Chapter 15: The Funeral

According to the explanation of the fat man on the left, the lights go out when people die, the soul is reincarnated, and the spirit dissipates.

The soul wanders in the sun and does not go, it is called a ghost.

The corpse is different, referring to a kind of thing by the Yellow River.

In the old days, there were many customs of worshipping the river god along the Yellow River, smearing the woman's body with sesame oil, stripping her clothes, wrapping it in silk, and the pig's head, the cow's head, and the sheep's head, and called the "four joys" sacrifice. Put it on the boat, drive it to the center of the boat, scuttle the wreck, and offer it to the river god to enjoy. After sacrificing to the Yellow River, it can ensure that the wind and rain will be smooth in the coming year, and the river will be abundant. And some of the women who sank were found out by the river god to be virgins, and the river god was very angry, and would return them and cast a spell to make them form corpses.

What kind of existence is a corpse?

It is said that they are still human beings in the biological sense, but they have lost their human consciousness and are full of evil spirits, and they have become a form of people who are not human and ghosts, and they can neither be reincarnated like ghosts nor live like people. They live forever in the darkness of the Yellow River, walking day and night with their heads down and their feet up, mutilating the people who cross the river.

I heard it with cold hairs standing on end: "Dead fatty, I don't read much, you don't lie to me!" ”

The fat man snorted: "If you don't believe it, I'll catch a corpse and give it to you as a daughter-in-law another day." Not to mention, some of them are really good. ”

"Get out of the way!"

I think there are a lot of loopholes in Zuo Fatman's words.

Regardless of whether the corpse is a human or a ghost, how can you breathe at the bottom of the river? Since she wants to live at the bottom of the Yellow River forever, how can Ping's daughter-in-law come up? Moreover, she has not lost her consciousness at all, for more than ten years, this girl not only remembers me to death, but she has not even forgotten when Lao Tzu was his twentieth birthday.

I threw my doubts to the fat man on the left.

Zuo Fat Man said: "It is said that the river god gave them a turtle breath technique, and they can live at the bottom of the river without rotting their bodies." As for Ping's daughter-in-law's question, I can't figure it out. Ordinary corpses fall, Dao Ye, I can scare them into shouting dad with a single finger. But Ping's daughter-in-law is really powerful, and she has handed over a few times, but she didn't take advantage of it at all. Unless ......"

"Unless what?"

"Unless she was just a corpse, she was fished up from the bottom of the river and became a tool for others."

"Who the fuck is so perverted and uses corpses as tools?"

The left fat man's eyes purred: "Comrade Xiaopi, is it appropriate for you to scold yourself like this?" ”

"What do you mean?!" I don't understand.

"Of course it's you who do this perverted thing!" The fat man on the left looked very speechless.

As we were talking, the window suddenly clicked with a strange sound.

Turning our heads, we saw a woman with wet hair and a pale face staring at us outside the window.

Zuo Panlong scolded: "I'm grass!" ”

The fat body suddenly jumped up from the Taishi's chair, flipped his palm, and with an extra talisman, he jumped to the window, and hit the woman's face, listening to "Ah! With a miserable scream, the face instantly moved out of the window and disappeared, and the left fat man's talisman burned to ashes, and the talisman slag floated down in the air.

I didn't know why, so I asked him what was wrong.

Zuo Panlong told me to stay in the house and stay still, and he went out to have a look.

After a while, he came back, his hands were full of talisman scum, and he scolded in his mouth: "Lonely grave wild ghost, dare to spread wild in front of the Taoist master!" After speaking, he frowned and stared at me with an incredible look: "Comrade little fart, you kowtow to the old village chief, what happened?" ”

He nicknamed me "Little Fart", and I didn't bother with it. I had to answer him, the old guy blew cool air on me, and it stinked to death. After that, I will tell you about the encounter with the dead Uncle Mingda at the entrance of the village.

"Your Yin Hall is dark and haunting, and there are dozens of ghosts outside who want to talk to you. Fortunately, I was here and scared them away, how can you thank me? The fat man on the left patted the ash on his hand and said in a smug voice.

Zuo Fatman's speech is estimated to be exaggerated, but he can't help but believe it.

Back then, I was seriously ill by the Gu of suffocation, and the third grandmother came to exorcise evil spirits, saying that I was cursed by the third life, and I was surrounded by ghosts. Fortunately, Sister Jiu'er found a medicine like animal viscera for me to eat, cured my illness, and told me that it would be fine if I didn't return to the village before the age of twenty, but I came back, and I was entangled in dirty things again, and I didn't run away.

"Lao Tzu has a good life, you tricked me back to the village stall for this, I have the heart to kill you, and you still have the face to thank me?!" I'm very angry.

Zuo Panlong's face changed strangely, he lowered his hand, and said helplessly, yes, in order to earn Chang Geng 50,000 yuan, I am unlucky to get into such a big trouble with you. Sleep first, talk about tomorrow!

I tossed and turned that night until the rooster crowed.

Early the next morning, Zuo Panlong told me that in the morning, the old village chief was first dispelled from the resentment caused by the corpse being carried, and he was buried on time at noon.

