Chapter 70: The First Seven Souls
The night outside is cold and starry, the wind is gusting, this person is wearing a black shroud, when he stepped into the door, we finally saw this person clearly, this person is really the old man Ma, because his appearance is exactly the same as the black and white remains above the mourning hall, but at this time his face is as pale as paper, giving people a sense of gloom!
Sure enough, the first seven are back to the soul, and the so-called first seven is a funeral custom. It is customary to think that the "first seven" refers to the seventh day after a person's death. It is generally believed that the soul of the deceased will return home on the "first seven", and the family should prepare a meal for the soul of the deceased before the soul returns, and then must avoid it, the best way is to sleep, and if you can't sleep, you should hide under the covers; If the soul of the deceased is allowed to see his family, it will make him remember, and it will affect his reincarnation. It is also said that when the family returns home on the seventh day of the first day, the family should burn a ladder-shaped object at home, so that the soul can follow the "ladder" to the sky.
There is another folk saying, it is said that the deceased from the date of death, within 49 days, every seven days Hades will interrogate the soul of the deceased, so the "seven periods" are also called "seven plagues". At the burning of the seventh, the mourners should hang white paper lanterns at the gate to indicate that the family has filial piety. The first seven set up spiritual cards at home, burned incense and candles, offered wine and food to mourn, and the remaining six or seven went to the cemetery to turn paper money.
Vulgar clouds: "Every seven and every eight, copper hammer and iron hairpin; Burn seven and burn nine, Hades please eat and drink". It is believed that on the day when the burning of the seventh meets the seventh and the eighth, the king of Hades will torture the souls of the dead, and in this case, he should advance or postpone the memorial by one day. Some rural areas in Guanzhong. When encountering "Chongqi", the filial son will put a paper umbrella on the top of the deceased's grave, with the intention of helping the soul of the deceased to avoid the disaster. In Yanchang County in northern Shaanxi, a number of white paper flags were cut in the afternoon of the first day of the "Chongqi" campaign, and their children and daughters-in-law were planted in front of the grave along the way from the door of their homes, and the souls of the dead were invited home to pay respects in order to avoid the disaster. The white flag is planted to guide the way, and it is said that if the soul of the dead does not have time to return home, it can hide under the white flag and take refuge. All in all, the first seven are nothing more than people returning home to visit after death, or to avoid Hades' interrogation.
Getting back to the point, seeing that Old Man Ma was back, Lao Tang and I both secretly screamed badly, because the seven nails on the coffin had not yet been removed at this time, and if the dead soul approached, it would definitely cause the corpse to be defrauded.
However, the first seven were the most taboo to collide with the souls of the dead, and we had to stand aside, just like this, watching the old man enter the house, praying in our hearts that he would never get close to the coffin.
Besides, Mr. Ma entered the house silently, and then walked back and forth in the lobby, as if he didn't know that he was dead, and he was as leisurely as he usually returned home. However, although he walked around the lobby, there was no footsteps at all, and the atmosphere was somewhat frightening.
After walking back and forth in the lobby for a while, Old Man Ma stopped at the offering table and began to eat the roast chicken and rice on the offering table.
Seeing that Old Man Ma was busy enjoying food offerings at this time, and it should be fine for the time being, I squeezed my eyes at Lao Tang and pointed to the coffin above the spiritual platform: "Old Tang, let's take advantage of his eating time and quickly use cinnabar to seal the seven orifices of the corpse!" ”
Lao Tang nodded, and then we approached the coffin lightly, and then used cinnabar to seal the seven orifices of the corpse.
However, just when we were lying on the edge of the coffin to seal the seven orifices of the corpse, all of a sudden I felt a chill behind me, this chill was very special, how to say, it was very abrupt, and Lao Tang and I were shocked. Hurriedly looked back, only to see that there was nothing behind him.
I glanced at Lao Tang, and I noticed that he also looked confused, so I asked him, "Did you feel it just now?" ”
"Yes, there was obviously a ghost coming over just now, why is it gone?" Old Tang frowned and nodded.
Yes, the sudden chill just now is too familiar to us, that is, the manifestation of the Yin person's invasion, indicating that there is a ghost standing behind us just now. But how could it be gone?
"Huh? What about Old Man Ma? At this time, Lao Tang touched my arm, pointed to the front of the offering table and exclaimed.
I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked towards the offering table, only to see that the old man Ma, who was still enjoying white rice in front of the offering table before, was indeed gone, and looked around the hall, and the entire mourning hall was empty. Where did he go? Have you gone back to the underworld?
