I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 52: The Art of Posting and Puppetry

The yamen was much quieter today than usual because many clerks and constables had been sent to the compound next door to supervise the examination.

The doorman, Uncle Qin, recognized Xu Qing and knew that he was the junior apprentice and student of Old Wang from the morgue, so he didn't pay much attention to him and let him come and go as he pleased.

The Patrol Office was neither big nor small. After Xu Qing had walked around a few times, he became familiar with it. He would nod when he saw familiar faces. When he met those who had the power of access control - such as the Mr. Qin just now, Xu Qing had specially brought them a pot of wine and a piece of bacon to maintain the relationship.

These are all indispensable interpersonal relationships in the business world. When Uncle Qin retires one day, we may have to rely on him to preside over the funeral.

In addition, there are the people in the yamen's fast team. They are often exposed to high-risk events and their chance of death is much higher than that of ordinary people. These are all potential stocks. As long as Xu Qing often walks around the yamen and makes himself familiar to them, it will surely be another new business.

With Master Tang and Brother Wang helping out, this won't be difficult.

After all, when it comes to service, there's no other funeral shop in Linhe that's more professional than his. Even when it comes to price, his is the most affordable.

If the funeral business was not inherently unsuitable for publicity, he would have wanted to learn the publicity methods of the Tianxin Sect's Dharma Envoys and offer customers discounts and promotions, such as offering half-price discounts for second funerals held by the same family, and 20% discounts for those who come to the funeral through referrals from relatives and friends.
It’s just a pity that the Tianxin Sect’s rebellion can be used for publicity, but his business cannot do the same.

In the coroner's room, Xu Qing's eyes were like a compass. As soon as he entered the room, his eyes couldn't help but drift towards the morgue.

Wang Lingyuan acted like his senior brother and asked him with a stern face why he was not in the examination room but came to him.

"I'm just missing you, brother. All those people from the government office are out maintaining order in the exam room, so you probably don't have anyone to talk to. I just finished the exam, so I just wanted to come over and chat with you to relieve your boredom."

"Sweet talk, I think you might miss the corpse here, but not me!"

Wang Lingyuan cursed with a smile, although he said it as a joke, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

He has no children and is almost half a widower, widowed or orphaned. Now that he has such a cheap junior brother thinking about him, how could he not be happy?
The rustling of pens and papers from the examinees in the adjacent examination hall and the sound of a dripping copper kettle sounded like a death warrant, forcing all those who had not yet handed in their papers to not dare to relax at all.

In the coroner's room of the yamen, separated by a wall, Xu Qing and Wang Lingyuan stood together, talking and laughing. From time to time, they would pick up a brush and draw on the corpse, circling one knowledge point after another.

"After this man's death, the Azure Dragon did not fall. According to ordinary people's views, this person would be said to be obsessed with desire and a sex-hungry ghost.

But in the medical profession, there is no such saying."

"Junior brother, let me guess, why would you react like this after his death?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Qing took out the ruler used for autopsies and measured it. It was too small to be worth mentioning.

He thought for a moment and replied, "I guess this corpse either died standing up or with its face facing the ground, which is why the blood filled the Azure Dragon and allowed it to stand upright."

Xu Qing has been reading a lot of books on autopsy these days. In one of them, a corpse story written by an official of the previous dynasty, there is an anecdote that says there was a young couple. One day, the husband accidentally fell to his face and died.

Although this person is dead, the belongings he carries with him are still energetic, as if they are alive.

The man's wife was also a promiscuous woman. She was at the funeral home to watch over her husband's body when she saw this scene. Seeing her husband in such a state, she thought that her husband's ghost was still there and he was thinking about that thing.

So they did something shameless in the mourning hall.

When relatives and friends who came to pay their respects heard the noise and walked into the mourning hall, they were all dumbfounded.

As the saying goes, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. This incident became more and more serious and outrageous, and finally it reached the ears of the prefect.

The prefect summoned the person involved. After questioning, the woman insisted that her deceased husband was still lustful and wanted to spend another night with her before being buried.

Coincidentally, the local prefect happened to be an expert in solving cases and had a lot of insights into autopsies and post-mortems. He immediately ordered someone to bring the "lecher" in for a detailed inspection.

After an examination, the prefect discovered that the deceased had fallen face down, and concluded that there was no such thing as a sex ghost; the cause of the death was the accumulation of blood.
After Xu Qing finished explaining the contents of the Corpse Tanji, Wang Lingyuan couldn't help but sigh, "Junior brother, your autopsy skills are already as good as mine. I have nothing more to teach you."

"Brother, you are not right. I still have a lot to learn. Without your guidance, I don't know how long it will take me to learn." Xu Qing said modestly, but he was very confident in his heart.

Not to mention that the Sutra of Deliverance can read people's lives, just in terms of understanding corpses, he has never seen anyone better than him. After all, he himself is a walking corpse. How could he not know whether a zombie can stand up?
After chatting with Wang Lingyuan for a while, Xu Qing finally had the opportunity to visit the corpses of the Tianxin Sect rebels.

Turning the page of the Sutra of Salvation, the history of the rebel’s rise to power is revealed.

Xu Qing started from the first minion and continued to favor the corpse of the incense master of the innermost Tianxin Sect branch.

There are twelve corpses in total. Although most of them are of ordinary quality, the quantity is large. After all the salvation, the rewards obtained are almost equal to the monthly revenue of the coroner's shop!

There is no need to explain the common items such as powerful pills, disease-eliminating talismans, and dog-skin plasters.

The new and novel ones also include light body techniques, snake-returning techniques, children's crying spells, aphrodisiac recipes, and methods of fierce fighting.
The aphrodisiac recipe and the method of fierce fighting were found in the same corpse.

Xu Qing wondered, is this an attempt to create a perpetual motion machine?

In addition to these low-grade rewards with various functions, what Xu Qing cares about most is the low-grade reward with the word "Di" from the incense master of Tianxin Sect - the posting method and the puppet method.

As the name suggests, the method of pinning a person's body to other objects is to use magic to pin the person's body to other objects. After being cast with the method of pinning, the person's body can withstand being cut by a knife or hit by a stick without feeling pain.

On the contrary, the 'substitute item' that has been cast with the pile spell will bear all damage for the caster, but this spell has a limit, that is, if the substitute item is damaged, the caster will no longer be able to offset the subsequent damage.

In addition to the posting method, this incense master also has a matching unorthodox technique called the Yanou technique.

To put it simply, it means making a silk puppet to carry with you. No matter you are doing daily work or fighting with others, you can use the puppet as your helper and become a capable assistant like your left and right arm.

After Xu Qing understood the mystery, he found that this puppet technique had many similarities with the silk shadow puppet technique, except that the puppet had an extra layer of hiding in the shadow, which could not be manipulated by anyone without great skills.

(End of this chapter)