15. The tomb is empty
Since you can't bury people in the back mountain, what's going on with my mother? Why is it buried in the back mountain?
I found that when I mentioned Houshan, my dad and grandma's expressions would become a little dignified, and they seemed to be reluctant to mention it at all, or let more people know about it.
"Let's go!"
My dad said something and walked straight outside, the old corpse maker followed, and I glanced at Xia Mo beside me.
She motioned for me to follow, but even if she didn't, I would follow, and I found that my heart was full of curiosity about the back mountain. What are the secrets of the back mountain?
Following all the way, we arrived at the back mountain, and I saw a compass appear in the old corpse craftsman's hand, and Xia Mo followed behind me, not speaking as always.
But I saw that Xia Mo's eyes had always been on the old corpse craftsman's body, and he had never moved away.
My dad followed closely by the old corpse maker, and for half a day, I saw the old corpse maker holding a compass in his hand, constantly moving around, and finally, the old corpse maker's figure stopped.
Seeing the position where the old corpse maker paused, my whole heart trembled, because the old corpse maker's figure actually stopped in front of my mother's grave.
"This is it." After a while, the old corpse craftsman's deep voice came out, and after he finished speaking, he looked at my father, and my father's face was also surprisingly ugly at this time.
After a while, my father asked the old corpse maker, "Mr. Corpse, the place has been found, what should I do next?" ”
The old corpse maker stared at my mother's grave for a long time, and then he spoke up and said to my father, "Next, I need to find another place for the owner of this grave, and I have to bury my grandfather's body in it, so that my grandfather can be suppressed."
"No, this grave can't be moved."
But at the moment when the old corpse craftsman's voice fell, my father spoke directly, with a burst of determination in his voice, to move my mother's grave?
If nothing else, even I won't agree, moving graves is also taboo, and it will disturb the dead.
The old corpse craftsman's face did not change much, as if he had known that we would reject his request, and after a moment of silence, the old corpse smith said lightly.
"I've been walking around your village for a while, and this place can suppress the corpse!"
After saying that, the old corpse maker looked at my dad, obviously waiting for my dad to make a decision, but my dad barely had to think about it, and spoke up again.
"Mr. Corpse, this grave really can't be moved, can you think of other ways?"
After my dad finished speaking, the old corpse maker fell into deep thought, staring at the grave with dead eyes, at this moment, my dad quickly stood up, pointed to the small grave bag next to him, and asked the old corpse maker, is it okay here?
The old corpse craftsman frowned and asked who is this grave? My dad said it was an unknown lonely grave, and if he could, he would find another place for the people in the grave.
"It's only a foot away, I should be able to borrow something, here's it, but I have to make it clear first, I can't guarantee that nothing will happen, after all, you are useless in the place I chose."
The old corpse craftsman said very clearly, if I changed my mother's grave and let my grandfather be buried in it, then it would be fine, but now he has changed to another place, so he doesn't dare to guarantee it 100%.
In this regard, my father nodded solemnly, and said that this is the place, and finally the old corpse maker has decided, and then let us go back to get the things, and come back directly to dig the grave, the longer this matter drags on, the easier it is to make trouble.
I followed my dad and hurried home, this time, Xia Mo didn't follow me, but stayed in the back mountain, on the way home, I couldn't suppress the doubts in my heart, and asked my dad out loud, how did my mother die?
Obviously, my dad didn't expect me to ask this question all of a sudden, and he looked at me with a frown and said, "Why are you asking this?" Didn't I tell you? Your mother left when she gave birth to you. ”
I looked at my dad's expression and knew that my dad didn't want to tell me more, and even if there was anything hidden in it, my dad wouldn't tell me, so I had to give up.
After returning home, according to the instructions of the old corpse maker, we found a black cloth and four tall bamboo poles, prepared tools for digging graves, and my father and I returned to the back mountain again.
After arriving, the old corpse maker inserted four bamboo poles into the ground as dead ends, and then made a large piece of black cloth into a tent to block the sunlight.
After finishing it, the old corpse craftsman lit a candle and a stick of incense in front of the grave, and I asked Xia Mo next to me what did that mean?
Xia Mo told me that this is to ask the Lord in the tomb to find a new place for him, if he agrees, the candle will not be extinguished until the incense is burned.
If there is any accident on the way, it proves that the tomb cannot be moved.
I nodded, surprised that there were so many doorways.
The incense burned quickly, and there was no mistake in the middle, the old corpse craftsman went directly to collect it, and shouted: "Dig the grave." ”
As the old corpse craftsman's words fell, my father and I moved directly, holding a hoe and shovel in our hands, and began to dig up the small grave in front of us.
