Then, cinnabar is applied to the body surface of the deceased, mercury is poured into the internal organs, and the corpse is tightly wrapped with strips of five-color cloth. After all this is done, the corpse is covered with robes or clothes brought by the family.
After all this is done, the corpse no longer looks like a living person. The exorcists are afraid of disturbing the living people, so they often paste the Chenzhou Talisman seal on the face and back of the deceased, and wear a black gauze bamboo hat. .
When everything is in order, the corpse chaser shouts and sets out on the road. The corpses of those who died in a foreign land will stand up and move forward according to the guidance of the people.
After talking about the first two points, I finally talked about the third point of ugly appearance. At first glance, it seems to have nothing to do with corpse exorcism, but in fact it is a solid rule, an old rule that every generation of corpse exorcists drips with flesh and blood.
The aspect of ugly appearance is mostly due to the consideration of starting a family and starting a career. A person who has been ugly since he was young will only become uglier as he gets older. To a large extent, he will not be able to marry a wife. In this case, it is necessary to do a corpse exorcism. The most focused person is the one who can stick to the end.
Otherwise, if the corpse chaser quits midway, it will be extremely detrimental to the inheritance of master and apprentice, and it will also waste the time of the veteran corpse chaser, who will simply find ugly people.
It can be said that anyone who can be a corpse exorcist must at least meet the first two points. If the latter is not met, he can still recruit apprentices by chance, but a certain price must be paid.
As mentioned earlier, the business of exorcism is special. Once you enter, there is no reason to quit. However, those who want to be an exorcist must be an adult over 16 years old, and their parents must sign a death certificate. If you have no father or mother, The orphans must sign a life and death certificate and recognize Master as their parents.
In this case, you can ignore your appearance and become an apprentice with the master. The three factors came together to finally become a corpse chaser. This does not mean that it can be easy. A corpse chaser must know the cinnabar drawing talisman and the thirty-six skills.
The cinnabar talisman is a kind of talisman seal that looks like a painting and a character. It is mainly made of yellow paper with cinnabar-red writing on the surface. When encountering an unexpected situation, it can be burned directly on the spot or turned into talisman water and swallowed to solve the problem. In a critical situation, there is another one that also serves as a protective talisman, and that is the thirty-six corpse-repelling techniques.
Walking skills, turning skills, standing skills, uphill skills, downhill skills, dumb dog skills, jumping skills, bridge crossing skills... walking, sitting and lying on corpses are all knowledge. If you don't learn enough, you will be injured when driving the corpse. What a mistake, that would be extremely embarrassing. Even if the body was damaged by bumping, it would be considered disrespectful to the deceased.
Although corpse chasers deal with corpses, they need to know a lot of rules. Through thousands of years of inheritance, they have also accumulated three rules of catching up and not driving away.
You can be driven away by beheading, you can be driven away by hanging, you can be driven away by standing in a cage. In other words, most of the corpses that could be driven away were those that had been beheaded by Qiu Houwen. These corpses had their heads chopped off, their necks wringed, or they were trapped alive in cages.
No matter what the situation is, it means that they are not seeking death but are being killed. Such people will definitely miss their hometown and are willing to return to their roots. At this time, the corpse exorcists will attract their souls, use the talismans to trap them in the body, and carry them across the mountains and ridges. They go home and give their families a good burial.
In addition to the three types of rushing, there are also three types of failure to drive: failure to drive if one is sick and weak, failure to drive if one hangs himself or jumps into a river, and failure to drive if one's limbs are damaged by lightning or fire.
The souls of sick and weak people are incomplete. It is very likely that part of their souls have been taken away by Yinsha when they were sick. By the time they die, their souls have long been taken away by Yinsha. Such corpses cannot be driven away; neither can they be hanged or drowned. Hanged people and drowned people voluntarily seek death. At the same time, the soul cannot be released after death and will always look for a substitute. In this case, it cannot be rushed.
The last type is lightning and fire. If the corpse is not intact, it will not be driven away. Only people who have suffered disasters will be struck by lightning and burned. Such people have either done all the bad things and been punished by heaven, or they have the ability to be a great virtuous person and come to earth to experience disasters. If the body is dead The lack of a complete corpse means that there is great resentment. If this kind of corpse is driven away, it will easily transform into a corpse, or the corpse will be faked and hurt a living person. Even a person with an incomplete corpse cannot go on the road. No matter what kind of person he is, the corpse driver cannot intervene. Yes, simply don't get involved.
"Most corpse chasers will abide by these rules. If there are any discrepancies, it means they are just different sects. It does not mean that the skills are not good. Only if there is too much difference will it be suspicious. Most of those people are just fake corpse chasers. Their purpose is to use terror to chase corpses. To carry out his own ulterior motives."
"For example?" Song Siyuan let Peacock tell the story, her notes making a swishing sound.
"For example, bandits smuggled salt!" Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou like to eat hot and sour chili peppers. They are not born to like strong flavors. The purpose is to accompany meals. They formed this habit precisely because of a lack of salt.
The three provinces are all rugged and mountainous, with difficult mountain roads and inconvenient transportation. Ordinary merchants are simply unwilling to transport goods into the Shiwanda Mountains for sale. However, anything that can be transported into the mountains will not be cheap given the cost of traveling through mountains and rivers.
Salt is an indispensable thing for people. It is in short supply in Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou. It is often expensive. In times of chaos, when roadblocks are set up and water bandits rob the roads, the cost for merchants is even higher, so that salt is more expensive than silver. It is valuable, and there is no difference between eating salt and eating silver.
