This night, I couldn't sleep all night.

The next morning, it was much quieter, and when I woke up, I found that Lao Fei and Lin Miao were not in the room.

put a stick of incense in front of Jingmei's tablet, cut the palm of his hand, and fed the ghost boy in the mountain whip.

Every time he was fed with blood, the ghost boy in the mountain whip was excited.

Although this thing is a ghost child, it has devoured the ghosts of the Gaoshan people, fused their memories, and has already become an incredible existence.

Maybe...... In the future, it will devour more Yin Spirits, and the stronger it is, the more difficult it will be to control. As Yan Xiaoying said, I have to cultivate a connection with it from an early age, a blood connection.

In fact, what happened yesterday has another layer of concern for me.

Li Guofeng picked out a white orchid from the Shuanglong Cave, under normal circumstances, the Shuanglong Cave guarded by Jingmei is a forbidden place, and it is impossible for ordinary people to enter it, let alone bring things out.

Even the people of the Heavenly Master's Mansion did not dare to enter the Shuanglong Cave at the beginning, but Li Guofeng was able to enter.

This is not common sense at all, Jingmei is unlikely to harm the lives of ordinary mortals, could it be that what happened in the Shuanglong Cave?

In fact, this worry has never disappeared in my heart since the day she became married, when she carried ten thousand thunders away.

……

If the people of the Heavenly Master's Mansion found out that something had happened in the Shuanglong Cave, the so-called Dao Conference might be held in advance, or even not at all.

Walking out of the courtyard, I saw at a glance the body of Li Guofeng placed in the corner. His corpse was rolled in a broken mat, temporarily retracted.

The door opened, and Lao Fei and Lin Miao walked in from the outside.

"What are you two doing so early?" I wondered in my heart, I couldn't sleep last night, under normal circumstances, Lao Fei would not wake up so early.

Lao Fei raised the red carp with two thick arms hanging in his hand, and said with some pride: "I went to catch the fish, I thought that the mountain was simple, and there was nothing to entertain Li Guofeng's parents, so I ......"

"Finally, you still have a little conscience."

I shook my head, understanding what the old fat meant, but how could the two little red carp soothe their grief of losing their son?

Anyway, this is Lao Fei's intention, the three of them are busy, make a pot of carp hot, and make breakfast to wake up Li Guofeng's parents.

At the dinner table, Li Guofeng's parents looked haggard, as if they had suddenly aged by more than ten years.

They didn't have any appetite, and they only drank a few sips of the soup, but it was Li Guofeng's father, who asked us while drinking gruel: "...... you How are the preparations for the funeral of the national style? ”

"Don't worry, Shoucai, I have arranged for someone to prepare last night, and the mutters who have done too much have also been contacted, and they are estimated to be coming up the mountain soon."

"During the Chinese New Year, the villagers are busy looking for relatives and relatives, and this place is sparsely populated, but it is very deserted." Li Guofeng's father's name is Li Chong, he shook his head at this time, and said with some sadness: "You three guys are working hard, you have to guard the mountains during the New Year, and you can't go back to reunite with your relatives." ”

"It's not hard, it's what we should do." I hurriedly answered.

"Uncle...... We're really sorry for this happening. The old fat looked uncomfortable and apologized.

"Natural and man-made disasters, I know you can't be blamed for this, now we just hope to handle Feng'er's funeral well, there is Guodong on the murderer's side, I'm not worried."

Li Chong said: "Skynet is magnificent but not leaky, I believe in their ability. ”

Li Guofeng's mother listened to what her husband said, and her tears couldn't help but fall into the bowl, and finally covered her mouth and left the room.

After going out, she couldn't hold back her emotions anymore and burst into tears.

It was a festive season, when the family was happy, but now the Spring Festival can't be passed, and I have to endure the grief to handle my son's funeral, and no one can bear it.

"Uncle...... ...... in your house."

"Don't worry, I have received a notice from Guodong, and this matter will not be publicized, at least not widely spread." Li Chong said in a sullen voice.

At this time, there was shouting and talking from the outer door.

When we heard the sound, we all walked out of the house, and then we saw Yan Xiaoying leading four big men and carrying a coffin up the mountain.

They laid the coffin next to the room, and Yan Xiaoying handed out red envelopes to the four Chinese characters from her coat pocket and led them towards us.

"Tianyan, these four are the strong guys who are responsible for burial, carrying coffins, and digging graves." Yan Xiaoying introduced me to me.

The identity of the four of them I know, Hercules is a local name for us, just like the Murmurers, and they are usually called coffin bearers outside.

The four of them are not young, the youngest looks to be in his forties, and the oldest has gray hair and is close to sixty.

They didn't look very tall, I thought that the people in charge of carrying the coffins were all burly men with bulging muscles, just like the men I had invited when I first toured the mountains and saw the owner of the explosives factory, Mr. Qin.

However, in fact, this is not the case, four men, all of them are thin and weak, and the clothes they wear are in tatters. It even looks thin, with dark skin and a slightly hunched back, probably because of the long-term carrying of the coffin.

Although it was the first time they met, judging from their age and the cold aura exuded from their bodies, they should all be old-timers, not novices.

I said hello, perhaps because I had more contact with the coffins of the dead, and they all had the same personality, taciturn and rarely happy.

