After my great-great-grandfather took out the peachwood wedge, the big black man had already pounced in front of him. His speed was unexpectedly fast, and at the same time, his large hands were strangling my great-great-grandfather's neck.
My great-great-grandfather couldn't dodge in time and was strangled. A great strangling feeling came from his neck. My great-great-grandfather couldn't breathe anymore. Then, he saw stars in front of his eyes, and his ears buzzed like a rising tide. He felt weak all over.
My great-great-grandfather had encountered this situation several times before. He held his breath, gripped the mahogany wedge tightly with both hands, and stabbed it at the big black man's chest.
With this poke, the big black man was like an old dog whose tail had been stepped on. He let out a strange cry and obviously suffered a great loss. He let go of my great-great-grandfather and turned to run.
My great-great-grandfather couldn't let him get away. He raised his arm and threw the mahogany wedge at the back of the big black man's heart with all his strength.
My great-great-grandfather didn't know martial arts, nor did he know how to shoot darts. However, he did this all year round. Even he himself didn't know how many times he had thrown the mahogany wedge. His accuracy had long been trained.
The mahogany wedge spun and hit the back of the big black man's chest. The big black man immediately stopped and shivered as if he had been electrocuted. Then, he fell to the ground with a plop and stopped moving.
My great-great-grandfather took the opportunity to cover his neck and take a few breaths. When he felt that it was about time, he ran over and squatted on the ground to pull one of the black man's hands. He pinched the end of the black man's middle finger with his thumb and index finger and let out a long sigh of relief.
Zhang Jiang's ghost was smashed out of the black man's body by my great-great-grandfather with a peachwood wedge. He probably suffered some minor injuries. The peachwood wedge's nickname was " Heart-piercing Arrow ", and it wasn't for nothing.
The big black man was already unconscious at this time, and only white foam was coming out of his mouth. My great-great-grandfather took out a chicken blood strip from his body and tied it to his wrist. The chicken blood strip was to prevent him from being possessed by something again.
The big black man was fine now, but it would take a long time for him to wake up from the Yin Qi.
My great-great-grandfather didn't know this big black man, but from his clothes, he should be a servant of the Cai family.
After that, my great-great-grandfather came to the door of the big house where the servants lived in the front yard. He shouted for the door to open and called out a few young and strong servants. After several servants identified that the big black man was indeed a servant of the Cai family, they carried the big black man back to his room.
At the same time, a few servants told my great-great-grandfather that this big black man was the " silly and bold boy " who had fainted by the well in the garden.
My great-great-father immediately understood when he heard this. Logically speaking, such a big guy should have a lot of Yang qi. The possibility of him being possessed by a ghost is usually not high. No wonder he could possess Xiaolan. It turns out that he had been invaded by Yin qi before. Generally speaking, people who had been possessed by something dirty or invaded by Yin Qi would easily get hurt again. It was like a habitual dislocated joint, a vicious cycle.
After such a torment, the night passed peacefully. My great-great-grandfather returned to the chair in the front yard and lit the incense. He was waiting for dawn to discuss with his father-in-law to find someone to fish up Xiaolan and Zhang Jiang's bodies from the well.
In ancient times, there was already the profession of " corpse salvager ", but it was not a full-time job. Most of them were fishermen who fished in the river and fished corpses for others. In our area, there is no such profession as a corpse fisherman. Because we are located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, the water flow is relatively rapid. Even if someone falls into the water, the corpse will be washed downstream. Therefore, no matter where the corpse fisherman is, it is generally in the downstream area where the water flow is gentle.
Early the next morning, my great-great-grandfather told his father-in-law, Cai Wenye, about this. Cai Wenye was a little troubled. Because of the turmoil in the past month, all the servants in the Cai residence had become frightened birds. If they were asked to go into the well to retrieve the corpse now, no one would dare to do it no matter how much money they offered.
At this moment, the old butler Cai Zhang spoke up. He said that he knew a corpse fisherman in the countryside outside the county town. He had been fishing in the lower reaches of the Yellow River in the past and would occasionally help people retrieve corpses. He was quite experienced. When Cai Wenye heard this, he asked Cai Zhang to quickly get into the carriage and invite him over.
