"How is this possible? This can't be. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 InfoYesterday, I saw the fourth grandmother sitting in front of the door feeding her grandson. How can a dead man feed a living person?" Li Tianheng said with a face full of disbelief, shaking his head.

"Yes, I saw it yesterday, but this is a reasonable explanation, otherwise it would be unreasonable. Li Tianyang sighed.

"What should I do, do you want to take over this business?" Li Tianheng looked at his eldest brother Li Tianyang with an expressionless face and asked.

Li Tianheng, as Li Tianyang's younger brother, of course understands the affairs of the clan and understands the rules, so he didn't say it explicitly, but the meaning is already obvious.

"It depends! This kind of bizarre situation is generally not accepted, and I haven't done this kind of thing in a long time. Li Tianyang sighed and said.

Now we are in the midst of war, and the Republic of China is also in the midst of war, and there are many people who are buried directly in the soil after death, and there is no funeral person, but more people do not know that there is a special profession of funeral person. In addition, after the decline of the Li family, they are low-key in life, so not many people know about their affairs.

"Okay then! I'll go back to my brother first. Li Tianheng stood up, said goodbye to Li Tianyang and left.

Li Tianyang didn't stay, waiting for Li Tianheng to leave. Li Tianyang came to his room, and then gently opened a wooden wardrobe next to the bed, and in the wardrobe stored several clothes, all black. There is nothing but clothes, and there is this hidden compartment on the left-hand side of the cabinet, and if you don't look closely, you won't notice even the gap in the hidden compartment.

After opening the secret compartment, the space inside is not small, and there are several things stored. Those things have been in the dark grid for a long time, although there is no dust on them, but it can be seen from the solemn expression on Li Tianyang's face when he reopened the dark grid, how determined he was to open this dark grid.

"Old man, I didn't expect that after more than ten years, we would finally see each other again. Li Tian looked up at a few things in the cabinet and muttered.

Three days later, Wang Simao's two sons rushed back from other places. When they saw their mother's corpse, their first reaction was to cry, and then under the persuasion of others, the two of them were relieved.

Wang Hu, the eldest son of Wang Sima, pulled the village chief with a handful of snot and tears, and asked, "Uncle, did my mother say anything when she left?"

Village Chief Wang Wu looked at Wang Hu awkwardly, then shook his head, and said, "When we found your mother, your mother had already gone." When the flower was finished, Wang Wu didn't forget to say: "Let's mourn and change!"

The younger brother Wang Bao stopped crying, and then came to someone who was about his age and said, "Go buy wreaths, coffins, white paper, and shrouds!"

A coffin is a coffin, and people here are very sensitive to this word, so they don't want to call it a coffin just and change it to a coffin.

When the elder brother Wang Hu heard Wang Bao's words, he immediately left the village chief Wang Wu, came to Wang Bao's side and said, "Second brother, you can buy these things! Find a few people to go with you!"

Wang Bao looked at Wang Hu puzzled, and could only nod helplessly after looking at it for a while. He knows very well what kind of character Wang Hu is, Wang Hu has been thrifty since he was a child, and his thrift can be said to be picky, be careful. He said this because he was afraid that a few of them would take their family's money privately. And Wang Bao is the opposite of Wang Hu's character, he doesn't have so many eyes, and he is also very honest, unlike Wang Hu, who lives the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

At this time, the village chief came over and said to Wang Hu, "Don't be so troublesome, your Uncle Li's family has these, in recent years, he has opened a wreath shroud shop from the north of the village, if he can have a coffin anywhere, he is also a person from our village, and he will not charge you more." ”

"That's it, that's the best. Wang Hu pretended to suddenly realize.

Not long after, a few large wreaths, as well as a shroud and so on, these things were brought from Li Tianyang's house. In the Republic of China, these things were not valuable, and a few wreaths and a shroud added up to only fifty yuan. It's just that there is no ready-made coffin in Li Tianyang, so if anyone needs it, Li Tianyang still needs to go to the place where the coffin is made in the county seat for them to make.

Two days later, Wang Si's daughter and son-in-law also rushed back. Wang Hu, Wang Bao, and Wang Yaya, who are also the daughters of Wang Sima, discussed burying the old lady's body two days later.

It's October 15, 1912. And the time of Wang Simao's burial is set for October 17.

After the village chief Wang Wu told Li Tianyang about this, Li Tianyang was surprised. And Wang Wu's purpose in looking for Li Tianyang was to ask him to come to help on the day of the funeral. Saying that it is helping is actually a funeral, what is Li Tianyang doing The village chief knows very well this old fritter in his heart, and even knows that Li Tianyang does not get married and opens a shroud shop just to hide his unknown special identity.

"What's the matter, such a big reaction?" Wang Wu was still holding his cigarette pouch and smoking.

"Those two days were not good days, so those two days were not suitable for burial. Li Tian looked up and explained to Wang Wu.

