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The old man said that Wang Shoudao carved the wood man to cut the water snake, my great-grandfather did not hear Wang Shoudao mention it, but the method of the carving wood man to ask God, Wang Shoudao taught him, and I think what the old man said is true.

Let's get back to the topic. At this time, the old man heard my great-grandfather say that he was Wang Shoudao's apprentice, and immediately became excited, and heard that my great-grandfather was the uncle of Caifu, and immediately said that the three ancestors and grandchildren did not need a penny for this time.

The old man said that he didn't want money, my great-grandfather couldn't really let them do it in vain, and this kind of thing was not comparable to ordinary hard work.

The old man's son, the middle-aged man, went down to the well to have a stick of incense, and shouted in the well, saying that he had touched one.

In ancient times, the well was not deep, generally not more than ten meters, because the groundwater resources were relatively rich now, the groundwater level was also high, the distance from the wellhead to the bottom of the well was generally only more than two meters less than three meters, sometimes there was no need to reel and the well rope, the bucket could be hit with a flat hook, and if it was in the rainy season, it could also turn the water out of the well. Of course, I'm talking about our wells here, not all parts of the country.

The person guarding the mouth of the well heard the shouts of the middle-aged man and hurriedly put another straw rope that had been prepared long ago into the well, and the middle-aged man in the well then pulled the straw rope and dived into the water again.

After a while, the middle-aged man came out of the water and beckoned the people above to pull the straw rope, and with the straw rope pulling a little bit, a male corpse was pulled up from the well by everyone.

The male corpse is very well preserved, except that the skin is a little soft and white by the blisters, there is no sign of the corpse, and it is identified by several family members that it is Zhang Jiang, the apprentice of the old cook.

Half an hour later, just as noon was about to pass, Xiaolan's body was also salvaged, Xiaolan's body was in similar condition to Zhang Jiang's body, but there were bruises in some places on her face, which looked very incongruous. My great-grandfather knew in his heart that this was for Zhang Jiang to beat.

After the ghost is dissolved, the corpse usually does not decompose, but if the ghost is injured, the wound will appear on the corpse. It's like a ...... How to put it, in today's terms, it's like a butterfly effect, and it's like a chain reaction, the undead are injured, and so is its original host. As for this, my writing skills are limited, and I really can't explain it accurately, so you just need to know the meaning.

After the two bodies were recovered, my great-grandfather and the people in Cai's Mansion were also relieved. However, since Zhang Jiang's soul could not be collected from the well, my great-grandfather had to change his original plan.

My great-grandfather instructed the family to find an empty room for Xiaolan's body in Cai's Mansion and place it well, and Zhang Jiang's body could be thrown into the firewood room casually.

Subsequently, my great-grandfather asked the middle-aged man who went into the water to take a hot bath, and my great-grandfather put wormwood leaves in the hot water to remove bad luck. In the early years, in our area, if someone in the family died, after the funeral was completed, after the deceased person was buried, he would light some wormwood in each room of the house and smoke it, or sprinkle grains to flush it, mainly to remove bad luck. There is another folk saying that this is done for fear that the souls of some deceased people will not be willing to leave home, smoke wormwood, or scatter grains, and the soul will not be able to stay at home, and will leave the house to go where it should go. However, I don't agree with this statement too much, in my opinion, burning wormwood, scattering grains, and rushing bad luck are one thing, and seeking psychological comfort is true.

Straight to the point. After everything was stopped, Cai Wenye asked the kitchen to set up a banquet.

After lunch, Cai Wenye gave the three grandchildren ten taels of silver each, and the three of them said that they didn't want anything, and finally my great-grandfather came forward and pushed back and forth with them a few times, and the old man reluctantly accepted ten taels of silver.

After the three ancestors and grandchildren of the corpse collector left, Cai Wenye asked me what to do with the corpses of my great-grandfather, Xiaolan and Zhang Jiang.

My great-grandfather thought about it and asked Cai Wenye where the body of the little gardener in the past was buried.

Cai Wenye replied that after the little florist died, the little florist's parents brought the body home, and they didn't know where it was buried, and Cai's house also gave the couple a hundred taels of burial expenses.

My great-grandfather said that it is better to marry Xiaolan and Xiaohualian, so that Xiaolan's wish will be forgotten, and we who are alive can rest assured.

Cai Wenye nodded and agreed, and instructed the old housekeeper Cai Zhang to go out of the city to find the little florist's parents and discuss the matter of marrying a yin family, fortunately, the little gardener's home is in a small village outside the city, not far from the county seat, but how the housekeeper Cai Zhang discussed it with the little florist's parents, we will not go into details.

Subsequently, my great-grandfather instructed a few family members to wrap Zhang Jiang's body in a straw mat, carry it to a deserted place outside the city, pour lamp oil on it, and after burning, dig a grave pit on the spot and bury it.

