Chapter 38: Family Secrets

As soon as Zheng Sange said this, I remembered that the old man in the small grass house just now said that I was a poor master in the middle netherworld, and I asked Zheng Sange about it, and Zheng Sange stopped and looked at me and said to me

"Your family has been working for the Netherworld for generations, so you are naturally a person from the Netherworld"

I didn't expect that Zheng Sange, who has always been strict-mouthed, would actually answer all questions today, so I hurriedly asked him about the Netherworld.

Zheng Sange looked at me and took out a cigarette bag and pot from my waist and took a few puffs, it seems that this Zheng Sange's addiction to smoking is really big enough, and he didn't forget to take the cigarette bag and pot down after a few puffs, Zheng Sange asked me after a few puffs

"Where do you think people go when they die?"

I thought about it and asked him rhetorically

"Didn't you come here?"

Zheng Sange took a puff of cigarette pouch and shook his head

"No, the first station after a person's death is the bardo realm, and the 49 days after a person's death are called the bardo body, during which you can't say that you can't listen or even have no consciousness, so let's put it this way, the bardo realm is equivalent to a soul classification station, classify the soul in advance, and then send it to the underworld according to the category."

After speaking, he pointed to the person in the distance who was walking forward with a dull gaze

"You see, this is the classification of the netherworld"

I looked in the direction of Zheng Sange's finger, and I hurriedly asked him how he could go to the Netherworld, and Zheng Sange smiled faintly and stretched out two fingers to me and said

"One, if you die, you will naturally go to the netherworld, and second, the physical body will go to the netherworld, but these two methods are not too reliable, so almost no one has ever been to the netherworld"

I know the first method that Zheng Sange said, and I asked him what the second method was, and Zheng Sange said to me that in a state like ours, to put it bluntly, it is the soul out of the body and into the underworld.

The so-called physical body to the yin means to go to the nether world with the physical body, I looked at him incredulously, Zheng Sange smiled at me and said

"I don't know much about the physical body going to the yin, this thing is your family's specialty"

After listening to it, I suddenly realized something, about my father's disappearance, it is very likely that it is like what Zheng Sange said just now, the body has gone to the underworld.

I told Zheng Sange about my guess and asked him if this was the case, Zheng Sange smiled and didn't speak, looking at Zheng Sange's expression, it was a tacit acquiescence, so the two of us unconsciously walked to a pavilion, which stood alone here and looked particularly abrupt.

I asked Zheng Sange where this was, Zheng Sange said that he had made an appointment with a friend to meet here, Zheng Sange just finished speaking, he walked over from a distance and slowly walked over a team of people in red clothes, this team of people also carried two coffins, led by a middle-aged man wearing a fast hunting suit, this team came towards us in a mighty way, Zheng Sange smoked a cigarette bag and looked at that side and said with a smile

"This kid has a big enough lineup"

After a while, the group walked to the pavilion, and the middle-aged man led by him came over and said hello to Zheng Sange, he glanced at me and smiled at me and didn't say anything, Zheng Sange pointed to the group of people who stopped on the side and said to the person with a smile

"It's really enough to save face with such a big formation"

The man smiled and said to Zheng Sange

"Your third brother Zheng finally begged me for a favor, I must be decent, in short, I won't ask what you want to do, don't get involved with me if something happens"

Zheng Sange nodded and patted the man's shoulder, I looked at the group of people who stopped on the side, this team of people stood aside expressionlessly, this scene I felt a little similar, I suddenly remembered that I had a dream that I had since I was a child, such a group of people carried the coffin, I rode a horse and walked in front, the leader and Zheng Sange We said a good journey and left, Zheng Sange looked at the back of the person who was far away and muttered

"This time I owe a lot of favors"

Zheng Sange and I walked to the pair of red-clothed people, the red-clothed people put down the two coffins on their shoulders expressionlessly, and after putting down the coffin, I found that the coffin did not have a lid, Zheng Sange pointed to the coffin on the ground and let me lie in, saying that I also walked to another coffin, I looked at this black coffin and was a little stunned, Zheng Sange saw my doubts and came over to me

"There's nothing to be afraid of, this coffin was made by your family at the earliest"

I said before that my family used to open a coffin, but that was a long, long time ago, and I never dreamed that I would see a coffin made by my ancestors in the underworld.

I was just about to open my mouth to ask Zheng Sange what was going on, Zheng Sange walked to the back of a coffin, turned over and jumped in, I sighed, and also held the edge of the coffin with my hand, rolled over, the coffin was much more spacious than I imagined, although the coffin did not have a lid, but I couldn't see anything on it, the whole coffin was pitch black, I couldn't see the five fingers, I lay down in the coffin, I felt a few people in red outside slowly lift the coffin, swaying and carrying the coffin away.

