Chapter 25: A Hurried Funeral
Kimber thought about it, and they were right. He waved at the few helpers who had just followed him, meaning that he didn't want them to tell the strange thing just now. He knew that if anyone else knew about this strange thing, the people who kept the spirit would run away. There are three people in the short mother-in-law's family now, and they can't toss this funeral. The horseman's daughter-in-law is still at her parents' house and has not returned. He had no choice but to keep it a secret. Thankfully, nothing else happened that night.
After the strange appearance of the red wedding dress, Kimber was worried that something would happen again, so he invited a Taoist priest to blow and blow at will the next morning, and sent him to the funeral in the afternoon.
The sedan chair used for the funeral was carried a few days ago when he got married, and at that time, according to the custom of marrying, he pretended to invite Wenwen out of this room and sat on the sedan chair, carried it out, walked around the village, and returned to the original house. The process of marrying took a formality like this, which can be regarded as taking Wenwen from her mother's house to her mother-in-law's house. I can imagine Wenwen sitting in a dangling red sedan chair walking around Thrush Village. At that time, Wenwen would definitely secretly lift the curtain to look at the unfamiliar mountains and rivers outside, and just saw a group of adults and children rushing to see the bride. Wenwen gave them a kind and happy smile.
Now tear off the red paper on the sedan chair used for marriage and paste the white paper on it, and it will become a sedan chair for funeral. The little woman sat down, coughed a few times, and began to cry. No one knows if she is doing it for the perfunctory funeral custom, or if she is really for her daughter-in-law who has just passed the door.
Grandpa heard that Wenwen would be buried the next day, so he was so anxious that he immediately went to chase the funeral procession. Grandpa stopped the funeral procession next to the old river and said; "It's not over seven yet, how can it be buried?" There is a custom in the Thrush Village - after death, people must be kept at home for seven days before they can be buried. It is said that after the soul is out of the body, it will have nostalgia for the life and is unwilling to return to the underworld in a hurry. Therefore, it is necessary to leave it at home for seven days and seven nights, let it look at every corner of the house, and then leave without any concern. If it is buried in advance, the soul will look for an opportunity to come back.
Kimber put down the basket of paper money, walked over and pushed his grandfather away, and said, "My ancestors, wait a few days, I don't know what strange things will happen again!" ”
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and the paper money in the basket flew out and danced like white butterflies in the crowd of mourners.
Grandpa exclaimed, "You mean something strange happened before?" ”
Kimber put his hand on his grandfather's ear, and his grandfather hurriedly bent down to listen to Kimber's whispering. After hearing this, Grandpa's eyes widened: "So, she has ......"
When my grandfather ran after the funeral procession, I followed behind. At that time, my grandfather was walking like a fly, and I chased after him very hard, and finally my grandfather stopped, and I felt that my breathing was almost broken, and my lungs were so heavy that I couldn't breathe. When my grandfather said, "She's ......," I knew how serious the consequences were. is like a dustpan ghost, at least there is a father, and the grievances are not very deep. Like a water ghost, the mountain father's daughter-in-law untied the knot for his son, the mountain father untied the knot for his daughter-in-law, and finally the old buffalo untied the knot for the mountain father. Although the first two times left some loopholes, they caused some trouble for the back (I'll tell you later, I'll tell you for the time being, the omission of the chopper ghost is in the nail of the bamboo nail, and the omission of the water ghost is in the burial place. ), but at least temporarily alleviated the crisis. But now it is Wenwen who has no relatives here, who can untie her grievances?
Grandpa stood in the evening breeze, watching the funeral procession slowly start again, the white paper flying again, and the intermittent firecrackers sounding again.
The horror did not disappear with Wenwen's burial. On the fifth day after the burial, that is, on the seventh day after Wenwen's death, the moon had just risen, and when people had just fallen asleep, there was another scream that pierced the eardrums in the house of the short mother-in-law!
On the night of the fifth day, Grandpa was very vigilant, and sat cross-legged on the bed without sleeping, and he had expected this scream. Grandpa jumped to his feet, shoved his slippers into his slippers, and ran to the dwarf mother-in-law's house. I heard the sound in my grandfather's room and immediately got up and came out. To be honest, I was already a little scared when I saw Wenwen in a red wedding dress, but my curiosity overcame my fear, not to mention that my grandfather was also there.
There was no moon that night, and the sky was full of stars, as if the canopy had been pierced with countless holes. The light came through those loopholes, which added a bit of horror to the atmosphere.