Over time, people in the southwest and other places gave up salt and replaced table salt with plant ash, acid dipped in water, chili oil, saltpeter and other things.
Since official salt is expensive, there are always people who have bad ideas. Some salt merchants will deliberately transport the salt to the waterway and sell it directly to private salt dealers, and then let them disguise themselves as corpse chasers, weave straw into human figures, and fill them with salt wrappers. Oiled paper, this way, the merchants do not have to pay for travel, and the salt will not be exploited by the government without going through official channels. It will become much cheaper. Even if the salt merchant's price is increased, he can still make a lot of money.
There is such a group of people called the Mountain Bandits. They have determined that selling illegal salt in the Sichuan-Hunan-Guizhou border is a big fat piece of meat. They want to enter the industry by force. No one dares to say anything. How can they be popular and drink spicy food with just brute force? ?
As the old saying goes, if the bird pecks the eye while playing with the bird, they will eventually fall into the trap of selfishness. Ren Peacock heard this matter from his elder generation, Dragon Gate Formation.
At that time, the previous dynasty was in decline, chaos broke out in the southwest, and bandits were rampant in the countryside. Although some salt merchants wanted to enter the southwest to make money, they had to consider whether they had the ability to come out of the mountains again. There really was no fear of death, and they had to be stopped as soon as they entered western Hunan. .
Even thieves have their own ways. No matter how unruly a bandit is, you must abide by the rules you set. However, these bandit gangs don't take it seriously. They only give these businessmen two ways, either to put down their goods and go home, or to be beheaded by them. Killing and selling goods.
Salt merchants are all hardworking people in business. If they can make money, that's fine. If they can't, it doesn't matter. At least they can go back with their lives. They can simply leave the salt stall and go home. He was hacked to death and thrown into the Yuanjiang Pier.
This gang of mountain bandits broke the rules, and no one dared to sell salt. Over time, a salt shortage appeared in the southwest, and a fight for salt was as good as a fight for silver. It even reached the point where there was no market for the price. They didn't know that most of the private salt was sold to the public. The bandit gang seized it and planned to sell this batch of salt if the price of salt was higher.
How do they sell salt? These bandits tied straws to make corpses, filled them with salt, and went on the road as corpse chasers. They used a set of incisions all over the world. If anyone really wanted to buy salt, they would definitely ask for it. They only carried the scarecrow back to ask for corpse chasers. For this reason, he poured out the salt without knowing it.
Every evil deed must be punished by God. These bandits took a lot of lives on their hands and broke the rules themselves. They are really unjust and ruthless people.
It was a rainy day. When they arrived in front of the mountain temple, they went into the morgue specially prepared for the cadavers. When they walked in, they saw that there were many corpses inside. They were afraid of disturbing the cadavers, so they took the corpses away. He stopped in the shop and pretended to rest.
After the night of wind and rain passed, a few people woke up and looked at the shop. The other corpse hunters were already on their way.
Just as the bandit gangs were also propping up the straw corpses, one person found that the scarecrows were much heavier than before. He thought that the straw had absorbed water, so he lifted the bamboo hat on the scarecrow's head. The scarecrow, which was originally stuffed with salt, It has become pale and gray.
Several people noticed that something was wrong and were about to leave. At this moment, these gray zombies slowly opened their black and white eyes and stared at them. The nails in their hands were crunching and even their teeth had grown out.
These bandits, without exception, were all disemboweled and died tragically in the morgue. Some people say that the bandit gang offended God, and God sent down a special punishment to kill them all. Some people say that the corpse exterminators knew that they were fake, and left the zombies to clean up the house.
After that, for a long time, no bandit dared to provoke the corpse chaser! Ren Peacock said. Now, when he heard a chill on the person's back, Yue Erpao said with trembling teeth, "Then the corpse chasers you are looking for are also driving real corpses?"
"I don't know about this. These three people are villagers from a nearby village. What they are chasing must be real corpses. But if there is no business, they will use straw to replace the corpses, so that passers-by can know who they are. His identity is deliberately avoided.”
"Sister Ren, can corpses really attack living people?" Regarding this question, Ren Peacock was obviously not sure and shook his head: "I don't know about this. I only heard it from my elders back then. Where can I find it?" I have the opportunity to confirm it. It is getting more and more evil now, and it is no longer possible to distinguish between true and false." When the four people were talking, the sound of gongs and bells rang in their ears. Yue Guanchao had also heard this sound in Yangquanyi. It is estimated that the three people Already arrived.
"Let's go, my three fellow villagers have arrived." After a few people went downstairs and walked out of the inn, two people came from a distance driving three or four corpses.
These people are about normal height, some are fat and thin, some are tall and some are low, they are arranged front to back in a straight line, wearing azurite coats, their lower body legs and feet are intact, their faces are covered by bamboo hats starting from the neck, and they are covered with Chenzhou on the front, chest and back. Talisman, with his hands stiffly placed on the shoulders of the person in front of him, he jumped forward and walked forward.
In this kind of corpse driving team, there are often two people at the front and back of the corpse team. The former is wearing a red robe, beating gongs and drums and reciting incantations, and the latter is wearing a green robe and holding a waist bell. , the whip will be whipped back.
Besides them, there was another person wearing a diamond-patterned Baina Taoist robe, with a wooden hairpin stuck vertically on his head, holding a Sanqing Emperor Bell in his hand, a mahogany sword charm on his back, and a Bagua cloth bag hanging diagonally around his waist. Wherever he went , all have to scatter a handful of goose feathers and white paper money. After the wind blows, the paper money flies around, making the corpse exorcism team even more mysterious and terrifying.
