Woken up early in the morning by the shrill sound of suona, I got up, put on my shoes and went out of the house.

I was worried about the Cheng family's yin marriage last night, not for the excitement, nor for the banquet, this is a great opportunity to find Lu Shan and Sister Hua, if they are in this village, they will be allowed to show up today.

In the courtyard, Li Ting was standing by the well and looking down.

I walked over and saw Liu Xi working in the well.

When Li Ting saw me get up, she pointed to the basin on the side and said kindly: "Just take the water in that basin and wash it, and the brushing water is in that toothbrush tube." ”

I washed up and ran out of the courtyard.

Li Ting also said with concern: "Look at it for a while, don't be contaminated." ”

I answered, and ran out without looking back.

When I went out, I saw a very large procession, which walked slowly to the east end of the village, followed by many ordinary people.

There are accountant Liu and two other village cadres in the team, as well as the woman's father Cheng Laohan, and many people who don't know each other, who seem to be relatives and friends of both parties to the marriage. There are many people who have two strips of cloth tied to their arms, one black and one red, tied side by side on their left arms, just like Cheng Laohan.

I walked a few steps and looked at the front of the line, and at the front of the line was a small old lady who was not very tall, also wearing civilian clothes, but with many flower-like headdresses on her head, and holding a wooden handle more than a foot long in her right hand, and at the other end of the wooden handle was a flat drum the size of a basin, and around the drum was a circle of small cymbal-like iron plates, like a combination of a large drum and a tambourine instrument. Playing a drumstick with her left hand, the drum crumbles as soon as she hits it, and the drum clatters when she shakes it, and under her careful playing, she plays a wonderful rap rhythm.

With the rhythm and the words, I don't remember very clearly, the approximate meaning is: the ghost matchmaker leads the way in front, Miss Cheng crosses the mountain, crosses the river, looks at don't let the stone trip, don't let the little ghost catch it, and go to worship heaven and earth with the groom official in a hurry. Of course, this is just the meaning, and the specific lyrics should be nice and rhyme.

Behind the ghost matchmaker is the bride and groom, both dressed in the old wedding ceremony, the groom wears a small hat with two feathers on it, wears a blue gown, a dark red horse coat on the outside, and a big red flower tied with a ribbon on his chest.

Looking at the bride again, it was completely different from what I imagined, I thought it was a relative of my mother's family, and a sister would just come out and hold a tablet, but I didn't expect it to be the corpse of the daughter of the Cheng family. On an iron frame welded into a square, a wooden board was erected, and under the iron frame were four small wheels, and the dead man's body, which was fixed to the wooden board by something, stood straight, wearing a robe with large sleeves, and his head was decorated as if he were singing, and there was a big red flower on his chest.

The iron frame at the bottom of his feet stretched out two handles backwards, and an old man wearing sunglasses behind him, like pushing a wheelchair, carefully pushed the body of the Cheng family's daughter and moved forward.

I took a few quick steps forward, chased to the front of the line, and stood to the side, observing the female corpse that should have been smashed. The daughter of the Cheng family should have done a corpse repair operation, and she didn't see anything unusual, standing there like a wax figure, with two big godless eyes, just open, looking ahead, I was a little creepy. She smeared a thick layer of powder on her face, and also applied a touch of rouge, and her miserable face was two red faces, which were no different from the female zombies in Hong Kong films.

Nowadays, there is such a professional group of people, who can follow the feudal tradition and make a yin marriage impressive, which is really incredible.

I didn't care about the process of the wedding, I just followed the team and kept looking around, trying to find the shadows of Lu Shan and Sister Hua from the crowd, but I didn't find them for a long time. I simply took off my glasses, and looked around carefully, and saw a blue girl's figure, fluttering towards the small inn in the village, and I didn't have to guess that the ghost eye was absorbing the remaining energy of the dead man.

I have no clue about finding someone, and I don't know how to deal with the ghost eye, so I have to let it go, if Jiang Li is here now, there must be a way to accept that kid, I was annoyed for a while.

After a while, the team had come to a courtyard, the gate of the courtyard was arched, and the people in the team entered the courtyard one after another.

