White Bone Monkey King

There is a mountain village thirty miles away in the western suburbs of Jiangzhou Prefecture, called Xicai Village. Almost all the villagers living here are named Cai.

Compared with the name Xicai Village, the name Sewing Corpse Village is more famous in Shili and Baxiang.

Because there is a corpse stitcher in Xicai Village named Cai Xu. It is said that this name is related to his lack of fire in the Five Elements. Later, under the guidance of an expert, he specially took the meaning of the golden crow in the sky to enhance Yang Qi. .

It can only be said that fate is unpredictable. Who would have thought that Cai Xu, who was short of fire in his five elements, would end up making a living by fishing for the underworld, often dealing with the dead, and making a name for himself all over the country? Whenever the mutilated corpse was repaired by Cai Xu, no one would fail to praise his workmanship.

Because Cai Xu has a high reputation in the countryside, the villagers call him Master Cai.

Corpse stitchers deal with dead people more than living people, and those who can find corpse stitchers to repair corpses are those who died violently with deep resentment. Either their bodies were broken into pieces, or they were cut into pieces or cut into pieces at the Meridian Gate. The ancestors who were beheaded, so the ancestors who worked in this industry, set many rules for future generations to avoid some risks.

For example, one cannot sew up the mother-child body with two lives;

Second, the two must not be mixed together;

three……

It's just that no matter how many rules there are, if you walk too much at night, you will inevitably run into ghosts. The business of fishing for ghosts, who often deal with people who have died violently, is a high-risk occupation that is most likely to encounter supernatural things.

Cai Xu, the corpse stitcher, recently took over a big order. I heard that the commotion was so loud that even several surrounding villages heard about it.

This matter must start from half a year ago. When the sun was about to set, Cai Xu was having a meal at home. He had enough to eat and drink before he could sew up the corpses of the dead at night. Bang bang, someone suddenly knocked on the door of the courtyard hurriedly.

A large family drove a carriage to the door and wanted Cai Xu to sew the corpse. Before Cai Xu could say anything, the other party directly ordered his servants to carry an ice coffin into the yard and place it in the lobby of the house. Cai Xu didn't even have the chance to refuse. nothing.

Being able to afford the ice coffin indicates that he is from a wealthy or noble family. Not an ordinary person can offend him, and the person who comes is quite evil. Cai Xu wants to make money by being friendly, and it is not easy for people to have disputes with people who have five shortcomings and three shortcomings. So he planned to ask about the situation first and then decide whether to accept the business.

This wealthy man knew how to use both soft and hard tactics. He politely said that the person lying in the ice coffin was his nine-year-old granddaughter. She died of drowning and her body was eaten by fish and shrimps in the river, so he wanted to ask Cai Xu to sew up the body. .

After saying that, the other party left a bag of golden beans and an ice coffin, and left with the others. The whole process came and went in a hurry, without giving Cai Xu a chance to refute.

Cai Xuming knew that there must be something wrong with this, but he thought that the other party was wealthy and he could not afford to offend him. In addition, the bag of golden beans left by the other party was indeed a generous reward, so he made plans to open the ice coffin to take a look at the situation. If it was not possible, he would If he refuses, he will say that he is not good at his studies.

Unexpectedly, Cai Xu smelled a strong smell of blood as soon as he opened the ice coffin.

It's not the smell of rotting corpses, nor the smell of mud and sand that drowned people, but the smell of blood!

Cai Xu's heart skipped a beat, knowing that the job he took on this time might not be as simple as the other party said on the surface!

In accordance with the rules set by his ancestors, he burned paper money and incense candles to the deceased. After some worship, he began to conduct an autopsy. He wanted to personally confirm how the deceased in the coffin died and why there was such a strong smell of blood.

The female doll in the ice coffin looked delicate and cute, just like blue and white porcelain, but in Cai Xu's eyes, her scalp was numb and her heart felt cold.

It is difficult to swallow the calamity even after death. This is because the yin energy is not dissipated, and there is a possibility of corpse transformation at any time. Moreover, even the upper and lower eyelids of the female doll were sewn shut with needle and thread, as if they were afraid that the female doll would open her eyes and risk her life.

Now that he had accepted the order, even though he knew it was inappropriate, Cai Xu had no choice but to do an autopsy. Not long after the autopsy was done, Cai Xu was so frightened that his hands shook and he almost sat on the ground.

commit a sin! It’s too damaging to one’s moral integrity! Worse than animals! Cai Xu looked ugly and cursed.

It turned out that what the female doll was hiding under her clothes was the stitching of two bodies. Starting from the chest, a diagonal line sewn the two bodies on the left and right together.

The taboo of a corpse stitcher is never to mix two people!

I don't know which wild corpse stitcher broke the rules set by his ancestors and mixed the two together. After seeing that he couldn't suppress his resentment, he came up with a bad idea and threw the corpse to him, letting him take the blame.