"What do you mean," Wang Wu asked puzzled.

"It's a taboo, a taboo in our profession. Li Tianyang replied.

There is a record in the "Funeral Record", which is the "Funeral Person's Taboo", and there is a taboo that is written like this: "Avoid 357 burials and 8 burials". And these three, five, seven and eight, these numbers mean that if you encounter these numbers on that day, you can't be buried, if you have to be buried, then you must learn the combination of days. The so-called matching of days means that after the burial of the good day, the day happens to meet one of the four numbers, then the time needs to be staggered. Only the deceased can be buried on this day, otherwise the mourners will not be able to go to the funeral.

And this collocation is also mentioned in the "Funeral Taboo", that is, "avoid odd and even unworthy burials". Although burial may seem like a simple process, it is also very complicated.

"And this is the case?" Wang Wu didn't understand the "funeral taboo", so he was also quite shocked after hearing Li Tianyang's explanation.

"Yes, so I suggest that we either be buried tomorrow or on the 20th. Li Tianyang said to Wang Wu.

"I'll go back and persuade them!, but whatever the outcome is, you must come!" said Wang Wu, and took out his pipe again, lit it with a match, and smoked it.

"Alas, okay!" Li Tianyang sighed, and could only agree.

"Okay, then I'll go first. Wang Wu was about to leave, and when the door was halfway opened, he turned around and asked Li Tianyang, "What do the corpse spots you said about Wang Simao that appeared represent that day?"

"Huh?" After Wang Wu asked, Li Tianyang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Wang Wu to remember this incident, so he returned to him after returning to normal, "Oh, it's nothing, that's just that I was wrong." It was too dark in the room, I was wrong. ”

"Oh. Wang Wu knew that Li Tianyang was panicking, but it was not good to continue to ask, so he could only turn around and leave.

Wang Wu came to Wang Si's house again, found his eldest son Wang Hu and second son Wang Bao, and told the two brothers about the chat with Li Tianyang.

Wang Hu was not happy on the spot after hearing this, and said that Li Tianyang is a liar, he is a feudal superstition, etc., what is difficult to hear. Wang Bao, on the other hand, remained silent and seemed very calm, not as easy to lose his temper as his eldest brother.

After talking for a long time, he also said that because Wang Hu disagreed, he broke up, and Wang Bao, as the second son, could only listen to the eldest son Wang Hu, even if Wang Hu was wrong, he could only follow him.

Wang Wu transferred Wang Hu's words to Li Tianyang again, and Li Tianyang only shook his head helplessly. It seems that this is the only way to do it, even if the rules are broken. But fortunately, the time of burial is at 11 o'clock in the morning, which is also the time when the sun is the strongest, and I hope it can play a role.

On the day of the funeral, Li Tianyang got up early, came to the tablets of the ancestors and ancestors, and sincerely put a stick of incense in front of each tablet. Dressed in black clothes, with a cloak, with a white cloth flower on his chest, and a bucket in his hand, he went to the funeral shed that Wang Hu had built for his old mother on the street.

When ten o'clock arrived, with the sound of mournful music, many people carried the coffin out from under the mourning tent. Outside the mourning tent is a wooden cart pocket pulled by a donkey, that is, even the wheels of the cart are made of wood.

"Note that once the coffin has left the altar, it must not fall to the ground unless it reaches the place of burial. This is what Li Tianyang heard his uncle say when he was a child, when he was young and didn't understand what it meant, and now after he became a mourner, he gradually understood everything. When I was a child, I often read "The Undertaker's Record", but I couldn't understand anything.

The coffin was carried by everyone and placed on the pocket of the wooden cart, and it was safe during this period, and the coffin did not touch the ground anywhere. And just as he was about to reach the burial site, when he passed a small bridge, Li Tianyang, who was walking in front, felt that something was wrong.

He couldn't say exactly what was wrong, but there was always a feeling that something was going to happen.

Li Tianyang walked across the small bridge, and when the coffin was about to cross the bridge, the small water under the bridge suddenly bubbled, and the small fish inside also jumped out of the river in horror, and then fell down and jumped up again.

When everyone saw this scene, they were all stunned on the spot, what a strange scene this is? The people here are all people who have never seen this kind of scene, everyone is looking around, and their brains are all asking the same question, "Haunted?"

Later, I thought about it, how could it be? How could there be ghosts haunting me in broad daylight?

"That's right. Li Tianyang suddenly screamed, he knew that something was wrong, and it was because of this one thing that no one would pay attention to that he had overlooked, and that was the sun.

There is the sun on the opposite side of the bridge where Li Tianyang is located, and there is also the sun on the other side of the bridge, but the bridge is cloudy, it can be said that the coffin just has no sunlight, and a trace of black mist can be seen faintly.

"Not good. After Li Tianyang thought it about it again, he immediately lost his voice and shouted.