Chen Ziyang's grandmother lives at his uncle's house, which is very close to his house. The straight-line distance between the two buildings is only 150 meters. Chen Ziyang's grandmother is over 70 years old this year, but her body is quite tough, although her hair is all white, her ears are still very good. It's normal for your legs and feet to be a little inflexible, after all, you're old.

Chen Ziyang explained his intention to his grandmother. Grandma Chen agreed, but told him not to break the compass, which was left to his grandmother by Chen Ziyang's grandfather. Chen Ziyang's grandfather died before Chen Ziyang was born, and it is said that the compass was handed down by Chen Ziyang's great-grandfather.

Chen Ziyang's grandmother lived in a room by herself, and in the corner of the room there were two large camphor wood boxes. These two boxes were used for dowry when Chen Ziyang's grandmother got married. It has been by Grandma Chen's side for nearly 60 years. Chen Ziyang flipped from the bottom of the box to the compass.

The compass was housed in a thick wooden box with a soft cloth lining underneath the box. The first time Chen Ziyang saw this compass was when he was a child, when his parents were at work, and Lao Dao had not yet appeared, and Chen Ziyang's grandmother took care of him for his parents. At that time, Chen Ziyang was more naughty, and Grandma Chen couldn't coax him with all her might, so she took out this compass for him to play with, because it was pure copper, and she was not afraid of being broken by him. It should also be Chen Ziyang's fate to follow feng shui, as long as he holds this compass, he will be honest immediately, and he will not be able to change the compass back with any other toys.

Chen Ziyang took the compass home and looked at it carefully. This compass is just like Yang Lei said, it's really a good compass. The all-over body is made of brass. The various lines and words on the surface of the compass are interlaced and horizontal, appearing dense. Although there are many dense lines and patterns on it, they are all clear. The back of the compass is a "swastika" pattern composed of four dragons, which looks very imposing.

The compass is very well preserved, even the red paint and black paint in the lines and grooves on the surface of the compass are well preserved, it is estimated that this thing is usually not taken out, but there are many scratches on the back of the compass. It may be that when Chen Ziyang was playing when he was a child, he put it on the ground and pushed it around.

This compass is one of the biggest differences from other compasses. This compass is very large and very thick.

The traditional compass is a copper round inner disc inlaid on a square outer disk, the diameter of the disc is generally 18 to 20 centimeters, and the side length of the outer disk is more than 20 centimeters. And the side length of this compass of Grandma Chen Ziyang is more than 30 centimeters. It is very heavy in the hand and very textured. It also looks very atmospheric, no wonder Yang Lei wants to borrow it to support the scene. But this compass is good-looking, and if you really use it in your hand, it can tire people to death.

Chen Ziyang didn't think about it before, looking at the appearance of this compass is definitely a good thing, and the years are not short, why is this compass in his grandfather's hands, could it be that the ancestors of the old Chen family also look at feng shui?

Chen Ziyang finished his business, and there was nothing to do, so he walked to the vicinity of Liu Banxian's spirit shed, wanting to see how Yang Lei was doing this first time as the chief manager.

The custom of Big Walnut Town is to park for two days after a person dies, and go out for funeral on the third day. Counting the day of death, the mortuary time is a total of three days. During these three days, the chief steward and the family of the deceased had a lot to do. On the day of his death, the family invited the chief manager to begin handling the funeral affairs according to the general manager's arrangement.

The first is to buy a shroud, buy a coffin and rent a funeral shed, after the shroud is bought, the family members will bathe and change clothes for the deceased, and then arrange the funeral shed. Because there is no crematorium in the town, when people die, they always find an open space near the downstairs of their house to set up a mourning shed, and the deceased lies on a wooden shelf one foot high from the ground in the mourning shed, and heads out for relatives and friends to mourn.

The deceased was dressed in a shroud, his face was covered with a yellow cloth to keep him safe, his feet were wrapped with red ropes to prevent the corpse from being defrauded, and a copper coin was placed in his mouth.

It seems that the saying about this custom of pressing money is different in every place. Pressing money is to put a copper coin in the mouth of the deceased. When Chen Ziyang was in college, he heard his classmates say that only the people who were killed there would let go of the money, which is commonly known as the death in vain, such as murder or death in a car accident or something, because the person who died in vain is not angry, and if he wants to sue in front of the king of Hades, the king of Hades will interrogate the living, which is not good for the family of the deceased and will have an impact on the longevity of the person. If there is a pressure money in the mouth of the deceased, and when the deceased opens his mouth to complain, the copper coin will fall out, and the king of Hades knows that the copper coin is a bribe for him, and the king of Hades will not care about the deceased's death in vain. The money for this statement is kept in the mouth of the dead body until it is buried. Chen Ziyang didn't believe this statement, he could bribe Lord Yama with just one copper coin, and this Lord Yama was too easy to deal with.

The customs here in Big Walnut Town are different. The coin of this pressed copper coin should have a red rope tied to it, and the money should be placed in the mouth of the dead body, and the red rope should be placed outside the mouth. It is said that the reason for the release of the money was that the deceased hid the money in his mouth and kept it for the deceased to take a boat on the Lechuan River to pay for the ferry. If you don't hide the money in your mouth, you will be snatched by the imp on the way to the Lechuan River. If there is no money to pay for the ferry, the boatman will not take him across the river, or he will throw his soul into the river halfway through. If a person's soul falls into the river, it will never come out, and it will always suffer from the poison in the river, and will become a new water ghost, waiting to pull others into the water.

According to the custom here, when the coffin is loaded, the copper coin should be taken out of the mouth of the deceased, and after pulling the red rope to pull the copper coin out, it will be washed and worn by the living, and it is said that the person who will wear it will be blessed by the soul of the deceased.

Chen Ziyang has been soft since he was a child. Although he followed the old Tao to learn Taoism, but in the words of the old Tao, it is useless if he doesn't learn it, because a person who is soft is the yang energy in his body is insufficient, even if such a person learns the Taoism, the mana is naturally insufficient, and it is useless at all. Whoever is a master of the Maoshan Spiritual Master, which one is not a character is hard to the sky. The hard ones of the eight characters have jumped out of the Three Realms and are no longer in the Five Elements. There are only two things in Chen Ziyang's ability to follow the old Taoist that are useful after he learns them, one is the art of the earth master, that is, the dragon search point; The other is the yin and yang eyes.

Therefore, in general, this kind of dead man's spirit shed, Chen Ziyang, will not get too close. I'm afraid of provoking things. It's funny to say, the dignified heirs of Maoshan actually have no way to take dirty things. Chen Ziyang stood in the distance, looking at Yang Lei busy and looking like that was really going on.

Those who came to mourn kowtowed, bowed, and their families also kowtowed and bowed in return. Chen Ziyang looked at it, and suddenly found that there seemed to be a person in the place where the paper man and paper horse were placed in the spirit shed.