Chapter 28 Chapter Seven: The Swordsman Borrows the Corpse in the Night Tomb

I suddenly heard a sound behind me, and before I turned around to look around, a black shadow had already floated in front of me. Under a cloak, there was a stern face and a pair of stagnant eyes.I looked carefully, and a mature man dressed as a samurai stopped in front of us. "What do you want to do?" Wang Erya held Tian Xiaomei behind her. The other party was speechless. "Want to rob? We don't have any silver!" Wang Erya's voice was mingled with fear, she groped for a long time, took out some broken silver, and prepared to hand it over to someone. The visitor ignored him.Tian Gudao took out the ghost lock rope, he thought it was a ghost appearing, turned into a human form to cause trouble, he took the ghost lock rope and ran towards the strong man, intending to bind him, but he was shaken far away by the palm of the visitor, fell to the ground.

Tian Gudao's face darkened, and he wanted to go forward again, but I grabbed him, obviously this is not a ghost. I thought to myself, this guy is not robbing money, is he going to rob sex? "What advice do you have?" I glanced at the other party. The person who chased the corpse had already put life and death aside, and was not afraid of such an accident, but because there were two more women, I couldn't help feeling a little worried. "Excuse me, are you two Zhu Yuke's masters?" Finally, there was a trace of life in the stagnant eyes of the visitor, but his voice was chilling.

Looking at the posture of our group of people, looking at the Tianlu corpse flag, and looking at the two women at the same time, he seemed uncertain, probably he had never heard of a mortician who brought a beautiful woman to drive a corpse, and his face was full of suspicion. After confirming our identities, the visitor explained the reason: he was about to find the mortician to remove the corpse, and when he saw us carrying the banner with the word "corpse" in Tianlu, he asked by the way. It turned out that one of his fellow disciples died a few days ago, and he wanted to find a corpse-taker to rush back to his hometown in Baojing, Yongshun Prefecture.Tian Gudao asked the visitor what kind of business he was engaged in, but the other party did not answer, we felt strange, and doubts inevitably arose in our hearts.

We refused to take the job, and the person who came was a little anxious.We explained the reasons to him. There are also rules for expelling corpses. Dead corpses of unknown origin and details are not expelled. The visitor had no choice but to tell us the truth.The visitor said that he was a swordsman, and what he did was to collect money and kill people. I saw that the man was dressed in black, with a short attire under the long gown, and a knife hanging behind his back, but the knife was broken!Although the knife was broken, the blade was shining coldly. It turned out to be a professional killer!No wonder the body is cold and gloomy.

I saw Tian Xiaomei couldn't help shivering.She looked at me helplessly and told me with her eyes that she didn't want us to take the job. "Brother, the swordsman has a lot of life debts, ranging from a few lives to as many as a hundred. After the swordsman dies, there is much more yin energy than a normal corpse. On the road, it is easy to attract lonely souls and wild ghosts. Especially the people he killed. If the soul has not been saved, it will wander around, and if it encounters the ghost of the killer, it will be entangled together, which will make it more difficult to exorcise the corpse, and even cause unexpected incidents... "Tian Gudao seems to be discussing with me, but in fact, he said this to the sword-breaker.

The knife-breaker seemed to understand what Tian Gudao meant, and said expressionlessly: "The remuneration is not a problem, you can make a price." "Fifty taels of silver!" Tian Gudao opened his mouth wide. "No problem, I'll give it to you now!" He took out a fifty-two silver note from his pocket, and handed it to Tian Gudao indifferently. A swordsman is a swordsman after all, and he does things so quickly and neatly, never procrastinating. Tian Gudao took the bank note, trying to suppress the surprise as much as possible, but a flash of regret flashed across his face, probably because he regretted not raising the price a bit higher.Wang Erya and Tian Xiaomei were stunned and opened their mouths wide.

Broken Swordsman told us that his brother's body is in a remote place in Migong Mountain. We decided to go there overnight.The Broken Swordsman led us there, and the ghost cub carried the Tianlu corpse flag, all the way silent. At this time, the moon is already hanging in the sky, and the cool moon is like water, sprinkled on us. When passing a cemetery, I suddenly heard the sound of digging.The knife-breaker vigilantly motioned us to get down.We crouched behind a mound and visited the cemetery. There was a rustling sound in the cemetery of a new grave. From time to time, sand and soil would rise from a tomb passage and then fall, and so on and on, but there was no one.The wreath on the grave was thrown aside.

"Have you encountered a ghost?" Tian Gudao whispered. "I heard from the older generation of us that such a strange thing happened in the cemetery. It must be that the corpses in the coffins were about to crawl out of the tomb. Let's run..." Wang Erya cried out in fright, Tian Gudao quickly covered her mouth, for fear that she would startle something unclean. I took out the Huya ruler from my pocket, and comforted everyone not to be afraid, to observe first before making a decision.I'm hoping it's really a ghost, and if the cemetery ghosts are haunted, I can use them to sacrifice my town ruler.

