Chapter 4: Funeral
I thought to myself that this was the case, so I stopped insisting, and when I came to the end, I found that the villagers were all looking at me with bad faces, as if they thought that I was not at the forefront, and that I was not filial.
That Qian Dao Chang seemed to be very unhappy An Lao Dao intervened, and he didn't have a good face for me, so he didn't explain it to the villagers and relatives, which made me very embarrassed and guilty.
An Laodao whispered a few words of comfort beside me, telling me not to mind, walking at the back, all for my good. I had to suppress my feelings, and saw that Qian Daochang commanded the coffin bearer, covered the coffin, and took the hemp rope to wrap the cypress coffin back and forth many times, put on the rope sleeve, insert the log carrying rod, and then, sixteen professional coffin bearers were in place.
My grandfather has been engaged in this industry for decades, so my parents are very evasive, after death, they are in accordance with the strictest specifications for funeral, coffin bearers are invited professional life-hardened people, but in the coffin stop date, it only took five days, not seven, I still don't have time to ask my parents why?
I saw Qian Dao walking towards the front, as if he was about to get up the coffin and open the way, and he also stood at the back, with An Laodao, at this time, An Laodao whispered to me: "Wait a while, if something abnormal happens?" You need to be so ......."
I was shocked to hear it, and I thought to myself, didn't I? His eyes were staring at An Laodao, he actually knew that I had a bone sword on my body, but unfortunately, I didn't have time to ask, Qian Daochang shouted in front of him, and sixteen professional coffin bearers shouted 'up' at the same time, and everyone easily lifted this cypress coffin.
Qian Daochang took the soul bell to lead the way in front, and then his father followed with the portrait, and the funeral procession began to leave, the drummer whined and blew, and the group was lively and lively, out of the old house, and An Laodao and I walked in the rear.
I looked at the funeral procession, and then looked at An Laodao next to me, only to see that he was silent, I don't know what he was thinking? Is what he just said true? I just looked at my grandfather's funeral procession carefully, and I didn't see anything unusual.
However, when the funeral procession left the village and walked on the dirt road in the back mountain, there was a slight slope, and my body suddenly shivered for no reason, it is now April, the weather is already hot, although it is cloudy today, but there are still more than 20 degrees, how can it be cold? Thinking of what An Laodao said to me just now, is it ......?
I immediately walked towards the side of the line alertly, and looked at the coffin bearer and the cypress coffin, etc., there was nothing out of the ordinary, right? I turned my head to look at An Laodao but found that his face gradually became solemn, and I faintly felt that something was wrong.
Sure enough, when I turned my head, I saw that after the paper money was thrown in front of Qian Daochang, I suddenly found that a few paper money was not falling in the air, but was very weirdly floating in the sky, as if someone was grabbing those paper money, which looked very weird.
As the team continued to move forward, more and more strange paper money increased, and the coffin bearers also staggered a little, as if something was pulling them along, making them all unstable, and I was very worried!
And the funeral villagers also found that the paper money is abnormal, although it is cloudy today, but the breeze, is not enough to blow the paper money into this, this is the countryside, there are still some customs and taboos, so, many old villagers are difficult to see.
I also see my scalp tingling, what the hell is it that makes this paper money like this? Could it really be that a lonely ghost wants to borrow a corpse to resurrect the soul? Qian Daochang threw money in front, which was all money for buying roads, and gave it to these lonely souls and wild ghosts, in order to prevent these lonely souls and wild ghosts from harassing their funeral procession. I don't actually believe that there are ghosts in this world, but this weird sprinkling of paper money really makes people scratch their hairs and their hearts are tense.
I hurriedly looked back at An Laodao and found that he nodded slightly, I knew that the time had come, but I found that my heart was very nervous, but I still took out the bone sword from my trouser pocket, and when I saw An Laodao nodding, I took the bone sword and put it on one of my fingers, as if it was jagged and pulled hard, so painful that I almost screamed out.
Fortunately, although the sharp edge of this bone sword was jagged, I still made a cut under this pull, and blood immediately oozed from my fingers, and then, I saw several blood paths like blood vessels slowly crawling up the bone sword.
My blood oozed from the wound in the palm of my hand, and I actually climbed up to the bone sword and seeped in.
Before I had time to be strange, I felt a strange cold current flowing into my body from the painful finger wound, my whole body shivered, and at the same time, my brain was dizzy, I hurriedly stopped my pace, An Laodao seemed to see my strangeness, and was busy supporting me, so that he did not fall to the ground.
However, this dizziness came and went quickly, and when I opened my eyes again, my left eye felt as if something was more, but unfortunately, it was not very clear, it was vague, and it made me frown slightly.
At this time, An Laodao took the bone sword from my hand, pulled my finger again, and used the blood on it to outline a strange pattern symbol on the bone sword, and then, the symbol was hidden in the bone sword.
An Lao Dao handed me the bone sword with the rune drawn on it, and I did as he instructed, holding the hilt of the sword, facing the blade of the sword in front of me, and whispering the awkward mantra that An Lao Dao taught me.
At this time, I suddenly saw some fog in front of me in my left eye, very light, a small clump, like a small whirlwind, rolling those paper money, swinging and swinging, my body suddenly became cold, the kind of cold is very unusual, it is cold from the bones to the outside, I feel very bad, those little whirlwinds are probably the lonely ghosts in the mouth of grandpa, and they are grabbing road money.
Qian Daochang in front also seemed to notice that something was wrong, the coffin bearer was much slower, and even the drummer was a little out of tune, so he hurriedly kept throwing money, and shouted in his mouth: "Pay for the road, don't bother!" ”
Sure enough, I saw that those little whirlwinds kept snatching the paper money, and then, the little whirlwinds gradually decreased, and it seemed that after grabbing the money, they began to disperse, and those coffin bearers seemed to be free of the harassment of lonely ghosts, and walked safely, and my left eye also felt that the fog was cleared inch by inch, and finally, I clearly saw the appearance of a small whirlwind.
At that moment, my mouth opened wide and my body froze.
That little whirlwind should be the yin qi in the mouth of the grandfather, and it was actually floating on the chest of a middle-aged man, and this middle-aged man was wearing clothes from the eighties and nineties, however, he was missing a leg and a hole in his chest, which seemed to be a fatal injury.
He jumped up and grabbed the paper money, but there was blood floating on his chest like a spring, and I swallowed hard, but fortunately, the male ghost didn't notice that I was looking at him, and when he grabbed the paper money, he jumped away with joy and disappeared by the side of the road.
At this time, I found out that I was in a cold sweat, my nerves were tense, and I was screaming in my heart, grass~ Lao Tzu is hell! Hell yes!
In the panic, there was an inexplicable excitement.
I don't know why I suddenly saw a ghost in my left eye, which turned my worldview upside down, but I was still a little excited, worried that everything just now was an illusion, so I looked straight around the coffin, but I didn't see a ghost in my left eye.
At this time, An Laodao reached out and grabbed my shoulder and squeezed it hard. I remembered that before the coffin was lifted, An Lao Dao told me, I am afraid that something had changed again, I was busy holding the bone sword, and I was concentrating on reciting the incantation, but unfortunately, the bone sword still did not react.
However, suddenly, my body fell into the ice cellar, my bones were shivering with cold, and the wind around me was suddenly gusting, I knew that it was definitely not a hallucination just now, and there was another ghost coming, so I hurriedly looked up at the coffin, and suddenly through the gap in the crowd, I saw with my left eye that there seemed to be something more on the coffin. Then a gust of wind suddenly rolled up on both sides of the dirt road, blowing up the dust and fallen leaves on the ground, and blowing violently towards the funeral procession.