Grave
After lunch, everyone went to my father's grave with the tools used to repair the grave, as well as the fish, meat, wine, and other offerings that had been prepared.
Xie Wen took the lead and arrived first, he suddenly cried "Daddy, Daddy", and knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed: Daddy, I was wrong, I was negligent, blame me for being careless, Daddy, I am the boss, I didn't think about Zhou Xiang, it's all my fault, Daddy, I'll kowtow to you to make amends!
Yuan Qiuhua looked at the front right corner of the tomb, and sure enough, there was a cave the size of a basin, not like a fox rabbit hole, but like a tomb robbery cave. The slope of the mound behind the cave, the rain washes the ditch, the water is washed like a brush, and there are traces of water flowing in.
Xie Wen first erected a stone on the left side of the grave, called it the "Houtu God", prayed to the mountain god to bless his father, and then burned incense, offered chicken, fish and meat "three animals" and candy cakes "three fresh", as well as wine and food and other offerings, and then recited the sacrificial text:
On March 18, 2010, Xie Wen, Xie Han, Xie Ying, Xie Xiong, and daughter-in-law Yuan, and their grandchildren, dared to announce the spirit of Lord Xie Gong Qingquan, saying: Zhaoguang Liuyi, has reached the Qingming Festival. Tung flowers will be put and catkins will be cotton. Sighing, I deeply feel that my father, lost my father at a young age, left my mother less, broke my brother, grew up alone, was alone, worked hard, worked hard, ran day and night, started a family, was frugal and loyal, had a way in the world, and was already serving people, remembering my father's virtue, and feeling sad. Woohoo, parenting adults, spouses in pairs, my father's fan, the sun and the moon are the same, my father's grace, the rivers are deep, I feel nostalgic for the past, the mountains are high and the waters are long, the sun is not reported, and the cry is sad. In the prosperous times, the old classics should be followed, the rites should be reported, and the rituals should be pious. Be cautious of the livestock, list the coarse feast, toast the thin wine, appreciate my slight heart, is to enjoy it, come to taste it. Congratulations to the sacrifice, accompanied by a short story. Woohoo lament!
After reading, burn paper money, burn clothes, set off firecrackers, and lead everyone to give up. He said: Daddy, you have a spirit underground, bless the elderly with longevity and health, children make a fortune, the young are successful in their studies, children are good to give birth to, there is no disease or disaster, and you can be expensive!
Xie Ying burned the paper money and said: Ah, Dad, the children have sent you money and clothes, hurry up and come out, receive a little bit of the hearts of future generations, don't rob it to wild ghosts!
Xie Xiong said: Daddy, there is wine and meat, come and drink!
Xie Han said: Ah, Dad's wine does not leave his mouth, and his cigarette does not leave his hand, which one has a cigarette to give a few cigarettes!
Xie Xiong's cigarette was wiped out on the way, and Xie Wen only had one. Yuan Qiuhua took out a pack of "Yellow Crane Tower" from his handbag, folded it open, threw it into the fire one by one, and burned it for his father-in-law to enjoy.
Xie Wen said: We were born and raised, but we forgot it. Ho, Qiuhua is still careful and filial.
Xie Ying said: Be careful, don't be worshipful. Ahem, it means oh, the heart is there!
Xie Xiong said: Hey, you don't have to show me!
Xie Han said: The black ground is a battle, each according to his own heart.
Xie Wen said: People are doing it, the sky is watching, the king of Hades keeps the account, and he will calculate it after death.
After the ceremony, Xie Wen distributed some food, wine, and incense, burned paper money, and sacrificed to the left and right graves to give his father's neighbors a little comfort, so that they would not quarrel with his father.
Xie Wen said: Now, you can do it, Xie Xiong pulls the weeds, Xie Ying cultivates the soil, and Xie Han fills the hole.
Sheaf Han took a shovel and shoveled the dirt next to it to fill the hole. The hole seemed to be very deep, and it was filled for a while before it was filled. Yuan Qiuhua broke a branch and poked it in, but he didn't want to poke it hard, but the foot-long branch didn't go above the top: Hey, what kind of beast is it to drill such a thick grave wall and dig such a deep hole in the ground?
