"Wang Yang, what do you see?"

Chu Yu grabbed Wang Yang tightly, and as Wang Yang took a step forward, she still didn't understand what Wang Yang wanted to do. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Look at those people's soul signs, and look there......"

Wang Yang pointed to the big lantern flags that were inserted on both sides of the drawbridge by the four big-headed people before, these four were dyed red with white paper to make the appearance of lanterns, that is, the soul-attracting flags needed for funerals, which are generally used as street lamps when the deceased's souls return home, guiding the deceased's souls to go home and lighting the way home.

Generally speaking, the soul-attracting banner is either black on a white background or white on a black background, and there is no other color except for these two, but the soul-attracting banner used by this funeral procession is black on a red background.

At the beginning, Wang Yang just thought it was strange, but he didn't think much about it, and thought that it was because of the difference in regions, and the custom here was to use the ghost banner with black characters on a red background, but as these people continued to set up the funeral platform, he saw a little bit of it.

Following the direction of Wang Yang's finger, Chu Yu and Yan Pengchao's gaze shifted from the soul banner to the crowd of people in the funeral procession, where they realized that something was wrong.

In this pair of funeral processions, all the people were basically dressed in black and wearing white scarves, but among them, there was a little girl with yellow muscles who was dressed in red, which was very eye-catching.

She stood alone in the middle of the funeral procession, although she was surrounded by everyone, but no one dared to approach her within three steps, this little girl stood in the middle of the crowd in a daze, her eyes stared straight at the person in front of her who set up a funeral table there, stretched out a finger and bit it in her mouth, and the others were either howling and crying, or they were also bowing their heads and showing sadness, and she was the only one who showed a stupid smile. Swaying slightly.

"Is this doing white things, or doing red things?"

When Chu Yu saw the little girl, he was also a little confused, and turned to look at Wang Yang.

"This is not just an ordinary wild burial, but also a living burial, this little girl may have something to do with the old man's ghost just now. The old man must have begged us to help save the little girl from the disaster of being buried. ”

Wang Yang looked at Master Xing'an as he spoke, and Master Xing'an nodded to him, indicating that what Wang Yang said was not bad at all.

Living people are buried together, which is very common in ancient times, and the most people who do this kind of thing are the emperors in the feudal society, after the death of those emperors, then the concubines who have no heirs in the emperor's harem, if they do not have a strong family background. Then they will be buried as a sacrifice to accompany the emperor who died of death, which means that they will go to the underworld to accompany the emperor as a concubine, so as not to be lonely in the underworld.

There are also similar funerals among the people, that is, those high-ranking officials and landlords, who learn from the emperor and do not want to be too lonely in the underworld after their death, so they arrange burial companions.

This is also the reason why there are always resentful spirits and evil spirits in many ancient tombs, and these burial companions cannot all be willing to bury people. was buried alive in the mausoleum, and the resentment and hatred were naturally great. It's not surprising that evil spirits form after death.

However, this custom was much less as early as after the Qin and Han dynasties, and stone maids were used to replace living people in the Qin and Han dynasties, and the burial of living people in the five dynasties and ten kingdoms was revived, and the same was true in the early Tang Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, but in the middle of the period they were ordered to prohibit. It is clear that after Nurhachi died, his concubine was forced to accompany the burial, and then it was expressly forbidden again during the Kangxi period, and since then the funeral system in various places has really withdrawn from the stage of history, and then for hundreds of years. I don't hear of this custom anymore.

However, in some areas, especially in remote areas, there are still some cults that still pass down this custom, but they are no longer so blatantly popularized on a large scale.

Although Renjia Village is remote and difficult to walk, it can be said that it is almost a paradise-like village, but it is not isolated from the world after all, I am afraid that there are other reasons for the burial girl in this funeral.

"Wang Yang, then do you have any way to help that little girl, she looks so pitiful."

Chu Yu looked at the little girl, moved with compassion, and pulled Wang Yang to ask in a low voice.

patted Chu Yu and signaled Chu Yu not to worry, Wang Yang took a step forward and stopped a villager in the funeral procession who was closer to them, ready to inquire about the situation.

The villager who was stopped by Wang Yang was quite alert, looked at Wang Yang, didn't answer any questions at all, and fiercely warned Wang Yang and told him not to meddle in his affairs.

Seeing this, Wang Yang could only give up, planning to see if there were any other people willing to tell him what was going on, so that he would be buried with a living person when the dead were buried in the wild.

But no matter who these funeral processions were, they didn't have a good face for Wang Yang, and it was good to warn Wang Yang not to meddle in his affairs. Some people were stopped by Wang Yang, and they immediately looked at each other angrily, and they had the posture of beating people at any time.

Nine years ago, whether the police from the Special Operations Department or the Serious Crime Unit came here to investigate the situation, they were all hindered a lot, and in the end they did not get any useful clues, so they had to leave because they were not welcomed by the villagers of Renjia Village.

I found a few villagers one after another, but Wang Yang tried in vain and didn't ask anything.

"Wang Jushi, wait a minute, things may not turn around later."

Master Xing'an persuaded Wang Yang in a timely manner, and Wang Yang gave up and did not ask anyone to understand the situation.

At this time, the temporary funeral platform built at the mouth of the suspension bridge has been completed, and the funeral team has been divided into two teams, and the person responsible for playing the funeral music has begun to beat the gong and drum vigorously to play the suona.

Not far away, a stretcher wrapped in straw mats was carried by four young and strong young men from the end of the funeral procession to the burial platform at the entrance of the drawbridge. They carried the stretcher six paces forward, then took one step back, followed another six steps, and then took another step back, and so on and so forth, and walked back and forth, until at last they came to the little girl in red who was still standing in front of her, and the four young men stood still, not in a hurry to go any further, and at the same time turned their heads and looked behind them.

Wild burial is not as cumbersome as burial, the wrapped straw mat is the cloth coffin, and the person who carries the stretcher is the coffin bearer, it seems that the six advances and one retreat they walked is the unique funeral ceremony here, which means that the deceased must come back to see the intention of the first seven.

In fact, they didn't wait too long, and an old woman with gray hair walked forward step by step from behind, supported by two middle-aged people.

"The goddess has arrived!"

As the gray-haired old woman came over, someone immediately shouted loudly in front of her, and when she heard this shout, the noisy and chaotic funeral procession on both sides suddenly quieted down, and everyone immediately became respectful when they were carrying the stretcher coffin inside, and even the sound of wailing and wailing became much quieter.

Everyone's eyes were on the gray-haired old woman, and with the support of the people around her, the old woman walked up to the girl in red, raised her hand to hold the little hand of the girl in red, circled back to the side of the stretcher, pulled the little girl's hand to the edge of the stretcher, and signaled her to hold on to the stretcher tightly.

After that, the goddess raised her head, looked at the setting sun overhead, and shouted loudly.

"Up, buried!" (To be continued.) )