Is there really a profession of corpse driving in Xiangxi?

Xiangxi has both the world-famous Zhangjiajie and the mysterious corpse driver. In the early days, if you stayed in the mysterious mountain village inn in western Hunan, you would probably see dead bodies walking. Before dawn, a row of bodies staggered in front of the inn, all covered with a wide black shroud. In front of these bodies covered with black shroud, there is a living person holding a gong. This living person is called "corpse driver" by local people. In fact, he is not so much a "corpse-driver" as a "corpse-driver", because he is beating the small yin gong in his hand and leading the group of corpses forward. He didn't play lanterns, but shook a bell that could evoke memories, told Nightcrawler to avoid it, and informed the dog owners to lock them up. If there are more than two bodies, the corpse driver will string them one by one with a straw rope, one every seven or eight feet. When walking in the dark, the body will wear a tall blanket hat on its head and some yellow paper with calligraphy will hang down from its forehead. There is a "dead body inn" on the road. This mysterious "dead inn" only lives in dead bodies and corpse drivers, which ordinary people can't live in. Its gate is open all year round. Because behind the two door panels, it is where the body stops. The corpse driver rushed to the "corpse shop" before dawn and quietly left at night. The body leans neatly against the wall behind the door panel. When it is difficult to walk on rainy days, I will stop in the store for a few days and nights.

The origin of corpse driving

Speaking of the origin of the corpse drive, a folk book records that thousands of years ago, the ancestor of the Miao nationality, Apu (Miao language: father-in-law), led troops to kill the enemy array along the Yellow River until the corpses were everywhere and blood flowed into the river. After the battle, we had to retreat to the rear. After the soldiers carried all the wounded soldiers away, Apci especially said to the Apu military adviser around him, "We can't leave our brothers who died here. How about using some magic to get these good brothers back to their hometown? " Apu said, "All right. You and I will change our clothes. You take' Jeff' to lead the way, and I will supervise later. "

So Mr. Apu dressed up as Mr. Apu Chiyou and stood among the bodies of the brothers who died in battle. After chanting a spell and praying to the gods, he shouted to the body, "dead brothers, this is not where you died." It's really sad to die for nothing. My parents in my hometown are looking forward to it, and my wife and younger son are looking forward to going home. Do not hesitate your soul. Urgent as a law, get up! " All the bodies lying on the ground immediately stood up and followed the "Jeff" held aloft by Apchiyou, and walked towards the south in a polite way. When the enemy's pursuers came, Apci and Apu's strategist joined hands to attract "Lian Fog" and trapped the enemy in the maze. Because it was the spell "Si" (implementation and operation) of Apu Military Academy that saved everyone, everyone called him "Lao Si" from now on; Moreover, because the essence of Mr. Apu's last defense against the enemy is "fog", there are too many strokes of "fog" to finish, so he rewrote it into a word "witch" instead. In fact, this witch character is also a hieroglyph: the upper horizontal represents the sky or fog, the lower horizontal represents the ground, and the middle vertical represents "Jeff"; There is a figure on each side of the vertical, the one on the right represents Apchiyu, and the one on the left represents Apchiyu, which means that two people must unite to do witchcraft.

Conditions for driving a corpse

According to relevant documents, there is a saying of "three drives and three no drives" in Xiangxi.

Those who are beheaded (their heads must be sewn together), hanged and put to death in cages can be driven away. The reason is that they are all forced to die, and they are not convinced. They miss their hometown and their loved ones. They can hook their souls with spells, put them in their bodies with spells, and then use spells to drive them to climb mountains and mountains, or even board a boat and return to their hometown.

Those who died of illness, those who voluntarily hanged themselves in the river, and those who were mutilated by thunder and fire could not be driven away. Among them, the dead soul has been hooked by Yan, and the spell can't call back the soul from the gate of hell; However, the souls of those who threw themselves into the river and hung their necks have been "replaced", and they may be handing over. If a new soul is introduced, the old dead soul will be irreplaceable, and will it affect the old reincarnation?

In addition, those who died of thunder were the most heinous people, while those who died of fire were often mutilated, and these two kinds of bodies could not be driven away.