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly saw the branches of the tree rising upward, like a living creature arching upwards in the cave. When the branch was still two inches in the hole, a bullet shot out, jumped high, flew far away, and landed in the bushes. In the blink of an eye, a black ball "squeaked" out of the hole, jumped under Yuan Qiuhua's crotch, and rolled down the hillside.
Suddenly, Yuan Qiuhua was startled, and patted his chest: Hey, cough me to death! Wow, what's it?
Xie Wen said: It's not a good sign, there is going to be a disaster! The wild beast drills a hole in the grave, which is not good for future generations, and it is about to be caught, killed, and extinguished!
Xie Han picked up a shovel and chased after him. After a moment's wait, he returned, holding in his hand a porcupine arrow with two thin ends and a thick middle, with alternating black and white patterns. When he went to the grave, he held it up to everyone's eyes and let people take a closer look: Hey, he didn't catch up, let it escape. Look at it, it's a porcupine.
Xie Wen said: Drilling holes in the wall is done by thieves, just to steal money and things. It is predicted that there will be thieves watching and losing property, so we must all be careful in the future!
Xie Ying used a hoe to dig the soil, and Xie Han used a shovel to shovel the soil onto the grave, spread it evenly, and patted it solidly. Xie Ying dug and digg, but dug out a silver snake. The snake was bare on the ground, coiled and motionless, and did not escape, looking up at Xie Ying with its tongue out.
Xie Han raised his shovel to fight, but Xie Ying stretched out his hand to stop it: mosquitoes, flies, and ants are also afraid of death, reptiles and moths also have to live, all of them are a life, and they kill indiscriminately.
Xie Han said: If you don't fight the snake, you will be guilty of three points.
Xie Ying said: The snake in the house can't be beaten, it's the house snake that guards the house, and the snake on the grave can't be beaten, and it's also the house snake that watches the tomb and guards the tomb.
Xie Ying pushed the snake aside with a hoe, and the snake slowly climbed to the top of the grave, coiled into a pile of cow, its head curled in the middle, like a dog pee, and its eyes drooped, as if it was closing its eyes and recuperating, and it seemed to be sleeping.
Xie Wen said: If you dream of a fetus and a snake in a dream, you want to give birth to a cub. When the snake sees you, it doesn't run or run, I'm afraid it has something to do with you, maybe you're going to give birth to a cub this time.
Xie Xiong kicked the soil on the grave with his foot, and kicked a few lumps of dirt away: The porcupine was not killed, and the snake was not allowed to be beaten, so taboo is so important, I don't know what kind of feng shui it is? Daddy didn't bless me to give birth to a cub!
Xie Wen said: Feng Shui is to avoid the wind and water, Daddy is buried in the post of Gaoliang, can avoid the trouble of foxes and rabbits, avoid the wetness of the water spring, the mountains are surrounded by arches, and the river has a run, the river nine bends to gather water into a pool, the slope to the sun has no stones, the woods block the wind, sit in the north and face the south to the west, there is a green dragon out of the show girl on the left, there is a white tiger out of the saint on the right, there is a red bird out of the sage, there is a Xuanwu out of the main master, why not harmonize?
Xie Ying said: The camphor tree guards the door, the cypress tree guards the grave, and it will be better to plant a circle of cypress trees!
Xie Han said: Oh, why didn't you say it earlier? My nursery has wow, and the brothers can do it after a busy day.
Yuan Qiuhua took out his mobile phone, flipped to the inbox, found a short message, and read it aloud in a low voice: In ancient times, there was a woman who always gave birth to a daughter and gave birth to seven sisters, but she didn't give birth to cubs. The in-laws asked their son to divorce her, and her husband wanted to take a concubine. Late one night, she secretly went to the back garden, burned incense and worshiped God, kowtowed to beg for a child, and said: "Heavenly spirit, earth spirit, Guanyin Bodhisattva will soon manifest the spirit, please bless me, send me a cub! All kinds of gods, past gods, listen to me, listen to me, if you say that I don't give birth to cubs, I have been pregnant with cubs in my mother's house, if I say that my husband does not give birth to cubs, but I don't rely on him alone."
