I searched for corpses in the Wuding River to extract entries

Chapter 1 Death Trial
Xie Que opened his eyes, and the disgusting smell kept pouring into his nose.

This is where?He was a little confused.

Looking around, it was pitch black.

I seem to be in a small cabin, only a little light seems to shine from the stern.

Messy memories flooded into his mind, Xie Que realized that he had traveled through time.

Now is the first year of Fengyu in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the new emperor will soon ascend the throne.

I am a corpse fisher who specializes in salvaging corpses in the river by the Wuding River outside Jinmen City.

Today's world is absurd, demons are in power, people are in dire straits, and many people drown themselves in rivers.

In the Zhou Dynasty, after death, the most important thing was to rest in the grave.

If the body sinks in the river, it will be difficult for the wronged soul to enter reincarnation, which can easily lead to bad luck.

In order to save the souls of the dead, and to fulfill the wishes of the family members, the business of scavenging corpses came into being.

The surrounding villages are all villagers who rely on the water to draw water. If the bodies in the river are not fished out.The villagers were too afraid to go into the water.

Therefore, the corpse collectors can be regarded as being supported by several surrounding villages, and they also receive a subsidy from the government.

As a business of fishing for vaginas, one has to deal with the dead every day. Ordinary people really don't have the guts to do so.

Moreover, it is best for those who work in this industry to have five disadvantages and three deficiencies. Those whose destiny is not evil enough will easily get into trouble.

I learned from my memory that Xie Que was an orphan who was abandoned by his family.

The predecessor suffered from laughing disorder since birth, and he could not control himself from laughing when his mood fluctuated.

Although this is not a crippling and terminal disease, in this era, ordinary people are also extremely superstitious.

Xie Que didn't know his own life, he only knew that he was brought up by Dashun, a corpse hunter outside the city.

After becoming an adult, Xie Que followed Da Shun to fish for corpses here, as a way of eating.

Xie Que became extremely uneasy in his heart, the world he traveled through was so dangerous.

This world is not only filled with natural and man-made disasters, but also seems to be filled with fierce spirits, ghosts, and weird monsters.

Xie Que was thinking about it, when he saw a crooked old man with white beard and hair coming from the stern of the boat with a hemp rope.

This is his adoptive father, Da Shun.

Dashun is a deaf-mute man with no family, and has been working as a corpse hunter here for decades.

He frowned and looked at Xie Que, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Xie Que shivered suddenly.

He was stared at by his adoptive father, and goosebumps kept popping up.

Although Dashun is his adoptive father, Dashun, who is deaf-mute, does not communicate much with him.

Moreover, his adoptive father behaved strangely, making Xie Que afraid of him since he was a child.

Xie Que felt as if he was being stared at by a poisonous snake, and that kind of fear came from his biological instincts.

It even became difficult for Xie Que to breathe, and cold sweat broke out on his back.

"What's wrong with me..." Xie Que felt that his heart was being tightly grasped by a big hand.

Da Shun's eyes became cloudy again, and Xie Que returned to normal only after his eyes moved away from Xie Que.

He touched his neck, there was still a trace of residual pain there.

Xie Que exhaled a thick breath, and the adoptive father in front of him dropped the hemp rope in his hand to the ground.

Da Bian pointed to the water surface, indicating to Xie Que that he was ready to enter the water.

"I...I can't..." Xie Que suddenly became nervous, completely forgetting that Dashun couldn't hear him.

For more than ten years, Xie Que had never personally retrieved a corpse. It was always Dashun or several of his brothers who did it.

The former Dashun had four adopted sons, corresponding to "the sky is broken and the earth is missing".

But all three brothers accidentally drowned in the water, and now only the youngest Xie Que is left.

Since then, Xie Que became even more afraid of this adoptive father.

Dashun took out a few sticks of incense from the cabin, lit them, and stuck them in the bow of the boat.

Then he turned to look at Xie Que again.

