A corpse-driver?

There are rumors that there are corpse-drivers in western Hunan and there are also corpse-drivers. The corpse-drivers hang gongs and hold golden bells in their waists. The corpse-drivers are soaked in special herbs and put a corpse-driver on their heads. The corpse-drivers can follow the guidance of the corpse-drivers. The corpse-drivers lie down at night, and rest in charity houses in various places during the day. At night, they drive the corpse-drivers to walk.

According to the old man's description, the man wearing a straw raincoat and a straw hat seemed to be very similar to the legendary corpse-driver in Xiangxi, but the old man did not mention that the man in the straw raincoat held a golden bell in his hand, and the walking blue jacket did not have a yellow paper on his head.

In fact, I not only thought of the corpse-driver in Xiangxi, but also a man, a man who also holds a gong, Liu Qingshan of the Liu family, the man who I once regarded as my brother but gradually became strangers. I saw him for the first time. He was playing shadow puppets in Liu City. At that time, in my eyes, he was just a gangster who was selling hands in the world holding a gong in my ears and saved me who was almost suffocated in Wu Yaozu's coffin.

I still clearly remember what he said to me for the first time:

Eight thousand, if you really can’t get around in the future, Fengmingshan Wuyin Temple, look for Liu Qingshan!

I shook my head and said to myself, "Don't think too much. The platoon leader named Zhang must not be Liu Qingshan. The old man mentioned this era, I'm afraid that Liu Qingshan has not been born yet. The platoon leader named Zhang is probably from Xiangxi's corpse-driver, and it wouldn't be so coincidental that he has something to do with the Liu family in Jiangnan."

"What are you talking about? Did you think of something?" the old man asked when he heard my words.

"No, I'm just guessing whether the platoon leader named Zhang was a craftsman who drove the corpse. He didn't look like it. Then you continued, what happened after you met the me back then?" I asked.

"When I opened my eyes and saw you, I immediately knew that you saved me. You blew out the lamp that was lit in front of me. You told me at that time that there were three soul lamps in humans, divided into three soul lamps of heaven, earth and man. These three lamps are human natal lamps. The corpse-driver cast magic. When all three soul lamps were burned, even if the Daluo Jinxian came down to the world, he blew out the lamp in front of me. In fact, he lit the two that I had already destroyed, and then saved me. When I heard what you said, I immediately knew that you were a real paradise. I immediately knelt down to you. On the one hand, I thanked you for your life-saving grace, and on the second, I wanted you to rescue the body of the driven Li Gouzi. Brothers, I always wanted him to be buried in peace." The old man said.

"How did I tell you at that time?" I asked pretended to be calm. Every time I think of the young man who looks exactly the same as me, especially when I assumed that he was me and I was him, I always felt extremely strange in my heart. This feeling was indescribable, and in short, it made people feel very uncomfortable.

"You didn't say anything. You just nodded to me. Then you asked me to follow you, and didn't tell me where you were going. I said I was going home, but I was actually homeless, so I followed you, following the corpse craftsman in front, the corpse craftsman sleeping during the day, and we also sleeping during the day. The craftsman is rushing to the night, and we follow him. In fact, many times I think the corpse craftsman knows that we are following, because you are not shy away from him at all, and it is not like following someone at all. Instead, it is like letting him lead us in front. I don't know how long I have been walking, at least for three months, or half a year, that period of time.

I was so confused that I couldn't remember where I was. In short, after a long time, we finally arrived at the foot of a snowy mountain. You told me to wait for you at the foot of the mountain, and then you went up to the snowy mountain. I didn't expect that this would take three years. I almost couldn't wait to leave many times in these three years. Fortunately, I finally waited for you. After you went down the mountain, you gave me this shoe, saying it was to leave a souvenir, and said that we would meet again sooner or later, but when we met again, I'm afraid I still remember you, but you may not remember me. This separation will last for a lifetime. I really didn't expect that you were still so young when you saw you again." The old man said.

"It's gone?" I asked.

The old man nodded and said, "I went home after parting with you. When the Japanese devils came, I joined the army. Later, I lived in a confused life. What did you remember?"

"No, I have no impression at all." I said.

"It's normal, you are not an ordinary person." The old man nodded in disappointment.

I looked at the old man, and he looked at me too.

