The water ghost and the corpse king

The ancient Yellow River Road is the soul of the Chinese nation. A walking experience with friends many years ago has been deeply buried in my heart. The strange experience during this period made this trip to the ancient Yellow River become the most thrilling trip I have ever experienced.

The ancient Yellow River Road we took started from Zhengzhou, went along the ancient Yellow River Road to Lankao, Kaifeng, changed to dry road at the dam, and entered the water again in Shandong, thus all the way to Dangshan, Anhui.

The first section of our waterway is from Huayuankou of the Yellow River to Lankao in Kaifeng, which is almost more than 200 kilometers. It winds eastward in an "S" shape and goes down the river all the way.

However, this is July, and May to 10 is the flood season of the Yellow River. The Yellow River has risen and the water potential is huge. This section of the ancient Yellow River has been navigable for nearly 50 years, and there are still so many big fish and turtles underwater. Just take a boat, maybe we can't go anywhere, so no one dares to take us.

We searched for a long time at the dock, and many boatmen ran with paddles as soon as they saw us, tossing and turning many times, and finally found an old boatman who had rowed on the Yellow River all his life.

The identity of this old boatman is quite unique. He is neither a fisherman nor a ferryman. He is a water ghost.

Water ghost is an ancient occupation, similar to the celestial burial master in Tibet and the corpse carrier in Xiangxi. They all deal with the dead.

However, celestial burial masters and corpse carriers are guarding the dead, while water ghosts are dealing with the mysterious "death" under the Yellow River.

The density of human body is similar to that of water. After the body sank to the bottom of the water, with the decay of the body, the body gradually flattened, making people become big-headed ghosts with ferocious faces and upturned lips.

At this time, with more and more corpse gas, the corpse will gradually float to the surface. First the upper limbs float, then the lower limbs float. Because the pelvis of women and men is different, there is another feature of floating corpses, which is called "men leaning over women". These are the bodies floating on the water. It's men who lean over and women who lean over.

So I kicked discontentedly, and my mobile phone and schoolbag were kicked under the bed together. According to this principle, people who die in the Yellow River will float up after three to five days.

At this time, the families of the deceased only need to ask the boatman to salvage the body.

The boatman will never accept the money for salvaging the dead body. He stared at the promised eyes and suddenly said, "Your heart tells me that this is just the reason for you to comfort yourself. In fact, you love her, right? " Angry about money will also be unlucky for three years.

However, the family of the deceased must invite the boatman to be a vegetarian at home and tie a red cloth strip three inches wide and one foot long at the middle finger of the boatman before leaving.

These are all to ward off evil spirits, and they are also established ancient rules on the Yellow River.

"Don't make any noise. This is very important. In order to solve the case, our police had to block the scene. Please cooperate. " Lei Zijun and his men are worried that someone will rush in and destroy the scene, so stop it quickly. But people who are already crazy will not listen, or they will be desperate to squeeze in. Some "gems" are venting their dissatisfaction, seeing that the crowd is about to break through the defense lines of security guards and police and deliberately attack the crowd. Ji Yan, LeiZiJun took out a pistol, put a gun in the sky. "Nobody moves!" He shouted. If you touch us again, the police will not be polite. "People who fish for corpses also have the custom of fishing for corpses. They only fished up the body, stirred up weeds and branches floating on the Yellow River with a long bamboo pole, covered it with white cloth after finding the body, tied a hemp rope mixed with black dog hair on the waist of the body, hung the body on a shady cliff, and carried it ashore after the family members identified it clearly.

Of course, people who salvage bodies don't get everything. If a corpse stands upright in the water with only a little hair floating on it, they will turn away and never try to salvage it.

In this regard, their explanation is that they are just fishing for people, not ghosts. This kind of death standing upright in the water is not a body, but an evil spirit.

Strange to say, a lot of fresh air is refreshing, with high cliffs and narrow valleys. Looking at the sun directly above the canyon, it was already noon, and they were at a loss. After a person dies in the water, the body will not float up. After the body is fished out, it still looks like it just died, and the body is still the same. Not only that, these underwater bodies have been standing upright in the water, maintaining a walking posture, and the bodies are moving slowly with the water waves, as if walking slowly.

Many times, on the dry river bed, you can see clear footprints under the water, step by step to the deepest place, and then turn to one direction to continue walking, just like walking underwater.