Xie Que has followed Dashun for many years, and he understands that when the three sticks of incense burn out, it is time for him to go into the water.

He gritted his teeth and tied the hemp rope tightly around his waist.

Da Shun nodded, took out a black weed from the gourd at his waist, and stuffed it forcefully into Xie Gap.

Xie Que was horrified, but Dashun was extremely strong and could not tolerate his resistance.

But I didn't expect that the worms are as silky as Dove, and they go down the stomach after entering the mouth.

Xie Que had seen his father and brothers eat it, but as a time traveler, he still felt a little alienated in his heart and started to cough.

The three sticks of incense in front of him were about to burn out, and Dashun lit another stick of incense as thick as his finger.

The three sticks of incense are to commemorate the souls of the dead in the water, to feed them and prevent the little ghosts from coming here to make trouble.

And this big incense is used for summoning souls.

If the body has not been picked up when it is completely burned, it should not be soaked in water again.

After completing this, his eyes focused on Xie Que again.

Xie Que also knew that the arrow was on the string and had to be fired, so he couldn't allow him to think twice.

He still remembered that the third brother was unwilling to go into the water before.

Then Dashun kicked him into the water and even locked him and his body in a net bag.

He gritted his teeth and picked up the big net on the side and jumped into the water.

Due to the effect of the crickets, Xie Que could see very clearly in the water at night, just like during the day.

Moreover, years of training have made Xie very good at losing water.

It's no problem to dive into the water and hold your breath for three to five minutes.

He looked at the "drifter" about ten meters away from the ship.

It was the floating corpse, and Xie Que's inner fear began to spread.

Xie Que floated up and put his head above the water.

This "drifter" had been immersed in water for too long, the body had already begun to swell, and the stench continued to enter Xie Que's nostrils.

Bai Huahua's body seemed to have swelled into a ball, looking very disgusting and terrifying.

Xie Que swam a little closer, and was shocked to find that the body was bent over, face down.

He hurriedly raised his hand three times according to what his adoptive father taught him in memory.

This is to indicate Dashun, and the face of the corpse is an ominous sign.

Dashun then sprinkled a handful of paper money into the river and tied a red rope to the bow of the boat.

The paper money is to comfort the soul of the dead and let their soul enter the body with peace of mind, while the red string is to avoid the interference of little ghosts.

Then, Xie Que swam around the corpse three times, which was one of the means to call back the soul of the corpse.

Moreover, the corpses in the water are also very likely to be entangled in aquatic plants or other things.

These invisible factors require the person who retrieved the body to go into the water to check, otherwise there is no need to go into the water.

Then Dashun took out a big rooster from the bag, cut the chicken's throat and spilled the blood into the water.

It is also to avoid attracting evil spirits.

This chicken was raised free-range by farmers dozens of miles away. Usually, the old meat and firewood would be used by the people who fished out the corpses.

Immediately afterwards, Xie Que opened the big net in his hand, then raised it over his head and threw the big net out in an arc.

The big net caught the floating corpse in one stroke.

This corpse net is not an extraordinary thing, but is made of black dog hair.

It needs to be soaked in black dog blood for 49 to 81 days and finally exposed to the sun for [-] days before it can be made.

Xie Que forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, held his breath, swam around the corpse, and closed the body net.

The rule of the corpse hunter is "the corpse does not touch the boat", that is, when the dead are salvaged, the corpse cannot touch the hull of the boat.

So generally speaking, the corpses are tied with ropes and pulled away.

If the body has swelled, pulling it away with a rope may tear the body apart, so the entire body needs to be wrapped in a corpse net.

Immediately, Xie Que untied the hemp rope around his waist and tied it to the edge of his net bag.

He let out a breath, and just when he was about to swim back to the boat, a trance suddenly started in front of him.

A scroll of blood-colored brocade appeared in front of him instantly, with four strange characters engraved on it.

But Xie Que also understood the meaning of these four characters in an instant.

Judgment map!

(End of this chapter)