Chapter 12: The Dead Who Can't Be Sent Away
I watched Qingfeng Dao Chang sit in front of the computer desk, smoking one cigarette after another, and the heavy smoke spewed out of his mouth and drifted around his head, like a cloud of smoke, the smoke can dissipate, but the memories of people can never dissipate.
I looked at the painful expression on the face of Qingfeng Dao Chang, and my heart was not a taste for a while, some pain can be written on the face, and some pain can only be buried deep in the bottom of the heart, even if it is buried in the bottom of the heart, it can't stop it from taking root and growing into a flower that makes people break their hearts to tears.
Whenever it touches it, this heartbreak flower will be heartbreaking......
I believe that in the bottom of everyone's heart, there will be such a flower.
Standing in the room, I didn't speak to anyone who was Qingfeng Dao, and since I was a child, I was not a person who could comfort others, so I had to be silent with him.
Qingfeng Dao was smoking cigarettes one after another, and I don't know how long it had been, when suddenly there was a sharp knock on the door outside the house.
After hearing the knock on the door, Qingfeng Dao Chang hurriedly sorted out his feelings, put his clothes on and said to me:
"There's business coming, you go open the door to pick up customers, and I'll wash my face."
"Business? What business? I asked curiously.
"Don't ask so much yet, go and open the door first." Qingfeng Dao said and went into the back room and washed his face.
Seeing this, I didn't ask much, ran out of the house, opened the door of the Taoist temple, and saw a middle-aged couple standing outside the door with anxious faces.
"Little brother, is your Contemplator Qingfeng Dao here?"
"Here, what's the matter with the two of you looking for my master?" I asked.
When the middle-aged woman heard me, she took me by the arm, stared at me with pleading eyes, and said:
"Little brother, you can help us and take us to meet your master, something is wrong in our family!!"
As soon as I heard this woman's words, and was about to tell them to wait here, I went to call my master, when the footsteps of the Qingfeng Dao Master came from behind me.
The woman's eyes were sharp, and she saw the Qingfeng Dao Leader from afar, and shouted from me:
"Dao Chief, something has happened to our family! Help me!! ”
Qingfeng Dao Chang had already walked to the door of the Taoist Temple at this time, looked at the two people outside the door and asked:
"What's wrong? Don't look for someone in a hurry, give the incense money first, and then talk slowly. ”
"I ...... My father-in-law and his old man refused to leave at home...... "At this time, the woman looked at Qingfeng Dao and said with an ugly face.
As soon as I heard this, the woman said this, and my heart despised her, "How can anyone drive his father-in-law away?" And it's so blatant, her father-in-law doesn't leave and comes to find a Taoist priest, which door is this?
When Qingfeng Dao heard this, he asked:
"How long has it been since your old man died?"
"It's been seven days." The man replied before the woman.
"Why don't you leave?" Qingfeng Dao Leader then asked.
"This ...... This ......" After the man listened to the words of the Qingfeng Dao Chief, he was speechless, and then the woman interjected:
"The old man in our family is a life that drags people down, and he wants to drag us down if he doesn't die, where is he willing to go? Dao Chief, hurry up and take action against us, if it goes on like this, the child will be frightened. ”
After listening to the woman's words, Qingfeng Dao Chief snorted coldly:
"Humph! Sling the bull! There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, how can it drag people down?! ”
When the woman heard what Qingfeng Dao said, she lowered her head and stopped talking, but she couldn't stop muttering something in her mouth.
"Dao Chief, no matter what, you go to my house first, my old father has been dead for so long and refuses to leave, now the people in the village have spread the word, there is everything to say, I don't know where to put this face, as long as you can help me send my father away, let his old man be buried in peace, how much money is fine!" The man spoke.
I obviously saw that when the Qingfeng Dao Chief heard the man say "as much as you want", his eyes flashed, and he looked at the man and said:
"For many years, the main path of this meditation has always been to help the people of the world and maintain the peace of the yin and yang worlds. I'll follow you to take a look, but we have to negotiate this money in advance, how much do you give? It's not about money, but it's not about it. ”
"That's all easy to say, you make an offer." The man looked at Qingfeng Dao Leader and said.
"I'll give you a twenty-percent discount, two thousand." Qingfeng Dao Leader stretched out two fingers.
When the man heard this, he gritted his teeth and said:
"Okay!"
"Do you want to get a membership card? There is a membership card and it will be cheaper next time. Qingfeng Dao Leader asked the words that made the two of them look black.
I hope people are a little better!
In this way, I, the unreliable master, Qingfeng Dao Chang, and I took our baggage, locked the gate, got into the tricycle of those two people, and rushed all the way to their home.
On the tricycle, I kept thinking about the man's words, this living person can't be sent away, but it's easy to explain, maybe the old family doesn't want to go. But why can't this dead man be sent away? People are already dead, can they still sit up and say I don't want to go?
