Wang Zijun was chattering away when a customer appeared at the door. She was a pretty good-looking female ghost who floated into the store silently. Wang Zijun didn't notice me at first, but when he saw me staring at the door, he looked up. It didn't matter if he looked at me, he was so scared that he immediately shut his mouth and hid behind me without making a sound.
Needless to say, the female ghost's face was very pale, and mainly her eyeballs were too scary, blood red, as if they were about to drip blood, looking extremely hideous and weird. I felt a little frightened when I saw it, let alone Wang Zijun.
Ghosts rarely have blood-red eyes, but mostly black-green. There are two possibilities for this symptom. One is that the resentment is so deep that it turns into a fierce ghost and cries blood. The other is that the ghost body is weak and the blood rushes up because it has not received spiritual energy from the corpse for a long time. However, there are other reasons, but they are rare, so I will not go into details.
If it is an evil ghost, it will definitely not come to me for treatment. If it does, it will be troublesome. It is probably the latter, asking me for help to regulate the ghost's body.
As expected, the female ghost said, "Mr. Xi, I have been dead for many days. My soul has returned home, but my body is still on the way, so I am weak. Please help me heal it."
I said "hmm". This kind of problem is very common among ghosts. The store has medicines that are specially used to treat poor spiritual energy and weak ghost bodies. I stood up and walked to the shelf, pulled out a blue porcelain jar, poured out some blue powder, wrapped it in straw paper and threw it on the table.
"This is a five-day dose of medicine. Take one-fifth of it every day. If the body hasn't returned after five days, come back to me," I said.
The female ghost took the medicine bag but was reluctant to pull out the ghost tooth. I thought, what's the matter, are you trying to cheat? I can kill a weak little female ghost like you with just my little finger.
"Mr. Xi, I don't know whether Wu Tian will come back. The body has been sent away for more than half a month, and there is still no news." The female ghost said worriedly, as if she was afraid that Wu Tian's medicine would not be enough.
I frowned and asked, "Where did you die? Why hasn't your body been transported back after so many days?"
"Xiangxi!"
My heart moved, and I asked her, "Did you hire a corpse driver from Xiangxi to help you move the corpse?"
"That's right. It should be here in half a month."
Corpse-driving in Xiangxi is a very mysterious profession. Although there are many different opinions, the magic used in this profession originated from the Maoshan lineage, but this is not the case. Corpse-driving originated from a kind of witchcraft in the ancient Miao ghost country. It was also a profession that emerged when witchcraft was popular at that time. Later, witchcraft declined and Taoism flourished. This has nothing to do with Maoshan. Later generations forcibly linked corpse-driving with Maoshan to cover up the fact that it is an evil witchcraft. It seems that the soul-catching bells, spells and some Maoshan spells used are all Taoist traditions. In fact, they are similar in appearance, but they are still witchcraft in nature.
However, this profession is not as it is deciphered outside, that there are people carrying corpses on their backs, or using bamboo poles to prop up corpses and walk, or simply dismembering corpses and bringing back only the limbs and head. It is also possible that there are people who pretend to be corpse drivers to cheat money and do this kind of deception, which leads to misunderstanding. The real corpse driver does use spells to keep the three souls and seven spirits of the deceased in the body, and walks under the control of spells and soul-catching bells.
I couldn't help but wonder, how could a corpse driver drive a corpse like her whose soul had already returned home? You know, a corpse without a soul cannot walk on its own, unless it revives from the dead. Could it be that the corpse driver used the principle of revives from the dead? In fact, I overlooked an important question, which I only discovered when I arrived in Xiangxi later.
There is no record of corpse-driving techniques in the ancient books of Maoshan, and I only know a rough idea, not a complete understanding. I immediately gave the ghost girl five more days of medicine. Ten days should be enough, right? The ghost girl then pulled out a ghost tooth for me. The bloody mouth and the eyeballs reflected each other, which was so weird and terrifying that Wang Zijun was so scared that he almost peed.
After the female ghost left, Wang Zijun said he wanted to go back, but he was blocked at the door by a male ghost again. He ran back behind me with a bitter face.