The way to drive away the body

Before the Qing Dynasty, after the autumnal equinox every year, all state and county government offices would execute prisoners on death row with the approval of the Ministry of Punishment. After the execution, local death row inmates have their own families to collect and bury their bodies. However, if they want to carry the executed prisoner back to their hometown, they usually need four people to carry a corpse, which is very expensive. It is relatively cheap to ask the old company to drive the corpse home, and it can guarantee that it will not rot or stink in the middle. The carried corpse may rot in a day.

Generally, the day before the execution, the relatives and fellow villagers of the guests on death row, even good people who are good at doing good deeds, will gather some money for the old companies they invited (traditionally two in Tsing Yi and two in red) and buy all the goods. On the day of execution, two senior officials, their assistants and assistants must wait outside the court. At three o'clock in the afternoon, the knife and axe fell and the death row head fell to the ground.

As soon as the beheading officer left the charity ceremony, the red veteran immediately recited the mantra, and the assistant helped sew up the beheaded dead guest's head. Now Tsing Yi veteran cinnabar (the best cinnabar) is placed on the forehead, chest, left and right palms, and foot of the deceased, and each place is held down by spells, and then tied tightly with five-color cloth strips. According to legend, these seven places are places where the seven orifices enter and exit, and they are sealed with cinnabar spells to keep the seven souls of the dead.

After that, some cinnabar will be stuffed into the victim's ears, nose and mouth, and then blocked with magic symbols. According to legend, the ear, nose and mouth are the places where three souls go in and out, so as to stay in the body of the dead.

Finally, cover the neck of the deceased with cinnabar, stick spells on it and tie it tightly with five-color cloth strips; Then put a bamboo hat on the deceased (as a cover). When everything was finished, the old man in red read a spell and shouted "get up!" " Dead guests will stand up. ...

It is also said that since the Miao people moved from the Great Lakes of the Yangtze River to the mountains of Dipu, they lost the spell of "Wuliwu" but created the technology of alchemy. Generally speaking, in addition to the ancestral "curse", the old company must also use cinnabar. This kind of cinnabar is the best produced in Chenzhou, so it is also called cinnabar. Moreover, the corpse-driving technique was originally called "the charm of Chenzhou cinnabar". Because the name is too long to read, it is simply called "the charm of Chenzhou".

Scope of corpse handling

At first, the body was only driven to death on the battlefield. Later, the old company also helped those who were killed by the government to drive the bodies back to their hometown.

The geographical scope of "Chenzhou House" is only as far north as Langzhou (Changde), not Dongting Lake, east to Jingzhou, west to Fuzhou and Wuzhou, and southwest to Yunnan and Guizhou. Legend has it that these places are under the jurisdiction of the ghost country of Miao ancestors. If they are far away, even the old company can't catch up with those zombies.

Dead in action-drive away the body

In general literary works and film and television works, the description of the phenomenon of "corpse driving in Xiangxi" is often like this: "In the middle of the night ... in a remote place ... on a path ... the moon shines white light on the ground through the edge of a dark cloud, and a white shadow moves slowly on the ground. A closer look looks like a group of people. Headed by an old man wearing a muddy black cloth and a robe that took off his coat, I saw this man holding a pair of red ropes and two bells in his left hand, and waving a triangular apricot yellow flag in his right hand, ringing with the bells-slogans ... Shouting slogans and flying flags. Behind the old man, he silently followed a group of people who acted strangely, saying that it was weird because the actions of these people were unusually consistent. The consistency seemed to be the same person, and they all walked with the same hands and feet! Look at the strength of their walking, which is also different from ordinary people. Every step is quite stiff. It seems that there is no brisk and elastic pace when we walk. Seeing the faces of these people is even more amazing! Pale ... pale face is a mixture of gray, black and metal gray, with a little dark red spots. My eyes are deeply trapped in my eyes, so I can't find them, leaving only two dark holes. My cheek has sunk in, too, and there is yellow paper on it, which seems to be marked. Dressed in white robes, their hands held horizontally forward, dripping muddy things seeped from the white robes from time to time, emitting a stench in the surrounding air. These people are definitely not' people', they are zombies! And that old man in black is-'corpse driver'. "

