Looking at the urn, the sadness in my heart was suddenly replaced by a strange feeling, but I was not so sad, and subconsciously pinched the bottle of wind oil essence containing cat tears in my jacket pocket, and secretly prayed in my heart: "Zhang Ke, your ghost must appear tonight, so that I know where your body went, I don't want you to end up like Fang Kedong in the future, because the soul can't pass the ghost gate." ”

I was wandering, and Zhang Ke's cousin handed me a stick of incense and asked me to worship Zhang Ke.

Only then did I notice that my aunt was also holding a stick of incense in her hand, standing in front of Zhang Ke's spiritual seat, saluting the elders, and then inserting the incense into the sweet potato pieces on the table, which was specially used to insert incense.

I hurriedly pinched my mind, and walked to Zhang Ke's spiritual seat like my aunt, and bowed solemnly like my aunt. My aunt whispered to me to bow three times.

After I bowed, Zhang Ke's father welcomed me and my aunt to another room to rest, and Zhang Ke's mother also walked in with tears in her eyes.

At this time, I took a good look at Zhang Ke's mother, compared with Zhang Ke's father, she was even more haggard, and even walked a little staggering, and her eyes were red and swollen because of excessive tears.

The aunt hurriedly hugged Zhang Ke's mother, and tearfully comforted: "Zhang Ke's mother, the baby is gone, this is also a helpless thing, you must look away, if you and his father are in good health, the baby will be sad in the spirit of the sky." ”

Zhang Ke's mother almost cried again, and a woman who was similar to her next to her hurriedly said, "Sister-in-law, don't cry, otherwise the guests will be uncomfortable." ”

Zhang Ke's mother nodded hurriedly, and she couldn't cry, but she was so sad that she couldn't speak.

Zhang Ke's father was quite able to hold on, and said to his aunt guiltily: "Today is the first seven days of the baby, and it is also the last day of the funeral. ”

Indeed, although most of the guests were relatives and neighbors, there were quite a few of them, which was something my aunt and I did not expect.

Because the family is full of affairs, they have no time to scruple if they want to entertain us, and they are afraid of being rude if they don't entertain us. My aunt was old and sophisticated, so she naturally saw the intentions of Zhang Ke's parents, so she took the initiative to say: "Zhang Ke's father, Zhang Ke's mother, we are here today to send the baby to the end, and by the way, I hope you can mourn and change." There are many things in your family, so it is inconvenient for us to disturb you, so we will go back. ”

Zhang Ke's father and mother immediately objected: "How can this be done? You have come to see us Ke'er, how much affection is this? How can we leave without even drinking a sip of water? This is absolutely not possible, otherwise the neighbors and relatives will scold us and say that we are not human." ”

I knew that my aunt didn't want to stay here and be embarrassed, since she had already proposed to leave, she couldn't be forced, and I had already made up my mind to stay here to see Zhang Ke's ghost, so I naturally didn't want to go back like this, so I said: "Otherwise, my aunt will go back first, and I'll stay." ”

When my aunt heard me say this, she looked at me in surprise, Zhang Ke's father knew that he couldn't keep his aunt, so he took the opportunity to say: "That's okay, let Lin Han stay." ”

My aunt had no choice but to agree, so she said to me: "Xiaohan, then you stay, don't make trouble for Uncle Zhang and them, I will pick you up tomorrow morning." ”

When I sent my aunt out of the village, my aunt quietly instructed me: "Xiaohan, I didn't want you to spend the night here, but I can't object to you if you have already said it in front of them." Don't blame your aunt for being snobbish, Zhang Ke died of illness at a young age after all, he must be unwilling in his heart, I am worried that he will be resentful when he returns to his soul, you must go to bed early at night, don't keep vigil, you know?"

I had to say yes softly, so as not to worry my aunt.

After seeing off my aunt, I returned to Zhang Ke's house, and Zhang Ke's father specially arranged for Zhang Ke's cousin to accompany me. Zhang Ke's cousin is called Zhang Jian, half a year older than Zhang Ke, graduated from high school and was not admitted to college, and was idle at home. Zhang Jian has a cheerful personality and is similar to Zhang Ke.

Because today was the last day of Zhang Ke's funeral, Zhang Ke's family was troubled, Zhang Jian said to take me outside for a walk, and I didn't want to stay in the room, because it was too noisy and the mourning music sounded uncomfortable, so I agreed to go out for a walk with Zhang Jian.

Zhang Jian took me out from the back village to climb the mountain, and we chatted while walking, so I asked Zhang Jian how they had been doing the funeral here for so many days.

Zhang Jian told me: "I haven't been holding funerals, after Zhang Ke's ashes were brought home, a mourning hall was just arranged and placed in the hall, and not too many people came to pay respects these days, but some close relatives came to visit and comfort one after another." Because tonight is the first seven, and Zhang Ke's ashes will be buried tomorrow, so the funeral will be officially held today, and the guests are also the most popular day, and they will disperse after dinner. ”

As we spoke, we had already walked to a hillside, and Zhang Jian pointed to a place that told me that this was Zhang Ke's grave, and that his ashes would be buried here tomorrow.

I looked at the newly dug grave and couldn't help but feel sad.

It didn't take long for Zhang Jian to let me go back, saying that it was time to hold a banquet. But I didn't have any appetite at all, and I didn't want to go back to sit down with those people to eat, so I said I'd go back when everyone was almost finished. Zhang Jian saw that I insisted on doing this, and he couldn't help it.

We waited outside until it was almost dark before we returned to the village, and the mourners were almost gone, and the tables in the courtyard were full of messy cups, and a few women were busy putting away the dishes and chopsticks.

Zhang Jian's father saw me and hurriedly came over to blame Zhang Jian, why didn't he bring me back for dinner earlier, and I hurriedly explained that I didn't want to come back.

Zhang Ke's father arranged for me to go to the kitchen to eat, accompanied by Zhang Jian. When I was about to eat, Zhang Ke's father came over again and said to me embarrassedly: "Lin Han, I really can't take care of it, tonight is Zhang Ke's first seven, and it's inconvenient for the family to stay at home, so you can go to Zhang Jian's house to live." ”

I hurriedly said, "Uncle Zhang, I want to stay with you for a while and go to bed later." ”

Zhang Ke's father looked at me in embarrassment and said, "Lin Han, I know that you have a good relationship with Zhang Ke, but I heard that the first seven ghosts have come home, and I am afraid that I will scare you." ”

I hurriedly said, "I'm not afraid. ”

As he was talking, Zhang Ke's mother came over, pulled Zhang Ke's father aside, and said with some excitement: "Grandma Zhang promised me, she gave me a bottle of divine water, saying that when Ke'er returned to his soul, he could see our Ke'er by wiping it on his eyelids." ”

Zhang Ke's father was a little uneasy and said, "Do you have to see Ke'er's ghost?"

Zhang Ke's mother wiped away her tears again, sobbed and said, "I just want to see Ke'er for the last time." ”

Hearing the conversation between Zhang Ke's father and mother, I couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that they also wanted to take advantage of Zhang Ke's ghost on the night of Zhang Ke's first seven souls. I just don't know what the divine water that Zhang Ke's mother is talking about, it sounds similar to the cow tears and cat tears that Chen Erdong said, and you can see ghosts by rubbing them on your eyelids.