Lao Tang and I were both shocked and our jaws were about to drop, and at this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound of "bang" from the coffin next to us!
The muffled sound was extremely harsh and strange in this already strange mourning hall, as if someone had kicked the coffin board. Lao Tang and I were both startled, and hurriedly turned to look at the coffin, and then saw that the corpse that was lying in the coffin actually sat up straight!
Originally, Old Man Ma's face was covered with a piece of yellow straw, but at this time, the yellow straw covered on his face also fell, and his exposed face was bloodless and pale, his two eyes narrowed into a slit, and his eyes rolled up, but the corners of his mouth were weirdly grinning, making a "squeak" laugh!
Seeing this scene, I only felt a cool air from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. He gasped and stammered, "This ...... This expression...... it, it's a corpse! ”
Seeing that the corpse sat up by itself, and laughed, I naturally understood everything, no wonder Master Ma was gone, and his feelings were back to his body!
Lao Tang and I were suddenly startled in our hearts, and reflexively took a step back, and Lao Tang exclaimed: "The ghost borrows the corpse!" He's really in trouble. ”
The so-called ghost borrowing corpse is very different from ordinary corpse fraud. Ordinary corpse fraud, that is because the corpse is conflicted, and the corpse is turned back, this kind of corpse fraud has no thinking. The ghost borrowing the corpse is different, it is when the corpse is already in trouble, and there are ghosts attached to the corpse's body, so that the corpse has a mind and becomes a living corpse! It can be said that the reason why this happened was entirely because of the seven nails on the coffin.
It is said that because the living corpse is not a human being, a ghost is not a ghost, so the evil spirit is very heavy, and once the living corpse is formed, it has to harm people and ask for their lives, so as to vent the resentment in the chest. And the murder of living corpses is first from relatives, first to relatives with blood relations, and then to outsiders.
Before, the incense was burned into two short and one long, but now it seems that it is really going to be fulfilled, and if you don't know it, the Ma family will really die!
At this moment, the old man Ma who was sitting in the coffin grinned again, and at the same time stretched out his hand to pinch my neck.
"Pinch your grandma!"
As soon as I saw this, I immediately flew up and kicked him.
The living corpse was kicked back into the coffin by me, because I used so much force that the coffin fell directly from the altar to the ground, and with a "bang" sound, the coffin fell to pieces.
At this time, I shouted at Lao Tang: "Don't let him run away!" ”
As soon as the words fell, I took out a corpse suppression talisman from my pocket and slapped it at the living corpse that fell to the ground.
But what I never expected was that the flexibility of this living corpse was greatly beyond my expectations, and just when the spirit talisman in my hand was about to hit his forehead, I saw him roll on the ground, which directly made me pounce. At this time, Lao Tang also pounced on him with a peachwood sword, and as soon as he pinched the magic trick, he raised the peachwood sword and slashed towards the living corpse.
However, this time, Lao Tang, like me, still threw himself into the air, and the living corpse flashed, and then jumped, and directly jumped up to the nearly three-meter-high spirit shed.
We were both dumbfounded, the living corpse was as nimble as a monkey, crawling above the shed and squeaking and grinning at us.
We're really scared, and if we don't get it up to speed quickly, something really will happen.
I hurriedly took out a gossip mirror from my baggage, and threw it at the living corpse above the shed, trying to knock him down. Which Cheng thought that the other party saw the gossip mirror flying towards him, and he ran again, and actually ran up to the second floor, and then disappeared in a flash.
Seeing this, I shouted: "It's not good, Ma Yun and they live on the second floor." ”
When Lao Tang heard this, he was also startled, and then hurriedly rushed up to the second floor......
As soon as he rushed to the second floor, he saw that the corridor on the second floor was empty, and there was no trace of a living corpse, and he didn't know where he had gone. The entire second floor was silent, eerily quiet.
We looked forward along the corridor, one room by one, at first the doors of the three rooms were closed, when we walked to the door of the fourth room, we found that the door of this room was wide open, and when we looked into the room, Lao Tang and I were shocked! I saw that the living corpse at this time was standing in front of a bed, and there was a person lying on the bed, at this time this person was choked by the neck of the living corpse, because of suffocation, this person was lying on the bed with his legs constantly kicking, and the quilt was kicked to the ground, which looked very scary. Even though we were standing in the doorway, we could still hear the gurgling sound coming out of the throat of the man on the bed.
The person who was about to be strangled to death by a living corpse was none other than Ma Yun!
The situation was very critical, Lao Tang and I were so frightened by this scene that we dared to delay, so we hurriedly rushed to the room ......<