The boundary between life and death is actually very simple, not complicated at all. From a medical point of view, after the heart stops beating and the brain waves disappear, the person is considered dead. And what about the relatives of the deceased? How do they distinguish between the fact that their loved ones are dead or alive?

In fact, their discernment behavior is also very simple and not complicated. From the moment the memorial service begins, it is a reminder that the dearest is dead. The memorial service goes to the crematorium for incineration, and then to the funeral, where the ashes are buried in the ground. It is the whole process of a person from birth to death.

You see, it's really simple, it's not complicated at all.

But sometimes, the boundary between death and life is not as clear as human imagination.

If you don't believe me, then read the story on.

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Every country has its own rules about funerals, and the taboo of memorials in one country may be in the right place for another. In the mainland of the country, because of the vast land and abundant resources, the ceremonies about the memorial can be said to be varied, and some are even incredible.

And in a certain family in Liluo Village, a funeral ceremony is being held.

This funeral is no different from the people in the neighborhood, after the death of the person, the onmyoji who knows each other must calculate the birth date, and then give a time to burn the body. In the days when the bodies of relatives were not cremated and buried, the bodies were placed in the peach house and offered in the living room.

Four relatives are required to keep vigil all night every night, and the vigil does not need to do anything, just pay attention to the soul-attracting lamp. It cannot be extinguished, otherwise it is said that the soul of the corpse will not find its way back and will become haunted by ghosts.

Tonight is the fifth and last night, and tomorrow morning at eight o'clock the body will be transported to the crematorium and burned. After the burial, there was another day of big night, and the memorial ceremony was completely over.

The village is vast and sparsely populated, and every family in the countryside has built a large area. It is famous for producing a special fragrance, and the villagers are quite wealthy. The family's surname is Fox, and it is also considered a family of property in Liluo Village, so the funeral was quite grand. It was the old man fox who died, who died at the age of one hundred and seven, and it should be a happy mourning, so the people who kept the night vigil ate and drank, and played playing cards with laughter.

The summer night weather is very hot, and in the countryside with no street lights, it is so dark that you can't see your fingers. A white woven lamp hangs in front of the gate of the courtyard to separate the darkness from the neighborhood. A gust of wind blew, and the numerous wreaths piled up under the lamp made a strange and unpleasant sound. The family with the funeral, at night, is more like an alien world that humans should not exist.

The four relatives of tonight's vigil are all great-grandchildren, each of whom is very young, and the oldest is no more than 25 years old. In Liluo Village, the great-grandson is called 'Momo', who belongs to the fourth generation of the fox family. Young people are not only energetic and kind-hearted, but they are also the most scornful of ancient rituals. Especially these four people, Huhu, he went to college and didn't believe in ghosts and gods at all.

They sat in front of the closed door of the peach house, playing cards and drinking, and soon mingled until twelve o'clock.

The corpse of the old fox man was only a few meters away from them, and it was hot and humid in summer, and the corpse had been placed for 5 days. So you can often smell a rotten stench. Finally, the man named Fox Lake couldn't stand the smell anymore, and he got up and walked to the door, as if he was about to open the door to breathe.

"What are you doing?" Hu Yu raised his head and just saw this scene.

"Open the door, it stinks inside. It makes me want to throw up! Foxlake replied.

"Grandma told me that I was not allowed to open the door of the peach house at night." Hu Yu frowned, "This is the rule of the entire Liluo Village for funerals. ”

"Great-grandfather is dead, do you still want to suffocate us together? It's so stinky, the customs of this hellish place are really deadly, so I don't know how to work around it on such a hot day. I can imagine how many maggots were eating in my great-grandfather's meat. Huhu smacked his lips, and the three people on the other side of those words were disgusted.

"Xiaohu, great-grandpa treated you best when he was alive, you should be clean." Hu Yu's voice became louder. He is the eldest of this generation, and he can more or less suppress the other brothers and sisters.

"Okay, if you don't open it, you can't open it, what's the big deal." Foxlake grunted back in his chair.

But after a while, the stench in the room seemed to get stronger. He felt like he couldn't take it anymore, so he got up again and tried to open the door.

"Not allowed to open."

His hand was just about to touch the door lock when Hu Yu's voice came.

"Cut, dead superstition. Are you really only twenty-five? I thought you were an old man. Fox Lake scolded and looked at his watch. It's almost half past twelve. The sweltering heat and the stench of corpses gave rise to a kind of nausea, and Fox Lake felt like he was about to go crazy. In the confined space, the wind from the fan stirring is also hot, but it just transmits the stench from that end to this end, which is disturbing.

He threw the cards in his hand in frustration and shouted, "Stop playing, sleep." ”

After speaking, he pulled a rattan chair, put his feet to the side, and closed his eyes.

The three of them also seemed to find it very boring, the night was still very long, and it would take more than seven hours to wait for other relatives to come.

"Sleep well, too, and we'll take turns keeping vigil." Hu Yu nodded at the other two.

I don't know how long it took, Huhu was called by Huyu.

"You're the second, it's your turn to keep vigil. After an hour and a half, I woke up the third child. Hu Yu patted him on the shoulder.

"It's annoying, I just slept for a long time." Huhu sat up straight with a black face, but he couldn't help but listen to the boss's orders, this guy bullied himself a lot when he was a child, and he is still afraid in his heart.

"Whoever told us to be brothers, we have to work harder." Hu Yu sat in the chair and closed his eyes, and did not forget to say, "Don't open the door, take care of the soul-attracting lamp, remember to add it in time when there is no oil inside." ”

"Got it, Ji Po is very good." Huhu scolded in a low voice and rubbed his eyes with his hands. The clock on the other side of the wall pointed to a position close to three o'clock, and it was really annoying to be bored alone for an hour and a half.

Soon after, only the slight breathing sound of three people remained in the entire peach house. Fox Lake kept walking around in this stuffy room, and he really didn't know what to do. flipped through what others brought, and the more I looked at it, the more scared I became, but when I looked at the cover, it was actually a collection of horror stories. He has the heart to curse, which bastard bought a book and brought terror to the mourning hall, it should be a test of courage!

Throwing away the book in his hand, Huhu simply sat on the chair and was stunned.

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