At this moment, he saw the incense stick standing in front of the coffin, which was only half burned before it broke, which further aggravated his bad premonition.

Although Cai Xu loves money like most people, he knows how big his butt is to wear his pants, otherwise he would not have been able to survive in the vulva fishing industry for so long. He didn't dare to sleep a wink all night and stayed with Bing Coffin in fear. One night, at dawn the next day, I immediately asked Li Zheng to borrow an old horse, used a carriage to pull the ice coffin, and hurriedly went to find the wealthy family. He wanted to return the ice coffin and the body, saying he couldn't take on the job.

Fortunately, it was still spring at that time, the weather was cold, and people had to wear thick cotton jackets to keep warm. The ice coffin melted slowly. When Cai Xu found the place according to the address left by the other party, the other party did not hide it and told the truth simply - —

It turned out that this wealthy family had a pair of twin granddaughters, whom they had doted on since they were young. Unexpectedly, an accident occurred while swimming in the river. The twin granddaughters fell into the river and drowned. It took several days to recover the bodies from the downstream. The twins died miserably. , even after drowning, they still held hands and refused to let go.

Since the corpse had been lying dormant for some time, and the body was severely damaged by fish and shrimps, someone later introduced him to a corpse stitcher. However, even the corpse stitcher was unable to separate the dead man's hands. When he learned that the two sisters were inseparable and had a very deep friendship during their lifetime, the corpse stitcher made a decision to sew together the remaining intact bodies of the two sisters. Continue to be together to resolve the grievances.

This made the dead man's hand finally loosen, but the wealthy family could not find peace at this point. Not to mention the business suffered a series of setbacks. The plaque of the mansion fell and broke in half for no apparent reason. The meaning was unknown. On the day of the funeral, strange things happened frequently, making the whole family noisy. The whole family was restless, so they thought of finding someone to take over. Then there was the scene where the corpse of the mixed seam was sent to Cai Xu's house.

After hearing the whole story, Cai Xu was almost so angry that he yelled, not only because the other party acted recklessly, but also because he was angry that the other party knew the danger and even transported the body to his house, hoping that he would die!

When he proposed to return the body and the reward and refused to accept the business, not only did he fail, he was kicked out of the house and threatened by the other party. If he accepted the reward from the employer, he would do something good for the employer, otherwise he would let the whole West The villagers of Cai Village followed him, Cai Xu, and suffered great misfortune.

The other party's family has a big business and a lot of influence in the local area. Of course, Cai Xu knew that the other party was not joking, and he also knew that he couldn't get rid of this hot potato. Finally, he drove the old horse and the ice coffin back to Xicai Village, looking sad all the way. , are all thinking about how to deal with this hot potato.

Cai Xu's first idea was to separate the two sisters again, and then use paper or hay puppets to replace their bodies to repair the bodies of the two sisters.

After Cai Xu returned home, he began to prepare the tools, but in the blink of an eye after he left for a short while, when he returned to the lobby, he found someone sneakily opening the coffin and stealing the body. It happened to be night.

There is no timid person who can eat the food of the Yinmen. Even if he is frightened by the corpse of a gangster, he is not afraid at all when he encounters a villain like an imp. He just grabs a bench and goes to it. Fight with the body thief.

The body thief was startled by Cai Xu who suddenly rushed out, and ran away. Although Cai Xu did not catch up with him, and the lights were dim at night and he could not see his face clearly, he still recognized the body thief through his physical features. The thief is the one with scarred eyes who hangs around the village all day long and is good at stealing and gambling.

Cai Xu was immediately angry. This scarred guy had been idle all day long and was addicted to gambling. No girl from the family would marry him. He was almost forty years old and still a bachelor. Could this bitch be crazy from hunger? Don’t even spare the dead!

Cai Xu went directly to Scar Eyes' house across the street. He was so angry that he kicked open the door without saying a word and was not polite to Scar Eyes. He was not afraid of the dead but he was still afraid of a living person. .

Scar Eyes is not at home, only the four walls are leaking from all sides. I don't know if it is because of the Dongchuang Incident that Scar Eyes is hiding.

The small mountain village is not big, and if there is any disturbance, it will spread throughout the village immediately. Listening to Cai Xu's scolding, the villagers learned what happened, and they all cursed that the scarred eyes were not human, even worse than an animal. On weekdays, it was okay to sneak around, and the folks in the big hometown tolerated it. Unexpectedly, this scarred person, with his eyes hungry and dizzy, even started to miss the dead.

The excited villagers helped search for Scar Eyes, but they searched for most of the night but still couldn't find Scar Eyes. Li Zheng asked Cai Xu to go back first, and he would organize the villagers to look for Scar Eyes tomorrow when the view was better during the day. Seeing that the stupid thing he did today has aroused public outrage, he will definitely come back with scratches and eyes to give him an explanation.