There were too many people, so I didn't follow up.

As soon as the people in the courtyard entered, there was a commotion, and the crowd outside the courtyard who did not know the truth also followed the commotion, and they all tiptoed to look inside.

I didn't know what was going on, but it took a lot of effort to squeeze through the crowd.

Inside is an old building with a large front, a blue brick wall, blue-gray tiles, and a plaque is hung under the eaves of the front, and the plaque is gilded with two big characters "ancestral hall". I said how to get married and go here? It turned out that this was the ancestral hall in the village, and it was raining heavily on the day I came, so I really didn't pay attention.

I looked for the cause of the commotion of the crowd, and I saw that seven or eight round holes had been dug deep in the courtyard, like wells, and the excavated earth was piled up beside them. Looking further into the ancestral hall, a big hole was dug in the ground in the ancestral hall, and the bricks and soil that had been cut open were scattered all over the ground, and the furnishings in the ancestral hall, the offering tables, tributes, tables, chairs, and tablets were all messed up, as if they had been robbed.

Cheng Laohan sat on the ground and cried, slapping his face while crying, saying that he had created a sin and suffered retribution, not only did his daughter lose her life, but she couldn't finish the marriage after her death.

The groom's official was at a loss to help him, a father, and shouted kindly.

The crowd of onlookers began to disperse one after another when they saw this situation.

A person who looked like the village chief picked up the small electronic speaker handed over by him and began to shout: "Thank you for your witness, the newcomer is a gift, the village committee banquet at noon will be as usual, and I hope that relatives and friends will go to the banquet as scheduled." ”

I didn't see it lively, and I didn't find anyone, so I walked back alone bored, scolding in my heart while walking, suffering a thousand knives of the well drilling team, relying on clumsy deception, bullying these farmers, and it is estimated that the house of the Cheng family was dug up by these rabbit cubs. When I came back to my senses, I wondered, what are these guys doing under the banner of drilling? It's definitely not that they have a grudge against the Cheng family, it should be that what they are looking for is buried in this village, but don't the ghost-eyed people like to kill? Could it be that the ancient tombs of the Shang Dynasty contained what he needed?

I couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time, but I happened to see Li Ting, stumbling with two baskets of soil, coming out of the courtyard gate, I hurriedly stepped forward to take the burden, and under her guidance, fell on the low-lying ground not far from the door, saying that it was to fill in the pit by the way.

Li Ting smiled and asked me, "How is it?" Is it interesting to see a yin marriage? Surely you haven't seen it. ”

I said, "What's the point, the ancestral hall was destroyed, and it must have been done by the grandsons of the well-drilling team, who dug several wells in the courtyard." "I deliberately raised my voice so that the villagers passing by around me could hear me.

Li Ting also scolded fiercely: "I said that they are not good things, and they must have taken a fancy to the treasure land of our village, and they want to rob the grave and dig the grave." ”

After scolding, the two of them walked into the courtyard with a smile, and I was behind her, helping her pat off the dirt behind her legs as I walked, and asked, "How is the well dug?" See the water? ”

I heard Liu Xi in the well, stop digging with a shovel, and then shouted at us: "I didn't dig, I dug all morning, I ordered mud soup, and I didn't find the water layer." ”

I bowed my head and shouted into the well: "The noon banquet will be held as usual in the village committee." ”

Liu Xi laughed a few times and said, "It's still a fart, or you and your sister-in-law will go, you can't get water, and our family hasn't settled for dinner today." I'll brush the tank and borrow some water from a neighbor's house first. ”

I don't have to worry about food and clothing in the city, and the tap water is available at any time, and it is the first time I have heard the word borrowed water, and I can't help but laugh.

Li Ting said to me, "You wait for me here, I'll go to the house to change clothes, and let's go to the banquet." ”

Immediately in my mind, she had been in the house changing clothes that day, and then she had dispersed. I grabbed her arm, pointed at Liu Xi in the well, blinked, and shook my head.

She immediately understood what I meant, leaned over, put her lips on my cheek, and whispered to me, "Then I'll go out and buy groceries and wait for me." ”