Chapter 212: Floating Corpses

It is a bit far-fetched to call this place a village. It is better to call it a small settlement of mountain people. There are only eight or nine families at most. It is even more desolate and bleak in this season.

However, since there is such a place, it must have a reason. As the lowest level in the administrative system, it is right to call it a village. Anyway, there is a rotten wooden sign on the hillside with the words "Mentougou Village" written crookedly on it.

When we climbed up the village along the rugged mountain road, the night had completely enveloped the place. Only a few houses were flickering with dim light and flickering candlelight. I think there is still no electricity here. The villagers still use candles or oil lamps. Occasionally, you can hear a few chickens crowing and dogs barking.

An overstuffed auntie seemed to have just come out of the house, with her hands in her sleeves and a coquettish red headscarf on her head. She was like a blazing torch in the dark night, walking on the rugged path like a wobbly penguin.

God has mercy on me, this is the first person we have seen in this place.

Lao Bai was reckless and shouted "Hey" from a long distance. The auntie was frightened and almost jumped up. The road was icy and slippery. She couldn't stand still for a while, and her two short legs immediately fluttered up, alternating at a high frequency that was dazzling, as if she was running on a treadmill. It is hard to imagine how the auntie can maintain this skill at her age, but in the end she couldn't beat Newton. The friction under her feet was too low, and she fell to the ground with a "thump". Her whole body was stretched straight, like a corpse, and she slid towards us along the inclined road.

Lao Bai smiled and grabbed the auntie's ankle, and then pulled her.

The old lady woke up from a dream, as if she had just come back to life. She screamed "Ah", jumped up from the ground, and without saying anything, she slapped Lao Bai in the face, spinning three times on the spot, and finally sat on the ground with stars in her eyes.

The old lady covered her chest with her hands, and shouted with shame and anger: "Where did you come from? What do you want to do in the dark night?"

Looking at the old lady's appearance again, her face was dark, and her nose was red from the cold. Combined with her skin color, it formed a very extreme purple, like a ripe eggplant, with triangular eyes, a big face, and a mouth full of yellow teeth arranged neatly like corn kernels, firmly rooted in the gums, but there was a touch of different color in the middle, that was a silver front tooth, shining in the moonlight, especially bright.

"You look so unique, even if we have the courage, we dare not do anything?"

Lao Bai covered the side of his face that was hit, with a scarlet slap mark on it, as if he had suffered a great injustice, and said faintly: "With your strength, let alone the three of us brothers, even three mules can't hold you down, so delicate, okay?"

The aunt was angry, staring at Lao Bai fiercely, as if this matter was not over.

How did the saying go? Your aunt is still your aunt, the nemesis of young men, even a ruthless character like Brother Yaozi who kills without blinking an eye, now spread his hands and looked helpless.

After all, women understand women. Zhang Xinya had no choice but to take action. A few red banknotes spun in front of the aunt, and the aunt immediately calmed down. Her eyes became cross-eyed. Wherever the red banknotes floated, her eyes turned in that direction. Her expression seemed to say - look at me again, look at me again, look at me again and I will eat you!

Finally, the aunt couldn't resist the temptation. She grabbed a few red banknotes with lightning speed. A friendly smile appeared on her face. She stood up and stuffed the banknotes into her pants without saying a word.

Lao Bai was stunned by this operation. He couldn't help but ask curiously: "You have a pocket sewn on your pants?"

"Your aunt has a lot of ways."

The aunt smiled evilly, which was very eye-catching, but she still knew some rules of the underworld. She knew that taking money from people would help them get rid of disasters. While hiding the money, she asked: "What are you guys doing here?"

Zhang Xinya smiled and said: "It's cold and dark. I want to stay for a night and eat something hot..."

Before she finished speaking, the aunt interrupted immediately: "Okay, aunt knows everything. You are the donkeys, right?"

Brother Yaozi emphasized: "It's a donkey friend, not a donkey. You are a big black donkey..."

"Chengcheng, it's a traveler!"

The auntie said shamelessly: "Then you have found the right person to find me. I am in this business. I have a firm grasp on tourism. No one in our Mentougou Village can do better than me. Those young kids, oh, the traveler you are talking about, must find me when they come here, so that they can appreciate the oat noodle noodles that I make..."

After saying that, the auntie came up and dragged us to the village. She looked so enthusiastic that she was like a black shop owner, afraid that we, the suckers, would run away.

Soon, we saw the five-star hotel that the auntie mentioned. In fact, it was two large tiled houses at the back of the village, with a big kang and a table, which were all the furnishings.

I said that we at least have a female comrade here, we can't squeeze into the kang together, right?

It's really a black shop owner.

I cursed in my heart. I can't spend this money in vain. It seems that we will definitely have to share a kang tonight. Fortunately, we didn't treat Zhang Xinya as a girl at all. We climbed ice and snow together, lived and died together, and became close friends. It's okay to share a kang, but the premise is that either me or Brother Yaozi can be next to Zhang Xinya, but not Lao Bai, the scumbag...

Seeing that she couldn't cheat people, the aunt sighed and went to cook.

