Chi Jing had never seen this kind of thorn flower, but the roots of this strange plant were as she expected, very long, so long that they not only took root and penetrated the lid of the coffin, but also pierced into the bones of their ancestors, and continued to be presumptuous with their teeth and claws.

The thorny roots crawled like vines with white bones, passing through the empty left eye socket above the skull, and then through the empty right eye socket... Layers are entangled, and the roots are piercing.

The bones of the ancestors in the coffin lay there quietly, it didn't speak, of course it couldn't speak, but the roots and sharp thorns of every thorn tightly wrapped around complained everywhere about the pain of every bone and the helplessness of not being able to move.

The village chief had been kneeling on the ground, and a few whimperes could be faintly heard. And after he knelt down, the family members of the village chief's family also knelt down towards the coffin.

Children and grandchildren are not filial!

Behind them, the sighted villagers were terrified, while the blind villagers remained ignorant.

I don't know who shouted first as if I had just woken up from a dream, and I don't know who picked up the village chief's hoe first, and ran towards his ancestral grave in three steps and two steps...

Those who couldn't grab a hoe also rushed home, brought all the shovels, shovels, hoes, and all the farming tools at home, and checked the graves of their uncles, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers in the shortest possible time to see if they had been penetrated by the damned thorn roots.

After a while, the whole back mountain full of graves resounded from time to time with the bitter weeping and confession of the villagers, and the woman who held her blind child who was not yet young and kowtowed and fainted.

Chop the grass and remove the roots, cut the grass and remove the roots, they cut the grass, but they never thought of eradicating the roots! That's why these thorn roots are allowed to reach into the ground!

Chi Jing stood under the banyan tree not far away, with his hands behind him with his back to the mountain, not looking at the many skeletons behind him that had been moved out of the coffins one after another, exposed under the blue sky and white sun.

The village chief's already old face added to the vicissitudes of life, he got up from the ancestral grave, and handed over to his children and grandchildren to clean up the bones of the ancestors, but he didn't say a word, and went straight to Chi Jing and knelt down again.

Chi Jing did not look back. After a moment of silence, he said, "Village Chief, this situation can actually be avoided. ”

…

When a man dies, dust returns to dust. Dongli people rarely move graves, usually buried is buried, and will not be easily moved, so as not to disturb the rest of the ancestors.

In later generations, due to various special reasons, there were special coffin openers and bone pickers.

After a person dies, he will first find a random place to bury him, and the corpse will slowly decompose in a sealed coffin, and in the process of decay, a large number of corpse worms will be born, and these corpse worms will live by eating the carrion of the corpse.

At least three years, the maggots will gnaw away the carrion, and then kill each other, and finally the corpse worms will die and leave the husks. According to local customs, about three to five years after the death of the ancestors, their descendants will solemnly invite bone pickers to wipe the bones one by one and place them in the "golden bucket".

Because of the ten days of dry "A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, dec", heption gold also represents the bone, is to pick up the bone is also called "gold", the bucket is a container, the urn containing the bone is naturally called "gold bucket".

Although the "golden bucket" is not as spacious as the coffin, it is not easy to be invaded by insects, ants and rats, which ensures the tranquility of the bones of the ancestors to a certain extent.

After picking up the bones, the bones must be moved, and the grave found when the bones are moved is the most important, and it is most related to the rise and fall of future generations.

In this process of relocating bones, the abnormality of the ancestral tomb can be discovered in time, and there is no need to wait until the ancestors have dreamed to know how much the soul of the ancestors has suffered day and night...

…

After hearing this, the village chief kept it in mind and thanked him: "Thank you Miss Chi for your advice." ”

Xiao Qin had a few words with her before he rushed to Houshan, and told him that this girl's surname was Chi.

"Village chief, get up." Chi Jing didn't dare to breathe hard, for fear of inhaling too much of the rotten smell of air. "This matter is over, I passed by this place and I am also fated to you, it is fate, no thanks. The little woman took her leave. ”

Then he turned around and left.

"Girl, stay." He rudely stopped the girl and forced her to stay, and she did succeed in solving the biggest hidden danger in their village, and did not hesitate to leave without expecting retribution.

He didn't even pour her half a cup of tea. The more the village chief thought about it, the more guilty he became, and before he knew it, he had blushed an old face.

"What else is the matter with the village chief?" Chi Jing paused slightly, and asked with a helpless face.

"Girl, please follow me to another place, and I won't delay you too long." The village chief said, and an idea in his heart gradually became firm.

"It's... All right. If it weren't for sympathy that half of the village was blind, she would have turned around and left quietly.

Who has made the modern bus emphasize the phrase "give up seats to the old, weak, sick and disabled and pregnant women" for so many years...

…

Chi Jing didn't expect the village chief to bring himself an outsider into the most important ancestral hall in their village.

"This is—" Chi Jing asked hesitantly, not reaching out to take the thing.

"Miss Chi, please don't ask, just keep it properly, and one day you will know what it is for. You have helped the village so much, and there is no way to repay it, this is our village... The most precious thing. The village chief said, looking at the thing in his hand with a hint of reluctance, but it was quickly replaced by resoluteness.

He handed over a yellow, somewhat old palm-sized bag. He had just taken one of the top row of god cards in the ancestral hall and split it from the middle of it.

The village chief solemnly held it with both hands, entrusting it to her as if he were entrusting his life.

"It's not good." No matter what is inside, since it is the most precious, it must be difficult to give up. For her, today's event was purely a coincidence, and she felt that she could not accept such a great gift.

"Girl, take it. If you don't accept it, you will really feel uneasy in the future. As you said, this is fate, it is fate. The village chief simply wouldn't allow her to postpone it.

Who's to say it isn't? She was originally chosen by the ancestors of the Box Village, otherwise how could she let them know that she would pass by and wait hard.

"Then I'll be respectful and obey." Chi Jing nodded, not wanting to waste time in this kind of polite pushing.

Since he had to give it, she accepted it generously, and she didn't steal it anyway.

"Then, village chief, take care of yourself and take your leave." Chi Jing didn't open the bag to see, since the village chief didn't say it, it means that the less people know about this thing, the better. Putting it away snugly, she said goodbye again.

"Miss Chi, take care." He couldn't tell the secret of the bag, but he believed that in the hands of this girl, it was something that was really useful.

After Chi Jing left, he took out an identical god card that he had chopped off and put it back in its original position.

A cool breeze blew, and the village chief rubbed his suddenly bitter eyes, and was pleased to find that everything in front of him seemed much clearer than before.