12, Drunk Beauty Xiangxi 12(2/2)
"Good guy, it's cinnabar."
The fat man poured out a small bag made of yellow talisman paper from the batik cloth bag, twisted some of the deep red powder inside with his fingers, put it to his nose, smelled it, shook his head and said:
"It should be a Western method."
"Western style?"
Miao Fangfei looked solemn and spread out the contents of the cloth bag on the table. In addition to the cinnabar wrapped in yellow paper, there was also a stack of slender yellow talismans, several colorful ribbons, and a thin book "Old Craftsmanship: Processing Corpses"
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"Have you ever heard of the Miao team saying that tomb robbers are divided into north and south, and corpses are taken out to discuss east and west?"
Miao Fangfei was the strongest in the team, so she naturally became the captain of the temporary team. After hearing the fat man's words, she moved slightly, thoughtfully. The hot-tempered Zhao Hongtu interjected:
"Isn't this based on a tomb-robbing novel, about touching the golden captain and removing the powerful warrior from the mountain?"
"Hey, Brother Zhao is right."
The fat man gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "There are southern and northern factions of tomb robbers. Because the regions and geology are different, the methods used are also different. Let's just say that the loess in the north is dry, there is less rain, and most of the tombs are inhumations. I want to make a conclusion.
Wherever the tomb is, you have to learn to 'see' the soil. During the Republic of China, a tomb robber named Li Yaya in Luoyang Mapo Village invented the Luoyang shovel. He could dig out the soil with a shovel and an experienced person could tell it at a glance.
Is there a tomb down there?"
"The southern school of tomb robbing is different. Just like traditional Chinese medicine, it also pays attention to looking, smelling and asking. Looking means looking at Feng Shui. In the past, choosing a cemetery was very particular, and you had to look at the sand and water of a dragon's cave. Smell means smelling the smell. This is a different dynasty. Tomb soil
The things inside are also different. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, a lot of mercury was poured into it, but after the Tang and Song Dynasties, green paste mud was used instead. To ask, I asked the locals for information. Look at the place names, such as Wu Po's Tomb, General's Tomb, etc.
"Anything with the word 'grave', 'kiln', 'ling', 'tomb', or 'mound' must be written down. As for all of this, it's just a robber's hole."
"Why do you know so much?"
Listening to the fat man talking about tomb robbing, Zhao Hongtu had a strange expression on his face and looked up and down: "There seems to be a fat man named Wang in the tomb robbing articles. Could it be that your Wang family specializes in tomb robbing? Grave robbing is illegal!"
"Little brother, don't talk nonsense!"
The fat man almost jumped up and spoke righteously: "Robbing tombs is a bad thing. My king, Pengpai, wants to live a long life. Serious people will not do this. Fatty, if I engage in tomb robbing, I will have a son with no butt and eyes!"
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"Brother Wang, don't be angry. What you said about driving away corpses and dividing things was also divided by region?"
Shi Tao reconciled and asked worriedly: "Which side will drive the zombies more ferociously?"
"It's not a question of whether the zombies are bad or not, it's mainly that the Eastern and Western factions have different methods."
The fat man was not really angry. After being persuaded for a few words, he continued to talk: "The corpse driving originated in Guchenzhou, and Xiangxi is the hometown of corpse driving. Going back to the time of Chi You in ancient times, the emphasis is on a person.
The soul returns to its homeland. The real division into two factions, the east and the west, was the separation of the Ruan Jiangma family in the late Qing Dynasty."
"At that time, Ma Shiyi went abroad to study. He couldn't bear to see many of our country's working people dying in a foreign land, so he thought about using corpse exorcism to bring them back. As a result, he took an apprentice in the United States and modified the spell, which violated the Ma family's taboo.
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"The traditional corpse driving in western Hunan is actually very closed. You can't cross Dongting Lake to the north, you can only go to Jingzhou to the east, you can only go to Fuzhou and Wuzhou to the west, and you can go as far as southwest to Yunnan and Guizhou. Don't talk about corpse driving abroad.
It’s impossible to go to the Northeast.”
Wei Xun was eavesdropping nearby and was fascinated. When he saw the fat man showing off his mystery, he asked with great interest: "What happened next?"
As soon as Wei Xun exited, the whole place fell into silence. All the passengers turned to look at him with astonishment on their faces. The fat man's round face froze, and he smiled awkwardly:
Chapter completed!