This old man doesn't even know how to trade. When he was young, his family had a few acres of land, and later he gambled it all away, and then he ran errands for the township office, as the saying goes, to be a dog's leg. Sometimes when encountering other people's happy events, he also helps carry the sedan chair and blow the horn.

Later emancipated, he was destitute. Although he is a dog, he is not a landlord, nor is he specifically for the township. At that time, the land reform team that requisitioned the township office saw that he was very attentive in serving tea and pouring water, and he was also very active in speaking at the meeting, often filled with righteous indignation, and shouted slogans very loudly, so he was appointed a land reform activist.

The old man became a village cadre, married a landlord's daughter as his wife, and lived a happy life. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the old man pushed pai gow gambling during the busy farming period, and was caught by the county leaders who came to inspect the work.

The village cadres were evacuated, and the old man was beaten back to his original form. It is said that he is going to go to the field to farm, but no, he has no chance to farm in his life.

At that time it was already the period of cooperatives. The old man didn't know how to farm, and the president and captain didn't send him to farm, and the crops couldn't withstand his spoilage. His errand was to "see the forbidden". The so-called ban is to prohibit chickens, ducks, and pigs, cows, etc. from running to the crops. It's not technical, it's suitable for someone like him.

It doesn't look like it's a lot of forbidden work, but it's fixed. The burden of the family's life is maintained by the wife getting up early and working in the dark like a man. In this way, the old man mixed into the reform and opening up, and the land began to be contracted to households.

I don't have to see it, and my wife is dead. The daughter of this landlord endured all her life to support such a destitute hired farmer. It doesn't matter if his wife dies, his wife gave birth to five children for him, all of whom are older, and it is not a problem for the family to provide for the elderly.

The city is expanding, and the village has changed from a purely rural village to a suburb. The children went to the city to work, and they were also very active. The old man is lazy all his life, and his children can't do anything else.

The old man was in good health and could have lived a few more years. A while ago, the township government came to verify his wife's situation, such as name, age, appearance, whether she is alive and well, and so on. After a little inquiry, it was his wife's brother who was looking for his sister.

My wife's brother ran away from home before liberation and has never been missing. Who knew he would end up in Belgium? Now that I'm old and homesick, my parents must have died, but my sister may still be there, so I sent a letter to look for it.

The old man thought that his time had come. There is such an uncle in a foreign country, and he will not eat and drink spicy food in the future?

As soon as the old man was happy, he drank a few more taels. The old man, who had drunk a few taels of wine, went to find a ** in the village. This ** is in her fifties, and now she is not **, she remarried. But the old man thinks she is **, and the husband who bullied her to remarry is a foreigner, and he likes to run to her house when he has nothing to do.

**The couple closed the door, and ignored whatever the old man called outside. The old man had no choice but to walk back stupidly. It was dark and slippery, and it was raining, and the old man fell and never got up.

It was a well-known gentleman who collected the old man's body. The so-called sir does not refer to the one who teaches, but is an honorific title for corpse collectors in this area.

The first step in collecting a corpse is to dress the deceased. The family took out the shroud that had been prepared a long time ago, and the husband said that the shroud was wrong. According to local customs, the shroud should have five collars and three waists, no buttons and no belts.

The so-called five collars and three waists refer to five blouses and three trousers. Clothes must not have buttons, and trousers must not have belts. It means that the ghost is holding the placket of his clothes with one hand and his pants with the other, so that he has no hands to harm people.

But the shroud taken out by the old man's family was a Zhongshan suit, with suit pants underneath and leather shoes underneath. The gentleman said that this is not right, and that it should be five collars and three waists. The old man's son and daughter said that this was what their father had prepared before his death. Their father said that this is a cadre uniform, and they can be a cadre if they are reincarnated in the next life.

Mr. didn't pay much attention to it. Nowadays, many people die wearing tunics, and some even wear suits and ties. But when the gentleman was dressing the old man, he felt that something was wrong. He couldn't say what was wrong. Anyway, unlike the dead he had reined in before, there seemed to be a kind of evil spirit.

The gentleman secretly pressed a bag of thousand-foot mud on the old man's chest. The so-called thousand-foot mud is the dirt scraped off the path in some old houses or temples. Because this dirt is brought out by the soles of countless people's feet, it feels very heavy to the ghost, as if thousands of people have stepped on it.

It was fine all night. Speaking of a night, in fact, it is not even half of the night. The old man fell at about 10 o'clock in the evening, and his children sent him to a suburban hospital for emergency treatment. When he arrived at the hospital, the doctor rolled his eyelids, there was nothing to save him, he had been dead for a long time. By this time, it was already past twelve o'clock.

Looking for a car to get the body home, it was almost two o'clock in the morning. It should be noted that at that time, cremation was not widely practiced in rural areas, so suburban hospitals allowed the bodies to be repatriated.

It's already four o'clock when I find him again, and it's almost dawn at this time of summer. The old man is sixty-eight years old, and it is a happy event for nothing, and there are many people who come to mourn. In addition, the mourning bed is supported to build the mourning shed, the paper is burned to open the road, etc., and the day is bright and lively.

The gentleman felt that this funeral was dangerous and troublesome, but he could not explain it to the family. Because he only knew what it was, but didn't know why it was, he couldn't say a word, and he had nothing to say when he was beaten by his family.

