Chapter 7 True and False
As night fell, Xie Que heard several shouts from a distance.
The few people who came were all nearby villagers.
They were panting and seemed to be running all the way. One of the women was crying and wiping her tears.
After Xie Que asked, he found out that a villager had thrown himself into the river.
They wanted to save him, but the current at the dam upstream was so fast that the person was swept away in the blink of an eye.
Several villagers wanted to beg Dashun to save people at this time, but Dashun was unmoved.
It is a rule to enter the water after midnight, and neither Dashun nor the people collecting corpses along the surrounding shores have ever broken this rule.
Those who broke the rules and found corpses have all been buried in Wuding River forever.
Xie Que felt pity for these villagers, thinking that if he had time, he might be able to save them.
But today's experience made him stop thinking this way.
Whether it was the evil spirits Er Meng encountered or Fan Yong standing in front of him, Xie Que was in awe of this mysterious power.
Dashun also told him more than once that those who abide by the rules are the ones who live the longest.
After being rejected, several villagers looked increasingly anxious.
Except for Dashun, the nearest person to retrieve corpses in the Wuding River Basin was more than twenty miles away, and everyone felt cold by the time they walked there.
The wife of the villager who fell into the water even sat on the ground and began to cry loudly.
Seeing that Dashun turned a deaf ear, several villagers had no choice but to focus on Xie Que.
Xie Que was also unmoved. No matter how the villagers tried to persuade him, Xie Que shook his head: "My father disagrees."
Seeing this, the villagers could only leave and planned to go to the river to see for themselves.
When Xie Que arrived, he followed his adoptive father to tidy up and came to the Wuding River.
According to the descriptions of several villagers, the body probably floated to Lihua Dam downstream.
The water in Lihua Dam is gentle, with lush reeds and shoals in several places, where corpses usually stay.
As expected, a man's body was floating on it.
Xie Que salvaged it, and the death trial opened a new page.
Light as a Swallow: With the blue entry, your Qinggong will be enhanced by 20%.
Xie Que nodded with satisfaction, checked the name of the body, and found that it was the person that several villagers wanted to find in the evening.
Sighing, Xie Que sent it ashore and then cruised around the river area.
After discovering that there were no other corpses, we called it a day.
In the early morning of the next day, Xie Que jogged all the way to the teahouse outside Jinmen City and started eating breakfast.
As the energy consumed by boxing practice began to increase dramatically, Xie Que's food intake also increased significantly.
Although the bonus of the blue entry "Transform things out" allowed Xie Que to absorb nutrients from food more efficiently, he still had to eat a full eight meat buns the size of an adult's fist before he could do anything. Satiety.
However, Xie Que's appetite is not surprising. There is a strong martial arts culture in Jinmen City, and many people at the bottom know how to do some farming.
This also leads to the fact that all the men here eat more.
While sipping the warm millet porridge, the conversation between several people at the next table inadvertently caught Xie Que's attention.
"Have you heard about what happened to the Fan family?"
"Fan Yuan's family in Nancheng... I heard that several people died..."
"I heard from my uncle that Mr. Fan has been away from home for a long time. He has a nephew from far away who wants to fight for the family property. The nephew and the young master of the Fan family started fighting directly in the house."
"But I heard people say that's not the case..."
"I heard that the young master of the Fan family made a bet with a coachman, asking him to stay overnight at the Song family's ancestral temple."
"But the coachman was haunted by evil spirits in the Song family's ancestral temple, and also brought trouble to the Fan family."
"That night, more than ten members of the Fan family died."
"Shhh! Don't talk nonsense about the Song Family Ancestral Temple. You might be blamed one day."
At this point, several people unanimously shut their mouths, as if the Song family's ancestral temple was a topic that was not allowed to be discussed.
When Xie Que heard this, he felt confident, so he dropped a few coins and left.
As soon as he reached the city gate, Xie Que spotted a familiar figure.
It is Fan Yong, the young master of the Fan family whom he met just yesterday, who has come back from the dead.
He still wore a hood and walked with his head lowered so that no one could see his face.
Xie Que took a deep breath, calmed down his anxious heart, and walked home.
When we arrived at home, someone was already standing in front of the door.
It was a few villagers from yesterday. Although they had some complaints, they did not dare to cause trouble here.
Dashun is the longest-living corpse collector in the area. He has saved many children from drowning and is very popular among nearby villagers.
Several people pieced together the fee to collect the body, and then took the man's body back.
Seeing that Er Meng hadn't arrived yet, Xie Que remembered what happened to Er Meng and told Dashun what happened.
Xie Que wanted to tell Dashun about Jia Dalin, but he couldn't explain how he learned about it, so he had no choice but to give up.
Dashun nodded after hearing this, entered the room, took out a small square box, and motioned for him to bring it to Ermeng.
Xie Que opened it and saw that there was a mountain ginseng inside.
Dashun left without explaining.
Xie Que sent it to Ermeng's home. Ermeng quickly recovered after eating it, but he was still a little stupid.
He was a little confused as to why a piece of wild ginseng had such effect.
Er Meng's father took a puff of dry cigarette, smacked his lips and said: "Er Meng must have been sucked in Yang Qi by a ghost, just make up for it."
Xie Que suddenly understood.
After solving his doubts, Xie Que declined Er Meng's parents to let him have lunch and returned home.
He began to worry. According to what Ermeng's father said, didn't Jia Dalin turn into a ghost?
I picked up his body and obtained his memory. Will he find me?
After thinking for a moment, Xie Que got rid of the distracting thoughts in his mind and began to practice boxing.
The soldiers came to block him, and the water came and the soil covered him. Remembering that Dashun didn't seem worried, he gradually felt relieved.
In the afternoon, another person from Wangjiazhuang came to collect the body.
The one they took away was the corpse that was retrieved the day before yesterday, and Ermeng hadn't had time to deal with it.
However, the other party seemed anxious and didn't care about the appearance of the body, so Dashun let him go.
Only the corpse fee was slightly discounted.
Ermeng was also fired from his job by Dashun because he touched the objects on the corpse.
Although it is not stated explicitly, this is the rule for those who fish for corpses.
Ermeng's parents also knew that when their son lost his job, they asked Ermeng to go fishing with his father.
Dashun began to look for new candidates around him, and they must be people with five shortcomings and three deficiencies.
However, most of the surrounding villages believe in ghosts and gods, and the family would rather have one less worker than have their children exposed to such a profession.
Fortunately, no body was found in the next two days, which made Xie Que regretful but also a little lucky.
After all, the weather is starting to get hotter, and the smell will be very strong if no one handles the body.
It was not until three days later that Dashun found a boy missing his little finger in Jinmen City who was willing to do this business.