The fat man Zuo instructed Uncle Chang Geng to catch a rooster, a red rope, two copper coins, a few knives of yellow paper, a large handful of incense candles, put on a red robe, wear a flowered hat, and enter the ancestral hall with a group of people. After dancing for a while, the god asked the relatives of the old village chief to kneel and worship a few times, and then drove everyone out.

I wanted to leave too, but the fat man on the left stopped me and told me to stay and help.

This thing is chattering, I'm afraid of a moth, ignore him.

As a result, he grabbed me and said Thank you, the matter of carrying the corpse started because of you, and if you don't stay, the matter can't be solved. I looked at the pleading eyes of Grandma Liang and the others, and there was no way but to stay in the ancestral hall tremblingly.

The dragon tied a copper coin to each end of the red rope, and told me to stuff one of the copper coins into the chicken's buttocks, and told me to make sure it was properly stuffed, otherwise when I did it, the rooster would be frightened and would easily splash my shit.

I ask you why don't you stuff it yourself?

He said it was disgusting.

I said fuck your uncle, isn't Lao Tzu disgusting?

He rolled his eyes and stuffed the copper coin in his hand into me: "I can stuff it, you can stuff this copper coin into the mouth of the old village chief." ”

When I heard this, I was stunned, and I couldn't help but be disgusted and took the copper coin to stuff the chicken butt.

Everything is ready.

Zuo Panlong began to burn incense and paper, forced to chant mantras in his mouth for a while, bowed a few times to the old village chief, pinched a few incense candles, beckoned me to worship in front of the coffin, and taught me to repeat a few words in my mouth: "Old village chief, Xiaopi will burn tender molds to serve your old man in the middle of the Yuan Festival in the future, you hurry up and enjoy the blessings." ”

“……”

I finished as he commanded.

Zuo Panlong suddenly smiled at me, and the girl ran to the door of the ancestral hall.

I was instantly frightened, threw away the incense candle, and fled with him.

Unexpectedly, this grandson ran to the door of the ancestral hall, stopped with a sudden brake, and turned around and grinned at me.

I scolded the dead fat man, what nerves do you have?!

Zuo Panlong said: "Dude, how about trying your instant explosiveness." Later, on the way to the funeral, in case I encounter a difficult ghost, I want to make sure that I can outrun you, and with your palace, this Taoist master will not be beaten by ghosts. ”

In my mind, 10,000 grass and mud horses galloped by, and I just wanted to get angry, but I saw the corpse of the old village chief stunned and stood up, and then, "bar, chirp" fell back into the coffin. The rooster began to "cluck" and clucked, and with a red rope tied to its buttocks, it circled around the coffin frantically.

The bold villagers gathered curiously around the entrance of the ancestral hall to watch.

The rooster turned around a few times, and then scurried up in the ancestral hall, his neck stretched long, as if someone was carrying it, and after a dozen times, the chicken feathers began to fall one after another, and the whole body became more and more black, as if it had been splashed with ink, and finally his head tilted, and he fell to the ground, completely dead.

Zuo Panlong turned his head and told Uncle Chang Geng that the evil spirit had been driven away, so he took the rooster into the pit, soaked it three times, each lasting a quarter of an hour, and then found a sunny ground to bury it.

This thing is even more disgusting than stuffing the chicken butt with copper coins just now, and I'm glad that the fat man didn't tell me to do it.

Uncle Chang Geng buried the rooster properly, Zuo Panlong looked at the time, and talked about the coffin.

The group braved the scorching sun and walked towards the back mountain.

I was afraid that I would be haunted by ghosts alone in the village, so I had to follow Zuopanlong and join the funeral procession.

I was terrified as I passed the wax crossing, but luckily nothing else happened.

Everything was going well, but when he sent the old village chief into the earthen pit, something went wrong, the dragon bar suddenly broke, the coffin lid was shaken open, and the sun shone on the old village chief's body, and he found that he was completely black, his eyes were wide open, and he looked at everyone in a daze, as if he had just woken up.

Zuo Panlong's face changed, and he asked Uncle Chang Geng where the rooster was buried?

Uncle Chang Geng said in a trembling voice that he was buried under the camphor tree at the entrance of the village, and he was old to the sun.

Zuo Panlong scolded the mother, covered the coffin board, quickly pasted the talisman on the coffin, and threw a circle of copper coins around the coffin, threw off the two fat legs, and ran towards the entrance of the village.

I remembered his words that he wouldn't be beaten by ghosts if he could outrun me, so I couldn't care so much, and ran crazy with him.

Under the camphor tree at the entrance of the village, a woman with a cloaked hair, carrying a slick and black rooster in her hand, her mouth is still chewing, she is a military lady!

I instantly felt sick to my stomach and wanted to vomit.

The left pan dragon kicked her away, stuck two charms in his hand to the, turned to me and said, lighter!

I hurriedly handed over the lighter.

The left coiled dragon set the talisman paper on fire, and the instantly turned into a flame on his fat hand, and in a few moments, it was completely burned to ashes.

The military lady ran away with chicken blood flowing from the corner of her mouth, and ran away with a grin.

Two villagers stumbled down the mountain, shouting, no, the old village chief is cheating the corpse again!