For a long time, the Chinese believed that man has a soul.

At the beginning of life, seven days are wax, and one wax is formed, so life is forty-nine days and seven spirits; Death is taboo for seven days, and one taboo is scattered, so people die for forty-nine days and seven are scattered, and the meaning of doing seven is to sacrifice the dead. In addition, if the heavens use the two qi of yin and yang and the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth to give birth to all things, it is called the "seven politics", and people have yin and yang, five constants and have "seven feelings", so the way of heaven is only seven, and the qi of man is also only seven.

There is basically a tradition of "doing seven" in various places, but it is different in various places, in our northwest of Zhejiang, the first seven, the third seven, the fifth seven and the last seven are more important. Among them, the first seven and the last seven are the most important, and the first seven and the last seven are also called "big seven", and large families attach great importance to these two days. The first seven are generally done by daughters, and those who do not have daughters are replaced by nieces or nieces; In addition to the priests, the last seven are required to invite the "King Kong" who is responsible for carrying the coffin on the day of the funeral as the guest of honor, and the generous people also have to give money and things to show their gratitude.

The daughter of the old Yu family has already done the first seven, and this last seven is mainly done by this group of sons.

During the day, Cha Wenbin was led by one of his sons to the cemetery first, and the simple pile of newly piled graves was sparsely floated with wreaths and paper money that had not been completely destroyed, and even a tombstone was useless. He believes that in less than three years, this place will be an abandoned grave overgrown with weeds. There is no particular attention to the location, this was originally Lao Yu's own contracted mountain, that is, he found a random place and buried it, and not far from it is his wife's grave. Cha Wenbin calculated, Lao Yu will not be able to move the grave this year, he is thinking about finding a good day to bury Lao Yu and his wife in another three years.

That night was the main event, the things left in front of Lao Yu were basically burned on the day of the funeral, and the only knife was still in the hands of the second son, and he took it back and said that he wanted to chop wood.

If you are a bystander, no one will come to join in the fun, this kind of thing is generally regarded as bad luck, because Cha Wenbin is here, he has not shown up for a long time, so there are many people who come to see the excitement.

The newly built bamboo and wood processing factory is a collective industry in the village, and Cha Wenbin said that he wanted to use this factory, and the factory was stopped immediately when it was halfway through. The whole three Eight Immortal Tables are put together, and the tributes placed on them are almost piled up into a hill, with vegetables, melons and fruits, chickens, ducks, and fish.

People who die without seeing the purpose of either having a wish that has not been fulfilled, or they are resentful of the gods, and those who die of resentment will have anger, and the weight of the old remnant's anger has begun to trouble. No matter how good a person is in life, he may become a ghost after death, and people have good and evil, and those who suppress evil are good people; But after death, there is no subjective consciousness, and the resentment will be infinitely magnified, once it is not exceeded in time, no matter how honest a person is, he will turn into a ghost, so whether it is a person or a worker, you must not bully others.

The Yu family's old house was originally relatively remote, and after the incandescent lamp with high wattage used for construction on the construction site was extinguished, there was only paper money burning in the brazier in front of the table. The three brothers of the Yu family have made a lot of money today, and the paper money they bought is all picked up with a flat pole, and it looks like a hill when piled on the side. In front of the table is the posthumous photo, Lao Yu's eyes do look a little big, and there is a little bit of infiltration at night.

And what about Cha Wenbin? Make a small stool and sit on the side, and there is a knife in his hand, which is the same one that Lao Yu used to be in his life. There is a broken small bamboo on his leg, and he is cutting the bamboo strips at this time, which he learned from Lao Yu. He divided the sliced strips into small strips, interspersed and folded them a few times to become the skeleton of the lantern, and after finishing it, he dipped it in white paper and pasted it outside, carried it with a small bamboo pole, and put a candle inside, and the lantern was ready.

Each lantern has a large character written on it, and on one side is the word "Yu"; On one side is the word "lay".

