Mrs. Li's house really experienced a fight scene, the house was in a mess, furniture and sawdust were splashed all over the floor, and the kitchen cabinets were turning everywhere, as if someone had come to her house to look for something.

Under the leadership of the village chief of Li Village, the men of the village carried her into the coffin and carried her to the feng shui place I chose to bury her.

Although Mrs. Li has no relatives and no reason, there are many people who saw her off that day, and the old and young masters of the whole village went, after all, when Mrs. Li was alive, almost every family in the village had her kindness, so everyone thought she was a good person and should send her on the last journey. Maybe this is the good reward of a good man, although he has no children and no daughters, but he will not be wrapped in straw mats and violent corpses in the wilderness.

After taking care of Mrs. Li's funeral, I didn't leave immediately, although I was also worried about whether I would be okay, after all, Mrs. Li had such a thousand instructions before her death, but thinking that her old man had no children and no daughters, and no one cleaned her at the first seven o'clock, so I decided to stay, and I would leave after the first seven o'clock to sweep her night.

The first seven nights of the night sweep, this is a custom here here, in the first seven days of the night of the deceased, someone has to sweep the road along the funeral route of the deceased, referred to as sweeping the night. The reason for this custom is that it is said that the deceased passed away, but there were many attachments to the world and could not linger, so there was a Vajra holding iron chains, brooms, and wicker from the corner of the deceased's house in the middle of the night to sweep along the funeral route to the grave.

The children in our village all know that when someone dies in the village, the adults will tell the children to pay attention tonight and not to run out when they get up at night, because they are sweeping the night outside.

In fact, not only children, but also adults in the village are afraid to go out to see if there are night sweepers, because night sweepers must not be rushed. The first is that the night of sweeping the night is the first seven of the deceased, and the deceased will return to his soul that night, and secondly, it is not good for himself to collide with the night sweeping, and it is inevitable to be unlucky and evil. It is said that if you sprinkle ashes on the way to sweep the night, the person sweeping the night can see the footprints in front of you.

The first seven night sweeps are a custom handed down by the older generation, in fact, whether it is true that the dead will return to their souls that night, no one has seen it, not even the night sweepers. Of course, no one in the night sweeper will scatter stove ashes on the way to sweep the night, because no one dares to scatter it at all.

In fact, in addition to not letting the deceased wander around the world no longer in the first seven nights, there are other purposes, one is to sweep away the bad luck brought by the funeral, and the other is because the deceased is only the first seven, and it is still a new soul in the underworld, and they may be bullied by the old ghost when they return to the soul at night, so there is a night sweeper, the night sweeper is holding an iron chain, a broom, and wicker, just like the ghost in the underworld.

In the past, there would be a special night sweeper, which was a profession, and there were many ways to pay attention to it, but then there was no more before the liberation, because the income of people who did this business was low, and it was also an unlucky industry, so slowly no one was willing to do it.

Of course, if you ask me why I know so much about this business, in fact, in addition to the fact that I am a person in the yin and yang industry, I have been a night sweeper in the village for two or three years after my grandfather took me away!

At that time, after my grandfather was arrested, I was alone, and although the old branch secretary often helped me, I still had to earn some food on my own. At that time, no one in the ten miles and eight townships would be willing to do this kind of work except for a butcher in the town who would take on this kind of night sweeping work, and I naturally started this work by the way.

The requirements of the night sweeper are not so simple, in addition to people like me who are in the yin and yang industry, there are only two other kinds of people who can take this job, one is the butcher who kills pigs and sheep, this kind of person is full of anger, which can deter the lonely souls and wild ghosts around that night, and the other is the lonely and widowed person, that is, the eight-character iron hard, the life of the six relatives, this kind of person itself is extremely yang, and it is difficult for the general lonely soul and wild ghost to get close, but this kind of person is relatively rare in reality, and will not be willing to take this kind of work, or simply do not have the guts.

When I was a child, I worked as a night sweeper for two or three years, but at that time, maybe I was still young and didn't understand anything, and I just thought that I could get a red envelope and a few buckets of rice after sweeping the road, so I was more bold and didn't think much about anything. Of course, like the Zhang butcher in the town, it is different, he will pick and pick it up, for example, if people give him few benefits, he is reluctant, or the cemetery is far away, in a more evil place, then even if he gives more money, he will not do it.

