After listening to Tang Muzhou's words, I suddenly realized.

It turned out that this was the reason why my dad gave Tang Muzhou the half of the "Autumn Moon Eclipse List" in the first place.

From my cousin's story, I also learned that this book was actually handed down from my grandfather. I always thought that our landlords and ancestors didn't leave anything for me.

Come, there is really an old object.

Tang Muzhou was obviously not very interested in this thing.

I have a different idea from Tang Muzhou, although this book is not very valuable, but it is also a thought after all, the heirlooms left by the ancestors are not necessarily gold and silver treasures or something.

In the mourning hall, the extinguished lantern was lit again, and the red-clothed female thief never appeared again, Tang Muzhou also put down his mobile phone, and said this to me without a match.

Auntie's big brown-red coffin, very quiet.

The cave bat was not coming back either, and the picture of my aunt and grandmother was quietly watching us under the light of the ever-bright lamp.

The whole night passed, and there were no other accidents.

The heart that Tang Muzhou and I carried finally let go.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, Steward Hu came over with a group of people.

Those are professional funeral teams, and there are few members of the An family, these people are all found by Steward Hu from outside, according to the head, five hundred yuan per person, which is not less.

An Jiaqi and Shen Mengru also came over, but the little peace of mind was not there.

I think today is the day of the funeral seven days after my aunt and grandmother's mortuary, and according to custom, it is normal to bury the ancestors without bringing their young children.

For children who are a few years old, it is best not to go to the grave mountain, where the yin qi is heavy, and the children lack yang qi, and it is easy to get sick if the yin qi is dyed too much.

Aunt Cousin and Shen Mengru knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Grandma's coffin.

I glanced at Tang Muzhou, and no one in the hall noticed that the ever-bright light had been extinguished.

We also knelt down, and the people around us who had been invited were beating gongs and drums. The two women in front of us cried, whimpering, very emotional.

Tang Muzhou touched me and whispered in my ear: "Tang Xiaofan, you are crying too......

"I ...... I couldn't cry. ”

"You really don't deserve it!"

"Then why don't you cry?!"

"I'm a big man!"

"Older men can't cry?"

"Nonsense, manly men shed blood without tears!"

……

Kneeling behind my cousin, Tang Muzhou and I had a word of nonsense behind me. She seemed to hear it, and when she turned around, she looked at us with a complicated expression.

Tang Muzhou and I quickly shut up.

My aunt's coffin was opened for the last time, and we gathered around it. I don't know if it's because of the light, but I noticed that her face was much whiter than last night, like a layer of wall plaster.

The cheeks, which looked rosy last night, are now like a layer of brick-red powder.

Her lips were as red as blood, and they didn't look natural at all.

Auntie's hands are quietly intertwined in front of her chest, and the beeswax inside is looming.

This was the last time he saw his mother, and An Jiaqi cried silently.

At this moment, I suddenly saw two bloody tears flowing from the corners of my aunt's eyes!

I was startled and leaned against Tang Muzhou's body:

"Grandma, how could she ......"

Tang Muzhou said in a low voice: "Xiaofan, don't be afraid, this is normal." ”

As she was talking, she heard An Jiaqi crying even more, and her whole body was almost spread on the coffin, crying heartbreakingly: "Mom, I'm here, I'm here to see you for the last time......"

It is said that when a person dies, when he sees his relatives again before the funeral, blood and tears will flow from his eyes. This is something I want to say to the living, but I can't make a sound, so I can only let the other party know by shedding blood and tears.

It's the first time I've seen this happen to me after living so big.

At that moment, I felt creepy.

Tang Muzhou whispered to me again: "This is a physiological phenomenon that occurs after death, blood and tears are the stiffness of the corpse, and it often happens in the funeral home. ”

Daughter An Jiaqi was still crying, and seeing that those tears were about to drip down her face, Lao Hu next to her came forward and grabbed her.

He lifted my cousin's face up, and the tears that didn't roll out finally came back.

I understand Steward Hu's intentions.

It is said that the tears of the living should not drip on the clothes of the deceased, otherwise the deceased will be caught by snakes and insects that come out of the water of the Lechuan River when he walks on the Huangquan Road.

Therefore, Steward Hu will step forward to stop it at a critical moment.

Shen Mengru on the side wiped the blood on her face for her aunt, and after my cousin's aunt recovered, she stepped forward and finally tidied up her mother's clothes.

The coarse cloth clothes, the color is still so tacky.

With my aunt's makeup at the moment, I don't think it's so abrupt.

At the last moment, Tang Muzhou and I stepped forward and went into the coffin again to look at my aunt and grandmother. Steward Hu beside him called "close the coffin"!

Someone came up and closed the coffin little by little.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but at the last moment, I seemed to feel like my aunt opened her eyes and smiled at me!

The coffin was nailed with thick iron nails, and my aunt and grandmother slept forever in it.

An's daughter, Jiaqi, stood in front of the coffin and threw a clay jar to the ground.

I heard a "bang", and the jar broke into eight pieces.

After that, the heavy brown-red coffin was lifted by eight people.

Following behind the coffin, as I left the mourning hall, I glanced up at the sky.

Although the sky has been white, there is still a looming moon hanging overhead, and the scene of the sun and moon meeting is the most common at dawn.

This moment of "yin and yang convergence" is the best time for funeral.

By the light of the unknown, this is not a huge funeral procession, all the way up the mountain.

I grabbed a lot of paper money in my hand and walked all the way, scattering it in all directions.

When the deceased goes on the road, these paper money can be bought by the lonely ghosts of the past, so that they don't bully their aunts and grandmothers. This was arranged by my cousin, and there are not many offspring of my aunt, so Tang Wuzhou and I took up this responsibility ourselves.

The sound of gongs and drums behind him was huge.

I was side by side with Tang Muzhou, and Shen Mengru was walking in front of me.

I always feel that something is not right with her look today, it seems that the whole person is not in a state, she looks like she is in a trance, in short, she feels a little absent-minded.

When he walked to a place, Steward Hu in front of him suddenly shouted "stop"!

I looked around, it was still a mountain road, there were woods everywhere, there was no place to bury my aunt and grandmother, why did Steward Hu suddenly stop?