When you go to Hades, you have to wear heavy filial piety, this is the rule.

The next morning, there were a lot of people who came to the funeral of Sister Qiu Mei, most of whom were not very familiar with or did not know at all, because they heard that she was going to be sent to the well of Hades, so they specially rushed over to see the excitement, and those who came were with filial piety, and when they set off at eight o'clock in the morning, the people in this line of process, whether they knew or did not know, all had to wear linen and wear filial piety, otherwise they would not be able to go to the well of Hades.

Look, the peculiarities of this burial ground can be seen from this,

Dog days, people wrapped in sackcloth clothes sweat like pulp, the catharsis of grief seems to be less, even the aunt is a lot calmer, maybe it was last night crying hurt her vitality, she quietly followed behind Wang Chuan under the support of her uncle, walking all the way to the legs floating, crying is no longer crying moving, but the mouth is always chirping, I don't know what to mutter.

Later, I heard from my aunt next to me that the rules passed down from my ancestors were that whoever went to the well of Hades for burial, the married female relatives of the family should make a funeral ceremony along the way, in order to disperse the little ghosts in the way and let them not make any trouble when they were buried. Therefore, the louder and more crying the person in charge of mourning, the better it is.

But my aunt cried so much that her voice was hoarse for a few days, so how could she have the strength to cry out again? Of course, the copper coins scattered along the way are to be doubled, they are all real copper coins, some of which are saved by the uncle's family from the bottom of the box in the late Qing Dynasty, and some of them are donated by the surrounding households, the uncle's family is good, and Sister Qiu Mei is really pitiful, so when it comes to the copper coins that came up, the old aunt gestured and raised her eyebrows and said to me that their market value can be worth tens of thousands.

It was almost noon when we arrived at Hades' Well.

Although it is very close to the village, most of the time is spent walking through mountains and mountains, so it takes a lot of time. But when there were still two or three hundred meters away from the well, something strange happened suddenly, which almost postponed the original burial time.

Uncle invited the Taoist priests in charge of funeral matters, but I don't know why they didn't let us go on.

I heard that they were real Taoist priests, and they were invited from a small Taoist temple with a history of 100 years twelve miles away from the village. Originally, I wanted to invite the monk, but since the last old monk who guarded the temple in the only small temple nearby passed away ten years ago, the temple has completely cut off the incense, so I can't invite the monk in a short time, and Sister Qiu Mei's body can't be parked at home for more than seven days, so after hearing it, the old aunt said that then please ask the Taoist, the Taoist priest is the same, and she has seen them do the Dharma before, and she is very exquisite.

But there is no need to pay much attention to the funeral of Yama Well.

Elderly people who live here know that when doing funerals in the well of Hades, you have to follow the rules.

Keep some unwritten rules in this 'well' that have been handed down since ancient times. For example, on the day of the burial, no matter what day is chosen, it must be a sunny day; for example, no matter who the mourners are, they must be filial piety; for example, after the coffin is carried into the burial ground, it must wait until three minutes before it can approach the edge of the Yama Well, and as for the coffin, it must be carried out at three minutes after the first day of the afternoon.

Before that, the coffin could not fall to the ground, and the coffin could not be covered with light, and it had to be covered with a red cotton quilt all the time, carried by eight young men who belonged to the tiger, and stood in the shade, while the others knelt in the open ground on the edge of the well of Hades, while doing the preparatory ceremony before the burial, while waiting for the arrival of the burial hour.

But this time, the Taoist priests took it upon themselves to change the rules slightly.

The change was made on the fly, because when we had just entered the burial area to the east, there was a strong wind blowing from the west, which was the direction of the Yama Well.

There is nothing peculiar about the wind in the mountains, but firstly, today is not a windy day at all, and secondly, it is a whole half a day, from the village to the mountains, not to mention such a strong wind, even the breeze has not encountered a trace, and there is not even a single cloud in the sky, but as soon as I stepped into the burial ground, suddenly such a strong wind blew from the direction of Hades' well, so this wind must be strange.

What's the weird method?

The Taoist priest said that this is called a roadblock. Maybe the things in the Hades Well didn't want us to send the coffin in, so they got it out, and if they didn't ignore it, they just walked in directly, I'm afraid there would be accidents, so for the sake of insurance, they had to ask the Hades Well first.

How do you ask?

Naturally, it is the practice of opening the altar.

At the junction of the eastern burial ground and the outer edge of the Yama Well, they nailed eighteen iron nails with a length of about 50 meters on the ground, nailed a straight line of about 50 meters, tied a red line in the middle, and then temporarily built an incense case in the middle of the fence surrounded by iron nails.

After that, he killed three roosters alive that had been used to prepare the sacrificial well, and slowly poured their blood around the edge of the iron nails, while muttering words in his mouth.

After hearing this, my aunt whispered to me that they were reciting the "Sutra of Disasters and Dooms".

"I'm afraid it's going to be too much...... After speaking, she turned the beads in her hand with a calm face and chanted with those Taoist priests.

The string of beads is a Buddha bead.

My aunt is a Buddhist, but it seems that I know a lot about Taoism, so seeing her expression makes me a little uneasy, and what is even more disturbing is that I don't know if it's a coincidence or what, as the speed of those Taoist priests chanting words gradually accelerates, the originally clear and washed blue sky is covered by a layer of clouds at some point.

At first the clouds were white, but in a few moments they turned gray, and the gray was pushed by the flat ground and a gust of wind blocked the last rays of sunlight overhead, and at the same time, a smell of earth rose from the ground.

"Auntie, is it going to rain......" Seeing this, I hesitated for a while, and whispered to the aunt beside me.

But before she could speak, there was a commotion behind us.

Then a man stumbled and rushed from the burial area on the east side, roaring all the way, crying all the way and rushing towards the coffin: "Don't be buried! You can't bury Lao Tzu until you catch the murderer!!