Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 416
Zhuan Rui's yin and yang face showed no emotion, he tapped the table slowly with his fingers, and said: "Chen Tiande was born in a corpse refining family in western Hunan, and he has broken with his family. I don't know what that heirloom is. But he will never come forward to get that thing for us."

Wen Min said: "It seems that there is no way to start with him. If we go out and ask the Chen family for it, what are the chances?"

Zhong Gongdao: "That is a family heirloom, do you think they will give it to you easily?"

Lu Su narrowed his eyes, and said slowly: "Money can make ghosts turn the mill." Speaking of family treasures, in the past year I have been making antiques, I have met many sellers of family treasures, things left by ancestors, Putting it in modern times may not be useful, and future generations are blinded by profit, and it is inevitable to exchange it for money.According to what Zhong Gong said before, this Chen Tiande was considered a good person before undergoing a major change, and because of the taboo of making corpses, he pays attention to doing good deeds and accumulating virtue. In this way, the members of the Chen family should not be a vicious person , In addition, if you don't use secret techniques to make money, you probably won't be very rich. Using money to open a way may be feasible.

I discussed with Lu Su and Gu Damei for a while, and felt that I had to give it a try anyway, so I asked Zhuan Rui about the location of Chen Tiande's hometown.Zhuan Rui gave an address, which was in a rural village.As soon as I saw it was a village, I felt a little better.Immediately without further delay, thanked Zhuan Rui, and went straight to Chen Tiande's hometown with Lu Su and Gu Damei.

Speaking of which, we have also been to Xiangxi for the second time. The village we visited this time is called Hongya Village, which is one south and one north away from the previous Fengtou Village.The journey was boring, and when I arrived at Hongya Village, I found that this place is a typical new type of village, with a huge gap.Half of the buildings are built with white porcelain and red bricks, and the other half are low-rise old houses, which clearly distinguishes the family background.

This phenomenon is very common in rural areas now. If someone in the family goes out to work, the life will be better and the building can be repaired.Those who are not smart enough or have little culture and dare not travel far, guarding the land to live, will become poorer and poorer. The same place forms a very sharp contrast between rich and poor.

We inquired in the village, and when we mentioned Chen Tiande, an old woman pointed us in the direction, looked at us with a strange look, and said, "Are you a relative of their family?"

Wen Min said: "It's a friend, let's come and see."

The old woman had a weird look on her face, she glanced at us, then avoided us like a god of plague.Miss Gu and I looked at each other, there was absolutely something wrong, it seemed that the Chen family was not well received in the village.Not long after, we found the Chen family following the route pointed by the old woman.

This place is really dilapidated, I thought it would be a big family, but I didn't expect that there was only one lonely old man left in the Chen family. When he answered the door, he opened the door and looked at us with cloudy eyes. dull.He asked through the door, "Who are you?"

Miss Gu smiled and said: "Old man, don't be afraid, we just want to ask you for a favor."

I thought the old man would ask us what we could do for help, but he immediately said, "I'm not taking jobs anymore, let's find someone from the funeral parlor." After saying that, he was about to close the door.I felt strange, so I couldn't help blocking the door, and said, "Mr. Chen, do you know what we're here for?"

He didn't have much strength, and I blocked it, but pushed the door open instead.At this time, I also saw the original appearance of old man Chen.He gave people the impression that he was like a mummy, skin covered with bones, pitch black, wrinkled all over, and he was taller.This behavior was a bit impolite, so I quickly apologized, but this old man surnamed Chen was very talkative, waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you are sweating all over, come in and rest your feet." After finishing speaking, he walked away on his own, They also brought us boiled water.

Miss Gu and I looked at each other, and we both breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that Mr. Chen is a nice person, at least not the distorted personality of Chen Tiande.Guessing that no one talks at ordinary times, as soon as he sat down, Mr. Chen said to himself: "You see, I can't take the job at my age. The current funeral parlors are very capable. If you need something, you can ask them help."

I sounded confused, but Lu Su said first: "Mr. Chen, what do you mean by accepting jobs?"

Seeing Lu Su's question, Mr. Chen finally realized that we are not looking for him to work, and said, "Then what are you here for?" Then he thought of Lu Su's question, and replied, "I said The job is to drive the corpse."

"Hurry up corpses?" Miss Gu said in surprise, "Can you still chase away corpses?"

Mr. Chen was very kind, and smiled, with black wrinkles layered on his face, he said, "You don't believe me? I've been living on this all my life."

Miss Gu said in surprise, "I've only seen it on TV, but I haven't seen it in real life." Mr. Chen is quite talkative, seeing that we didn't take it as a surprise, he immediately started talking endlessly.Transportation was inconvenient in ancient times, and the ancients paid attention to traveling thousands of miles and returning fallen leaves to their roots.When going out, it is inevitable that someone who died in a foreign land will lose his body, or his body is missing, or the body has an accident and it is not easy to get it out. At this time, a mortician will be called.

