Before leaving, my cousin repeatedly told us that the ever-bright oil lamp in front of my aunt and grandmother must not be extinguished.

Because this is the "incense" of the settlement family.

When the oil lamp goes out, it means that the next generation in the family will have problems.

The An family is the only boy in the Xiao Anning family, and his cousin and aunt care about him very much, and it is normal for a rich family like the An family.

Therefore, when I saw the ever-bright oil lamp go out, my head exploded with a "buzz".

Tang Muzhou also stared at the oil lamp, and he asked me, "What's going on?" ”

I shook my head and said I didn't know.

"Haven't you been here all along?"

I pinched the beeswax in my hand: "That cave bat used to be hiding in my aunt's coffin, and just now it flew out and got out of the thing that my aunt was holding." ”

Listening to my words, Tang Muzhou looked down at the beeswax.

"This thing is in good condition, it's an old thing."

"You know that, too?"

"Nonsense, in the first two years, I also pretended to be a customer for a while, bracelets or something, and there were a lot of them at home. Now that I've come to my senses, I've long since stopped touching them. Forget it, ignore the lantern for now, and close the lid of my aunt's coffin. ”

As he spoke, Tang Muzhou put this thing back on his aunt's palm, and put her hands together on his chest.

My aunt's arms were very soft, and there was no sign of stiffness at all.

It was as if she was just asleep, as if she was going to wake up at any moment.

However, she had better lie down like this, or else it would be really lively again this night.

After Tang Muzhou restored my aunt to the previous posture, he and I moved the lid of the coffin again.

Afterwards, we came to the altar and looked at the extinguished lantern, and none of us spoke.

Tang Muzhou glanced at me and said, "This, it's the wind, right?" ”

I looked left and right and shook my head: "There was no wind just now......"

"That's a person?"

I shook my head again: "I don't see anyone either?" ”

"So, the bat?"

I shook my head again: "How is it possible, it was all beaten away by me......"

We were silent for a while.

After a while, Tang Muzhou looked up at the photo of his aunt and grandmother, and looked at me with a playful expression: "The incense of the An family is broken, and my aunt will definitely be angry, in case the coffin board can't be covered, Tang Xiaofan, you will suffer." ”

"Why am I suffering?"

"You didn't take a good look at this lantern."

"Don't shirk responsibility, you were there just now!"

When I said this, although the tone was not good, I was still a little weak-hearted.

Looking back at the coffin that my aunt had just covered, it was good that there was no movement there, and it seemed that my aunt was not angry.

Besides, a woman like her, who has studied and has an elegant and quiet character, how can she believe that if this incense is broken, there will be something wrong with the boring talk of future generations.

I said to Tang Muzhou: "This incense is broken, I have to think of a way?" ”

"It's okay to break it and continue it."

Tang Muzhou snorted coldly, he casually picked up the burning white candle on the side, pointed at the extinguished lamp rope, and lit the everlasting lamp again.

"In this world, there is nothing that is eternal, the common feelings of birth, old age, sickness and death, and this everlasting lamp is just people's wishful thinking."

"But my cousin believes it."

"Actually, she doesn't necessarily believe it, this is a spiritual sustenance, just like wishing to quench her thirst, right?"

I nodded, he was right.

After re-lighting the wick, we cleaned up the altar briefly.

Sitting side by side on the Taishi chair, Tang Muzhou didn't play with his mobile phone anymore, he asked about my dad's situation, I sighed and said that it was still like that, the money was spent a lot, and my life was saved, but the person lay there and didn't say a word.

"Why don't you send it to the provincial hospital to try?"

"Let's talk about it."

I smiled wryly at him.

My dad's illness is not as simple as Tang Muzhou thought. For a while, I couldn't tell two or three sentences, what happened that night, I had to find Xia Hong to solve this puzzle.

The mourning hall was quiet again.

Tang Muzhou didn't find the woman in red when he entered the small passage just now, so we suspect that she is still hiding in a corner of the house, maybe looking at us.

In such a situation, where would we dare to close our eyes?

Seeing that I looked tired, Tang Muzhou asked me if I wanted to sleep, and I shook my head and said that I was not sleepy but yawned.

I have to talk to Tang Muzhou about something, otherwise if it goes on like this, the human spirit will definitely not be able to support it.

So I asked him: "Tang Muzhou, do you think that after people die, they will know what to do?" ”

Tang Muzhou shook his head: "No." ”

"Why?"

"You have been reading books for so many years, the world is a material world, and the spirit exists with matter as the carrier, if the carrier does not exist, what does the spirit rely on as a support?"

"Isn't matter immortal? And from the perspective of conservation of energy, it will not be eternal when people die? ”

"Tang Xiaofan, you are stealing concepts. The human mental state is actually a very wonderful existence, and it is far from enough to analyze it with the simple physics knowledge we have learned. When science has not yet reached a certain level, we cannot rely solely on existing theories to study it. ”

Hearing this, I was silent for a while.

My dad mixed Chen San's soul with his fat and put it together with the spice stall.

How can this be explained scientifically?

And that bet, which is related to the lives of three people, is it all my brain problem, everything is my hallucination?

Even if I have a problem with my brain, what about Liang Yuan?

Liang Yuan had also seen Chen San's ghost with his own eyes before, and the four-party agreement was still in my bedside table on the second floor.

Listening to Tang Muzhou talking about those sciences, I interjected:

"You say believe in science, and that's right, we've been taught that way since we were young. But if you think about it the other way, could it be that science is a superstition in the first place? ”

Probably didn't expect that I would say such a thing, Tang Muzhou didn't know how to answer for a while.

After a while, he said, "I don't know if science is superstitious, but at least it convinces me to believe it." The folk legends are full of logic and no basis. This kind of thing, to make me believe, is indeed a little harder. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to his aunt's coffin again: "You know what? The most ridiculous statement I have ever heard is that no black cat can jump over the coffin for seven days after death, or else the corpse will be cheated on the spot. Tang Xiaofan, you have lived for more than 20 years, have you ever seen a corpse? What credibility is there in this kind of statement? ”

Tang Muzhou's thoughts, I feel a little too radical.

As he said, I've only lived for more than 20 years, if there is really such a thing as a corpse in the world, and I haven't seen it in Tang Xiaofan, then it's not too normal and normal.

After a pause, I suddenly asked him:

"Not to mention the black cat, if it was a bat flying over the corpse, would it trick the corpse?