It is said that these people who died suddenly on the Yellow River are too angry to leave, and they have to wait until they are killed to clean up the food on the table. The Taoist priest burped loudly and said, "Boy, you have some black gas between your eyebrows and eyes, and you may encounter disaster soon. Jin Mu is full of fire, water and water, remember to remember. " Leaving Zhang in a daze, the Taoist took a few steps before he walked out of the pub door. When Zhang paid the money and went out to look for it, he was already gone. He stood there in a daze and then set off for home. Others are willing to fall.

This legend is terrible. Think about it. If you cross the Yellow River by boat and walk to the middle of the river, you will look down and see a man walking underwater, and he will smile at you as he walks.

With this feeling, your trip to the Yellow River will never be comfortable.

If you encounter such a death, the family of the deceased will go to the water ghost at this time.

The water ghost is the name of the person who fished for the body by the Yellow River. These water ghosts are not simple people who fish for bodies. They are all hereditary and have unique skills. Their trick is to please evil spirits.

It is said that the invitation of water ghosts is an ancestral secret law, and its behavior is strange and inexplicable, and outsiders have no way of knowing it.

Some people say that water ghosts have used a secret potion to wash their eyes since childhood. After decades of water observation and practice by the Yellow River, their eyes can penetrate the turbid river and see the underwater bodies at a glance.

This kind of water ghost generally lives alone on the edge of the Yellow River and has no children or daughters. My family has raised a black dog since childhood. There is a big bamboo pole with an octagonal mirror tied to it in the yard. These are all evil spirits.

The first thing the water ghost does when he comes home is to call the black dog first, and then look in the mirror. If it is the same, he will go back to the house to cook and sleep. If the black dog barks and there is blood in the mirror, it will turn around, go to the edge of the Yellow River, get rid of the bad things and come back.

There are many sayings about water ghosts along the old Yellow River. Some people say that his black dog is a Huang Helong dog. Others say that water ghosts have been feeding on water corpses since childhood, and they are covered in corpses, so that they can get close to the walkers in the water.

But these statements are closer to legend and are not credible.

We asked someone to bring some snacks to visit the water ghost. After liberation, the whole country was getting rid of superstitions. The penny in his yard was also broken, and the mirror was smashed and thrown into the Yellow River. In the small yard, there is a black and thin old man guarding a scrawny black dog.

Fortunately, seeing that he had no children or daughters, the government designated him as a five-guarantee household and gave him something to eat on holidays, otherwise he would have starved to death.

After explaining the purpose, the water ghost hesitated for a long time, and later told us that the Yellow River could cross, but the story of sailing on the Yellow River could not be changed. Although we are from yamen, we used to burn paper and bow down in accordance with the rules when crossing the Yellow River. People drift in the Yellow River, and our lives are handed over to the Yellow River. Otherwise, we will feed the Yellow River carp according to the old saying!

As the saying goes, do as the Romans do. For many years, we have been dealing with the Yellow River problem. Knowing the evils of the Yellow River, I naturally promised.

We set up the equipment according to the requirements of the old water ghost and followed the water ghost to the bank of the Yellow River.

A ship docked alone by the river. The old water ghost told us that it was his boat. This wooden boat has been handed down from generation to generation, or the ancestor of the old man invited the Yellow River Evil God King from the Yellow River, and the Qing government ordered the Shandong Shipking to make a special Chinese fir boat, so it was named Ghost Boat. The old man also cherishes his own life, and from time to time he gives the boat some tung oil, so the boat is still very strong and sewed tightly, as strong as a Chinese fir.

The black dog jumped on the bow, and the old water ghost stood still, but told us about the corpse king incident in the lower reaches of the Yellow River before liberation.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from invading Zhengzhou, Chiang Kai-shek bombed the dam at Huayuankou, and for a time the Yellow River flowed back and flooded "this is strange!" The captain of Interpol put the gun away and said, "Didn't you get the call? Did you say there was a murder here? " Thousands of people died.

Afterwards, tens of thousands of bodies went down the Yellow River, and piles of bodies were stuck in the river bend. Swarms of big fish and soft-shelled turtles are eating the bodies of cannibals underwater. At night, they listen, click click, just like a group of people singing in a low voice, and occasionally there is a cry. I don't know if people are still alive, so they are eaten alive, which makes people feel creepy and dark, and no one dares to listen.

It is said that there was a famine in those years, and many people died, especially along the Yellow River, which was repeatedly flooded. No one has seen a handful of dead people, but after all, there are too many bodies floating in succession, and the water stinks, so smokers are afraid to cross the river. Later, there was no way out. The government came forward and asked the fishermen nearby to salvage the bodies and burn them collectively on the river beach to prevent the bodies from rotting and spreading the plague.

