Chapter 87 Donor, it's so cold in this well
On the official road, the horse was pedaling, and when he ran, he couldn't catch it like the wind. He walked fast for a day without stopping, but he was not tired.
This is Lin Shou's blessing on the long journey technique and the emergency marching method. One is not tired of it for a long time, and the other is promoting metabolic acceleration. The price is that it costs a bit of waste and the other is pulling the line along this way...
The horse was rented by the Funeral Corps Office. It was on a public expense. The chief clerk was worried that Lin Shou would ride a horse. If he didn't work, he would change the carriage. Although it was a little more expensive, it was safe. Lin Shou thought the carriage was slow, and he had learned the horse racing for a long time, so that the chief clerk would not have to worry. The chief clerk sighed again, "Good boy, save money for the department."
After walking fast for a day, I crossed mountains and ridges along the way, and there were many sounds and horses in the green forest. Ordinary businessmen didn’t like to walk this path.
Nine out of ten merchants were robbed, and the remaining one was not robbed because they fell into the ditch halfway. Unless the things escorted by the officers and soldiers did not provoke them much, the Green Forests felt that it was troublesome and that ordinary merchants would be cut into pieces after this.
When Lin Shou came out this time, the Funeral Corps Department may be afraid that he would be robbed by the Green Forest and encountered danger, so he specially gave him a small flag and hung it on the horse, saying "The Funeral Emcee, don't get close to the living person." Anyway, it looks quite unlucky, and there was really no Green Forest to stop him all the way. Lin Shou felt that it was a pity...
When you lift the rope and tie the horse, the boundary of Baoding Township is not far away. Looking down from the mountain, Baoding Township is deserted, with riverbeds open and cracked, and it was originally a good farmland, but now it is deserted.
There has been drought in Baoding Township, which has not happened in the past few days. It has been many years since the river has dried up and it has not rained. People say that if there has not been rain in Baoding for seven years, I am afraid that it will offend the Dragon Prince.
It is only three or four hundred miles away from the capital. It rains every year, but Baoding Township has not seen a single drop of water for seven years? It is impossible to be so miserable if two clouds float by.
Has the well been dug and water drained into the canal been dry?
It's been done! The water flows into the canal and only night!
The water entered the boundary of Baoding Township from the ditches. It never took a night, and the next day, it was the only way to do it.
You say this is not a bad person, so the people always say that if someone in Baoding village offended the Dragon Prince, it is probably not a punishment from God.
Later, I even invited a few gentlemen to come, but they all became frightened. It is said that three were crazy and two were stupid and didn't know whether it was true or not. Anyway, I didn't dare to come to see the matter for Baoding Township again.
Not to mention these genius feudal superstitions, let’s talk about it in a matter of fact. The imperial court released disaster relief and food in the past few years was fine, but it was barely enough to provide relief. In recent years, the national treasury has become empty and has become increasingly sloppy.
The food rations of people are replaced with bran, and the relief porridge is mixed with soil and sand. Half a bowl of stick noodles and half a bowl of soil and noodles are steamed. That is why people dare to eat them if they cannot die. There is no other reason, these things save money.
Although the treasury funding for disaster relief is getting smaller and smaller every year, it should actually be enough. If it is really used to provide disaster relief, it will not be so bad. However, 40% of the disaster relief funds can be bought into food and delivered to hungry people, and it will not be like this.
Where did the remaining disaster relief funds go?
The imperial court is so "integrity" here. Do you still need to ask where the disaster relief funds go? Long live the birthday party and the gifts of all officials. Where did the luxurious birthday gifts come from?
Luxury is not scary, what is scary is luxury with people's fat and cream.
Under the eyes of the emperor, he dared to embezzle disaster relief funds in this way, let alone far away places.
Lin Shou rode into Baoding Township. Along the way, the skinny and hungry people who were eating soil and eating bark were hungry across the street. Looking at his horse's eyes, the green light was shining. If he didn't look good about it, he would probably not even find the horse's bones tomorrow.
Lin Shou found the house of the village chief all the way and explained the situation. When he heard that he was a corpse-sewing man, he was unlucky and afraid, so he didn't even open the door. The charity village where he asked him to go to the corpse by himself was in a deserted temple not far from the township.