The bag was not very big, and it was quickly bulldozed, and then my dad and I started to be careful, because there was a coffin underneath, and it would not be good if you accidentally got someone else's coffin.
But after digging for a while, my dad and I became a little puzzled because we didn't dig up the coffin.
"Mr. Corpse, something is wrong?"
My dad raised his head and immediately said to the old corpse craftsman on the side, the old corpse craftsman frowned at this moment, and seemed to be a little puzzled, and after a while, the old corpse craftsman asked us to continue digging.
My dad and I looked at each other and dug up.
But as we continued to dig down, almost a coffin pit appeared, and there was still no coffin in sight, which was a bit frightening.
There is no coffin in this grave?
"Mr. Corpse, it's already three feet, and the average coffin pit is just so deep." My father's voice came out again, and the old corpse maker didn't speak, and I was puzzled for a while.
What about the coffin inside this tomb? At this time, Xia Mo on the side also suddenly spoke: "You say, is it possible that this little dirt bag is not a grave at all?" Are we just misleading? ”
Xia Mo's voice made all of us light up slightly, indeed, this little earthen bag didn't even have a tombstone, but we thought it was a tombstone, and it made me have to give incense every time I came to worship my mother.
"Now it seems that this may be the only possibility."
At this moment, the old corpse craftsman also hurriedly spoke up, it seems that he also agreed with Xia Mo's guess, it turned out that the inside of this tomb bag was empty at all.
Since the tomb is empty, there is no need to move the grave, just bury the grandfather in this grave, and now, the coffin of the grandfather's ancestral grave cannot be brought back, and it will be seen by others.
After discussion, I had to use my grandmother's coffin to bury my grandfather, and when I got home, I was worried about this coffin, and I had to find someone to help.
I watched my dad walk towards the coffin, and the next moment, my whole mouth opened wide, and I actually saw my dad squatting under the coffin, holding the bottom of the coffin with both hands.
With a soft drink, my dad actually carried the coffin alone, I watched this scene dumbfounded, this coffin is seven or eight hundred pounds, but my dad carried it alone?
I really can't understand where my dad got so much strength, when I was stunned, my dad had already carried the coffin to the back mountain, and the old corpse maker also followed, this time I didn't go, because I had to carry my grandfather's body to the back mountain for a while.
It was already dark at this time, and after my father and the old corpse maker came back, they directly asked me to carry my grandfather's body to the back mountain, and it would be fine after burying it.
Because of the previous two times, I was no longer so afraid of carrying my grandfather's body, this time the distance was not far, and when I arrived at the back mountain, everyone helped put my grandfather's body into the coffin.
At this time, I found out that there was a white cloth pressed under the coffin, and I also noticed that the white cloth on the old corpse's crutches had disappeared, and it was the one pressed under my grandfather's coffin?
The old corpse craftsman covered his grandfather's face with a piece of yellow paper, and then directly closed the coffin lid, and after finishing it, I saw the old corpse craftsman jumping on top of the coffin, and the white that was pressed under the coffin was pulled over, and tied it tightly.
After finishing it, I saw that the old corpse maker had taken out a yellow talisman in his hand and slapped it on the knotted place of the white cloth, and after all this was done, the old corpse maker came down from the coffin.
When he got to the ground, the old corpse maker let out a long breath and said that it was okay, let's fill in the earth.
At this time, my brow furrowed, and through the cracks between the coffin and the coffin pit, I wanted to see what liquid seeped out of the earth.
Because it was night, the flashlight was not too bright, and before I could see it clearly, my dad filled it in as soon as he held the soil.
I looked around and found that the people around me didn't seem to notice, and I didn't think much of it, so I followed my dad to fill in the soil, and soon a new grave bag appeared.
Grandpa was buried again, this time in a different place, but I don't know why, I always feel a little uneasy in my heart.
When we were done, we were going home, and as we were leaving, I looked back at the two graves behind me and felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't say anything specifically.
When I got home, my dad went directly into the house, and Xia Mo went to the toilet, and after I put my things away, I found that the old corpse maker did not enter the house, but was waiting for me outside.
I asked the old corpse maker why he didn't come in. Grandma must have cooked the supper at this time, and she has to dispose of Mr. Liang's body after eating the supper.
The old corpse maker didn't answer my words, stared at me for a moment, and then spoke out faintly.
"Boy, a woman's heart, a needle under the sea, be careful, don't regret it too late." After saying that, the old corpse craftsman turned around and went directly into the house.
I was left alone, and the old corpse craftsman's words kept echoing in my ears.