"In the water? With the dead?" I couldn't tell the truth from the false for a while after hearing the words of the fortune teller. But looking at his appearance, it always feels a little unreliable: "Don't talk nonsense."
"Why nonsense?" The fortune teller pointed to the tortoise shell on the table and said: "The hexagram image is like this, and I rely on the hexagram image to explain it. If you don't believe me, I can't even join the ancestors of our profession. Do not believe… "
"Then she, is it life or death now?"
"The hexagram image is not displayed, it is not clear."
I suddenly had no idea in my mind. I originally thought that I was listening to a fortune teller to say a few auspicious words.
"Forget it." I shook my head and turned to leave.
"Brother, wait." The fortune teller stopped me again and said: "It's just because you and I are predestined, so I saw something about you, my brother, it's not easy to leave your hometown and get involved. You can take three more Copper corner, let me talk about you too, how about?"
"It's not over yet." I sullen my head and don't want to talk nonsense with the other party, but the fortune teller seems to be entangled with me, and hurriedly stretched out my hand and took my arm.
"Brother, you will have a disaster in the past few days!"
"Yeah, I have a disaster, and then give you money, you teach me how to deal with the disaster, don't you?"
"You brother, I'd rather treat good intentions as donkey liver and lungs." The fortune-teller curled his lips: "Well, don't charge your money, just talk about your affairs, who tells us that we are predestined. Brother, listen carefully, you There has been a disaster recently, but don’t worry, this disaster is shocking but not dangerous, just because there are noble people to help you."
"Then I will thank you."
"Brother, if I'm accurate, I'll pass by here in the future, don't forget to reward two small coins."
I left the Gua stall and walked towards the carriage and horse shop. After a few steps, I could still hear the god fortune teller stopping a pedestrian, saying, "This old man, have you ever heard of the name of the god fortune teller Xigou? You and I are destined, Sit down and divination..."
When he returned to the cart and horse shop, Mu Jiu was drinking with a few people from Shihewan. His body was strong. After a few days of rest, the skin and flesh wounds on his body had begun to close. I thought it would be fine.
Mu Jiu asked me to sit together. After drinking two glasses, Mu Jiu told me that he and Shihewan's brother were going to leave.
"Brother, what's your plan?" Mu Jiu is a refreshing person, and he doesn't mean anything in his words: "If you really didn't go to Shihewan, if you guys have a bite to eat, you won't be hungry."
I know that Mu Jiu is a person, if he has nothing to do with him, it would be nice to go through the world with him. But there are too many things in my heart.
I tactfully declined, Mu Jiu didn't care, and everyone drank it happily.
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On the second day, Mu Jiu left the town with someone. He might still be afraid that I would be insecure, so he gave me a special ride. I had been sent to the Hefeng Ferry near the town to separate. After Mu Jiu and the others left, I was at a loss for a while and didn't know where to go.
If my home is gone, I can’t go back to the small village where I lived temporarily. There is no place for me to stand on the huge river that stretches for thousands of miles and the vast beach.
What's more terrible is that I lost my luggage, and there were only a dozen copper sockets left on me, and I almost couldn't even eat.
I didn't go far, so I did odd jobs here at the Hefeng Ferry. In addition to passenger ships carrying people, cargo ships and merchant ships often pass by at the ferry. Together with the other hard laborers, I helped to install the sand. The money for hard work can barely fill my stomach. I learned some ways to make a living. Whenever a coal and grain ship stops here to unload, some coal and grain will be scattered at the ferry. As long as you are not afraid of trouble, You can put these things together, save more and sell them.
Every day after work, I would still go for a walk by the river and look for it. After so long, I no longer have any hope of finding Qingluo, but walking around like this every day, I still have a little hope in my heart.
As long as people still have a little hope, they can still work hard to live.
Before I knew it, I was busy at the ferry for several months. I usually save money and save so much money. It just so happens that there is an old boatman at the ferry, who is too old to do any work, and wants to sell his boat. I used the money I saved to sell the boat and repaired it.
I don't know anything, I only have a little skill in corpse hunting. With a boat, at least I have a guy to eat. The Siyang boat is temporarily kept by Yu Bo. Without this conspicuous mark, I can only wrap a piece of wood in a white cloth like other ordinary corpse scavengers, and then hang it on the bow of the boat with hemp rope. This is the sign of the ordinary corpse-shovelers in Dahetan. After hanging up this piece of white cloth and wood, employers who need to salvage the corpses of their loved ones will find me.
I settled in a place more than ten miles south of the ferry. Apart from work, I usually ate and slept on the boat. A few miles westward, there is a village where you can go to buy food with the villagers.
In a blink of an eye, in April, the weather turned warmer, and the banks of the river regained their vitality. Passenger ships, merchant ships, and the boaters who usually depend on the river for food, all became busy. A long while later that day, I was taking a nap on the shore, and an old couple found me crying with tears.
This old couple, I have a little impression, they are from the nearby village. Everyone living on the riverbank knows that the white cloth, wooden hemp rope is the sign of the corpse collector, and the other party must find me to salvage the corpse.
The old couple has two sons. The eldest son works at the ferry and the younger son cooks the fields at home. In the first two months, children
Zi's daughter-in-law got sick and passed away, making him miserable, and he was bored at home for two months. The old couple was afraid of something wrong with their son. When they went to see the eldest son at the ferry, they forced the younger son with him and asked him to walk around by the way.
As a result, after arriving at the ferry, the youngest son fell into the water without knowing what was going on. The water force in April is greater than that in winter, and when people fall into the water, they will go down the river. The old couple panicked, the eldest son came out to look for it, and they also found this side along the river bank.
On the big river beach, no one knows the water flow and the corpses in the water better than the corpse scavenger. Therefore, no matter whether the person is dead or not, it is more appropriate to ask the corpse scavenger to search for it.
I asked about the time when the other party fell into the water, but felt that there was little hope of surviving.
"My son is just 30 years old this year." The old man said to me in tears, "Wearing a black coat..."
"I know, uncle, you go back to the village and wait, don't worry, I have a letter here, I will tell you immediately."
After I asked all these questions, I immediately sailed down the river. I have been familiar with the situation of this section of the river these days.
Come and go, and get nothing for more than an hour. I turned the bow again and started looking for it along the east bank.
When the sky was getting dark, I saw a person floating on the water in a bend on the east bank with very slow water. It was a man in his thirties, dressed in a black gown, very similar to what the old couple described.
This person floated on his back, following the slow current, constantly drifting on the surface of the water. The person must be dead. I sighed and drove the boat closer. First, with an iron hook tied to a wooden pole, I turned the body upside down and let him float face down.
This is the rule of corpse hunting. Among the "three non-fishing" people usually say, there is a floating corpse on its back. The corpse collector felt that if the floating corpse was facing up to the sky before leaving the boat on the water, it would remember the corpse collector and cause trouble to the corpse collector.
In fact, the master told me what this old example is about, and it's not that mysterious. Just because some floating corpses have been in the water for a long time, their bodies will swell and their internal organs will also rot. During the removal process, corpse water may splash out of the seven orifices. These corpse water splashed on the body, and it might kill the corpse hunter.
After the floating corpse was turned around, I fought the big net and took the corpse in a familiar way. Then I dragged the body with skillful power. With the help of the buoyancy of the water, I dragged the person with the net onto the boat.
When I dragged the corpse onto the boat and removed the big net, I suddenly saw a blood hole in the corpse's chest. The blood stains were washed away by the river, and it was really hard to see if you didn't get close.
The son of the old couple did not drown, but someone killed him.
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