This time it was Shopkeeper Sun's turn to be stunned.
"Cousin? What cousin? I was dragged here by your big yellow dog biting his trouser leg!"
"I didn't see anyone else here when I came?!"
"But having said that, your dog is getting more and more intelligent..."
Because there was nothing serious, Zhao Youliang was able to get out of bed and "move around freely" without much effort.
Shopkeeper Sun saw this and stopped accompanying him. After a few words like "Be more careful about what you do in the future", he returned to his shop.
Zhao Youliang couldn't bear to ask Granny Mi, so he immediately ran to visit her.
The old man and the young man all fainted and couldn't figure out what happened next.
After chatting for a while, they separated again.
But Zhao Youliang vaguely remembered that he clearly saw his cousin Wang Youcai at the last moment.
"Where is my cousin? Is he lost?!"
Zhao Youliang rode a large 28 pole and searched the entire town, but found no trace of Wang Youcai.
I want to call the police, but I don’t even know my cousin’s real name…
In desperation, Zhao Youliang could only go back to the papermaking shop and "wait and wait", hoping that his cousin would come back after having enough fun, but be sure not to lose it or anything else would happen.
It's a pity that after waiting for a long time, his cousin didn't come. Instead, two waves of uninvited guests came.
First there was an old man with a gloomy face, followed by several bald men.
There are also tattoos like this on my neck.
Zhao Youliang, who was still an "outsider" now, didn't know that they belonged to the "Thirteen Gu Jiang Sects", but he guessed from their appearance that they were in the same gang as the condemned prisoners some time ago.
Using the name given by Zhao Youliang, they are skinheads.
Of course he couldn't afford to offend the other party because he was a "gangster". Zhao Youliang quickly stood up and greeted him with a smile.
"What happened to this uncle and the elder brothers? Someone died in the family? Buy some paper figures and horses?"
They just came here to explore the truth. When Zhao Youliang said this, I thought it was a deliberate provocation.
Several bald men immediately snorted and gathered around.
Fortunately, the old man at the head stopped him and looked solemnly at the two paper figures in front of the shop - the paper figures Wang Youcai had just made.
After a while, the old man cupped his fists and saluted Zhao Youliang.
"What a perfect yin and yang! I didn't expect there to be an expert like you in a small border town."
"My useless disciples died unjustly!"
Having said this, the gloomy old man looked inside the store again.
His face became more solemn at this look.
"Since we are all insiders, I will get straight to the point: it is better to dissolve enemies than to marry them."
"As long as you return the spirit infant and the Seven Miserable Stones, the murder of my disciple will be wiped out. How about that?!"
The old man's series of words completely confused Zhao Youliang.
He understood each word individually, but he couldn't understand them when they were put together.
Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by a sound of barking.
But the big yellow dog just came back from "playing hooligans" outside, and grinned at a few uninvited guests.
Zhao Youliang knew very well how ferocious his old dog was, so he quickly stopped him when he saw it.
"Hey, Brother Mom, calm down, okay?!"
"I'm telling you, our family doesn't have the money to vaccinate others against rabies. If you bite someone, you'll have to let the 'dog hunter' take away the stew!"
While Zhao Youliang was trying to calm the big yellow dog, a "squeaking" sound suddenly came from the bags carried by several bald men.
Then it kept stirring, as if something inside was very uneasy.
The old man frowned when he saw this: "Spirit dog?!"
"Haha, you made it clear that you don't want peace talks, so why bother letting the vicious dogs drive away the guests? We'll see you later!!"
Yan Bi immediately turned around and left with a few big men.
Seeing that the other party was angry, Zhao Youliang couldn't help but be a little scared.
While desperately holding on to the big yellow dog that was still trying to chase and bite him, he complained: "Brother Dog, do you know that you are in trouble? Do you know that I am a gangster?!"
"Be careful, I'll chop you to death with a stick tonight, and then throw you into the wild to feed the dogs!!"
Seeing the uninvited guest walking away, the big yellow dog stopped rushing forward.
After giving Zhao Youliang a look like "You look like 2B", he shook his butt and went back to the kennel to sleep.
Not long after the "skinheads" left, Zhao Youliang saw several more "acquaintances" walking towards this direction. It was the family members of that group who had been shot in the morning.
Wait, the families of those people? !
Is it another gang...the underworld? !
As soon as he thought of this, Zhao Youliang hurriedly stood up to greet him with a respectful attitude and a smile on his face.
"You guys want to buy some paper figures and horses? Tell me what you want and how much you want, and I'll give you a discounted price!"
The strange thing is that these people, like the previous batch of "guests", did not directly talk to Zhao Youliang, but looked at the two paper figures in unison.
Especially the old man at the head.
After a while, the old man seemed to come back to his senses and respectfully hugged Zhao Youliang's fists.
"On the way here, I was still thinking about how to negotiate with the owner of the corpse ground. Since you are an 'insider', it will be easy to negotiate."
"To be honest, we can't take the 'God of Joy' back home right away. We need to let them rest in your precious land for a few days. I wonder if we can be lenient."
Zhao Youliang Wenyan was stunned again: It was the same sentence, I didn’t understand it at all!
In fact, it’s not his fault, because what the old man said were code words for “inside the door”.
Their actual identities are corpse chasers.
Just like what Zhao Youliang heard them say before: the corpse exorcist is called Laosi in the local language.
The corpse is called "the God of Joy", which is the homophone of the dead.
To return home with the spirit of joy is to drive the corpse back home.
As for the statement in modern literary works that the corpses of executed prisoners cannot be expelled, this is completely wrong.
In fact, corpse chasers do have a rule of "three rushes and three no rushes".
Those who were beheaded (their heads had to be sewn together), those who were hanged, and those who stood in a cage to death could be expelled.
The reason is that they were all forced to die and died unconvinced.
If they miss both their hometown and their relatives, they can use spells to attract their souls and use spells to keep them in their corpses.
Then use magic to drive them to climb mountains and ridges, and even get on boats and cross rivers to return to their hometown.
On the other hand, those who died of illness, those who voluntarily died by hanging in a river, and those whose limbs were damaged by thunder and fire cannot be driven away.
Among them, the souls of those who died of illness have been taken away by the King of Hell, and magic cannot call their souls back from the gate of hell.
The souls of those who drowned themselves in the river were "replaced", and they may be in the process of handover. If new souls are summoned, and the old souls cannot be replaced, won't it affect the reincarnation of the old souls?
In addition, those who died due to lightning were all sinners, and those who were burned to death in fires often had incomplete skin and flesh. These two types of corpses could not be driven away either.
Seeing Zhao Youliang ignoring him, the leading corpse driver thought he was unwilling to help, so he immediately winked at the people around him.
The people around me understood, took out five thousand yuan from their bags and handed it over.
The old man at the head took it and stuffed it into Zhao Youliang's hands without any explanation.
"Little brother, just do me a favor!"
"There are four gods of joy in total, and they can be kept in the precious treasure place for at most three days. If it exceeds three days... Brother, can I give you an extra thousand a day?"