It should be true to drive away the body. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, this technology appeared, which was used to transport the bodies of Hunan immigrants who died in Sichuan back to their hometown. In the initial transportation process, the body took the waterway and did not need to "catch up". However, in this section of the Three Gorges, the current is fast, the reefs are densely covered, and ships often sink. In the Qing Dynasty, there was an official in Beijing. When he buys books in his spare time, he must have three. When there were many books for the elderly, when I retired to my hometown, I went to Sichuan by sea with books and documents, and three bags were brought back. Finally, I was lucky enough to sink two ships, leaving a copy of them. He swam from downstream to upstream, and it was not fast to swim against the current, but he still had to sink to the bottom. The difficulty of Shu Dao can be seen. Therefore, the Yangtze River is the most risky to set sail. People who want to take their lives are superstitious and never want to carry corpses on the dangerous river, so the profession of "driving corpses" came into being.

Driving a corpse is a transaction on a mountain road hundreds of kilometers from eastern Sichuan to western Hunan. Before and after the journey, there are boats or roads. Only in this section, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, wolves and tigers haunt, the ox cart carrying the coffin can't walk, and the boatman doesn't help, so we can't just entrust it to the "corpse driver". Undertaker must first find the local "corpse hotel", which is usually a place to pick a small apricot flag and write the words "Zhu Youke". The corpse driver himself won't admit this ugly name. You have to call him "sir". He thought he was a doctor of "Zhuyouke" (ancient witch doctor). Undertaker negotiated the price with "Mr.", delivered the silver and the body, and gave an account of the place to pick up the body, so he could go aboard and walk first.

There is no title of "dead body" or "dead body" in the technical terms of corpse drivers. The dead man is called "Western God" (the homonym of the dead). For every corpse driven, there must be more than two, otherwise it is not called driving, it is called "carrying". Just find a brave man to carry the dead back. When there were more than two bodies, in the evening, "Mr." began to practice. Set up an altar, light incense, burn paper, treat the body like this, and then set off. Every time he rings the bell, the rope in his hand tightens a little, and the corpse team takes a step forward-slowly. They all walked through the lonely wilderness path, and Mr. worked out the distance. At dawn, he can always find a small hotel for corpse drivers to have a rest. As for the dead, there are also places to park-these small hotels are all inward-facing, with thick black painted wooden doors. Behind the door is where the body stands. There is a local custom that prohibits children from playing behind the door, which should be derived from it.

"Why do dead people move?" This is probably the last mystery for readers. In fact, the mysterious night corpse chasers are mostly to keep this secret. We know that people will be stiff immediately after death, which is the so-called "zombie state". After 48 hours, the body will recover some softness and then become stiff. But at this time, the joints such as hip joint can still move slightly (20 degrees) under the action of external force, which is one of the physical conditions for the dead to walk. Arrange the two bodies in a line, straighten the forearms parallel to the ground, and then use a rope to fix them with slender bamboo poles along the arms, so that the two bodies will be connected into a three-dimensional shelf and will not fall over (this is why two dead people are needed). At this time, if you tie a rope to the first corpse and then gently pull it at the other end with your hand, the corpse will walk up with curved straight legs like a marionette under the action of external force. In fact, this is not as clear as "dragging". From Chuanbian to Xiangxi, the geographical condition is downhill, and the path is generally downhill. When the potential energy is converted into kinetic energy, the corpse rack is more convenient. These paths are carefully selected by the corpse carriers, and there are few uphill roads. It's really hard to move one by one. This is the biggest secret of corpse removal.

After the Republic of China, people's wisdom gradually opened up. The widespread use of explosives wiped out the reefs, modern roads and cars appeared, and the unbelieving steamboats began to transport corpses. People's local concept has also faded, and Sichuan immigrants no longer demand that the bodies be transported back to their hometown. Just as the appearance of the train shattered the myth created by bodyguards and greenwood robbers, Zhu Youke's corpse driver has been eliminated by history for almost a hundred years, and people's memory is probably only the zombie with straight forearms and jumping lines and the ringtone of the corpse driver.

