87. Let's go home together

Ming Cheng was grabbed and shaken, and slowly calmed down, got up and stepped forward with the three dog fathers, pointed to a corpse in the middle of the road and said:

"Look at this arm, it's Mingyue's sweat towel for Sangou."

The sweat towel can still be vaguely recognized, Mingyue and her mother when they were learning to be a female red, the embroidered red moon.

Mingcheng's father also knew this sweat towel, and remembered that after Mingyue finished embroidering it, he was so excited to show it to him; Now that I'm here, it's sure it's Sangou, no wonder Sangou, who was supposed to go home these days, has no news at all.

Mingcheng's father couldn't help but be heartbroken, this child, like his own child, saw that he was a little older, and it was his future son-in-law who grew up with Mingcheng, and he was also half a son, but he was so miserable on the mountain.

looked at Mingcheng's father with tears in his eyes, shook his head, and sat down dejectedly; The three dog fathers understood something at once, and they were hanging their hearts all the way, and they refused to speak, and now it has finally come true.

The father of the three dogs was no longer able to stand firmly, and staggered close to the body of the three dogs, his legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground, with old tears, looking up to the sky and roaring, and then hammered the ground with both hands, and could not stand on the ground.

Sangou's mother couldn't bear such a big blow anymore, and fainted on the spot, and the policemen in the distance understood what was going on, and hurriedly came over to help, helped Sangou's mother, and woke her up.

The people who came and went on the road also slowly gathered and formed a big circle, looking at this tragic image of the world.

The mother of the three dogs who woke up was grief-stricken, lying on the ground, trying to crawl over, and then look at the appearance of the three dogs, which was the heart of the pregnancy that fell from October, and it took 17 years of hard work to grow up so big, how can you say that it is gone?

How much effort has been poured into it,

How much hope is filled,

How many times have I watched you bury your head in eating, and I smiled with satisfaction,

How many times have I watched you read hard under the lamp, I smiled with relief,

How many times have I watched you pick up firewood and come back, I smiled sadly,

How many times have you leaned in front of the chai door, waiting for you to come home;

But now, what is waiting for is your bad news;

O son of hard life, life is so hard, and death is so miserable.

In that case, why should we be reincarnated in this world, why should we be reincarnated in our home?

Let me look at you again, and take a closer look,

I will never see it again, until I die, until I go into the coffin, I will never see it again.

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A few policemen called a few passers-by to help, and just grabbed the mother of the three dogs who was in a collapsed and exhausted state, Mingyue fainted again, but fortunately, Mingcheng supported himself, hugged his sister, and woke Mingyue up with kind passers-by.

Mingcheng's father knew that he couldn't go on like this for a long time, and that the things that should be done had to be done immediately, so he suppressed his grief and talked with the police about matters such as the handover of the recognition person, and also signed and drew the charge on behalf of the three dog fathers.

also took out real money to offer a reward, recruited a few passers-by, cut down trees and branches, made a simple stretcher, carried the remains of the three dogs on the stretcher, covered with straw mats, and had to be carried back quickly, no matter how late it was, it was estimated that it would be rotten.

The dead have passed away, and the living have been reborn, if what should be done must be done; After getting ready, Mingcheng's father asked Mingcheng to carry Mingyue, who was paralyzed on the ground, and he and the recovered Sangou Dad hugged the Sangou Mother, who had become a tearful person, and followed back on the stretcher.

In the nearby village, Mingcheng's father begged the villagers to buy some incense paper money, and walked all the way, scattering all the way; This is the money for the three dogs to buy the road, after all, it is a foreign land, to go home, along the way you have to pass through a number of checkpoints in the underworld, you need to spend money to pass, otherwise the body will go back, the soul will still be blocked in the distance, and you can't go home.

The mountain road is narrow, and there are many places where only two people can walk side by side, so Mingcheng's father simply ran ahead alone to lead the way and scatter paper money.

The three dog fathers and the three dog mothers support each other to walk, and perhaps only the two of them support each other, support each other, and give each other the strength to persevere, can they get through this difficulty.

The villagers are subtle, and like all the villagers, the three dogs' parents have never held hands in front of everyone since they were combined, but in fact, this family is supported by the two holding hands together.

Now this family is in great trouble, but no matter how strong the wind and rain are, the family cannot fall, that is, the two of them cannot fall down, so that the two of them can support each other to maintain this family.

Everyone understands the truth, but how difficult it is to do, along the way, the three dog mother is too grief-grieving, often walking, people fall to the ground, and the three dog father has to carry her.

Men are like mountains, carrying heavy loads, even if the sky falls, they must stand up and move forward. So no matter how depressed your mood is, no matter how uncomfortable your body is, you have to hold on.

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At the beginning, Sangou's mother and Mingyue were still crying all the way, but slowly, their throats became hoarse and weak, and their crying voices became low, and then only choked and sobbed.

Walking all the way to the tenth capital, the sun had already begun to set in the west, and the body on the stretcher, because of the heat and moving, emitted a greater odor.

The two people who carried the stretcher were no longer willing to carry it, maybe they were tired, maybe they couldn't stand the disgusting stench, and more importantly, they saw that the sun was slowly about to set, and they were afraid of carrying the corpse to walk at night, after all, this was not their own relatives, and everyone was afraid, in case it was stained with any evil spirit, it would be even more troublesome.

There was no way, Mingcheng's father had to let the two people be carried to the door of the Shoufang shop (coffin shop) not far away, he knew the owner of the coffin shop, the old man in the clan had passed away, he participated in the funeral work, and came here to buy a coffin.

That is, acquaintances, only the corpse can be placed in front of the store; Mingcheng's father went in and bought a white coffin blank (not painted) on credit, and Sangou Dad went to buy a new quilt, a few new clothes, lace (paper money in the shape of silver dollars), Lu Yin (the road pass in the underworld), copper coins and other things needed for the funeral.

First nailed seven copper coins to the bottom of the coffin, several men endured the stench, wrapped the body of the three dogs with a guide with a quilt, exposed the head, and put it in the coffin, there was no way to wash the body of the three dogs.

I asked the store for some tea and rice, and put them in the mouth of the three dogs' remains, which was considered to have food and drink in my mouth, and I would not be hungry or thirsty on the way to the underworld.

You also have to put a mouth of money in your mouth, which is said to be reincarnated as a good person in the next life, as the saying goes, you are reincarnated with a golden key; It is also said that the next life will share the wealth of this life; It is also said that it is the money for the boat to cross the river (there is a big river in the underworld).

It is also said that it is money for Meng Po, after Meng Po gets the money, she will give the deceased to drink Meng Po soup, and cross the Nai He Bridge to have the opportunity to be reincarnated, otherwise, the dead who have not drunk or do not drink Meng Po soup will be tortured for thousands of years in the Lechuan River before they can leave.

Since there was no broken gold and silver to make money, Mingyue broke off a silver hairpin, gave it to the father of the three dogs, and put it in the mouth of the three dogs' remains.

Then put a few new clothes in the coffin, and then spread lace paper money, which is considered the cash that three dogs need to use when they get there, and the lace paper money should be sprinkled on the top of the coffin, and the ones that fall on the ground can not be picked up and put into the coffin, and they should be taken home, called fortune money.

In the end, the father of the three dogs used a few pieces of straw paper to roll them into a long stick and put them in the coffin, which was to beat the dogs, which means that the three dogs met a vicious dog on the way to the underworld, and they could use this to drive them away.