Not long after, the rustling stopped, and the soil was gone.We held our breath and continued to observe the movement. After another time, there was a "pop", and a corpse was suddenly thrown out from inside. "Wow..." Tian Xiaomei was so frightened that she couldn't help making a sound, I quickly covered her mouth, Tian Xiaomei hugged my arm tightly, her hands were cold, and she was shivering all over. Perhaps hearing Tian Xiaomei's voice, the cemetery suddenly returned to dead silence. After a while, a dirty hand stretched out from the tomb, groped for a while, and then a head popped up, looking around furtively.Seeing that there was no abnormality around, a person turned out, then stretched out his hand into the tomb passage, and pulled out another thin figure.

"Grandma is a pickle, is it a human or a ghost?" Tian Gudao said to me under his breath, a little impatient. At this time, the two figures just now started to clean up the corpses that were thrown out first, and the young man then started to fill up the grave pit with a shovel.The skinny one was burning incense and praying beside the cemetery. "Tomb robber!" Tian Gudao said in a low voice, making a gesture to rush out to intervene, but was held down by the broken knife man, unable to move.In our place, tomb robbery is an act of cutting off children and grandchildren, and it will be punished by God.

"Goo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo" I saw the swordsman making a trumpet shape with his hands, and screaming the turtledove towards the cemetery. "Goo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo" the other party also made the same sound. Repeatedly, the two sides made the sound of turtledoves with different rhythms. "It's okay, our people came here to borrow the corpse." The swordsman said. Seeing that they belonged to us, the two figures in the cemetery relaxed their vigilance and sped up their movements.We ignore it, and the swordsman leads us to move on. "What does borrowing a corpse mean?" Tian Gudao was very curious and couldn't help asking the swordsman. The swordsman remained silent. Tian Gudao was not discouraged, and asked repeatedly. The knife-breaker couldn't help his tossing, probably seeing that we are also people who drive corpses, should understand the rules of the world, and don't make publicity around, so he opened his mouth to tell: In the profession of dry knife hand, when a new knife hand first enters the industry, one thing must be done first - to borrow a corpse, which is to find a fresh adult corpse.Borrowing corpses has two purposes, one is to practice courage, and the other is that the dug out corpses can be used as a real target for training sword skills. Borrowing corpses usually takes place on a dark and windy night, with the master and his disciples carrying tools such as hoe and shovel to find a new grave.If it must be a new tomb that has just been buried, the body must not be buried for more than seven days, and the old tomb is definitely not acceptable, otherwise the body will have rotted. Borrowing a corpse is very particular. You have to burn incense and pray first, then copy the spirit tablet, kneel down and kowtow seven to forty-nine times, asking for forgiveness from the owner of the corpse.Then excavate, dig out the dead bodies, and fill up the grave as before.After the incident, the master burned incense and prayed again, and led the soul of the deceased with a memorial tablet in front, while the disciple carried the dead body on his back and followed behind. Carrying the dead body is also very particular. The person carrying the dead body must stand back to back with the dead body. Before reaching the destination, the dead body must not let the dead body see the way forward, otherwise bad luck will come.When crossing the mountain and crossing the bridge, incense must be burned to prevent the soul of the dead from getting lost and unable to keep up.When you arrive at the destination, you can put down the corpse and burn incense to pray. Hearing what he said, Tian Gudao murmured to me in a low voice: "Xiucai, the training method of this swordsman is more cruel than ours. We kill piglets at most to practice skills. I have never heard of using dead bodies to train swordsmen." corpses. Their method can be introduced into the world of exorcising corpses. In fact, being a killer and being an exorcist have one thing in common, that is, you must first overcome your fear. If you are afraid of seeing a dead person, that killer will definitely kill Can't kill people! A mortician will definitely not be able to drive away corpses, in order to overcome this fear, training with dead people is the most suitable." I don't know much about professional killers.In fact, being a killer is the same as being a mortician, no different from being a shoemaker or a tracker. The purpose is to make a living and make a living.Regarding the swordsman, I have heard that there are three rules in this industry: never rob business; You can't say "this is the last time", this is the most taboo word for swordsmen, and swordsmen who say this sentence will almost stumble in the last mission. I remember when I was five years old, a county magistrate in a neighboring county was decapitated and left a dead body without a head.The case dragged on for a long time without being solved, and finally became an unsolved case.There are many folk versions