One person: Reborn as Huangxian, seeking the title of Feng Baobao at the beginning

Many media reporters and internet celebrity bloggers gathered outside the city government, hoping to get a clear answer regarding the recent disappearances.

Although they did not dare to get close, they watched from afar, and the city government was unable to disperse them by force to avoid causing public resentment.

After all, this is a society ruled by law, with transparent information and extremely rare cases of covering up everything. Deputy Mayor Zheng Jun has been extremely busy these days, and even stayed in the city government for several days.

After watching the news for a while, Huang Miao picked up his coat and said, "Let's go. If this goes on any longer, the city government won't be able to eat. Let's go to the scene and help the city government out."

Hearing Huang Miao's words, everyone nodded in understanding, then quickly stood up and followed Huang Miao's steps to walk out.

Everyone was silent along the way. After arriving at Xiangyun Village, they found that Zhuge Qing and others had already arrived.

Obviously, Zhuge Qing was under tremendous pressure and had no intention of resting. His team members looked exhausted and sleepy.

Seeing Huang Miao and the others coming, Zhuge Qing observed them calmly. The reason why he came so early was because he was full of doubts about Huang Miao and the others, and wanted to see what the core bureau was planning today.

The sky is gloomy today and the river surface seems uneasy.

Although there was no strong wind, the river was turbulent, and schools of fish swam down the river, seemingly looking for a safe place. This made Zhuge Qing a little worried. Huang Miao and his team might be in danger if they chose to go into the river to retrieve the body in such weather.

However, after Huang Miao got off the car, he just stood by the river and looked for a few seconds, then solemnly told the team members a few words. Then, the group turned around and walked towards the back mountain. Zhuge Qing noticed that Zhang Lingyu was still holding an axe in his hand.

Xia He approached Zhuge Qing curiously and asked, "Team Leader Zhuge, what is the Core Bureau going to do?"

Zhuge Qing shook his head in confusion and followed from a distance without saying a word.

When they arrived at the back of the mountain, they saw Huang Miao directing Zhang Lingyu to cut down trees. This made Zhuge Qing very confused. While he was thinking, Huang Miao had already noticed Zhuge Qing's arrival.

"Captain Zhuge, do you have any questions? Have we affected your investigation?" Huang Miao asked.

Facing Huang Miao's question, Zhuge Qing was a little embarrassed, and quickly waved his hands and asked curiously: "Director Zhuge, what are you doing?"

Huang Miao had no intention of hiding his intention: "The river is rough today, something is a little strange. Let's cut down some trees and make a raft."

Upon hearing this, Zhuge Qing was immediately furious: "Director Zhuge, the salvage bureau has already salvaged the boat many times and found nothing. Besides, even if you insist on trying, there is no need to make a raft, right? There are so many fishing boats in the village, any one of them can be requisitioned."

Zhuge Qing kindly reminded him, but Huang Miao smiled and waved his hand: "Team Leader Zhuge, since ancient times, all walks of life have their own rules. Since you want to practice the ancient method of corpse retrievers, you must abide by the rules of corpse retrievers. Have you ever seen a corpse retriever retrieve corpses on a fishing boat? What's more, in such a big wave, it is difficult for a fishing boat to be stable. The flexibility of a raft is more reliable."

Zhuge Qing frowned upon hearing this. He felt that Huang Miao's theory was putting the cart before the horse. "Director Zhuge, the situation is urgent now and we can't allow any more mistakes. If a simple raft has problems on the river, it will cause more trouble for rescue. If you insist on recovering the body, I can help you contact the salvage bureau and ask them to send professional boats and equipment, which is better than this raft. You also know that the river is not peaceful today. I'm afraid that a small raft can't stay stable in the waves."

Huang Miao looked at Zhuge Qing deeply, and then said: "Team Leader Zhuge, don't underestimate the raft. For corpse collectors, any boat is probably not as safe as this simple raft. On the surging Yellow River, corpse collectors rely on this raft. Do you think the Yellow River is safer than this small river in Xiangyun Village?"

Zhuge Qing opened his mouth, but swallowed the words back. He couldn't understand why they had to build a raft instead of using the fishing boat. Wasn't this a waste of time?

With a deep sigh, Zhuge Qing turned around and strode down the mountain. His face was very bad, and Huang Miao had not appreciated his previous reminder. In his opinion, Huang Miao's behavior was unreasonable, even a little absurd.

