As soon as this sentence came out, the embroidered shoes in Lao Tiantou's hand suddenly turned into a pile of black crumbs. It's like black charcoal, so that when you pinch your hand, it turns all into powder. The two white gloves were all dyed black, and Lao Tiantou's hands shook off, and the pieces fell one after another. Originally, the windows in the ward were closed, and it was hot and stuffy, but at this time, a gust of wind blew from nowhere, blowing away the debris and disappearing without a trace.

"What's going on?" The uncles and aunts were so anxious that they asked.

Lao Tiantou swallowed his saliva and said, "I did it just now...... Destroying the evil mana of these shoes, the soul of the old lady...... Gone, to the underworld. ”

Everyone looked at each other. The old man asked weakly, "Master, this is a good thing, right?" ”

"Huh? Right! Good thing, sent away. Lao Tiantou gritted his back molars and said.

This thing is a psychological comfort, and no one can say that there is a meridian. As soon as Lao Tian said that it was a good thing, everyone was relieved. I leaned over and said, "Master, there's another one." ”

Lao Tiantou nodded absentmindedly, recognized it as me, and widened his eyes: "You ......"

I smiled: "Master Tian, you should do what you do, we all trust you." ”

Lao Tiantou thought that I was demolishing the stage, but when he heard this, he also let go, and laughed: "Okay, good." This old lady belongs to your family? "I said no, help a friend's house.

Lao Tiantou turned to his uncle and the others and said, "I am friends with Xiao Liu, and I won't accept your money." ”

The old man said: "Don't, master, we are one yard." We know the rules, you should take the money if you do your best, otherwise we will not be at peace in our hearts. ”

Lao Tiantou took a deep breath and began to take another shoe.

In the same way, as soon as the shoe was held in his hand, it turned into black dust, shook off slightly, and before it could hit the ground, it was blown away by the wind.

Lao Tiantou wiped his sweat and said to a few people in the funeral service: "Hurry up, what are you stunned, the old lady is still waiting." ”

"Hey!" The men looked at each other and got on with their work. The old lady stripped naked and put her on the bed. Before putting on your clothes, you should cleanse yourself. Use a clean white towel, dipped in water, and wipe the old lady's body. Of course, it can't be like a scrub, that's what it means. In this process, the old lady's son must be wiped off, which means that the flesh and blood of the parents are purified, and there is the meaning of repaying the gratitude.

The eldest uncle is the eldest son in the family and the pillar of the family. Naturally, he came to do such a job. He took the towel and wiped it for the old lady. Before she died, the old lady was tortured by illness, and her bones were so thin that she could see bone sticks in her thighs. Thinking that back then, the beautiful girl who was in her prime has now turned into a pile of wrinkled and immature corpses, which is really depressing and endlessly emotional. Uncle rubbed and rubbed, I couldn't control it, knelt next to the bed, crying and shouting: "Mom~~~"

The room was quiet, and the family members were wiping their tears. A few women walked out of the ward and into the corridor to cry, and I really couldn't see such a scene.

Even Lao Tiantou, who was accustomed to seeing life and death, and the men in the funeral service, were touched, and they were silent and solemn one by one, without speaking.

While crying, the uncle rubbed the old lady's body, trembling and said, "Mom, you have had a rough life, and you have worked hard to support us men and women. Today you are gone, your son, daughter, grandchildren and grandchildren are here, and we will all send you together. Take good care of yourself, Mom, you can't do your filial piety! ”

As he spoke, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Several aunts and uncles knelt on the ground together and kowtowed to the old lady's corpse.

Lao Tiantou went over, helped his uncle up, and whispered: "Boss, your mother is still naked, hurry up and put on a shroud and enter the coffin." ”

The uncle wiped his tears, stood up, sobbed and gently wiped his mother's head and face with a towel, and wiped his arms and hands. The head of the funeral service said, "Bereavement, be careful, don't let your tears fall on the old lady, or she will not be able to go to the underworld." ”

The uncle hurriedly stopped his grief, held back his tears, and wiped his mother from head to toe. Several men from the funeral service stepped forward and sealed the old lady's seven orifices with cotton. It's okay if it's not sealed, on one letter, the old lady is actually a corpse.

Just now, the person just left, the bones are not cold, and everyone still has a kind of illusion that the person is still there, just asleep. But now a letter with seven holes, the white cotton is blocked there, and the feeling of twisting the heart is indescribable.

Not to mention the ladies in the family, even the big men cried silently. I'm too emotional, and I can't see such a parting of life and death. Although the old lady and I don't have much to do with it, seeing such a scene makes my heart and stone heartbroken.

