The carriage was almost to the extreme, Dan Dan couldn't stand the bumps, and had already vomited on the wheel, but my heart was still too slow, and in the afternoon, we finally arrived at the Three Treasures Temple, and outside the gate of the Three Treasures Temple, I saw a lot of people around, they looked into the courtyard, talked about it, and faintly cried from the courtyard.

As soon as I heard the cry, I knew that something was wrong, so I jumped down from the carriage and ran towards the Three Jewels, saying as I ran, "Get out of the way, get out of the way." ”

As soon as the men saw that I was back, they quickly got out of the way, and I ran as fast as I could, and when I ran into the yard, I froze all at once, and my heart was so blocked that tears rolled in my eyes. The last thing I want to see happens, I saw that the bed had been lifted out of the room, placed in the north-south direction, the younger brother Baoguo was lying straight on the bed, wearing a gray new Taoist robe, wearing white socks and bast shoes on his feet, his face was covered with a piece of yellow straw paper, motionless, two hands, one hand holding money, the other hand, holding a handful of colorful grain, hanging a dog cake around his neck, a bowl of rice in front of the bed, and a lantern, and the people around him were crying heartbreakingly.

I was stunned there and didn't know what to do, at this time my junior brother Tianning ran over, he had already cried into tears, and ran to my side in a few steps, I grabbed Tianning and said urgently: "Quick, tell me quickly, what's wrong with Baoguo?" What happened to Baoguo? ”

Tian Ning burst into tears, and said while crying, "Senior brother, why did you come back?" The second senior brother has ...... Already ......"

Tian Ning said several times, but the latter words did not come out, I threw Tian Ning aside at once, and then limped towards the front of Baoguo's spiritual bed, and when I came to look at the kind of straw paper, tears stopped falling, Baoguo is dead, really dead. In the countryside, only the dead will cover their faces with straw paper, I stretched out my hand and touched the straw paper, wanting to uncover the straw paper and take a last look at Baoguo, but then I found that my hand was no longer obedient, and it shook vigorously.

So I used my other hand, grabbed my hand, two hands together slowly uncovered the grass yellow paper, looked at the face of the junior brother, this look at my tears can not stop flowing down, only to see the junior brother Baoguo has lost weight, eyes retracted into the eye sockets, closed eyes, the whole face and the grass yellow paper a color. His mouth was slightly open, and there was a large coin in it.

Brother Baoguo seems to be really dead, in fact, we have a lot of customs for the dead here, not to let the coffin fall to the ground is a kind of custom, below I want to say the customs of the dead here again, on the spiritual bed: when you are critically ill, you must clean up your own house (hall house), build a straw shop, prepare a shroud, relatives wait in front of you, observe the pulse in detail, and find that the eyes are straight, \ hang a string of dog cakes on each wrist, this is to make way for the vicious dog that is in the way, so that the old man can go to the Western Elysium with peace of mind, and put a few copper coins under his body, It is also necessary to carry copper coins in the mouth, "mouth money", also known as "mouth money" and "rice money", which refers to the custom of giving the deceased something in his mouth. In the ancient Chinese book "Mouth" record, "The Book of Rites: Miscellaneous Notes": "Chisel a towel to eat." The Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty also says: "Dengyao, the rice contains pearls and jade like a ceremony", which is also intended to let the deceased cross the River Styx smoothly. The ancients believed that if there was a boat on the River Styx, there must be a boat dedicated to ferrying. When the undead cross the river, of course, they should also pay the boat as they do in the human world, otherwise they are likely to be reprimanded by the boat, and they will not even be able to cross the river, and they will come back to find trouble with their children and grandchildren. The money in the mouth of the undead is the fare paid to the boat of the Styx.

\, you can't come up to me, get out quickly. ”

I saw that these people were no one else, it was Mao Qinglian and Luo Xihan, because the mighty Zheng Tianbao was behind, and there was a box gun on his body, so the people in the village spoke kindly.

At this time, Mao Qinglian said loudly: "Why can't I go over? The man was clearly not dead. ”

The old man in the village continued to stop and said: "Xiao Nizi, you are here with Daring, see that you don't look like we countrymen, let me tell you, the fool has already choked his breath, he left at a young age, and there is anger on his body, if this pounces on you, it will be a terrible thing." ”

I saw that it was Shun Ye who persuaded people, and Shun Ye stopped in front with a cane and persuaded him bitterly. In fact, according to the folk customs, it is true that it cannot be passed, when people die, there will be a breath of resentment in the chest, if this resentment pounces on people, people will be unlucky, especially pregnant people, in that case, it is also a great harm to the fetus.

But the fetus is blessed by the fetal spirit, and it will generally be sent over to pounce on the dead person, so that the body of the dead person is like a living person, not upright, not stiff, and it is easy to become a walking corpse through the resentment of cats and dogs. Some people who are wicked or hungry and cold have died with regret that the rest of their sins have not been fulfilled, so they have died and raised their bodies to complete the remnants of their evil lives or to seek unobtained food. And some people are because they borrow the breath of the living, pick up their remaining grievances, and become a walking corpse, this is also called a corpse, the person who cheats the corpse will not have thoughts, nor will he have feelings, and he will become very manic, crazy and bite everything that moves, of course, including people.

In that era when there was no cremation, and there were too many people who died with grievances, so the corpse fraud happened from time to time, and the old people in the village would consciously ask the young people not to come forward, cats and dogs, etc., all of them were far away.