Chapter 3: Red and White Things
Lao Li recently liked his noble son, but he made the old landlord in his fifties very happy. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info his wife had already given birth to two children for him in the early years, but they were both daughters, Lao Li was unwilling, and asked God to worship Buddha for many years, very religious. I don't know if his sincerity touched the heavens, this time his wife really gave birth to a boy.
The continuation of the Li family's incense and the inheritance of the family's foundation are simply a great joy for Lao Li. However, before the festive momentum had passed, joy and sorrow had passed.
Lao Li's mother got up the night before yesterday and hanged herself in the toilet. It is said that when Mrs. Li died, the whole person was half-kneeling, with her feet on the ground. The hanging white silk was above the pit. Mrs. Li's death is very puzzling. I don't know what the old lady can't figure out, so she got up at night and hanged herself above the pit. It is said that when Lao Li saw the tragic situation of his mother's death, he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, and the two big men only helped him up with the strength of breastfeeding.
The day of burial is generally the third day after death, according to local customs and traditions. Lao Li invited the third uncle, but when the third uncle arrived at Lao Li's house, after hearing the whole thing, he took a look at the time and said: "Your mother's burial may affect the descendants of the Li family." ”
Lao Li heard this and hurriedly asked the reason.
According to the third uncle, Lao Li is in his fifties today, and it stands to reason that he should be past the age of being able to give birth to a baby, not to mention the bed, even if his body is good, the sperm in this body cannot meet the requirements for his wife to conceive. But the reason why his wife was able to conceive and give birth to a boy again was either a green grassland on Lao Li's head, or she had a great relationship with Mrs. Li.
Mrs. Li saw that the incense of the Li family was about to be broken, and at that time, the rural people thought of traditional feudalism and paid attention to the succession of the ancestors, and it was a big deal if the incense was broken. For this reason, Mrs. Li went to worship the evil ghosts, and promised to exchange her life life for the continuation of the Li family's incense, so Lao Li's wife was pregnant with a boy.
When the third uncle said this, he said Lao Li in a cold sweat. It turned out that Lao Li had also heard about this matter, and he had heard his mother talk about it, but at that time, he thought that the old man wanted his grandson to think of what he said in a daze, so he didn't think so. What did you expect to happen now?
The third uncle said: "If Old Madam Li dies normally, then the bull head and horse face will take away her soul, and that's it!" Now that her soul has been taken away by that evil spirit, she will inevitably be tortured and unrestful, and after this burial, no matter where she is buried, the impact on this future generations must not be underestimated. ”
Lao Li heard this, and hurriedly said: "Third uncle, what do you think should be done now?" ”
The third uncle slapped his thigh and said, "I can't help it!" That evil ghost is profound, I just said the next hour, that evil ghost is a person who was wrongfully exiled here during the Ming Dynasty and died, and I can't help it at all with my self-cultivation. ”
Originally, this matter is not without a solution, just invite the people of the Taoist family, it must be able to subdue demons and eliminate demons, but this village is far away from the village of the Taoist family, and there are many mountain roads in the middle.
Lao Li was already in a hurry at this time.
At this time, I saw the third uncle shouting, "That's right!" ”
The sentence "yes" startled Lao Li: "What's wrong?" ”
The third uncle said fairly: "We can't invite people from the Taoist family, but isn't there still a capable person in our village?" ”
When the third uncle said this, Lao Li remembered it, but he frowned again in an instant, and said: "That guy is learning the art of life, and he has a hand of karma, can he solve this matter?" ”
The third uncle took a deep breath and said, "It should be possible!" Don't worry about it, let Ah Hei invite him tomorrow morning, he is learning the art of life, he is familiar with divination and prediction Feng Shui, Mrs. Li is buried, he can't do without these things, maybe he has a way. ”
Lao Li nodded when he heard this, and asked Ah Hei to invite Li Ziping early the next morning.
When Li Ziping and Ah Hei came to Li's house, it was already nine o'clock in the morning. The Li family just finished setting off firecrackers, which made people blow suona to welcome guests.
This is a village custom that stipulates that whenever a person dies, a string of firecrackers must be set off the next morning, similar to notifying the neighbors that someone has died in their home. The village is not big, every family is familiar with each other, once someone dies, the next day the neighbors will come to a pillar of incense. And the owner of the family generally at this time, he will also invite a few people to play suona music and play a piece of mourning music. Of course, these are the rules in this village. There are many villages in Hainan that are not like this, some villages feel that the dead are the top priority, and everyone who knows each other should go to send a ride and put on a pillar of incense, so the people who come on the day of the burial and the first seven days are the most. But there are also some villages with different customs, thinking that the dead person is unlucky, and if a family dies, in addition to relatives and friends who have made friends who have passed away, the neighbors and villagers will stay away from it, and even the neighbors next door will close their doors. And this village belongs to the first situation.
Although the Li family can be regarded as the landlord of the village, in this kind of poor and remote place, even the richest man in the village actually has little money, but it is more decent in comparison. The Li family is a three-room tiled house that is connected. At that time, in Hainan can afford to live in the tile house can be regarded as a rich person, ordinary people live in a house made of wood, a rainy day, the house built of wood will inevitably leak rain, but the tile house will not, the tiles are connected with a cement sticky, very strong, rainy days will not leak rain at all, and the process of tile manufacturing is naturally much more complicated. Therefore, those who could afford to buy tiles to build houses in those years were rich people.
Outside the three tiled houses, there is a courtyard surrounded by a fence, the fence is two meters high, leaving a mouth to make a wooden door, the wooden door is open on weekdays, and the wooden door is closed after night. I planted some vegetables in the yard and raised some pigs. At that time, ordinary people raised a few chickens, ducks and geese at most, and when they ate on weekdays, if there was an egg on the table, it was considered to be open, and it was possible to kill a chicken to eat during the New Year's holidays. And the Li family raised pigs, big fat black pigs, and several, raised for a year or two, slaughtered a head and sold it in the market How much money can be made, at that time pork was six cents a catty, and a pig was hundreds of catties. Pigs can give birth to cubs, and several in one litter. Think about it, can this Li family not be a big family in the village? According to the situation of that year, the Li family was at least 10,000 yuan.
Now, something like this has happened in the Li family, when Li Ziping and Ah Hei came, the courtyard was already full of people, and the neighbors were sitting and chatting in the courtyard after they went into the house and burned incense. There are three people playing mourning music at the door, two suona and one gong. Anyone who is related to the Li family must tie a white cloth on their heads, and their immediate relatives need to wear white filial piety clothes, while the sons and daughters-in-law of Mrs. Li must wear clothes woven of hemp rope in addition to wearing white filial piety clothes. Anyway, this is the rule of the village. In this way, when the person who came to burn the incense entered the door, he could recognize at a glance in the crowd who was the relative of the family and who was the son of the deceased.
Ah Hei arrived at the door, bowed sideways, waved his hand, smiled at Li Ziping, and said, "Please." ”