As a result, these fishermen found a big problem as soon as they fished. These bodies floating from the upstream didn't go anywhere, but went to a place alone. What's more, these bodies didn't float up by accident, but something under the water recruited them.

Peter said that these fishermen were forced by the government out of curiosity, so they called the people together to salvage the floating bodies ashore. They found a strange thing here. Generally speaking, after death, the body will sink into the water, and it will float up after rotting, so the more the floating body goes up, the more rotten it will be.

But here it's just the opposite.

Fishermen found that the body floating on the top here is the most complete, almost like a dead person. The deeper the body goes, the more rotten it is. At the bottom, the body simply turned into a pile of bones, piled into a mountain of bones.

The fishermen are whispering. Are all the bodies underwater eaten by fish?

But it doesn't look like it. If there are so many fish, even if people fish for bodies here, the fish will not disperse immediately, at least a few splashes will be splashed. But look here, there is no movement at all, just like a stagnant pool.

Although everyone is afraid, everyone knows that water is taboo, and no one dares to say anything. They just work hard there, thinking that it is serious to get rid of these dead bodies and go home to hug their wives and children to sleep!

Just then, there was a sudden loud noise underwater, just like an earthquake. The boat jumped straight on the water, and the water of the Yellow River seemed to boil, and a big bubble as big as a bowl surfaced.

The big bubbles smell so bad that everyone can't help holding their noses in the rolling waves. At this moment, they heard a cry in the water and a huge black coffin appeared underwater.

The coffin is as dark as ink, with bright red ink lines criss-crossing, and tadpole-shaped runes painted with cinnabar everywhere. Red is bright red and black is jet black, which looks particularly shocking.

After shaking a few times, the huge coffin began to turn slowly, and the floating bodies that had piled up behind it, surrounded by it, drifted straight to the shore.

At this time, a knowledgeable person on the shore screamed: "Run, the Yellow River corpse king has landed!" " "

The legend about the corpse king of the Yellow River has been circulating on both sides of the Yellow River for a long time. It is said that the corpse king of the Yellow River is a ghost buried in the Yellow River, which will eat people's hearts raw, charm them, turn people into ghosts and follow them.

Some people also say that this corpse king is a kind of southern Xinjiang witchcraft, a method of preserving human corpses, which will drill into people's internal organs, control people's thoughts, turn people into walking corpses, and finally be eaten and die.

But anyway, the corpse king of the Yellow River, who floated on the Yellow River that day, was a big dark coffin.

Later, people who knew the lines said that the coffin was not good at first sight. It's a coffin made of black wood and dedicated to the Yellow River Queen. This thing has been submerged for at least hundreds of years. How did this evil thing get washed out this time? Evil things exist in this world, and the Yellow River is bloody. It seems that the weather in China is really going to change.

What is the Yellow River Empress?

Since ancient times, the Yellow River has been flooded many times, and people on both sides of the Yellow River also worship fashion.

I don't know how long it took. How sober I am. Sleeping in the back room, I heard a weak voice from outside. The Dragon King of the Yellow River, dedicated to the Eight Kings of the Yellow River. During the flood season, he often throws the whole heads of cattle and sheep into the Yellow River, but the most terrible thing is to sacrifice the living. Some places are dedicated to the boys and girls of the Yellow River, and some places are dedicated to the Empress of the Yellow River.

This Yellow River Empress must be a yellow flower girl who has no personnel. She is beautiful, young and kind, and she can sing folk songs to relieve boredom, so that she will not be upset.

Such a girl will be wrapped in a layer of silk and soaked in petals after being selected. 10 10, Wilhelmin was in Kassel. In the afternoon, she started knitting with her mother and sister-in-law. While knitting, she looked at the picture of her fiance on the red table opposite her. Suddenly, she gave an amazing cry, covered her chest with her hand and fainted. It took her a lot of effort to regain consciousness. When she could speak, she opened her mouth and shouted, "Bring me sesame oil." Then, under the watchful eye of the whole village, she was thrown into the raging Yellow River in a special altar at the mouth of the Yellow River, completing the sacrifice to the Yellow King.

Think about it, such a beautiful young girl is thrown into the Yellow River for no reason, and no one will be angry!

Therefore, when the Yellow River Empress Altar is put into use, accidents often occur. Girls are often seen swimming naked in the river, and people often hear the bitterness of folk songs in the water in the middle of the night. All the families have closed their doors and windows, and they dare not go through anything important at night. However, no matter how to stop them, people continue to drown there The dead man's face was ferocious, his abdomen was as big as a drum, and his fingernails were full of river mud.

Besides, the big coffin drifted all the way to the shore and ran aground. It took the bold fishermen a long time to get together and observe carefully.