Soon after, Huang Miao brought Zhang Lingyu and others to move down several polished woods. These woods were piled in an open space, and then Zhang Lingyu and Feng Baobao ran towards the direction of Yun Village.

A moment later, they brought hemp ropes, iron nails and other items, which were obviously obtained from nearby villagers.

Xia He watched curiously from a distance. Although curious, she did not dare to go up and disturb them like Zhuge Qing did.

He had learned that Huang Miao was a deputy director, which meant that the core bureau was much higher than the suburban police station where he worked. Therefore, he did not want to offend either party.

Zhang Lingyu and Feng Baobao put aside the things they had found and began to make a raft under Huang Miao's command.

Huang Miao had said before that the best choice was actually a bamboo raft, but there was no bamboo on the mountains in this area, so the only option was to make a raft out of wood. However, the production method was roughly the same, after reinforcing the basic structure, the wood was fixed separately.

The whole production process took only about half an hour, and a raft was already made. Of course, because this raft is relatively small, it can only accommodate one or two people.

However, when the raft was completed, Huang Miao immediately whispered a few words to Zhang Lingyu and Feng Baobao. The two ran towards the village again. Zhuge Qing and others had been observing their behavior from a distance and were very confused.

Soon, the two came back with a bucket of liquid. Occasionally, a few drops of liquid fell on the ground, which was bright red. Zhuge Qing looked at Xia He in confusion and asked, "Director Chen, do you know what they are carrying?"

Xia He sniffed and then frowned: "What a strong smell of blood! Could that bucket be filled with blood?"

At this point, Xia He seemed to remember something, and hurriedly looked at Zhuge Qing and said, "There is a butcher named Wang in the village. He often helps neighbors and villagers to process the fish they catch, and occasionally sells some pork. Could these be from Butcher Wang?"

As they were talking, a big man with a naked upper body and a lot of flesh came running over with a bucket. He looked up at the sky and his sight quickly fell on Huang Miao and the others. Then, he ran over, looked at Zhang Lingyu and said, "Leader, the black dog blood you asked for is here for you."

Zhang Lingyu looked at the bucket in front of the butcher, nodded with satisfaction, and then took out two banknotes and stuffed them into the butcher's hand. The butcher asked curiously, "Leader, let me ask you a question, what do you want this black dog blood and chicken blood for?"

Zhang Lingyu waved his hand: "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. Go back to work."

The butcher nodded doubtfully, stuffed the money into his pocket and turned away. Zhuge Qing and Xia He were even more confused after hearing this. They watched Huang Miao and others smear chicken blood and black dog blood on the bottom of the raft, and even drew a strange symbol on the raft with a mixture of black dog blood and chicken blood.

This symbol puzzled Zhuge Qing and Xia He, and even Feng Baobao and others were also confused.

"Director, what does this symbol mean?" Feng Baobao asked.

Huang Miao lowered his head and carefully drew the symbols while explaining, "This is also an unwritten rule among corpse collectors. This kind of talisman is called the God Worship Talisman. It is drawn under the raft to worship the river god. The corpse collectors hope to get the protection of the river god and avoid disasters."

When Huang Miao finished writing, he threw the pen into the bucket beside him and said slowly:

"It's almost ready. All we have to do next is worship the river god, light some incense, burn some talismans and we can set off."

When Feng Baobao heard this, a puzzled expression appeared on his face:

"Director, do corpse retrievers have so many rules? Do we have to go through all these tedious steps before every trip?"

Huang Miao took a deep breath, looked at Feng Baobao meaningfully, and then said:

"You only know that there are eight mysterious professions in the martial arts world, but you don't know that there are also eight mysterious professions among the people, right? Corpse collectors, mountain walkers, Yin-Yang masters, knife sellers on credit, treasure hunters, fortune tellers, sorcerers, and the Feng family's spirit masters from the Northeast."

There was a flash of surprise in Feng Baobao's eyes:
"Director, why have I never heard of these professions?"

Zhang Lingyu also became interested and asked curiously:

"Director, I have heard of some of them, but I don't know much about them. What do these professions do?"

