Kowloon pull coffin

Chapter 1
My name is Xie Lan, I am 27 years old, and I was born in a small mountain village called Baiwu Village by the Yellow River.There is also a brother who is one year older than me, who is married and has a family.

My family is poor. Ten years ago, my father asked my brothers to choose whether to get married or go to school.

At that time, I was high-spirited and insisted on using knowledge to change my destiny. I also secretly laughed at my brother for being worthless. What good things do rural girls do? A man is going to reach the pinnacle of life to win Bai Fumei.

Later, my fate was indeed changed by knowledge.

When I was young, the fortune teller said that I had peach blossom eyes and silkworm eyebrows, and I could become a father if I continued to be a woman in my twenties.

Now I am 27 and still a bachelor. I drifted in Guangdong and lost contact. I have no face to return home during the Chinese New Year.

Proper knowledge can change destiny.

This year's Chinese New Year, my father specially called me to tell me to go home for the Chinese New Year. Looking at the thousands of dollars I finally saved in my bank card, I sighed a long time in my heart. My parents are getting older. It's time to go back and have a look.

I arrived home on the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the next day after arriving home, the old white ghost from the neighboring village came to my door in a dark and sad manner.

It's not the first time that old ghost Bai came to me, he started to play tricks on me since I was in high school, and he came to me again after I graduated from a third-rate university.

Our area is in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and it is also the water diversion of the Xuanhe River. There are often floating corpses flowing down from the upper reaches of the water. This old white ghost is a legendary corpse hunter.

It is certain that you can make a fortune by catching corpses. The starting price for catching a commoner is [-], and it can easily cost tens of thousands if you catch up with the distinguished guests in the city.Although the betrothal gifts in the countryside are high now, if I work with the old ghost for a few years, I will not worry about having no money to marry a wife, but the premise is that someone dares to marry.

A girl from a good family who is willing to slip into the arms of a corpse hunter is doomed to be alone all her life.

Seeing old ghost Bai made me angry from the bottom of my heart. If I hadn't let him in a few years ago, but now I'm poor and short-sighted, and all I think about is making money.

So I asked him, there are a lot of people from all over the world who want to eat the bowl of the corpse hunter, why they keep pestering me and fighting with me.

"Corpse hunters are jobs rewarded by the King of the Yellow River. Not everyone can do it. You were born on the ninth day of the first lunar month. It is written in the old calendar that Nine Dragons will control the water. You are born to be a corpse hunter."

"Get lost, you are the material for a corpse hunter, and your whole family is a material for a corpse hunter." I cursed angrily.

The old ghost Bai laughed when I scolded him, but he was not angry.

In fact, there is a real saying about water control in Kowloon.It is said that if there are too many dragons, it will not rain. Those who catch up with this kind of fate will not suffer from floods in their lives.

And I am not only the Nine Dragons Water Control, but also a rare pure Yang destiny, born to avoid Yin spirits.

I am really qualified to eat this bowl of rice from the corpse hunter, but who cares about this bowl of rice?
I was not rare before, but now I really need to make money.

Seeing my father and mother's gray hair, and thinking about how old I am, I still have nothing and nowhere. They may not even be able to lift their heads in the village.

Local girls are unwilling to marry, but if I really have money, I can switch to other careers at any time, and I’m afraid I can’t find a woman to marry?

Seeing that I was moved, Old Ghost Bai poured me a few more cups of yellow soup. I settled the matter by being drunk, and said that I would report to him after the Chinese New Year.

Picking up corpses is a taboo business. My mother was reluctant at first and asked my father to persuade me, but my father opened his mouth for a long time and didn't say a word.

I don't blame him for this. I have been working in Guangzhou for the past few years. I have always held a resentment in my heart. I spend as much as I earn, and what I do does not hurt my father's heart.In his eyes, even if I followed Bai Laogui to fish for corpses, it was much better than working in Guangzhou.

After celebrating the new year at home and the first month of the lunar year, I walked up to the big river embankment on this day, stepping on the snow in the cold wind.

The Yellow River has a flood season all year round. At this time, the ice flood has passed and the peach flood is still early. Standing on the embankment and looking at the Yellow River, the twists and turns are like a stretched eel.

Corpse hunters don't live with ordinary people. Bai Laogui built a small farmyard on the river embankment, and lives there all the year round, except when returning to the old house for New Year's Eve.

I got up late, and it was already noon when I arrived at Bai Laogui's residence.

From a long distance, I saw a figure standing outside the iron gate of the old white ghost. When I got closer, I found that it was a young woman in red.

I don't know how long I stood outside the door, and the clothes were covered with tiny snow particles.

The woman's appearance is exquisite, her nose is beautiful, her eyes are picturesque, I have never seen such a beautiful woman without makeup, and I was stunned for a moment.

I'm looking at her, and she's looking at me.He didn't avoid suspicion at all, just stared at me so hotly.

The four eyes meet, and I am the one who loses first.

"Are you here to look for Old Ghost Bai?" I asked awkwardly.

The woman shook her head, her big eyes were still staring at me.

I couldn't stand being watched by her, turned around and started banging on the door.

