Chapter 208: Bone Corpse
When Lin Kai called me, I still didn't believe it, who would be so immoral as to dig up an old lady's grave and steal the body?
But when I walked to Granny Lin's original grave to take a look, I found that there are such immoral people in this world, Granny Lin's grave was not only dug up, but even the coffin board was torn apart and scattered all over the place, but the body was gone.
As soon as I saw such a scene, the boundless anger in my heart soared, I was angry and angry, my fists clenched and gurgling, this is definitely something I can't tolerate, it's my untouchable scales, Granny Lin is my savior, digging up her old man's body from the grave, isn't this just a slap in my face Wu Jiuyin?
Seeing the dirt turned aside and the coffin boards scattered all over the ground, I almost cried out in anger, and took several deep breaths to calm down a little.
Damn, who did this! If I had known, I would have beaten his own mother and wouldn't have recognized who he was!
With staggering steps, little by little, I walked towards Granny Lin's messy grave.
I just listened to the few people standing on the grave, and what you said and what I said.
An old man in his fifties said angrily: "What do you say is a king and a lamb who is so lacking in virtue, what are you doing by digging up a dead man in a good manner......
Another old man also said: "Yes, the old Lin family has always been lonely in our Nanluoling Village, and there are no family elders, there is a baby working in the city, this Lin Pozi has always been a widow, and now she is dead, and she can't live in peace, the body was dug up, and I don't know where to take it, the village chief will give you an idea, what do you think about this matter?" ”
An old man in his sixties, holding a dry tobacco pot, squatted on the grave of Granny Lin and smoked, and was silent for a while before he said: "Widow Lin's matter, I have already called his baby, and I should be able to arrive in the next two days. ”
The old man in his fifties sighed and said, "Village chief, who do you say did this?" ”
The village chief took a deep breath of cigarette and said: "I think it may be the hands of those beasts in Xiliwa, I have long heard that the two brothers surnamed Huang are not doing business, they often dig up corpses and sell them to others for Yin marriage, what they do is this lack of virtue and smoke, a dead person can sell at least several thousand in their hands, and when it is expensive, it can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan, this matter, it is very likely that the brothers did it......"
But the old man in his fifties shook his head and said with some uncertainty: "I also know a little bit about the marriage of the yin, but the bodies of some big girls and little daughters-in-law are usually dug up in the grave, and Mrs. Lin is already in her sixties, who is willing to ask her corpse to be married to the yin?" ”
"It's hard to say, if you can't sell it for a good price, then at least it can sell for a few hundred or thousand, right? Now that most people have died and been cremated, it is also very sought-after to have a corpse, and the two brothers surnamed Huang may have been short of money to spend recently...... It's not surprising to do such a lack of morality......," said the village chief.
Hearing this, I didn't lean towards Granny Lin's grave again, and I didn't dare to look at that miserable appearance, for fear that I wouldn't be able to accept it.
However, from the words of several old people, I got a very useful information, that is, Granny Lin's body may have been stolen by two brothers surnamed Huang from Xiliwa, and their purpose was to match people with yin marriage.
The bad habit of yin marriage has existed since before the Han Dynasty, because yin marriage consumes manpower and material resources in society, and is meaningless, it was once banned, but this kind of atmosphere has never been completely eradicated, and even some are directly manifested in the rulers. For example, Cao Cao, his favorite youngest son, Cao Chong, died at the age of thirteen, so Cao Cao hired the deceased Miss Zhen as Cao Chong's wife and buried them together.
During the Song Dynasty, yin marriage was the most popular. According to Kang Yuzhi's records, when an unmarried man or woman dies, his parents must ask a "ghost matchmaker" to say goodbye, and then carry out divination.
If a child dies without a wife, he may ask for a burial of his deceased daughter.
In the Qing Dynasty, this custom of women's burial was still very popular with the strengthening of the concept of chastity. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that feudal etiquette and religion gradually disappeared under the impact of Western spiritual civilization.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were still remnants of the custom of yin marriage in Beijing, and there were still "happy events" in which individual families held the marriage of the dead and the dead, which was called "building a bone corpse", and the in-laws of the male and female families were called "bone corpse relatives".
In the early years, this kind of "wedding" wedding ceremony was mostly held at night, sometimes, when people were sleeping, they suddenly heard the sound of drum music in the streets and alleys, that is, "building a bone corpse", or using a paper sedan chair, by a single drum, a single number, a single suona to play the front lead, there are also eight sedan chairs.
It's just that now, this custom of "building bones and corpses" has been completely banned, and this situation is becoming less and less, but it has not been completely eradicated, and this situation occasionally occurs in small mountain villages like ours.
However, the ceremony is not so cumbersome, after the two families discuss, they will bury the unmarried men and women together, and the yin marriage will be completed.
However, with the development of the times and the progress of medicine, it is rare for people to die very early, most of them are old bachelors, who did not marry a daughter-in-law when they were alive, and the brothers and sisters of the old bachelors will find a way for him to help him get a yin marriage, so that he can also have someone to accompany him under Jiuquan.
In this case, a trade was born, that is, thieves who steal corpses.
In our region, in most rural areas, when a person who has not been married dies, he cannot be cremated, and the body is buried in a coffin.
Therefore, once the thieves who stole the corpse heard of this kind of news, they waited for the corpse to be buried, and in the middle of the night, they secretly came to dig the grave, stole the corpse, and then sold it at a high price to the families of those old bachelors who had never been married and died, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, for huge profits.
I've heard of this from time to time, but I've never seen it.
This time, when I heard the old village chief of Nanluoling Village say this, the evil fire in my heart rose, and the bullying people were bullied to my benefactor.
If it was true that the two boys surnamed Huang stole Granny Lin's corpse and "built a bone corpse", I must abolish these two boys!