The more I thought about it, the more I didn't understand, and I always wanted to ask the head of Qingfeng Road in the car, what did it mean that this dead man could not be sent away, but the noise of the tricycle was too loud, so I put up with it, and it was not too late to ask again when I thought of the place.
It was a bumpy ride, and although I took a detour, I also recognized this village as the one I went to last night with the ghost fire.
Entering the village, I first looked towards the house where the ghost fire and the owl came to find last night, and sure enough, at this moment, there is a white cloth hanging in front of the door of the family, and the people who enter and leave this yard are also wearing linen and filial piety, it seems that the Qingfeng Daoist said right, last night was indeed a ghost asking for his life, and his family died!
After passing by the house, the tricycle drove towards the middle of the village, and when I arrived at the house of the couple who drove the tricycle, they parked the tricycle in front of the house, and I followed the chief of the breeze to get off the back of the tricycle and follow them into the yard.
As soon as I entered the courtyard, I found a large number of people standing in the courtyard of their house, and there was a big red coffin in the middle of the crowd.
Seeing this scene, I really obeyed this family, and I was not too panicked to make such a coffin.
I whispered to the Qingfeng Dao Leader beside me:
"I said, Master, what's the matter with this dead man not being able to send him away?"
Qingfeng Dao Chang smiled at me and said:
"You'll understand everything tonight."
I followed the breeze chief around the crowd in the courtyard and the big red coffin, and walked straight into the house, only to find that there was a large table in the center of the house, on which a table full of chicken, duck and fish was placed.
As soon as he entered the room, he sat down at the table, and then beckoned to me:
"Come on, let's eat first, and then we have the strength to work at night when we are full."
I walked over and looked at the breeze chief and said:
"Master, let's ...... That's a bit of a story, is it? No one else ate it. ”
Qingfeng Dao Chang glanced at me and said:
"What's wrong with that? This is for the two of us, you can eat it with confidence. Qingfeng Dao Chang said and picked up the chopsticks and ate to himself.
"Apprentice, you taste, this chicken stew is good!" Qingfeng said to me as he ate.
Seeing his ** appearance, I felt a burst of contempt in my heart, how can this be a little bit of a Taoist priest?!
I like it, though! At this moment, I also picked up a pair of chopsticks and sat down to eat.
"Master, this fish is not bad......
"Chicken feet, chicken feet, ......"
During the meal, I learned from the mouth of the Qingfeng Dao Chief, whether this village invites a Taoist priest or a goddess, there is a rule, when you come, you must first invite you to eat, you can't eat it!
After eating, the man who invited us from earlier walked in from the courtyard, looked at Qingfeng Dao and asked:
"Dao Chief, do you think we are sending my father away during the day, or at night?"
"Before sunset this afternoon." Qingfeng Dao Chang touched his greasy mouth and said.
"Okay, then I'll go out and talk to them." With that, the man hurried out of the room.
"I'll go to the house and sleep first, you can walk around by yourself, and show me the bag, don't lose it." With that, the head of the Qingfeng Road went to the back room.
At this time, I was left alone in the whole outhouse, I sat at the table, bored looking around the room, and accidentally saw a black and white photo of the old man hanging in the room, I looked at it, and my heart was a little worried, because the old man in this photo also stared at me with a pair of cold eyes!
That scared the hell out of me! It was at this time that the old man in the posthumous photo actually smiled at me, the smile was stiff and weird, I had never seen other people's photos since I was a child, and there were no rules, but I didn't know that the dead man's posthumous photos must not be stared at all the time.
"Zuo Thirteen, why are you here?" A girl's voice came to my ears, and I hurriedly looked back, only to see that it was one of my classmates, Fang Ziyan, who walked in from outside the courtyard.
"Fang Ziyan? Why are you here? I looked at her and asked curiously, she is my classmate, she studies well, she is also beautiful, she is the class flower of our class, and she rarely talks to other male classmates in addition to studying in school, so we just know each other, and we are not familiar.
"My family is from this village, I came with my father, and I happened to see you in the yard, so I came in to say hello." Fang Ziyan looked at me and said with a smile.
I listened to Fang Ziyan's words, and looked at the old man's last photo again with the corner of my eye, and found that the last photo had been restored to normal, and the stiff smile on the old man's face was gone.
"Hey, you haven't told me yet, why did you come to our village? Do you have any relatives in Uncle Fang Wei's family? Fang Ziyan looked at me and asked.
"I ......" At this time, I didn't know how to answer her, and told her that I and my Taoist master came to engage in "feudal superstition"?
Forget it, let's be honest, she loves to think about it.
"I'm here with my master to see him off." As I spoke, I pointed to the black-and-white posthumous photograph hanging in the room.
Who knew that my move startled Fang Ziyan, she hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed my hand, and said to me:
"Zuo Thirteen, this dead man's posthumous photo can't be pointed indiscriminately!"