I thought the incident would go away peacefully, but the whole strange incident was just the beginning. Cai Xu returned home, lit incense for the deceased, and tried to close the coffin again, but the incense stick broke as soon as he lit it. After three incense sticks were broken, Cai Xu's expression changed drastically, and he quickly ran to the ice coffin to check the condition of the body.

Before, because he was angry and saw that the body had not been stolen, he went straight to Scar Eye's house and kicked in the door without thinking too much. Only then did he realize that the thread sewing the dead man's eyelids had been picked open by Scar Eye! Unexpectedly, this scarred eye actually opened the eyes of a dead man. This scarred eye made him miserable!

There is a saying in the field of fishing for the Yinmen: a dragon is painted without the eyes, a tiger is painted without a pupil, and a paper painter only paints the eyes but not the eyes.

Of course Cai Xu understands what it means to open the eyes of a dead person.

But he was the first person the dead man saw after he opened his eyes. His shadow was reflected in the dead man's pupils. The girl who died violently and was mixed with two corpses would definitely seek revenge on him and take her life.

Cai Xu scolded all nine generations of his ancestors with scarred eyes, but after he finished scolding, he realized that this was equivalent to scolding his own ancestors, which made him grit his teeth in anger.

He broke one of the corpse-sewer's taboos, and he broke another taboo on fishing the vagina. It's true that people's misfortunes come one after another, good or bad. When things got to this point, even he was a little at a loss. In the end, the only option was to replace the girl with a black wooden coffin before the ice coffin melted, seal it with century-old coffin nails, fill it with ink lines and plaster it with yellow symbols. I plan to find a solution in the next few days, and wait until I find a solution to deal with the girl in the coffin.

After finishing all this work, Cai Xu, who had not had a good night's sleep in recent days, finally fell asleep in the lobby without realizing it.

He slept soundly that night, but fortunately nothing happened. If the scarred eyes came back, the body would definitely be stolen this time. Early the next morning, he was awakened by a frantic knock on the door. Some villagers came to him anxiously and said that Scar was dead and drowned in the river outside the village.

Cai Xu, who was still drowsy just now, was suddenly awakened. When he followed the villagers to the river, he saw that the scarred eyes were dead and looked strange. He held a torch and stood at the bottom of the clear stream just deep enough for one person to make a scene. The walking movement looks like you are walking into the bottom of the river after being trapped in a ghost wall? His body was entangled with water plants and he died of drowning.

Seeing such a strange way of death in broad daylight, not to mention the villagers trembling with fear, even Cai Xu took a breath.

The water plants wrapped around Scar's body actually gave people a creepy feeling, as if they were not water plants but clumps of hair. It was extremely scary in broad daylight on a clear day.

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"What happened next?" The old Taoist priest asked curiously on the donkey cart that was riding on the wheels.

Jin An and the old Taoist priest were sitting at the end of the donkey cart. There was a black coffin on the donkey cart, which was firmly fixed with thick hemp ropes. The person in charge of driving the donkey cart was an old man from the countryside with thick bones and dark skin. Sitting there was a middle-aged man who was silent all the way and looked sad.

The middle-aged man also has a thick body and dark skin. At first glance, you can tell that he is a farmer who has faced the loess and turned his back to the sky all his life.

The donkey cart is walking on the dirt road to Xicai Village.

The old man waved the rope whip and continued to drive the donkey, and said: "The people in Xicai Village refused to tell what happened later. No one knows what happened in Xicai Village. As for the little old man, I know this little inside story, or because of Xicai Village. The villagers of Cai Village said it unintentionally when they were drunk."

Jin An, who was sitting at the end of the donkey cart with his back to the old man driving the donkey cart, turned around and looked at the black coffin on the donkey cart: "According to different ways of death, there are five types of coffins. Red is used for funerals and funerals. There are white coffins for unmarried men and women, yellow coffins for ordinary people, gold coffins for princes and aristocrats, and black coffins for only those who died in vain... Old man, did you also go to Xicai Village to find a corpse stitcher to repair the body of the suffering master in the coffin? "

The old man was surprised: "The Taoist priest is very knowledgeable. This trip is indeed to Xicai Village to find a corpse stitcher."

This time it was the old Taoist priest who spoke: "I wonder how the benefactor in the coffin died. Does he need to find a corpse stitcher to repair his body?"

The old man sighed: "The child sneaked into the village reservoir to swim in the summer for fun. He was dragged away by the water ghost and used as a scapegoat. He drowned."

"When the body was recovered, the head was missing. Everyone said it was eaten by the thousand-year-old fish king in the reservoir. The child's parents found me, the old man, and accompanied the child to Xicai Village."

The silent middle-aged man sitting next to the old man wiped tears from his eyes with sadness. He must be the biological father of the drowned child.

"Supreme Taiyi Duhe Tianzun." Jin An and the old Taoist priest looked regretful.

"Why did the old Taoist priest take his apprentice to Xicai Village?" the old man driving the donkey cart asked curiously.