51, Requiem
After getting out of the car, my left foot had just stepped on the steps, and a cold wind through the hall immediately rushed to my face, which made me have goosebumps, Wang Xu seemed to feel my abnormal reaction, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”。
I suddenly felt a sense of unease and said, "You wait at the door, I'll go in and have a look." ”。
After entering, I saw a faint flickering candle flame on the left side of the dark ancestral hall, where the corpses of two young people and the mourning bed were parked, the window frame was built in the direction under the eaves, the gloomy light could only illuminate the upper part, the first-level offering platform was placed with the spiritual position of the ancestors of the Liu family, and there was a simple bed made of wood chips near the door, which should be the place where the night watchman slept at night, and went around the mourning hall, perhaps because of the daytime, except for the gust of wind just now, there was nothing abnormal in the rest.
Between the mourning hall and the ancestral hall with a piece of white cloth temporarily pulled up the curtain separated, walking to the curtain suddenly felt a little nervous, calmed down or gently lifted the curtain, only to see a man and a woman two young people lying on a spiritual bed with their eyes closed, covered with a layer of white cloth, the faces of the two are almost as white as the cloth, but the expression is calm and peaceful.
Looking at the faces, these two people are at most eighteen or nineteen years old, childish, but now they are separated from their families.
Wang Xu didn't know the real purpose of my entry into the ancestral hall, I was to see the position of the placket and trouser legs of the two children, if there was really a "corpse" situation at night, the shroud on their bodies would definitely have traces of turning, and they were just about to open the quilt on the two of them, only to hear Wang Xu say at the door: "Hurry up and find a place to hide, the family of the two children is here." ”。
The last thing parents want to see is an exorcist, the rule of our industry is not to go to the funeral scene, except for the immediate family, including relatives and friends, no one will notify us, and we will not go, so I can understand Wang Xu's reaction.
At this time, the howl outside the house came faintly, it was impossible to get out, and inside the empty ancestral hall, there was no other hiding place, so I had no choice but to get under the spiritual bed and learn from Li Dagen once.
I got under the bed and saw that the ground was covered with a thick layer of ash, which was obviously not conducive to breathing, so I turned over and faced up, but through the candle flame shining in, I saw that the wrists of the two people next to each other above the bed board were tied together by a red rope, so it was a marriage with the underworld, I really don't know what the adults of the family think, when they were alive, they didn't let the two children be together, and when they died, they were married to the underworld, so why bother.
The form of the marriage varies from place to place, but everywhere the man and woman must tie their hands together with a red rope, and in the underworld they can find their "lovers" through the same red rope.
I only heard the whining cries of a few women from far and near, followed by noisy footsteps, through the gap, I could see dozens of people in different costumes hurrying to the side of the bed, these people walked around the bed in a circle, the crying gradually stopped, and a heavy voice said: "Old Han, I didn't force you, you can't delay it any longer." ”。
The women's cries disappeared after the man spoke, and occasionally one or two sobs could be heard, and there was a moment of silence for another: "I can't bear to think about it. ”。
"I can't bear it, but what can I do now? Do you watch two children make a mess of corpses? ”。
Hearing this, I chuckled in my heart, and said secretly: Are these parents coming today to prepare to attack their children?
The surnamed Han finally sighed and said, "Just do as you say." ”。
Then another person whispered, "Master Qiu, I'm sorry for you." ”。
No one spoke, a group of legs around the bed immediately dispersed, leaving only a pair of feet wearing cloud socks and feet on the legs of ingots, and then I heard a slight metal sound of hammering nails, and at the same time, the hands tied together by the red rope with each blow actually changed from a flat state to ten fingers interlocked, and the grip became tighter and tighter, and my hairs stood on end, tightly blocking my mouth and not daring to make a sound.
What Master Qiu did must be the Dafa of Soul Sealing, that is, knocking a silver nail into the top of the head of the dead corpse, and it is said that the dead soul will be sealed in the corpse, and the soul will disappear as the corpse decays.
These two families are really righteous and killed relatives, and when they heard that something strange happened here, they did not hesitate to use the most vicious sealing method on their own children, but it seems that these two corpses do have signs of corpse transformation, but in any case, this pair of parents also belong to ruthless people, after all, it is their own flesh and blood, how to endure this poisonous hand, it is really breathtaking, and I have to admire the hardness of these people's hearts.
After all the silver nails were nailed in, an old voice said: "The old man wants to play a requiem, please leave the stage first." ”。
As soon as I heard this sentence, my brain was big, and the "requiem" he said in his mouth should actually be called the requiem, but it was slightly indecent to use the word "town" in front of the family of the deceased, so I changed the statement, it is said that when Zhang Tianshi feathered and ascended to heaven, he dipped his hand in lime on the ground in front of the futon and dipped it in lime.
This piece is for the dead, and it is said that the dead can really hear this piece, and the evil master will plug his ears with a swim bladder and cover his eyes with a black cloth when playing the Requiem, because this piece must be played in its entirety from the first note, and there are often unexpected situations in the process of playing, so in order to ensure that there are no distractions, the performer must cover his ears and eyes, and I have to enjoy this strange piece with the dead.
After a while, the sound of empty and resentful music floated in this quiet space, the music was not strange, but it made people feel very sad, this was the first time in my life to listen to the "Requiem", at first I didn't feel strange, ten minutes later I suddenly felt more and more depressed, usually those things that are not much for me, at this moment I think of my heart will feel very sad, and then I think of Uncle Liao, I feel like a murderer who wants to kill him, I can't touch the knife and slaughter myself, Although I knew in my heart that all of this was due to the influence of the Requiem, I could not escape the invasion of my nerves by this beautiful sound no matter what.
After a while, I couldn't control my thoughts, and began to hit the ground with my head, because I couldn't bear the "condemnation" of myself in my heart, and at this moment there was a strange vibration on the bed, and then the two corpses trembled as if they were connected to electricity, and the whole bed made a clicking sound, if it weren't for the soul sealing nail inserted into the top of the two heads, the corpses would have already stood on the ground and began to writhe.
I have seen the corpse with my own eyes, Uncle Liao once dealt with a corpse time, a fat man in a village died of a sudden myocardial infarction, according to the rules of the mortuary for three days, the next day everyone witnessed the fat man who had died in broad daylight with a layer of brown fluff on his face, and a long beard on both sides of his cheeks, he squatted on the ground and was happy to hold a sacrificial apple in both hands, but when Uncle Liao put a cat into the house, the fat man was suddenly frightened. Shaking a fat body but extremely agile, he jumped up and down in the room, and his mouth kept making a "squeak" sound.
After the corpse was suppressed, Uncle Liao told me that it was because in the middle of the night, a rat rushed up to the candlestick, and after the candle was swallowed, the frightened rat ran through the body of the dead person, and at this time the person had not yet exhaled his last breath, that is, the soul had not yet left the body, and the rat would be out of the body because of extreme fear when the rat was frightened, and the soul of the person who could still breathe out the stiff and undead would be sucked into the body, and there would be a situation of defrauding the corpse.
As the trembling corpse attracted my attention, the feeling of extreme guilt in my heart calmed down a little, not as uncomfortable as before, the rhythm of the music gradually weakened, and my mood gradually recovered, only then did I realize that my face was full of tears, and my whole body was soaked in cold sweat.