I opened the note and only two words were written on it: income.
Sure enough, as I thought, Guo Yinpo didn't ask more words from this floating corpse. I held the note and stood there for a long time, thinking about stumping this matter, is it always a mystery
"Accepting people? What do you mean?" The fortune teller didn't know when he quietly approached me and looked at the words on the note: "What do you mean?"
"Don't ask, I don't know, really, don't lie to you."
I have spoken to Yin Po for a while. She actually understood very well. Ever since her husband’s body was picked up by the old copper frame, the Yin Po knew that there would be no answer to this matter. If you want to bite the bullet and check it out, then you will only suffer in the end.
I've been with me, thank you, and go out with the fortune teller. The guide was still staying near the yard, and when he saw us coming out, he hurried over and asked if he wanted something to eat.
"No, we are in a hurry, so we won't be disturbed." I declined the other's kindness and left the village with the fortune teller.
Walking on the river beach under the dark night, I felt very stunned. Even though I knew what Yinma said was reasonable, many things in this world have no answers, but I always don't want to give up. That is my father after all, the father who gave birth to me and raised me.
The fortune teller asked me what I had planned, and I thought about it, anyway, I'm still young, and I can do my job for a few more years.
"What's the benefit of floating in the river every day to collect corpses? My brother, just like me, travel the rivers and lakes. As long as your brain is active, you will never be hungry. It is much better than corpse fishing."
"Let's talk about it in two years." I feel a little confused in my heart, and I don't dare to think far away. If I can't find the truth about this matter, am I going to drift on this big river for a lifetime and be a lonely one? The corpse hunter
The fortune teller and I stopped and walked until dawn, when the fortune teller was going to leave, I also returned to the place where the boat was parked before, pushed the boat into the water, and sent the fortune teller for a ride.
I continue to work as a corpse hunter. I live in a small village alone, go out in the morning and pick up the boat to go home in the evening. Such days passed day after day, and in a blink of an eye it was early summer again.
During this period, I got acquainted with several corpse collectors, all of whom were ordinary corpse collectors. Some of them were not even serious corpse collectors. They just used their strength to seek a life in the river. Sometimes, when a few people meet together, they will drink some wine together and brag about it. Every corpse hunter has his own section of the river that he usually goes to, and he can talk about his own experience.
I heard from them that there was a rich squire who alone contributed a sum of money to choose a place on the two- to three-hundred-mile long river to build a dozen temples and huaren fields.
The Ximiao is the Yizhuang, and the Huarenchang is actually a place for burning corpses. Some corpses have been unclaimed, and they will be troublesome if they are left for a long time. If they are not handled in time, they may cause future troubles.
I asked, that the squire who donated money to repair Xi Temple turned out to be the grandfather Ma from Ping'an Town. Ma's grandfather was out of danger at that time, but his son and grandson had passed away. In the huge Ma family, he was only a dying old man.
The news from these corpse scavengers was indeed true. Within a few days, some people started to build the Xi Temple about six or seven miles away from the small village. The scale of this Xi Temple is at least one size larger than that of the common Xi Temple. Times, one
A total of ten civilian husbands were hired. This work has to be done for at least a month and a half. The Xi Temple is built on a high ground not too far from the river beach. The people are locals on the river beach. Sometimes I am idle when I reclaim the boat, and there is nothing to do when I think about going home. Drinking and chatting with Minfu over there.
When the temple was about to go to the beam, the water level of the river skyrocketed, and it rained for a few days, which delayed the construction period. The beams of this kind of big house are not available locally, so they have to be transported in from outside. After a few days of rainy weather has passed, the beams will arrive. I heard people say that girdering a big house is a very delicate matter, and it was not common before, so after receiving the ship, I stayed at Xi Temple for a while, wanting to see the excitement.
However, the working minfu told me that if the person in charge of serving the beam does not come today, the beam will definitely not be able to be served. I was a little disappointed, packed my things, and planned to go home.
At this moment, water rose on the other side of the river beach, and huge waves of water swarmed towards the shore. There was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old half-and-a-half man named Xiaoliu, who usually runs errands and does chores. Xiaoliu is young and has sharp eyes. The construction site is far from the river bank, but when he saw the water surge on the sandy land, Bring some fish.
"Fish! There are fish!" Xiaoliu Sayazi ran towards the river bank, and several civilian husbands also stepped on the muddy sand and followed Xiaoliu towards the other side.
The river water did bring up some fish, all flapping their tails on the banks of the river. The folks were very happy and picked up more than a dozen of them.
The folks are working on the construction site, and the steamed noodles are full, but you can't see the fish. These dozen fresh river fish are best used for the tooth-making sacrifice. The cook tidyed up the fish and simmered it in a pot. Xiaoliu and the others usually mix well with me, so they forced me to stay and eat the fish.
