Wudao Town is a densely populated town in the northwest of Yangbei City, a populous town in Yangci County.

The only means of transportation in the town is a motorcycle tricycle, Qi Fugui and I took a motorcycle tricycle, and it took about ten minutes to reach the intersection of Qijiazhai Road.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, I followed Qi Fugui into the village, just entered the village,

Suddenly, I felt a piercing coldness all over my body, like being caught by a wind chime in the corridor of a funeral home.

Then I heard the sound of firecrackers, and a group of people, including men and women, about dozens of people, with white silk on their heads and white linen on their heads, carrying a black wooden coffin.

The black coffin was carried by more than a dozen people, and every ten meters they stopped, and two benches were placed under the black coffin, which were carried by another team.

When I looked closely, there was a woman sitting on the black coffin.

The woman was in her thirties, wearing a pink plum blossom jacket, red cotton pants, and a pair of crimson embroidered shoes.

The woman's long hair wrapped half of her face, and that half of her face seemed to be coated with a layer of white paste, and the bright red lipstick on her lips set off the contrast between red and white on the whole face, which made people feel creepy.

We passed by, and the woman sitting on the edge of the black coffin, crossed legs, smiled at me weirdly.

I looked straight at her, and I wondered how the woman sat on the coffin and ,,,,, up,,,。

With a deep male voice, the black coffin was lifted again, and the bench under the black coffin was quickly taken away, and it stopped ,,,, just ten meters away,,,,

The two men held the bench and instantly inserted the bench under the coffin.

The coffin bearer standing in front of the coffin wiped the sweat from his head and said, "That's not right! What's wrong with this one, it's so evil, everyone, work hard.

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I turned my head to look at the funeral procession as it faded away.

I asked, "Fugui, what do you mean by putting a bench under the coffin?"

Qi Fugui said: "It's not a bench, it's that the coffin can't touch the ground, and the coffin can't touch the ground before it enters the tomb, and once it touches the ground, it will be buried."

Or bury the family.

I said there was still this rule.

Qi Fugui has a preachy tone, our rural areas are more exquisite, not like your cities, did you pay attention to it just now? The coffin is a black coffin, not a traditional red coffin, which means that the person who died must have been young and murderous?

I said, "You can see that."

Qi Fugui smiled and said:

"I can't tell it's the rules in the village.

Generally, the elderly are buried, and they die of normal diseases, and the red coffin is commonly known as the happy burial.

Brush the coffin with red paint, and the bright red color can drive away evil spirits and remove yin.

The coffin painted with black paint is a sad burial. Black is a dark color that generally repels evil spirits, and only young people and people who have died unexpectedly can use black coffins.

The red coffin and the black coffin are also buried in time, the red coffin is generally buried early, not after 12 o'clock at noon, 12 o'clock is the most yang, which is not conducive to the ascension of the deceased.

But the black coffin is different, it must be buried after 12 noon, and it is best to be buried after 12 o'clock, because after 12 o'clock at noon, the yang energy is heavy, and the black coffin can be calmed, so that the evil things dare not come out lightly. The jargon is called red auspicious and black blessing double twelve, and black auspicious red is over two or four.

I listened to the head of the Tao and said, "How can you kid know so much?"

Qi Fugui scratched his scalp and said with some embarrassment:

"I worked as a master of ceremonies in the countryside for a year.

I asked: What is a master of ceremonies?

Qi Fugui said: "Have you ever seen a village wedding ceremony? That's the kind of thing, as soon as I came on stage and took the microphone to fool people and said, hello everyone, I am Qi Fugui, the most famous host in Yangbei City, I am very happy that everyone came to the scene to witness the wedding of so-and-so and so-and-so.

At the moment I was so excited, something.

If you preside over the funeral, say something like this: "Today is a, extremely sad, day, I cherish, a, a painful mood, in remembrance of our most beloved relatives. I looked at Qi Fugui's funny way of speaking, with exaggerated movements, and said with a smile: "You are a strange person!" You are so thick-skinned, you must have been trained as a country master of ceremonies!

Qi Fugui pouted, am I thick-skinned? , compared to being a country master of ceremonies with me, dancing a striptease girl is nothing to me!

I said, "Why haven't you arrived yet?" How far is it going?

"The locust tree in front of you turned right, five hundred meters.