Driving a corpse is a mysterious ancient custom in western Hunan.

According to people who have the custom of driving corpse monsters in Yuanling, Luxi, Chenxi and Xupu counties in western Hunan, driving corpse is not for people to see, but at night. Who dares to go out and see the dead who will leave at midnight? However, according to hotel operators in four counties, the dead were not carried by people, but jumped like sparrows. Because the corpse driver had to stay in the hotel, it was more clear that only one person drove three or five bodies.

According to the local people's unanimous statement, the corpse driver is a mage in cassock. No matter how many bodies there are, he will go there alone.

As for its actual form, it is not so much "driving" the corpse as "leading", because this mage is not behind the corpse, but leading the way in front of the corpse, beating gongs while walking, so that nocturnal people can avoid them, and people with dogs lock them up. When there are multiple bodies, connect them with straw ropes, one every six or seven feet.

When walking at night, the bodies were wearing tall felt hats and some yellow papers with symbols on their foreheads. The hotel that does the business of corpse drivers is not closed all year round, of course, it is day and night. Its intention is twofold:

Behind those two doors is the resting place of the body. They arrived before dawn and left after dusk. The body stood against the wall behind the door. If they can't leave in bad weather, they may stay for a few days and nights.

No one has touched the door of this hotel except the passing corpse driver. Because of the horror of the corpse, the door has become a very mysterious and horrible forbidden area. Even the staff in the hotel didn't look around. Even if they knew there was no body there, no one wanted to see the back of the mysterious door.

Bodies come and go after dark and before dawn, actually at night. There is no need to close the door in order to facilitate the entry and exit of the body. Closing the door is nothing more than theft prevention. This kind of hotel will not be stolen. Thieves dare not patronize. Even if they dare to steal, they will not steal anything.

It is said that corpses can jump because of the yellow paper symbols on their faces, so when they stop at a place, the mage immediately removes the paper symbols from their faces, otherwise they will jump out by themselves.

During the Anti-Japanese War, under the eaves of a family in Datong Street, Chongqing, a note was posted on the door frame, which read: "Send the corpse back to Hunan on behalf of the agency."

People who have heard of "corpse removal" already know that it is corpse removal after reading the note, because he explained that "returning to Hunan" would never be confined to Hunan, nor would it be as horrible as "corpse removal". Isn't "transportation" more elegant?

"Acting to transport the corpse back to Hunan" is an old man in his 60s. According to him, the above-mentioned corpse-driving situation is true, and he is not sure when and who created it. This weird method is closely related to Taoism.

He also said: it is rare for outsiders to see this, not for others to see, but no one dares to see it.

He said: this industry is difficult to do outside Xiangxi. First of all, accommodation becomes a problem. Second, people who walk at night don't know how to avoid the gong, but they come to watch the excitement. It's really scary. Third, in many villages, there is no road outside the village, and it is bound to pass through the village. In most places, corpses are not allowed to enter the village, let alone jump. At the same time, the residents along the road don't understand this situation, and they can't ask them to cooperate-they lock up the dog as soon as they hear the gong, because the dead body is afraid of dogs, and if the dog bites the clothes of the dead body, the dead body will fall. A dog was easy to deal with, so a group came and bit the clothes of the dead body at sixes and sevens. Even if the corpse driver is bitten, things will be very serious, but Xiangxi does not have these difficulties.

Why is there a business of "corpse driver"? Because the upper reaches of Yuanjiang River in western Hunan are barren, most poor people go to eastern Sichuan or eastern Guizhou to make a living by peddling, collecting herbs or hunting. There are many mountains in those places, malaria is very heavy, falciparum malaria is often prevalent, and the living environment is extremely bad. Except for the local Miao people, outsiders seldom go. None of the Han people who died in those places were rich. The Han people traditionally have a deep concept of transporting corpses back to their hometowns for burial. However, even if they have money, it is difficult to transport them by vehicles or stretchers on rugged mountain roads thousands or hundreds of miles away, so someone has created this strange economic way to transport the bodies back to their hometown.

One person can catch several bodies, and the cost is naturally too small.