The gentleman called to find a friend. This friend is a peer and is very famous in another region. According to the phenomenon described by the gentleman, the friend also thought it was dangerous. What kind of danger? I don't know. Don't think that the corpse is the most dangerous, in fact, the most dangerous thing is that there is something bad to keep up with people. I can't see or touch it, but this person has been on bad luck ever since. What bad luck? Still don't know. Unpredictable things are the most sinister.

This friend persuaded Mr. Gao Shan Han. Although Gao Shanhan is young, although he has just arrived in Lianglin, his master has a big name in this industry. Gao Shanhan's master died of a zombie, which not only did not affect his reputation, but made people in this industry admire him even more. Anyone who fights with zombies is dead, and it is great if they dare to fight. Unless it's that kind of person, but that kind of person is just a legend, and no one has ever seen it in reality.

When Gao Shan Han came, he saw that everything was decent, indicating that the gentleman who hosted the funeral was very sophisticated. There is a mourning shed in the courtyard. In the middle of the funeral shed is the coffin. The coffin lid is not covered, indicating that the body has not yet been contained.

The funeral customs are different in different places, and even the customs in different villages in the same township are different. The custom here is to put the head in the head on the third day after death. After the funeral shed, there is the hall of this family. On the side of the hall is the funeral bed, on which the deceased is lying.

This is also the custom here, which is different from other places. In other places, the deceased was placed on a morgue board, which was placed directly on the ground. This is a funeral bed. The so-called spiritual bed, that is, two benches on top of a door board.

Without removing the deceased's face cover, Gao Shanhan felt that something was wrong. There was an eerie resentment in the deceased. This kind of resentment goes straight to people's skin, which makes people shudder.

What knot does this old man have in his life that cannot be untied, or what great revenge has not been avenged, or what has not been done, or what people cannot be broken?

The gentleman did not know the specific situation, he was not from this village. The general situation that Mr. knows is that this old man has been lazy all his life, stealing and cheating, eating, drinking, gambling, and smoking, and he knows his personality for dozens of miles.

The gentleman provided details of the cause of the old man's death, which was that he drank too much wine, went to find the ** who had remarried, was refused, and fell and died on the way home.

Gao Shan Han's scalp is numb, and this kind of person is most likely to haunt the ghost after death. If he comes out after being buried, what he does has little to do with the person who restrains him. I am afraid that during the period of mourning, those who restrain or do things must come forward to accept it.

Gao Shan Han took out the peachwood sword, the ink bucket and the soul bell, he only had these three magic weapons. Master's magic weapons were all lost during the fight with zombies, and they were picked up by others and not returned.

It's still early, and even if the ghosts do, they will have to wait until the end of the day. The soul of the new dead is not so powerful, and it is just dark and does not dare to come out.

There are many sheets, quilts, blankets, and couplets hanging in the altar. It is customary here to use these things as a funeral. According to the economic conditions of the families who came to mourn, those who were difficult were given bed sheets, ordinary quilts were sent, and those who had money were given blankets. It mainly depends on the intimacy of the relationship between the mourners and the family of the deceased.

In the hall, next to the funeral bed, there is a broken enamel basin. Paper is being burned in the basin, and several children wearing filial piety take turns to burn it.

The relationship between the deceased and the villagers was not very good, and the people who came to mourn or watch the excitement dispersed just after the hour, that is, at nine o'clock. Only the children of the deceased were left in the shed, and even the grandchildren went to sleep.

Do a run once every hour. This is also the funeral custom in this area, which actually contains the meaning of opening the way and transcendence. This ritual is a bit nondescript. Opening the way is usually done when a person dies, and the gentleman has done it for the deceased. In fact, the transcendence should be done by the monks, and the Taoist priests generally only exorcise ghosts and disasters. Now the old customs have been broken, and the new customs have not been established, so it is a bit of a mess.

The so-called running five directions is that the Taoist priest shakes the soul exorcism bell, recites the Sutra of Chaodu, and takes his filial sons and grandsons to run around the local area. It depends on where the deceased's home is. The deceased was in the city, and the neighborhood in which he lived. The deceased is in the township, and this township is in this township. The deceased was in the countryside, and his village was there. Generally speaking, there is no such thing in the city, and the neighborhood committee and the police station have to interfere.

None of the sons and daughters of this family wanted to pay more. If you don't have any money, of course, Mr. will save as much trouble as possible, give them a funeral and make it simple, just walk around the mourning bed, and then run to every corner of his house, and finally walk around the funeral bed again.

Today, Gao Shanhan took the lead in running the five directions from Hai Shi, and Mr. and his apprentice were on the side, beating the leather drum and playing the copper cymbal.

When I was a child, I ran in all directions, and my grandchildren didn't participate, not even my daughter. The three sons followed behind Gao Shanhan, and they didn't look at the lively people. Rural people like to watch lively events, especially red and white ceremonies. Now no one comes to see the excitement, which shows that the dead old man is unpopular in the village, and his children are not very popular among the villagers.

The deceased's house was not large, and it took less than ten minutes to go around the corners. After the end, the three sons said that they were on duty in turns, but in fact they all went back to their respective homes.