On the day of Grandma Liu's funeral, it happened to be the day when the snow melted all over the city.

As the old saying goes, the snow is not cold, but the snow is cold. The streets were deserted, and not even half a figure could be seen. The liquor shop opposite was only half a door, and the young man leaned on the doorpost to sniff his nose, his eyes glancing at the rouge shop from time to time. Xing Ruyi held the stove and smiled at the young man. The young man was so busy that he lowered his head and turned around, and he slipped under his feet and fell to the ground.

Xingru wanted to endure it, but he couldn't hold back his laughter.

"Don't look at it, my little magpie is not here, and I went out early in the morning."

"Who said I saw the magpies?" The young man lay on the ground and twisted his face to the side.

"It's not looking at the magpie, it's looking at me?" Xing Ruyi squinted: "I know I'm good-looking, but I already have a husband." ”

"I know, I'm not looking at you." The young man muttered a few words, and got up from the ground in some embarrassment.

"It's not looking at my little magpie, it's not looking at my beautiful proprietress like me, it's looking at the rouge gouache in my shop?" Xing Ruyi freed up a hand to drag his chin: "Say, you fell in love with that, I'll send you." ”

"Nope! I didn't look at the rouge gouache in your shop either. The young man said quickly, turned and entered the liquor store, and closed the half-open door as well.

Xing Ruyi was a little bored, stared at the wine shop for a while, and then moved his gaze elsewhere.

The sound of firecrackers, coming from the east, became clearer and clearer. Xing Ruyi got up, walked outside the shop, and looked towards where the sound came from.

A funeral procession was slowly approaching, and I don't know if it was because of the firecrackers, but there seemed to be a layer of white fog in front of the procession. When he was about to get to the front of the rouge shop, a delicate shadow suddenly rushed out of the funeral procession, and at a glance, it was actually a magpie who ran out early in the morning to see the lively magpie.

"Bad luck, bad luck, why did my sister come out at this time."

The magpie ran to Xing Ruyi's side, pushed and shoved her back to the shop.

"Is it Grandma Liu?"

"Who else but her."

"But I remember that the ancestral tomb of the Liu family is not in this direction."

"Not in this direction. If it is a normal funeral, you can go to the city gate over there, but the people of the Liu family said that this Grandma Liu's death was a little strange, and they were worried that her ghost would not go away and cause the family to be restless, so they found Mr. Feng Shui to come over and let the Liu family carry Grandma Liu's coffin around the city for a week. When it was over, he went out of the city and was buried. ”

"This is the first time I've heard of that." Xing Ruyi touched his nose: "By the way, didn't you look at the excitement, how did you rush out of the funeral procession." ”

"I was going to see the excitement, but I didn't know how to get to the middle of the line. I've always wanted to come out, but there are so many people carrying the coffin for the funeral that I haven't been able to find a chance. No, I walked and walked to the door of our rouge shop. As soon as I saw my sister, I couldn't care about anything, so I just squeezed out of it. ”

As soon as the magpie finished speaking, he heard a commotion outside, followed by the voice of a middle-aged man.

"It's landed! The coffin has landed! Fast! Lift up! ”

Then, there was another jubble of voices.

There is a folk saying that the coffin cannot touch the ground on the way before it is carried into the ground. It is said that once the dead absorb the earth's qi before entering the earth, strange things can easily happen. Once a living person has taken his breath, he must be moved to the bed board, which is to be padded with a bench. Before and after burial, the coffin should also rest on a bench and not touch the ground.

"It's so good, why did the coffin fall to the ground?" The magpie stepped on his feet and looked out: "This can't be, I can see it very clearly, the coffin lifters that the Liu family is looking for are all five big and three thick, and they are particularly powerful at first glance, so they won't just walk so much and put the coffin on the ground." ”

"It's not a craftsman's business."

Xing Ruyi hugged the stove and moved to the door.

At this time, the coffin containing Grandma Liu was quietly turning on its side on the road a few meters away from the rouge shop. As the magpie said, the coffin bearers found by the Liu family are all men with strong physiques and in the prime of life, but no matter how hard these men try, the coffin that turned over on the side is not moving. Those people who were originally hiding in their respective shops to watch the excitement also opened the doors of their shops one after another when they saw this scene.

"You say, how did this Liu family encounter something strange?"

