I couldn't help it, 'poof' laughed, this little girl is also amazing, if her homeroom teacher knows, I don't know if she will be angry.

The host smiled awkwardly, picked up the little girl and said, "My daughter Li Shuyan, don't be weird!" ”

I stopped, said that this girl is very promising, and motioned to the host to take the little girl out, raised my eyes to look at the bed, and saw an old man with a wrinkled face lying on the bed, his face was red, his eyes were slightly open to reveal a gap, and he was dressed in a khaki canvas coat, and his hands were clasping the edge of the bed.

As the saying goes, the living have a living appearance, and the dead have a dead appearance, after the death of ordinary people, their faces will turn green, which is commonly known as the appearance of death, and the deceased not only does not have a dead appearance, but the complexion is more beautiful than the face of the living.

As soon as I saw this situation, I didn't speak yet, Lao Wang spoke first, and he said: "Nine guys, this situation is a little wrong, will it make trouble?" ”

I smiled bitterly and said, "It should be fine!" After hearing this, Lao Wang didn't speak, so he leaned closer to me.

"Do you have times when you're afraid?" I laughed at Lao Wang, and asked him to call the descendants of the main family, prepare to burn the guide collar paper, and ask him to find a few Eight Immortals Shun coffins to get to the hall.

The so-called guide paper, in fact, is our Hunan side of the name, the popular name is to burn yellow paper, and this burnt yellow paper is a little different from the usual yellow paper, it needs to be burned according to a certain weight, generally eighteen catties and eight taels, it is said to be to buy through the soul of the two envoys, said that this kind of yellow paper is to buy road money.

I went back and forth in the room several times before the main family led a dozen or so people in, led by the main family and two brothers, the second row was the main family's sons and nephews, and the third row was the main family's daughter-in-law and his brother and daughter-in-law.

As soon as they arrived, I felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in the room, and I didn't say anything about it, but I thought the atmosphere in the room was very strange, and if I had to describe it, I could only say that the air was not as fresh as before.

I glanced at them with a frown and asked them if they had taken a shower, and they nodded and said, "After the old man got angry, our whole family has been washed!" ”

I didn't say anything more, so I asked them to kneel at the head of the bed in the order of their grandchildren and daughters-in-law, and asked them to fold the yellow paper in half when they burned it, and they were a little surprised, but when they saw that my face was wrong, they didn't say anything, and did as I said.

Burning the guide collar paper inevitably caused some crying, the cry was really earth-shattering, crying ghosts and gods, how sad and sad it was, I almost didn't cry the house down, I hurriedly stopped them and said: "There are still seven days, don't cry hoarsely." ”

This room was not big, after burning the guide paper, the room was full of smoke, and even it was a little difficult to breathe, and after the main family opened the window, there was some air in the house.

When the air in the house was a little better, I asked the master to call his children and daughter-in-law out, leaving the master and his two brothers, and asked the master to prepare half a basin of water and put it in the middle of the house.

Then I asked the master to prepare a corpse towel, (the corpse towel is actually a towel, but this towel is a little different from the usual towel, our custom here is to tear a piece of cloth from the deceased's favorite clothes, and in some places the deceased's washcloth.) ）

Preparing these two things, I made three bows to the deceased, and asked the three brothers of the main family to stand in the east, south, and north directions of the basin, and I stood in the west position and put the corpse towel into the water, first turning to the left seven times, and then to the right eight times, and when the water was about to overflow the basin, I let go of my hand and let the corpse towel move with the water.

This action is called choosing relatives, choosing the closest person to the deceased to wipe the body of the deceased, and some places call the wiping of the corpse as wiping and giving the legacy, and our eight immortals are called Qinglong.

There is a certain risk of wiping the corpse, some people are not yet dead and the descendants hurriedly wipe the corpse for the deceased, once the deceased suddenly wakes up, the person who wipes the corpse will be scared silly nine times out of ten, timid, it is not impossible to be scared to death directly, although the probability of this is very low, but it occasionally happens.

Of course, the risk is often accompanied by some benefits, and this benefit greatly outweighs the risk, and it is rumored that the person who wipes the body of the deceased will be blessed by the deceased, and the seemingly illusory blessing is a great benefit for future generations. In order to erase the body of the deceased, it is not uncommon for brothers to turn against each other. Later, the funeral people came up with such a way as choosing relatives.

With the rotation of the corpse towel, the eyes of the three brothers of the main family were about to burst out, and their breathing was a little shorter, but there was an accident where the corpse towel stopped.

Seeing this scene, I scolded the ancestors of Lao Xiucai from the Qing Dynasty to the era of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors in my heart, specially, what kind of life did he recommend, wiping the corpse is good, but, the premise is that the deceased's relatives, I am a special person who does funerals, and the deceased is not close at all, once the corpse is wiped out, not to mention that it is not blessed, it will be unlucky for three years.

I glanced at the three brothers of the main family, smiled awkwardly, and said, "Why don't we turn around again?" ”

"No, this is the old man's wish!" The three brothers of the main family said in unison.

I also had the attitude of giving it a try, and I didn't expect the host to agree, so I had no choice but to ask the host to find some pot ash to put on my face, and then ask the host for a red envelope.

It's not that I love money, but it's a custom, outsiders wipe the body of the deceased, and they generally have to get their faces dirty, and then ask the host for a red envelope, because the bottom of the pot is ash to ward off evil spirits, and the red envelope is auspicious.

The master was not stingy, and gave me twenty-four yuan, and beckoned me to wipe the body of the deceased clean!

I nodded, slowly took off the deceased's clothes, scooped up the body towel from the basin, twisted it into seven minutes, and gently wiped the deceased's feet.

I thought it would be very difficult to wipe the body, but I didn't expect that as soon as I finished wiping the footboard, I was completely adapted to this behavior, as if it was not a corpse in front of me, but a newborn baby.

This analogy is a bit inappropriate, but at the time, I really felt this way, and it was only later that I learned that there is a kind of person who is destined to deal with corpses from birth, and I am the best of this kind of people, that is, commonly known as genius, but this genius is not recognized by outsiders, and it is a little sad to think about it.

Soon, I wiped three-quarters of the body of the deceased, leaving only the head, and now I was a little troubled, the deceased was so beautiful that I didn't know what to do.

I took a deep breath and kept telling myself, Chen Jiu, don't be afraid, what you wipe is not a corpse, but a good deed, and you will live a long life and be rich in the future.

Not to mention, this method really worked, I suppressed the anxiety in my heart, twisted the body towel, and wiped it away from the deceased's face with trembling hands.

The feeling was very soft, and I gently wiped the deceased's cheeks, each movement was very light, for fear that one carelessness would wake the deceased up.