The three sons and their daughter-in-law had been kneeling on the ground and kowtowing and burning paper, and their legs were already numb, if it weren't for the fierce gods and evil lords standing behind them, they would have wanted to walk a long time ago. At the moment of the third watch, Cha Wenbin got up slowly this time and said, "The woman's family can stand up." ”

People have been kneeling for a long time, and they really can't stand up all of a sudden, the three daughters-in-law are crying bitterly and rubbing their knees, Cha Wenbin gives each of them a lantern and says: "You can go home first, starting with the old family, hang the lantern at the gate first, and the remaining two will wait at the door." When you enter the house, shout first: Dad, come in and sit down for a while and have a cup of tea. Then, the pillar of incense was lit and placed on the shrine of the hall, and the light was not allowed to be turned on, and the incense was extinguished before being sent out of the door, and then the daughter-in-law of the second family continued to take the lantern to her own house, according to the practice of the eldest daughter-in-law, and finally the third family. ”

The second daughter-in-law belongs to the type of big mouth, she carried the lantern and whispered: "Cha Daoist, don't you want to be so scary, okay, will my father really go?" ”

"Go or not, get up tomorrow morning and see by yourself, your men won't go back tonight, they have to stay here, after sending them out, the women can go back to their rooms to rest, no matter what movement they hear outside, don't come out." He glanced at the eldest daughter-in-law who looked indifferent and said, "Don't encounter any dirty things!" ”

After all, this woman's courage is still small, and when he choked on it, the faces of the three daughters-in-law turned white. The one of the third family immediately began to do it, lifted the collar of the husband who was kneeling on the ground, and shouted: "Kneeling here and burning paper for him all night is already giving him a face, who is he scared by staring at him with such big eyes!" Will you come with me? If you really dare to squat here for a night at night, don't come back to me tomorrow morning, wait to go back and collect the body! ”

Lao Yu's youngest son used to study a little and taught in the village-run primary school, but since he married this mother-in-law, he was instigated day and night to fight with the two brothers for family property. Before his death, Lao Yu's favorite was this little son, I don't know if he still had a little conscience at this time or was trained by his wife to be watched, he stood up and rushed to Cha Wenbin's side, without warning, he picked up a knife and put it on his mother-in-law's neck, and scolded fiercely: "If you dare to say a word again, I will let you lie down now!" ”

His daughter-in-law was dumbfounded at the time, since she got married, this man has been obedient to herself, and she usually doesn't even dare to let a fart go around, why is she suddenly so ruthless. Fortunately, Chaozi and Zhuo Xiong snatched the knife, and the three daughters-in-law who were scared stupid were also hurriedly pulled away by the two sisters-in-law.

The people who watch the excitement are never idle, and some of them instigated the third child to go back and clean up his mother-in-law, said that his grandfather also had them, and some said that he would wait for the punishment to kneel when he went back tomorrow. Only Cha Wenbin, he saw that although the words of the third child were very fierce just now, but his eyes were sloppy, there was no light, and at the moment when he knelt down to burn the paper again, Cha Wenbin saw a figure flashing by the brazier, and followed the women with lanterns.

Each of the three families prepared a separate table of wine and food in advance, seven dishes, two bowls of rice, three glasses of wine, and a raw egg on the rice. This table of rice has a doorway, called "three more rice", also called "back to the door meal".

Erqi is usually the night of returning to the soul, saying that the ghost who died on this day will be escorted home by Yincha, mainly to bring him back to see what other wishes are still unfulfilled. But on the last day, the last day, it is said that if the children are filial enough, they can call the ghost back again. At the third watch of this day, the children opened the gate and shouted three times in a row to the west: "Come back!" Then he wept bitterly in front of the spirit, and at the same time served the wine and food prepared in advance, and set up a memorial sacrifice, which was called the "three-watch night meal".

When the old man arrived, the eldest daughter-in-law put the lantern on her door and then went into the house, and she thought to herself: Before his death, the old man saw himself like a mouse saw a cat, and even if I opened the door today, you still dare not come to my house to eat and drink.

When she reached the door of the inner room, the woman turned her fat ass and shouted in her broken trumpet-like voice to the west, "Daddy! Come back! She yelled loudly enough that even the people in the dojo could hear it really, and she did it on purpose, just to let people know that she did it, in order to gag others.

The daughter-in-law of the second family stabbed the daughter-in-law of the third family, who was still sobbing, and said, "Brother and sister, I just saw the lantern flashing. ”

The woman immediately stopped sobbing, looked around and said, "Don't scare me! ”

Indeed, the light from the lantern in their hands was yellow, while the light from the lantern hanging in front of the old man's house was green, and the flame was much smaller and very dim.

At this moment, the old family's mother-in-law was trying to wipe the match and light the incense, but I don't know if the match was damp or she was nervous, so she wiped three or four sticks in a row and didn't light it, she muttered: "Hell, ......" Soon, her words were reported by the world......