"Hey, you've come to report. Come on, let's get warm in the room." After the door opened, Bai Laogui greeted warmly.

I'm a little surprised, I'm not the only one outside, why didn't Old Bai ghost greet that woman?
Unexpectedly, when I looked back, there was nothing behind me.

"Uncle Bai, did you see a woman standing behind me?" I was taken aback, and hurriedly asked Old Ghost Bai.

"Women? I don't have any women here. Xie Lan, don't you think you're crazy about women?"

Seeing that Old Ghost Bai's expression doesn't look like a fake, could it be that my eyes were dazzled just now?
I began to look down for the footprints left by the girl. The snow had not cleared, and the footprints must still be there.

However, to my surprise, there was nothing left outside the door except the fresh marks of my cowhide boots.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing that I hadn't entered the door, Bai Laogui urged.

"No, Uncle Bai, I really saw a woman in red standing in front of your house just now."

"Xie Lan, don't scare Uncle. You can eat and talk indiscriminately, but this is noon, when the yin energy is at its peak." Bai Laogui said with his eyes wide open.

There are two times of the day when sneaks are most likely to appear, one is midnight and the other is noon.

Everyone knows that yin qi is the heaviest at midnight, and although yang qi reaches its peak at noon, it is the time of day when yin qi is at its peak because of the anode's yin.

There is a saying in our side not to go out at noon, because we are afraid of attracting sneaky people.

Bai Laogui's words made me suspicious, but I didn't get too entangled in this matter, I smiled and followed Bai Laogui into the house.

Since I dare to eat the rice of the corpse hunter, I am ready to provoke dirty things.Anyway, my horoscope is strong enough, if I really committed a taboo, it would be Bai Laogui who happened first, not me.

There are a total of three houses in Bai Laogui's yard, a big house doubles as a kitchen, a utility room and a bedroom.

At this time, a tin stove was burning in the big house, boiling a pot of local specialty sorghum wine, and there were roast chicken, cured fish, dried beans and peanuts on the table.

I didn't eat breakfast, I'm really hungry now.Looking at the delicious food on the table, he moved his index finger and began to eat and drink with gusto.

While eating and drinking, I listened to Bai Laogui telling me about the rules and taboos of corpse hunters.

Originally, I thought that the person who retrieved the corpse would test the courage and appetite of the person most, because the timid would not dare to retrieve it, and those with shallow stomachs would vomit easily.

After listening to Bai Laogui, I realized that this bowl of rice is not delicious, and it is also a life-threatening business.

There are many kinds of corpses in the Yellow River, the most common of which are floating corpses.

Within three to five days after a person dies, the body will float up from the water. The male body is bent down, and the female body is upside down.

This is the iron law of nature, formed according to the physiological structure of men and women.

If you encounter a male corpse face up or a female corpse face down, this kind of corpse cannot be picked up, it is not called a corpse, it is called a corpse.

The corpse is evil because the resentment in the corpse has not dissipated. If you accidentally fish this kind of corpse, you will have to avenge the ghost, and if you fail, you will be entangled by the resentment.

In addition to floating corpses, there is also a kind of vertical corpses in the Yellow River.

The corpse stood upright in the water, occasionally showing the top of its head.Most of these corpses belonged to the owner, that is to say, they were targeted by kappa or water monkeys in the water.

Corpse hunters usually don't pick up vertical corpses unless they are capable of doing them.

"Xie Lan, you don't have to be afraid. I have been in this business for 20 years. I have seen almost everything in the Yellow River except for the Yellow River Empress. I don't know how many water monkeys have been slaughtered."

Seeing that I listened with a serious expression, the old ghost Bai hurriedly patted his chest to make sure that I was afraid that I would retreat, but he didn't know that when I heard him mentioning the Yellow River Empress, I immediately regained my spirits.

When I was in middle school, there was a text called Ximen Bao, which was about He Bo’s marriage, and the so-called Empress of the Yellow River was the object of He Bo’s marriage.

In the old society, in order to worship the King of the Yellow River, people usually sacrificed live sheep and cattle, and the most terrifying thing was to sacrifice living people.

The unmarried Huanghua girls should be good-looking, good-looking, good-looking, and able to sing ditties, wrap their bodies in red silk cloth, brush with tung oil and sink into the bottom of the river.

Although Empress Huang He is also a ghost, she is a rare and beautiful ghost.

Died unmarried, with remnants in her heart, so most of the folk stories about the Yellow River Empress are related to the love between men and women.

"Uncle Bai, is there still Empress Huang He in the Yellow River?" I asked.

"Modern world has changed, and the Yellow River King may be gone, but this Yellow River Empress is a living person who was used as a sacrifice. If she died innocently, she should still be there."

"What's so special about Empress Huanghe? What if she meets her?"

"Don't worry, we won't meet each other. The four generations of my Bai family have never seen Empress Huang He."

"There are exceptions to everything, what if it happens?" I was unwilling to continue asking.

"Hey, if you really meet her, it's easy to deal with. Just spend a few years in Yangshou and marry her. Apart from not being able to give birth to you, I can do everything else, and you will enjoy endless beauty."

The old ghost Bai grinned, talking nonsense.

(End of this chapter)