As for preservation, it is said that the corpses transported by this method will not be corrupted from the time they are transported to the destination, but those that have been corrupted before transportation cannot be transported.

Corpser—— in Xiangxi-You can only be an apprentice after Sandao Pass.

There has been a corpse-driving industry in Xiangxi since ancient times. Learning this industry requires two conditions: courage and good health. Moreover, we must learn from our teachers. Medics never take apprentices in disorder. The apprentice is written by the parents first, and then the corpse driver must interview. Generally speaking, you must be 16 years old and 1.7 meters tall. At the same time, there is a very special condition that you should be ugly.

The corpse driver first shows the examinee the sun in the sky, then rotates, and then suddenly stops, so that you can distinguish between east, west, north and south at once. If you can't tell the difference, you can't be hired. Because you can't tell the east, west, north and south at this time, it means that you can't tell the direction at night and can't drive the car. Then, the corpse driver wants you to find something and carry the burden. Because the body is not alive after all, you can't climb steep slopes. The corpsman had to carry on the high slope one by one. Finally, there is an interview, that is, the corpse driver put a tung leaf on the grave in the deep mountain for you to retrieve alone in the dark. Only in this way can you show that you have the courage to be a competent corpse driver. After Sandao Pass, you will have the possibility to be an apprentice to the corpse driver.

Like ordinary farmers, people who drive corpses still "work at sunrise and rest at sunset." Only when they received the corpse removal business did they dress themselves up and go to the corpse removal. Although they drive corpse people, they are afraid of the name "corpse people". So the insider asked them to drive the body away and said, "Master, please take a walk" or "take a walk". If the corpse owner agrees, he will take out a special piece of yellow paper and ask you to write down the name, date of birth, date of death, gender, etc. of the deceased on this yellow paper, then draw a symbol, stick it on this yellow paper, and finally hide this yellow paper on yourself.

The corpse driver's dress is also very special: no matter what the weather is like, he has to wear a pair of straw sandals, a green cloth, a black belt around his waist, a blue cloth cap on his head and a bag of symbols hidden in his pocket.

The first thing Master taught his disciples was to draw symbols. This strange symbol is to draw something that looks like words and pictures on yellow paper with red ink. In case of an emergency on the way, he would hang this strange symbol on a tree or a door, and sometimes he would burn ashes and boil water to swallow it.

At the same time, the apprentice must learn 36 skills to drive the corpse. The first achievement is that the dead body "makes contributions", that is, to let the dead body stand up first. The second work is "walking work", even if the corpse stops walking freely, the third work is "turning work", that is, the corpse can turn when walking. In addition, there are "downhill workers", "bridge workers" and "dumb dog workers". The "dumb dog skill" can make the dogs along the way stop barking when they see the body. Because dead bodies are afraid of dogs barking, when dogs bark, dead bodies will be frightened, especially when dogs bite, and dead bodies have no resistance. The body will be bitten to pieces. The last kind of work is "rejuvenation work". The better the rejuvenation work, the more souls there will be, and it is especially easy to catch up with the dead body. This kind of "rejuvenation" is actually sprinkled on the body with a herb unique to Xiangxi.

It is particularly worth mentioning that this peculiar industry can only work in the western part of southern Hunan. Because, first, only Xiangxi has a "dead body inn". Second, only Xiangxi people smell the little yin gong of the corpse driver and know to avoid it. Third, there are highways outside Xiangxi village, and other provincial roads generally pass through the village. Of course, they won't allow the bodies to enter the village. 4. Xiangxi people will take the initiative to lock their dogs at home when they smell the sound of Yin Gong. Otherwise, when dogs come out, they will bite the body. Therefore, this strange corpse-driving industry is only available in Xiangxi.

How can the dead be driven away by the living? Many scientists are studying it. Opinions vary. Maybe one day, this strange industry and phenomenon that ordinary people can't understand will get the scientific explanation it deserves. However, another way of saying it is that "corpse removal" is actually a smuggling activity of gangs, and this creepy queue is used to cover up illegal drug trafficking.

