so much!
"Hey, boy, come in, it's almost dawn!" The weird old man asked me to enter the store.
I murmured a few words and led the female corpse into the inn.
The inn was dark and there was no light at all. As soon as I walked into the inn, the big black cloth at the door was put down, and it seemed that I could not see my fingers.
With a gushing sound, an oil lamp lit up. The strange old man appeared behind a counter. There was an old-style oil lamp in front of him. The faint light reflected the black eye sockets, which was really scary.
I looked around and found that the inn was not big, with a few small square tables in total black paint in the middle.
The old man asked me to lead the female corpse behind the door panel, which was the place where the dead corpse rested.
As soon as the female corpse was settled, I heard the crowing sound of roosters in the backyard, and it was already dawn.
Although the old man had no eyes, he was very quick to act and was not hindered at all. He felt like he had opened his eyes.
"Uncle, how much does it cost to stay in a hotel?" I touched my pocket.
"Call me!" the strange old man emphasized.
"Master, how much does it cost to stay in a hotel?" I asked again.
"How much money do you have?" The weird old man asked me back.
"More than one hundred yuan!" I took out a wrinkled old man's head.
The old man was not polite and took my old man's head away.
"Hey, my master, didn't you say you wanted to get a discount?" The old man took away a hundred yuan at once, and I was so heartbroken.
The old man went around the kitchen. After a while, a few side dishes and a pot of wine were placed on the table.
The strange old man smiled and said, "How is it, the supreme enjoyment of a hundred yuan is worth thousands of dollars, right?"
I rolled my eyes. This table of wine and food is only fifty or sixty yuan in our town. This monster old man cheated me twice. He really didn't have any blood to kill people. However, for the sake of wine and meat, I didn't care about him anymore. I was hungry all night and I was so hungry that I didn't hesitate to eat on my own.
The weird old man has a good cooking skills, especially the dish of dried bamboo shoots and bacon, which is really full of rural game.
After two glasses of wine, I started chatting with the weird old man. The weird old man only said that his surname was Du, and the Du family of this corpse-driving inn has been run for generations. It is said that it was originally dated back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"Master Du, what does it mean to say that I am different? What is there hope?" My mind was still filled with the question I just now. The old man's crazy behavior just now left a deep impression on me.
The strange old man clamped a bean with his fingertips and threw it into his mouth, biting it with a creaking sound: "If your master doesn't say it, I will naturally not say it either. Some things you will understand one day!"
I frowned, hey, this old guy is still having a puzzle with me. Just as I was about to ask a few more questions, a sudden hurried knock on the door outside the inn suddenly came from outside.
Chapter completed!