Chapter 3: The Ghost Upper Body
I really haven't seen what it's like for someone to die since I was a child, because my mother never let me go to this kind of occasion, saying that I didn't have a good life not to look for that bad luck, but I naturally didn't know what was going on when I saw it today, Ding Fei just kept saying bad luck in his mouth, and didn't care, he pressed the horn twice, and slowly drove past the door of the house.
I couldn't help but take a look, only to see a lot of paper people and paper horses in the doorway, and a few people standing at the door leaning against the wall to talk, and barely saw that there were people in the main hall wearing white and filial piety, and the others passed before they had time to look.
"Da Fei, is this batch of goods we sent liquor?"
"It seems to be, it is estimated that the family uses it, and after the funeral, I have to thank the villagers, maybe there is not enough wine."
The owner of the store is a woman in her forties, seeing the two of us coming to deliver the goods, her face is full of smiles and let us in, and quickly pour us water to drink, I was polite to Ding Fei and then sat down.
I looked around, although this small supermarket is not big, but the decoration is very clean, basically the daily use of things are also available, there is really no thing in the countryside has a large set, sometimes it feels more convenient than in the city, and things are sold cheaply.
"Eldest sister, are you usually busy in this store?" I took a sip from my cup and didn't have anything to say.
"It's okay, it's generally busy at noon and dinner at night, the only inconvenient thing is that I didn't hire an unloader, and I have to be busy inside and out every time the goods come." The eldest sister shook her head and sighed.
I almost squirted out a mouthful of water, and said in my heart, I'm not looking for trouble, Ding Fei also glared at me, and the eldest sister seemed to realize that there was something wrong with her words, and said, "I didn't mean that, you guys sit here first, and I'll hurry up and unload the goods." ”
I quickly stood up and said, "I don't have much goods, let's get them for you." ”
Ding Fei and I hurriedly walked out and opened the carriage, there were more than 20 cases of liquor inside, all of which were more expensive, and the old rule was still that I went to the carriage to hand it out, because this wine was more expensive, I specially added caution to take it out.
"Eldest sister, do you rural people drink such good wine now?" Ding Fei asked.
The eldest sister smiled awkwardly and said, "Where can we afford to drink such good wine, isn't it that someone in our village has died, I heard that their family is developed in a rich place in the south, the old man knows that he can't do it, and he strongly asks for the fallen leaves to return to his roots, and he wants to be buried with his ancestors, so he went back to the village for funeral." ”
It seems that people will still miss their hometown when they get old, I thought to myself, and asked, "Sister, then their family has always been outside, and there are so many people to help when they come back for the funeral, it seems that the popularity was very good when I was in the village before." ”
The eldest sister listened to my words, couldn't help but snort, and said, "What's good, some of the villagers in our village are related to his family, and there are a few young people who want to go to the south to develop and join them, but I didn't expect them to even let them in, pretending not to know, do you say there is such a thing?" ”
Ding Fei and I glanced at each other, expressing that I couldn't understand, and the eldest sister lowered her voice and said, "Let me tell you, the reason why so many people go to their family funeral is because they said in private, as long as the people who go will give 200 yuan each, and those who cry during the funeral tomorrow will have additional benefits. ”
I then understood why the people at the door just now did not have any sad emotions, it turned out that they were all "group performances", and the goods were unloaded, the eldest sister gave each of us a bag of snacks, saying that we young people were tired from work, and we kept to eat when we were hungry, and the two of us thanked the eldest sister, got in the car and turned around and walked back.
"I said Da Fei, let's go and see it too, 200 yuan is a lot, and we have three days' wages." I couldn't help but suggest.
"I heard that the eldest sister meant to send money tonight, and I was also thinking about going over to see it, mixing some money to buy handsome clothes to meet my girlfriend, but I was afraid that you wouldn't dare to go." Ding Fei said with a wicked smile.
"What's there to be afraid of, aren't the living afraid of the dead?" I hummed.
So Ding Fei drove the car to the entrance of the village, and then stopped the car, the two of us got out of the car and came to the door of this house, and the people standing at the door saw the two of us coming over with a disapproving look, obviously they also came to join in the fun, and they didn't even wear white clothes, thinking about taking a money and leaving.
I walked up to a man in his thirties and stood against the wall, and whispered, "Big brother, what time does it end today?" ”
The man glanced at me with a stubble on his face, and said, "I heard it's ten o'clock." ”
I looked at my phone, it's only nine o'clock in the evening, don't worry, wait another hour, I look at those paper people and paper horses and feel too infiltrating, so I picked the outermost place to stand and stunned.
Just when I was about to fall asleep, someone suddenly touched me, I saw that it was Ding Fei, Ding Fei took out his mobile phone and showed me the time, I saw that it was 9:50, only to find that everyone entered the door one after another, and the two of us quickly followed into the courtyard, I found that there were six men and women wearing white and filial piety, and there were also a few people in white clothes in the yard, and there was a small bed in the middle of the room, and a large coffin was placed on the bed, and in front of the coffin was an offering table, and there were candles lit on it to eat.