Driving a corpse in Xiangxi-an incredible "sudden death"

The author once saw a piece of paper spread out by the roadside, which read "Bao Yao died out of the province" in six big characters. I didn't believe it at that time, but I didn't know that I witnessed this spectacle with my own eyes.

China people love their motherland very much. In any case, leaves must return to their roots. A wanderer who dies in a different place must be buried in his ancestral home; The dutiful son and grandson will be sent back to their hometown, and relatives and friends have the obligation to support this matter. It is impossible for a while, so we must be in power. Apart from being a rich official, this is hard to say! The times require that there are occupations beyond the 72nd line, such as "calling the dead" (calling the dead is shouting, and the actual action is driving, but the action of driving is usually accompanied by the voice spoken. For example, driving away chickens and pigs is called summoning chickens and pigs, and driving away the dead is also called summoning the dead. It is said that this profession comes from "Henan religion", so it is even called "Henan religion killing". However, the form and content of "Henan religion", whether its official name is like this, or even whether it is the word "Henan", although the author has visited experienced old people, it is still unclear. But many old people said that they had witnessed the dead walking on Xiangguan Avenue. It's true!

In my early years, I also saw a piece of paper spread out by the roadside, which read six big characters: "I want to save lives." In fact, I always have a little doubt in my heart: how can a dead man walk? Is it true that "evil laws have that magic" as the old people say?

/kloc-at the end of 0/949, Meishan, Pengshan, Dan Ling and Qingshen in Sichuan were just liberated. At that time, I was working in the Minjiang River Water Transport Management Office in this area. Shortly after noon one day, I was walking on the road of Pengshanjie. Then someone passed behind me, and I immediately noticed that he walked in a strange way, a hard stick, which was unnatural. I couldn't help but stop and look back, and a soft voice sounded in my ear: "What a shock!" "At this moment, another pedestrian caught up with me. He saw my suspicious expression and woke me up on purpose. It suddenly dawned on me, so I looked at it more carefully: the "dead man" was wearing a long and big black robe, with no sleeves, a little bloated, and his head seemed a little black and bulging. I don't know whether it's the collar or the outsourcing, so I wore a straw hat and leaned back slightly. The upper body is stiff, but it moves forward step by step with rhythm. There is also a man in a short coat in front of the black robe, with a bamboo basket slung over his left wrist and an old lamp in his hand, as if there were a fire in front. Short-sleeved men walk strangely: they always lean sideways, facing the black robe, quite half of them; Eyes staring at the black robe and behind, looking forward from time to time. Every time I don't go far, a small note floats down from his hand. It soon occurred to me that this was "paper money", the so-called "travelling expenses" that I had to leave when I carried the coffin to attend the funeral. Driven by curiosity, I followed it for a long distance. When going uphill and downhill, getting on the bridge and getting off the bridge, the short-sleeved man also shouted at the black robe; After turning and turning, the black robe also recognized the voice of a short-sleeved man. At that time, I thought: In fact, it is more realistic to call it "inviting death".

This is a great adventure in my life. Unfortunately, something happened at that time, and I couldn't "track" it to the end to find the answer. Fortunately, however, the next day I heard from an acquaintance about the whereabouts of the man in the black robe and short coat, and my wish came true.

