The night before yesterday, his hanging body was found on the loquat tree at his house early the next morning, the day after Mr. Sun's wedding.

Many people can't figure out why these four uncles suddenly chose to hang themselves, although his life is very hard, but he has survived most of his life, can't he stand it in the last few years?

People say that the old, sick and disabled are bumpy and bumpy, and it is a year to live one more year, not to mention that there is no serious illness and pain on his body.

The people in Huangshu Village are very simple, and they did not speculate about his murder, so they did not call the police.

However, from an objective point of view, these four uncles are poor, and no one will kill him for money. Moreover, he was an old widower, never married and had children, and his personal life was like that of a monk, and he rarely interacted with the people in the village, and he would not offend anyone.

Therefore, he should indeed have committed suicide. I don't know why he did this, but he is a member of the village after all, and he has a little relationship with many families in the village, so everyone is very active in organizing his funeral after his death.

According to local custom, the body of the deceased is left in the house for three days before being buried, during which time relatives and friends take turns to hold a vigil for the deceased, and the whole village eats a funeral feast here for three days.

On top of the funeral feast, there are no meat dishes, soup dishes and vermicelli, and the number of dishes on each table must be singular, which is the opposite of the wedding feast. Among the vegetarian dishes, tofu and cabbage are the mainstay, avoid spicy, and the color of the dish should be grayish. Therefore, the funeral feast has another name in the local area, fasting rice.

In order not to cause panic among the villagers, Li Chenfeng did not tell them that his intention was to come for the Rakshasa Bird, and fooled him into saying that he was here to do things for Teacher Sun and might have to stay here for a few days.

Erniu was very enthusiastic and still let Li Chenfeng live in his house temporarily.

In this place of Huangshu Village, most of the villagers are surnamed Chen, because it is located in the valley area, there is also a name called Chenjiagou.

It is precisely because everyone believes in Chen that every family has a little kinship with each other, so as soon as these four uncles die, more than half of the people in the village have to keep a vigil for them, and tonight it is the turn of the Erniu family.

This is the last shift in their house, because after tonight, the old man's body will be buried tomorrow.

After eating the evening fast, Er Niu handed the key to his house to Li Chenfeng, saying that he and his parents were here tonight and would not go back, so let Li Chenfeng go back to rest by himself.

Li Chenfeng thought to himself, it was not good to go back to Erniu's house to sleep alone, after all, he was not related to others, and he still had to pay attention to some aspects.

Then he said: "It's rare for me to go back, so I'll follow you to guard the spirit here, although I don't know the old man, but the dead are the greatest, and I should also express my respect." ”

So, Li Chenfeng stayed with Erniu's family to guard the spirit of the fourth uncle.

At night, not everyone can't sleep, there are a few simple beds set up next to the mourning hall, and the four of them are on duty in turns, and only one person needs to be guarded, so as not to let wild cats and other things get close to the body.

Erniu's parents asked Li Chenfeng and Erniu to sleep for a while, and they would guard the first and second shifts, after which Li Chenfeng was the third shift, and Erniu was the fourth shift before dawn.

Li Chenfeng was lying on the wooden bed with a little awkward back, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, his mind was thinking about how to deal with the Rakshasa Bird, and on the other hand, he was a little curious about the cause of death of the four uncles, wondering if there was any connection between the two.

At about two o'clock in the morning, it was Li Chenfeng's turn to keep vigil, and Erniu's father repeatedly instructed him not to let the wild cat get close to the body. Here, many people believe that wild cats can cause corpse fraud, but there is not much basis for this.

Li Chenfeng once saw in the Taoist scriptures left to him by the Taoist leader in the yellow robe that there are three souls and seven spirits in the living, among which the soul is the consciousness of the person, in charge of the thoughts of the human brain, and the spirit is the power in the body and the activities of the body.

After the death of a normal person, the soul leaves the body and enters the underworld for reincarnation, and the spirit naturally dissipates and returns to heaven and earth. If after death, the soul is separated from the body, but the spirit is still in the body, then the corpse is easy to deceive the corpse.

Individuals have no soul or mind, only an invisible force that controls their activities, and like some wild animals, they are bloodthirsty by nature, and will actively attack other living individuals, which will also become zombies.

In other words, the main reason why a corpse will not deceive the corpse is that the spirit does not dissipate naturally and stays in the body, and there are many factors that cause this result, such as when a person dies, he has a breath that he does not swallow and gets stuck in the throat, which will hinder the dissipation of the spirit. There is also too much grief in the heart before death, and the emotions are very emotional when the breath is swallowed, which will also lead to the retention of the spirit in the body.

Wild cats and the like are like a key that activates the remnants of the corpse, thus defrauding the corpse. But if a person dies peacefully, without resentment in his heart, and his spirit naturally dissipates after his soul flies, then even if a hundred wild cats jump on him, they will not cheat the corpse.

Although I don't know if the four uncles had resentment when they left, and whether there was any breath in their throats that they didn't swallow, Li Chenfeng still felt that it was better to be careful, after all, there were many wild cats in the countryside, and after people died, it was a big piece of raw meat for them, which was naturally attractive to them.

In addition to cats, mice also need to be paid attention to, Li Chenfeng lived in the countryside for a period of time when he was a child, and he had seen mice eat people's corpses' ears.

Because this point in time is the time when the human biological clock should enter deep sleep, and he didn't fall asleep at all just now, Li Chenfeng was a little sleepy at this time. He first went to the nearby well to get some cold water to wash his face, and then stood there and moved his limbs to clear his head.

Beside him was an old loquat tree that was more than ten years old, with its trunk branched out at a height of more than a meter, and its branches spread out in all directions, which at first glance looked like the palm of a hand.

It is said that the fourth uncle hanged himself from this tree.

Li Chenfeng leaned on the loquat tree, his eyes kept looking around, and suddenly he heard the sound of rustling under his feet, and when he looked down, he saw a skinny black cat standing there, digging something under the loquat tree with his paws.

Li Chenfeng was afraid that he would enter the mourning hall and disturb the body, so he hurriedly drove away, and as soon as Li Chenfeng stomped his feet, he immediately ran away, but it did not leave, standing two feet away from Li Chenfeng and prostrate its body, staring straight at the loquat tree with its eyes.

Li Chenfeng tentatively took a few steps back, and the wild cat followed a few steps forward, and when Li Chenfeng advanced, it retreated, as if it was about to fight him like this.