Chapter Seventy-Two: The Night of the Burial

Some people just like to be cheap, and those who are cheap have to be unreasonable to clean up, what are the scoundrels most afraid of? What scoundrels are most afraid of is **! The fat man is not**, because** occasionally he is reasonable, the fat man has done all the murder and arson in the end, and he can't clean you up a rural girl?

Sure enough, this one is smoking, honest, all obediently honest! My cousin, who was still desperate before, covered her face and ran back to her parents' house, and my cousin, who was about to kill me, was also silent here. In the final analysis, we have to talk about evidence, my evidence and physical evidence can prove that I have nothing to do with these two dead people, and if you insist on pressing this matter on my head, then I am not a bully.

Being so troubled came to an end for the time being, I directly invited the old lady out, cleared my throat and said: "Since ancient times, I have paid attention to the prince of heaven and earth, the parents, and the head of the family, it is true that the white-haired person sends the black-haired person, but there is still our uncle and grandmother in this family." Although my cousin is dead, but the country can't be without a king for a day, the family can't be without an owner for a day, she is the oldest, her son died, and she endured the pain of losing her son to worry about the aftermath, this matter will listen to our old lady, she will do what she says! ”

The onlookers also know the family well, the old lady is usually the master of Amitabha Buddha at home, and she has never been a family at all after suffering for most of her life. You ask her if she has half a child in her pocket, this is to buy vegetables, invite people, incense and candles, which does not cost money. The family is in charge, but it also has to be hard. ”

"That's it!" The second family next to him also echoed.

I didn't even look at him, and said to the people outside: "Okay, this money, I gave it out for the old lady, don't leave anyone today, everyone in the New Year is afraid of bad luck." In this way, anyone who helps with the funeral will give a cigarette, two bottles of wine, an extra pair of liberation shoes and a towel. ”

"Yo, really?"

I bowed my head to the fat man and said a few words, he ran out as soon as he slipped away, and after a while he brought back the owner of the village commissary, I touched a wad of money from my pocket and handed it over: "Seriously, cash it out immediately, and go to the village commissary to let the boss send the goods to this courtyard, one is counted as one, and I will receive it here after finishing the work!" ”

At that time, most people had funerals and gave cigarettes, and politely added a towel. My price has been more than ten times that of ordinary people, and in those years of material scarcity, I believe that such conditions are attractive enough!

Sure enough, soon some people went to the steward's side to sign up: those who bought vegetables, washed vegetables, cooked, made graves, carried them, sent mourning letters, and did chores. A long list of lists was pasted on the wall at the gate, no one remembered whose house to go to to to pay New Year's greetings today, who cares, don't you just take a pound of sugar, what is it compared to this?

This time is considered hot, Cha Wenbin just opened a note, and asked people to buy back all the preparations that should be prepared and what should be bought, and there are a lot of seven, seven, eight, eight, eight. The fat man and I were also tasked with striking the gong, and I was responsible for hitting the cymbals, which were the ones that made a loud noise when they "snapped" one by one.

In the afternoon, I was very bored, so I dismantled the door panel of the gate, and lifted the dead body from the ** to the door panel, and there was a bench under the door panel. There is a special point in this: after death, people are not immediately buried, that is, they are immediately put into the coffin, but they have to live a day to make it red.

It means that you have to wait until the sun comes out the next day and then sets before you can put people in the coffin, and before that people have to put them on the door panel, and the door means to enter from one door to another, which means to enter the door of the underworld.

Cha Wenbin changed into a gown, and when he looked at it, he knew that it was not his, and eighty percent was left by his master, which was very loose. is different from the golden satin embroidered gossip clothes in the movie, it is a simple gown, blue-gray, there is no gossip map on the back, but there is a petal that looks like a lotus flower on the chest, but it looks very old.

Every half hour, he would recite the sutra around the dead corpse, just three times, from right to left. Every time I walked to the head of the corpse, I would pause, shake it on the head of the dead corpse with the bell to ward off evil spirits, and then dip a drop of water from the bowl into the position of the dead corpse's seal hall. The water used is rootless water, that is, water that is not falling to the ground on rainy days.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the steward killed a rooster, and a bowl of semi-congealed rooster blood was brought in. Cha Wenbin dipped his pen in red chicken blood and began to draw talismans, I have seen him use cinnabar, but it is the first time I have seen him use chicken blood. However, the talisman he drew was neither burned nor attached, but folded into a piece as big as dried tofu and stuffed into the chest of the dead body.

It's very serious to do things in that situation, I want to ask, but I haven't had a chance.

