Outside the pit was a mess, with broken trees, broken stones, and the half-dug grave that had been torn to the ground.

Guihai Chongming sat in his shattered coffin board and wailed, I squatted in front of the body that had been blown out and worried, and Tang Keren stood in the middle of us, confused and uneasy.

In early autumn, the temperature is not very cool. The corpse was not highly decomposed, but it was definitely not much better. I pulled out the thin mattress that Bai Qiwen had laid at the bottom of the coffin when he was buried from the mess, and wrapped the body with bated breath.

There was a dull ache in my chest, and I was a little out of strength. I was extremely uncomfortable when I was slapped on the ground by the wall of water before, and just now I jumped into the deep pit and crawled for a long time, and the injury seems to have worsened. It's just that when life and death are at stake, I am tired of running for my life, and I don't feel the pain, which will relax, and when I raise my hand, I will pull the entire chest cavity with a dull pain. But the corpse always has to be carried down the mountain, is it a good person? glanced at him, that trembling and shaky look, really let him carry his back, and estimated that he would be able to pass on the spot immediately.

Just when I was at a loss, Guihai Chongming, who was squatting in the coffin board and wailing, came over silently, grabbed my wrist coldly, pressed it at the pulse gate, and leaned towards my chest in a moment. I was too busy to dodge sideways, and the range of movement was too great, and suddenly my chest cavity seemed to be torn, forcing a cold sweat out.

"What the hell?" I gasped in pain: "Don't touch it!" I probably have broken ribs! ”

"If your ribs are broken, can you still be so comfortable?" The corners of Guihai Chongming's mouth were raised high, and no matter how he looked at it, he seemed to be gloating: "Let me tell you, I have made a living as a booklet, and I can also get some medicine." If you believe me, don't move, I think, you're out of place. He paused, then raised his chin at the corpse on the ground: "What's going on, tell me." If it weren't for something hurtful, I could have helped you with a ride, counting on that future ......" As he spoke, he squinted his eyes and looked back at Tang Keren, snorted, and didn't say anything more.

I hesitated for a moment, as if I had no choice, so I reluctantly gave a brief explanation. Guihai rubbed his chin and thought: "This is a crime...... I reluctantly explained: "Don't worry, I won't do stupid things, I have a recording of Bai Qiwen's oral will in my hand, and everyone present at the time can testify." He knew his parents, and some things were already pre-arranged. ”

"Including stealing your own body?" In fact, it's not just the return to the sea, but even I think it sounds ridiculous. Guihai Chongming's eyes widened, and a pair of mandarin duck eyes were full of doubts: "Housheng, are you sure you understand the Fa?"

"It's not stealing, it's carte blanche. When the will is established, the entrusted person has the right to dispose of the remains. The reason why the Bai family was avoided was mainly for unnecessary disputes. I said in a shy.

Guihai thought about it again, and then readily said that he would help the pair of hard-working mandarin ducks fulfill their wishes.

He was a strict and sloppy man, but I didn't dare trust him for it.

It's just that no matter what the purpose of returning to the sea is to return to the sea, there is no better way than this at the moment, and I acquiesce to his self-imposed division of labor. Guihai Chongming was responsible for carrying the corpse, Tang Keren hugged me, and the servants went down the mountain in disgrace. Because our appearance was too ostentatious, one of us was rolling in mud, the other was wearing a black shroud with a layer of white glaze, and the other was wearing only a coat and two graceful white legs, so we all decided to pick up the remote path back to the town.

The autumn tiger is cool in the morning and evening, as soon as the sun sets, the residual heat of the day is absorbed by the earth, the evening breeze comes down, the surface rises a little cool, Tang Keren begs and shrunks in the evening wind, and scratches his foot on the way down the mountain. Considering how unorthodox he was dressed and his fragile psychological capacity, I was afraid that he would blow up again when he saw the next scene. So he explained the address in detail and told him to go back to the shop first. The servants parted ways at the mouth of a secluded alley in the town, and Guihai Chongming and I rushed to Yin's house with Bai Qiwen's body.

