When I first started driving freight trucks, I once asked Master out of curiosity: Why did truckers need to perform Chongsha, while bus drivers didn’t?
Master said it was because trucks carried cargo, not people, so what they feared most was running into trouble on the road.
Buses, on the other hand, were always picking people up and dropping them off, so their greatest taboo was disaster striking onboard.
That was why buses didn’t pay much attention to warding off the road itself.
What they cared about was ballasting the vehicle.
Most bus drivers I’d met used stones for it.
Some used stone statues.
Whenever the passenger count hit four or seven, the driver would bring out the Vehicle-Ballasting Stone, treating it as one extra passenger onboard to keep misfortune away.
But recently, I took on a strange job.
A bus driver came to me and asked me to ballast his bus as a living person.
He said that before me, three Vehicle-Ballasting Stones had already shattered on his bus.
