Li Wei, who was already sweating profusely, had to follow Miss Li's instructions again, took a piece of bright and fresh jade cicada from the tray and carefully put it in the old man's mouth, calling it rice han, and then took the gold ingots from the tray and put them in the old man's right hand, and took some jewelry and gems and put them in the old man's left hand.

When these were done, Li Wei's body was shaky and his face was pale, and Shen Jiangtao went up to support him. Miss Li took a red and white quilt in her hand, and according to Master Ruan's instructions, Li Weiqiang used the white side as the inner and the red side as a watch to cover the old man's body.

Master Ruan walked up to the coffin, walked around the coffin, muttered words in his mouth, stopped and said, "Fight the tails!" ”

After hearing Master Ruan's instructions, everyone removed all the items that had been placed in front of the old man's feet, such as foottail boards, foottail papers, and everlasting lanterns, and then another group of people stepped forward and began to quickly arrange the mourning hall.

The men were divided into two groups, one of which closed the curtains and windows that had just been opened on the east side, and then the four of them held up a square white cloth and inserted nine bamboo poles around the coffin, so that the whole white cloth separated the coffin from the outside.

The other group of people is busy arranging a series of worship things such as spiritual seats, statues, spiritual tables, and soul silk and soul flags.

After the spiritual table and incense table were set up, Master Ruan took the lead in coming to the incense burner and put three incense sticks on the spiritual seat, and bowed three times at the same time, followed by Li Wei, who replaced the filial son, to worship with incense, and then Miss Li and others came to worship one after another.

At this time, Master Ruan walked in front of Shen Jiangtao and the five people with three sticks of incense in his hand and handed the three sticks of incense to Yu Xu first, Yu Xu was about to come forward to worship, but when he saw Shen Jiangtao stopping him with one hand, he glanced at Yu Xu, and then stared at Master Ruan and said, "We are just assistants, and we are not obliged to put incense." ”

Shen Jiangtao knew very well that when Li Xiang was alive a long time ago, he heard Master say that everything has its own spirituality, just like a god statue, once it is contaminated with a certain amount of incense, it will appear spiritual, but it does not mean that only the god statue can appear spiritual, and some bad "things" will also appear spirituality when they receive incense, and these spirituality will react on those who worship it.

Good spirituality is a good thing, bad spirituality is a bad thing, in short, don't just use incense to worship something.

Master Ruan squinted at Shen Jiangtao, turned his head and said coldly, "You are believers? ”

"What believers, we are members of the Feng Shui Society, and this is our president." Miao Li stepped forward and replied.

Miao Li saw this Master Ruan's aggressive intentions, and was a little dissatisfied, everyone has something they are willing or unwilling to do, as long as it does not involve hard and fast rules, they have the right to choose, although the "believer" in his mouth does not know what it is, but it must be related to those gods and ghosts just now.

After listening to Miao Li's answer, Master Ruan didn't say much, turned around and inserted the three sticks of incense into the incense burner, and then looked up and saw Li Wei coming towards the opposite side, he showed a smile on his face, and said to Li Wei: "Mr. Li, do you want to take a break?" It was now almost an hour and a half before the official funeral. ”

Li Wei looked at his watch, the time is now half past eight, according to what Master Ruan said an hour and a half, the official funeral should be ten o'clock, after some tossing just now, Professor Li Wei obviously felt tired and couldn't stop yawning.

Seeing this, Shen Jiangtao hurriedly walked to Li Wei's side and said with concern: "Professor Li, do you want to go back to the room and rest for a while, and come back at ten o'clock?" ”

Shen Jiangtao was silent on the surface, showing only normal concern, but in fact, he was afraid that Li Wei would have an accident, Shen Jiangtao saw some clues, Li Wei had fallen asleep early yesterday, but after the burial ceremony just now, he was not in good spirits, which made Shen Jiangtao think of some folk taboos.

Li Wei nodded, and Shen Jiangtao helped him leave.

Master Ruan behaved and became gloomy, he was just polite, he didn't expect Shen Jiangtao to take Li Wei away; Miss Li on the other side also had an ugly expression, but it was not easy to stop, so she could only watch Shen Jiangtao help Li Wei leave.

When he came to Li Wei's room, Shen Jiangtao asked in a low voice, "Professor Li, do you feel anything uncomfortable?" ”

"It's okay ...... now" Saying this, Li Wei was stunned for a moment, as if he was a little hairy by Shen Jiangtao's question, stared at Shen Jiangtao with wide eyes and asked, "Why do you ask that?" ”

Shen Jiangtao was afraid that Li Wei would think too much in his heart, so he didn't answer him directly, and handed Professor Li Wei a glass of warm water with concern and said, "That's good." While handing over the water, Shen Jiangtao leaned over to Li Wei and looked at him, and found that a faint gray-black mass appeared on Li Weiyin's hall......

"Well, I hope to finish these things soon." Li Wei sighed, tired, he didn't expect it to be so cumbersome, he said to Shen Jiangtao apologetically: "Hey, maybe I shouldn't trouble you to come with me this time, the funeral customs here are really troublesome, and at the same time, I see that the person who presides over the funeral is not very friendly to you." ”

"Yes, I feel the unfriendliness of what the professor said, but I really don't understand, why would they do it? We didn't even know each other all the time. ”

Shen Jiangtao was very puzzled by this, especially that Master Ruan, who was not only unfriendly to Shen Jiangtao and the others, but could even obviously feel a trace of hostility.

In Shen Jiangtao's opinion, he was in Thanh An City in the north of the country, while Master Ruan was in Vietnam, the two had never met, and the two were thousands of miles apart, so there could be no connection.

Thinking in his heart, he felt that his shoulder was pressed by something, looked over, and found that Professor Li Wei was sleepy leaning on his shoulder, Shen Jiangtao hurriedly called out in surprise: "Professor Li!" At the same time, he raised his hand and nudged him.

Looking at Li Wei's spirit again, it was even more sluggish, and the pale gray-black color on the Yin Hall had turned into dark black, and the dark black area was still expanding and deepening.

Li Wei shook his head, then opened his eyes again, yawned incessantly, turned his head and saw Shen Jiangtao staring at him, and suddenly said with some uneasiness: "Do you see that something is wrong with me?" He grabbed Shen Jiangtao's hand as he spoke, in his opinion, if there were any strange and evil symptoms, Shen Jiangtao would be his lifesaver.

After thinking about it, Shen Jiangtao decided to tell Li Wei the abnormal scene he had just seen: "Did you notice that your entire shadow was reflected at the bottom of the coffin just now?" ”