The Yin family has an old bungalow in the town that is about to be demolished, and it is a great place for us to go for the kind of thing we are about to do. According to the address of the bug, we felt into an alley where we couldn't see our fingers, and at the end of the alley, we finally saw a rusty and dilapidated iron door. I clutched my chest and leaned over and slammed it twice on the closed iron door, and it took a long time before a deliberately suppressed male voice came from inside: "Who?"

"Chengnan Mansion, flowers are the matchmaker. Let's talk about the bone corpse! ”

With a "bang", the iron door opened a wide and narrow gap, and I carefully squeezed in with my chest on my side, and beckoned to Guihai Chongming behind me: "Come in!"

The small courtyard is not big, and there are two coffins in the middle of the courtyard, which makes people panic. The curtains of the three tiled houses opposite were tightly covered, and due to the demolition, the electricity in this area was cut off, and the houses were probably lit with candles, and some dim beating light was cast on the curtains uncertainly.

Guihai Chongming followed me into the courtyard, put Bai Qiwen's body in the open space between the coffins, looked at the two newly painted coffins in the courtyard, and smacked his lips with envy. The man who opened the door was the last, peeked out of the door, closed the door, bolted it firmly, and hurried in front of me again, avoiding the two coffins in the courtyard, and whispered to one of the rooms: "Xiuwen, come out, someone from the Hua family in Chengnan Mansion is here!" He should be the father of Bai Qiwen's girlfriend Yin Ning.

The door opened, revealing an indistinct light. Men and women in seven or eight poured out of the house one after another, some standing in the light and shadow, some standing in the darkness. The first woman had an unkempt head, gray temples, a sallow complexion, puffy eyes, and no brilliance, and it was only when she saw the corpse of Bai Qiwen on the ground that her eyes glowed with cold and hateful light.

Father Yin walked over, held one of her hands, patted her lightly on the shoulder, and his voice trembled a little: "Xiuwen, don't do this!" Ning Ning's last request, let's fulfill her wish! The light fell on his thin face, his cheeks were shriveled and fleshless, and his eye sockets were deep in two dark shadows, like two pools of stagnant water in the mire. The death of his daughter seems to have destroyed all the spirit of this father.

The woman, that is, Yin Ning's mother, turned her head coldly and didn't say anything. A short and fat young man behind her supported her and nodded to Father Yin: "Uncle, hurry up, don't miss the hour!"

Mother Yin pushed the young man away, walked straight to the coffin on the right, stared at the coffin blankly, and didn't say a word. The young man sighed and looked back at his relatives and friends: "It's all powerless, let's be a lot of relatives and friends!"

"Relatives, all the people said!" Everyone should be in harmony, carry out a small table, put it in front of the two coffins, and put incense candles and dragon and phoenix cakes on the table.

"Master......" seemed to call me, and I looked around to see a woman in her thirties, holding a stack of scarlet pants, poking her head behind the coffin.

"Will you leave the clothes to you?" She was frightened and didn't look at the not very tightly wrapped corpse on the ground, but in a blink of an eye, her eyes fell on the terrifying Guihai Chongming next to the corpse, she stared at his black shroud, half discussed and half pleaded: "I, I don't dare to ......"

I nodded, the current appearance of the corpse is not very beautiful, and the style of dressing is indeed difficult for ordinary people to accept. As if she had been pardoned, the woman put her shroud on the lid of the coffin and ran to help carry the papers.

I leaned on the coffin and handed the clothes to Guihai Chongming. Guihai Chongming hasn't said a word since he stepped into the courtyard, and he seems to be deliberately lowering his sense of existence. He took the clothes good-naturedly, slowly untied the thin mattress that wrapped the corpse, closed his eyes with his palms together, and didn't know what to say, and then solemnly changed into a new wedding dress for Bai Qiwen, as if he was doing a very sacred work, solemn, completely ignoring the suspicious glances that others cast at him from time to time.

"Ning Ning can't be a member of the Bai family!" There was a sudden sound, hoarseness, and the whole courtyard stood together, and there was silence.