Generally, the corpse of the ghost is not decomposed, and the corpse is a place of sustenance for the ghost, at this time, if the corpse is burned to it, the soul will disappear, but these ghosts are scattered, or forced to be sent to where it should go, I really don't know. In the past, there were many ghosts, but now there are few ghosts, in addition to the fact that the population is large now, and there is no place for ghosts, it may also have a lot to do with the cremation policy implemented by the state.

Go back to the head and talk about Zhang Jiang, this Zhang Jiang has no parents, at the beginning followed a group of people called Huazi to ask for food for a living, when he was eighteen years old, in the winter of nine cold days, he met the old cook, the old cook saw that he was pitiful, gave him a little food, and gave him a torn cotton jacket. From that day on, he followed the old cook alive and dead, and he couldn't get rid of it, like a dog skin plaster, and the old cook had no choice but to accept him as an apprentice.

The old cook also heard about Zhang Jiang at this time, and he was very sad about Zhang Jiang's death, but he couldn't blame others, and if he wanted to blame him, the apprentice was distracted and disloyal. The old chef was aggrieved in his heart, and he couldn't say anything.

In ancient times, polygamy and cheating were two concepts, if you married a wife, and wanted to marry a second or even third room, no one would poke your backbone in the back, and you would take it for granted. If you are not married, or have already been married, and you are still messing around with multiple women outside, it is against the common sense of heaven, and you will be immersed in a pig cage, riding a wooden donkey, and so on.

Writing here, some people may say that there were brothels in ancient times, so why didn't you go to a brothel without being immersed in a pig cage and riding a wooden donkey? This, I can only say, is that a brothel is just a place for money transactions, and the nature of cheating in the real sense is also completely different.

Let's talk about the bucket of lamp oil that my great-grandfather asked the family to prepare before, and the red cloth that was four feet long and four feet wide, originally this bucket of lamp oil was not used to burn corpses, but was used to "purify water", and the red cloth was used to cover the wellhead.

What is "clean water" is also a method of removing bad luck.

As I said before, all the flowers and plants in the garden died inexplicably, and all the fish in the pond turned white. This is because the water in the well has been contaminated by the ghosts of Xiaolan and Zhang Jiang, or the corpses. As for the fish in the fish pond, because the fish pond is a stagnant pool, it needs to be regularly added and replaced, and after the poisonous water from the well is added to the fish pond, this leads to the death of the fish.

Straight to the point. The method of "purifying water" is very simple, after collecting the souls and corpses of Xiaolan and Zhang Jiang, pour the lamp oil into the well, and then hang a torch with a hook and throw it into the well, ignite the lamp oil floating on the water, and then seal the wellhead with a red cloth, and wait until 7749 days later, the red cloth will be uncovered, and the water in the well will return to normal.

This method, as mentioned above, is also a way to remove bad luck, and this method can also be used at home. If you have friends who feel that your home is not clean, you can use a porcelain bowl to hold half a bowl of water, and then pour sesame oil into the water. The sesame oil must be poured more, at least to form a two-centimeter-thick oil film on the surface of the water, otherwise it will not be lit, and then find some waste paper such as newspapers, light it and throw it in a bowl, and this is done. This method, we call it "fire on the water", can dispel disasters and drive away evil spirits. Remember, you can't use gasoline, gasoline is too dangerous, and if you have friends who use gasoline to do this, what bad consequences will it cause, but don't blame me for not reminding you.

To get back to the point, in the current situation, because Zhang Jiang's soul could not be collected from the well, this also led to the death of the "water purification" step in the middle of the process, which my great-grandfather did not expect.

In this way, he could only burn Zhang Jiang's body with the prepared lamp oil, and then discuss with Cai Wenye to fill in the well and dig a new one.

A moment later, that's how it passed.

In the evening, the family members who burned Zhang Jiang's body came back and said that they had burned Zhang Jiang's body to black charcoal, and then dug a pit on the spot and buried it. Cai Wenye has handed over this matter to my great-grandfather with full authority to deal with, and it is my great-grandfather who has the final say on the silver or something, besides, the son-in-law is also half a son, and Cai Wenye has never treated my great-grandfather as an outsider.

When it was time for dinner, the old housekeeper Cai Zhang also came back, saying that he had found the little gardener's parents outside the city, and the little gardener's parents also agreed to marry the family, saying that they would go to the house the day after tomorrow to give a dowry.

This kind of marriage is actually similar to the marriage of a living person, there must be a yin medium to propose, and then the man's family comes to the woman's house to give a dowry, set the date, and then prepare a dowry and a series of trivial things. The only difference is that the day and hour of marriage between the yin person and the living person are just opposite, and they are generally chosen in the cloudy day, and the dowry and the like are all paper work, paper cars, paper horses, paper houses, paper gold and silver jewelry, etc., and so on