I don't know if I thought it was subjective, but I always felt that the layout of all the funeral parlors was similar, and all the morgue buildings were dilapidated, and I talked about it with someone who had knowledge of this later.

He said that in fact, most of the funeral parlors before the construction, will ask the master who understands Kanyu to choose the site, what direction, what nearby landscape pattern, there is a set of exquisite, choose the location, and then ask Mr. Yin and Yang to determine the location of each building, what "green dragon, white tiger, red bird, Xuanwu" may be Mr. Yin and Yang's set is similar, so the style of the funeral home is almost the same.

On the other hand, the funeral home is different from other buildings such as libraries and children's palaces, and the overall color must be black, white and gray, so even if it is a new funeral home, it will not look new.

Walking into the gray building of the morgue, I felt a chill in my back and goosebumps in the exposed forearms.

"It's here! It was this morgue where the body disappeared before. ”

As he spoke, the man in the dark suit pushed open a stainless steel door.

I was greeted by two rows of small beds covered with white cloth, a row of large wardrobes on each side of the wall, each with a number, and I knew that this was a freezer for corpses.

The morgue was very clean, and the second time I noticed that there was not a single body in the entire room with an area of not less than 150 square meters.

Two of the small beds were fenced off by a police cordon, and there were several small signs on the ground marked with Arabic numerals, a scene I often see on criminal investigation films.

Director Qin smiled bitterly: "Several! Our people have done their best, but they haven't received anything, and this time it's up to you! ”

"Buddha Amitayus!"

Dao Ji shook off the dust of the Buddha and was the first to walk in.

Miaozhen looked around, sneered lightly, and walked in.

"There's no smell of dirt! What do you see? Masters! ”

Miaozhen nodded: "Yes! This is like a kind of corpse control technique in a southern or Western country! ”

"Is it Western magic?"

"At least one faction!"

The two of you say a word, I say a word, as if there is no one around.

Masters?

In Director Qin's office just now, the two of them were quite strangers, so why did they become senior sisters and brothers! It seems that Taoist priests and Taoist aunts will also be familiar with themselves!

"Both! Can you also tell us that it was two corpses, so why did you leave the morgue by yourself? ”

After waiting for a few minutes, Director Qin waved his hand to interrupt the conversation between the two.

Dao Ji said "Buddha Amitayus" again, then reached into the wide sleeve and pulled out a black porcelain bottle, then uncorked the bottle and spilled the contents of the bottle on the ground.

I swept my gaze to the ground with his movements, only to see that as Daoji's hand kept shaking, there was an extra layer of white powder on the ground.

"Dao Chief—is this?"

Dao Ji smiled slightly, and slammed the Buddha dust: "You can see for yourself, right?" ”

Well?

I swept my gaze to the ground again, and I shuddered as I saw a few more footprints on the white powder just now. That's right! It was a human footprint, and he was not wearing shoes, and one of the thumbs was missing, and several footprints were like this.

"It's ......"

Director Qin gently stroked his chin with his left hand and took a deep breath.

Before Daoji could speak, the man in a dark suit standing in front of me shouted, "This is ...... These are the footprints of a corpse! ”

As he spoke, he twisted his fat body and rushed to the side of a row of footprints, panting, obviously excited.

"Director Guo, you ...... How can you tell if these are the footprints of a dead man, or maybe ......?"

Before he finished speaking, the man in the dark suit waved his hand: "It should be ...... You can't go wrong! You see. ”

He pulled up his pants with both hands, slowly squatted down, and then pointed to the missing part on his thumb of the footprint: "This is the reason why we hung the boarding pass for the dead after the body was transported to the morgue in order to ...... In order to make it easier to distinguish, this kind of brand was specially designed by a master, and it was ...... I was still looking for someone at the time. "Strange books

"What? You say it's a trail of a mortuary? ”

"It can't be wrong!" This shape...... This size ...... I don't even need a second look. ”

"Could it be the footprints left by the two lost bodies?"

Director Qin muttered.

"That's right! The corpse was the one who walked out on its own, and was controlled. Dao Ji's voice suddenly became so loud that it made my left ear buzz.

"Who did that, what can you do with two middle-aged man's corpses? It's not a female corpse......"

The dark-suited man squatting on the ground was already covered with beads of sweat on his forehead and the tip of his nose, and he muttered and struggled to his feet.

I understood what he meant.

Female corpses are valuable.

The male corpse is useless.

At least in most rural areas, this is a general rule, and even women in some areas are worth more money when they die than they are alive, because they can "buy dry bones" when they die, and in some places it is also called a yin kin, and of course there is a more official title, called twilight marriage.

In ancient times, the mortality rate was high, and some young boys and girls died for some reason after they were engaged. The old people believe that if they do not marry them, their ghosts will make the house uneasy.

Therefore, it is necessary to hold a yin marriage ceremony for them, and finally bury them together, become husband and wife, and bury them together, so as not to have lonely graves in the fields of the male and female families.

According to legend, in the Han Dynasty, yin marriage had already begun.

