Chapter 18: A Strange Village
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It's been the third day since I woke up, and I've been sitting in my room, reading, and the master hasn't shown up.
"Death overdue? Isn't that what a monk should do? Why do you want me to go?" Hearing Song Xiaoyan's words, my first reaction was puzzled.
Because my own home is in the countryside, it is normal to encounter a funeral or something, but I have never said that it is for Taoist priests to overcome, it is simply funny, and if a dead person wants to go to the Western Elysium, he naturally wants a monk.
Faced with my question, Song Xiaoyan just smiled and shook his head.
"Brother Yanzi, this is Shitai's order, she said that she wants to retreat for a period of time, during this time, these things are for you to do, and I kindly remind you that you must go down the mountain to overtake the dead before tonight!" Song Xiaoyan said mischievously.
I was embarrassed, but there was no reason to contradict her.
What the master says, I always have to listen, although I don't know what others need to do, but I've never seen a pig run or eat pork, anyway, those ordinary people don't understand, I'll just fool around and do it well.
After making a mental decision, I roughly packed up my things.
Actually, there is nothing to bring, but I am now a Taoist priest after all, and I always have to change a few sets of outfits.
At this point, the master is still very considerate, because in my room, there are already prepared robes.
After getting the peachwood sword ready, I went down the mountain.
I have to say, anyway, I think I'm quite fantastic, like a magic stick.
I didn't see the family members who came to ask me to go down the mountain to overtake the deceased, but Song Xiaoyan prepared a piece of paper to record the specific location of the family.
The mountain road is difficult to walk, and although I tried hard to get to this mountain village before dark, I was still honored to get lost when the sun set.
In fact, this is really not strange, I saw the stele of this village called Wang Mangzhai early, but I worked hard to walk along the direction of the stele for a long time, but it is all mountains and forests, and there is no mountain village at all.
If I hadn't seen the stele with my own eyes, I would have suspected that the stele was my own dream.
Yes, the deceased I am going to overtake is a person from Wang Mangzhai, it seems that the people in this village are all surnamed Wang, anyway, the deceased is called Wang Dali.
As night falls, the mist has begun to rise in the mountains. My heart began to tense up.
Just kidding, I'm the one who has been opened now, and I don't talk about it during the day, but I can see those ghosts at any time at night.
When I think about it, I feel that my body is cold, freezing.
Just when I was about to know what to do, suddenly there seemed to be a faint fire in the distance, and I heard the voice of the shouting chief. Thinking of this, because I saw the fire, my heart was very excited, but after taking a few steps in that direction, I hesitated.
Thinking about it this way, coupled with the legend that there are always ghosts in the mountains and forests, my steps are also difficult, and it is not easy to even lift up.
I didn't learn anything except a yin and yang eye, and if I really encountered anything dirty, I felt like I would be abused to death in minutes.
But it doesn't seem like I've got a choice.
For I had seen that the fire was getting closer and closer to me, and my eyes were already wide.
I want to see clearly whether the person who comes is a human or a ghost.
It only took a minute for someone to step over the woods in front of me and walk in front of me.
By the light of the fire, I saw that there were four or five young men, all holding ancient torches, and all of them were shouting the word "Taoist".
"You, you're the Taoist, aren't you?" said one of the leaders, who seemed to be very excited when he saw me.
"I am, you are?" I myself was wearing a Taoist robe, and I didn't seem to be able to deny my identity. I also saw that under the firelight, these people all had shadows, so I was relieved, adjusted my clothes, and calmed my emotions before I asked calmly.
"We are Wang Dali's grandchildren, my name is Wang Jianzhang, these people are my brothers, my father went to the Taoist temple to find Wuxin Shitai during the day, and the master said that he arranged for the Taoist to come down, because it was beyond my grandfather's time, it could not be delayed, and when he saw that the sky was dark, the Taoist still did not appear, and my father sent us out to find the Taoist!" Seeing that I confessed my identity, Wang Jianzhang was very excited, and he explained in a fast tone.
I nodded, understanding what was going on. But the doubts in my heart are still very big, what is called the excess of the deceased or there is a time limit, normally speaking, after the deceased confirms the death, it is on the first day of the burial to invite the monk to overtime, and the time is generally in the daytime, but the family is asking for it at night, I don't know why, it always feels weird.
"Dao Chief, can we leave now?" Seeing that I didn't speak for a long time, Wang Jianzhang asked again, this time, there was a rare little nervousness in his tone.
I nodded, and instead of speaking, motioned for him to walk ahead.
Because I am the Taoist chief, Wang Jianzhang ordered several other brothers to surround me in the middle and walk, except for Wang Jianzhang who led the way in front, the other three people all followed behind me.
After I walked a few steps, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, so I stopped and turned around, I clearly remembered that when Wang Jianzhang and they came over just now, it was clearly five people, but now, why did it suddenly become four people?
"Dao Chief, is there any problem?" Seeing that I stopped, Wang Jianlong, who was following closely behind me, asked suspiciously.
My heart really chuckled, because when I looked at the few of them again, I saw four people walking behind me in a trance.
But there were only three shadows on the ground.
Thinking that the result of the yin and yang eyes was that I could see the ghosts, I immediately fixed my eyes again and looked behind me.
This time, there are really only three people in the shadows.
"Dao Chief?" Wang Jianlong was startled and spoke again.
I waved my hand and calmed my mood strongly, I always felt that today's trip would definitely not be a simple thing, but at this time, the master was not there, and I could not leave the dead and go back to the mountain, so I could only say lightly: "It's okay, let's go!"
After finishing speaking, I didn't care about Wang Jianlong's strange eyes looking at me, and turned around again and followed Wang Jianzhang towards Wang Mangzhai.
The countryside built in the ravines and ravines is relatively simple, and the folk customs are relatively simple.
After following Wang Jianzhang for about 20 minutes, we came to Wang Mangzhai.
This mountain village is actually not big, and the location of the village entrance is a stone tablet of Wang Mangzhai.
I stopped at the location of the stele, and I always felt that I had seen this stele before, but I didn't know why, I just didn't remember.
The location of the stele is also relatively high, so you can see the entire appearance of the mountain village almost at a glance, and there are only about a dozen households.
I could even see that in the middle was the deceased's house. For there was only a large platform of white linen cloth, and yellow paper burning in the fire.
At this time, the time is actually not too late, although the sun has been setting for a long time, but I glanced at my watch, and it was really a little past seven.
It's winter soon, so it's going to get dark a little earlier.
Because there are only a dozen households, they should all be relatives, because I saw that the other courtyards were all pitch black, and only the one that was doing the funeral was brightly lit.
Here in the stele, we didn't delay too long, we went directly to Wang Dali's house.
What puzzles me is that under normal circumstances, the mourning hall is placed in the middle of the hall, but Wang Dali's mourning hall is placed in the middle of the courtyard.
The white curtain blocked the black coffin in the middle, and I didn't see what the person lying inside looked like, but in my heart, I suddenly had a feeling of unease.
On both sides of the mourning hall, two rows of people had already knelt down.
Except for Wang Jianzhang, the four people who came to me, there were no more people standing and walking around, and what was even more strange was that there was not even a single person who was doing chores.
Except for the crackling sound of the fire in the basin being blown by the wind, there was only the sound of a piece of crying and whimpering.
"Dao Chief, you can do it yourself!" and Wang Jianzhang actually said such words to me, so that I couldn't come back to my senses for a while.
I couldn't even understand what it meant to be self-sufficient.
Didn't you say that you called me here to transcend the souls of the dead? Although I won't, I also know that it is impossible for a Taoist priest to come here as if he is self-sufficient.
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