Chapter 7 send corpse art
Flower horse abduction good at observing words and colors, finished a look at the reaction of the old crooked Luo, I know the name of it, and then smiled and said: “To say that zombies in the Village, it is reasonable and deserved so, but the strange in the rats on the face of the second aunt of the corpse venom does not show, but also like the death of a corpse in the mouth only after being injected with venom, the small eyes are clumsy, I do not know the heights of the two great connoisseurs, how do you dare to in the big shopkeeper and the marshal of Luo before I don’t know the level, how dare I make a fool of myself in front of you and Mr. Luo.”
Luo old crooked is waiting for him to have this word, tell the flower ant crutch to listen to a clear, the original western xiangxi old bear ridge custom strange, in the first seven days after the death of a person, to give the body infused with corpse poison standing in the door behind the board, so-called “stand stiff”, all zombies, no matter what the reason for the death of the body not yet, the body must be corpse poison, if there is no “Standing stiff” secret method, not waiting to drive the corpse back to the countryside, the corpse first on their own decay and corruption.
In addition to Chen blind, the other three of the Xiangxi zombie, are only heard of, but do not know in fact, at this time by the Luo old crooked said, only to have a sudden realization of the feeling of curiosity, coupled with the rainy night is long and boring, and would like to ask the Luo Shuai teach the mystery.
Luo old crooked intention to take the opportunity to brag about their own experience in front of the red girl, at the moment did not excuse himself, to catch the corpse of the things he is most familiar with, because earlier in the year had done to catch the corpse of the craftsmen, his teenage years when he was too poor to live from shandong, turned to Xiang to rely on friends and relatives, but to the place only to know that the distant relatives have long been dead, nothing to pay for two nothing, but also because of their own ugly and obscene rope, at a glance it is not a good kind of people, would like to Find a place to be an apprentice to do hard labor are no one willing to take.
Have no choice but to enter the Greenwood Road, do some kill the rich to help the poor hook, the so-called “rob the rich to help the poor”, just say nice, because of those poor poor people, robbed and killed also difficult to get the slightest benefit, but also to avoid falling into the scourge of the people of an infamous, but he is from the provinces, do not know the local customs, simply can not stand, and finally some people to give Finally, someone gave him a way – to do the corpse, the corpse maker to collect apprentices, it must be three conditions, one is bold, two is ugly, three is not married for life.
In western xiangxi to catch the corpse is mostly in the door of the road, abundance of cinnabar in western xiangxi chenzhou, there are two big door, respectively “hu mansion thunder altar” and “gold mansion thunder altar”, traditionally catch the corpse of the line, all belong to the two thunder altar door operation, Luo old crooked worship an old man surnamed jin, learn the secret of the golden house thunder altar Jin Zhai Lei altar secret techniques to catch corpses.
Hunan western Hunan, since ancient times, there are “send a corpse, down the hole, put compulsion” and other mysterious legends, which sends a corpse, that is, “to catch the corpse”, because the western Hunan rugged mountains, many places are not roads, there are many merchants from the north, trafficking in wood for profiteering, most of the rafts in the flood season will take the huge wood, and then the rafts will take the wood. Flood season will take the raft of huge wood, put in the river tied up, downstream south, merchants are with the raft floating downstream, and so done business, and then through the mountains and back home.
Because of the razor hole of the land, banditry, and more miasma Knight poisonous insects, a variety of diseases spreading, there are not used to foreign merchants, once infected or robbed, often on the road to death, provincial merchants hurt their own kind of things, the death of these counterparts very sympathetic to the encounter, so they pooled their money to set up Yi Zhuang save hall, hire a corpse craftsmen, so that the dead can return to the roots of the deceased, will be buried back to their hometowns.
Speaking of this Western Hunan corpse, really famous, rumors of God, the world talk about the color, and fear of the tiger, in fact, the official name of this foreign arts, since ancient times called “send corpse art”, the modern era began to “catch the corpse”, the Westerners call it “hypnosis”, in the eyes of the foreigners, this kind of thing is more mysterious, Westerners have “hypnosis”, that is, “hypnosis”, the reason why they call it probably means to hypnotize the corpse. The reason why they call it that probably means hypnotizing a corpse.
Because western Hunan Yi Han mixed, special geographic environment, countless dangerous rocky peaks, out of nowhere, peaks and columns stretching, straight arch south sky, the terrain is difficult and treacherous, deep in the mountains there is no road, after the death of a person to carry back to his hometown burial is not very realistic, which requires “send a corpse craftsmen” to send a corpse, but some places to send a corpse craftsmen six months to go to a time, and other dead people More transportation together.
The dead that is long gone, will inevitably rot and decay, the era also rejected the cremation, never consider the urn type of approach. So all want to send back to their hometown into the ground, we must first try to make a zombie, which is a prerequisite.
How can the corpse and make the stiff? To think of the dead do not rot, you can inject mercury in the body, but the cost of that method is relatively expensive, the average person can not afford to use, but also will damage the body organs. Some people will use folk secret, in the premonition of their own time is running out, began to regularly take a small amount of arsenic, of course, the measurement is very, very small, arsenic mixed with condensation of the Dan, but also to add displays of bone grass, yinzhengmao flower and other exotic herbs, as long as the proportion of these things is appropriate, in the time when the person is alive, the human body is not very harmful, but the person a gallbladder to stop breathing, the blood coagulation, it will be rigid and not decay, into the medicine system into the The kind of zombie, that’s why we have to stop the body on the door for a few days, to be completely rigid before moving into the coffin, if the post mortem infusion is not unavoidable, but the body is preserved a little worse, easy to odor, the body of the rats in the village of the two nuns, it is poisoned after death, standing in the door behind the board, “stand stiff”.