It turned out that they left the hotel early last night. When the hotel industry meets this guest, they know their occupation-staying early and arriving before ordinary tourists visit. When the man in a short coat came to the counter, he shouted, "XiShen smashed the shop!" " ! When the boss saw that the black robe behind the man was half covered by the straw hat, he was surprised and happy: a dead man surprised him, but he was glad that his income was richer than usual; And "XiShen" patronage, luck will be great. So I immediately took them to a remote room. The man with short sleeves rolled out the black robe, put it in the corner of the door, put the lantern on the table, and then took out money to pay the boss standing outside the door, asking him to eat a hearty meal and buy some candles for the lantern; The rest is the store number, and the amount is considerable. Ordinary passengers, the boss just quietly prepares firewood and water there, regardless of cooking; But when you meet this passenger, you have to do it for him. Send tea before meals and bring a urinal, because people with short clothes should be careful not to go to the toilet. Two sets of tableware are needed to deliver meals, one of which is a tribute to the "Western God". The boss delivered it to the door as required, and the short-sleeved man took it in. The next morning, I will leave early and stop contacting my boss. At that time, the local area had just been liberated and two PLA soldiers were sent to the police station there. On this day, a soldier went to the hotel to check the night, and the boss reported it truthfully. The PLA soldiers asked the boss to check this number. At first, I shouldn't have knocked. I shouted "open the door for directory search", but only promised "scream" and still didn't open the door. So he knocked and shouted and heard "coming" inside, but nothing happened. It took about a few minutes to open the door. When the soldier went in, he found the black robe in the corner of the door and uncovered the straw hat. It was indeed a corpse. The short-sleeved man reported his name and the name of the deceased, saying that he was from the north (probably somewhere at the junction of Shaanxi and Henan). Under the flashlight, all the dishes on the table were gone, the cups and plates were messy, and two pairs of chopsticks were still wet. I looked around again and found nothing. The soldier checked the number and asked the boss in detail. The boss said that this was his first time to receive this guest, but fortunately, he had heard about it from his predecessors and colleagues before, so he knew clearly that they would leave early and would not disturb others. The soldier went back and pondered for a long time, thinking that there was a lot in it; First of all, the dead can't walk, let alone walk that far! Secondly, what about the two pairs of chopsticks just used? Can the dead still eat? Joke! He immediately made an appointment with another soldier and hurried back to the hotel for a secret inspection. As the night deepened, there was a lot of snoring. In that room, there was no sound, not even a little drowsiness. I was probably surprised that I couldn't sleep after checking the number. Before dawn, the guest group opened the door silently. At this time, the boss has opened the store door and saw the short-sleeved man in front, guiding the black robe on the road with a very low voice. Two soldiers followed at a distance. ...

It's dawn, so you two should keep up. The soldier who looked up at the number only saw the face of a man with short sleeves, and immediately became alert: this is a young man's face without much beard, but last night, under the irradiation of a flashlight, it was clearly full of cheeks and beards, and it looked at least fifty years old. The soldiers drew their pistols and ordered them to stop and obey. Accompanied by two soldiers, they walked to the branch office. Walking in black robes is basically the same. People in short clothes are not half-faced, but are moving forward as a whole, with a guiding sound in their mouths.

At the sub-station, the secret of "killing people" was finally completely revealed: the body was real, but there were two people, one was clearly called "killing people" with lanterns in front; One hung the body on himself and put it in a long and big black robe. He straightened his back and carried the weight, but his hands were upright and he wanted to carry it hard. You can't see with your eyes, and you can exercise your feet by listening to your ears. To tell the truth, this kind of labor is amazing! Rest early and leave early a day, it takes eight to ten hours to walk, and only one meal a day! People who carry lanterns should relax. This relaxation is combined with the hardship of black robes, which changes every day, so the soldiers see two different faces. The innkeeper couldn't see it because they left too early; Pedestrians on the road walk faster than them, only one person can be seen, but the second person can't be seen. Over the years (it's really impossible to prove what dynasty began to exist), under the cover of feudal superstition, I don't know how many people who are as credulous as me have been deceived. These two are apprentices and apprentices, with special training and excellent martial arts; A trip can make a lot of money (customers save money than hiring people to transport coffins), and an apprentice can also become a master and take another apprentice. There are different seasons to accept this business, usually autumn and winter, which may be because corpses are prone to stink and rot in other seasons. It is said that the beginning was accompanied by some superstitious activities and mercury therapy. At the last hotel in the destination, inform the host family to meet him.

When the two PLA soldiers learned about this situation, they were very surprised by their great physical strength. The huge load, unique conditions and long journey are unimaginable! As they are also very hard-working workers, they are warned not to engage in superstition and deception. They have martial arts and physical strength. Why don't they change careers? Master and apprentice nodded and said yes. The body was not far from its destination, so it took other people's money and confiscated only lanterns and paper money. The whole process took only two or three hours to solve. The acquaintance who told me about it just caught up with them, excitedly lifted the body and set foot on Xiangguan Avenue. ...