Chapter 3 Burial (II)
They all looked at me with expressions of surprise and confusion. Yaxiao's mother asked me, "What's wrong with you!" ”。
I immediately said, "Cover her face!" ”。
Then I turned my back, closed my eyes and frowned. Old Man Zhou might have been afraid that I would be shocked, so he pulled me into the back room and said to me, "What's wrong with you!" Don't you understand this thing, who will bear the corpse if you want to startle the corpse? ”
I lit a cigarette and took a puff, and then said quietly: "If you don't enter the coffin, there is no corpse, if you enter the coffin, prevent the corpse, the only movement of the corpse, the corpse is a gas, a move, a breath!" Rest assured, it's okay. ”
Listening to what I said, Old Man Zhou calmed down his emotions and said to me again: "Then what are you shouting?" ”。
"I was taken aback!" I say. "The person who was half-lying on the ice coffin just now, why is it the girl who brought me into the house in the morning?" I asked.
Mr. Zhou looked at me, "The two girls in my family are twins!" I said, "Twins!" Really? Old Man Zhou nodded. I was startled when I said it, I thought I had hit something!
Then I said: "Old man Zhou, don't let Yaxiao go to the funeral and funeral, your family is not afraid of scaring people, I am afraid, it looks too similar!" ”。
Old Man Zhou said: "I don't bother you to worry about it, let's bury it first!" ”。 After making things clear, I am not so scared when I look at Zhou Yaxiao.
Next, after the shroud was changed, he spread the golden longevity slip (something similar to a bed sheet) on the wooden bed next to him, which I heard Uncle Nine say, this is called "paving gold".
After the coffin owner is brought down from the ice coffin, and then lifted to the golden longevity list, and the coffin owner is laid on his side, the silver longevity quilt with green clouds and moon birds is rusted on the cover, which is called "covering silver".
However, after death, the face should be covered with a white cloth immediately, and it can only be removed when the "silver" is covered, which is why when I saw the face of the coffin owner, I quickly asked them to cover their faces.
Then in the hands of the female coffin owner, put a steamed bun, which is called "dog food", in order to bribe the vicious things on the Huangquan Road. Then it's time for me to make a move.
In fact, when it comes to burials, most of them are for husband and wife, but there are very few mothers and children who are buried together, and there are only one or two in history. As for the mother and baby and the burial, it is just a red rope used. I called for a red rope, and then I washed my hands and lifted a corner of the "silver quilt".
put the coffin owner's little baby wrapped in red cloth in the coffin owner's arms. After soaking the red rope in milk, one end was tied to the wrist of the coffin owner, and the other end was tied to the poor little baby.
In the sentence "Mother and son are connected, go all the way together, don't blame Xiaosheng, reincarnation in the past." "Yes, but don't say it out loud, but say it in your heart, for it's for the ears of those who are going to die."
After doing this, I said to Mr. Zhou: "You can be buried!" Old Man Zhou nodded, and then informed the people outside that he was ready to be buried.
Then outside the house, there was a crackling sound of firecrackers, and a few elderly people came into the house, and they said loudly: "Kailing, burial, mother hugging head, dad hugging feet, brothers and sisters hugging waist!" Walk. ”
Before the words fell, the Zhou family cried, picked up the coffin owner and dragged the little baby, and walked in the direction of the spiritual shed. When he came to the coffin, an old man threw a few copper coins into the coffin and said: "The copper coins open the way, and the Yin family treats them well", and then swept the side of the coffin with a wicker, and then said: "Sweep away the dust, dust off the dust, and cross the customs safely!" ”。 After the coffin owner is buried, the coffin lid is not closed first, in order to let the relatives take a last look.
After the prostration, the coffin can be nailed. However, due to different places, the customs will naturally be different, some people put three days after death, some put five days, and some put seven days, and the way of burial and funeral is also very different. After the coffin was closed, a "millennium jar (dead man's piggy bank)" was placed on top of the coffin, and a few colorful flowers were placed around it. Then, in front of the coffin, an offering table was placed, on which was placed the "portrait" of the coffin owner, and some pastries and fruits were placed as tributes, and a bowl of raw rice was brought in, and a few pillars of incense were lit and inserted on it, and two sticks of white wax were placed on both sides. After the Zhou family cried and mourned a few more times, the burial was over.
I looked around but didn't find his waist, I didn't know where he had gone, so I asked the person next to me, and said, "Hello, fellow, let me ask, did you just see a fat man wearing a white vest, black pants, and a hat!" He shook his head, meaning he hadn't seen it.
I said in my heart that everyone came to see the excitement here, and if this waist doesn't come here, where else can I go! Suddenly, a little boy eating sugar gourds came out of the crowd and said, "I know, I know, he went with us to buy sugar gourds, and someone told him to go there!" The little boy pointed to the courtyard of the Zhou family.
I touched his head and said, "Thank you, kid." "Then I went to Zhou's house to find my waist. I found a few places where my waist was not there, and finally I found him in the kitchen, squatting in the kitchen with a bowl of food and stuffing it into his mouth.