about the murderer.The most widely spread is that the county magistrate did not act for him because he received a huge bribe from a defendant.The defendant was originally a bully who did all kinds of evil, so he couldn't swallow this breath, so he hired a skilled swordsman to kill the corrupt official with a high salary. "Xiu Cai, where are you going?" Tian Xiaomei asked abruptly. "It's almost there." The Swordsman replied. About half a stick of incense, we came to a hillside.There is a thatched hut on the slope, and the thatched hut has only one room. There is an old man with a broken arm inside. The swordsman led us into the house and introduced us. The old man nodded with a dignified expression, but said nothing. The swordsman arranged for us to stay here at night.The old man lit a fire and got us some food, gave us the thatched hut, and slept in the woodshed on the side by himself. We drove Wu Liucong's body in and placed it in the corner of the door.Because there was only one bamboo bed inside, we gave Tian Xiaomei, Wang Erya and Gui Zaiyao to sleep, and Tian Gudao and I sat on the spot in the clinic. When the two women saw a dead body in the corner of the door, they were terrified at first, but with our company by their side, they felt a little more at ease, but they didn't feel sleepy, and they always struck up a conversation with us. Tian Gudao whispered to me: "Xiucai, these two women are afraid of us molesting them, so they dare not close their eyes. We have to find a way to get rid of their entanglement and have a good dream. I'm so sleepy." "Hey, let's guess riddles, shall we?" Tian Xiaomei pouted at us. "What if you lose?" I challenged. "What do you want to do?" Tian Xiaomei asked back. "Give us your antidote!" Tian Gudao interrupted. "You have a good idea! If I give you the antidote, I won't be sold by you! Is this good? If we lose, I will let you sleep on this bed." Tian Xiaomei thought of a compromise, Wang Erya pouted, with a reluctant expression, but she didn't dare to attack. So began the guessing game. Seeing that we are going to compete, the ghost cub is very excited.He picked up a piece of charcoal from the stove on the ground, stood in front of the door, and prepared to act as a planner for us. Tian Xiaomei made the move first. "When the worm enters the phoenix's nest, there are no birds, and green grass grows on the heads of the seven people; it rains on the Hengshan Mountain, and half of my friends are gone. Guess four words!" "Wind, flower, snow, moon!" I replied. "Recalling the past, the green shadows whirling. Since I entered the hands of the master, I was young and yellow. I suffered a lot of torture, a few turmoil, and Xie brought it up, brought it up, and shed tears. What is it?" "Penny!" "A hollow tree, the only one living on the edge of the east fence. It has been terminally ill for a long time, and it survived a narrow escape. What kind of traditional Chinese medicine?" "Oh, oh, the scholar gave up..." Seeing that I couldn't remember it for a while, Wang Erya laughed and laughed. "Akebia, Huanghua, Myrrh, and Duhuo!" Tian Gudao replied. Seesawing back and forth and competing for several rounds, it seems that there is no win or loss, only to continue. "A nail in the tail, two beans in the eyes, it has wings but no hair, it has feet and can't walk. What is it?" "dragonfly!" "Zongzi head, plum blossom feet, a command knife hanging from the buttocks, sitting taller than standing. What kind of living thing?" "dog!" At this time, the door panel had already been filled with several positive characters written by ghosts and demons, and it was hard to tell the winner. Tian Gudao was a little disappointed, and interjected: "You are too literary, it sounds sour, I will give you some popular ones." "Okay, okay!" Erya Wang applauded. "Stealing what is not illegal?" Tian Gudao revealed the mystery with a sinister smile. "Stealing people!" Wang Erya spoke quickly. "Stealing a person is a criminal offense and should be beheaded!" I replied. "No, no, it's cheating!" Wang Erya corrected. "Wrong! It's secretly crying!" Tian Gudao was triumphant. "What kind of official not only does not receive a salary, but also invites people to eat?" "How can there be such a stupid official? I'm afraid his brain is flooded! I only know that all officials are corrupt." Wang Erya was anxious. "Of course there is, it's the bridegroom officer!" Tian Gudao had a sense of accomplishment, and then continued to ask questions: "Then let me ask you again, why do women like men so big and so thick?" After Tian Gudao finished the riddle, the room fell into silence. It's so outrageous, I scolded Tian Gudao's riddle in my heart for being unrefined, which made everyone very embarrassed. After silence, still silence. I saw that Tian Xiaomei and Wang Erya were a little shy. "You slut who doesn't know how to be ashamed, why did you come up with such riddles. Miss and I are still young girls, you are humiliating us!" Wang Erya finally couldn't hold back, and scolded Tian Gudao. "Haha, what! You guys are really delusional. The answer to this riddle is: rich and powerful!" Tian Gudao smirked. Wang Erya refused to obey, yelled, and chased Tian Gudao to beat him. Suddenly, a few coughs came from the next door. It was the old man who was protesting our noise. We quickly restrained ourselves, stopped the game, and fell asleep with our clothes on...