Chapter 64: The Cat Stops the Coffin
The gate was locked, and no one dared to open it, so they could only lean on the wall and look into the courtyard a few times.
"What's going on?" I opened my mouth and asked, "Did you not do what I said about sprinkling grain on the ground of the mourning hall?" ”
As soon as I finished speaking, there was a sound of babbling and singing in the courtyard, and the sound was still slender.
Qian Youwei said with a look of chagrin: "At night, put my mother's body back into the coffin, thinking of the day's events, I discussed it with my brother, found half a sack of grain and scattered it on the ground. ”
"But just now, there was movement in the coffin, and before we could reflect it, my mother sat up, but who knew that she would bite when she saw someone, and I didn't even know it."
After listening to what Qian Youwei said, I climbed to the wall and looked at the old lady who was dancing and singing in the yard, but found that she was only on her toes, and her heels were always two inches away from the ground.
Ghost upper body.
The five grains cover the corpse qi, and it stands to reason that there should be no such problem as a ghost body.
Even if it is a corpse, after the coffin is put into the ground, the corpse will be old and not decaying, and zombies will form underneath, which is not good for future generations, but I didn't expect that the ghost would happen so soon.
"Did anything happen during your vigil?"
Qian Youwei shook his head, I looked at him sharply, but he thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with what the problem was.
Just when I was about to give up, I don't know where I heard the child's cry, but this sound sounded panicked.
"Here we go again, damn it."
Before I could speak, Qian Youwei scolded his mother-in-law and pulled out a firewood stick from the corner of the wall and looked for a voice.
I froze in place, listening to the sounds, and the people who had been leaning against the wall to watch the excitement jumped down one by one, and then a cat meow came, as if they had been hit by something.
At the same time, there was a loud bang, as if something had hit the door.
"What's going on?" Qian Youcai shouted and climbed to the wall alone, almost fainting himself.
If it weren't for someone holding on to the base of the wall, it is estimated that this kid would have rolled directly to the ground.
Uncle Liu Gen stood aside, also anxious like an ant on a hot pot.
I knew something was wrong, the sound of singing in the courtyard was gone, and when I hesitated, there was a bang.
There was only one person in the courtyard, except for the dead old lady of the Qian family, there was no one else.
I reached out and felt for the pestle, and instead of unfolding it, I climbed over the wall by myself, and found the dead old lady about to bang the door with her head.
Seeing that I was sitting on the wall, he raised his head and looked at me strangely, his eyes were dark and deep, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he had seen prey.
Meow.......
A cat meow came, and the old woman suddenly held her head and slammed her head against the door.
Then he got up from the ground and looked up at me.
I looked back at Qian Youwei.
"Let your wife come back, stop playing cats, I know what the problem is."
With that, I jumped into the courtyard, and the ghost pestle in my hand spread out.
The old lady looked at me and giggled.
I swung the pestle in my hand and struck the old lady in the chest, only to hear a cat meow from the other woman's mouth, and then she fell to the ground without moving.
When everyone opened the door and came in, they saw the old lady lying on the ground without moving, and then they dared to put it back in the coffin.
Qian Youwei came to me with a frightened face, and there was no longer any disdain on his face.
I put away the pestle and looked at the corpse that had been put back into the coffin.
"When you were keeping a wake at night, did a cat jump on the coffin and shout spring?"
As soon as I said this, Qian Youwei's face immediately became terrified, and he finally nodded in acknowledgement.
"Master Jiang, do you see what you can do, can you let my mother go to the ground for peace, if you continue to toss like this, our family is really going to collapse, you can do whatever you want, I will make it up for you even if I smash the pot and sell iron."
Now it's not a question of money or not, if I'm here for money, I'm sure I'll ask them to get the money ready for the first time.
In this case, I dare to guarantee, even if Pan Yi is here, I don't know what to do.
"After a person dies, it is very taboo for cats and dogs to be close to the corpse, and you are keeping a vigil in front of you at night, so how can you let the cat get close to the coffin."
"Cats and dogs are the easiest things to rush to, they can see things in their eyes that can't be seen with human eyes, and now it's the cat that is causing this thing."
The Qian family was all annoyed, but it was too late to say anything now.
"Hurry up and find someone, find a lot of old mahogany."
"There is also a cemetery, just the place I gave you yesterday, hurry up and find someone to dig it, since you don't want to be cremated, then you have to bury it quickly."
"The size of the cemetery is three meters and three squares, and it needs a lot of peach wood to fill it, so if you can't prepare these things, then I really don't care about your affairs."
I didn't say these words to threaten the Qian family.
The corpse is mutated, and no one wants it.
The cat wandered in front of the corpse and had already rushed to the corpse.
There is an ancient folk saying that the cat shouts spring, the ghost comes to the door, the old dog cries, and the family dies.
Among all animals, cats are the most evil beings, and although dogs are psychic, dogs' eyes can see what human eyes can't.
