I was still very interested, and wanted to see the use of the jade top stove, but when Uncle Yu said that, I didn't know what to do.
"Uncle Yu, let me talk about it first, so I might as well prepare in advance."
"Fu Qiandeng is a corpse, and you are also a corpse. The corpse collector has no guts, how can he retrieve the corpse?" Uncle Yu put away his dry pipe and said, "When you are fishing the corpse, you have to talk to the four sides of the land. The gods of the South and North Rivers said hello and told them that the prophet would call you when something went wrong?"
I was robbed of uncle Yu to speak, so I could only laugh dryly. Uncle Yu stood up and said to Qingluo: "You wait on the bank, don't go down the river with us."
"Uncle Yu, I see." Qing Luo gave me another timid look and said: "You...you be careful..."
I was a little scared of Qingluo, but I did not hit the smiley person with my hand, and people showed okay again and again.
"Well, you can wait on the shore, and I will go down to the river with Yubo."
There is a small sampan on the bank of the river, which is very small and broken, and can accommodate two people at most. Uncle Yu was old, but with great strength, he pushed the small sampan down the river, and I followed him to jump onto the sampan. Two people sat on this small sampan and came to the heart of the river downstream.
Sailing in the river in this season is definitely a craft. The sampan looks broken and small, but Yu Bo knows how to control the sampan. The sampan was spinning around the heart of the river in the turbulent water. Uncle Yu looked at it for a while and took out a small bottle from next to him.
The little bottle was filled with a little yellowish-brown powder, with white spots like cream powder in it. The yellow-brown powder, I probably recognize, is a very common powder made from elm bark, and the incense that folks usually use to burn incense is made from this bark powder. But the little bit of hoarfrost, I can't distinguish it.
"Uncle Yu, what is this?"
"Bone Cream."
"Bone Cream? What is Bone Cream?"
"Fu Qiandeng taught you how to collect corpses. I didn't tell you anything else?" Yu Bo put a little powder into the jade top stove and said, "Bone cream is the frost on Huigu."
There is an old saying among the people in Hetan that if a person dies, he will be safe in the soil and the body will be transformed for seven years. It means that a person is buried in the soil, and it will take seven full years for the flesh and internal organs to be completely decomposed, revealing very complete bones.
Among the many bones in a human body, the bone at the forehead of the skull is the most special. In some Taoist classics, it is believed that the bone on the forehead is the place where the soul can be removed from the body. It is very hard and is called the "wisdom bone".
In the seventh year of entering the soil, when the corpse had just melted its skin and internal organs, a thin layer of things like autumn frost would occasionally ooze from the wisdom bones. There are many claims about this kind of bone cream, but after most of the bone cream is collected
, Basically it is used for practice.
Bone cream is not very common, and the longer it is left, the better the effect. And the bone cream in the little bottle of Yubo was collected from the bones of pure yin with eight characters. This kind of corpse is even rarer. A little bit of bone cream is hard to change. It needs to be obtained by chance. If you deliberately look for it, It is very likely that there will not be a little bit in three, five years or even ten or eight years.
Yu Bo slightly pressed the powder thrown into the jade top furnace, and then set the fire to light. After elm bark is ignited, the smoke that comes out is blue, but after adding bone cream, the smoke becomes very white. There are a total of nine small holes in the body of the jade-top stove, and wisps of smoke overflow from the small holes. In a moment, the white-like jade stove seems to be translucent.
I looked at it for a while and felt that this stove was really evil. Ordinary censer, no matter how big or small, the smoke emitted by the wind must be blown away, but the smoke from the jade-top stove is like a thin white thread, which is covered by an invisible force. It moved, not only condensed in the howling river breeze, but also stuck to the small sampan one by one, and got into the tumbling river beside him.
"Uncle Yu, this jade-top stove? How can the smoke from this jade-top stove drill into the river?" I have never seen such a strange thing in my life. River surface.
"You are still young. If you spend a long time on the river beach, there are more weird things waiting for you."
The flue gas from the jade-roof stove is mixed into the river and you can't see it. Because it is mixed with elm bark, the incense burns more slowly, just a little bit of incense, it is estimated that it will burn for half a meal.
After the end of the incense was completely burned, the jade top stove returned to normal, and Uncle Yu put the small incense burner away again and said: "Wait now, you will see the result in a while."
Uncle Yu always speaks only half of what he says, and I feel itchy in my heart, wanting to see what the jade top stove can do.
After another half of the meal, I couldn't see why I looked left and right. I couldn't bear it, turned my head and asked, "Bo Yu, why haven't you moved yet?"
"coming!"
When Yubo said a word, I really felt that the water around the small sampan was not right. The river was flowing downstream along the way, and the flow rate was relatively rapid, but at this moment, I saw that the river water seemed to be turned into one by one. The whirlpool is constantly spinning around the sampan.
With so many vortices, it looks a little bit infiltrating under the moonlight. After a while, I can't count how many such small vortices are near the sampan.
Wow...
Just as I was engrossed in these vortices, the vortex closest to the sampan suddenly turned over, and suddenly a face turned out from the muddy river.
I have no defense at all, although
Uncle Yu reminded me before, but just looked into those whirlpools and got distracted. The face in the water appeared so suddenly that I was caught off guard, and I shuddered directly from the side of the boat to the middle of the boat.
"Uncle Yu! Has a face!" I got up anxiously, pointed to the water and said to Uncle Yu: "Has a face!"
"The corpse hunter, seeing a face in the water, what's all the fuss about?"
I took a breath. To tell the truth, my courage is not particularly small, and after several years of collecting corpses with Master, I have seen a lot of floating corpses, and I am sure that I am a little bit spiritual, and my panic slowly dissipated.
I went back to the boat and looked down again. In the small whirlpool, the owner of that face has completely appeared on the surface of the water, up and down with the current. It was a floating corpse, and it looked as if it had died soon.
Wow...
At this time, the surrounding whirlpools heard the sound of water one after another, one face after another, one floating corpse after another, heads emerging from the whirlpool in all directions, and our little sampan was immediately surrounded by floating corpses. Living.
Needless to say, I can see that these floating corpses are not ordinary floating corpses. Before and after the flood season, the floating corpses could not accumulate in the river at all, and they were all washed downstream.
It was just when I saw these floating corpses that did not know where they came from, I suddenly understood that the purpose of the jade-top stove was to burn incense and attract floating corpses.
"Uncle Yu, are these floating corpses drawn from the jade-top furnace? Where did they come from?"
"It was brought in by the Jade Top Furnace, from a place no one knew."
"A place that no one knows..." I was stunned, not knowing what was going on, and suddenly remembered the scene when I was just apprentice to learn art.
I remember very clearly that something happened to my dad and was washed away by the river. On the way to search, I met the master. Master helped me search for a long time, but couldn't find Dad's body. I was very disappointed. I also asked Master if Dad's body can be retrieved.
Master told me that some people slipped and fell into the water, and after they died in the water, the corpses might not be recovered, because all the floating corpses had gone to one place.
This past event came to my mind, and I immediately thought that the place that Uncle Yu said that no one knew was mostly what the master had said.
"Some floating corpses can't be found no matter how to find them, just go to the place no one knows? Where is that place?"
"Since it is a place that no one knows, who can tell where it is?" Yu Bo paused, and involuntarily turned his head to look at the river bank, and said: "If you want to talk about that place, no one has ever known, it's not right. There is really one person in this world who has been there."
"Who has been there? Is it you? Or my master?"
"Neither." Uncle Yu smiled and said, "It's your wife, Qingluo."
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