Fishing for corpses could be divided into fishing for floating corpses and fishing for sunken corpses. Fishing for floating corpses was to use hooks and rope nooses. It was a little more difficult to retrieve the sunken body. Only brave and good sailors could dive into the water to search. Of course, there was a prerequisite here. They had to make sure that the body was in the water. Otherwise, they would not be able to find it until the next century.
In the case of Xiao Lan and Zhang Jiang, they were considered dead bodies. They had to go down the well to search for them. However, the risk was high enough. If the bodies were not retrieved, and Xiao Lan and Zhang Jiang's ghosts grabbed their ankles and drowned them in the well, it would not be worth it.
It must be mentioned here that the corpses of drowned people would naturally float up from the bottom of the water once they were thrown into the water. However, there was one kind of corpse that would not float, and that was the corpse's ghost. Just like Xiao Lan and Zhang Jiang's current situation, their ghost's resentment directly affected the corpse, causing their corpse not to rot, but also not to be thrown into the water.
What was called a corpse? It was mentioned before, but it was not detailed. Now, let's talk about it again. To put it bluntly, the principle of a corpse was similar to that of fermented noodles. After a person died, the organs in the body were softer and rotted first, which meant that they rotted from the inside out. During the decay process, rotten gas would be produced, commonly known as " corpse gas ". That gas would bulge the skin. At this time, the entire person would look like a fermented dough, especially the stomach. It was bulging and round. This was called a corpse.
Back to the main topic. While the old butler Cai Zhang went out of the city to ask for the corpse, my great-great-grandfather instructed the servants to prepare many items that would be needed to retrieve the corpse: Two straw ropes, the longer the better, they must be strong and sturdy; One wormwood, as long as the stem does not need leaves, one red silk, each about six feet long; A barrel of lamp oil, a torch, a square red cloth, four feet long and four feet wide; He burned a bundle of incense, a few stacks of paper, two thin willow branches with leaves, six inches long, and two green bamboo tubes with lids, one foot long, at least as thick as a wrist. A bowl of rooster blood, two pieces of white cloth silk, two inches wide and one foot long, and two red ropes, one foot long.
When it was close to noon, the old butler Cai Zhang invited the corpse fishermen. One was old and two were young. The old one was in his sixties, while the young one was in his forties and the young one was in his twenties. They looked like three generations. At this time, the things that my great-great-grandfather wanted the servants to prepare were all ready.
The three of them arrived at the right time for dinner. No one in the Cai residence had eaten yet. Cai Wenye wanted to order the kitchen to set up a banquet for the old and two young men. When the old corpse fisherman saw this, he hurriedly waved his hand and did not let Cai Wenye give the order. He said that he would eat after fishing out the corpses.
Many people might not know that there were taboos when these people were fishing for corpses. The biggest taboo was that they could not eat before fishing for corpses. Why was that? Imagine if the corpse had rotted in the water, the sticky and stinky feeling when you fished it out…
I'm afraid I don't need to explain it to you. Everyone can imagine that you're full of fish and meat. Even your throat is full of meat. At this moment, you see a rotten, disgusting corpse. You still have to go into the water to fish it up…
I reckon I'll vomit it out just by looking at it, let alone fishing it out.
For these corpse fishermen, especially when they were fishing for this kind of heavy corpse, they had to have a certain amount of physical contact with the corpse. If they ate a stomach full of meat at this time, the outcome could be imagined.
Another point was that after a person died, the sweat, saliva, tears, and blood of a living person could not be stained on the corpse. This might cause the corpse to rise or the ghost to turn evil. Like in movies and television shows, when a person died, the living person would hold his corpse and cry bitterly. Such a scene would never happen in reality because once the tears of a living person stained the dead, especially the tears of their loved ones, it would cause the soul of the deceased to be uneasy. The ghost would turn evil within three years of burial. Ghosts would come to the house to cause trouble.
This old corpse fisherman must have known all of this. He didn't eat to fish for corpses because he was afraid of vomiting and was afraid that the things he spat out would splash on the corpses. If they really did, their family would be in trouble in less than three years.
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