To be honest, I don't like the job of chasing corpses. In my hometown, Chenzhou Prefecture, unless it is absolutely necessary, I will never engage in the business of exorcising corpses.At the beginning, I decided to enter the business of exorcising corpses, which was related to my fifth uncle Leng Sansi.He was a scholar during the Daoguang period and wrote good articles.Leng Sansi was admitted as a student when he was less than 20 years old, and then he took part in the provincial examination and failed in the test repeatedly. However, his classmates and friends who were enrolled as students with him later all won the Juren, and some even passed the imperial examination. .A well-meaning person once called him, as long as he checks with the examiner, he can win the exam.The talented and arrogant Leng Sansi doesn't believe in evil, and doesn't like the corruption in the examination room. He always thinks of glorifying his ancestors with his own strength.After that, every three years, he had to take the provincial examination held in Changsha Prefecture, until he was over eighty years old, and the stubborn fifth uncle still failed to pass the exam.Before he died, he left his last words: "The descendants of the family must produce a juren, Jinshi to honor the ancestors, but they must not be bribed!" Then he left with hatred.Therefore, each generation of the Leng family has to select one or two children to be carefully raised since childhood.

When it comes to my generation, the people of the clan unanimously believe that I can be made.The reason is very simple. When I was full week, a beggar monk said that I was full of purple energy, and it was Wenquxing who came down to earth.The family was full of joy, thanked the monk, and hoped that I could fulfill my fifth uncle's last wish.I did not live up to the expectations of my tribe. When I was sixteen years old, I was admitted as a student member, that is, I passed the examination of scholar. My father was even more determined that I would be great.His idea is very simple. More than 2,000 years ago, Qu Yuan, a senior official in the state of Chu, was exiled to Xupu County in Chenzhou Prefecture, where he wrote immortal masterpieces such as "She Jiang", "Li Sao" and "Ode to Orange". , Mingyue Cave, where Qu Yuan once lived in seclusion, sits side by side with my grandmother's house, and it is only a few dozen miles away from my hometown, Yuanling County.And my hometown is on the bank of Luming Mountain in Xupu County, only a few miles away from Mingyue Cave where Qu Yuan once lived in seclusion.

And I can't help but think of Qu Yuan's "Mountain Ghost" written in Mingyue Cave, and Qu Yuan's "Mountain Ghost" always reminds me of the stories my grandmother told in Mingyue Cave when I was a child, as if I saw the old tree in front of the cave A stunning female ghost combing her hair. "Resentment, son, forgetting to return, the king thinks of me, and I will not be idle." Every time I read this, I read the female ghost's deep sense of loss and lamentation, and I can't help feeling a dull pain in my heart, with ominous omens.Sure enough, because of the conflict with another clan, the Leng family's vitality was seriously injured, and their family fortunes fell.

In the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu (1903), the Guimao Ke Township Examination started, and my family couldn’t afford the money to go to the provincial government to take the township exam, so I missed the first round of the township exam.For this reason, my heart feels like a knife is twisted, it's not good, I have nowhere to complain, my family is going from bad to worse, and I have no money left. Because the blood of the Leng family flows through my body, I also inherited Leng Sansi's stubbornness and obstinacy, and decided to find a way to earn money by myself.If you want to go to the provincial government to take the provincial examination, you need to prepare at least a hundred taels of silver, which is an astronomical figure for me.Because in addition to the troubles on the road, most of the scholars have to go to Changsha to prepare for the exam several months or even a year in advance, eat and drink, study and ink, make friends and visit teachers, which naturally costs a lot of money.At that time, in my hometown, the most profitable business was "Zhu Youke", that is, driving corpses, and driving dead corpses could earn ten taels of silver, or even more.In order to save enough money as soon as possible, I decided to learn how to drive corpses.

Chasing corpses, in my hometown, Chenzhou Prefecture, and the surrounding Yongshun Prefecture, Yuanzhou Prefecture, Jingzhou Zhili Prefecture and Fenghuang, Qianzhou, Yongsui, Huangzhou Zhili Office, including Yongding, Cizhou in Lizhou In addition, it has long been a well-known weird thing.Speaking of its weirdness, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is almost impossible to make a corpse walk, but the mortician can indeed do it.Of course, driving corpses is also a horrifying thing, and people are very taboo about it. When they see corpses driving, they often can't avoid it.As for expelling corpses, there is no way to verify when it started and by whom.According to the villagers, in Chenzhou Prefecture, Yongshun Prefecture, and Yuanzhou Prefecture in western Hunan, after the wanderers who went out to make a living died in other places, their relatives wanted to transport the corpses back to their hometown for burial. , Walking is extremely inconvenient.Thus, the astonishing business of driving corpses was born to deal with the poor mountains and rivers here.

To learn how to drive a corpse is easy to say, but it is very difficult to actually move.Generally, the morticians have extremely strict conditions for accepting apprentices, and there are many rules, one of which is that the uglier the better, and they cannot marry and have children.At the age of eighteen, I was already a suave man, eight feet tall, and a local scholar. Naturally, such conditions were far from the image of a mortician.But I didn't give up. I secretly went to Chenxi, Luxi and other places to learn from teachers, but I was rejected repeatedly.My apprenticeship was blocked, so I decided to disfigure my face.So, without telling my family, I cut my face with scissors, and then painted my face with the poisonous juice of a local tree called "Ghost Jiansan".Seven days later, I became hideous and terrified. Even my domestic dog barked in fear when I saw my appearance. My mother cried desperately while holding me.The matter has come to this point, the family had no choice but to follow me, and asked someone to find a mage with the highest spells in Yuanling, and made a written statement to worship him as a teacher.After leaving the division, I took up residence in Yuriye, and started my career of exorcising corpses independently.

These words are what I recorded during the exorcism process. Although they are in the form of notes, intermittent and trivial, they truly record my exorcism career and the unimaginable things that happened during the exorcism... …