Xiangxi send corpse mystery, unless it is done to send the corpse craftsmen, outsiders simply can not know what is going on in this line, because this line of work is extremely mysterious, which uses the formula is never outside, in the Taoist, do not mention the corpse to send a corpse, that is the name of the outsiders, the Taoist, all to “repellent water art” call.
“Water repellent art” in is the official common name, and in the mob on the secret word called “a bowl of water”, bump into the team to send a corpse is very unlucky, the Greenwood Road tube such a thing is called bump into the water, and now also refers to the “bump into the evil spirits, bump into the ghosts “meaning, because in the real process of sending the body, the formula all depends on a bowl of water, and must be two peers, to be effective.
Two people to do a front and a back, a send corpse craftsmen in front of the cloth streamers, to guide the square, another person flat end of a bowl of water to walk in the end, no matter how many dead bodies this trip to send, those dead bodies are walking in the middle of the team, by the send corpse craftsmen before and after the sandwich and line.
Two send corpse craftsmen called “Pan’s”, a “water”, in this line, holding the water is the most important role, walk a section of the water bowl will be added to a charm, this charm is “burned water to wake up the soul of spells “: the opening of the court of heaven, so that people live forever, three souls and seven souls, back to God to return to the baby, three souls in the left, seven souls in the right, quietly listen to God’s orders, but also to check the ominous, line no one to see, no one knows sitting, urgent as the order! This charm must be Xiangxi’s “Chenzhou charm”, replaced by other Taoist spells, it does not work at all.
As long as the water bowl in the hands of the water bearer does not spill and break, the body will not fall. In the process of sending corpses, dead bodies and living people are no different, only the mouth can not speak, its walking posture is also slightly different from the living, completely following the action of the person holding the streamer, holding the streamer of the dead on the go, holding the streamer of the dead people stop also stop, this team of sending corpses in the end of the Ming Dynasty in the western region of the Xiangxi region is really too common, the Xiang proverbs have cloud “three people live in the store, two people to eat,” referring to the is to send a corpse, meaning that three people do not eat that is the dead.
The day before the corpse delivery team arrives at the hometown of the dead person, the dead person will send a dream to his/her family, who will immediately put the coffin in order and prepare the coffin. Once the body arrives home, it will stand in front of the coffin, holding water will be splashed, the body will immediately fall into the coffin, then you need to hurry to the dead convergence of the burial, otherwise the body immediately change, now the shape of the decay, if you have been dead for a month, will immediately show the degree of decay of a normal person after a month of death.
In fact, this bowl of water, that is a strange trick in the early years of the hook, to the Qianlong years have been lost, the reason for its loss is probably too secretive, will be the secret art of less and less people, the most bottom of the people only know so a general, and the principle of the end of the water to send the body is even more so, no one can say it.
Until the Guangxu time, a lot of people in order to seek profiteering, the Qiandi production of duck pieces trafficked in, they played the idea of walking corpse to send water, borrowing the folk to send the body of the fear, using it as a cover, selling tobacco arms, they use to send the body as a cover, with the ancient time to send the body of the collusion of the same difference, but more of the mystery, the year Luo Laocui did not learn to send the body of the secret, but the use of the identity of the necrophilic craftsmen to traffic in black goods. Black goods, he is to make a fortune, and finally became a big warlord across the three Hunan, so Luo Lao crooked on the ugly female corpse is so assured, because he and Chen blind man know very well that the dead body in this village, are filled with antiseptic medicine system stiff, it is simply impossible to change to produce a corpse change.
Save base in this dead people, the future are those who drive the corpse traffickers line private goods away from the human skin pockets, but those who use the dead trafficking black goods, will also find ways to send the body back to the homeland burial, this is not what benevolence and morality, just if not, in the future, there is no way to “drive the corpse” as a front to bluff people, the soil people do not know to send the corpse art of the Insider, will be afraid of like a tiger, and send the corpse craftsmen are this for the industry, naturally refused to easily tell others the bottom line, so it is even more seemingly evil, mysterious.
Flower ant abductors and the red girl, etc., listen totut will surprise, do not look at Luo old crooked mouth crooked eyes slanting behavior vulgar, and also “eating, drinking, whoring, gambling, murder and arson” no he does not do, but these folk secret know in such detail, is worthy of being the head of the warlords of one side of the deterrent, but also to unloading the ridge of thieves, brother, to see from is there his Overachievement, flower ant crutch hurriedly picking big finger flattered: “Highly intelligent, is really highly intelligent, Luo Shuai original is also a Taoist origin, no wonder there is such a wizard!”
Luo old crooked poured two mouths of soju, looked very pleased, but when the face of the thief Chen blind man, but it is not good to show off too much, self-deprecating: “he mother of a dick, what wizards crooked, I learned to catch the corpse when too young, master on the ten percent of the skills did not learn one percent, often are not pretending to understand, listen to my lieutenant said, recently the south out of the gentleman to do the study of the article, write a good article! He said that the world originally did not understand, but pretend to understand more people, but also slowly understand, that Mr. said fruit is reasonable, in the future this commander to invite him to come over to talk about talk about talk, to my old Luo and then his grandmother’s longer pretend to understand the learning of a little more.” Said skimming the crooked mouth shook his head and laughed, and drank that pot of soju to a trickle.