Soon, Joyce recited a few words of Hmong and pounded her right hand on her body a few more times, and before I could see her movements, her palm was already at the level of my lips. Immediately after, I felt something crawl down her palm towards my mouth, and slowly, it crawled down her esophagus.

In a moment, the thing was gone.

After about five or six minutes, I felt as if there was a nameless fire in my abdomen, burning my entire abdomen very hard, followed by a sharp pain, and my limbs twitched involuntarily.

This feeling lasted for several minutes, and then there was a strange feeling in the limbs, like coolness, and like hotness, and there was an indescribable feeling, and I felt that the limbs seemed to have a trace of strength.

"Ninth Master, are you alright?" Joyce's eyes were fixed on me.

I came to my senses, raised my hand, stretched my feet again, nodded at her, and said, "What is this, how can it have this effect?" ”

As I spoke, I looked at the veins of my hand, and miraculously found that the blood in my veins had actually stopped, and only the opening proved that I had been injured before.

Hearing me say this, she breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "This is my Miao Yu Gu, similar to a stimulant, which can allow you to maintain your physical strength for a short time, however, there is one thing, you must remember that you can't touch the water during this period, once you touch the water, the Yu Gu will regurgitate, the limbs will twitch, and the heavy will kill you on the spot, remember!" ”

I nodded, pointed to the blood in my hand, and asked her, "Can this be washed?" ”

She shook her head and spat out two words, "No, you can only get wet after three hours." ”

I sighed, didn't talk to her again, just looked at Chen Tiannan, he looked at me in surprise, opened his mouth, and finally didn't speak.

Walking to his side, I didn't know what to say to him, so I had to pat him on the shoulder, "Tiannan, don't be reckless in the future, there have been clouds since ancient times, life and death have life, even if this time, I really die, it will only pay for my life." ”

He didn't speak, but looked at me deadly, and after about ten seconds, he stood up suddenly, hugged me, and said, "Nine... Brother, nine... Brother, you..."

Before he could finish speaking, I stopped at him and said, "Do you wonder why I am willing to sacrifice myself to carry the coffin?" ”

He nodded.

I said: "One, the coffin is my wife, as a husband has the obligation to let Mengke be buried with peace of mind, even if this life is sacrificed, second, blood pouring the coffin is also a custom, in some places, the deceased is funeral, and the descendants have to smear some blood on the coffin to show filial piety, and Mengke's coffin, perhaps because of the Yin marriage, will require so much blood, but, in the final analysis, at the beginning of this ceremony, there is no possibility of interruption." ”

He thought for a moment and asked, "If it wasn't your sister-in-law in the coffin, would you still be like this?" ”

This question is not easy to answer, Taoists say that the parents of the body and skin, my previous actions are a bit masochistic, from the Taoist doctrine, this is not advisable, but customs are like this, there are conflicts with many things, and it is not clear in a few words.

So, he said to him, "Probably! Or maybe not! ”

He groaned, staring blankly at me, not knowing what was going on in his head.

At this moment, there was thunderous applause at the door, looking for prestige, I saw Shiliu and they were clapping hard, I was a little inexplicable, how could I applaud inexplicably, and was about to speak, that Lang Gao came over, gave me a bear hug, and said: "Chen Jiu, good job, enough man, if I have a sister, I must let her marry you." ”

I gave him a blank look and said, "Introduce me to your Nanyan!" ”

"Get out!" He laughed, slapped me the shoulder, looked at the time again, and said, "It's almost seven o'clock, what's next?" ”

I thought about it for a while, but before I could speak, there was suddenly an extra person beside me, it was Wang Chuyao, she looked at me with teary eyes, "Brother Jiu... Brother Nine, I... I... I'm sorry for you, I shouldn't... I'll tell you how to do it. ”

I smiled and said, "I want to thank you, if you hadn't told me this method, the coffin would have been lifted." ”

As I spoke, I suddenly remembered that after the coffin was poured with blood, I hadn't tried it, so I shouted at those middle-aged men: "Come and try the coffin." ”

Maybe because of me, those middle-aged men were very excited, and immediately ran to the coffin, putting their hands on the coffin.

As they moved, we all looked straight at the coffin, praying in our hearts that we should lift it up, and we must lift it up.

"One, two, three, lift." The middle-aged men shouted in unison.

As soon as the words fell, the coffin was slowly lifted.

Suddenly, thunderous applause rang out again, and this time the applause lasted for a minute or two before stopping, and they all said that all this was my credit and that I had exchanged my life for it.

I didn't say anything about this statement, but found two long wooden benches, asked the middle-aged men to put the coffin on the wooden bench, lit an immortal lamp under the wooden bench, and burned some yellow paper in front of the offering table.

As soon as I did this, Lang Gao walked up to me and said, "Chen Jiu, everyone is applauding you, what are you doing?" It's going to be a funeral, and you still pay attention to this? ”

I hummed and told him that during the funeral, because the coffin was too heavy, there was no wooden bench underneath, which caused the coffin to absorb some earth qi, and now the coffin is lighter, and the coffin must be stopped from absorbing more earth qi for the first time.

He asked me why I couldn't breathe.

I said that the coffin is originally a thing in the underworld, and if it absorbs too much earth qi in the yang world, it will cause the deceased to live uneasily in the underworld, and even there will be water leakage and relocation of the grave.

He sighed and asked me again, "According to what you say, Miss Su's coffin has been on the ground for so long, will that affect her life in the underworld?" ”

I thought about it for a while, and then said, "This problem is easy to solve, just let Su Xiaolin lie on the ground, and then the Eight Immortals will carry the coffin over him." ”

"Why?" Like a curious baby, he asked again.

I patiently explained to him: "Su Xiaolin is Mengke's younger brother, he is considered a junior, and he can use the aura of the junior, and the earth qi at the bottom of the coffin can be regarded as a kind of respect for the deceased." However, there are different sayings in some places, saying that it is a kind of filial piety for the descendants to let the deceased step on the door, of course, the customs in each place are different, what is the specific use, no one knows the truth, just go out according to this method. ”