I was worried about Li Yang, and I just wanted to say goodbye to him. But when I saw him, I was stunned. His eyes were also red, but he didn't shed tears, his expression was very calm, his face was serious, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

I touched him: "Why don't you cry?" ”

"Why are you crying for?" He asked me rhetorically: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, human nature. Life is like a bus, someone gets off at the station, someone gets on the bus and continues the journey. Everyone else was in the car waiting for the day they got off. How do you know that the people who get off the bus will end here? Perhaps, getting out of the car, that is, death, is the beginning of another life form. Have you been to the underworld, and you don't understand these things? I think that death is a relief for my grandmother. I felt so much sin before I died, and it hurt me to see that people were gone, liberated, and no longer burdened by the flesh. It's good to get back to a baby's peaceful state of sleep. ”

I shook my head, "You're so cold. ”

Li Yang said: "If you say so, in fact, I don't feel bad in my heart. I grew up with my grandmother, and the relationship between our mother and mother cannot be described in words. Am I not distressed? My heart hurts so much! This is not the day when you travel anywhere, or settle abroad, and come back after decades of travel. This is death, this life is over, and I will never see it again. What's the use of crying? On the contrary, the soul of the deceased has an unfinished concern for her previous life, and she will not be able to live peacefully. Right? ”

"You're right." I sighed: "But, after all, man is not a cold machine, man is an emotional animal, and if he lives too rationally, like a philosopher, he will lose a lot of humanity." You also said that daring to love and hate is the realm of the Buddha. ”

As we spoke, two funeral service workers came in from outside, carrying a coffin from one end to the other.

As soon as the coffin was brought in, the uncle screamed like letting the fire tease his buttocks.

The uncle shouted, "What's wrong with you? Forty or fifty years old, no stability at all! ”

The old uncle's expression was like seeing a ghost, pointing to the coffin, and stumbling: "This ...... I've seen this coffin...... On the night of the vigil, I dreamed that four men with black umbrellas came from the side of the corridor, carrying a small, red coffin. And...... This one, exactly the same. ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the atmosphere was extremely sad just now, and there was a little more eerie coldness at this time. People and ghosts have different paths, yin and yang are separated, and after calming down, there is a fear of death and darkness.

The uncle waved his hand and sighed: "This is all an omen." On the day of the first seven days of my mother, I have to ask some Taoist monks or something, and give my mother super over. ”

The staff opened the lid of the coffin and asked the family members to look at the old lady again. Then the old man wearing the Lili Suo longevity robe was carried into the coffin.

The head of the funeral service company said: "Irrelevant people let me come, and the old lady's son and daughter stepped forward." ”

Aunts and uncles came over. The leader said, "Give the old man a ride, and you kneel." ”

Everyone knelt on the ground in unison. The leader faced the sky and slowly shouted: "Old man, go well, the door of the underworld is wide open, and you have walked on the Huangquan Road, don't look back, you little ghosts, don't make trouble, Lord Bull and Horse Face, you look carefully......"

The room was dull and depressing, and the combined atmosphere of sadness, fear, and eccentricity froze.

The hallway was full of people watching the excitement. In the ward, there were only the head of the ceremony and the old lady's direct children.

"Three kowtows to the old man!" The leader shouted.

Everyone kowtowed three times together, and their heads hit the ground.

"Everybody get up." The leader said, "The hospital is finished." After a while, any of you will go to the funeral home with us, and the old man will go into the freezer to sign. Tonight, the children have to go to the funeral home to burn paper and clothes, it's all a thing, and I'll make a list for you in a moment. The next process is to cremate the ashes in the grave three days later. Oh, by the way, did you buy the cemetery? If you don't buy it, I'll recommend a few to you, they are all excellent shade places to look at the mountains and rivers, so you can rest assured that the old man is buried......"

"No!" It was the little aunt who spoke, and she asked a few girls to bring her over. Her hair was unkempt from crying, and the heavy makeup on her face made her tears rush like the flamingo that the Avatar was riding.

The little aunt said, "Master, we have already prepared the old lady's grave, and we bother you to bother." ”

I don't know who is quick to talk next to me, and I interjected: "Master, do you know what she does?" People are pouring out the cemetery, why don't they have a cemetery in their hands? Don't bother. ”

The leader glanced at the little aunt deeply: "Since this is the case, I won't say much." ”

He led his men to carry the coffin outside. The family members briefly discussed, and other unrelated relatives should not follow to the funeral home. Sons and grandchildren, go together in the car.

The little aunt pointed to the back of the head and said to the uncle: "Brother, this kid is not very authentic, he will recommend something to buy for you in a while, you have a little heart." ”

The uncle couldn't look down on her, and said impatiently: "Why don't you preside over the overall situation?" ”

The little aunt said: "If the big men of your eldest son and second son don't come to the town, let me be a girl?" ”

The uncle said: "Then you are quiet, what should you do, but it annoys me." ”

The little aunt smiled angrily: "Okay, I don't care anymore, what's the matter with love." With that, he took his daughter Shanshan and left.

Li Yang and I were alone, away from the crowd, and walked out. Li Yang has his own car, and he doesn't talk much to his parents. Although his parents also came, they didn't have much communication with this son.

We walked out of the hospital and were about to get in the car. I suddenly saw Lao Tiantou, who was hunched over his back with his hands behind his back, and his steps were very heavy, and he was about to follow the funeral company's corpse truck back to the funeral home.