Tonight, I can't go back, so I can only stay at the Qian family with Uncle Liu Gen to help.
By morning, the cemetery and the mahogany were ready.
The next step is to cover the coffin.
By the time the coffin was carried out of the room, it was already an hour later.
I counted the hours, and it was nine o'clock in the morning, and the coffin could not go out until after ten o'clock.
Now the coffin and the sacrificial table have been placed in the center of the courtyard and are placed in the sun, and the family members are hanging silk on the coffin.
On the other side of the cemetery, I still need to go over, before the coffin is buried, I need to use peach wood to put a layer on the bottom, I asked Qian Youwei to build a pair of peach coffins, he didn't do what I said, now I can only use this method.
When I came to the cemetery, the three-meter-three pit had been dug up, and several villagers were waiting here, and they were all excited to see me coming.
"Little sir, ordinary people's graves are all graves according to the size of the coffin, why do you dig so big directly? And the old lady of the Qian family, what happened to make such a fierce fuss last night. ”
Seeing that these people were curious, I just smiled and didn't say much, just asked them to help me build a one-meter-high depth at the bottom of the pit with peach wood, and I didn't say anything about the rest.
When these villagers saw that I didn't speak, they didn't ask any more questions.
Looking at the time, it was almost time to deliver the coffin.
When I came back from the cemetery, the coffins had already been erected, and usually only eight people would be able to carry the coffins, but this time I had people increase the number to sixteen, because I knew that something would definitely happen on the way.
After ten o'clock, the relatives and friends of the Qian family fell to their knees and began to cry.
"I still have a sentence to explain, on the way, everyone has to listen to my command, if someone doesn't listen, you can choose not to go, but if you go and don't listen, all the consequences, your Qian family will digest it yourself."
"Bring Nava."
Qian Youwei handed me a rooster and a stack of tiles, and the people who carried the coffin also knew about me, and they didn't move until I opened my mouth.
I put the rooster on the coffin, picked up a tile, and slapped it on the coffin board, and the tile shattered, and the rooster crowed three times.
"Lift the coffin."
The sixteen men had already been ready, and with the sound of one, two, three, they lifted the coffin, and I stood next to it, and the moment the coffin was lifted, the wooden stakes were all pressed and creaked.
This coffin is not big, at most more than 100 kilograms, plus the corpse inside, three white kilograms to death.
But the coffin carried by these sixteen people was still so difficult.
I followed the coffin, holding a stack of tiles in my left hand, and I was free to use them for my own purposes.
Out of Qian's house, the mourning team began to howl and cry.
I was standing on the side of the coffin, and as I was about to start walking, I reached out and touched the bottom of the coffin, and my hands were covered with water droplets.
It seems that there is still some unwillingness.
Along the way, nothing happened, even the people who carried the coffin, and the expressions on their faces told me that the coffin was extremely heavy.
"Stop!"
Seeing the river, I told everyone to stop.
"When we cross the bridge, everybody closes their eyes."
"As long as your feet step on the bridge, don't stop me for a single step, just rest assured and boldly move forward, I don't know what sound you will hear, but no matter what you hear, you can't stop me, let alone open your eyes."
"I'm still the same as before, if anyone doesn't listen, if something happens, your Qian family will digest it yourself."
"After a while, you will listen to the sound of me falling tiles, and everyone will walk towards the sound of falling tiles, and you will definitely be fine."
"Close your eyes!"
After I finished speaking, I rushed to the front of the line, reached out and threw a handful of paper money out.
Syllable!
I pulled out a piece of tile and threw it on the ground.
Everyone started moving, and every five meters, I broke a piece of tile.
I thought it would be okay, but when I saw that I was about to cross the bridge, the problem still appeared.
I only heard a muffled bang behind me, and the coffin fell directly to the ground.
"Don't open your eyes, go forward."
As I spoke, the tile in my hand fell directly to the ground.
When everyone left the bridge, I looked at the coffin that had fallen on the bridge, and I don't know when, a black cat had fallen on the coffin, all of which was huge, and it had basically caught up with the little calf.
I've never seen such a big cat.
The black cat sat on the coffin, its two yellow eyes staring at me.
The people around them opened their eyes and couldn't help but shiver at this strange scene.
"Isn't this black cat the one Qian You raised for his mother?"
"Yes, I saw the old lady holding it to the door a few days ago, why has it grown so big after only a few days."
There was a lot of discussion among the people around, and Qian Youwei looked at the black cat, and some were speechless.
I kind of understand what a black cat means.
"All the money family, go to the bridge."
Although they were puzzled, they did it anyway.
The black cat sat on the coffin, motionless, with yellow eyes, staring at everyone.
"Get on your knees."
"Three rings."
"I won't let anyone get up."
When the three rings had passed, the black cat stood up, meowed a few times, and then turned away and walked towards the other side of the bridge.