Vol 4 Chapter 26: Corpse

I asked Niu Tu about me, and there was a look of admiration on his face.
Obviously, in the eyes of Niu Tu, the person with the same face as me is like a god.
After sorting out his thoughts for a while, Niu Tu told the story about him and me.
It turned out to be back fifty years ago. Niu Tu first saw "I" fifty years ago. At that time, he was still a young man who was less than twenty years old.
Niu Tu was born in a remote village in the west, Baishuiling.
Baishuiling is not the Niujiazhuang where Niu Tiancheng was back then, and it is not a village inhabited by ethnic groups. It has various surnames.
Niu Tu’s previous generations of the Niu family were all feng shui masters, but they weren’t considered to be masters of Taoism, at best they were a well-known Mr. Yin Yang.
From this point of view, the Niu family obviously did not get the good luck of Niu Tiancheng, and did not have such a master as Chen Yan, the green hemp ghost hand like the Chen family. However, it is understandable that Niu Tiancheng has obtained the Xuanwu inheritance, and he was indeed persuaded by the ancestor of the Chen family, Chen Anzhi, to persuade the first emperor to bury him as a fairy.
But feng shui is always changing, not that you plant a cause and it will result. It has been two thousand years from the Qin Dynasty to the present, and no one can say what other things happened in the middle.
What's more, this tomb in Guishan is similar to that of the Chen family's Dragon Raising. But what is their ultimate goal is still inconclusive. The celestial beings of later generations may not necessarily be the geniuses of Tianzong.
At that time, the Four Olds were broken and feudal superstitions were to be overthrown.
Although those powerful Feng Shui sects have not been greatly affected, the impact is still great for a small family of Feng Shui such as the Niu Family who has no deep foundation.
Niu Tu's father was labeled as superstitious, and he gave up the feng shui journey. Instead of training Niu Tu to be a Feng Shui master, he started working as a corpse scavenger.
Baishuiling is backed by the Yellow River, so Niutu's father is a corpse hunter from the Yellow River.
In fact, the corpse hunter is a very mysterious and ancient profession. After all, it is to deal with corpses. It is also known as the yin and yang crossover. It is a person who wanders on the edge of life and death.
The Yellow River has always been a very evil existence, and there are too many evil legends at the bottom of the ancient river.
Most people are unwilling or daring to do this job of hunting corpses in the Yellow River, and Niu Tu's father is not willing. He has no choice but to support his family. Furthermore, although he was overthrown by the Four Olds, he used to be a Feng Shui master after all, and the corpse in the Yellow River would eventually need to be retrieved, so the village chief arranged such a job.
Almost most corpse hunters belong to yin for numerology, and the five elements belong to water. Because this life is hard enough, you won't be dragged into the water by the underwater ghosts when you swim in the Yellow River, and become the ghost of the dead.
Because the ancestor Niu Tiancheng inherited the basalt inheritance of the Niu family, the five elements of the basalt belong to water, so the five elements in the life of the Niu family are water.
Therefore, Niutu's father was born to be the material of the Yellow River corpse hunter, which is like the fate of heaven and cannot escape.
After all, Niu Tu’s father is also a Feng Shui master, and he knows a lot of mysticism. In addition, he has a calm and cautious nature. He is always careful and careful every time he leaves the boat. He never commits a taboo. Therefore, even if he has been a corpse hunter for decades, it is evil. Encountered a lot, but all of them were resolved by him.
However, you often walk by the river, how can you not wet your shoes?
After all, something happened to him, and ‘I’ started to show up after Niutu’s father’s accident.
Niutu's father took a big red rooster out of the boat to retrieve the corpse as usual that day.
This time he took the job to salvage a mother and son, saying that a child in a merchant ship fell into the water and his mother jumped down to save him.
Later, the two never came up again, and Niutu's father was going to find the mother and son in the place where the incident occurred.
When he arrived at the scene of the incident, Niutu's father immediately started salvaging.
He is already a veteran with decades of experience. He has once fished dozens of lives in a big boat, so it is not a big job to fish a mother and a child.
Familiar with the road, he didn't waste much energy, so he picked up the mother and son.
It's sad to say that when he fished out the mother and son, the two corpses were closely nestled together.
The mother held her son tightly in her arms, like she was holding up a big umbrella for her son, but she couldn't afford two lives.
Normal people will be moved, regretted, and sad when they see this scene.
However, the experienced Niutu father secretly said that he was not good. He felt bad and was a little scared.
Because he found that there was no fear in the eyes of the mother and son, they looked shocked, as if they were shocked by something.
Normally, people who fall into the water must desperately want to swim ashore, even if they can't swim, they will struggle wildly.
But the mother and child showed no signs of struggling, they hugged each other tightly.
They looked ahead, their eyes full of surprise.
Niutu’s father quickly closed the eyes of the two corpses, then slaughtered the big rooster and threw it into the Yellow River, which was regarded as a tribute to the Dragon King of the Yellow River.
Throwing down the big rooster, Niutu's father immediately collected the body and left.
But as soon as the ship moved, it seemed as if something had hit the ship underneath, making a bang bang bang.
He has a very good nose, and he smells dead.
But he felt that the smell of death was not the same as the corpses he had fished, and there was a breath of life in the smell of death.
Niutu's father suddenly felt evil, and he pushed the boat aside and looked to the bottom of the water.
At this sight, he was startled in a cold sweat.
Faintly, he saw a corpse under the water.
Although it was just a shadow of a corpse, it was hard to see what he looked like, but he could tell at a glance that he was standing in the water.
There are three people who collect corpses in the Yellow River. The second is that if the same corpse fails to get on the boat three times in a row, it can't be fished anymore.
And the third non-fishing is that standing corpses in the water must never be harvested, because standing corpses in the water are evil, and they must never be harvested. The evil spirit of this kind of corpse is extremely heavy, and the deceased is unwilling to die. Then the dead souls will become evil spirits, this kind of evil aura can make the corpse walk upright in the water, and when it encounters a living person, it will immediately entangle resentment.
The light one is full of resentment and brings bad luck, and the one who has the idea will die.
Niutu's father knew this taboo well, so he left immediately.
But at this moment, the sky was rolling dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and thunderstorms were coming.
Good guy, it's a thunderstorm again, and it's an erect corpse again. Niu Tu's father knew that this corpse must never be touched, so he did not look back, struggling forward with all his strength.
But he felt that the corpse had been following him all the time, and had not left, as if he had to fish it up.
Niutu's father is absolutely impossible to break the precept, and he has tried his best to make preparations for sacrificial talisman fighting.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt the ship lighten, and the strange corpse gas seemed to disappear.
At the same time, he heard a big movement from the bottom of the water behind him, as if something was fighting fiercely in the water.