Jian Jue and Jian Hao wore helmets and drove motorcycles, and followed a few people from Zhejiang all the way to the town. They entered a larger three-star inn, and Jian Jue and Jian Hao followed them.

Jian Jue asked Jian Hao: "Do you know anyone who works in the hotel?" ”

"Huh? No, what are you going to do? ”

Jian Jue sighed: "Whatever, go in first, and be improvised." ”

There was only one little sister guarding the front desk of the hotel, and when they saw Jane, they asked if it was accommodation. Jian Jue nodded yes, and asked if there was a room? Xiaomei smiled: "This small place, where are there any tourists, there are rooms everywhere, do you live on the first floor or the second floor?" ”

"It's all right.... Hmmm....," Jian Jue began to guess where those from Zhejiang would stay, the inn was only two floors long, and there were stairs to climb upstairs. Since you can choose, those outsiders should choose downstairs, there is a balcony, and the other end of the hotel is a garden, so the house number corresponding to the gate is an odd number, and the opposite side is an even number, according to the general selection of rooms by Chinese..." ”

Xiaomei still smiled: "Oh, it's such a coincidence, those two rooms are occupied!" Someone else called to make a reservation, and I came a few days ago. You can choose another one. ”

"Huh? Your business is good, and you have to call to make an appointment. Jian Jue joked with the little girl, "Eh, what are those tourists doing?" ”

"I don't know, it's still out of town to listen to the accent."

Jian Jue gave Jian Hao a look, and deliberately said that he lived in another room on the second floor, and asked Jian Hao to go and see how the private room was.

The little sister took Jian Hao to see the room, and as soon as they went upstairs, Jian Jue turned into the counter, he knew that there might be surveillance, so he tried to stand in the dead corner of general surveillance. He looked through the account book, and there were only a few local numbers in Sichuan.

Jane thought to herself, and the little sister said that they had come in a few days, so she went to the front. This time, Jian Jue saw a familiar number, and he took out his mobile phone book to look through it to see whose number it was.

This number turned out to be the number of his uncle!

The eldest uncle and the second uncle (second uncle) and his father are both brothers, and his grandparents gave birth to three sons. And the uncle I have been mentioning before is the son of my grandfather's sister.

In this way, the uncle has never seen the tail of the dragon, whether it is the grandfather who is sick, or the second uncle who fell into the river, whether he is present or not, Jian Jue is not even impressed. I don't know if it's because he doesn't have any feelings for his father's family, or if the uncle really didn't show up.

But this is also a little suspicious, as soon as those people walked in, they said that they had made an appointment with the second uncle to talk about genealogy that day, how could the people in the hotel say that they came a few days ago? Why didn't you come to see your family when you came? But as soon as his second uncle died, they came.

After a while, someone shouted in room 106 on the first floor: "Eh, little girl, make us a bowl of noodles!" ”

Jian Jue left the photo, then flipped it out and hid it.

A middle-aged man came over, and it was indeed a few people from Zhejiang, and I heard them call him Brother Bin. When Brother Bin came over and saw that there was no one, he went to the counter and got a instant noodle by himself, and muttered a few words in their dialect, as if complaining about people.

Jian Jue didn't understand, went around the back and went up to the second floor, and found that Jian Hao had been chatting and laughing with his little sister all the time.

"Gone, uh... They helped us choose another hotel, sorry little sister, delaying you. Jian Jue apologized to the little girl at the front desk, and then pulled Jian Hao away.

Walking to the road, Jian Jue showed Jian Hao a photo of his mobile phone: "They have been staying here for a long time, you will go and ask the village if there are any suspicious people in the village a few days ago." Also, look at this number, you see if you have it, it's my uncle's number, why do you say he's okay and call the hotel? ”

"Wow, you're like a detective. Yes, could it be the hotel he had booked for those outsiders, and besides, he would recognize those people? ”

Jian Jue looked at Jian Hao with satisfaction, "Not bad." But I thought, they didn't mention that they knew each other, they only said that they had business contacts with my second uncle, and then I asked by chance, only to find out that it was a family. ”

Jian Hao was a little flustered, "Damn, what are they trying to do in our township Kaka place?" I still have to engage in this set of concealment. ”

"Speaking of the river seal," Jian decided to take out the river seal, "My second uncle's life cousin has calculated, and he has a water disaster in his life, so usually my grandmother does not let the second uncle go swimming in the river." You say, will outsiders know what the river seal is? Will you know my second uncle's fate? There must be someone from our side to help them take care of it. ”

"Brother Du, I still don't understand, the purpose of the river seal."

