After listening to the cry of Zhao Yuanjun's wife, everyone was silent. Liu Xian sighed and didn't speak again. Xuanyuan Feng saw that everyone didn't speak, so he straightened up and said: "I think what the lady of the Zhao family said is also right, we are all familiar with Brother Manhai, and he grew up under the watchful eyes of all the villagers, and he is not a wicked person, we should organize a funeral for him, and we should send him well!" Liu Xian heard Xuanyuan Feng's words, and then swallowed back what he wanted to say, squatting on the ground and smoking his dry cigarette.

Since there was no objection, the matter was settled.

Zhao Ji'an is also a bachelor, living alone and has no relatives. and Zhao Yuanjun are also distant relatives, and this time he died in the Zhao family, so he handled Zhao Manhai's funeral together.

Although Liu advocated that the bodies of these people be buried immediately, he did not say anything when he saw that everyone agreed to hold a funeral. The specific arrangements for the funeral are still entrusted to Liu Zhenjian. After all, he has a lot of experience in white affairs.

Liu Xian made detailed arrangements for the next funeral, told Zhao Yuanjun to purchase the necessary items, and invited some villagers to come over to help, after all, there are many things to do.

After explaining clearly, Liu Xian hurriedly returned to the seventh master's house, and the body of the seventh master was still parked in the house, waiting for him to be the main burial!

Xuanyuan Feng and the others also returned to the old seventh master's house with Liu Xian. Seeing the old seventh master lying there upright, Liu Xian entered the door and cried, thinking in pieces, what is grateful for the nurturing grace of the old seventh master, without the seventh master, there would be no today for himself, anyway, it is some words of gratitude and remorse.

Seeing Liu Zhen's sadness crying, everyone came forward to support and comfort, and some soft-hearted women also followed behind to wipe their tears. sighed that the old seventh master adopted a filial son!

After kowtowing and burning paper, Liu Kaijian wiped the tears from his eyes, personally scrubbed the body of the seventh master, changed into a set of clean clothes, shoes and socks, and then instructed the villagers who helped to bury the seventh master.

According to the custom of Qingshan Village, after the death of a living person, they should first park at home for three to five days, these days are to prepare for the funeral, including setting up the mourning hall, purchasing the items needed for the funeral, and informing the relatives of the deceased to ......., and then the funeral will be held, the funeral will take two days, and several ceremonies will be held during these two days until the deceased person is buried.

The old seventh master is highly respected and old, and his death is called a happy funeral in the local area, and it generally needs to be placed at home for five days before the funeral is held.

In Qingshan Village, if someone dies, it is necessary to find a person to be the chief manager to handle the entire funeral, and this general manager cannot be the children and other relatives of the deceased, because in the whole funeral process, the children and relatives have to participate in many ceremonies and have no time to manage the entire funeral arrangement. Liu Zhenzhen is the only adopted son of the old seventh master, and his only relative, so naturally he can't be the general manager, so he finally arranged for Bai Guilin to be the chief manager and handle the funeral of the old seventh master!

And Liu Xian happened to go to Zhao Yuanjun's house as the head of the funeral for the eldest son of the Zhao family!

Although some strange things happened in the Zhao family during the day, Zhao Yuanjun went door to door to notify and help, and the villagers in the big hometown couldn't pull their faces, and all those who could come came.

The eldest son of the Zhao family has been parked at home for four days, and today is exactly the fifth day. The first ceremony of the funeral will be held tonight, which is called scraping the tomb in the local area, that is, a group of gongs and drummers are hired to play all night, which means to inform the souls of the deceased to prepare to return home and receive the sacrifices of relatives, and the gongs and drums are very noisy, because they will be transmitted to the land temple and let the souls of the dead in the land temple hear. According to local legends, after death, the soul first goes to the local land temple. Before the performance, relatives and friends of the deceased attend a small worship, and after the service, the gong and drum makers begin to play all night. Xuanyuan Feng was a little curious about these, and opened his yin and yang eyes to observe all the time, wanting to see if any yin spirits would come back early, but the result disappointed him.

After a night of noise, nothing special happened.

The next morning, the second ritual of the funeral was held, which was to burn the paper and worship the relatives. A poignant suona sounded, Zhao Manhai's parents cried and came to the spirit, and began to worship their son. After that, there were other relatives of the Zhao family, who worshiped in order, and in addition to the people of this village, there were also some relatives from other places.

After all the relatives have paid their respects, the third part of the funeral ceremony is to pay tribute to the deceased.

If the old man with more descendants of the younger generations dies, when he pays tribute, he will kneel in front of the filial sons and grandsons, and the white ones are filial piety. Because Zhao Manhai is young and has no descendants, only his younger brother Zhao Manjiang knelt in front of the spirit, and a plate of tribute was put on the tribute table of Zhao Manhai and her wife, and the gong and drum makers also played in unison.

After about half an hour, all the tributes were ready.

At this time, it was also noon, and the Zhao family began to arrange for the funeral attendees to eat.

Xuanyuan Feng has been at the funeral site all along, always keeping an eye on the people attending the funeral. Just when the tribute was over and everyone began to prepare for the meal, suddenly there was an exclamation from the tribute table, only to hear the sound of the incense burner falling to the ground, and the sound was made by Zhao Manhai's mother, who was about to change the incense burner. Xuanyuan Feng quickly ran over, only to see a black shadow burst out like lightning, and then a few jumps disappeared from sight. It was the black cat, Xuanyuan Feng recognized it at a glance! it was the black cat that appeared next to the corpse of the old seventh master and suddenly disappeared. Seeing this black cat appear near the corpse twice, Xuanyuan Feng was thoughtful.

Zhao Manhai's mother was taken aback, her eyes were a little dull after coming back to her senses, and after holding the incense burner that fell to the ground, she left silently. The appearance of a black cat next to the corpse was not a good sign, and Zhao Manhai's mother obviously knew about it.

After a quiet afternoon, and after the evening tribute, the fourth part of the funeral began.

The fourth ceremony is very important and a key part of the funeral, which is to report to the temple!

The so-called temple is that the family of the deceased goes to the land temple to bring the soul of the deceased home, and the soul goes home and finally reunites with the family for one night, and the next day it will be buried at the funeral.

In front of the temple, Zhao Yuanjun, Zhao Manjiang and other Zhao family men were all dressed in white, and the villagers who came to help held incense sails and various paper ties, and Liu Zhenjian held an oil lamp in front to guide the way, and Zhao Yuanjun held a soul sail in his arms, and the gong and drum makers also followed. When reporting to the temple, only the male is allowed to go to the land temple to pick up the souls of the dead, and the female family members wait at home, and when the male family members of the temple take the ghosts home, all the female family members go to the door and burn the paper to guide the souls.

Accompanied by the desolate and passionate sound of suona, a group of Zhao family men set off slowly. When encountering the intersection, everyone knelt down and opened the way for the lonely souls and wild ghosts to burn the dark coins.

Xuanyuan Feng followed from a distance, and after kneeling and praying all the way, everyone finally came to the Land Temple.