Of course, it is said that Butcher Zhang was not picky before, but later I heard that he had seen ghosts when he was sweeping the night, so he was reluctant to do bad work after that, and only did the work near him. But I've been a night sweeper for two or three years, but I've never seen anything, and I don't know if any ghosts will come, and I don't want to know.

It is said that although the reform and opening up has been carried out now, we still have this custom of sweeping the night here, mainly because people are worried that their relatives often go home to make noise after death, so as long as there is a dead person, someone will be invited to sweep the night on the first seven nights.

This time, because it was Mrs. Li who died, she had no children and no daughters, so naturally no one would sweep her the first seven nights. Although the butcher Zhang in the town has been doing this kind of work all along, but Mrs. Li didn't give him money, where would he have the bodhisattva heart to do this kind of obligation?

In fact, I can also give Qian Zhang Butcher and ask him to sweep the night, but I thought about it, how can Mrs. Li say that she is also my master, and his first seven nights are naturally my personal come, and I came to think of this love of relatives and apprentices, although it is only a one-day master, but this head has also been knocked over, and naturally there is this name. Second, I also want to meet her when she is old in the first seven, and I want to ask what is going on, why did she die, and did someone come to take her life that night?

For the next few days, I hid at home and didn't go anywhere, because I didn't follow the instructions of Mrs. Li and Mrs. Chang to leave the village, so I was really worried about whether something would happen, so I didn't dare to show off everywhere. Fortunately, in the next few days, the village was very calm, and the matter of Li Village's Li Shenpo did not affect our Chen Village much, and the villagers of Chen Village were as usual, what should they do, and no outsiders entered the village.

The first seven days of Mrs. Li arrived soon, and in the evening I found out the chain that I used to sweep the night when I was a child, and I also made a bamboo broom during the day, broke a branch of wicker and brought it home, so I only waited for the middle of the night to go to Li Village to sweep the night for Mrs. Li.

The graves in the mountains are not very concentrated, they are all one in this place, one on that mountain, and they are also buried in old age. What we pay attention to is not how good the grave is, but how good the feng shui is selected.

Although Mrs. Li has no offspring, she doesn't need to pay attention to any feng shui treasures, and she will be rich and wealthy for her descendants, but it is still necessary to let her sleep comfortably and live at ease, so the feng shui I chose for her is not bad, and it is a place like Fengyangpo in the east of Li Village.

Fengyang Slope is five or six miles away from Li Village, and it is named because the terrain resembles a phoenix. Fengyang slope is a small dragon vein, the slope is not high, but the view is excellent, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, very good.

Fengyangpo is very famous in ten miles and eight townships, everyone knows that there is a small dragon vein there, so there are also many graves there, there are one hundred and eighty graves on a small hillside, there are old graves and new graves, and there are small dirt bags on a small hillside as far as the eye can see, and the grave of Li Shenpo stands in these dirt bags.

Without further ado, when I was almost there, I put on a coat and went out, carrying a black chain in my hand, and a broom and wicker on my shoulder, and hurried to the house of Mrs. Li in Li Village......

When I arrived at Li Village, it was almost twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, that is, it was time to sweep the night. Because I was not from Li Village, the dogs in the village saw me barking wildly and barked all the way to Mother Li's house.

When I came to the outside of Mrs. Li's house, I saw that the door was open, and it was dark inside, and I didn't know if she had come back tonight.

Looking overhead, a bright moon is in the sky, the moon is cold and the stars are scarce, but this kind of moonlight is very suitable for work, so as not to light up in the dark. Except for a few dog barks in the village, it is very quiet, every house is blind with black lights, doors and windows are closed, maybe you also know that tonight is the seventh night of Mrs. Li's soul!

At that moment, I said to Grandma Li's door: "Granny Li, the apprentice has come to sweep the night for you, please don't wander on the road anymore!" ”

After speaking, I tied one end of the iron chain to a bamboo broom, dragged the other end to the ground, held a broom in my right hand, held a wicker in my left hand, and sang to the village: "Sweep the night, Goddess Li is on the road, the living people avoid, and the ghosts can't stop it!" ”