Xie Han said: Fish have a fish road, shrimp has a shrimp road, Tianpai doesn't pay attention to your nine points, everyone takes care of everyone, what do you want to do?
Yuan Qiuhua said: You are wrong to death and do not admit that you are wrong, but you have a hard mouth. When he went to visit the New Year in the second year of junior high school, he played three games of chess with my brother and lost a mess. During dinner, I asked him if he had won. Guess what he said, 'In the first set, the eldest brother won, in the second set, I didn't win, and in the third set, I want to make peace, and the eldest brother disagrees'. After losing three games of chess, he couldn't hear a single word from his mouth, which was a piece of oil rag that couldn't get wet or wrung out.
Xie Han said: In the world for decades, it is difficult for children to be rich and prosperous, and husband and wife will be blessed. Brothers are helpers, concubines should be kind, sisters-in-law should be harmonious, relatives and friends should be respected, you always have to say a good word to others!
Xie Wen said: Speak tightly and speak slowly, if you don't say a few words, you will be dumb? Qiuhua, the eldest brother said a few words to you, don't be angry, cough, even if there is such a person, it is just right and wrong behind your back, you really shouldn't say it in public, only you talk a lot, and your mouth is cheap!
Xie Han said: Mosquitoes are fanned just to hurt people in their mouths.
Yuan Qiuhua said: This black and cloudy sky is like a big iron pot, buckled on my head, making people breathless. Fuck you, I want to smash this pot with one punch and get some fresh air!
Xie Ying said: Noise my eggs, what are you doing dumb riddles? It's funny. If this matter is compiled into a big drum in Hubei and Zhang Mingzhi performs on the TV station, he will definitely be able to stun the people of the whole province!
Xie Xiong kicked a series of kicks, kicking out a pit, revealing a stake with white stubble: Oh, it's strange, something is wrong, how is there a stake here? Which nail is it? What does it do?
Xie Wen hurriedly squatted down, lay down the soil along the stake with his hands, lay down the half of the stake that had rotted on the ground, and pulled out the whole root. He patted the dirt on his hands: Nail a stake on the grave to curse Daddy's children to cut off their children and grandchildren.
Xie Xiong said: Hey, it's really a coincidence, is there an enmity with Daddy, or is there an enmity with us?
Xie Ying said: Only God knows, God knows!
Xie Han said: Dad has a fate with Xiao Lin, and I will tell you another dream.
Xie Wen said: To be a person, it is indispensable to accumulate evil virtue, do not retaliate in the open, and vent your anger in the middle, and you can't prevent it.
Yuan Qiuhua said: Do you remember? When my father-in-law died, the county promoted cremation, and some people reported it to the Civil Affairs Bureau, and the above sent people down and asked to be sent to the funeral home for cremation. Later, the third brother-in-law invited others to dinner and paid 800 yuan for cremation before agreeing to the father-in-law's burial.
Xie Ying said: This is the same thing as superbirth, it is not a penalty, as long as the money does not matter!
Xie Xiong said: That's it, market economy, money society, with a small amount of money can make the ghost push the grind, with a big money can make the grind push the ghost.
Xie Wen pressed a piece of burning paper with earth on the dome of the tomb: Oh, which one has a mirror?
Yuan Qiuhua said: Is it okay to use a small round mirror for makeup?
Xie Wen opened the small round mirror, inserted the mirror cover into the soil on the top of the tomb, and said with the mirror facing southeast: The dead wood has been removed, the living snake is still there, and the curse is not broken, at least it will not work!
Everyone will fill the father's grave with cash cows, paper flags, and triangular papers, and the top will be full of flowers, and the wind will pop, like a mournful song.
Finally, all the grave visitors hold hands and walk around the tomb three times before returning.