After stuffing, Cha Wenbin went into the next room to rest, and the two of us were temporarily liberated, and we ate tofu for dinner, which is a Chinese tradition, and this funeral wine is also called tofu rice, probably related to the fact that tofu is white.

After dinner, it was only six or seven o'clock, the women were asked by the steward to finish their work and all go home, and the children were also taken away by the old people early, and they naturally understood what they would do tonight, and there was a Taoist priest, which meant that there would be a big show tonight.

My cousin has been dead for three days, and according to the rules, he had to be buried today, so Cha Wenbin asked the craftsmen to make sure that the grave was done overnight, and it had to be sent to the grave mountain before tonight.

Funeral at night, this is the first time in the neighborhoods at that time, the funeral is generally early in the morning, who has to go out of the funeral at night? Then you have to ask Cha Wenbin!

Cha Wenbin leaned back on the Taishi's chair and said to me: "This person died uncleanly, and when he came out at night, it was called stealing the coffin, so that he thought that he was still at home and had not left." ”

I was a little panicked when I heard him: "What do you mean he didn't leave, isn't he already dead?" ”

He said indifferently: "I didn't leave, my soul is still there, I have been at home all afternoon in the afternoon, and I sat in front of the fat man." ”

The fat man jumped up and shouted, "Cha Ye, don't scare me, you're talking nonsense here." ”

"I didn't see it either." I said, "Don't listen to him, Cha Ye is teasing you." ”

"You can't see it." Cha Wenbin's words were beyond my expectations: "Your heavenly eye is closed, I don't know why, but it is slowly closing, the ghost during the day is very weakly affected by yang energy, and you may still be able to see it at night." ”

I subconsciously touched my eyelids, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Why is it closed? ”

"Hey, hey." Cha Wenbin smiled rarely, and then stared at me, I was a little embarrassed to see it.

"What's the fuss?" I asked.

"Come on, let me ask you, have you ever gone out and touched a woman?"

I glared and asked, "Does this also matter?" ”

Cha Wenbin nodded and said, "That's it, you have combined yin and yang, then the eyes of the sky will be slowly closed." Originally, people were born with these eyes, so babies could see those things and were easily frightened. But as you get older, the eye of the sky will be turned off, and you, who belong to the other, probably have always treated you as a baby. Now that you have become a man, then naturally Tianyan will be withdrawn, which may be a good thing for you. ”

After Cha Wenbin left, the fat man immediately asked me, "Damn, when did you do it?" ”

Me: "I once drank too much ...... in Dongguan"

At seven o'clock in the evening, the courtyard door was closed, and all those who were left behind were familiar faces, basically mainly from their own families and relatives, and then the four who were responsible for carrying the coffin, also known as the Four King Kongs.

The coffin was temporarily newly painted, dark red, with a strong smell of paint, originally this coffin was for the old lady, but now I don't want to let my son sleep first.

The corpse had been carried into the room and his brothers and sisters had been wiped off, and he had changed into a set of shrouds, put on shoushou shoes, and tied the trouser legs with hemp rope, because the muscles would relax after death, and if they were not tied tightly, the dirt in the anus would leak out and drip out.

At a quarter past eight o'clock, Cha Wenbin looked at the hour and motioned for the coffin to be put in place, and the clothes he wore before his death were not covered underneath, and there was a talisman in that set of clothes.

Cha Wenbin took a wooden comb in his hand and combed his hair three times before and after, then took seven pieces of bread and put them next to his pillow, took seven copper coins, stuffed three pieces into his mouth, and stuffed two pieces in his left and right hands.

He took a new wick and used seven strands of white wire twisted into it and lit it in an oil bowl, which was his lamp on Huangquan Road. Then he took a handful of grains mixed together, shook them around the wick and put them in the coffin, and then put a pair of chopsticks, a towel, and a stack of paper money on the back of his head, and a stack on his face.

At this time, Cha Wenbin shouted: "The relatives of dogs and snakes all avoid it, and the rest come to see the ancestors for the last time!" ”

"Ula" A woman's cry began again, I and the fat man stepped aside, I saw that my eldest aunt was back, her face seemed to be smeared with development, she cried the most fiercely, and there was no good word in her mouth: "Which curse you die, you must take him away, don't let him go......"

The fat man smiled and said, "What about you, Xiao Xia Ye." ”

Then my mouth is naturally hard: "Get out of the calf, if you have the ability, take me away!" I'm going to go down and I'm going to clean him up like that!" ”

"Bang", I don't know what happened, I smashed my butt to the ground, and a good bench actually fell apart......

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Good night