Chapter 023: Carrying the Coffin
"Brother, don't kill us."
I heard the cries of children, both men and women.
Wow.
I got goosebumps all over my body, and my eyes looked at the golden boy and girl in my hand.
Sure enough, the mouths of the two paper figures were actually tilting downward, which was the action of crying.
"I'm not honest, I'll splash my mother with chicken blood."
She Laosan's voice sounded behind me.
I took the two paper figures out into the yard and had them smoke some gasoline and pour them on them and burn them to ashes.
At about six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, She Laosan walked out of the house.
"It's almost time, let's get started."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he hurriedly beckoned someone to carry the coffin.
Eight people stood at eight corners of the coffin, using hemp rope as thick as an adult's thumb.
"Up."
Eight people work together, how much more than a hundred catties? But the coffin didn't move.
At this time, She Laosan grabbed Li Xiuyuan's collar in front of everyone.
"Say, how did your father die? If you dare to lie to one word, you will be dead on the streets tomorrow. ”
As soon as Li Xiuyuan heard She Laosan's words, his face immediately turned white with fright.
"I... My father is sick and dying......"
"Sick to death? So how did you get sick and die? What is it? ”
To be honest, I never thought that She Laosan, who had a dead face all day but didn't care about anything, and was unreliable in his speech, and wanted someone else to have an accident, would be furious.
As soon as She Laosan's words came out, the people who had been watching the excitement in the courtyard also gathered around, whispering and talking in private.
"Dao Chief, can we go to the house first?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at the villagers around him, and his face was a little unbearable.
"Okay, save some face for your grandson."
After She Laosan finished speaking, he turned around and walked into the hall, and Li Xiuyuan and I followed closely behind.
Li Xiuyuan closed the door after I entered the house.
"Dao Chief, you must save our whole family, my child has just been born, if something happens to me, what will happen to this child?"
"It's useless for you to talk about it, I'm asking how did your father die?"
"It's all because my daughter-in-law and I are not filial! It's too late to regret it now! Li Xiuyuan held his head in his hands and knelt in front of She Laosan.
"My father has coronary heart disease, and the doctor said that he can live for four or five years, but it costs thousands of dollars to take medicine every month, and after such a long time, I... I really can't afford it, and I have a newborn child waiting for me to raise, and my family lost more than 500,000 yuan in business a few years ago......"
"So, you left your father to fend for himself at home, weaned off his medicine, and ignored it? You just said that you lied to me about extubation? Your father wasn't that serious at all? ”
She Laosan's tone was unprecedentedly cold, which made me a little uncomfortable.
"I ...... I really regret it now, my daughter-in-law persuaded me to do this, I was also confused at the time, Dao Chief, you save our whole family, I know it's wrong......"
Li Xiuyuan kept kowtowing to She Laosan.
"People are called human because they have a fucking conscience, but are you, have you fucking conscience been eaten by dogs? The son who has worked hard all his life doesn't care about his life or death, who can not be resentful? Putting all of this aside, even if you let the old man look at his grandson before leaving, how the hell did you do it? ”
"You're murder in disguise! I can't save you in this matter, you can ask for more blessings. ”
After She Laosan finished speaking, he went to the east house and stretched out his hand to remove the charm on the statue.
Seeing this, Li Xiuyuan went up and hugged She Laosan's legs.
"Dao Chief, if you leave, our whole family will really be finished, recently my child always said that he dreamed at night that his grandfather came back to take him away, Dao Chief, I beg you, save our whole family! It's all my fault, but my child is innocent, it's really not good, you let my dad take me away, and I atone for my sins. ”
She Laosan's face was originally resolute, but when he heard the child, his body shook.
He relented.
"Get up, I'm helping this time for the sake of your child's face!"
Li Xiuyuan's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly thanked him.
"Thank you, Chief! I have written it down with the great kindness of the Taoist Chief! ”
"Okay, don't do these useless things, kowtow and don't kowtow to me! Knock on your father's portrait first. ”
"This... Dao Chief, how many knocks? ”
"Take your father's portrait to the courtyard, when the coffin can be lifted, when will it stop."
When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he hurriedly picked up his father's portrait and went out to kowtow.
A short time later, there was a banging kowtow outside.
"You go and ask the people outside to catch a chicken, and if there is a black dog, catch one by the way, it seems unlikely that today's incident will end well."
She Laosan's face was full of sadness.
I nodded and told a villager to prepare what She Laosan needed.
After the rooster and the black dog were all brought, She Laosan put down the altar.
"Take the blood of the chicken."
I nodded, took a knife and slit the throat of the rooster, letting out a bowl of blood.
Then came the black dog's blood.
After the two bowls of blood were ready, She Laosan took out a brush, cinnabar and yellow paper from his bag at one time.
After taking one-third of the chicken blood and one-third of the black dog's blood mixed with some cinnabar, She Laosan picked up a brush and drew on the rune paper.
"Look, this is the Liujia corpse talisman, to deal with these things that died unjustly, you have to use this talisman mixed with blood to suppress the resentment in their throat, otherwise it will be troublesome to raise the corpse."
I stood behind him and watched intently as he wrote the talisman one by one.
When he finished drawing, I didn't even understand what it was, I just knew it was complicated.
After drawing the rune paper, She Laosan and I walked out of the house.
Li Xiuyuan was still kneeling in front of his father's portrait, his head was broken, but he still didn't dare to stop, and kept chanting in his mouth.
"Dad, I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, forgive the child......"
"Okay, don't knock there, let's go to the funeral now! Point the Lord, mourn and mourn, pull the banner, hold the wreath, and prepare to carry the coffin out of the funeral! ”
With She Laosan's words, the crowd that had been waiting outside for nearly a day immediately became busy.
In front of a child holding a white flag, behind a person holding a wreath and a piece of paper, out of the yard first, waiting at the first intersection.
And the eight men who carried the coffin had already tied the rope to the coffin, and the wood that carried the coffin was also inserted in the rope sleeve, ready to carry the coffin out of the funeral at any time.
"The eldest son of the deceased fell to his knees!"
At this time, an old man walked up to the coffin and shouted.
Li Xiuyuan hurriedly stepped forward and knelt in front of his father's coffin, wiped the blood from his forehead, held the clay basin that burned paper money, and cried bitterly.
"Break the pot and get out of the coffin!"
The old man shouted again.
Li Xiuyuan cried, stood up and smashed the clay pot in his hand to the ground.
At the same time, She Laosan also ran to the front of the coffin and pasted the Liujia corpse talisman paper drawn before on the blood-red coffin.
"Lift the coffin!"