Chapter 1: The Burial of the Dragon and the Phoenix
My name is Li Rongchang, my family lives in a small town called Huatianfang in Wugong Mountain, I was reluctant to study when I was a child, and when I was in the second year of junior high school, my father asked me to drop out of school and stay at home.
There are three people in the family, my parents and me, and my father not only does farm work, but also serves as a sacrifice.
Sacrificing immortals is a kind of funeral profession in the south, who is dead, sacrificing immortals at the funeral on behalf of the descendants of the deceased to cry and mourn, narrating the various good things of the deceased during his lifetime, as well as the thoughts of the descendants of the deceased.
Including solving the strange events that occurred in the funeral, due to the Yin matter, the sacrifice of immortals belongs to the category of Yin people.
In our place, the dead have to be mortuated for two days, and only on the third day can they be buried, and during the mortuary, the Western band and the three-star drum are invited to sing and play music all day long, and the funeral is done as a happy event.
The Western Band is named after the use of Western instruments.
The three-star drum is a folk musical instrument, consisting of a band of five people, one person drumming and conducting, one person beating a small bell, one person touching a small cymbal, and two people playing suona.
I dropped out of school and didn't want to do farm work at home, and if my father went to be a sacrificer, I would be willing to go with me to carry things and run errands, and mix a few rewards as pocket money.
Ten years later, I learned a lot about rituals from my father.
Two months ago, my parents went to the mountains to burn charcoal, accidentally caused a mountain fire and burned to death, I became an orphan and sacrificed three animals for my parents at home for 60 days.
At the end of the sixty-day period, I began to plan for the future, there is no future for being an immortal, this radius of twenty miles, twenty people can die of old age in a year.
Most of the young adults in Huatianfang are working outside, and my best friend Buffalo is in Dongguan, so I decided to go to him.
This day is the day of departure, I was packing at home, and Uncle Huang from the town came to look for me at home, he was the dragon and phoenix head of the eight immortals during the funeral.
The eight immortals are the people who carry the coffin in the funeral, there are eight people so they are called the eight immortals, if the deceased is a man, the left hand in front of the coffin is called the dragon's head, if the deceased is a woman, the right hand in front of the coffin is called the crest.
"Rongchang, the old lady in the Zhenxi Bengen family passed away, and when the funeral came, the coffin couldn't be lifted, you went to think of a way, otherwise the auspicious time will pass, and you will have to wait for seven days." Uncle Huang came in and got straight to the point.
When a person dies, he must be buried at an auspicious time, otherwise, he will not be buried until seven days later.
Seven is the maximum number of yin.
I looked at Uncle Huang in embarrassment and said, "Uncle Huang, I don't have time, Liu Yanzi's car will drive in twenty minutes." "Liu Yanzi is a shuttle bus driver, and he runs the line from Huatianfang Town to the county seat, and there is only one trip a day.
Uncle Huang rolled his eyes and said, "That's it, I'll let Bengen's family promise you a hundred yuan, how about it?" "At that time, the average person's salary was less than 15,000.
A hundred yuan is quite attractive, I promised to come down and go out with Uncle Huang.
When I came to the house in Zhenxi Bengen, the funeral procession was lined up, the coffin was placed on the ground, and the two coffins were broken next to the coffin with thick bamboo poles with bowl mouths.
Bengen Lao Niang was less than eighty pounds before her death, and this weight can crush the thick bamboo pole at the mouth of the bowl, indicating that there is evil in the coffin.
I instructed the Eight Immortals to carry the coffin on one end, and found that the head of the coffin was heavier, so I knew that it was a ghost sinking head, indicating that the ghost had too much concern to take away.
I asked the Bengen family about the deceased's favorite eldest grandson during his lifetime, and I asked them to take out the eldest grandson's clothes and toys and burn them in front of the coffin.
When burning, the three-star drum plays the soul-sending music, releases six cupola cannons, and then ties a flat pole to the coffin, so that the yin soul will be concerned and carried away.