Although I couldn't see the five fingers in the coffin, I didn't feel any horror, first of all, Zheng Sange was next to me, I believe that if there was something, he would never leave me alone, and secondly, before getting into the coffin, Zheng Sange told me that these two coffins were made by my family at the earliest, and I didn't feel terrible because of the psychological effect, but I felt that I was lying in the coffin and swaying quite interesting.

I sat on my arms and thought about what I had been through along the way, and now I was able to relax and think about all the clues I knew.

When I was on the road, Zheng Sange once told me that my family is good at going to the underworld with the body, if I understand correctly, the body going to the yin is the body to come to the underworld or the nether world with me, I told Zheng Sange this speculation after Zheng Sange acquiesced, plus some of his own guesses, I can basically determine that my dad is now in the netherworld.

Listening to Zheng Sange's meaning, the netherworld doesn't seem to come as soon as you want to come like the underworld, it seems that it is not too easy to enter the underworld, plus the two coffins made by my ancestors appeared in the underworld, and when I was in the kingdom of God, my father suddenly appeared and came out of that space, and then he said to the god that he had official duties, and mixed all kinds of facts and speculations together, that is, my father is now on an errand in the netherworld for some reason.

It should be like men in some countries who serve in the military when they become adults, people in my family will go to the nether world to serve for a few years at a certain time, and now my father is like this, and my grandfather before is like this, if this is really the case, it makes sense, and I guess I myself should also go to the nether world to serve at a certain time.

But this is just my speculation, the truth may only wait for the day my dad comes back to know, thinking of this I can't help but feel a lot more comfortable, looking for many years of truth also has some eyebrows, like a big stone in my heart down, if my mother knows about this should also be able to go to a piece of heart, but this matter is too unbelievable I don't know how to talk to her, even if I open my mouth and tell her she will definitely not believe it, after thinking for a long time I didn't come up with a feasible way, Let's wait for my dad to come back and talk to my mom in person.

The coffin was surprisingly quiet, only the sound of the creaking coffin rubbing the rope could be heard, although lying in the gloomy coffin, I actually had a sense of comfort at this moment, that feeling like leaning against the large French window reading a book on a very good afternoon afternoon, I think maybe this was the feeling when I was a child in the cradle.

In short, this feeling is very comfortable, I was enjoying this feeling when the coffin suddenly fell to the ground with a bang, I didn't know what was going on outside, I didn't dare to get up and poke my head out of the coffin to check, after a while, I heard someone knocking on my coffin outside, and then came the voice of Zheng Sange

"It's here, come out"

After hearing Zheng Sange's voice, I sat up from the coffin, and went out to see Zheng Sange standing outside the coffin I was in, and after I climbed out of the coffin, Zheng Sange took out a wad of paper money from his arms and put it on the ground, and thanked a team of red-clothed people with fists, and the red-clothed people still looked ahead expressionlessly, as if they were paper-tied people.

Zheng Sange and I didn't care about these people anymore, after walking away, I asked him who these people were, Zheng Sange took out a cigarette bag and pot and smoked two puffs and said that these people who carried the coffin were all bardo bodies, Zheng Sange said that we came to the underworld to make trouble, and it was not too convenient to move around, and it was to disturb social order in the underworld, so before coming to the underworld, he dragged his friends in the underworld to send him here.

I looked around and asked him where this was, and Zheng Sange smiled and said that this is the way to marry a bride in the underworld.

After speaking, I was afraid that I would not understand, and he explained that this road is equivalent to the only way to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register for marriage.

There is nothing special about this road, it looks a bit like a country road, there are bright flowers blooming on the side of the road, I was just about to reach out and pick a flower Zheng Sange immediately stopped me, I turned around and asked him what was wrong, Zheng Sange said to me a little anxiously

"This is the flower on the other side of the underworld, don't touch it"

Hearing him say this, I hurriedly withdrew my hand and carefully observed these flowers, I have heard of the flowers on the other side, it is said that this kind of thing is only in the underworld, I asked him what would happen if I touched it, Zheng Sange smiled and said I can pick one and try it.

Didn t wait for me to speak, Zheng Sange frowned and made a silent gesture at me, looking into the distance, I followed the direction of his gaze, and saw a team coming in the distance, Zheng Sange smiled and looked into the distance and said

"See, this is the team of marrying relatives"