Chapter 257: Burial
"Xiaoqian, this is too evil. Really, I've never met ......" Sitting in the car, I was still talking to Ouyang Qian beside me.
At this time, she was intently driving, following behind the van in front of her. Now we are walking towards the hill behind this funeral home. After another hillside, we can see a cemetery.
This cemetery is not a formal cemetery, but just a place for local farmers to bury their relatives. So the distance between the graves is very uneven. Some of them seem too close to each other, but some of them are too far apart to make people look uncomfortable.
And it seems that this man is going to bury his "wife's" coffin in a place tonight.
"Team Shao, don't you actually think there's one thing that's very strange." Ouyang Qian carefully grasped the steering wheel and said to me.
"Huh? What's the matter? I asked, a little trepided. I don't know what strange things this girl will find again.
"It stands to reason that there is no such thing as cremation before funeral." Her words floated softly in the air, like an invisible ghost, creeping up my ears and making my hairs stand on end.
She's right.
I hadn't noticed this before. According to common sense, especially in rural areas, the process of these red and white ceremonies is very strict. There are very clear rules for what to do and when not to do it.
Especially such funerals.
In our rural areas, it is common to put the bodies of deceased relatives in a coffin first, and then hold a vigil for three days and three nights. When the three-day and three-night vigil is up, a Taoist priest-like person will come to your mourning hall to pray for your deceased loved ones.
Actually, it's more like a decree or a spell to get the dead on their way than a prayer. They all believed that the words that came out of the mouth of the Taoist priest could make the deceased feel at ease on the road, so that they would not come out to disturb the living.
After the Taoist priest's prayer is recited, someone will drive a car, usually called a hearse, to wait outside the mourning hall, and then two people will come down from it, just like the two people who just came, carry a stretcher, carry the body on the stretcher, and then cover the body with a white cloth.
At this time, it is sent to cremation.
After the cremation, the ashes of the deceased's body are left behind and placed in a small wooden box for preservation. This wooden box will be put into a coffin and wait for burial.
Of course, some rural customs will naturally be different, but if you choose to cremate the body, it is common to hold a funeral in the mourning hall before the body is cremated.
However, this person's behavior is really a bit strange.
He actually cremated his wife's body first, and then held a funeral in the mourning hall, and then went to the burial!
It's a bit weird. Maybe it's just because he didn't follow the rules in the countryside?
As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but stand up with goosebumps on my body.
"Xiaoqian, let's ......" I looked at Ouyang Qian beside me and couldn't help but retreat.
"Team Shao, no. Now we can't go even more. This man's behavior is so suspicious! What's more, the urn he is going to bury is Zhao Dabao's real wife! He is the one who robbed other people's wives, what qualifications does he have to bury his relatives for others! ”
Okay, okay, I waved my hand helplessly.
It seems that I have to continue to follow today.
After reaching the hill behind, the van in front of it still did not continue to slow down. It seems that the place where they are going to be buried is not here.
I looked through the headlights in front of me and saw that we were in a mass grave.
On the large piece of land to my right, I could clearly see the squat tomb. Some of them were piled up with soil at random, while others specially found someone to erect a stone tablet with the name of the deceased engraved on it and a photo of the deceased pasted.
Suddenly, the van in front stopped, and several people stepped out of the car. We could clearly see the man in the brown leather jacket walking towards us.
He came up to us, knocked on our car window, and said:
"Officer, I'm sorry, there's a mountain road ahead, and we can't drive in. Just park your car here, rest assured, no one will come and steal it. ”
With that, he walked forward again, ignoring us again.
Ouyang Qian and I looked at each other, and then I could clearly feel the saliva swallowing down my throat.
I looked at the dark mountain road in front of me, and to be honest, it was all fake if I wasn't afraid.
"Qian, I said you, why did you promise that person at that time. Even if we waited for him at the funeral home. I said to Ouyang Qian.
"Team Shao, haha, when did you become a coward. Don't worry, there's nothing demonic. However, there must be something wrong with that person. Let's go, let's take a look. ”
Ouyang Qian didn't listen to my complaints anymore, but walked forward.
I couldn't help but pinch the flesh on my hands, and then said to myself in my heart: What a thing that is not angry. Others, Ouyang Qian, are not afraid of a woman, I don't know what you, a big man, are pretending to be here.
After giving myself some psychological hints, I trotted a few steps to catch up with Ouyang Qian in front.
The trail is not difficult, but it is a little too late to see the road. Ouyang Qian, who was walking in front, was almost tripped several times by the pebble.
We followed the large group at the front.
At this time, we can clearly see the two of them carrying the coffin, and the others walking firmly towards the front together. There is no doubt that their burial place has been booked a long time ago. It should be just around the corner.
Sure enough, after passing through a gloomy grove again, they stopped, in a slightly wide clearing.
Ouyang Qian and I walked up and saw the square pit that should have been prepared a long time ago. That big pit is naturally the tomb used to place the coffin.
By the time they came to their side, someone of them had already gone down and began to place the huge coffin in the grave. Then, they came up from below.
A man who looked like a feng shui master began to calculate the location, and after making a gesture, he gently placed the urn in the coffin with a string.