After wiping the deceased's face, I broke the deceased's mouth, wiped his teeth, and then used a corpse towel to clean the dirt from his nostrils.

I was about to throw down the towel when the master spoke, and he said, "There's still an eye in the corner of my eye!" ”

I turned my head and saw that there was indeed an eye drop in my left eye, which was hard to spot if I didn't look closely, and I wrapped my finger in a corpse towel in an attempt to wipe it off.

Suddenly, a cool breeze blew in the room, and I couldn't help but shiver, turned my head to look back, and found that the other things in the room were not moving, except for the place where I was standing.

Something was wrong, this was the first thought in my mind, and I didn't care about it so much, so I quickly reached out and wiped off the eye droppings.

Just as I touched the eyes of the deceased, the deceased's eyes suddenly opened, and he stared at me in a daze, his eyes were very hollow, and they were white.

To be honest, at the beginning of the moment, I was so frightened that I almost threw down the towel and ran away, but when I saw that the deceased was not moving, the fear disappeared.

On the contrary, the three brothers of the main family, when they saw the deceased open his eyes, were so frightened that they quickly knelt down, kowtowed desperately, and said, "Dad, the three of us brothers are dedicated to you, and you must not scare us." ”

I calmed down, helped the three brothers of the main family up, and said, "Don't be afraid, this is a normal reaction, not that you are doing badly." ”

The three brothers of the main family stood up tremblingly and asked me if it was true, and when I said it was true, they breathed a sigh of relief and told me that I must do a good funeral, and I was willing to add another 5,000 in terms of money.

I will definitely not refuse the money that comes for nothing, not to mention that when I opened my eyes just now, I was also taken aback, I told them that I would do my best to handle this funeral, and the deceased blinked and asked them not to tell the eight immortals, I was afraid that the eight immortals would know about it and refuse to carry the coffin, and it would be difficult to do it then.

They are all rural people, and they also understand that this kind of thing cannot be spread outside, and they promise not to say it at the moment, but a difficult problem arises in front of us, how to make the dead close their eyes.

I pressed the eyes of the deceased down several times, but they were all opened, and just when we were in trouble, Lao Wang came, and when he saw that the dead man's eyes were open, he was stunned at first, and then asked me what was the matter.

Lao Wang's relationship with me is that he is also a teacher and a friend, and I didn't hide it from him, so I told him some things, but the deceased didn't tell him about his life, first, I was afraid that he would be afraid, and second, I thought he would let me push away the funeral.

When he heard this, he said, "What's so hard about this, just glue it up." With that, he handed me a bottle of glue.

Looking at his skillful appearance, it actually gave me the illusion that this guy shouldn't have prepared glue a long time ago, right?

I took the glue, dropped two drops in the deceased's eyes, and then pressed his eyelids on the glue, and after a while, the deceased's eyes were tightly closed, and at first glance, he died peacefully.

After getting this done, I asked Lao Wang: "Did you get the coffin to the hall?" "He said he had done it, and I asked him if there was anything strange about moving the coffin, and he said everything was normal.

As soon as I heard this, I finally encountered a normal thing, so I asked the three brothers of the main family to call the deceased's relatives to the door and stand and wait for the burial.

After the three brothers of the main family left, I asked Lao Wang to take a hand, put the shroud on the deceased's body, and then took a copper coin and put it in the deceased's mouth, and then took a gold ingot in the deceased's left hand and a silver ingot in the deceased's right hand.

There is also a reason for this practice, China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, and this ceremony is the most important for funerals.

The copper coin I put in the mouth of the deceased is called 'mouth', also known as 'mouth, rice, refers to the custom of giving the deceased a mouth to the mouth, the next part of the miscellaneous notes of the "Book of Rites", there is such a sentence, 'chisel to rice', "Hou Han Shu" in the etiquette chronicle also mentions, 'Dengyao, rice contains pearls and jade like a ceremony', which means to let the deceased smoothly cross the River Styx.

The ancients believed that if there is a boat on the River Styx, there is also a boat responsible for ferrying, and the deceased should pay the boat as if he was in the world, otherwise he may be blamed by the boat, or even unable to cross the river, and the dead will come back to find trouble with their descendants, and the money in the mouth of the deceased is the fare paid to the boat.

And gold, silver ingots, in fact, is the funeral goods, the folk pay attention to let the deceased hold gold in his left hand, silver in his right hand, most people will let the deceased hold one or two gold ingots in his left hand, and one or two silver ingots in his right hand, the development to this day, most of the gold and silver ingots are replaced by fakes, and the reason why this custom will be adopted is the etiquette passed down by the ancestors.

Get these things, Lao Wang and I are in a cold sweat, Lao Wang is better, but my back is a little wet, and I am sweating profusely, after all, this is the first time, saying that I am not afraid, it is bragging.

After the two of us rested for a while, Lao Wang asked me, how to get it next, I asked him to carry the deceased to the hall for me, I need to go to the coffin to arrange it, such a short distance I believe Lao Wang should be able to deal with it, after all, in addition to carrying the coffin, the Eight Immortals will also take some work like this to carry the corpse.

Lao Wang nodded and asked, "Carry the corpse to you this red envelope, or..."

I said, "Lao Wang, if you believe me, don't take any of the red envelopes for this funeral, give them all." If you don't believe me, I can only tell you that there is something wrong with the deceased, and he may be punished for taking the red envelope. ”

After hearing this, Lao Wang was silent for a while and said, "I believe in you!" ”

I didn't say anything more to him, for fear that I would not be able to tell him that the dead man was the kind of life, which would harm him, so I walked to the hall alone with a sack and a stack of yellow papers.

When I came to the hall, in addition to a large black coffin, there was an altar with some ancestral tablets and an incense cup on it, the coffin was opened, and the coffin lid was erected aside.

Like this kind of coffin is generally more exquisite, the wood around the coffin is made of pine and cypress wood, taboo to use willow wood, pine and cypress symbolize longevity, willow does not bear seeds, will lead to extinction, some places will be mixed with some cedar wood, it is said that the complete use of pine and cypress wood will be thundered early, but there are no such customs on our side, the bottom of the coffin is generally made of seven star plates, there is the meaning of longevity in it.

I opened the sack, sprinkled the ashes on the bottom of the coffin, then sprinkled a layer of yellow paper on top of the ashes, and finally came to find a cotton mattress to spread on it. (Grain ash, the husk of the rice is ignited and burned, and the remaining residue is burned.) ）

As soon as the coffin was made, Lao Wang came with the deceased on his back, followed by the deceased's relatives, and there was another earth-shattering, crying ghost and god wail.

I motioned for the old king to stand outside the hall and not to come in, and asked the master to find a tile and put it in front of the coffin.

Then, I made three swings towards the coffin, picked up the mourning stick that I had prepared, circled the coffin seven times, and finally stopped in front of the tiles.