Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 1: Craftsmen on the Yellow River

The Yellow River is known as the mother river of the Chinese nation.It originates from the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province, flows through nine provinces along the way, and finally flows into the Bohai Sea.Looking down from a high altitude, the twists and turns of the Yellow River look like a huge "ji" character, more like a winding yellow dragon.

As the saying goes: "Rely on mountains to eat mountains, rely on water to eat water!"

Those who live in the mountains dig mines and coal; those who live in forest farms plant forests and log;However, in addition to these two ordinary occupations, two of the most mysterious and legendary occupations have sprung up on the ancient Yellow River. One is the Yellow River River Worker, and the other is the Yellow River Corpse Fisherman.Those who are engaged in these two fields of business are called "Yellow River Craftsmen".

Here is a brief talk about the Yellow River workers. The river workers on the Yellow River are not the kind of river cleaners we usually call, cleaning up some silt and garbage in the river.The work of the Yellow River workers is also to clean up the river, but what they clean up is not ordinary things, they clean up all the evil things in the Yellow River.

There are many secrets buried in the ancient Yellow River, and no one knows how many strange and weird objects lie under the rolling Yellow River.Most of these objects are buried at the bottom of the water. When the river dries up or floods, some strange objects will emerge from the water.

For example, after the great flood in 1998, many strange objects appeared on the Yellow River.

During that time, accidents frequently occurred on Yellow River ferries in Shanxi. Some witnesses saw a strange blue fish the size of a truck head in the water.As long as a ferry boat passes through the water, the ferocious monster fish will knock down the ferry boat with its body.Strange to say, all the people who fell into the water disappeared, and even the bodies were not found. People guessed that they were all eaten by the strange blue fish.Later, the local people had no choice but to report the matter to the Yellow River Water Conservancy Committee, and the Yellow River Committee invited the Yellow River Workers.

The river workers of the Yellow River brought a tin boat without any fishing tools, but filled two cabins with live fish the size of a palm.They drove the tin boat to the waters where the blue monster fish often appeared, dumped the live fish in the cabin into the river, clapped their hands, and drove away.

Some things are just so strange. Since the Yellow River workers left, the waters in this area have become peaceful. The strange blue fish with the big head of a truck has never appeared again, as if it has sunk into the unfathomable depths together with the tumbling sand. bottom of the Yellow River.

Due to the great flood in 98, many embankments in the Yellow River section were broken. When people were building dams and embankments in the Zhengzhou section, they found a big white snake. , Just like Bai Suzhen in "Legend of the New White Snake", many local villagers came to worship the white snake, thinking that the white snake was transformed by a god.

The appearance of the white snake frightened the engineering team. No matter how the workers tried to drive them away, the white snake just refused to leave.Later, the contractor became anxious and issued a killing order. He personally took a few workers, drove a heavy excavator, chopped the white snake into several pieces, and then burned the white snake's bones.What is strange is that the people nearby did not smell the stench of burning, but smelled the charming fragrance.

Some people condemned the foreman's actions as too cruel, while others said that the foreman and his workers would suffer retribution.

Terrible things happened one after another, just as people predicted.

First, a worker died suddenly and inexplicably on the construction site, and then two workers committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river in the middle of the night.

The most frightening thing happened to the contractor, whose wife was in labor at that time and gave birth to a baby girl.But to the horror of the medical staff present, the baby girl's tongue was split open, like a red snake letter.When the children of other families learned to walk, the contractor’s daughter could not walk. She crawled on the ground like a snake, twisting her body constantly, and making strange noises at the same time, which frightened the neighbors. Dare to go out.This girl is therefore known as the "Snake Girl", and there have been reports about her in the news.

The vast Yellow River flows continuously, and there are countless strange things that happened on the Yellow River. We will stop here about the livelihood of the Yellow River workers.Now let’s get down to business, let’s talk about another legendary business, the Yellow River Corpse Man.

The Yellow River Corpse Man, also known as the "Yellow River Water Ghost".

Because they have dealt with the dead and undead all year round, they have this terrifying and mysterious title.

As the name suggests, the main job of the Yellow River corpse hunters is to salvage corpses.

Although the Yellow River gave birth to countless lives, it also swallowed countless lives.Some were playing by the river and were swept away by the river, some fell into the river by slipping on a boat, some committed suicide by jumping into the river, and some were murdered for money and thrown their bodies into the Yellow River.

Because of this, the business of the Yellow River corpse hunters was born. Their main job is to salvage the dead bodies in the Yellow River, and those family members who come to identify the corpses will pay a lot of money for the corpses.Of course, there are also family members of the victims who take the initiative to find the Yellow River Corpse Collectors and ask for help in finding and salvaging the corpses. In this case, the charges will naturally be higher.

Regarding the livelihood of the Yellow River corpse hunters, it has always been a topic of controversy.

