Chapter 4 Greeting Relatives

Other people's marriages are blowing and blowing, the lights are bright, but my wedding is very weird, under the night, more than 30 strong men walk side by side in pairs, because it is a dark marriage, the whole team did not play a flashlight, but a torch in each hand, looking around, like a fire dragon.

My grandfather told me long before I set off that no matter what I heard, I couldn't turn back on the way to meet my relatives, let alone talk to people, and I wasn't really safe until I met my daughter-in-law.

The deep mountains at midnight are quiet and terrifying, at a glance, it is pitch black, there is not even a trace of light, and the huge mountains exude a palpitating coldness from time to time, as if what everyone is in front of is not a mountain, but a huge tomb, which is about to bury everyone's grave.

Gollum, subconsciously swallowed saliva, I looked at my grandfather standing aside, with the help of the moonlight, I saw that grandpa's forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat at some point, maybe, his heart was already messed up at this time.

What are you doing in a daze? Into the mountains!

Seeing that the greeting team stopped at the foot of the mountain and did not enter the mountain for a long time, Grandpa Li behind him caught up breathlessly, first scolded a group of men, and then said something one by one, and then commanded the team to re-enter the mountain.

Quack!

Almost the moment the two men in the first row raised their legs, a crow's cry suddenly came from the originally silent and terrifying mountain.

Everyone's bodies suddenly stiffened, and their heads looked at the deep mountains not far away.

Quack!

A few more crows were heard, followed by the cries of various birds, and at the same time, I saw countless black shadows flying out of the deep mountains, completely covering the originally clear sky, and not even a trace of moonlight could be seen.

I have grown up in the mountains since I was a child, and I have seen a lot of birds and beasts, but this is the first time I have seen this scene of thousands of birds flying together, especially the leader looks like a few crows, and the rough and hoarse sound is like a hammer at this time, which stimulates my eardrums all the time.

As I looked up at the crows in the sky, I don't know if it was my delusion, but I seemed to feel that the crow in the lead was also staring at me.

Yes, that's right, just staring at me! Those little blood-red eyes were staring at me unblinkingly, and those scarlet eyes were full of vicious smell, as if in its eyes, I was not a human, but a piece of carrion, waiting for it to rush up and peck at the rotten flesh!

I was so frightened that I crooked and almost fell off the paper horse, and the other greetings were also a little flustered, and a few of them were completely confused, and their faces turned white with fright.

Ten thousand birds cover the moon?

Don't fucking panic!

At this time, Grandpa yelled, and strode to the front of the line with Uncle Li, and the two old men carried the sign of kissing and opened the way in front.

I noticed that they didn't look at the birds and beasts in the sky at all, but walked forward with their heads stubborn, throwing paper money into the sky as they went, and their mouths were full of words:

"Yin and Yang wedding, the two worlds are jubilant, all the immortals come to cheer, the old man is grateful, and now he offers a dowry, and hopes that the immortals will get out of the way."

The scene became more and more weird, in the dark night, under the gaze of a group of birds, the two old men walked in the front, followed by a mighty team to welcome relatives, to be honest, at this moment my heart was stuck in my throat, and my whole body was tense and ready to escape at any time.

Strange to say, from the time Grandpa and Uncle Li were in charge of opening the way, although the birds in the sky were still staring at us, they did not make a call.

It was only later that I heard my grandfather tell me that the money was called "road money", which was specially used to send away these "little ghosts" who blocked the road.

I'm very puzzled by this, do crows also need paper money?

After that, it was quite smooth, and the greeting procession entered the col in a mighty way.

Grandpa took the lead in front of the small tomb of Zitong, first took out the small brazier prepared in advance and put it on the ground, lit three sticks of incense, and then threw a red wedding dress made of red paper and some dowries into the brazier and burned it.

As the things were burned, Grandpa stepped forward again and respectfully poured the ashes of the brazier on the grave.