The four of them went to dismantle the wooden pole tied to the coffin, which was the guy they were eating. The coffin was shining in the early sun, and the blood was like blood.

welcomed Yan Xiaoying into the house, because Li Chong's family was from another village, and they didn't know Yan Xiaoying's identity, so they were very curious about what this bald girl was doing?

Yan Xiaoying was able to do things, sat down at the table, and said: "The burial time is scheduled for five o'clock in the afternoon, and before that, we must build the funeral shed where the people do things. There are also people sent to the town to buy hemp rope, red paper, yellow paper, butter, clay pots, sesame oil candles, white cloth, etc......"

Local funeral rules are quite complicated, although they have become much simpler with the progress of the times. However, the three days and two nights of rituals, including drawing talismans and reciting mantras, opening the altar and chanting, wearing linen and wearing filial piety, keeping spirits, asking for water, breaking prisons, and suing the temple are indispensable.

Yan Xiaoying looked around while talking to us, frowning, "Except for a few of you, there are no other people who come to help?" ”

The local rule is that if there is something going on in the house, the neighbors will come to help uninvited, just like when Jingmei and I got married.

But Li Chong did not inform his relatives and friends of this matter, and those classmates who knew about it were given a gag order by Li Guodong, so except for a few of us, no other relatives and neighbors came to condolence and help.

However, when the mummer went up the mountain, as soon as the gongs and drums sounded, it is estimated that most people would know that someone was holding a funeral on Heavenly Mountain.

We were quite helpless in this situation, and explained it to Yan Xiaoying.

After the latter listened, he was silent and said, "If that's the case, then you have to hurry." Lao Fei and Lin Miao went to cut down bamboo and build a spiritual shed on top of the embankment; I took Li Guofeng's parents up the mountain to find a cemetery where the corpses could be temporarily placed, so that the strong men could dig the coffin pit in advance. Tianyan, you go to the town to buy the rest of the things you need for the funeral, and I will make a list for you if you want to buy anything. ”

She paused, and then said, "As for the paper house and paper clothes and paper people, I will call the murmur guy and ask them to help prepare to take them up the mountain, as well as ......"

Yan Xiaoying said and looked at Li Chong and his wife: "The funeral time, the specific matters of the funeral, I need to discuss with you and reach a consensus......

Yan Xiaoying's distribution was orderly, and with her help, we saved a lot of unnecessary trouble, and even when she was busy, I didn't even have time to say thank you to her.

According to the task assigned by Yan Xiaoying, I hurried down the mountain to buy things.

In fact, the most important thing is to go to the bank and get money, because without money, you can't do anything.

There were so many things to buy, and according to Yan Xiaoying's list, I walked around the town for five or six hours, and my legs were sore until I bought them all.

This is different from mountain patrols, which is too troublesome.

Subsequently, I paid three motorcyclists to deliver things back to Paradise Hill and, of course, myself.

It was already more than three o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to Heavenly Mountain, and Lin Miao and Lao Fei had already built the frame of the spiritual shed, and they almost put on the shed cloth I bought back to protect from the rain and sun.

Yan Xiaoying took the things from my hand and instructed Li Chong and his wife to change the deceased's shroud and slaughter the corpse chicken to worship the corpse.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, four strong men came down from the mountain with hoes and shovels.

I got food in the kitchen, and the mutters who were in charge of opening the altar and the corpses went up the hill on time, and they brought a lot of things, and they were all set, and they were full of wine and food.

Before the body began to be buried, I went to the courtyard to take a look at Li Guofeng's body.

Li Guofeng's corpse was carefully dressed, with a copper and silver in his mouth, and a brand-new longevity robe on his body, and the long lamp next to the corpse was faintly burning.

The blood hole on his chest and abdomen had been stitched up, and it was Yan Xiaoying who had sewn it up with his own hands.

In some places, there are people who dress up corpses and sew up wounds without relatives or others, and there are people who specialize in doing this, and those people are makeup artists, makeup artists who specialize in dressing corpses.

But we don't have enough manpower, and Yan Xiaoying has to take action in person for many things, because only she understands.

For example, we can't sew filial piety clothes out of white cloth and make mourning sticks.

After everything was ready, I was arranged by Yan Xiaoying to stand on the embankment with an axe in hand, and four strong men came over carrying the coffin, and when they passed by me, I stopped them and asked loudly, "Living or dead?" ”

"Dead Man's Wood!"

The four strong men who carried the coffin replied loudly at the same time, and their voices were loud, echoing in the mountain reservoir for a long time.

Then, with an axe in my hand, I "bang!" on the coffin. Bang! Bang! Chop three times in a row, get out of the way, and let them place the empty coffin in a small coffin where the arrows were set up in front of the shed.

Yan Xiaoying told me that this was a step that must be done before the corpse was buried, and as for why, she shook her head and didn't elaborate with me, only that the rules and customs were like this.

After placing the coffin, the four strong men smeared a layer of butter on the coffin, and padd a layer of yellow paper money, and carried hemp rope into the house to carry the body.

Butter was smeared on the cracks of the coffin to prevent the smell of decay from coming out.

And also...... When the corpse decomposes, it will overflow a kind of yellow water, also called corpse oil, and the butter can prevent the corpse oil from leaking out, and it will be disgusting to look at.

After all, the human body is 70% water, and after death, the muscle tissue decays, and this water can no longer be stored, and will flow out and evaporate.

After a while, the four strong men each held a hemp rope, firmly tied Lin Miao's body, and carried it out of the house......