Chapter 167: The Great Funeral Ceremony
"Although I didn't find anything abnormal here, I always felt that something was wrong, as you said, so many people rushed to be his filial son, why did they choose you?" Shen Jiangtao interjected.
"I feel the same way as you, especially since I came here, I always feel that there is a pair of eyes in the dark staring at me with bad intentions, maybe things are going too fast, and as soon as I come in, I am pulled to do those rituals." Li Wei is still a little unclear, because of the toss just now, the professor was hungry, and picked up a bowl of rice in front of him to eat.
After not eating a few bites, Li Wei suddenly wrinkled his nose and sniffed a few times, and then spit out the rice that was still chewing in his mouth: "Why does this bowl of rice have a strange taste?" ”
"Strange smell?" Shen Jiangtao took Li Wei's bowl of rice and sniffed it a few times, then sniffed his own bowl again, and said, "No? Same as mine. ”
Shen Jiangtao handed the rice bowl to the star fruit again and they smelled it, and they all said that there was no smell, especially after being smelled by Yu Xu, a person with a very sensitive nose, he also said that there was no smell, you know, Yu Xu's nose was a dog nose that was recognized by his mother since he was a child, and now he said that there is no strange smell, then there must be none.
Yu Xu handed the rice bowl to Li Wei, he sniffed it again, and said with a surprised expression: "No, it was obviously there just now, why is it gone all of a sudden?" ”
"What did you smell just now?"
"It seems to smell fishy...... Li Wei recalled.
"Are you tired and have problems with your nose and smell?" Zhang Min said as he took Li Wei's rice bowl away, and then gave Li Wei a new bowl from the place where he was cooking.
Just as Zhang Min sat down in his seat, at the entrance of the restaurant, Master Ruan slowly walked in and said to a few people: "Tomorrow at eight o'clock, I will have to work hard for you to get up early." ”
Originally, the people in the restaurant didn't pay much attention to Shen Jiangtao and Li Wei, but after seeing Master Ruan and a few people solemnly explain, everyone's eyes converged on a few people.
Li Wei and the others hurriedly finished eating and left, and from the eyes of those people, they could obviously feel a strong hostility.
Early the next morning, Shen Jiangtao and the others were woken up, and then went to the hall with Li Wei.
"Perform the Great Funeral Ceremony!" The yin and yang voice sounded loudly again.
As soon as the voice was spoken, six men came out of the hall, all dressed in mourning clothes, carrying a coffin from the doorway, with the head facing north and the feet facing south, placed on the west side of the room, and a woman also dressed in mourning clothes came to the east and opened the curtains to let in the newly rising sunlight outside.
Immediately after that, two other women came to the coffin and spread the lime and lampgrass that had been prepared on the bottom of the coffin, and put a wooden board on it.
Yu Xu and Miao Li continued to watch in the hall, and Shen Jiangtao went to the bathroom, delayed for a few minutes, and waited for him to enter the hall again.
Master Ruan stepped over and directly greeted Shen Jiangtao, his body blocking his sight intentionally or unintentionally, and at the same time asked with a gloomy expression on his face: "The burial needs to be completed by three people, you are Mr. Li's assistant, can I trouble you to help?" ”
"Me?" Shen Jiangtao asked in a low voice, and then Miss Li came to him, and asked with an anxious expression when she first entered the door, "Is it okay?" Shen Jiangtao? ”
Shen Jiangtao was stunned, after entering the house, Shen Jiangtao didn't introduce herself to this Miss Li, how did she know her name? But thinking that it might be what Professor Li Wei said, he didn't take it too seriously, so he nodded in agreement.
After walking over, Li Weizheng stood there with a solemn expression, and when he saw Shen Jiangtao coming, the two glanced at each other and did not speak.
"Mr. Shen, you will hold the head of Mr. Li later, Miss Li and Mr. Li, the two of you are responsible for holding your feet and waist respectively, remember, when you hold it, you must be parallel to the front and back of the old man's body, and remember not to let the old man 'see' the surface of his feet." Master Ruan said in particular on the side.
"What if you 'see' it?" Shen Jiangtao was a little puzzled, Shen Jiangtao was good at choosing the location of the Yin House, but at the funeral, there were many sayings, but Shen Jiangtao was puzzled, after all, the customs of these things are different from place to place.
Master Ruan coughed at first, and then said with a solemn expression: "If the old man is allowed to 'see' his feet, he will have resentment left in the world, and then come out to make trouble......
Shen Jiangtao's eyes flashed, and the words "come out to make trouble" made him feel shocked, and Shen Jiangtao thought to himself: If it is really as Master Ruan said, the deceased will still be troubled, it should be chongsha, this has something in common with feng shui, I don't know what is the difference between the grievances mentioned by Master Ruan and feng shui, and it may even be the same thing.
Before Shen Jiangtao met the trace truth, he would not believe Master Ruan's words, but now it seems that he is also a little convinced.
According to Master Ruan's instructions, Shen Jiangtao stood behind the head of Li Dahong's old man's body, Li Wei stood in the sun, located at Li Dahong's waist, and finally Miss Li stood behind the old man's feet, and the three of them stood in their respective positions. ”
According to Master Ruan's instructions, Li Wei passed a ball of jute under the body of Old Man Li, and when Master Ruan gave an order, Shen Jiangtao, Li Wei, and Miss Li respectively used force on the head, waist, and feet of the body at the same time to lift the body of Old Man Li, and then moved the body to the top of the coffin mouth with their heads and feet in parallel.
Seeing this, a thought flashed in Shen Jiangtao's heart, his face changed slightly, he was about to speak, but now his head and feet are parallel and there is no room for any mistakes, so he swallowed the words that came to his mouth.
"Into the coffin!"
Hearing the instructions, the three of them slowly put the body into the coffin.
As soon as the body was put away, I saw Li Wei suddenly stumble, and at the same time, his face turned pale, but fortunately, Li Wei held the coffin with one hand to support his body, and after recovering for a while, he slowly recovered.
Then, Li Wei took the sack containing the old man's nails and half a wooden comb from Master Ruan's hand, and gently placed it next to the body, then took a stack of gold paper and a stack of silver paper and placed them on the left and right feet of the body, and then put an angular pillow with white in the middle and red on both sides, and a lot of silver paper, dog hair and chicken feathers under his head.
As soon as Li Wei breathed a sigh of relief after doing this, Miss Li came to Li Wei with a silver tray carved with patterns, on which were some burial goods such as gold ingots.