At that moment, I asked Han Jingui what the specific situation was. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He said: "The deceased is a middle-aged man, forty-seven or eighteen years old this year, the main family invited some of our eight immortals of the Eight Immortals Palace to see, everyone said that this funeral is not easy to handle, and I want you to help handle it, one is that since you became the palace master, everyone has not seen you carry the coffin, do funerals, more or less people are a little unconvinced by your palace master, and the other is that the Qingming Festival is dead, and the evil spirit is heavier, everyone wants to see how much ability you have." ”

I hummed, he was telling the truth, since I took over the Eight Immortals Palace, Lang Gao and I have been working on the construction site, and they have not touched the funeral at all, and recently some of the Eight Immortals have not been as enthusiastic about me as before, and there are even a lot of rumors, saying that I relied on the old lady's money to become the palace master, and I have no ability.

It is precisely because of this that Lang Gao will find Han Jingui twice in three days and ask if there are any dead people nearby.

Now people are dead, but they are especially dead on Qingming Day, this thing is really difficult to do.

When Han Jingui saw that I didn't speak, he thought I was afraid, a trace of disappointment flashed on his face, and he said, "If it doesn't work, let me come!" ”

I stopped and said, "No, since everyone wants to see me hold a funeral, then let everyone do what they want!" ”

Saying that, I asked about the deceased again, and he told me that the deceased's name was Song Guangliang, and the way of death was a bit strange, and he died inexplicably, and the doctor also examined the body, and there was no serious illness, and many people nearby said that Song Guangliang was retribution, and some people said that Song Guangliang was cursed to death by his nephew.

As soon as I heard this, the former is more common in the countryside, and many people who die in strange ways will be considered to have suffered retribution, while the latter is rarely mentioned, cursed to death by nephews? Kind of, right?

I asked him why.

He stared at me for a while, and then slowly spoke: "Palace master, there is a saying in our countryside, I don't know if you have heard it?" ”

I asked, "What colloquialism?" ”

"If you don't shave your head in the first month, you will die with your uncle." As he said this, his eyes kept on me, as if trying to see something in my face.

Listening to this, I was stunned, I heard people mention when I was a child, this matter should start from the Qing army entered the customs, the Qing Emperor in order to "flatten the surroundings, stay in the Central Plains" of the idea of governing the country, decided to implement a strange hairstyle, "money rat tail" type, all the hair around the shaved hair, leaving only the hair in the center of the head, its shape is like money, and the hair in the center of the center is braided and drooping, shaped like a rat's tail.

As we all know, the land of China has experienced countless dynastic changes for 5,000 years, and the common people did not show great enthusiasm for who would be the emperor, but a change of shaving their heads, which annoyed some of them.

Some people saw shaving their heads as an insult to their dignity and rebelled. However, where could the common people withstand the military suppression of the Qing Emperor, and under an order, tragedies such as the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading appeared one after another.

People, they are all afraid of death, and the repeated suppression has made some ordinary people miserable, and they no longer shout, "The head can be cut off and the hair cannot be shaved", but the "New Year does not shave the head" to express the thoughts of the Ming Dynasty, which is really nostalgic, in order to hide people's ears and eyes, it is falsely rumored to be a dead uncle.

What I didn't expect was that I would encounter this kind of thing in Hubei, so I said to Han Jingui, "This thing is impossible!" It's just that the first month of the year shaves his head, how can it lead to the death of his uncle. ”

He sighed deeply and said, "Ai! In the countryside, Song Guangliang's brothers have already arrested his nephew and locked him in a firewood room, saying that when Song Guangliang is buried, he will use his nephew to accompany him for burial. ”

I was stunned for a moment, and then asked him: "That's their own nephew, how did they do it!" ”

He smiled bitterly and explained: "Palace master, you may not know the situation of their family, there are six Song Guangliang brothers and sisters, the first five are all men, and the last one is a woman, that is, the mother of their nephew, this woman is better married and has a small family background, and Song Guangliang's brothers, all of them are honest farmers, and they guard a few acres of land at home all year round. ”

Saying that, he paused and continued: "I heard that the Song Guangliang brothers often asked their sister to borrow money, but they were all refused, which made the brothers have no good impression of this sister. Now that this has happened, where will the brothers let go of this sister, they plan to pay a sum of money to hold a funeral for the eldest Song Guangliang. Who knows, this sister didn't do it at all, and threatened to call the police to arrest his brothers, saying that they were secretly detaining people. ”

As soon as I heard this, I only felt that my brain was messed up, this person had just died, and family conflicts broke out, and I didn't dare to say who was right and who was wrong. At least, I don't have a good impression of the brothers of the Song family, and I don't have a good impression of Song Guangliang's sister.

"And what are they going to do with the funeral?" I asked.

"I don't know yet, the body is kept at home, and it is estimated that the funeral will not be held until the result of the quarrel between the brothers and sisters comes out." Han Jingui explained, and said: "By the way, palace master, will Song Guangliang really suffer retribution when he died on Qingming Festival?" ”

I shook my head, I haven't seen the dead yet, how do I know how the dead died, besides, I don't have a good impression of this family, and I am not interested in their affairs, so I said, "Wait until they invite the eight immortals." ”

"That's right, let's worry about this now, it's really salty and don't worry about eating radishes."

When Han Jingui said this, he was about to leave, and I said, "Old Han, stay for a light meal, and ask you about some things by the way." ”

He was stunned, but he didn't refuse, so I asked Lang Gao and them to go to the town to fry a few dishes, and asked him to buy a few bottles of beer, and a few of us ate around the table.

After three rounds of drinking, Han Jingui saw that I was slow to speak, so he asked me, "Palace Master, what do you want to inquire about?" ”

I smiled, raised my glass and touched the glass with him, and said: "Old Han, we have been in Hubei for more than half a year, and this Eight Immortal Palace is almost completed, I want to say goodbye to you, and in the future, this Eight Immortal Palace will be watched by you, and Lang Gao and I plan to go to the Northeast." ”

I said this because my second brother Yang Dalong recently made several phone calls, asking us to find a time to go to the Northeast, saying that we had something to ask for, and I had been working on the construction site during this time, plus I had just taken over the Eight Immortals Palace, and there were a lot of trivial matters, so I put it off again and again, and more importantly, the Northeast is Wang Muyang's territory, and a few of us rushed over, I am afraid that we will cause trouble.

"Huh?" He didn't seem to react, so he said: "It's good to go to the northeast, there are the eight King Kongs there, and their way of dealing with funerals is very different from the eight immortals in our south, so you can learn from it." ”

As he spoke, he seemed to think of something, grabbed my arm, and said in a deep voice: "Palace Master, do you want the Northeast?" No, it won't work. ”