"The river seal has a purpose, in the past, when it was used to do things, it was used to suppress floating corpses. In the past, it was easy to drown people in the river, and there were many resentful spirits parasitic in the river, and the water ghosts could not be reincarnated, so they could only rely on pulling passers-by into the water to be substitutes. Therefore, there is a river seal to guard, and those water ghosts dare not be presumptuous. Jian Jue said, "So the old man said that it is okay to fish for treasures in the river, and if you catch the river seal, you can put it back." ”

"Oh, and this one. Then they roasted the river seal in the fire, yes....? ”

"It's for...,Crash into the corpse...,Water and fire are incompatible.,It's hard to make a mistake.,Feeling... Where have I ever seen this step. Jian Jue said to Jian Hao: "I need your help, I have to lift the coffin tomorrow, this is an old custom, in fact, I still have to go to cremation." But those outsiders will still ask a mage to do it for a while, so that the deceased can go on the road with peace of mind. I can't go, but I need a few things and you guys can help me get the best. ”

"Okay!" Jian Hao patted his chest, "I blamed me for not doing a good job before, I will definitely do it this time, what do you say!" ”

Jian Jue instructed Jian Hao: "Find a carpenter in the village, make a small coffin with the same proportion as the whole coffin, and then prepare the hair and nails of the deceased for me, find me one that can be used, in the courtyard on the east side, and a few people at the coffin site to report to me when they did it." ”

"Ah..., okay, you wait, I'll go find a few brothers to help right away." Jian Hao drove Jian Zhu back again.

Grandma and Granny Zhang had already cooked the meal, and Jian Hao only said that his family also had food, so he refused his grandmother's invitation to let him stay for dinner, and he rode away on a motorcycle. And Jian Jue's parents drove to the intersection to pick up the coffin, so they didn't come to eat, Jian Jue sat down, just in time to meet his grandfather's blank gaze, I don't know if they were looking at him, or looking at the air as if there was nothing.

Grandpa spoke: "Old woman! Yesterday I had a dream that the people in the river had climbed up. ”

Grandma didn't want to pay attention to him, rolled her eyes behind his back, and scolded: "One day crazy sun! I don't know what to say! Someone climbed up at the head of that river! Which one! ”

"Wei Weiwa, Wei Weiwa can't climb up, everyone else has come up." Grandpa opened his mouth and kept calling the second uncle's nickname, "Oh, Weiwei." ”

Jian Jue stopped his chopsticks and looked at his grandfather in surprise, he had been staring at his grandfather. In the end, Grandpa's eyes condensed and stared at Jian Jie: "Do you know?" Your second uncle said you should know. ”

Grandma protected Jian Du in her arms: "Don't tell you to say this to Jian Du for a day!" Don't scare him! Ah! Granny Zhang came out with a hot and coaxed her grandfather, "Okay, okay, drink soup, don't say these words for a day, it's not good, finally you see that you are cured, and you will live for a long time in the future." ”

"Oops...., I'm flustered.... I'm afraid of Weiwei. ”

Grandma didn't know why she didn't speak, her expression was very wrong. Later, Jian Jue chatted with his grandmother in the house, and only then did he know that others did not let the second uncle accidentally fall into the water, but his grandfather still knew about it, and he didn't know who told him.

Jian Jue also remembered that his grandfather had already said on the first night of the second uncle's mortuary that the second uncle had come to him.

Grandma told Jane not to think about it too much, grandpa is confused, let's get through it one day at a time.

Early the next morning, the village called people to set up a mourning hall. At the same time, several young people in the village, Jian Jie's little cousin and cousin, also followed Jian Hao.

They also brought what Jian Du wanted, found a yard, and gave it to Jian Du.

Jian Du set up the table and worshiped several land gods and the Lord of the Stove together. Then the props to be used for the method were placed, a birthday eight-character, and then the hair was wrapped and put into the coffin.

But Jian Jue looked at the whole nail and was confused, "What is this?" I told you to cut some nails, how did you pull out the whole piece! ”

Jian Hao slapped another young man, Jian Luo, "Why don't you pull out a whole piece of your fingernail!" You have so much strength! ”

Jian Luo said aggrievedly: "Originally, his nails were soaked soft, and we only had pliers, so..." ”

Jian Jue sighed, "It's okay, use it the same." ”

Someone over there called and said the Dharma teacher had done it.

Jian Jue glared at the ground a few times, then took the peachwood sword, followed the steps of the mage on the other side, chanted words in his mouth, tied a few wooden poles to the paper figures, stood around the coffin, and then lit three sticks of incense and inserted them in his own incense burner.

"Lift the coffin!" Jian Jue shouted and ordered the little third baby on the side to strike the gong and go through the motions. Then he also inserted the spirit flag at the gate of the courtyard, so as not to let his lonely ghosts come in and make trouble.

The mage jumped up, but Jane couldn't, and jumped up like a magic stick. In the end, he sprinkled a few pieces of paper money and drew the Zhenyin house talisman on the coffin with a pen.

In the end, the incense burned into a long incense stick and two short incense sticks in the middle.

After Jian decided, he continued to walk in the movements of the mage, and it was time to carry the coffin, so he placed the coffin on the little people and stood up.

Jian Jue peachwood sword pointed, spilled a few pieces of paper money, and said, "Get up!" ”

Half a day, no response.

The other young people were still laughing, and suddenly, a whimper came from the small coffin, which frightened everyone present, and they didn't dare to laugh.

Jian Jue went over, made a few gestures, touched the outside of the coffin, and found that the wood was a little wet. It's strange, there's no water, isn't it... It's true.... Jian Jue shook his head, "The coffin failed, and the death of the second uncle was strange, it may really be artificial." ”

"Huh?" Jian Hao was a little anxious, "Over there, the coffins have been carried away!" ”