Chapter 25: Crematorium
"Woo woo woo ......"
Seeing that his grandmother's body was ignited by a raging flame, Zhao Mingxue couldn't help but feel sad, knelt opposite the pile of firewood, and hugged Zhao Shengyong and cried.
Thinking of everything his mother had done for him, Zhao Shengyong cried even more fiercely.
I stood behind them and didn't try to comfort them.
I couldn't be more aware of their pain of losing their loved ones, and when Erya and Grandpa left, I was even more sad than they cried.
A scientist once said that shedding tears is a kind of emotional catharsis, and sometimes, it is better to cry out than to hold it in your heart.
In fact, after Zhao Shengyong's father and daughter cried for an hour, their hearts were much more relaxed.
By the time they looked at the body again, it was almost charred.
However, the corpse developed a burnt smell during the burning process, which was smoky, ugly, and disgusting.
After the firewood was extinguished, the crematorium staff covered their noses to help them put away the ashes, and then carefully packed the ashes in the urn, closed the lid, and delivered them to them.
Zhao Shengyong gave me the urn and asked me to recite the mantra to his mother again.
I had just finished doing the ritual in front of that pile of firewood, and I was a little tired physically and mentally. I asked Zhao Shengyong to go back first, and promised him to wait and recite the mantra to his mother.
Zhao Shengyong nodded and rode back with those people.
After they all left, in addition to the staff, there were only three people left in the crematorium: me, Tang Lin'er and Zhao Mingxue.
Tang Lin'er had never been to the crematorium, so she said she was curious, so she wandered around the crematorium alone.
Zhao Mingxue was timid, and when she saw that there were many graves around the crematorium, this girl followed me step by step, for fear that she would be caught by a ghost.
I was a little thirsty and asked the crematorium staff to get me a bottle of water.
Then, I put Zhao Mingxue's grandmother's urn on the ground, sat cross-legged, and began to recite the mantra of death.
"The king of Hades sent ghosts, and the ghosts sent them to my orders. Ninety-nine souls, all of them will not die......"
Half an hour later, after I finished reciting the mantra, I got up from the ground and handed the urn to Zhao Mingxue's hand for her to keep alive.
Zhao Mingxue nodded and carefully held the urn in her arms, for fear that it would be hurt a little.
At this time, the urn was clinging to Zhao Mingxue's two soft balls, and I looked at the urn in Zhao Mingxue's arms, and I couldn't help but envy the urn.
How nice it would be if I were the urn, I thought to myself, and then shook my head vigorously, I don't want to be an urn, the urn is the stuff of the dead.
"Ergouzi, where's Lin'er?"
Just as I was looking at the two soft balls on Zhao Mingxue's chest, Zhao Mingxue suddenly interrupted me.
Yes, what about Lin'er? It was only then that I remembered.
I looked at the empty forest around me and said to Zhao Mingxue: "She should be nearby, let's look for it." ”
"Uh-huh." Zhao Mingxue nodded.
Just as we were about to take a step, the crematorium staff stopped us.
It was a middle-aged man, dressed in an old-fashioned manner, dressed strangely, and looking yin and yang.
"Don't go too far, you won't come back." The middle-aged man just said something to us, and then ignored us and walked straight into the house.
We answered the middle-aged man's call, and continued to grope our way towards the nearby woods.
There's a reason for the fumbling here, this forest is tall and dense, and the whole forest looks eerie, and we are not familiar with the terrain here, so we can only go anywhere.
Half an hour later, Cher and I still hadn't found Lin'er.
Seeing that it was getting dark, at a fork in the road, Cher suggested that I go to the forest to the west and she to look for it in the woods to the east.
An hour later, if we still haven't found Lin'er, we'll meet at this fork in the road.
I think Cher's proposal is a good one, and I want to spread out the search area.
So, without thinking about it, I directly agreed to Xue'er.
After separating from Cher, I headed west alone and parted ways with Cher.
On the way west, I couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly, this girl, just now said that she was afraid, how could she not be afraid.
No matter, let's find Lin'er first. Lin'er and his father have saved my life, if Lin'er has an accident, I will not be able to repay his father for saving my life even if I die.
I watched the forest grow denser and denser ahead of me, and continued to move deeper into the forest.
However, after walking for a while, I realized that the path I was taking was very different from the previous one.
The trees in the woods here began to grow smaller, like clusters of bushes. However, this is not a bush, and it looks like it is much taller than a bush.
If that's all it takes, it's not enough to alarm me.
Under normal circumstances, the size of the road usually does not change much, but the road is getting narrower and narrower, and when you reach the thorny place and there is no way to go, the road will tear a hole in front of you, so that you have a way to go.
However, when you set foot on that path, the road ahead will still repeat the same change.
After about half an hour of walking, it slowly got dark, and by the time I found it, it was completely dark.
I don't know what's going on over there with Cher? I pulled my phone out of my pocket and wanted to give Cher a call.
However, the signal in the mountains is not good, and my mobile card does not have a single signal.
I had no choice but to turn on the flashlight and continue westward.
More than ten minutes later, in front of a tall and leafy tree, I found Lin'er's back.
This is the only tree I've seen from the fork in the road. However, I didn't think much about it at the time, I just wanted to find Lin'er as soon as possible.
"Lin'er ......"
After seeing Lin'er's back, I shouted.
Sure enough, after hearing my voice, Lin'er slowly turned her head, but Lin'er's eyes were glazed, her face was pale, and she looked very haggard.
Seeing Lin'er like this, my heart felt a great pain, and I walked towards her: "Lin'er, it's been so long, where have you gone?" Cher and I are looking for you everywhere, do you know? ”
"What if you got it?" Lin'er suddenly became uncharacteristically yelling at me.
I was very surprised, I have been with Lin'er for so long, I have never seen Lin'er angry, let alone her so belar.
"What are you doing there, hurry back!" Seeing me standing there distracted, Lin'er turned around and said loudly to me.
"It's coming, it's coming!" I was awakened by Lin'er's voice, and quickly followed.