Chapter 44 Chapter 44: The Corpse Bearer

The tung oil lamp in the room flickered again, and a shadow came in from between the two doors where the dead bodies were hidden.His footsteps were light and soundless.When he got closer, he was not tall, only about one meter tall, but in appearance, he was not a child, with thick brows and wide mouth, very much like Wu Dalang in Water Margin. It turned out to be a dwarf. The man came in and was not afraid when he saw the dead body behind the door. He stared at Wei Ning for a long time, then suddenly smiled and showed his yellow teeth: "You are the legendary Mr. Corpse Chaser." Wei Ning said: "The Xishen Inn is not suitable for entertaining living people, you should go."

The man smiled at Wei Ning, and sat beside Wei Ning with a golden knife, and said with a smile: "The living and the dead are not all human beings. I can't live in the dead?" After speaking, he took out the money and patted it on the table. Go up and say: "Madam proprietress, I want to stay in the hotel." The old lady has no heirs, this little money is a big income for her, she quickly smiled and said: "It's okay, but my place is too old, and..." After speaking, he pointed to the dead body behind the house. "It doesn't matter, I'm not afraid, you go and cook two dishes for me and this young man, the cost of the dishes will be calculated separately."

Wei Ning frowned, seeing that the master had no objection, and he couldn't make a sound, so he had to acquiesce.Seeing that she was earning more money, the old lady happily went into the house to collect money. After a while, some dishes were brought out from the house, "I'm poor here, that's all, you can just order!" The man said with a smile: "There are so many things to pay attention to, just enough to fill the stomach, by the way, do you have any dried vegetables here, get me some." In western Hunan, no matter which family or household needs to pickle pickled vegetables, especially poor people like old ladies, they usually prepare several jars of pickled vegetables at home, and they will eat them for a year.

"Yes, I'll get it for you." The man smiled and said: "Don't bother you, I can go by myself, it should be there." The old lady saw that the man had already moved, so she didn't bother to leave, and pointed out the place.After a while, the man brought out a plate of pickles from the back room. "It's rare to meet Mr. Hustle, so, I invite you for this meal, don't rob me, if you don't eat it, you won't give me face." After finishing speaking, he enthusiastically served Wei Ning a meal. Wei Ning was not easy to evade. After the two of them had dinner, he suddenly felt a little dizzy and fell asleep in a coma.

When Wei Ning woke up, it was already broad daylight, Wei Ning thought: "Not good!" Sure enough, when he looked behind the door, the god of joy had disappeared! "Where is Xishen?" Wei Ning hurriedly asked the old lady who was busy in the back room. "Oh, the man just said that you are too tired, and you want him to carry it for you. I am an old man, so I can't ask too many questions. What's the matter?" "Oops, the god of joy was stolen by that person!" Wei Ning said anxiously, "if the god of joy gets lost, it will be out of control at that time." He hurriedly took out the compass from his pocket to make sure that the god of joy s position.

It turns out that Wei Ning has learned his lesson this time. The last time Xishen was lost, it was very difficult to find him. This time he put a charm on Xishen. No matter where Xishen goes, as long as the Chenzhou Talisman on Xishen remains , Wei Ning can find the location of the god of joy with the compass. Wei Ning chased after the god of joy all the way, and found the dwarf on a desolate hill, and he was on his way with the god of joy on his back. At this moment, Wei Ning understood in his heart that this person is not an ordinary person, he is a corpse bearer. It turns out that in western Hunan, there is a kind of person who specializes in robbing tombs for a living, known as corpse-carrying people.

Most of the corpse bearers are dwarfs, and they are ugly, with strong and powerful arms.Legend has it that the corpse-carriers were not dwarves, but were fed a special herbal medicine when they were young, which restricted their height and facilitated them to sneak into the grave and steal the corpse.Because they carry corpses all the year round, their arms are also extremely developed. The corpse-carrying person is a bit like chasing corpses, but it's not chasing corpses. Corpse chasers generally have the Taoism of Zhuyou, enclosing the soul of the god of joy into the body to prevent the god of joy from passing away, but the corpse-carrying people are different. They carry a corpse and there is a black shadow behind them. The jargon is called "ghost".

The reason why ghosts follow the corpse-bearer depends on the spell passed down from mouth to mouth by the corpse-bearer. If this spell goes wrong, the consequences will be disastrous. Obviously this person did not meet Wei Ning by chance, he followed Wei Ning. The corpse-carrying people are doing good deeds, bringing people who died in other places back to their hometowns and burying them in peace, while the corpse-carrying people are stealing the dead from the graves and selling them to some places in need. For example, yin marriage, etc., in exchange for high profits, is actually a kind of behavior that damages yin virtue.

Therefore, Xiangxi people hate corpse-carrying people extremely. Seeing that Wei Ning was catching up, the man didn't panic and said, "Okay, since you found out, how about splitting the bill fifty-fifty?" Wei Ning saw that the God of Joy hadn't left yet, so he was determined, and said coldly, "Give me back the God of Joy." The man chuckled and said, "Okay, four six, I'll be four and you six, that's okay, right?" Wei Ning said coldly: "Put down the god of joy and leave immediately, or I will be rude." "Hey, it seems that you are determined to take it all by yourself, okay, let me show you how powerful I am!" After speaking, he threw out a fist and only greeted Wei Ning in the face.

Wei Ning knew that there was nothing to talk to such a greedy person, so he turned to one side, dodged the person's fist, formed seals in his hands, then stepped back a few steps, and stood aside without speaking. "Hey, be afraid." Seeing Wei Ning running away, the man thought that Wei Ning was timid, and felt even more proud. "If you are sensible, let the uncle go, or don't blame the uncle for recognizing you, because the fist of the uncle does not recognize you." After speaking, he punched Wei Ning again. But his body seemed to be held back by something, and when he turned his head, it turned out that Xishen was holding his body behind him.Wei Ning took another talisman, Xishen had already hugged the man's whole body, no matter how the dwarf struggled, but Xishen's hands were like steel hoops, and he just didn't let go.

Wei Ning picked up a wooden stick from the side, and said calmly: "Don't force me to take action." After speaking, he took the wooden stick and compared it to the dwarf's head. In fact, people like dwarfs, although they are bold, are doing the business of stealing human corpses and doing things with a bad conscience, so they are very taboo in their hearts, for fear that one day those dead people who are betrayed by themselves will cause trouble for them He had never seen a dead body that could move before. He was frightened out of his wits and said quickly: "Mr. I let it go, let it go, I was wrong, I was wrong." Wei Ning threw the stick and made a seal with both hands, and Xishen let go of the dwarf, "Don't do this kind of thing next time. Go now!" After speaking, he walked to Xishen's side and carefully checked whether the cinnabar of Xishen had fallen off. Seeing that Xishen showed no signs of evil spirits, he was sure that he would leave with Xishen.As soon as he turned around, the dwarf picked up the wooden stick that Wei Ning dropped just now, and hit the back of Wei Ning's head with a stick. Wei Ning felt dizzy and passed out.