Urban Witcher

"We... don't have any money?" Ye Shaoyang looked at Cuiyun and said.

Cuiyun bit her lip tightly, and shook her head while crying, "There are only two oceans left. It's all because my sister didn't favor you. This is the money for you to marry a wife..."

Ye Shaoyang patted her on the shoulder and couldn't help comforting her, and he was also in a bad mood.

Of course he doesn't want to live in this world for a long time, marry a wife or something, he needs money, just to solve the troubles along the way.

As the saying goes, a penny suffocates a hero, and there is still a long way to Longhu Mountain from here. Without money, it is difficult to move an inch. It is impossible for me and Cuiyun to beg for food and go down the mountain together?

"Okay, money is nothing. If we don't have money, let's find a way to make more money. I have this ability, so I'm afraid I won't be able to make money." Cry and calm down slowly.

"It's good to save money and eliminate disasters. It's good for people to be fine, and it's good for people to be fine." Lao Wan also recovered from his nerves, hunched his head, and muttered to himself.

Ye Shaoyang turned his head to look, and seeing Lao Wan and Chen Maozi looking downcast, he couldn't bear it.

Old Wan sighed, stood up, looked at the corpses in front of him, recalled the previous scene where the corpses took turns to swindle the corpses and cull the soldiers, he suddenly became a little nervous, and said in a trembling voice: "Let's go quickly, these corpses If we get up again, we don't have guns..."

Of course he didn't know that it was Ye Shaoyang who cheated the corpse before.

Just then the rain stopped outside.

Several people packed their luggage, and before leaving the mountain temple, Cuiyun asked how to deal with Erdan's body.

Lao Wan and Chen Maozi scoffed at Erdan's character and didn't want to care about his corpse at all, but Cuiyun thought that death was the most important thing, so he asked Ye Shaoyang to help clean it up.

In this barren mountain and wild ridge, Ye Shaoyang couldn't deal with the corpse, so he couldn't take it down the mountain. In the end, he could only find a branch outside, dig a shallow hole in the rain-soaked ground, and put Er Dan's body The body was buried.

The four of them went down the mountain all the way. They didn't dare to go on the mountain road because they were worried about meeting those deserters. Instead, they went through the muddy jungle. It was very difficult to walk, and finally came to a deserted village at the foot of the mountain. The houses in this village were collapsed. It's almost there, most of them only have some foundations left. Ye Shaoyang and his party found a clean place to sit down and discuss what to do next.

Lao Wan and Chen Maozi both came to Xigan to do business. How could they expect to encounter such a thing? That's what bandits do, but being robbed of everything by a bunch of deserters who haven't yet become bandits, Lao Wan and Chen Maozi are really hard for me to accept, and they both want to kill each other.

The cost of doing business is gone, and it is meaningless for the two of them to go to the hinterland of Xigan. Fortunately, the goods they brought are still there. The two plan to find a nearby county after going down the mountain and sell the goods they brought. , at least enough money to go back. Although they didn't make any money this trip, it wasn't too bad. After all, they came to deal with the goods, and they had already caught bandits and didn't bring too much money.

Ye Shaoyang is going to Longhu Mountain, of course he has to keep going. Cuiyu followed him. So the four parted ways at the foot of the mountain. Lao Wan took out his own map, gave it to Ye Shaoyang, and explained to him how to travel, "These places I drew for you are absolutely not allowed to go, these places have been haunted by bandits. "

Ye Shaoyang identified it carefully, pointed to a place not far from him on the map and said, "Why is this place surrounded? It's also a bandit scene?"

"This is not a place where there are bandits, but an inquisition." Lao Wan said, "You can't go to this place, you must take a detour. Those morticians have many rules, so don't offend them."

"Dead corpse craftsman?" Ye Shaoyang was stunned, "Isn't it only found in the west of Hunan? How come there are also here?"

Lao Wan said: "I don't know, anyway, it is said that it is the public hall and righteous village, and there are a few exorcists who live there, and they are responsible for exorcising corpses to the south. You must take a detour, don't run into them!"

Ye Shaoyang thanked him and asked about the details of expelling the corpse. Lao Wan didn't know too well, but he heard that there were a few morticians who lived in the yizhuang for a long time and went to several surrounding counties to get business. Rush back to his hometown for burial.

Chen Maozi had heard a thing or two about expelling corpses and told Ye Shaoyang. Adding his own understanding, Ye Shaoyang finally understood the general situation:

Beginning in the late Qing Dynasty, Huizhou merchants represented by Hu Xueyan rose, and southern Anhui was very prosperous. Li Luzhou also took good care of Huizhou politically, so many people from surrounding areas went to Huizhou to work. Until the Republic of China, Prime Minister Duan was from the Anhui Department. , Huizhou is his base camp, so it goes without saying that he attaches great importance to it, and vigorously develops industry.

Some industries are very dangerous, and people often die. At that time, there was no safety awareness. Anyway, people would die in war. As long as there is a bowl of food, no matter how dangerous the occupation is, there will be competition. As a result, there are only a lot of people from the surrounding areas going to Huizhou to work, and some people often die in other places.

These workers are hard-working people. After death, the family members can't afford to hire a carriage, and they have to travel long distances to transport the body back. Moreover, there are no official roads in many places in the south, even if there is a carriage, they can't get through. But the tradition in China is that Ye Luo returns to his roots. After a person dies, he must be buried back to his hometown.

Chasing corpses has become the best way to transport corpses back to their hometowns. The mortician is used to drive away, the cost is relatively low, and at least a few corpses will be removed at a time, so the money collected by each family is actually not much, which is within the acceptable range of the families of the deceased.

Because people die in other places all the year round, several morticians gathered together and built a yizhuang in a deserted mountainous village. The so-called yizhuang is a place where the dead are parked. Most people in southern Anhui and northern Jiangxi know that When there are dead bodies that need to be chased away, the mortician will take the corpses to the Yizhuang for a while, gather three or five corpses from the same direction, and then drive them back together...

Chen Maozi said that when he didn't go up the mountain before, he heard people talking about Yizhuang in the teahouse. He said that because of the recent war, the roads were impassable, and even rich people couldn't send the corpse home through the main road. , I can only find morticians, so the business of Yizhuang has been very good recently, and there are not enough morticians.

At first, Ye Shaoyang just learned about it casually. When Chen Maozi said that there were not enough morticians, his heart moved and he thought of something.

Lao Wan and Chen Maozi gave Ye Shaoyang some good advice, and then the four said goodbye on the spot. Lao Wan and Chen Maozi went down the mountain to a nearby county to sell goods.