Fell into the tank yourself and drowned? This way of death is really strange, the words were said by Wu Baocai's son, and I didn't doubt it at first, but when I looked down at Wu Baocai's appearance again, I suddenly became suspicious again.

Wu Baocai's expression was very relaxed, and even the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, which did not meet the characteristics of accidental death.

If he accidentally drowns, he must have struggled, and after death, his face will freeze with the expression of horror before death, and on the other hand, will this expression mean that his death was not an accident?

Is it suicide? My heart trembled, but when I thought about it, the man was dead, and the reason for it might not matter.

Wu Jinghan's uncle and aunt persuaded Wu Jinghan to stand up, and several village women also came over to comfort her.

"Birth, old age, sickness and death, no one can do it......

"Human life is destined by God, this is all arranged."

As soon as Wu Jinghan got up, an old woman held a female filial piety dress in her hand and put it on her.

Although Tonghe Village and Hewang Village are dozens of miles apart, the funeral customs of the two villages are very different, and some traditional practices of the last century are still retained here, such as: if the elders die, the children and grandchildren should wear filial piety clothes, and the sons should wear linen and filial piety, and the head is covered with two things that resemble meatballs, commonly known as "big-eared eggs", and this area is also "old".

"Shelao" is the local vernacular, simply put, the deceased's younger generations or relatives and friends wear linen and filial piety, holding a willow stick in their hands (you must use a willow stick, borrowing the homonym "stay", meaning to express the meaning of wanting to keep the deceased), and then go out of the village in the southwest direction, generally each village has a fixed "Shelao" place.

Everyone gathered in a circle, then circled around crying, and finally burned the paper people and paper horses, and finally burned a piece of the deceased's usual clothes, and then sprinkled some half-baked dumplings on the ground.

In addition, there is a peculiar custom in this village, that is, if the deceased dies at night, he needs to complete a "prison" before dawn, when we rushed back to the village, it was already more than three o'clock, and comforted Wu Jinghan again, delayed some time, and saw that it was already past four o'clock.

The village manager urged him several times, asking Uncle Wu Jinghan to hurry up and get ready to go to the old man.

Tonight the hand was successful, in fact, Wu Jinghan had already admitted my identity in her heart, at this moment, it was an opportunity to show herself, and I didn't care what others thought, I took a willow stick and followed the old team's team out of the village.

This is the first time I have participated in the "old house", I think it is quite fresh, in short, what the previous people do, I will do it, and I don't worry about mistakes.

Soon the old team came to the edge of the Yellow River outside the village, and the old man who didn't hear what the steward shouted, everyone began to cry loudly, Wu Jinghan's uncle walked in the front, and the old man in charge led him around the river beach twice.

At that time, the eastern sky was already a little white, and a layer of white fog rose on the edge of the Yellow River, and when I turned to the second circle, I inadvertently glanced at the white fog on one side, and this time I was so frightened that I shivered all over.

From a distance, I saw two groups of people in the white mist, and these people seemed to be wearing white filial piety clothes, as if they were also holding wooden sticks in their hands, looking at them silently. I was stunned: this is clearly a mourning team that has given up the elderly

Such a coincidence? How many nearby villages have also died at night? But then something even more terrible happened, I was stunned for no more than three seconds, but when I looked up again, none of them were gone, and there was only a white fog in the distance.

What about people? I glanced to both sides, and there was no one, this is the evil door, what I saw just now, it is estimated that there are at least dozens of people, why did they disappear in the blink of an eye! Even if you run, you can't be so fast!

Wrong! How could it be such a coincidence, there were two teams of old people on the side of the Yellow River at the same time, and what I saw just now must not be people. When I thought about it, a cold sweat suddenly fell.

On the way back, I couldn't help but turn my head several times, and an old man in the village who helped with the lights smiled at me: "Young man, what do you look back at?" ”

I smiled bitterly and whispered: "Maybe I was dazzled just now, and I saw that there was still a team of old people on the side of the Yellow River, but ...... But in the blink of an eye, it was gone. ”

The old man smiled: "What's strange about this, many people have seen it...... In fact, it's not the old ones, but some craftsmen, I heard that they were bridge builders who died here decades ago, and they died unjustly, so the ghosts are not gone......"

"Ahh They are...... It's ......" I wanted to say that they were all "ghosts", but I felt that at such a time, it was the old man again, and it was not appropriate to say "ghosts".

The old man smiled again: "Young man, there's nothing strange, these are ghosts, and they won't harm anyone." ”

I nodded, in fact, I still didn't believe it, what kind of ghostly and shady, I didn't believe in this set at all, thinking that it should be a lot of strange things during this time, plus I didn't sleep all night, and I hallucinated.

Back at Wu Baocai's house, I once again offered to stay and help, and when I saw that there was free labor, Wu Jinghan's uncle was naturally happy, and Wu Jinghan also looked at me with red and swollen eyes, and slowly they were tender.

Taking advantage of the more than an hour before dawn, I was in a daze in Wu Jinghan's bedroom for a while, and I was woken up by a sound of Xi Xisuo, and after listening to a few words, it turned out that Uncle Wu Jinghan and his aunt were discussing things outside.

"Your father said that he would die, and I don't know if he has any savings......"

"It's a lot, definitely not, the money is used to raise Xiao Nizi, I guess there is a bit of a coffin." Accompanied by the laughter and conversation between the two, it was also mixed with the trivial sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets.

"The old guy won't put his money in the bank, will he?" Aunt Wu Jinghan asked.

"He doesn't leave the village when he is an adult, and he doesn't have a passbook or bank card or anything, how can he save it? Definitely tucked away at home......"

I was so angry that I wanted to rush out and scold them, but after all, this is in their own home, what am I! Looking at my phone, just six o'clock, I was helping to keep accounts, I didn't have my job so early, I was about to sleep for a while, and I heard Wu Jinghan's aunt's scolding:

"I'm not a teacher, what are you doing with so many books hidden at home, ...... tomorrow Tomorrow I'll call someone to collect the rags, pack them up and sell them all! "It's still very resentful.

Uncle Wu Jinghan replied: "These are the habits that my father developed when he was a security guard before, and I thought he had sold it a long time ago!" ”

"Poor sour! I don't know a lot of big characters, and I still learn from other cultured people...... "I can't hear the rest of the words."

As soon as I heard the words "keep a diary when I am a security guard", my heart trembled: could these diaries contain any useful information! No way! Wu Baocai is dead, I have to get these diaries, and if I ask Wu Jinghan for help in this matter, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Listening to the movement, after the two of them left, I came out of Wu Jinghan's bedroom.

I found an opportunity to tell Wu Jinghan my thoughts, but she didn't even ask me what I was doing it for, so she nodded and agreed.