Seeing that we were all gathered in the courtyard, one of the men with filial piety came out of the house, holding a large handful of money in his hand, looked at us with disdain, and then began to send us money one by one, and the expression on his face proved that he looked down on us at all.
Ding Fei and I naturally feel that it doesn't matter, anyway, you have money and I don't have money, the gap between the rich and the poor in our country is so big, it is regarded as robbing the rich and helping the poor, I saw that it was my turn, and quickly took two steps forward, reaching out to pick up the two hundred bills, the man of Dai Xiao looked at me and frowned and hesitated for a moment, and finally gave it to me.
Ding Fei then also received the money, Dai Xiao's man went back to the house after sending the money, and the people in the courtyard began to communicate in a low voice, although today is a funeral, but there are still some people who have an unconcealable smile on their faces after receiving the money, and there are even two or three people who laughed, I glanced at Ding Fei, turned around and walked out the door.
Bang dang!
Suddenly, there was a noise in the room, and I was so frightened that I quickly turned around, and at the same time, a woman rushed out of the six people who were originally dressed in linen and filial piety in the room, her expression was very scary, and her facial features moved a little, pointing to the courtyard and scolding, "Lao Tzu is a person from this small restaurant, and if you die, you will be the ghost of this small restaurant, and all of you who take the money will die!" "It's like a man's voice.
Before people could react, the woman suddenly turned around and rushed into the house, grabbed the neck of one of the men wearing filial piety, and scolded, "Shang Guolong, when Lao Tzu was alive, you always made trouble for Lao Tzu, I want to strangle you!" ”
The frightened face of the man who was choked turned white, and he began to struggle with his hands and feet, at this time the people in the yard were in chaos all of a sudden, and they ran out like a swarm, I was also startled by the scene in front of me, grabbed Ding Fei and was about to run out, to my surprise, Ding Fei was still very calm, and shouted at the people in the house, "Don't panic, this is someone who offended the deceased, the old man's ghost is not gone, you quickly pull him away!" ”
"Dad, we were wrong, please forgive us!" The remaining two women knelt down, and the two men rushed over and pulled, and for a moment the room was filled with cries and shouts.
I was frightened by this scene and my legs were weak, and I kept calling Ding Fei's name, at this time, the two men were thrown out by the crazy woman and hit the door frame three or four meters, seeing that the man who was pinched was about to die, Ding Fei hurriedly said, "You hurry up and go to the door seven steps away to burn the paper and send it to the old man!" ”
The two women were still kneeling on the ground and crying, and the two men who had been thrown out quickly struggled to get up, took out a ball of yellow paper from the house and rushed to the door, and then lit it with a lighter.
The crazy woman suddenly let go of the man's neck, showed a terrifying smile, and rushed out of the house, heading straight for the man who burned the paper at the door.
Suddenly, the crazy woman turned around and came to me, I was already scared to pee at this time, I wanted to run but my legs were weak and fell to the ground, Ding Fei hurriedly ran over to pull me but was a step too late, the woman actually grabbed my neck with one arm and lifted it up.
I didn't catch my breath, my eyes were full of Venus, and I thought to myself, it seems that my life can't be saved today, and I shouldn't have earned these two hundred yuan of dead man's money in the first place, I vaguely saw Ding Fei pick up a stick from the ground and hit the woman, but the woman didn't seem to have any pain, and stretched out her other hand to grab my chest.
"Looks like I'm going to die by digging out my heart!" I watched it all with the last bit of consciousness, and I had no ability to resist.
Boom!
As soon as the woman's hand touched my chest, it flew upside down as if it had been hit by a huge stone, smashed into the corner of the wall and remained motionless, and a trace of white smoke appeared on her head, which dissipated in an instant.
I fell heavily on the ground, coughing violently, and a large amount of fresh air poured into my nostrils, Ding Fei threw down the stick and quickly helped me up, and said in a low voice, "Throw down the two hundred yuan, we won't make this money, otherwise something else may happen."
Where do I dare to ask for these two hundred yuan, throw the money on the ground, and walk out of the yard and return to the car with the help of Ding Fei, the men and women wearing white and filial piety also followed out to stop our car, and the man who gave the money said to Ding Fei, "Young man, thank you for helping us just now, otherwise I really don't know what to do, what should we do next, my dad and him..."
Ding Fei shook his head and said, "It's okay, this is someone who offended the deceased, there has been a similar situation in our village before, that is, someone burned paper at the door to resolve it, I don't know anything else, it stands to reason that it should be sent away." ”
I knew that what Ding Fei meant by sending away the ghost of the dead man, but I was still very scared when I thought about it, his face was white and scary, and his mouth was trembling, Ding Fei glanced at me and said, "My friend is frightened, I have to go back quickly, you go back to deal with the aftermath." ”