"Yes, yes. This Liu family has two sons, but these two sons died unexplained. This Grandma Liu is even rarer, first she was inexplicably pregnant with a child, and now she died inexplicably. In my opinion, this Liu family is afraid that they have provoked something that should not be provoked, so they are so unlucky. ”

"Shhh

"Look at your guts, you dare to come out to see if you're afraid, you're not afraid that after dark, this Grandma Liu will crawl out of the coffin to find you."

"What do you want me to do, if you want to find you."

"If you look for me, I'll look for me, I just want to ask her what the hell is going on with the Liu family. I'm not like you who sells fake drugs, I do too much bad things, and I worry about being entangled by imps wherever I go. ”

The last one to speak was a butcher. In the cold winter weather, others are eager to wrap two layers of cotton jackets, but this butcher is shirtless and wearing a short coat. At his waist, there was a knife used to kill pigs, the blade of which glowed white, but the handle of the knife had been dyed with pig blood and had become a different color.

Xing Ruyi listened to the chattering discussions outside, shook his head, stuffed the stove into the magpie's arms, pulled a cloak with blue and white on a white background hanging next to him, and walked out.

At this time, the feng shui gentleman in charge was explaining to Ah Gong Liu and the group of people watching the excitement next to him, saying that the ice and snow melted, the road was slippery, and the person carrying the coffin was not paying attention before he threw the coffin to the ground. While explaining, he beckoned the Liu family to come forward to help. But the coffin seemed to be sucked by the ground, and no matter how hard everyone tried, they couldn't lift it.

People who have held funerals in this family know that this funeral is the same as welcoming relatives, and they are all optimistic about the time. Missing the time for the funeral is a big taboo.

Although Luoyang City is not in the countryside, the people in this city are as superstitious as they are, and they also believe in the things left by their ancestors. Especially the Liu family, who learned the truth about Grandma Liu's death, was even more anxious at this time, lest they miss the auspicious time of the burial and bring some bad luck to their family.

"You can't lift it like that." Xing Ruyi walked to the coffin and stopped.

"Who are you? How do you know we can't lift it. A junior of the Liu family stepped forward.

"Oh, how can a woman like you with a rokka-pregnant woman come out to join in the fun. Hurry back, hurry back, if you collide, I'm afraid it's too late to regret it. "The feng shui gentleman in charge of the main affairs is a kind-hearted person, and when he saw Xing Ruyi, he had a big belly and hurriedly ran over. By the way, he also stuffed a stack of charms into her hand: "Listen to me, go back quickly, go home and burn this charm to ashes, melt it into water, bathe and change clothes, and go to get rid of bad luck." ”

"Thank you! It's just that I can't go back right now. Xing Ruyi looked at the principal: "If I go back, I'm afraid that more people will suffer today." ”

The daughter-in-law of the Liu family knew the punishment, she was originally standing in the team with her head down, and when she saw that the matter was deadlocked, she pursed her lips and walked out: "What the shopkeeper just said is serious?" ”

"Am I kidding?"

"Naturally, it's not." Da Lang's daughter-in-law pulled her lip line, and wanted to smile politely, but suddenly remembered her identity today, and hurriedly hid that smile. turned around, walked in front of Liu Agong, leaned over, and bowed his head: "That is the torture shopkeeper of the Ruyi Rouge Shop, on the day of the mother-in-law's accident, the daughter-in-law invited her to see her mother-in-law, but she didn't think about it...... The courtyard was helped by the criminal shopkeeper, and according to the daughter-in-law's wishes, it was better to let the criminal shopkeeper help take a look. It's not early. ”

Ah Gong Liu thought for a while, nodded, and walked to Xing Ruyi: "I just heard the shopkeeper say that it is not possible to carry the coffin like this, dare to ask the shopkeeper, how can the coffin of my wife be lifted." ”

"Is there any incense?"

Ah Gong Liu gave Da Lang's daughter-in-law a look, and Da Lang's daughter-in-law turned around and entered the funeral procession, and after a while, she took out a lot of incense.

Xing Ruyi took the incense, and his heart moved slightly, and the incense was lit. Then, she took out the talisman paper that the principal had stuffed for her before, lit it and rested it in front of the coffin, said a few words to herself, and then circled the coffin three times.

A gust of wind, rising from nowhere, rolled up the snow on the side of the road, from top to bottom, and landed on the lid of the coffin.

All around, there was silence.