Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 174
In the early morning, we came to the general dispatching room of the SMX hydropower station, which is the temporary headquarters of the serious crime team.

Hearing that I was a corpse collector on the ancient Yellow River Road, many of them were very curious and gathered around me to ask questions.

"Tuoba Gu, have you caught any treasure?"

"I heard that the ancient Yellow River Road is very evil. Have you ever encountered any weird things?"

"How many corpses have been recovered? Will the recovered corpses change?"

"How much do you charge? There are many corpses in the Yellow River every year. You should be able to earn a lot of money, right?"

I feel like a gorilla in a zoo. I don't know whether to choose to answer or choose to remain silent in the face of people talking all over the place.

Lao Yang quickly came out and helped me out: "Go, go! Are you all doing nothing? Go back to your respective posts!"

When the crowd dispersed, I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, let's get down to business now!" Lao Yang handed me a glass of water: "What do you think about this mission of finding corpses?"

I took the water glass and took a long gulp: "Get me a map of the Yellow River Basin first!"

After a while, the old bird sent me a map of the Yellow River Basin, which spread out in front of me.

I drew a red cross at the SMX hydropower station to represent the location of the accident, and then told Lao Yang when the disappearance occurred, and then asked the staff of the hydropower station about the flow rate and flow of the Yellow River during this period.

In fact, picking up corpses is a technical job, not as simple as ordinary people think, just sail a boat and go out to salvage the corpses.In fact, the Yellow River is so big that if you want to find the corpse with just a small boat with a black awning, it is undoubtedly looking for a needle in a haystack.In order to improve the success rate of corpse retrieval, we need to make detailed preparations before leaving the ship.

First of all, it is necessary to know the time of death of the corpse and the place where it fell into the water, and then measure the speed of the Yellow River during this period of time, etc., to determine which section of water the corpse may have drifted to.Among them, it is also necessary to analyze the terrain and other elements in this section of water, and roughly judge the drifting direction of the corpse, so as to intercept it in time.

After considering various factors, I drew a circle in the middle of the river section from Luoyang to Jiaozuo. I analyzed that the corpse might have drifted to the central river section between LY City and JZ City.

After analyzing the approximate location of the corpse, I asked Lao Yang Lianye to help me with one thing, which was to buy a boat with a black awning, sticky rice incense sticks, and a big red rooster.These things are common things, and it should be easy for the serious crimes team to do so.

"Yes, some yellow paper and cinnabar are needed, remember!" I emphasized.

"Leave it on me!" Lao Yang patted his chest and said.

After agreeing to my request, Lao Yang arranged for me to rest in a private room so that I could refresh myself.

I was indeed a little tired, and seeing that it was getting late, I fell asleep right away.

In my sleep, I saw Li Zi who was naked again. She gently stroked her chest with her hands, winked at me, and yelled coquettishly, "Brother Xiaogu, come here! Come here! Come here!"

Just when I was in high spirits and was about to throw Li Zi down, Lao Yang's voice rang in my ears: "Tuoba Gu, get up, we should set off!"

I opened my eyes suddenly, and the snow-white girl's body disappeared before my eyes, replaced by Lao Yang's stubble-covered face.

Hey, is this really God's will, not letting me make out with Li Zi even in my dreams!

Lao Yang looked at me a little strangely, his eyes moved from my face to my crotch: "Young man, you are very angry!"

When I looked down, I immediately covered my crotch in embarrassment, and there was an obvious tent on the crotch.

"Old Yang, you are so perverted, everyone is a man, you...you actually look at other people..." I turned over and got up from the bed, and found a golden sun hanging in the sky outside. The weather today is good.

"Let's go, eat lunch first, and start work after lunch!" Lao Yang said.

"Lunch?" I froze.

"That's right! It's already noon! You went to bed too late last night, and you still have work to do next, so I have to let you refresh yourself!" Lao Yang said.

I had a great lunch. After lunch, I went back to my room and drew a few yellow talismans for emergencies.

After everything was ready, we went to the Yellow River.

Because the Wupeng boat is relatively narrow and can't accommodate a few people, so three people followed me when I got out of the boat this time, Lao Yang, Lao Niao, and that dead girl Cao Yi.

Before leaving the boat, a ceremony of worshiping the King of the Yellow River must be performed, which is the ancestral motto of the corpse hunters.

I took out the prepared big red rooster, chopped off the head with a knife, and sprinkled the chicken blood on the deck, then walked around the deck and sang: "Dear King... You must bless your descendants... ...You are an immortal god...Let all the wandering souls go back...Give us a safe ancient road along the Yellow River...Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

"Why is he like a magic stick, singing some inexplicable things, it's so ugly..." Cao Yi muttered softly.

Lao Yang glared at Cao Yi, and signaled her not to talk nonsense: "There are rules of the trade. These are the rules of the corpse hunters. You can just watch it, and don't comment on it!"

