263.Chapter 263: The Empty Coffin (28)
Qing Xuanzi smiled bitterly, stared at the woman for a while, and said, "Yin and Yang Eyes are said to be miraculous by the outside world, saying that they can see the existence of supernatural phenomena that others can't see. In fact, this is an exaggeration, the difference between yin and yang eyes and ordinary eyes is not very big, what yin and yang eyes see, all gray, with medicine to explain similar to color blindness, but it is not color blindness. In the eyes of our Taoist priests, this kind of eye is called yin and yang eyes, which has been baptized by special rituals, and it is said that you can see ghosts, and if you say something that makes you laugh, when I entered the industry, the master opened the yin and yang eyes for me, and so far, I have not seen the true face of ghosts and gods. ”
"Huh? So, yin and yang eyes are useless? I was stunned and asked.
"That's not the case, some people are born with yin and yang eyes, it is said that they can see ghosts and gods, like the woman's yin and yang eyes, they should have been baptized by special rituals, her world is gray, as for whether she can see ghosts and gods, you have to ask herself." Qing Xuanzi explained to me.
Think about it, since ancient times, ghosts and gods have been a topic of constant debate, some people say, yes, some people say, no, some people say, see ghosts, and some people say, can't see ghosts and gods, who is real and who is false, maybe only you know.
Like the woman's yin and yang eyes, whether she can see ghosts and gods, only she knows, as an outsider, she definitely can't know her inner thoughts. In order to improve their sense of mystery or social status, some people often say that they can see ghosts and gods, and as for whether they can really see ghosts and gods, only they know it, because you can deceive everyone, only your own heart, you can't deceive.
To tell the truth, listening to Qing Xuanzi say this, I was impressed by the woman, if it was really as he said, this woman was really low-key enough, at least her family did not find out about her eye problems.
It is precisely because of this that I have a suspicion about the woman, some people say that the greater a person's ability, the greater the pressure he is under, and the woman even hides her own family, there are no more than two reasons, one is to hide something unspeakable, and the other is to ask for something.
Whether the woman belonged to the former or the latter, I have no way of knowing, but I have an extra eye for the woman, consciously or unconsciously, always glancing over to her and observing her every word and deed.
Not to mention, after observing her for a few minutes, I really noticed that she was a little different from ordinary people, and every time she cried, she would look up in the hall for a while, as if she was looking for something.
"Dao Chief, do you think she can really see ghosts and gods?" I whispered to the green Xuanzi.
He opened his eyes, glanced at the woman, and said, "It's still the same thing just now, only she knows, and we outsiders can't understand her inner thoughts." ”
When he said this, I said nothing, but kept my eyes on the woman until half past ten in the evening, when the mourning ended.
After I stopped crying, I lit a firecracker to put an end to the mourning. Then, Wang Cheng walked up to me, handed me a piece of paper, and said, "Chen Baxian, this is the sacrificial text written by my mother before her death, you can see if there is anything that needs to be changed." ”
The so-called sacrificial text, is the sacrificial or memorial to express mourning or prayer articles, the body is divided into two kinds, one is rhyme, the other is prose, the main content is to mourn, pray for the deceased before the main experience of life, promote his performance, send sorrow, inspire the living. At the same time, the memorial is also a mourning article written to pay tribute to the deceased, and it is the last ritual of the funeral, similar to crying.
I took the memorial and glanced at it, it was a rhyme, with five characters as a sentence, and the last word was more rhyming, which recorded some matters during the deceased's life.
Originally, I wanted to take a serious look at this memorial text to see what happened to the deceased's life, but I remembered that I would read this memorial text later, so I didn't check it carefully, so I arranged for Wang Cheng to find a few mats.
After a while, Wang Cheng found a few mats, and I counted the number of people present, including Wang Xi, a total of ten people.
However, there were only a few mats, which were obviously not enough, so I cut some of them, gave each of them a small piece, spread it in front of the table of the eight immortals, and then let them kneel on the mat and listen to me recite the sacrifice.
It is said that kneeling on the mat can make the deceased live well in the underworld, of course, this is a legend, whether it is true or not, there is no way to know.
After arranging for them to kneel, I asked Qing Xuanzi to stand on the threshold of the hall, holding a kitchen knife in his left hand and a firecracker in his right.
I stood at the end of the coffin, separated from Wang Chengcai and Wang Chengcai from a coffin and a table of eight immortals, this distance, in the funeral, is called 'heaven and earth', which means that the person who recites the sacrifice is in the sky, and the person who listens to the sacrifice is on the ground.
This memorial is a hard work, and it cannot be recited in a normal voice, but must be recited with a crying voice, and the deceased must be regarded as his mother, and then his feelings must be substituted for the deceased.
Some competent memorial literati often cry in a daze, tears and snot, as if it was his own mother who died. I don't know what's going on, in the part of reciting the sacrificial text, I have never learned their emotional substitution, I can only say that the sacrificial text I read is bland, at most a few tears, perhaps, I was born not to act.
A sacrificial text is read, the person who reads the sacrificial text, the throat will ache for several days, of course, the pay and the harvest, is directly proportional, a sacrificial text is read, about an hour, but the salary is as high as 300 yuan.
After everything was ready, I motioned for Qing Xuanzi to set off firecrackers, and I made three gestures towards the coffin, sweeping them over Wang Chengcai and them one by one, and they knelt on the ground, their hands on the ground, their foreheads pressed against the ground.
I took a few deep breaths, and my tone changed, and I read in a slightly weeping voice: My son Wang Chengcai, sacrifice to his loving mother He Xiuhua, on the 19th day of the first month of the first month of 2006 AD, I would like to sacrifice the ritual of incense money and wine (li, the third tone) Shu Yu (xiu, the third tone) and the food (zhuan, the fourth tone) in front of the dragon coffin of the loving mother.
After reading this, I gave Qing Xuanzi a look, which meant that firecrackers could be set off, and Qing Xuanzi came to his senses, and immediately knocked three times on the threshold with a kitchen knife, and then lit a firecracker, and the sound of 'crackling' came.
After the sound of firecrackers stopped, Qing Xuanzi looked up to the sky and sighed three times, saying: "The wind blows the pear blossom wind with sadness, the moon falls and the frost field Wanhe Xiao, today and tears part, and then the relatives in the dream, a lifetime of nurturing grace and long memories, repay the kindness never stops, a piece of paper sacrifice praise Tianxiao, descendants filial piety in front of the hall, text, up." ”