bookrebus Chapter 158: Corpse Driving
Chapter 158: Corpse Driving
The second cousin rubbed his eyes and said, "These... these are all dead people!"
Moreover, all of them were corpses with talismans on them. The corpses were moving very fast and soon arrived in front of Wang Qiuju and others.
Wang Qiuju's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, cold sweat seeped out from her forehead and slid down her cheeks, and the clothes on her back were also soaked with cold sweat.
One of the cousins was as pale as paper, his usual fierceness had long disappeared, replaced by a look of fear.
He made a gurgling sound in his throat, but couldn't shout out a sound. His hands were tightly grasping his clothes, and his knuckles turned white from the force.
The other cousin subconsciously stepped back, staggering and accidentally tripping over a stone and falling to the ground, but he didn't feel the pain at all. He just stared at the jumping corpse that was getting closer and closer with horror.
Some cousins didn't care about anything else and ran straight towards the camp.
Wang Qiuju was so scared that she peed her pants. Lin Dafu carried her on his back and ran towards the camp.
The corpses were still chasing after him. The old man said with a cold face, "You dare to go out and roam the world with such a condition? It's a joke."
The old man's grandson laughed and said, "Grandpa, you are really amazing! I think that woman was scared to death."
The corpse driver laughed heartily and said:
“Who knew they were so timid?
Let's get everything ready. I see they've run to the back. Let's go see if there's anyone there.
To be honest, it's not safe for us to continue walking like this. We'd better find a reliable team to walk with us."
The corpse driver's grandson looked at his grandfather and said, "These people have bad intentions. Can they be trusted?"
Grandpa laughed and said, "Who knows! Let's follow and see!"
The group followed Wang Qiuju and the others back to the camp, where dozens of people with talismans on their faces were standing in the woods.
The corpse driver squatted down at the entrance of the village and wrote and drew on the ground. The little grandson didn't dare to disturb him because he knew that his grandfather had started to tell fortunes.
His grandfather knows some simple fortune-telling, which can be considered as a skill passed down from his ancestors!
After thinking for a while, he smiled and said, "Not bad, not bad. Let's go south. That's where we can escape."
"Grandpa, is this reliable?"
The corpse driver touched his grandson's head and said, "Of course they are reliable. I don't know where these people are going. If they are going to Bianjing, then we will follow them."
The little grandson pouted and said, "Why do we have to go to Bianjing? I think our Xiangxi is pretty good."
The corpse driver looked at him and sighed:
"We really have no way to survive in western Hunan. Look, in this year of severe drought and famine, the crops have been completely destroyed.
Although Xiangxi is our hometown, under the current circumstances, the only way for us to stay here is to starve to death.
Besides, you can't be stuck there forever. Your studies can't be wasted like this.
Bian Jing was different. It was a prosperous place with the best institutions of higher learning and countless books.
There, you can learn from learned teachers and make friends with like-minded people."
"But once we go to Bian Jing, grandpa, you won't be able to drive corpses anymore." Tian Ye looked at his grandfather, feeling a little uncomfortable.
The corpse driver laughed heartily and said:
"I have a few good friends in Bianjing. At worst, I can work as a coroner in the government office.
Your husband said that you are very talented and it is impossible for you to make a name for yourself in Xiangxi, but it will be different if you go to Bianjing.
Someone..."
He looked at the forest ahead. Master Bai and the carpenter were also looking in their direction warily. Master Bai asked, "Who's that over there?"
The corpse driver came out of the woods, clasped his fists and said, "Brother, I'm sorry to bother you so late."
Master Bai, holding the big knife in his hand, asked, "What are you doing? Why are you here so late?"
The corpse driver quickly said:
"We encountered robbers today, and then followed the robbers and came here.
We don't mean any harm, we just wanted to ask where you're going. If you're going the same way, could we be companions?
Tian Ye quickly stepped forward and said, "Grandpa, you are polite! We really don't mean any harm."
Master Bai looked at them and nodded, saying, "We plan to go to Bianjing..."
"Hey! That's what a coincidence. My family is also planning to go to Bian Jing. Since we are going the same way, why don't we travel together? We can take care of each other." The old man clasped his fists again and bowed.
Master Bai looked at the family, fifteen or sixteen people in total, and they didn't seem to have any intention of harming anyone.
He nodded slightly and said:
"We are also going to Bianjing. If you think it is suitable, you can come with us.
The families in our neighborhood all support each other.”
The corpse driver nodded quickly and said, "My last name is Tian, you can just call me Old Tian."
Master Bai nodded and said, "My last name is Bai. It's too late today. Let's get to know each other better tomorrow!"
The corpse driver nodded and said, "Okay, then we'll stay in the woods for now. When we set off tomorrow, Brother Bai has to come and call me."
Master Bai nodded quickly. After they left, the carpenter whispered, "Uncle Bai, who are these people? I always feel like there's an evil aura about them."
Master Bai stroked his beard and said, "If I'm not mistaken, these should be corpse drivers."
"What? Corpse driver?" The young carpenter was very curious because he had never heard of this profession.
Lin Wanwan was also woken up, her ears perked up. She knew about corpse-carrying in Xiangxi in her previous life.
I just didn’t expect that the words “Xiangxi corpse-driving” would appear in the Great Qi Dynasty.
She was quite curious about the profession of corpse driver. Master Bai smiled and said:
"Corpse driving is a mysterious craft in Xiangxi, with strict criteria for accepting apprentices, such as courage, good health, and ugly appearance.
It is said that to become a corpse driver one must pass three levels. The first level is to look at the sun and immediately distinguish east, west, south and north after it rotates, in order to test one's sense of direction.
The second level is to find things and carry loads, because during the corpse-driving process, you need to carry the corpse up the hill?
The third level is the most difficult. It requires players to go to a grave in the mountains in the dark night to get a piece of tung tree leaf to test their courage.
After becoming a corpse driver, one has to learn a lot of skills, such as drawing talismans, and various corpse-driving skills, such as "standing skills", "walking skills", "turning skills", "downhill skills", "crossing bridge skills", "dumb dog skills", etc.
Anyway, the corpse driver is not as simple as ordinary people think, but he is not as mysterious as ordinary people think.
This corpse driver must be a skilled martial artist, because I saw the bell hanging around his waist, and it's not a bell that an ordinary corpse driver would have..."
Lin Wanwan listened without blinking. Master Bai smiled gently, slowly picked her up and said, "Little girl, are you hungry? You little brat are eavesdropping again, aren't you?"