When I got home, my parents really hadn't fallen asleep yet, and just went upstairs and teased the little yellow dog "Huanhuan" who shook his head and tail a few times, and my mother came to the living room in her coat and asked Pan Changhong and I what they had said, whether there was something wrong.

Although I was a little depressed and empty by Pan Changhong's words, I didn't want my family to worry about me, so I smiled and told my mother: "It's okay, didn't I send that bottle to Pan Dagong's house before, Uncle Changhong told me about this, he said that Pan Dagong liked this bottle very much, and asked me if I could give it to Pan Dagong as a funeral object." ”

On the way back, I walked very slowly, and I had adjusted my emotions to the same extent, so I didn't show any flaws at this time, and my mother immediately believed it.

When I first sent the strange bottle to the old wizard's house, I used the old wizard, and the reason why I was very interested in this bottle was that I didn't tell my parents about the weirdness of the strange bottle and the people behind the scenes, so there was no problem with that.

Now, the mystery of why only Pan Guanghai and the old wizard could smell the strange fragrance of acacia flowers and rosin from the strange bottle has surfaced.

Because they are all dying men.

Although it is still unknown what Liao Yuting drank at that time, the mystery of the strange bottle has finally been revealed.

And the fact that I didn't smell the smell meant that even if it was true that the old wizard saw that I was about to face a catastrophe, it wasn't actually enough to kill me, or at least not imminently.

So, there should still be enough time for me to think about how I want to deal with it......

The old wizard was highly respected and respected when he was alive, and what happened after he drove the crane to the west was naturally destined to be a grand event.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Pan Changmiao, the youngest son of the old wizard, under the guidance of the old village chief, came to kowtow and asked the neighbors to help take care of his father's funeral.

Although people already know this bad news, with the prestige of the old wizard, there is no need to invite at all, people will spontaneously go over to help, but this etiquette matter is not something that can be reduced because the old wizard's reputation is high, but more attention should be paid to it.

Even the people in Yangjiaba, who were farther away, came to help uninvited after hearing that "Dagong Pan" had passed away.

When I came to Pan Changhong's house again, the white "Wangshan Flag" had been erected outside the courtyard, like a small nine-story white tower, standing in the early morning mist, announcing this heavy fact to the people.

In the mourning hall, the people of the Pan family have already dressed up the old wizard in a longevity coat and a longevity hat, and longevity shoes, covered with a big red longevity quilt, pillowed with a red longevity pillow, holding a few yellow paper coins in both hands, lying quietly on the spiritual bed covered with white cloth, the curtain separated by a white cloth in front of it, has hung up the black and white statues that were made overnight, and the two sides of the mourning hall were crowded with women who were guarding the spirit and crying, and their eyes were red and swollen.

I greeted Pan Changhong, who had obviously not been able to close his eyes all night and his eyes were bloodshot, burned some paper for the old wizard, and after offering incense, I looked at the portrait hanging on the white cloth, and I couldn't tell the mixed feelings in my heart.

In addition to regret, there is more guilt.

After all, he still couldn't keep this, and he planned to use his life to suppress the old man who was "resentful", and he was wrongly blamed for a while.

At first, the reason why he was so determined to participate in Liao Yuting's affairs, in addition to not wanting anyone to be victimized anymore, was that he was shocked by the spirit of this old man's weak breath, but he regarded death as home, and he didn't want to watch him really embark on that dead end. But after he was really involved, his thoughts changed little by little, so that he came to the point where he listed this old man as the object of suspicion.

Now that I think about it, although the process is confusing and extremely long, in fact, it only takes about ten days before and after.

Fortunately, this old man is generous, not only did he not have any prejudices against me because I doubted him, but he has been using his way to protect me, not wanting me to be involved in the whirlpool, and after discovering that the person behind the scenes is likely to be related to me, it is also likely to be aimed at me, and he is even more in the case of physical and mental condition is already very poor for me, and "intimately" after going to the west of the crane, I let the eldest son warn me.

How can such an old man be said to be unkind and broad-minded?

Although I listened to him and kept my heart, not to be affected by what I heard and saw, and now I have a certain reservation about anyone's words, but in my heart, I have actually believed his words and believed that he is really kind to consider me.

So I feel guilty in my heart.