After doing this, the Eight Immortals easily carried the coffin away.
When I returned home with nothing to do, I remembered that my parents' belongings had not yet been sorted out, so I moved out of the box where I put my belongings and slowly sorted them out.
The relics are nothing important, press the bottom of the book to attract my attention, pick up and take a look, the book is called "Dragon and Phoenix Burial", open it and take a look, the content is about funeral burial, the preface says, according to the method in "Dragon and Phoenix Burial" to bury the ancestors, descendants can get different degrees of shade.
"Dragon and Phoenix Burial" records six burial methods to manage wealth and nobility, and two kinds of joint burial management fate.
I was so fascinated that I didn't even notice someone walking into the house, until someone coughed and looked up, and it was a buffalo that was going to run to it.
"Why are you back?" I asked the buffalo in surprise.
The buffalo replied shyly.
"My parents told me to come back on a blind date."
I said with disgust.
"I won't make a phone call before I come back, if it weren't for the delay of Bengen's family, I would be on my way to Dongguan at the moment."
The buffalo stall said helplessly.
"Before getting into the car, my phone was stolen, and I couldn't do anything about it."
It turned out that this was the case, the buffalo was a brother who dug out his heart, and he just earned 100 yuan, so I took him to drink, and by the way, I inquired about the situation in Dongguan.
The buffalo told me during the drinking process that it is not easy to work part-time, and that diligence and skill are important. He also said that it doesn't matter, diligence can be cultivated, and technology can be learned.
I also thought that there was no choice in life, so I had to go on hard.
After drinking, I broke up with the buffalo and returned home, and when I saw that the box for my parents' belongings was not properly placed, I went over to pick up the box and heard the sound of rolling.
I looked closely, and saw a dark green bead rolling to the corner of the box, I stretched out my right hand to take the bead, and suddenly there was a stinging pain in my index finger, it turned out that there was a sharp thorn next to the bead, and my index finger accidentally touched it.
The sting quickly passed, and I picked up the dark green beads.
The beads were the size of soybeans and dark in color, and I was about to put them back in their place, but blood oozed from the punctured part of my index finger and smeared on the beads.
Stained with blood, the beads sucked in like a sponge, and then glowed red, straight into the palm of my hand, up my arm, and scorching like fire.
I waved my hand in horror and tried to shake the beads off, but I couldn't shake them off because they were firmly glued.
Fortunately, in only ten seconds, the beads were thrown to the ground and turned into ashes, the burning sensation on the right arm disappeared, and when I rolled up my sleeves, seven black dots appeared on my right arm, arranged in an orderly manner like a spoon.
Staring at the seven black dots with a little force, the black dots all turned into a faint red light, swam along the arm, came to the tip of the index finger and shot out, fell to the ground and disappeared.
Big Dipper Hand of the Big Dipper!
This name popped up in my mind, yes, it is described in "Dragon and Phoenix Burial", and people with Big Dipper hands can lay out "Dragon and Phoenix Burial".
I picked up "Dragon and Phoenix Burial" again and opened it, there was a picture of the Big Dipper's hands inside, and the shape was almost identical, and I couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.
With the Big Dipper, you can lay out "Dragon and Phoenix Burial", why worry about not making money, who in this world doesn't want to get rich?
But it was quickly discouraged, because there was a description at the end of each funeral, and there was a feng shui field on the person, which was associated with the meridians and acupuncture points, and only the descendants met the feng shui conditions to carry out the layout of the "Dragon and Phoenix Burial".
That is to say, if you want to make money, you must have three conditions, people believe that there are elders in the family who have passed away, and the descendants have a qualified pulse point feng shui field.
It's hard to find one in a million.
I basically gave up the idea of using "Dragon and Phoenix Burial" to make money, and just wanted to hit the luck in the future.
Wait for the buffalo blind date to be completed, and follow to Dongguan to work.