By the time the three of us returned to Hongwei's house, they were all ready to go.

I asked Anne White:

"Do we still want to learn to follow?"

"What do you say? At this time, it is most likely to have an accident. ”

After saying that, Bai Annie walked over.

I followed Anne White.

But this time we were at the back and didn't squeeze forward.

At this time, around half past nine, coupled with the thrilling stage collapse that had just happened, after the horn left, there was no one on the street.

A gust of wind blew over, like a gloomy wind, eerie.

The team of the paper is all wearing white filial piety clothes, and if a person walks over and sees the scene in front of him, he will definitely be scared.

And at this time, the filial sons and grandchildren are tired, sleepy, and have no strength to suffer, and the innermost is just a symbolic hum.

What I didn't expect was that the "bet paper" was actually fooled.

Walking to the small temple, we didn't even kneel down when we saw that the magnificent had turned back.

I saw the tray in Hongwei's hand, the wine cup on it, the three sticks of incense and the paper, and I didn't move, and I didn't worship at all.

Maybe the principal knew that there would definitely be an accident, so he simply canceled it.

This cannot be said to be a stopgap measure.

At this point, if there is any accident, it will cause greater suspicion and even riots.

Back in the mourning hall, those filial sons and grandsons in our village, who don't need to keep the spirit, went back to their homes.

The rest are the direct relatives of the family, and of course, Hongwei and Hongyu.

Now comes the wake.

The so-called wake, it is a custom of our people, relatives to guard the funeral bed, coffin or spiritual seat.

Because the vigil is to keep watch by the coffin in the night, it is also called a vigil.

Our ancients believed that the soul of the deceased should return home for a visit within three days of death, so the children waited in the mourning hall for the return of their soul. Relatives and friends were with them every night until the body was buried in a coffin. Until now, the wake is a ritual for relatives to gather together to mourn the deceased and express their feelings of remembrance.

In fact, we all know at this time that Guoxian's grandfather died unexpectedly, and his three souls and seven spirits did not enter the underworld according to the normal procedures, so there is no such thing as Guoxian's grandfather's dead soul returning to visit his relatives.

At this time, Guoxian's grandfather has turned into a ghost, and he doesn't know when he will appear.

As for the purpose of the appearance, it goes without saying.

That's why we're here to keep the vigil.

As for the spirit, it must be the immediate family of the deceased, that is, relatives who are related by blood, to be the leader, so now in the mourning hall, only Hongwei, Hongyu and the two brothers of the family, plus the three of us, a total of seven people.

Originally, the sons and daughters of Hongwei and Hongyu also needed to come over to keep the spirit, but the children were young, and the two daughters-in-law had a strong request, so the children went into the house to sleep, as for the two daughters-in-law of Hongwei, they had not seen their shadows since dinner, even if they needed the two of them to keep the spirit, they would not appear.

Of course, there is another reason why children are not allowed to come to the vigil, to put it bluntly, this wake, is a time-consuming and late-night job.

Since it is a wake, of course, I can't sleep all night, and I need to stay up all night.

In the mourning hall, in front of the coffin, there is an ever-bright lamp, said to be a long-lasting lamp, it used to be a kerosene lamp, but now it is directly replaced with a bowl, which is filled with kerosene, and put a wick.

This is the rule left by the ancients, the lantern is never extinguished, in order to guide the souls of the dead, so that they can find their way home.

In addition, there is an incense burner and a brazier in front of the coffin, from the time of the wake, to six o'clock the next morning, three incense sticks must be lit every once in a while, and three paper ingots must be burned in the brazier, and the dumb paper cannot be burned, that is, when the paper ingots are burned, the guardian must cry out, whether it is a real cry or a fake cry, he must cry out of his voice, this is not to cry to the neighbors, but to cry to the souls who come back, so that the souls of the dead know that your children and grandchildren, because of your departure, how sad, how sad.

From the moment of the wake, to the next morning, burning incense, burning paper money, and crying, it needs to be done a total of six times, no more, no less.

There is a saying that if the guardian falls asleep in the middle, or does it less, then the fortune of the family will plummet in the future, and there will even be a bloody disaster.

But whether it's true or not, I don't know.

Of course, what burns incense and paper is all false, and what the guardian really has to do is to guard the coffin and guard around the coffin, in case the corpse of the deceased is ruined by the cat.

Someone said, this corpse is not lying in the coffin, a few words even if a cat has great skills, it is impossible to enter the coffin and spoil the corpse.

But the spoiling of corpses here does not mean that cats will get into the coffin and bite the corpse or anything, but to prevent the cat from passing over the coffin.

Once a cat, especially a black cat, or even a black wild cat, folklore has it that if it passes through the coffin, then it may cause a corpse fraud!

When I was a child, my old man told me about this.

It is said that it is a corpse, and there are three conditions, namely, one, the dog gets into the bottom of the coffin; Two, the cat goes over the coffin lid; Three, owls flew over the carcass.

In these three cases, the dog generally does not walk around at night, and is in its own home to watch the home, which rarely happens, as for the owl, as we said earlier, it smells of the dead body, and it will only be observed at a higher height, only when the time is ripe, it will fly down, and under normal circumstances it will not fly down.

So of these three situations, cats are the most elusive and the most difficult to control.

First of all, the cat's personality is eccentric, and when it is docile, it can be extremely gentle, but it is weird, and the six relatives do not recognize it, and no one can take him.

Wild cats, in particular, come and go without a trace, and no one can control their whereabouts.

Therefore, the cat crossing through the coffin is the most likely to happen, and it is also the most likely to cause corpse fraud.

As for why the cat crossed over the coffin and why it caused the corpse, there are many theories.

Some say that it is because when people die, sometimes there is still a breath left in the chest, if they are washed by cats, dogs and mice, they will be falsely resurrected, and the animal soul will possess the corpse, but this breath can not support life at all, and will only bite like a resurrected corpse beast, and finally that breath will come out and fall to the ground, and it will be considered completely dead.

There is also a scientific explanation, that it is not a corpse at all, because the cat has a very strong static electricity, when the cat passes by the corpse, this static electricity will conflict with the residual bioelectricity on the dead person, thereby stimulating some tissues on the corpse, causing muscle contraction and withdrawal, it looks like the corpse is resurrected, if the static electricity on the cat is particularly strong, there may also be a phenomenon that the corpse suddenly straightens up, which is misrepresented as a corpse.

(End of chapter)