In so places, paper money is even printed with characters for added sophistication.
Fortunately, the paper money thrown by the corpse-driving Daoist had characters printed on it.
The reason Li Zhiyuan chose to draw paper money at two corners is that the paper money is divided into two types, designed exactly the sa, but the script is different.
The left corner of the paper money reads on both sides: Yin people on the road, Yang people avoid.
The right corner of the paper money reads on both sides: Reward from the Jie family, little ghosts give thanks.
These two types of paper money should be interwoven and stacked, and when paper money is scattered, both are thrown out together.
The paper money on the left side is very simple in aning, serving as a notice.
The tradition of corpse drivers is to travel at night since the day can cause disturbances and draw unnecessary trouble.
Moreover, people in this profession are usually considered unlucky by the secular world; they themselves prefer to stay away from the mainstream and know how to be quietly content.
This is quite similar to corpse recovery divers; Grandmaster's family usually doesn't have many visitors coming and going.
Even now, as employees of governnt-run funeral hos, when they introduce their work to strangers, they often encounter prejudiced looks.
But the wording on the right side of the paper doesn't seem quite right.
Reward from the Jie family, this points out the family legacy.
Little ghosts give thanks, this points out the social status.
It indicates that the Jie family holds a significant position on "Yin Yang Road," not just asking little ghosts not to cause trouble on the road, but rewarding them with money for staying out of the way.
Daring to print such words proves that the Jie family's status is real and not just self-aggrandizent.
Because in this line of work, the biggest taboo is pride; they generally keep a low profile, do more than they say they do, for fear of incurring trouble.
If you don't have the real foundation, venturing to scatter this paper money would invite those evil things to co and bring ruin to your family.
This is also why the word "roaming the Jianghu" belongs exclusively to the Dragon King family.
In the current circle of writers and perforrs, there can be internal self-amusent, scratching each other's backs to inflate their reputations shalessly.
In ancient tis, even within the Xuann, so played this way, but later they all sank under the river.
"The Jie family?"
Having a legacy makes things much easier, avoiding the needle-in-a-haystack search.
Li Zhiyuan lightly tapped his temple with his fingertip, there were indeed two records in his mind that matched with the Jie family.
One record ca from a travel note mixed into the genealogy of the Yin family, describing an ancestor from the Yin family who stayed overnight at an inn on the outskirts of Dayong City while traveling.
In the evening, a corpse driver brought guests to stay.
In a regular inn, they naturally wouldn't dare to accommodate a corpse driver, but there are inns with that special background, and... perhaps so inns' business was so poor that bankruptcy was scarier than corpses.
The innkeeper at night would instruct other guests by lantern light not to go out before dawn, implying that a corpse driver was staying.
That ancestor of the Yin family was not included in this warning; he not only went out but sought out the corpse driver, and the two drank and chatted, becoming "soulmates."
Li Zhiyuan felt that this "soulmates" was exaggerated.
Because after Yin Changsheng, the family's power and status plumted in a two-thousand-year decline.
However, because of Yin Changsheng's great fa and his vague identity as presumably Emperor Fengdu himself, whenever Yin family mbers traveled, they always managed to join the table for a drink by invoking their ancestor.
No matter how significant the other party's background, even if the Yin family no longer had the standing, they would still give Yin Changsheng so face.
Thus, the travel notes of the ancestors of the Yin family were quite interesting due to their access to high-end circles.
This Yin family ancestor considered himself a soulmate with a corpse-driver nad Jie.
Regrettably, ancient writings were quite brief, and this ancestor simply ntioned this encounter as a minor anecdote without further elaboration.
Thus, Li Zhiyuan, as soone in later generations reading the record, could only learn the following:
He went to Dayong and drank with a Jie family corpse driver, bragging all night.
Dayong is now known as Zhangjiajie.
An additional record was from Wei Zhengdao's "Jianghu Chronicles," which covered a dead obstacle that had once been transford from an Evil Cultivator, whose surna was Xie, and was ntioned alongside the Jie, Bu, and Wang families as the four major corpse-driving families of Old Heavenly Gate.
Xue Liangliang ntioned that Li Zhiyuan's mind was like an encyclopedia, a fact indeed true.
These records had been viewed and rembered, waiting for the ti to digest their content for deeper insight.
Xie, Jie, Wang, Bu, the four major corpse-driving families of Old Heavenly Gate.
Old Heavenly Gate here likely referred to Tiann County.
In 263, Gao Liang Mountain cracked, creating a door-like opening in the cliff's wall.
Emperor Jing of Wu, Sun Xiu, the sixth son of Sun Quan and the third Emperor of Eastern Wu, considered it a good on, thus renaming Gao Liang Mountain to Tiann Mountain and reassigning the northwest part of Wuling County to create Tiann County with its administration in today's Zhangjiajie.
In 555 A.D, during the reign of Southern Dynasty Emperor Liang Jing, the court abolished Tiann County and established Lizhou.
When Wei Zhengdao was writing his book, Tiann County had already been renad; hence, he referred to these four families as Old Heavenly Gate.
At that ti, these four families were likely still using the old nas, purely because...the old na sounded better.
Li Zhiyuan rubbed his brow; actually, there was a simpler thod if the Qin and Liu Families had complete family histories available.
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