Hearing the old lady say this, I was slightly stunned in my heart, so powerful, just at a glance, I could see that I had slid the body of the old hero down, and what puzzled me the most was that she told me with a smile.

It is said that his wife is dead, the old lady should be crying, why is she still laughing now? What's more, he is still wearing a red cheongsam.

I was about to ask my doubts when I saw the body of the old hero fall without warning, lying quietly on the funeral bed.

Seeing this scene, I smiled bitterly in my heart, no wonder the country attaches so much importance to the old hero, after a person dies, he can show the patriotic obsession in his heart, which shows his protection and concern for the country.

Subsequently, the old lady turned out a set of shrouds in the cabinet and put them at the head of the bed, and I looked at the shrouds, which were not normal shrouds, but similar to the kind of clothing in the Tang Dynasty, army green.

I asked the old lady how she used this kind of clothes. She said that when they got married, they wore this kind of clothes, and after they died, they also wanted to wear this dress, one is to thank the state for taking care of them, and the other is to miss these years of married life.

"This is not in accordance with the rules of the funeral!" I thought about it for a moment and said this.

"I knew it wasn't the funeral rules, so I put a black cloth on my clothes." As she spoke, she picked up the shroud and opened the lower left corner of the shroud, where a black cloth was pasted with white stars embroidered on it, which was embroidered in accordance with the direction of the Big Dipper.

I have heard people say before that the black cloth is just a black cloth in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of some professionals, the black cloth is very large, first of all, the material, cotton, must be harvested before the autumn.

As we all know, cotton can only be harvested after autumn, and there are very few cotton that can be harvested before autumn, and sometimes, even if you encounter some early-maturing cotton, harvested before autumn, due to various reasons, it may not be able to be woven into cotton cloth.

This greatly limits the yield, and secondly, the cotton must be woven into cloth by the people closest to the deceased, and must also stand under the midday sun. The third and most important point, coloring, in order to dye the cotton cloth black, needs to be muddled with the blood and ink of the deceased, exposed to the scorching sun for three days, and then dripped into three drops of rootless water.

After turning into black cloth, the stars on it need to be done by the deceased's closest people, and the process of embroidering the stars is simple, and the joints lie in the last step.

Just like the Buddhist beads we usually carry, the same Buddhist beads, whether it is the same material or handwork, but there are two prices, why does this happen?

That's because some Buddha beads have an invisible process in the middle, which is to open the light, and the black cloth also needs such a process, to open the light.

However, the consecration process of this black cloth is very complicated, and it requires seven enlightened people to sit on the ground, around the black cloth, and recite scriptures for seven days and seven nights without sleep, so that this black cloth has 'mana'.

Some people will definitely ask, what is the use of making a black cloth with such great effort?

The use is great, legend has it, this kind of black cloth has the magic power to cover the sky, can hide the eyes of the yin, so that the eyes of the yin have an illusion, the illusion that the clothes of the deceased are dragon robes, the illusion that the deceased is the real dragon descended into the world, so that the judge can judge the merits of his life, only remember the good, not the evil, the next life will be rich and rich.

Of course, these are all legends, and it is difficult to tell whether they are true or false. However, we Eight Immortals take these legends seriously. Whether others believe it or not, it is a matter of the benevolent and the wise and the wise, whether it is true or false, it all depends on what you think in your heart, if you believe it, you believe it, and if you don't believe it, you will be.

Seeing that I didn't speak, the old lady coughed lightly and said, "Xiao Jiu, what's wrong?" ”

"Nothing!" I just stopped, the old lady took great pains for the funeral of the old hero, presumably, the two should have been very affectionate when they were young.

She didn't speak, handed the clothes to me, her face changed, and said, "Xiao Jiu, the old man has something I want to ask you for, and it is also what my master wants." ”

"What?" I asked, confused.

She sighed and said, "My lord knew that the nine boys in my family were fighting for a priority, and he had an idea in his heart, if anyone did it, he would give the priority to whomever he did. ”

I was slightly stunned, this is the old hero's family affairs, how could it pull me in, I stopped, bent down towards the old lady, and said: "Old man, I am the Eight Immortals, according to the rules of our industry, you can't mix with the family affairs of the main family." ”

"You're not an outsider, so you can't break the rules." She smiled and said lightly.

Now, I'm even more confused, I've never met the old hero, isn't it an outsider?

I asked the doubts in my mind. She smiled and didn't answer my doubts directly, but said: "Only you can do this well, and only you can do it, and the others, the master is not at ease." ”

"I still can't say yes!" I'll just give up.

"Don't listen to what?" She asked rhetorically.

I shook my head and said, "If you don't listen, it will be against the rules of the profession to inquire about the affairs of the master's family." ”

She smiled bitterly, knocked on my head, and said, "If I say that you are not an outsider, you are not, where will you break the rules?" ”

Hearing her say this, I thought for a while and said, "Old man, don't tell me that my father is your long-lost son, and I am your grandson." ”

I will say this, I am really influenced by "Huanzhu Gege", when I first entered high school, Huanzhu Gege was being broadcast on TV, and the scene of Xiaoyanzi recognizing Emperor Qianlong as his father has always been seared in my mind.

"The old man's nine sons are all around, how can there be a son who has been separated." She was stunned for a moment, then reacted, knocked on my head again, and said, "What are you thinking, the old body will say that you are not an outsider, it is because you are the nephew of my master!" ”

"What? What do you say? I'm the nephew of the old hero? "I almost went crazy, Jiang Ye called me junior brother before, and now there is an old hero who doesn't know whether he is an uncle or an uncle.

She nodded and said, "I can only tell you so much, if you want to know more things, it depends on what your master thinks, I can't say anything." ”

As she spoke, she stared at the old hero with both eyes, and there was a little sadness in her tone, and muttered: "Everyone in the world knows that my master is an anti-Japanese hero, and a few people know that he is a feng shui master." ”

She seemed to mean to say this to me, I really wondered, if she was telling the truth, the old hero is a feng shui master, and Jiang Ye is a master of carving, these two should be regarded as the same door, why is there such a huge difference in the skills learned?

Moreover, Quyang is the hometown of carving, and even if the old hero wants to learn, he will learn carving, so how can he learn feng shui.

There is one biggest doubt, who is my master? This question is really difficult for me, since I walked into the coffin bearer's line, there are only two people who have the grace of education to me, one is Lao Xiucai, who has passed away, and the other is Lao Wang.

Lao Xiucai's ability, I know very well in my heart, he is learning Feng Shui, and understanding things is just some trivialities, to put it bluntly, Lao Xiucai is also a local immortal in the countryside, I'm afraid he doesn't even have Jiang Ye's ability, he can't be me and Jiang Ye's master.

And Lao Wang, it's even more impossible, he is my next-door neighbor, I know his life experience, he is an ordinary eight immortals in the countryside, and it is even more impossible for him to be my master.

However, now Jiang Ye, the old hero, and the old lady all say that I have a master, and listening to their tone, my master is still very powerful. However, the people I met in my life were either poor students or ordinary farmers in the countryside.