Chapter 20: Customs
Sun Chengguan, who was washing his face by the river, listened to the birdsong in the forest and felt the oxygen-filled air, and his whole person was full of energy. Carrying his backpack, he came to the side of the road to prepare to take a ride to Su Peng.
Looking at the cars coming and going, Sun Chengguan was a little depressed, his hand stretched out for a long time, and no car stopped, do I look like a bad person, shouldn't I.
At this time, a large truck stopped, and a big man stuck his head out of the car and said, "Brother, where you go, I will take you by the way." ”
"To Dabazi Village, Shanyi Town, do you want to stop by? I can pay for the journey. Sun Chengguan saw that someone was finally willing to give a ride, although it was a big truck, it was much better than walking.
"Dabazi Village, I know, I just happened to pass by there, just come up if you don't dislike it, forget the money, drop by." The truck driver opened the door, Sun Chengguan got into the car in one arrow step, and saw the big man who had just asked him sitting in the co-pilot, the driver was also a big man, Sun Chengguan sat in the back, and hurriedly thanked him.
"What are you doing in Dabazi Village? I have a cousin who married there, and the rest of the place is fine, but some customs are not good. The co-pilot's big man was very talkative and took the initiative to chat.
"There's a friend who lives there and asks me to come over to play, big brother, what's the bad custom?" Sun Chengguan was a little curious.
Dahan took out a cigarette, handed it to the driver, and was about to throw one to Sun Chengguan, Sun Chengguan hurriedly waved his hand and said that he didn't smoke, Dahan took a deep breath of cigarette and said: "In that place, the dead are not cremated, so forget it, after all, there are many places in the countryside that are not cremated." But Dabazi Village is different, when they die, they will put people in coffins, and then put the coffins on the side of the road, and put them for three or five years, little brother, you don't know the smell of the corpse rotting, I don't know how smelly it is, and the roadside is full of coffins, and it is a panic to walk at night. ”
Sun Chengguan was silent for a while, he had heard a lot of about this custom, generally the whole coffin was wrapped in straw and placed on the mountain for three, five, or seven years, and it must be buried in a single year.
Because it is said that when a person dies, the soul is reluctant to leave this world, so the family will put the coffin in the world for three and a half years before being buried. Some people also say that it is because the family misses their departed relatives and is unwilling to be buried directly, so they have to wait a few years for the burial.
Whatever the reason, this custom has been passed down to the next day.
In more than an hour, Dabazi Village arrived, and Sun Chengguan thanked Uncle and got out of the car.
Standing on the side of the road, looking at the village not far away, sure enough, on the hills or roadsides on both sides of the road into the village, there were a lot of coffins, and Sun Chengguan also saw many children coming out of the village, carrying a schoolbag and jumping to school, not feeling afraid at all, this may be the habit of becoming natural!
Walking along the dirt road, step by step towards the village, the air did not have the fresh air of the mountains in the morning, but there was a faint smell of rot, which made people nauseated.
After crossing the dirt road, I came to the village, and the early risers in the village were already working in the fields, and said hello to the uncle in the field next to him: "Good morning, uncle, where does Su Peng's family live?" I'm his friend. ”
"Su Peng's house, just go straight ahead, enter the village and turn right, the newly built small building is it." The uncle was very enthusiastic and pointed out the way to Sun Chengguan.
"Thank you, uncle, you are busy, I can do it myself" Thanking the uncle's kindness, Sun Chengguan entered the village, and along the road that the uncle said, Sun Chengguan soon found a three-story building.
The building and the whole village do not match much, Sun Chengguan walked along the road, most of them are very old kind of mud walls and black tile houses, occasionally there are new ones are also bungalows, Su Peng's house should be the only three-story building in this village, and there is a car in the yard.
Entering the courtyard, Sun Chengguan felt a cool air coming, obviously it was a sunny morning outside, but as soon as he entered the courtyard, it was like midnight, and the courtyard was quiet, and he didn't feel a trace of popularity.
"Bang Bang" knocked on the door, and soon the door was opened, and a man with bloodshot eyes, severe dark sockets, a face full of oil, and blisters on his lips walked out.