Exorcising corpses originated from refining corpses, which is an introductory technique of refining corpses. In ancient times, most people could only learn the introductory techniques, and then eat the bowl of expelling corpses.The technique of refining corpses of Chen Tiande's family is relatively advanced, not only can exorcise corpses, but also refine corpses for their own use.However, as the number of descendants is thin and the hall is neglected, many advanced skills are known to the descendants, but not many of them are really connected.

According to the industry regulations, corpse chasers and tomb robbers are incompatible. It's not that the two have enmity, but that they are in conflict.Because the tomb robbers shuttled through the ancient tombs all year round, they would naturally carry a gloomy corpse aura on their bodies. When this aura collided with the corpses driven by the mortician, the corpses would become fraudulent.Therefore, out of respect for the professions of both parties and the consideration of personal lives, if the tomb robbers in the past encountered someone who was chasing corpses, they would quickly avoid them. The two knew each other well, but they would not meet.

This corpse chaser has also dealt with corpses all year round. There is a way that people have humanity, and ghosts have ghosts. Chasing corpses is the same as tomb robbers. They all belong to the abnormal category, that is, areas that living people should not touch.Therefore, in the business of exorcising corpses, in order to accumulate virtue for oneself, it is strictly forbidden to do evil, and there are also rules that cannot make money by refining corpses. When Mr. Chen's generation was passed down to him, his father suddenly disappeared on the way to exorcise corpses , so there is no audio.

Old man Chen was lonely and had no one to depend on. He had always lived in poverty. When he was young, he begged for a wife.Being able to make a dead man walk sounds like a very prestigious thing, but in real life, which girl wants her man to talk about it every day, chant scriptures and mantras to deal with dead people?At first, his wife asked him to change his career, but old man Chen refused. After all, this skill was passed down from his ancestors. Besides, there are almost no morticians nowadays, so this skill cannot be lost in his own hands.

In the end, the daughter-in-law retreated and said that old man Chen would make money with this. In fact, it is very easy to do this business as long as you really want to make money.The old man Chen was also unwilling. He followed the group training and persuaded his wife: "If we really do this, our old Chen family will have no children and grandchildren. There are too many evils, and we must die a good death. Don't embarrass me, daughter-in-law. I will definitely work hard. I can't I will make you rich and powerful, but I will do my best to support you." We have just been married for a few years, the favor is still there, and the daughter-in-law has endured it, and after two years after the child was born, I finally couldn't help but leave this poor and shady place. An airy home.

Of course, gloomy is an adjective for his daughter-in-law. Old man Chen thinks his home is quite normal, except that there are some things that worship gods and ghosts, which look a bit eye-catching, everything else is the same.

After his daughter-in-law left, old man Chen lived alone with his son, who was naturally Chen Tiande.

Although now that people know how to remove corpses, there are fewer people who hire people to remove corpses, but the wages have increased.Now people are still looking for people to drive away the corpses, most of them are corpses except for accidents, such as falling off a cliff and getting stuck in a crevice of a rock; Not a dead body.Among the dead bodies, there is also the dead body finding formula. After a person dies, the dead body artisan can find the corpse for the family members through the horoscope of the birth date.

However, due to the enhanced capabilities of funeral parlors in this area, convenient transportation, and professional corpse transportation companies, it is also difficult to pick up corpses.Most of the time, old man Chen and Chen Tiande live on thin land, and only pick up work when there is work.

In some places in western Hunan, they are well-known. After all, the father and son are probably the last heirs of the lineage of exorcising corpses.

Chen Tiande is more honest than Mr. Chen, with an ordinary appearance. He usually blushes when he sees a big girl, and when the girl asks him to help, he has to use his stupid energy to do it. People in the village often bully him for being honest and treat him like a fool.

Later, due to an incident, Chen Tiande left the house.

Although old man Chen is talkative, he also knows that family ugliness should not be publicized, so he said this without saying anything, and then asked what we do, and I said: "We know your son." Old man Chen became excited, Say, "Where is he now? How is he doing?"

I sighed in my heart, and said in my heart: The father and son surnamed Chen are not evil people, but now they are an old man alone at home, and his son has become a murderous and anti-human being. Sincerely, I lied and said, "It's pretty good, he's self-reliant outside, but he doesn't like to talk."

I told this lie not to excuse Chen Tiande, although I don't know exactly what happened to Chen Tiande, but the expression of the old man worrying about his son in front of me made me feel uncomfortable for a while, and my heart softened, so I comforted him like this.

(End of this chapter)