The more famous Yin marriage in history was organized by Cao Cao for his son Cao Chong - that is, the little Cao Chong called the elephant in the primary school Chinese textbook, the young genius died of illness at the age of thirteen (it is also said that he was killed by Cao Pi, and the new version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" adopts this statement). After the death of his son, Cao Cao was so sad that he hired the deceased Miss Zhen as Cao Chong's wife and buried them together.

During the Tang Dynasty, yin marriages were widespread, and relevant records can be found in some Zhiwei in the Song Dynasty. From the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties to the Republic of China, the custom of yin marriage has been prevalent, and according to legend, Chiang Kai-shek's younger brother also had a yin marriage.

It is spread in the area of Mashan and Shanglin in western Guangxi. There is such a record in "Lingbiao Jiman": "Longshan (now Mashan) customs, after the death of the son, if the family is uneasy, choose a female corpse of the same age, and bury it with it, so that the son is married, and it is no longer for the family." When the time comes, relatives and friends will congratulate. The two families of men and women also have a friendship relationship with each other, and they are close together. In this way, it is called 'twilight marriage'. ”

It is said that in the past, there was a man in a certain family who had reached the age of marriage (usually thirteen or fourteen years old) and died without a wife. After death, there were constant disasters in the family, and the witch fairy aunt believed that the ghost of the deceased was a ghost, and asked her parents to ask for a daughter-in-law in the underworld.

So they found a female corpse of the same age who died after marriage, and the two families agreed to give some gift money to the woman's family to prepare a banquet, and sent someone to move the female corpse to the male corpse grave for burial on a certain day. In the process of sending the female corpse, there is a Taoist man leading the way, and the mourners are not crying, but blowing, and the scene is like marrying, which is very grand.

In the Song Dynasty, yin marriage was the most prevalent. According to Kang Yuzhi's "Yesterday's Dream Record", when an unmarried man or woman dies, his parents must ask a "ghost matchmaker" to say goodbye, and then carry out divination.

"Yuan History: The Biography of the Daughters" records: "If a child dies without a wife, or asks for the bones of the deceased daughter to be buried together." "The History of the Ming Dynasty: The Biography of the Daughters" also contains: Yang □ died and his fiancée was martyred; Liu Bochun died, and his hired daughters were the same, and they were all buried together.

In the Qing Dynasty, this custom of women's burial was still very popular with the strengthening of the concept of chastity. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that feudal etiquette and religion gradually disappeared under the impact of Western spiritual civilization.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were still remnants of the Yin marriage custom in Beiping, and there were also individual families holding "happy events" for the dead and the dead to marry, which was called "building a bone corpse", and the male and female in-laws were called "bone corpse relatives".

In the early years, the wedding ceremony of this kind of "wedding" was mostly held at night, carrying a paper sedan chair, which was played by a single drum, a single trumpet, and a single suona. Sometimes, when people are sleeping peacefully, they are suddenly woken up by the sound of drums in the streets and alleys, and it turns out that they are "building bones".

Some are different from this form, but they still use eight sedan chairs, all the deacons with golden lamps, and they only marry a picture of a woman. After the thirties, there was also a "civilized marriage" ceremony, with a Western band in the lead, and four people in the back carried a funeral booth, hanging a "bride" photo.

Although every place and every era has its own unique yin marriage ceremony, there has never been a rule.

Although a yin marriage is regarded as a happy event, it is inevitable that the etiquette of red and white is mixed and intertwined, and to a large extent, it depends on the claims of the parties.

Therefore, the form of the yin wedding ceremony varies greatly.

Generally speaking, the yin marriage should also be introduced through the matchmaker, and the two parties will go through the portal post and get married at the life hall to obtain the dragon and phoenix post. The man's release is also carried out, half of which is real silk and silver, and half of which is papier-mâché clothes, and finally incinerated at the door of the woman's house or on the grave.

The release is mostly one-time, so it doesn't matter whether it is big or small. Half of the gifts sent by the man to the woman are real silk rulers, gold and silver treasures; Half of it was a piece of papier-mâché leather, cotton, a clip, and a single garment, and two pairs of brocade boxes, which contained earrings, bracelets, rings, hairpins and other jewelry.

On the night of the fixation, it was burned in front of the woman's house or on the grave.

During the communication, the "goose cage", "sea of wine", dragon and phoenix cakes, elbows, and fruits sent by the man to the woman are all real, but the clothes and jewelry are papier-mâché utensils.

The dowry sent by the woman is generally made of paper, and after it is sent to the man, it is only displayed in front of the "groom" photo or tablet for half a day, and some are only carried around the man's courtyard for a week, that is, led by drum music, and sent to the nearby square for incineration.

Yin marriages do not necessarily hold the above ceremonies, but the marriage ceremony is indispensable. It is a high day to build a greenhouse, feast relatives and friends, and light the sedan chair in front of the door.

The wedding room is dedicated to the "hundredth" gods. A low table is set up on the kang opposite for the "groom" photo or tablet, and several plates of apples and dragon and phoenix wedding cakes are set up in front. And there is a big red flower, and the words "groom" are written on the ribbon below. The woman's "boudoir" is offered to the "bride" photo or tablet, as before, and there is a big red flower, decorated with a ribbon, and the words "bride" are written on it.