"Xiao Nian, do you want to go in and see your eldest duke?" Seeing that I was looking at my father's portrait in a daze, and I didn't say anything for a long time, Pan Changhong asked softly on the side.

The old wizard's face was already covered with a face paper at this time, so if you want to see his remains, you have to go into the mourning hall and take the face paper away, take your eyes off the black and white statue, and after hesitating for a moment, I gently shook my head and said, "No...... We'll see when the time comes. ”

It's not that I don't want to see it, but I don't dare to look at it, I'm afraid that when I really see the old wizard's remains, I will feel even more guilty.

"It's okay, then you can just find a place to sit, there are still a lot of things, so I can't accompany you." Fortunately, Pan Changhong can also roughly know my mental activities, without reluctance, and said softly.

After leaving the mourning hall, I came to the courtyard where several piles of firewood were burning, and the people in charge were discussing the list of various things and the matter of inviting Mr. After listening to it for a while, I roughly understood why I wanted to invite Mr. Taoist instead of inviting them as a "guide" for ethnic minorities from the sometimes accented Chinese, and more often in minority languages.

It turned out that the old wizard turned out to be a real Han Chinese, or from other places.

At that time, the old wizard was still very young, less than two years old, and had fled famine with his family from abroad, and his family had died one after another on the way, leaving only his mother alone, and he continued to look for a place to stay with him as a young man.

However, when she came to us, the old wizard's mother fell down and could not get up again, but fortunately the place where she fell was not far from the road, and she was soon found by the people following the old wizard's cry and was saved.

Although people were saved, there was famine and war in that era, although our place was far away from the mountains and rivers, and the impact was not too great, but people were also living tightly, and no one could afford to have two more mouths out of thin air.

Fortunately, at that time, there was a person named "Pan Kaizhong" in Pan's family, who was almost forty years old and did not get a daughter-in-law, although his parents died early, he had no brother or brother, and his family was surrounded by four walls, but Pan Kaizhong was not only farming, but also as a wizard, as long as he was diligent, it was not a big problem to fill his stomach, so people summed it up, and after obtaining the consent of the old wizard's mother, they asked Pan Kaizhong to take their mother and son home.

This Pan Kaizhong is the old wizard's later stepfather.

A "daughter-in-law" suddenly fell from the sky, and there was still a bit of posture, Pan Kaizhong was naturally very happy, even if the daughter-in-law had a drag oil bottle, she didn't care at all, and happily took her home, but she didn't think that the day of the "groom's official" was only seven days later, and the "bride" hanged herself.

Although it was obvious that he was "pitted", his daughter-in-law didn't really catch it, and he had a son inexplicably, but this Pan Kaizhong was also a kind-hearted honest man, and after being sad, he still borrowed money and rice, and "buryed" the old wizard's mother as much as possible, and also accepted his son.

Since then, the old wizard officially changed his surname to Pan, and one day after growing up and becoming sensible, Pan Kaizhong took out the relics left by his mother about his biological father, and burned them when he was about to tell him all about his life experience, and asked Pan Wenzhong not to tell those stories anymore, because he was his real father, and he didn't know anything else, and he didn't want to know.

Hearing this, Pan Kaizhong was greatly moved, and after that, the father and son really stopped mentioning those things, and Pan Kaizhong also passed on all the witchcraft passed down from the family to him.

And seeing that their father and son had a good relationship, people gradually forgot that no one mentioned the incident when the mother and son came here.

After that, the old wizard didn't talk about his life experience again, and really regarded himself as the Pan family, only on the day when the eldest son became an adult, he told his children once, and asked the children to forget what they had heard, and not to mention it again, let alone to find the so-called roots, because the people over there were already dead and didn't need to look for it again.

In addition, after learning that he was going to die, he told Pan Changhong that he hoped to be buried in the way of the Han people, because he wanted to comfort his strong temperament, but in order to let him live, his mother, who was willing to be the "bride" for seven days, proved to his mother that he had not forgotten his roots, but he didn't want to mention it again.

The old wizard has done good deeds and accumulated virtue all his life, and this request is not too much, that is, there is no such blood relationship, and no one will think that he is not from the Pan family, so there is, the people in charge of the matter, discuss the matter of inviting Mr. Taoist.