I patted him on the shoulder: "Waist, waist, why did you run here?" Why are you still eating it! ”。
The waist turned around and said to me with a greasy mouth: "Xian'er, where did you go just now, I didn't find you for a long time, I didn't meet an acquaintance, the cook invited here was from our former school cafeteria, our relationship is not bad, I see that he can't be busy alone, so I came in to help!" ”。
I said, "Alright, alright, you can eat quickly!" Come to me after eating, wait for you in the car, I'll go to the checkout first! ”。 With that, I left the kitchen.
At this time, the waist was still shouting at me, and he said, "Oh! Xian'er, I left you half a string of sugar gourds! You're not eating? ”。
I said in my heart that if you eat your sister's tofu, it's all like a pig, and I'm not afraid to die if I eat it!
I came out of the kitchen and was walking towards Mr. Zhou's house, when I suddenly heard a person shouting, "Something's wrong!" Hurry up! ”
As soon as I heard the sound coming from the back of the kitchen, I hurried in that direction. When I came to the back of the kitchen, I saw a small vegetable garden with a well in it, and a man was standing by the well and calling for someone.
I ran over and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
He said, "Hurry, hurry, someone has fallen into the well, hurry up and save someone!" ”。
I said to him, "Go find the rope!" I'll go down and save people. ”
At this time, there were already a lot of people running around the well, including the waist. Seeing that I was going down, I was a little anxious and said, "Are you okay, don't mess around, this is not a joke!" ”
I said, "There's no time!" Go find the rope and call the doctor! So saying, he jumped down from the well.
As soon as my body touched the water below, I regretted it a little, and I didn't know where the water flowed from, it was very cold, it was so cold that I couldn't stretch out my hands and feet, and even after a few seconds, my legs and feet began to show signs of cramps, but fortunately I beat it with my hands a few times to get better.
My heart said, "It is important to save people, to save people." It's okay that the water is not cold, the water is not cold, and I comforted myself at the same time. I looked around at the water, and there were many small broken planks floating on it, and at one point on the water, I could faintly see a few bubbles rising upwards and a patch of black hair. I held my breath and plunged underneath the water, the cold water made it impossible for me to open my eyes, so I scratched around with my hands, hoping to hold the man and drag him out of the water.
Suddenly, I grabbed something all of a sudden, and then my hand slipped somehow, and I couldn't touch it. I immediately became worried, I was afraid that the person who fell into the well had lost consciousness by the water ice, and he couldn't even struggle. The icy water, the restlessness of the mood accelerated my oxygen consumption.
After only touching it underwater a few times, I couldn't hold it back, so I had to go to the surface of the water to change my breath. As soon as I came out of the water, I heard the people above shouting, "How is it, how is it, I can't go down and ...... alone", and I also heard the waist shouting to me: "Xian'er, I'll give you the rope to go down!" ”……
I didn't care to listen to them too much, and after changing my breath, another fierce man stabbed down.
Continue to fish down the place I just saw, this time fortunately I pierced deeper, and immediately hugged her waist, and then dragged up with all the strength of my body, and suddenly I found that no matter how I pulled the net, she didn't have a trace of being dragged by me, I tried again, and it still didn't work.
I guess she must have something hanging from her feet! I wanted to prick down again, I found that this breath was no longer enough, I said in my heart what was wrong, how could I not hold it back after only ten seconds, I had no choice but to pray that she was okay, and at the same time go upstream to breathe.
I gasped for breath, grabbed the rope with one hand and plunged under the water again. I was afraid that this breath would not last long, so I quickly tied the rope around her waist, and then continued to tie it down, and ran it down her leg to her ankle, to see if it had caught her foot by something like a broken rope in the well.
Sure enough, something that felt like algae was tied to her ankle, and I tore it open with a few strokes of my hand, and then pulled the rope down the water, signaling them to feel the pull.
I pushed her up. I felt that when she walked up, my hanging heart was a little more stable. Then I swam to the surface, and I was only one meter above the surface, and I could swim out of the water with two kicks, but I started to feel that something was wrong, because I didn't get out of the water after five or six swims, and it seemed like there was no movement at all. Am I hallucinating again? Wrong! I suddenly felt a pinprick in my ankle, and my first reaction was, it's broken, my foot is starting to cramp?!
Then I started to do what I had just done, and I didn't pump it too much, so I beat it hard with my hands. It didn't matter if I hit it twice.
Then I subconsciously covered my ankles! It doesn't matter, what matters is that I touched something that seemed to be a hand, it grabbed my ankle tightly, I opened my eyes in a hurry, of course, I couldn't see anything clearly, I don't know if I lost consciousness at this moment, I grabbed several mouthfuls of water at once, and then the reaction was to swim to the water.
I don't know where the strength came from, and in a few clicks I kicked out of the water, but I still felt the thing grabbing me and dragging me down with all my might. As soon as I came out of the water, I shouted to the top, "There's something, there's something down there!" Waist ......"
I choked on another mouthful of water......