Cao Yi stuck out his tongue and didn't dare to speak anymore.

After singing the song, I put three lighted incense candles in a bowl of snow-white glutinous rice, then placed the chicken head in the middle of the bow, and worshiped three times devoutly to the chicken head. The glutinous rice and the big red rooster sank into the Yellow River together.Then he clapped his hands and turned back to Lao Yang and said, "Let's go! Let's go!"

The sun was shining red, and the river surface was also shining red.

When I was doing the worship ceremony just now, I was a little dazed. It has been more than a year since I went out with Fan Shuai and grandpa last time, and it has been nearly a year since Gu Meidi left me. Unconsciously, time flies so fast.

I remember that at that time, Fan Shuai was fishing on the boat, and my grandfather was telling the story of the ancient Yellow River road, and Gu Meidi was playing with me, watching the scenery of the Yellow River side by side.But now, Fan Shuai is dead, grandpa is dead, and Gu Meidi has also lost his voice. Those who used to be by my side are all gone now. I feel very sad.

It is already early summer, and there was a rain two days ago, the flow of the river was slightly faster than usual, and the boat with the awning was like an arrow off the string, flying towards the downstream section of the river.

Looking at the rushing water, Cao Yi panicked, and complained quickly: "This kind of small boat with black awning is too dangerous. Why do we take this kind of boat? At least we have to take an iron boat. What if the boat capsizes? Who will save us in this vast Yellow River!"

"You don't have to worry, Tuoba Gu is a water mallard on the ancient road of the Yellow River, even if the boat capsizes, he will rescue you!" Lao Yang said.

Cao Yi gave me a white look: "I don't want him to save me!"

This dead girl Cao Yi has always been against me, and I didn't have much affection for her, so I said directly: "Okay! I will definitely not save you when the time comes, and let you fend for yourself!"

"You..." Cao Yi pointed at me, blushing: "You can say such words, are you still a man? If you don't save me, don't save me. If my mother dies, she will become a ghost to haunt you!"

I made a haha, and said with a smile on my face, "I will accompany you at any time!"

Lao Yang and Lao Niao also smiled at me, the two of them know my skills, and they are easy to deal with wronged souls.

I'm too lazy to bicker with the little girl Cao Yi, so I can concentrate on supporting the rudder and stop talking nonsense with her.

Lao Yang patiently explained to Cao Yi: "Using a black awning boat to pick up corpses is an ancestral rule of the Yellow River corpse hunters. The black awning is black, which symbolizes death, like a boat for saving souls, so Other boats cannot be replaced. Also, have you seen the net bag at the stern? It is a corpse net, the shaft is made of peach wood, and the corpse pattern is engraved on it.

And I heard from Tuobagu that the big net is not an ordinary net, it is woven with the hair of a virgin girl, then soaked in black dog blood for three days and three nights, and finally exposed to the sun for seven to seven days Made! "

"It's crazy! Why do you use virgin hair to weave the net?" Cao Yi asked with blinking eyes.

Lao Yang said: "Because only the dead body net weaved in this way can restrain the evil spirit on the dead body, so as to avoid horrible corpse changes during the body removal process!"

Cao Yi nodded thoughtfully: "It turns out that there are so many strange rules in the business of picking corpses. It's really knowledgeable!"

I secretly laughed in my heart: "What you know is just superficial. If you know that our corpse hunters have other methods, I guarantee you will open your mind and subvert your three perceptions!"

Although the current is turbulent, my boating skills are still good. Even though there were some ups and downs on the road, we still entered the Luoyang River section without any danger and came to the pre-designated waters.

By this time, it was almost evening.

In early summer, the sky is getting darker and later.

There is a taboo for the corpse hunters, the boat must be closed before dark, and the corpse cannot be continued.Because after dark, all the lonely and wild ghosts in the Yellow River Ancient Road ran out, and the yin energy was very heavy, and the corpses that were fished up were extremely prone to metamorphosis.On the other hand, corpse hunters are also prone to encounter evil things.So for the sake of safety, the ancestors established this rule.

I looked at the time, and it was estimated that there was still an hour or two before it got dark, and there was not much time left.

If no floating body is found within an hour or two, we will have to dock on the shore and wait until dawn tomorrow before making any plans.

Of course, it is impossible for the corpse hunter to get out of the boat with [-]% success.

I can't fully conclude that the bodies of the nine missing people are all in the Yellow River. Some people may have died in the Yellow River, and some may have been dumped in other places.

The last ones who disappeared were the deputy station master Zhou Wei and his mistress. The reason why I came to the Luoyang section was based on the time of Zhou Wei's disappearance.

If it is delayed by another day, Zhou Wei's body will drift downstream with the current. At that time, I will have to re-deduce the water area where the body may appear, which is very troublesome.

So I also look forward to everything going well, and I can find Zhou Wei's body before dark.

(End of this chapter)