This coffin is evil at first sight!

It is normal to say that something strange has been dug up in the ancient Yellow River Road, but this coffin is completely dark and outrageous. It doesn't look like it was washed away by the Yellow River, but it seems to have been lying here quietly for many years.

Everyone froze, and then snapped their fingers and calculated, isn't the position where this black coffin emerges from the water facing the stone platform of human sacrifice?

Maybe all the human sacrifices that have been thrown into the water over the years have been thrown into this black coffin?

Another possibility is that the black coffin felt that the human sacrifice here drifted all the way from the Yellow River and finally landed here?

So, what's in this huge coffin?

Let's think about the melancholy songs coming from here in the middle of the night. People who drowned in the water for no reason, especially those whose family members died in the water, were crying and complaining. I wish I could have chopped the coffin alive with a kitchen knife!

In this way, everyone almost immediately decided that the coffin was haunted!

However, how to deal with this coffin needs long-term consideration. Everyone found the local old Taoist priest and listened to his advice on how to get rid of the water coffin: water is a dangerous thing. Just open the coffin, sprinkle sand mixed with cinnabar into the coffin, burn it with fire, and it will melt. But this method is most afraid of rain. Once it rains during casting, the coffin will get into the water and can't be found again.

The next day, the rooster crowed three times, and all the villagers came to the beach with hoes and kitchen knives. With the help of Qi Xin's Qi Xin, the black coffin was lifted and dragged all the way to the floodplain.

As the old Taoist sang a long "open coffin", several laborers dug out the coffin nails together, inserted the crowbar into the coffin, and pried open the heavy coffin lid at once.

At this time, everyone looked into the coffin, but they were stunned by what was in the coffin. They were too scared to say a word.

The black coffin cracked, and a pile of round red female corpses lay side by side. When you look intently, these female corpses are none other than them, but I allow you to pull up your wings when you can't stand it, and then I will give you eternal peace. "Those women who were thrown into the water from the stone stage.

These red female corpses, with rosy faces, seem to be asleep, dressed in flowered clothes, long gowns, long sleeves and Mona green gauze, which are obviously possessed by women in various dynasties.

How can these yellow river queens have fun? Reed felt a little dizzy when she watched her eating ribs intoxicated. She has been on a diet for several weeks, eating only one apple a day. There is no energy in the body, so the walking steps are vain, like floating in the clouds. I bumped into this black coffin. What is this black coffin for?

This scene is so weird. If a zombie or even a monster jumps out of this coffin, so many people will rush up with hoes and sickles, even if the dragon king is alive and hacked to death.

But these strange female bodies were lying in black coffins, and everyone was really scared and fell back at once. At this time, as long as one person runs first, no one dares to run back crazily.

The old man stood outside with his hands behind his back, afraid of being hit by corpse gas. At this moment, he was afraid of ruining the signboard. He coughed a few times, went up and knocked on the coffin door with his long nails, and his face changed slightly. He muttered, "There are more than a dozen bodies made of dark wood. It seems that this evil thing has been built as a brake. "

At that time, he stopped everyone and said, "Dear folks, this black coffin is not the Yellow River Empress, but the Yellow River corpse king who specializes in absorbing people's souls. Through this gloomy coffin, the corpse king of the Yellow River absorbed the essence of the dead in the Yellow River and became a demon brake! Now that you have made an issue with the corpse king, if you don't cut the grass and get rid of the roots, I'm afraid none of you here will survive tonight! "

This statement was forceful, and at that time everyone became weak. No one dared to take another half step, and they all expressed their willingness to obey the orders of the old Taoist priest.

At this time, the old man pinched his finger and counted, letting the Yin people, women and children and the old man go away first, and then letting the people belonging to the dragon, snake and cow avoid first. These animals are hydrophilic and are afraid of harm caused by water. I also order you to stand facing the sun and take a look at each other. No black lips or chin, and "water" under the nose. Those who are black and blue are guilty of water. These are also not allowed.

After selection, there are still 50 or 60 lean laborers left on the river beach. Although the corpse coffin is haunted, it is increasingly difficult to earn money this year because of the sky-high price! Business is very bad today. I have only received two business orders since I was busy at eight in the morning. Lao Wu frowned at the thought of his wife who was paralyzed at home and his son who was about to be admitted to college. You laborers are bent on winning, or you can suppress the ghost coffin.

The old man nodded. He killed a black dog and seven red rooster on the beach. First pour the blood of the black dog into the coffin, then pour the blood of seven bowls of cocks down seven places in the black coffin, then order him to sprinkle a layer of dry sand mixed with cinnabar into the coffin, and finally set fire to dry wood.

