"Bai...Sister Bai, look!" After living for so many years, I have never seen a corpse chase with my own eyes, and I was stunned for a moment. "This...could this thing really be a corpse chase?" Right?"
Sister Bai pondered for a few seconds, nodded and said, "Yes, this group of corpses should belong to the old man just now."
It is rumored that the corpse extermination in western Hunan is extremely mysterious, and few people can see their true appearance.
This was the first time I encountered this situation. My mind was buzzing and I couldn't make up my mind. "Sister Bai, should we follow up and take a look?"
"Forget it, they are too fast to keep up." Sister Bai shook her head and continued to explain, "There are three types of corpse chasing, namely jumping corpse, flying corpse, carrying corpse... ."
After Sister Bai's explanation, I realized that the business of exorcising corpses is very complicated, even more complicated than Feng Shui fortune telling.
Normally, a new corpse chaser can only carry corpses, but as they become more powerful, they can use magic to jump corpses and finally fly corpses.
When I came to my senses, I was about to ask the driver to drive, when I realized that his face was as white as white paper, his body was shaking like chaff, and he looked very scared!
I paused and asked, "You...what are you afraid of?"
"Ah? No...no." The driver swallowed in horror, quickly started the car with a foot on the accelerator, and left here as if fleeing.
The journey was long, so I couldn't help but chat with the driver, and found that this guy was not simple at all!
He was in his mid-twenties and originally from Tibet. Due to changes in his family, he came to Guizhou to work alone and changed his name to Zhou Xuan. He stayed here for seven or eight years.
According to what he said, he said that he would go back to Tibet in a while to hold a ceremony for the elderly at home - sky burial!
As we were chatting, he even invited me to go with him, just as a trip, but I declined.
Sky burial is a very ancient burial method.
Due to different geographical reasons, their funeral rituals are very different from ours. For people in Tibet, death is just the separation of the immortal soul and the old body.
It is believed that feeding bearded vultures with "skin bags" is the most noble form of charity and embodies the highest realm of Mahayana Buddhism. Sky burial can allow the soul to go to heaven.
This kind of funeral method is the most unique one I have ever seen. It is much more unique than hanging a coffin on a cliff, burying a body in a cave, or even building a tomb at home!
The more we talked, the more I got to know the young man in front of me named Zhou Xuan. Although he was older than me, our experiences were indeed quite similar.
When I was young, something unexpected happened at home, so I left home to make a living.
The only difference is that he still has grandparents.
...
The distance from your province to western Hunan is several hundred kilometers. Fortunately, in those years, great efforts have been made to develop and construct highways, otherwise this car would not be able to drive.
By the time we arrived in Xiangxi, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
After Zhou Xuan and I left each other's contact information to say goodbye, I took Sister Bai into the deepest part of western Hunan.
Xiangxi is a very mysterious place. If you are not an insider, you would not know that they are divided into Inner Xiangxi and Outer Xiangxi.
According to Sister Bai, Wai Xiangxi is used to confuse outsiders and make them think that this is just an ordinary place.
Most of the people living in Inner Xiangxi are insiders.
Sister Bai looked around, bought a bunch of gifts at the store, and then took me along a path directly into the mountain!
Looking at Sister Bai's familiarity with the road, I couldn't help but wonder what she had experienced before, and she even knew the way into western Hunan!
But everyone has secrets, especially people with Sister Bai's status. They have more secrets, so I can't ask too many questions.
Carrying large and small bags, we walked along the mountain road and came to a fork.
An old woman with gray hair squatted at the entrance selling fruit. When she saw us coming, she came over enthusiastically with two pears, "Boss, buy some fruit to eat on the way!"
After a quick glance, the pears in the old woman's hands were actually very fresh, as if they had just been picked.
But then I thought about it, where can I pick pears in this wilderness?
The only possibility... is that this old woman is from Xiangxi!
I looked at her carefully and found that her gray hair was actually stained with some dirty money ash, and there was even a trace of corpse air on her clothes. This confirmed my idea!
Seeing me looking at her like this, her face changed slightly, and she didn't know whether she should take it back or not.
The atmosphere gradually became awkward, and Sister Bai took the initiative and said, "Give us a few pounds!"
"Okay, okay!" The old woman smiled happily when she heard this. She quickly turned around and picked from the basket on her back, choosing half the bag and taking it out.
I looked around and asked her curiously, "Auntie, are you from Xiangxi?"
After the words fell, the old woman's body stiffened suddenly, and she turned her head and glanced at me with an ugly expression.
My heart skipped a beat, I was afraid I had said the wrong thing.
The old woman looked me up and down with vigilant eyes, then turned the inside back again, with a show of not giving up, "What...are you doing here?"
"Come here to find someone to do something!" I scratched my head and replied awkwardly.
I didn't expect that one sentence would cause such a big reaction from the old woman.
But this also makes me more convinced that she is from Xiangxi!
"I won't sell it!" The old woman's face suddenly changed, she picked up the pears on her back, turned around, and walked toward the mountain road behind her.
I paused for a moment and subconsciously whispered to Sister Bai, "She is from Xiangxi, should we follow her?"
According to common sense, if the old woman is angry and refuses to sell, she will most likely turn around and go home. We only need to follow her to reach Inner Xiangxi.
But Sister Bai stopped me and whispered, "Don't go, this old woman's path is into the forest. It seems like she wants to deliberately bring us in and make us get lost!"
"Why...why?" I couldn't believe it.
Are all the people in western Hunan so thoughtful?
It turns out that even an old woman knows how to take people into the mountains to get lost, so that people can't find the true location of Inner Xiangxi.
Sister Bai shook her head and said she didn't know what was going on.
After a brief discussion, Sister Bai and I decided to take the other road at the fork in the road to enter Inner Xiangxi.
But the strange thing is that not long after we left, we actually met the old woman again.
She stood in the middle of the road with a basket on her back, a sharp hatchet in her hand, and a sense of murderous intent exuding from her body. She looked at me with unkind eyes for a long time, and then she said, "You two, don't go any further. , there are many jackals, tigers and leopards inside, be careful if you get in or get out!"
Threat, naked threat!
I was silent for a few seconds and then replied, "We are just going in to find someone and do some errands. We will be out soon!"