Mother Yin stood behind me at some point, her eyes nailed to Bai Qiwen's scarlet pants like a knife. Father Yin hurriedly grabbed her: "Xiuwen ......" She raised her hand and waved away Father Yin, pointing to Bai Qiwen's corpse, with a bit of poignant and hideous: "You can't be a bone corpse relative to the Bai family!" Ning Ning gave him all his life, I want him to be rich! ”

"This ......" Yin's father's shriveled cheeks twitched one by one, and he turned to me in embarrassment: "Sir, you see ......"

I thought about it: "It's okay, no one from the Bai family comes, and there is no dowry, so it's easy to get into trouble." Anyway, according to the meaning of the two of them before their deaths, they were buried together in the end, and they didn't care about the Bai family and the Yin family.

"Alas, let's do it, listen to you." Father Yin sighed deeply and waved his hand to the others, and the people in the courtyard moved again. He lowered his head, supported his waist with one hand, and covered his eyes with the other, as if he didn't want tears to fall: "As long as I can fulfill this wish for the child......" Yin's mother glared at him directly, and shed two strings of silent tears.

I indifferently savored the sad scene in front of me, sympathy, but I couldn't empathize, for the wheel of life, because I looked down, so cold. In this world, life and death are repeated every day, the world is impermanent, and all ideologies cannot escape or break the seven difficulties and eight sufferings. I have seen too much, and when I am used to it, I will become numb.

Bai Qiwen has been returned to the sea and properly placed in the coffin on the left. Looking at the three stars above my head, I nodded: "The hour is almost up, please newcomer."

The short and fat young man led the four people and carried out a shadow pavilion with a portrait and placed it in front of the coffin, offering incense, candles, and paper horses. The coffin is hung red, the photo is black and white, and the dragon and phoenix cakes are displayed on the small table, but there are dark vessels and papers all around. Red and white are listed together, inexplicably weird.

My chest was still aching, and after settling down, I walked to the front and coughed patiently: "Today's matter should not be publicized." Drumming deacons are omitted, and the bride price and ceremony are done together, and everything is simple. If you don't have an opinion, let's get started, right? No one answered, no one refuted, all the people were silent in the red and white of the courtyard, the treacherous atmosphere had already made them unable to distinguish between joy and sorrow, only Yin's father nodded slowly and heavily.

I turned around, shut people and emotions behind me, and announced in a not-so-high voice, "The ceremony begins."

Everyone lifted the woman's dowry, which was pasted with extremely fine household appliances, villa cars, and some paper jewelry and clothing jewelry, and slowly marched around the two coffins, and after three circles, all the paper notes were stacked in the open space at the corner of the small courtyard. Due to the small place, the paper can only be incinerated one by one, and Yin's father took the lead in lighting the papier-mâché villa. There was no sound in the courtyard, except for the crisp sound of the paper frames falling apart and the flames of the peeling back.

"The newcomer is in place!" Watching the flames fade away, I announced in a deep voice.

The short and fat young man and the woman just now each picked up the remains of Bai Qiwen and Yin Ning and stood in front of the coffin. The woman pursed her lips tightly, trying to restrain her fear.

"A virtuous son-in-law is better than a parent-in-law, and a son is also a son-in-law. Relatives and friends testify and make a good relationship here today. Don't look back at everything in the sun, take a walk on the platform of the hometown...... "I chanted without waves in the suppressed sobs around me." The cold coffin, the black and white photos, a pair of newcomers, not happy or sad, a pair of dead souls, happy and sad.

"Parents, please!" As soon as this sound stopped, Yin's mother threw herself on Yin Ning's coffin and cried bitterly, reprimanding her daughter for being ruthless. Everyone hurriedly persuaded her to pull her away. Father Yin burst into tears: "That's it...... That's it! I have raised a daughter for more than 20 years, and I have watched the girl who grew up...... That's it! He slapped his life on the coffin with red eyes, and shouted fiercely: "Ning Ning, you are good to go!"

I closed my eyes, cold-hearted, and ignored the sorrow of this world: "The auspicious time has come, and the newcomer worships heaven and earth!"

The woman holding the portrait trembled, and the short and fat young man whispered a word of relief to her. I lifted my eyelids and announced, "Hello newcomer!"

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the iron door suddenly opened! A person stood in the wind outside the door, waving his sleeves quite imposingly.

"Sure enough, it's a good deal!"