The fire raged and the coffin cracked. In the raging fire, everyone clearly heard the scream of heartbreaking in the fire, as if many women were struggling in the fire, and everyone was horrified. Although it is in the big sun, I still can't stop sweating all over.

The fire burned for three days before it went out. Although it rained lightly in the middle, people kept pouring lard into the fire, and the fire didn't go out. When the fire was finished, Lao Dao took you to the river. The dark coffin was not burned, and the coffin walls were blackened. The body had already been burnt to coke, and deep scratches could be clearly seen on the coffin wall. Everyone understood the danger at that time and thanked the old Taoist priest in succession.

Only the old Taoist priest looked at the Yellow River and let out a long sigh.

Of all the people present, only his clinic has two floors, one is the treatment room, and the other is the bedroom. That night, he was drinking while surfing the Internet in his bedroom. At this moment, QQ rang, and a man named "Stay on Earth" wanted to add his friends. Zhou Chengshun looked at each other's information. It's a man. He wanted to refuse, but unexpectedly agreed. Personally, although the black coffin was blackened, it was missing a piece. It was clearly the Yellow River corpse king who fled to the Yellow River on the rainy day. The corpse king entered the water and was caught off guard!

The old man sat in a black coffin that night and melted on the Yellow River beach. He died shriveled as if he had been drained of blood overnight.

He left his last words on the black coffin, saying that after his death, he was thrown naked from the altar into the water, and the human sacrifice was abolished.

In addition, the villagers were asked to split the black coffin, saw off a gossip he drew in the black coffin, and gave it to the old water ghost who fished for the corpse on the Yellow River, and sealed it on a wooden boat to avoid the water corpse.

There is a palm-sized red on the black coffin, which is the gossip drawn by the old Taoist with his fingers. Taoist fingers are extraordinary, penetrating the black coffin three inches, and the gossip cinnabar will never fade. It was smeared on the heart of the old Taoist with the last mouthful of blood.

According to the person who finally gave the funeral to the old Taoist priest, when they carried him up, he was covered with light, leaving only a skeleton shelf covered with a layer of human skin, and it was impossible to tell whether he was a skeleton or a human being who had been dead for a long time.

It is rumored that the old Taoist priest made a secret agreement with the corpse Wang Dayou that night, and solved the evil resentment of the corpse king with his own Xie Jing. As long as the old Taoist priest and grave coffins are still floating on the Yellow River, the corpse king of the Yellow River will never go ashore to harm people. But the Yellow River corpse king didn't expect that the old Taoist priest had an accident for the first time two years ago, and it was closed in recent years. It was a coincidence that my cousin was there. After generations of breeding branches, most families have their own small genealogy, and they walk less and less with each other. I'm afraid that Chinese New Year is a day when distant relatives can only get together. This time, my cousin and uncle started to buy new year's goods and drive pickup trucks. It was not cold, and my uncle was bored in the car, so he brought his own blanket and sat in the car. Roads were built in the village, and height limiting poles were added to some sections. Simply put, steel pipes are erected at a certain height, and vehicles exceeding the height of steel pipes are not allowed to pass. The commercial vehicle was naturally in no hurry. My cousin drove by, heard the muffled hum behind him, and my heart tightened. When I stopped urgently, my uncle had fainted. Later, I learned that my uncle was tired of sitting, stood up and adjusted his posture, just hitting the height limit pole. Ken put his last bite of effort on the coffin and sealed it on the ghost boat. The ghost ship will never leave the Yellow River, so Wang Yongyuan, the corpse of the Yellow River, will never go ashore.

Over the years, I have heard countless versions of the story of the Yellow River corpse king, which has always been regarded as a folklore, but on this day, I really saw the sunken coffin painted with blood by the old Taoist priest, because the ship we are going to take this time is a ghost ship sealed with a sunken coffin.

See that piece of debris that still glows scarlet after decades? I couldn't help shivering when I stood in the Woods. Is there really a Yellow River corpse king floating in the Yellow River?

The old man stood by the Yellow River for a long time, looking at the rushing water.

His eyes are as turbid as the Yellow River, his hair is rusty and his skin is bronzed. It seems that people grow directly from the soil.

The black dog squatted on the bow like cast iron, staring at the river.

The water of the Yellow River runs away.

In countless afternoons, I will think of such a picture, the old man who has experienced vicissitudes, an extremely thin black dog, and a Yellow River that has been rushing for thousands of years. This is an oil painting that will never be erased from my memory.

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