During the meal, the folk husbands went to the iron pot to scoop the fish soup in twos and threes, and some people took some wine. There are no other condiments at the construction site, but the fresh river fish only needs to be stewed with water to make a good soup. Xiao Liu brought me a bowl, and before drinking it, a scent of deliciousness permeated my nostrils.
"Come on, brother, drink." Xiaoliu made another drink and touched me. The river is very humid, and people who often work by the river have been accustomed to drinking a little white wine since childhood to get rid of dampness and invigorate blood.
Xiao Liu sipped his wine, drank the fish soup, and ate two more pieces of fish. After all, I'm here for a meal, I'm a little bit embarrassed.
"Brother, eat it." Xiao Liu wiped his mouth, holding his empty bowl, and said grinning: "I'll go and serve another bowl."
Xiaoliu rushed towards the room, and I was holding a bowl, ready to drink fish soup. The fish soup looked very beautiful, and the sweet smell floated on the tip of the nose vigorously.
However, when I brought the bowl to my mouth, I suddenly smelled a strange smell from the sweet smell of fish soup.
I don't know what smell it is, but it always makes me feel very uncomfortable. I took the chopsticks and stirred it in the bowl. Suddenly, a tooth, interspersed with a few pieces of fish, came out of the soup.
My scalp was numb, and the chopsticks in my hand couldn't help but, the tooth still had pieces of fish, and it sank to the bottom of the bowl.
I think I can't read it wrong, that is a tooth, a human tooth!
At this moment, my stomach turned upside down, and there seemed to be a thin hair twitching in my throat, nauseous and nauseous.
At this moment
When Xiao Liu came back with the fish soup, he sat in front of me and said, "Brother, why don't you drink it?"
"Xiao Liu, is there hair in this soup?" I dare not say it clearly. Some things must be seen by others, otherwise, if I say nothing, it will make people doubt.
"Hair? The old Wang who cooks for us usually has rough hands and feet. I'm afraid he didn't pay attention and dropped his hair into the pot." Xiao Liu held my bowl and stirred it with his chopsticks for a while.
However, he stirred up everything at the bottom of the bowl, but he didn't see the tooth. I started to whisper in my heart, could it be that I am blinded? See fish bones as teeth
"Brother, you drink my bowl. My bowl is clean." Xiaoliu changed the two bowls and said, "I didn't find the hair, hey, even if there is really hair, that's nothing. We are doing cool work. Yes, there are steamed buns to eat, and fish soup to drink. I am already satisfied. Anyway, I can't eat them."
"Little Liu, come and drink." I don't know what it feels like in my heart. Although I didn't see the teeth in the bowl for the second time, I always felt Geying, but I couldn't tell Xiao Liu. I took my wine bowl and moved towards Xiao Liu. Xiao Liu put down the bowl of fish soup and touched me with the wine bowl: "It's dry."
Taking advantage of Xiao Liu's neck-lifting and drinking, my foot gently moved and knocked over the two bowls of fish soup on the ground.
"Oh! The fish soup is spilled!" I pretended to be in a hurry, and carefully distinguished among the fish soup on the scattered sand.
The sky was already dark, but when I lay on the ground and looked like this, I saw the tooth in the spilled fish soup.
This time, I will definitely not read it wrong, it is a human tooth!
"Brother, forget it, don't make it, the soup is spilled." Xiaoliu took me a hand and said, "I can't pick it up."
My scalp numbs constantly, although I haven't drank a bite of the fish soup, the feeling of being overwhelmed in my stomach is getting worse.
"Brother, in the village over there, is there anyone selling alcohol?" Xiao Liuyi didn't know, and stepped on the fish pieces that fell on the ground with his feet into the sand, and said: "If the fish soup is gone, it's no big deal, we Working every day is not about eating fish and meat all at once, but without alcohol, I feel uncomfortable."
"There is no wine in the village. I have one in my house. About four or five catties are left." I don't know what happened to me. When I think of the human teeth in the fish soup, I feel uncomfortable. Fortunately, the second bowl of fish soup was I deliberately spilled it so that Xiao Liu didn't drink it into my mouth.
"Brother, I have money here, so I bought your wine first, everyone drank the wine, and then redeem the wine to me."
"No money, I don't usually drink much, so I gave it to you."
I asked Xiao Liu to follow me to the village to fetch wine. When I was walking on the road, I kept watching him secretly. Xiaoliu was alive and kicking, and there was nothing unusual.
I took Xiao Liu back to the village, and the wine jar was a bit big, so I emptied the remaining four or five catties of wine into another small jar. Walking out holding the jar, handed the wine to Xiao Liu.
However, Xiao Liu did not pick up the wine jar. He tilted his head and didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, he pushed the jar and said, "Brother, wine...no more wine..."
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"Yes... Something..." Xiao Liu turned his head and looked towards the river beach, and said: "I have to... I have to go back quickly..."
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