Huang Miao looked up at the sun in the sky and felt that it was not the right time yet, so he simply sat on a stone nearby and began to explain to everyone:

"Gu Master, this profession has been full of weirdness and evil since ancient times. It originated from ancient witchcraft and was particularly popular in the Miaojiang tribe. Most Gu Masters are women. They use insects to parasitize the body. There are many types of Gu, such as toad Gu, loach Gu, and Yin snake Gu. Don't think this is just a legend. In the past, in Miaojiang, Gu Masters were a terrifying existence. Although they are rare now, it is not because of decline, but because the top Gu Masters never let people easily discover their existence."

Zhang Lingyu shuddered when he heard this. Huang Miao saw this and said with a smile:

"Are you scared now? You should know that top-level Gu can not only control people's thoughts and kill people without them even noticing, but it can even change their fate, seize other people's fortunes, control their souls, and amass wealth and treasures."

Feng Baobao said with lingering fear:

"So there are such terrifying things in this world. Are the other professions also so terrifying?"

"That's not necessarily the case," Huang Miao continued to explain to everyone with great interest, "For example, the mysterious treasure-hunting people. You can regard them as thieves, but they don't eat the dead, nor do they steal the money of the living. They steal the natural treasures of heaven and earth. There are many names for them in the folk, such as the spirit-finder, the sheep-leader, etc. They wander among the mountains and rivers and dragon veins all their lives, and few people can see them, so they are even more mysterious. The knowledge, technology and other traditions of the treasure-hunting people are unmatched by other industries. Their stealing skills are superb, and they are respected as the leader of all thieves and the king of cunning thieves. They never steal ordinary things, and often have to risk their lives to steal legendary treasures in desperate places."

Zhang Lingyu's eyes lit up, and he asked Huang Miao curiously:

"Director, does that treasure-hoarder know some Feng Shui techniques?"

Huang Miao thought for a moment and shook his head:
"Strictly speaking, their ability cannot be considered as Feng Shui, but rather it is called spiritual treasure hunting. Spirit hunting is what I mentioned before, looking for spiritual treasures in dangerous places; treasure hunting is to use their vast knowledge reserves, unique vision, and unique heritage in the industry to identify truly valuable spiritual treasures among thousands of things. Some people can even tell whether there are treasures hidden in the mountain just by looking at the terrain."

Wang Ye was also attracted by this topic and asked suddenly:
"So are there still people who are holding back treasures now?"

Zhang Lingyu was startled and turned to look at Wang Ye. Huang Miao smiled and said:

"Of course there are. The business of treasure hunters is still passed down to this day. Otherwise, who do you think discovered all those heavenly treasures? They just wander in the deep mountains and wild forests, and no one has ever really seen their methods. For example, there was once a treasure hunter in the Northeast who found a ginseng king, which even attracted a weasel to kneel down and worship it. Now the ginseng king is still placed in the Great Hall of the Capital."

Everyone was obviously attracted by Huang Miao's words. Feng Baobao couldn't wait to ask:
"Commissioner, what does that knife seller do?"

"Selling knives on credit is an ancient profession that has been passed down for a long time. They claim to be disciples of the strategist Guiguzi. They usually carry baskets on their backs and wander around the streets and alleys of the countryside, selling kitchen knives, sickles and other items on credit to local people at high prices. And they always leave a prophecy that sounds unreliable, saying that they will come back to collect the money when the prophecy comes true."

Feng Baobao frowned with some disdain when she heard this:

"Isn't this just a loss of money and no profit? Can their predictions really come true?"

Huang Miao smiled and said:
"Those who agree to sell knives on credit have the same idea as you, but as time goes by, the predictions of the knife sellers often come true. At that time, new knife sellers will appear to collect money, and people will generally pay obediently. There are many rules in this business. For example, their knives are only sold on credit, and you can't buy them directly at a high price. People in this business usually have cultivation skills, and while selling knives on credit, they are also accumulating merits. When they come to collect the money many years later, they will take away not only the money but also the merits of selling knives on credit here. When the merits are fulfilled, they will achieve the right result..."

Everyone gathered around Huang Miao and listened to his story attentively.

Huang Miao also kept an eye on the time and just took it as a way to kill time.

These words drifted away with the wind, and some fragments reached the ears of Zhuge Qing and others. They were fascinated by what they heard, but most of them were half-believing and half-doubting.

Under Zhuge Qing's puzzled gaze, Huang Miao's voice came again from not far away, continuing to tell the stories of those mysterious professions. (End of this chapter)