At this time, Uncle Li also stepped forward and put a bowl of white rice and a bowl of steamed pork on the grave, and did not forget to insert a stick of incense on the white rice and steamed meat.

Everyone waited for a while, and when the two incense sticks burned out, Grandpa and Uncle Li glanced at each other, and the two nodded tacitly, and retreated to the side at the same time.

Then, several big men couldn't help but say that they took shovels and hoes and stepped forward, first bowed respectfully to the small grave, and immediately began to dig the grave.

Not long after, a bronze coffin only forty or fifty centimeters in size was dug up, and I looked through the firelight, and the coffin was engraved with dense words, as for what those words represented, I don't know, anyway, not in English.

The moment he saw the bronze coffin, his grandfather's brows were already wrinkled, but he quickly stretched out again and reminded me: "Xiaolong, don't be stunned, hurry up and go home with your daughter-in-law." ”

I didn't move, my head was completely messed up: such a small coffin, even a newborn baby should be bigger than this, right? What kind of coffin is this, it's not much bigger than the urn, is it possible, Zitong was abandoned by her parents just after birth?

That's not supposed to be, this is a bronze coffin, and the price is not cheap.

"What's wrong with you kid, are you scared stupid? Hurry up and hold your daughter-in-law on the horse! Seeing me looking at the bronze coffin motionless in a daze, Uncle Li was a little anxious, and couldn't help but urge.

Let me sit on a paper horse, I endured it, but let me go and hold a coffin, not to mention how awkward it feels, but, the matter has come to this, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of me, I have to jump inside, no matter what, whether my little life can be saved depends on me, a daughter-in-law who has never met.

With a horizontal heart, I gritted my teeth, endured the fear in my heart, held the bronze coffin in my arms, and then straddled the paper horse again with the help of two big strong men.

Seeing this, Grandpa hurriedly struck the gong and directed the team to return the same way.

Maybe it's because of the purple pupils, on the way back, I never heard anyone call my name again, and there were no birds and beasts to cover the moon, but when we were about to enter the village, the chickens, ducks, cats and dogs in the village suddenly exploded.

The barking of various animals came overwhelmingly, startling the welcoming team, and everyone looked at each other, but they didn't dare to continue moving forward after all.

Airplanes!

Suddenly, the bronze coffin in my arms shook suddenly, and although it was slight, I still noticed it.

The sudden change startled me, and I almost threw the coffin with an "ah" sound.

Almost the moment the coffin shook, the animals that were screaming just now stopped screaming as if they had been choked by the throat, and their barking stopped abruptly, and even, a passing wild dog was directly frightened and ran away with a strange scream.

Seeing this scene, Uncle Li quietly walked to his grandfather's side and whispered, "Mr. Zhang, it seems that your granddaughter-in-law is really not ordinary." ”

Grandpa shook his head with a wry smile, looking at me with a somewhat confused look, "I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse." ”

The secret marriage was held in the courtyard of my house, and the master of ceremonies was presided over by Aunt Song in the east of the village, in fact, Aunt Song also drove ducks to the shelves, and when she saw the bronze coffin in my arms, her face had already become extremely ugly.

As soon as everyone stood up, a cold wind blew, and the flames of the two red candles on the wedding hall shook for it, and Aunt Song was so frightened that she hurriedly shouted:

"That...... That worship heaven and earth! ”

Grandpa told me this a long time ago, and I quickly knelt down with the small coffin and bowed to the door.

"Second worship high hall!"

I turned around and bowed to my grandfather again, and Aunt Song's voice came again, "Husband and wife worship each other!" ”

In all fairness, it felt awkward to worship a coffin, but after seeing my grandfather's face, I gritted my teeth and bowed.

Second Aunt Song obviously sighed, and without waiting for me to stand up, she shouted again, "Send it to the cave room!" ”

Then, before I could react, two old women grabbed me from left to right, and pushed me into the cave room that had been arranged.