This is the attitude of ordinary people towards the corpse-sewing man. It is not like in the capital, where Lin Shou is causing trouble for the wind and rain.
Lin Shou had to ride a horse to the dilapidated temple outside the village.
When people came outside the temple, they looked like a small courtyard that was almost overturned from a distance. The word "Zhenwu" appeared close to it. This temple was originally a Zhenwu Emperor Temple, but it has been abandoned for many years and even the statue of the gods was stolen. Later, it was used as a charity farm and used for mortals.
The charity houses in various places are under the jurisdiction of the local county government offices. If there are gentry donations, they will build new ones. If there are no abandoned houses and temples, they will be used as corpses of charity houses and corpses.
There are usually corpse guards in the charity village.
These people were also recruited by the courtrooms of the local county government offices, responsible for guarding the corpses of the charity village and... sewing the corpses.
To put it bluntly, it is the corpse-sewner on the place.
After all, it is not only the dead people in the capital, and no one in the local area will be sent to the capital to sew corpses. Therefore, there are also local charity houses under the government offices of various counties, which are similar to sew corpses.
It is said that it is far less particular than the corpse-sewing shop of the Funeral Department of the Beijing City Funeral Department, so people are very busy changing and "consuming" quickly, but everyone doesn't care. People's lives are cheap, so if you die, you don't take people seriously, and a dead cow may cry for two months.
Since there is a corpse-sewner in the chariot village, why did Lin Shou come? Because the original corpse-sewner died, found a new one, and died again. He went to the superior mansion to transfer it, and died again. A car of people died in half a month. There was no way. The pile of corpses could not be buried without being sewn, so he could only ask for help from the capital, and finally sent Lin Shou to work on a business trip.
Ma Shuanhao and let the little Huixian who followed him secretly watch it, and don’t steal food for anyone, Lin Shou entered the temple.
There is a well in the dilapidated courtyard and an incense hall for offering gods.
Pull your head and look at the well, it’s dry at the bottom.
Lin Shou entered the incense hall again. As soon as he entered, he saw the straw mat on the ground, and twenty-three corpses were spread out in two rows.
Lin Shou looked through one by one and found that some of them had been dead for quite a long time. Fortunately, the weather has not been completely warming up recently, and it is cold enough, otherwise I was afraid that it would be a few that would rot.
He sewed the bodies and then walked out of the ruined temple alive tomorrow morning, so he would have finished the trip.
Lin Shou took out the six-line gold and money hexagrams and called them one by one. There was nothing that could not be sewn. There was no evil appearance at all. It was incomparable to the one in the rebirth well. It was simply too ordinary...
Why do so many corpse-sewners die in this place?
Lin Shou gnawed some dry food in the temple, and then waited until the evening. When the moon was on its head, he closed the door of the incense hall and took out the wall and lit three incense sticks in front of the corpse.
Seeing the fragrance burning smoothly, Lin Shou began to sew the corpse.
It was quite normal at the beginning. The dead were ordinary hungry people. Most of them were robbed of food or beaten to death during riots. Some were hungry and couldn't stand it and hang themselves and jumped into the well. The lantern ran a lot like the feeling of being a human life in the Great Wilderness Year.
Lin Shou also recorded some small yellow-character arts from selling corpses, such as painting cakes to fill hunger, Guanyin soil, and fasting techniques...
There was nothing unusual about these. Until the night was getting deeper and Lin Shou found that there was no wound on the surface of the corpse, but there was a bone under the skin, without any flesh. Lin Shou felt nervous and something was wrong.
The corpses here are all hungry people, all of them are as thin as slim, so he didn't notice when he was rough. Now he has just gotten into the hands and touched thousands of corpses. He immediately found something abnormal. There are bones and no flesh under the skin.
Lin Shou frowned and looked at it for a long time, and finally sewed the body. He saw the corpse of the corpse. The corpse was the corpse guardian of the Yizhuang village during his lifetime. He was the one who sewed the body at the beginning!
Lin Shou could see how he died. He ran on the lantern until the night when the corpse guard was sewing the corpse in the incense hall when he suddenly heard a knock on the door.
"Dongdongdongdong..."
"Dongdongdongdong..."
The first sound is inside the lantern, and the second sound is outside the door.
Lin Shou turned around in shock and heard a sentence outside the door:
"Donor, this well is so cold."
Chapter completed!