Some people think that this kind of business is immoral, and the family members are required to pay for the recognition of the bodies after they are already dead. This is a bit cruel to the families of the victims.But there are also many people who believe that the people who fished up the corpses in the Yellow River paid their own labor and sweat, and it is right to charge a certain fee.Moreover, in a sense, the Yellow River corpse hunters are also doing a good deed.

In fact, in my opinion, no matter what kind of livelihood, it is for living.As long as you don't kill people, set fires, or break the law, there is nothing wrong with it.People who live in western-style buildings, drive luxury cars, and wear fur coats will never know how difficult it is for those humble and poor people to live.

Moreover, the livelihood of the Yellow River corpse hunters is not as simple as we imagined.It is not an easy task to become a corpse collector in the Yellow River. Don't think that just a person who goes out in a boat can retrieve corpses.

Every industry has its own rules, and the Yellow River corpse hunter naturally has many weird taboos and rules.Because there are too many and complicated rules and taboos, I will pick some simple ones and tell you about them.

First of all, if you want to become a corpse hunter in the Yellow River, you must belong to Yin in numerology, and the five elements must belong to water.These are the two most basic and unshakable conditions for becoming a Yellow River corpse hunter.Because it is said that only those who meet these two conditions can live hard enough to walk on the Yellow River without being dragged into the water by the dead souls in the river.

Secondly, the person who fishes the corpse of the Yellow River must be a male.Women themselves belong to yin. If they come to engage in this business of dealing with the dead, they will be easily eroded by yin qi. If they are small, they will be entangled in diseases, and if they are big, they will lose their lives.

The Yellow River corpse hunter can only take one apprentice in his life, and he must not take more.After selecting the apprentice, the master will take the apprentice to the "corpse raising pool" and ask the apprentice to have "intimate contact" with the corpse, so that the apprentice can completely eliminate the fear and timidity of death in his heart.Apprentices soak in the pond for seven days and seven nights in the pond where dead bodies are floating before they can leave the customs.

The corpse pool mentioned here is not a pool for raising dead bodies and practicing sorcery.Because it is impossible for the family members of the victims to come to claim the corpse immediately after the corpse is salvaged, in order to prevent the corpse from decomposing so quickly, the Yellow River corpse hunters will temporarily store the corpse in the corpse pond.

Corpse ponds are usually built in shaded places, try to avoid sunlight and keep low temperature.And the real corpse hunter will also make a very special embalming solution to ensure the integrity of the corpse.Although there is no guarantee that the corpse will look like a living person, at least it can be guaranteed that the corpse will be the same as when it was just salvaged.

After the death of the corpse hunter in the Yellow River, he must be buried in the Yellow River, and it must be buried in water, allowing the fish and shrimps in the river to eat his body. This practice symbolizes the integration of the soul into the Yellow River.

In addition to the rules and regulations mentioned above, there are many taboos in the business of the Yellow River corpse hunter.Although these taboos seem absurd on the surface, they are the lessons learned by the ancestors in exchange for their blood and lives. Whether you believe it or not, you must abide by it.

For example: in thunderstorm weather, it is forbidden to go out of the boat to pick up the corpse; after the same corpse has not been successfully picked up on the boat three times, it cannot be picked up again;When picking up the dead body to collect the boat, the neck of the big red rooster was wiped off with a knife, and then the rooster was thrown into the river, which was regarded as a tribute to the King of the Yellow River.

If you want to ask me why I am familiar with the mysterious business of Yellow River Corpse Collectors, I will tell you that my grandfather Tuoba Lie is a serious and genuine Yellow River Corpse Collector, and our Tuoba family is the Yellow River The famous "Yellow River water ghost" on the ancient road.

In the past two years, there was a group of pictures on the Internet about the corpse-hunters in the Yellow River, which became very popular and caused a large-scale public opinion.Later, I told my grandfather about this matter on the phone, and my grandfather said angrily: "They are not the real Yellow River corpse hunters at all, they are doing evil! The reputation of our business is ruined by these bad people." smelly!"

Here, I think it is necessary to clarify for the real Yellow River corpse hunters that the real Yellow River corpse hunters will not do the immoral thing of throwing unclaimed corpses back into the Yellow River.And I can tell you responsibly that the real Yellow River corpse hunters respect the dead body very much. When the family members of the deceased come to claim the body, they will kill a big red rooster to entertain the family members of the deceased, which means eliminating disasters, which is what we call "chongxi". .For those corpses that have not been claimed for a long time, the real Yellow River corpse collectors will fish them out of the corpse pond, cremate them on the spot after a simple worship, and then scatter their ashes into the Yellow River.

Before the story begins, I would like to say something: "Please respect the Yellow River corpse hunters, they are the ones who let the dead souls find their way home!"

(End of this chapter)