This is our first meeting - of course, in his story we are old friends we have known for decades.

I have no way to judge the authenticity of his words. I can even say that I feel very vague when I let me recall the story he just told me. His story is tortuous enough, and I can also feel that there seems to be a very important message hidden in his words, but I can't catch this point.

Finally, I suddenly realized that the person in front of me was not Liu Zhiyuan or Yuan Tiandao. Everything they told me had its own purpose, and it was to tell a story to tell me something. However, the old man in front of me was an ordinary person. By chance, he participated in something that happened that year. He was also confused for him. He was just very simple to give me a story.

The corpse-driver in western Hunan is suspected to be Liu Qingshan's Tonggong, and the tomb was buried together. The dead are resurrected, the dead are pregnant, and the corpse is driven to the snow mountain. The snow mountain I went to the three years ago.

I followed the story from the beginning and found that there was so much information hidden in this not-so-long story. In the past few years of being hiding my identity, although I have not really put down the results and truth of my obsessive pursuit, at least I feel as calm as I recall it. However, this story by the old man undoubtedly caused a ripple on my calm water surface. This ripple has caused thousands of waves.

"Okay, I've finished listening to the story. Let's not talk about this for now. Old man, no matter the person I was now, or by chance, I just look very similar to the person I was back then. I don't want others to know about this, and it will cause me unnecessary trouble. Can you understand this?" I said.

"I know." said the old man.

"Haoran has encountered some trouble recently. He needs money, so he stole your shoes. Please don't take this seriously. Now that the descendants of the shoes have been found, the fat man has also taken other people's money. You always have to tell her something. This is called using people's money to eliminate disasters. But some words can be said to her, and some words cannot be said, you understand, right?" I said.

The old man nodded, then looked at me with his eyes open. I looked at me very strangely. I asked, "What's wrong?"

"You can't be him. He doesn't have so much to say. Just what you and I say today is more than what he said when he was with him for half a year." The old man smiled.

I shrugged and didn't comment on this.

After that, I opened the door and walked out. After going out, I found that it was already sunny and the mountains were dusk. We rushed over early in the morning. The old man and I chatted in the room for nearly a day. After I came out, the old man Liu and Qingmu were all looking at me with strange eyes. I didn't know how to explain to them, so I simply ignored their hot eyes and said to Qingmu: "Okay, the old man said he wanted to see you."

Aoki nodded, and could see that she was a little excited at this time. She walked into the house and closed the door. As soon as she entered, the fat man pulled me aside. He said, "Baqian, what is the hell is going on? Why did my grandfather kneel down for you? I've been chatting with you for so long, what are you two talking about?!"

"Actually, it's nothing. When the old man was young, he met a paradise. The paradise looked quite similar to me. The old man was dazzled and regarded me as him. What we were talking about just now was some of the past events." I said.

"Just pretend to me, you can't tell me anything to my brother?" said the fat man.

"It's really nothing else." I said.

The fat man stared at me and sighed, "Okay, you don't want to say that I don't force you, but you specified that you were hiding me for something. I feel that I can't see through you anymore. You suddenly left without saying goodbye back then. Now my grandfather kneeled down when he saw you. To be honest, I suspect that my grandfather did not recognize the wrong person. You are just an old monster who has lived for thousands of years!"

"If I were an old monster who had lived for thousands of years, the first person I ate would be you. The cream is full of oil, it tastes so good!" I said.

"Get out, I'm pork belly!" The fat man cursed with a smile.

Just after the fat man said this, I suddenly heard Aoki's scream coming from the room. The fat man scolded and rushed straight into the room. I didn't dare to delay following behind. When we kicked open the door and walked in, we found Aoki squatting on the ground with his head in his arms, and a saber was inserted in front of the old man's chest. The saber was sank into a large part, and there was a pool of blood under the old man's feet.

"Damn it, I'll kill you!" The fat man roared angrily and rushed towards Aoki.

Aoki stood up, and the fat man punched the fat man by her. The fat man scolded him and continued to hit Aoki if he dared to hide. Aoki moved his footsteps and didn't see clearly how she was doing. She directly pressed the fat man's arm with a grapple hand. She said to the fat man: "Calm down, your grandfather committed suicide, it's not my business!"

"Don't let your mother go!" the fat man cursed.
Chapter completed!