Don't forget your roots, but you don't live up to the kindness of your adoptive father who has long since passed away. After listening to the story of the old wizard and the origin of the burial in the Han way, I suddenly had a new understanding of this old man.

But it was too late.

It didn't take long for the people to agree to go to "Longtang Town", more than 30 kilometers north of the county seat, and invite a master named Shi Shuzhen to preside over the funeral. Speaking of which, although this Shi Shuzhen usually works as a farmer at home, he is quite famous, it is said that Liao Yuting's matter could not be handled at the beginning, and no one dared to take over this matter, he still took the lead and organized his peers to join forces to "sweep the village" in our village, and did a whole day of rituals.

Soon I drove a seven-seater car to Longtang Town under the arrangement of the old village chief, and Pan Guanglong, who had recovered from his back injury, under the arrangement of the old village chief.

When I came to the "Hongmei Village" a few miles north of Longtang Town, when I saw Shi Shuzhen, I also unexpectedly met an acquaintance.

This acquaintance is one of Luo Wenxin's many "partners", and I have met Shi Shusheng many times, when we were in Majiapo in Zhuchang Town, we also cooperated when we dealt with Ma Xiaolu, who was a corpse fraud.

In fact, I was still at home, and when I heard the name Shi Shuzhen, I already vaguely felt that this person was probably a family with Shi Shusheng, and he didn't want to come to the place, but he met him directly here.

And seeing that the Pan family came to pick them up was me, Shi Shusheng was also very surprised, reacted, after the greetings, there was no more words, immediately used the shortest time to gather the people, packed the luggage, and a group of six people rushed back to the Pan family courtyard with us.

It turns out that this Shi Shuzhen is really Shi Shusheng's distant cousin, and the relationship between the two is not only that, don't look at Shi Shusheng is only three or four years older than Shi Shuzhen, but if you really want to talk about it, the latter is still a disciple of the former.

As for what kind of historical problems exist in the relationship between the two, it is unknown, Shi Shusheng didn't say it, and I naturally don't want to ask, after all, the relationship has not yet reached the point where you can put your heart into your heart.

There are off-peak seasons in any industry, even if the yin and yang line is no exception, especially for peers who specialize in funerals. Although it may be a bit immoral to say this, the fact is that in both urban and rural areas, when the climate gets colder in winter, the proportion of elderly people dying is significantly higher than in other seasons.

As far as I know, based on the above reasons, Shi Shusheng has always been quite late to go back to his hometown for the New Year, and even when he can't go back to his hometown for the New Year, so I'm a little curious, why did he come back so early this year, you know, today is the fifteenth day of the lunar month.

So after explaining the situation of the Pan family and the reason for Mr. Please's burial, I gossiped with Shi Shusheng and asked him when he would return to his hometown and why he came back early this year.

It turned out that Shi Shusheng came back more than a week ago, and the reason why he came back early was actually a last resort.

Because Luo Wenxin, who relied on him for dinner, had disappeared recently, and there was no news.

The reason is because Shi Shusheng, although he also has some real skills, but he has always been a peasant man who walked out of the mountain village and begged for food in the provincial capital.

In the vernacular, it is in the pool of water in the provincial capital, his competitiveness is relatively weak.

Humility, or weakness, in terms of personality, makes Shi Shusheng often unable to compete with others who eat the same bowl of rice, but at the same time, he is also favored by Luo Wenxin, but whenever there is a red and white happy event, he will usually be given priority.

Luo Wenxin is the emperor of the industry, even if others are dissatisfied with his arrangement, they don't dare to express it easily, so relying on Luo Wenxin's thigh, Shi Shusheng, who was originally soft persimmons, can be pinched a few times, but has become one of the more moisturizing ones among the people who eat the bowl of rice for red and white ceremonies.

But such a good day came to an end soon after Luo Wenxin disappeared.

In the past, although Luo Wenxin often went out, he rarely really disappeared from view, and every time he left, he would make some arrangements, or leave something, so that all the "partners" knew that even if he left, he still had the final say in the provincial capital.

However, this time, it was completely different, because no one knew when Luo Wenxin left, nor did he know where he went, let alone left anything.

In the first days, there was nothing to do, after all, although people were not there, the deterrent effect was still there.

But after more than ten days in a row, Luo Wenxin still had no news, and after his whereabouts were unknown, the people below began to become restless.