A pot of steamed sweet potatoes, plus oat noodle fried noodles, this is the delicacy in the aunt's mouth. To be honest, this oat noodle fried noodles is not bad. We have been rushing all day and are now cold and hungry. Our appetites are opened at once, and we eat with tea stems and water until we are dizzy.

However, we ate, but we didn't forget the business. After thinking about it, I asked the aunt: "I see that the Fen River is not far from you. When it flows through here, it is considered a stranded place. Have there been any corpses or something washed here?"

"You donkeys... Oh, yes, you are donkey friends. You love to hear these strange things."

This is indeed a matter, but this is not what I want to ask. After thinking about it, I asked indirectly, have there been any corpses washed here in recent years?

The aunt said yes, and several children who drowned in the water were buried last year.

I said, what about adult men?

The aunt thought for a long time before suddenly saying, "If you hadn't said it, I would have forgotten it. It's true, but it was many years ago. The man was wearing camouflage uniforms and rubber shoes, but one of his shoes was missing. When he rushed to us, I don't know how long he had been soaked in the water. He looked... Tsk tsk, I'm used to seeing people drowned, but I've never seen someone die so ugly..."

Then, the aunt described the man's death in detail. The whole person looked like he had been soaked in water. He looked several times bigger, white and fat, and his head was full of water plants, which looked like a full head of hair...

I don't know if the aunt did it on purpose. What she said was really disgusting. Several of us couldn't help but stop eating and looked at each other. We already had the answer.

The man the aunt was talking about... If nothing unexpected happened, it should be Cheng Yi. His clothes were exactly the same as before Cheng Yi died!

Cheng Yi became a soul-collecting messenger. When he appeared, he had a creepy long hair, just like a female ghost. This was somewhat similar to his death appearance. It seemed that he still retained some characteristics of his death.

We breathed a sigh of relief. At least we found the right place. We also found the reason why the soul-dividing paper man was a little lost here.

According to what the aunt said, this should be a floating corpse land!

Floating corpse land is the place where some big rivers are stranded.

Wherever the water is deep, some people will inevitably drown. Only a part of these bodies that fall into the water can be salvaged. Some of them will eventually sink into the rivers forever and become ownerless souls in the river. They will drift with the water and eventually wash up the shallows at the place where they are stranded.

Of course, there are many stranded places in rivers. Not every stranded place will have corpses like this one in Mentougou Village every now and then. We call this kind of stranded place where dead people are constantly washed up as suitable land for burial.

To put it bluntly, the overall Feng Shui pattern of this place is very suitable for burying the dead. The dead will rush to this place because they choose the burial place for themselves.

Therefore, there are many wandering ghosts in any floating corpse place. Ordinary people will encounter strange things every now and then when they come in.

There are still so many people in Mentougou Village. I guess this is related to their traditional habit of burying stranded corpses. As the saying goes, cats have their own ways, mice have their own ways, and everyone has their own unique set of survival rules. The ancestors of this village probably came here out of helplessness and gradually summed up their own set of survival rules. Helping to bury the corpses that rushed here, they can get some gratitude and protection from the ghosts, and naturally they will not harass them. Even if they encounter some difficulties, they may get some help...

This kind of land suitable for burial is the choice of many ownerless ghosts. If there are too many people buried, it is like the underworld, and the magnetic field is chaotic. The soul-dividing paper man is also a kind of ghost. It is easy to get lost when coming here.

However, since we have found the place, it is not very useful.

I thought about it and asked the aunt: "You said that there are often hikers here? Is there anything unusual about this place? Why can it attract so many people?"

"That's not a big deal?"

The aunt came up mysteriously and said that they have gods here, and then she screamed "piu" without any warning, her upper and lower lips trembled at a high frequency, and pieces of saliva sprayed out, spraying all over the table. She said: "Yes, that's it, the kind of gods that can fly!"

Damn you...

I cursed inwardly, no wonder it's so disgusting to talk about a corpse, now the truth is finally revealed, this is not to give us so much food, so it's a ruthless move.

A few of us immediately pushed the bowls and chopsticks forward, not to eat, how can we eat this? It's all saliva!

I squinted at this old woman who was so mean that she was smoking, and gritted my teeth and said, "Then you can tell me the fairy tales in this mountain!"

The aunt smiled mysteriously, kept silent, and was unfathomable, clearly asking for money.

Zhang Xinya gritted her teeth, took out a stack of money, hesitated for a moment, took out a fifty-yuan note from the innermost and put it on the table.

The aunt glanced at the fifty yuan, silently took out a sweet potato from the steamer, and didn't eat it, just touched the sweet potato skin and smiled.

Damn, this is going to be red! !

Zhang Xinya was so angry that her nose was crooked, but she also knew that the aunt's story might be very important. Most of the legends in the mountains are not groundless, and they must have a reference. This is also a floating corpse land, and there should be no gods or immortals. But there are such legends, so there must be something unusual in the mountains, which may be helpful to us. So, she almost gritted her teeth and pulled out a red banknote, slapped it on the table, and sneered: "Is this enough?"

The aunt immediately became enthusiastic, almost snatched the money away, and immediately stuffed it into her pants. After hiding it, she patted her crotch with satisfaction, lowered her voice, and said in a rhythmic way: "We really have gods here, our ancestors have seen it with their own eyes!!"