I lit a cigarette and stuffed it in my mouth and said:

"What are the rules for a woman sitting on a black coffin just now?

Qi Fugui stopped and asked:

"What do you say?

I spat out a puff of smoke and said:

"Didn't you see that just now? The woman was dressed up like a ghost, and she sat on the black coffin.

Qi Fugui didn't react for a long time.

I said, "Go, what are you doing in a daze?"

Qi Fugui stared at the strange big eyes and said:

"Brother Bing, don't joke, this kind of joke can't be made!

I said, "I'm joking, don't you see?"

The girl was wearing a pink cotton jacket and cotton pants, sitting on the coffin with her legs crossed, her feet upside down, and her crimson embroidered shoes dangling back and forth in the air.

Qi Fugui opened his mouth wide in astonishment and said tremblingly:

"Brother Bing, there is no one on that black coffin! We passed by the coffin together, and I didn't see what you said, that woman! You're certainly not seeing people.

My hand holding the cigarette hung in the air, and I suddenly remembered that when I first entered the village, the whole body felt cold, and I asked myself in my heart, did this Nima meet the unclean Dong again.

Qi Fugui said: "Brother Bing, are you talking about getting home first?"

Then Qi Fugui and I quickened our pace and looked at his house.

As soon as he entered his compound, a tall and strong boy was sitting under the eaves of the yard peeling corn.

"Brother, you're back.

Qi Fugui hugged the boy and said, "Where is our milk?"

The boy said, our grandmother went to Uncle Qi's house in Beicun.

A female voice came out of the inner room, saying, "Is it Fugui coming back?"

Qi Fugui shouted: "Mom is me."

Then two teenage girls jumped out of the house and shouted:

"Brother, you're finally back! What delicious food did you bring me for the New Year, seeing that Qi Fugui was empty-handed, he was a little disappointed and said: "Brother, you don't talk much, you say that you want to bring me delicious food, you lie!"

Qi Fugui was a little embarrassed and just wanted to explain, but as soon as I grabbed his arm, I said to the two girls:

"Although your brother didn't bring anything good to eat, he brought money to the two of you, and you can buy anything if you have money.

I took out three hundred dollars and gave one hundred to each person.

Qi Fugui said: "Brother Bing, what are you doing here!"

I said, "Don't do anything!" New Year's Eve let the child buy food,。

The two little girls were obviously sensible, and they shoved the money into my hands again.

I said, "Fugui, you're not bored like this." Don't say that I worship your father. You should call me uncle in terms of seniority, and I will give money to the two children, can't I?

Qi Fugui nodded, and the two girls said:

"Thank you, uncle.

I smiled and said to Fugui:

"See, call me Uncle Han, your father's beard is my fourth brother! This generation can't be messed up, don't you hear?

Qi Fugui shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then he entered the hall and shouted:

"Mom, my father's brother has come to see you!

I followed Fugui into the house, which was a little dim, and the smell of Chinese medicine came to my nose.

A haggard woman was lying on the bed, and the table next to her was full of large and small medicine bottles, the room was so simple that there was not even a decent piece of furniture, and the hot water bottle on the floor was still a rusty old water bottle with a blackened character engraved on it.

At that moment, I was deeply shocked, and the shabby bedroom was a little unacceptable.

The woman held her head high with difficulty, as a sign of respect.

Qi Fugui hugged her and said, "Mom, don't move!"

The woman kept her hands on the bed and beckoned me to sit down.

I sat down on a chair next to her desk and said:

"Eldest sister, I'm Brother Hu's sixth brother, my name is Han Bing, I just came out yesterday, come and see you! Brother Hu is good in it, no one dares to bully him, he takes care of me in it, and often talks to me in his heart, saying that he misses you.

No, I'm coming to see you for Brother Hu today, I just released it, and I didn't bring much money.

I casually put the only 1,500 yuan on the table, I came in a hurry, and I didn't buy anything, you can take it.

Fugui's mother said, "Brother, someone just sent money over a few days ago, what are you doing!"

You just got out of prison and I know it's difficult for you, I can't ask for this money, you can come to see your sister-in-law, this heart sister-in-law has received, for so many years, except for the old man Wan Jinlong who sent someone to send money, no one dares to suffer from my family, once this person is poor and short-breathed! You can have this heart, and the beard didn't recognize you as a brother in vain.