This ghost is an old customer, at least he has been here once, Yang Donghao! Wang Zijun was chattering away when a customer appeared at the door. It was a pretty good-looking female ghost who floated into the store silently. Wang Zijun didn't notice it at first, but when he saw me staring at the door, he looked up. It didn't matter if he saw it, he was so scared that he immediately shut his mouth and hid behind me and didn't dare to make a sound.
Needless to say, the female ghost's face was very pale, and mainly her eyeballs were too scary, blood red, as if they were about to drip blood, looking extremely hideous and weird. I felt a little frightened when I saw it, let alone Wang Zijun.
Ghosts rarely have blood-red eyes, but mostly black-green. There are two possibilities for this symptom. One is that the resentment is so deep that it turns into a fierce ghost and cries blood. The other is that the ghost body is weak and the blood rushes up because it has not received spiritual energy from the corpse for a long time. However, there are other reasons, but they are rare, so I will not go into details.
If it is an evil ghost, it will definitely not come to me for treatment. If it does, it will be troublesome. It is probably the latter, asking me for help to regulate the ghost's body.
As expected, the female ghost said, "Mr. Xi, I have been dead for many days. My soul has returned home, but my body is still on the way, so I am weak. Please help me heal it."
I said "hmm". This kind of problem is very common among ghosts. The store has medicines that are specially used to treat poor spiritual energy and weak ghost bodies. I stood up and walked to the shelf, pulled out a blue porcelain jar, poured out some blue powder, wrapped it in straw paper and threw it on the table.
"This is a five-day dose of medicine. Take one-fifth of it every day. If the body hasn't returned after five days, come back to me," I said.
The female ghost took the medicine bag but was reluctant to pull out the ghost tooth. I thought, what's the matter, are you trying to cheat? I can kill a weak little female ghost like you with just my little finger.
"Mr. Xi, I don't know whether Wu Tian will come back. The body has been sent away for more than half a month, and there is still no news." The female ghost said worriedly, as if she was afraid that Wu Tian's medicine would not be enough.
I frowned and asked, "Where did you die? Why hasn't your body been transported back after so many days?"
"Xiangxi!"
My heart moved, and I asked her, "Did you hire a corpse driver from Xiangxi to help you move the corpse?"
"That's right. It should be here in half a month."
Corpse-driving in Xiangxi is a very mysterious profession. Although there are many different opinions, the magic used in this profession originated from the Maoshan lineage, but this is not the case. Corpse-driving originated from a kind of witchcraft in the ancient Miao ghost country. It was also a profession that emerged when witchcraft was popular at that time. Later, witchcraft declined and Taoism flourished. This has nothing to do with Maoshan. Later generations forcibly linked corpse-driving with Maoshan to cover up the fact that it is an evil witchcraft. It seems that the soul-catching bells, spells and some Maoshan spells used are all Taoist traditions. In fact, they are similar in appearance, but they are still witchcraft in nature.
However, this profession is not as it is deciphered outside, that there are people carrying corpses on their backs, or using bamboo poles to prop up corpses and walk, or simply dismembering corpses and bringing back only the limbs and head. It is also possible that there are people who pretend to be corpse drivers to cheat money and do this kind of deception, which leads to misunderstanding. The real corpse driver does use spells to keep the three souls and seven spirits of the deceased in the body, and walks under the control of spells and soul-catching bells.
I couldn't help but wonder, how could a corpse driver drive a corpse like her whose soul had already returned home? You know, a corpse without a soul cannot walk on its own, unless it revives from the dead. Could it be that the corpse driver used the principle of revives from the dead? In fact, I overlooked an important question, which I only discovered when I arrived in Xiangxi later.
There is no record of corpse-driving techniques in the ancient books of Maoshan, and I only know a rough idea, not a complete understanding. I immediately gave the ghost girl five more days of medicine. Ten days should be enough, right? The ghost girl then pulled out a ghost tooth for me. The bloody mouth and the eyeballs reflected each other, which was so weird and terrifying that Wang Zijun was so scared that he almost peed.
After the female ghost left, Wang Zijun said he wanted to go back, but he was blocked at the door by a male ghost again. He ran back behind me with a bitter face.
This ghost is an old customer and has been here at least once, Yang Donghao!