"You are?" Su Peng looked at the young man in front of him strangely, a little strange, he had just sent his daughter-in-law and son to his father-in-law's house in the morning, and he was afraid that the master would come and let the mother and son see something terrible.
"Are you Su Peng? I'm Master Sun, don't I look very young, haha, I'm not a liar, I'm just here to see and I won't charge you money. Looking at Su Peng, who was full of suspicion, Sun Chengguan was also a little helpless, he didn't believe you, he really only had to look at fate.
"No, no, it's just that the master looks younger, come on, come in and sit, I'm the only one at home." Although Su Peng was suspicious, he regarded the dead horse as a live horse doctor, and invited Sun Chengguan into the house.
Looking at Su Peng, who went to pour water, Sun Chengguan turned his aura and looked at the room, and sure enough, the whole room was wrong, it stands to reason that every item will have its own qi, but Sun Chengguan found that this room was covered with a huge dark gray gas, and the original qi of the object was almost suppressed and could not be seen clearly.
"Master, what are you looking at?" Next to him, Su Peng had already come back with a water cup, and Sun Chengguan withdrew his aura and took the water handed by Su Peng.
"When did you have that dream, and nothing strange happened that day." Sun Chengguan just took a sip of water, and suddenly "poof" the water squirted out.
Su Peng was thinking about what happened that day, and was suddenly startled by Sun Chengguan's water spray: "What's wrong with the master, is the water scalding?" After speaking, I took a sip by myself, it's not hot.
Sun Chengguan didn't answer, his hand holding the water cup was a little bulging, and he looked at Su Peng and asked in a low voice, "Where did this water come from?" ”
"This water is my family's old well, and it has been used for decades." Su Peng muttered in his heart, this guy won't be a liar, he will use decades of water wells to say that there is a problem, and then let me spend money to dig the well.
It's been decades, how is it possible, the breath contained in this water is exactly the same as the gray gas in this room, and there are more than the ones in the house, and the aura is decisive, only to find that the glass of water in his hand no longer has the white gas that normal water should emit, but is full of dark gray gas, just like holding a cup of dry ice with gray gas.
"So this well, has it been dug anew these days, or something strange has happened?" Sun Chengguan asked Su Peng tentatively.
"It's impossible, my parents have been buried in that place, and messing around will destroy feng shui." Su Peng's affirmative reply will not be a problem.
Sun Chengguan didn't have a clue, so he had to say to Su Peng: "Okay, I'll take a look around this house first, and if there is no problem, I'll go to the well to have a look." ”
"Okay, the master is hungry too, you can take a look around first, and I'll make a light meal." With that, Su Peng went into the kitchen.
After drinking the water in one breath, a cool breath entered the body, and before Sun Chengguan could react, he felt that the cool air was digested by himself, and he also felt that the aura had improved a little bit, and sure enough, everything he had aura could be absorbed.
Sun Chengguan took out the pendant while looking around, and asked secretly: "Zhou Jie, do you feel anything?" ”
"I only felt some yin energy, nothing else." Zhou Jie really felt something, but her words also made Sun Chengguan a little confused, yin, gray is yin, that is to say, there are ghosts.
To be honest, Sun Chengguan also has a general understanding of those colored gases, black represents evil aura, green represents poisonous aura, and gray represents yin aura, which he encountered. There is also Li Xuanba's blood-red killing aura, and now there are some colors, Sun Chengguan can probably guess what it means, but he can't confirm it if he hasn't met it.
After looking around, he didn't find anything abnormal, Su Peng also made a small fried meat, a scallion oil bream, a green pepper scrambled egg, plus a seaweed soup, three dishes and one soup, and the two men sat down together at noon and ate it, don't look at Su Peng's rough man's appearance, but his skills are good, Sun Chengguan is very full.
People who were exposed to the sun at noon couldn't open their eyes, Su Peng and Sun Chengguan went to the old well in the back mountain one after another, and before they arrived at the place, Sun Chengguan felt a cool air blowing on his face.
"Well, this place is good, this is a treasure of feng shui, and the whole village likes to cool off here in summer." Su Peng, who was walking in front, turned around and said to Sun Chengguan behind him with a smile.