It was more than half an hour, and they did not reach the nearby Yangjiazhuang, but two grizzled people came out of a small ditch two meters deep. www.biquge.infoFortunately, it was just a person who fell into it, but if the things in the car fell into the water, the damage would be great.

"Damn, look at the good things you did. Li Xuyang climbed out of the ditch, took off his shirt and wrung the water on his clothes.

"I didn't mean to. Wang Hongzhi was like a little girl who had made a mistake, his hands playing with the corners of his clothes, bowing his head, and saying apologetically.

"Okay, don't be like a. If it weren't for the fact that it was summer, we would have frozen to death. Li Xuyang scolded again.

Wang Hongzhi had no choice but to remain silent, and he didn't quibble about anything, this was originally his fault, what else could he say?

Ten minutes later, the two of them came to Yangjiazhuang, and after finding their employer, they unloaded all the things in the car. Coincidentally, the two came just in time for the coffin sealing ceremony at their employer's house.

When Li Xuyang was putting the wreath, he secretly glanced into the coffin, and it was a woman who looked less than twenty-five. She looks very beautiful, even though she has become a corpse, her face is as white as snow, which also adds another quiet beauty to this woman.

"It's a pity! Another beautiful woman. Alas. ”

Wang Hongzhi on the side also looked at the person lying in the coffin out of curiosity, and sighed sincerely.

Hearing Wang Hongzhi's words, Li Xuyang's heart trembled suddenly, and then asked, "What do you mean?"

Wang Hongzhi looked around, and after finding that there was no one around, he whispered to Li Xuyang, "Today, another young woman is buried, she is from our town, and she is about twenty years old, and she belongs to the Zhao family." ”

"Both of them are women, both are in their twenties, both are beautiful, and they die a few days apart?"

Li Xuyang thought in his heart, and then asked Wang Hongzhi, "What's so greasy here?" Is it a coincidence?"

"If it's a coincidence, it's too coincidental, it's too compatible, right?" Wang Hongzhi said, and then looked at the black letters written on the white cloth behind him. Facing Li Xuyang Nunu, he motioned to him which white banner to look at.

Li Xuyang gestured to look, only to see a white banner that read, "Yang's Wu Yan passed away on June 18 in the year of Renchen."

"If I'm not mistaken, the Zhao family died on June 11, exactly a week apart. If you say that there is no clue here, I won't believe it if you kill me. Wang Hongzhi still said in a low voice.

"Didn't call the police?" asked Li Xuyang.

"The police were called, but the police did not find any evidence, nor did they find out the specific cause of death, and there was no way to file a case for forensic identification, and the forensic doctor said that it was sudden death. Wang Hongzhi sighed and said.

Just as Li Xuyang was talking, an elderly man walked over to Li Xuyang, and then took out more than 500 yuan and handed it to Li Xuyang. After Li Xuyang took the money, he nodded at the family of the deceased, and then said, "Thank you." ”

"Let's go, haven't you eaten? Let's go have a drink." Li Xuyang took the money and said to Wang Hongzhi.

"Okay, you should have been treated. Wang Hongzhi did not refuse.

The two of them returned to a small restaurant on the side of the road on National Highway 309 in Xin'an Town, ordered a few random side dishes, and continued to discuss.

Li Xuyang was the first to ask, "Isn't there anything the two of them have in common when they die?"

"Who knows? Wang Hongzhi said, opened a bottle of beer, then poured two glasses and handed Li Xuyang a glass.

"By the way, when you looked at Wu Yan just now, did you notice a little black mark on her neck?" asked Li Xuyang after taking a sip of beer.

Wang Hongzhi is not as polite as Li Xuyang, but directly drank the wine in the wine glass.

"No, what's wrong?"

"I think that black mark is weird. After Li Xuyang finished speaking, he took another sip of beer.

"That might be a birthmark!" Wang Hongzhi said a little indifferently, and poured another glass.

"What kind of funeral record did you say at the beginning, did your grandfather really say that?" Li Xuyang asked again.

"Of course, can I still lie to you?" Wang Hongzhi suddenly became a little unhappy when he heard that Li Xuyang was a little suspicious of himself.

"Nima, why hasn't your temper changed when you drink?" Li Xuyang scolded in his heart.

When the two of them were about to drink, Wang Hongzhi's wife called and said that he had something urgent to go back to. And Li Xuyang was left, he couldn't drink himself, so he went home even if he was settled. The car was borrowed from someone else's house, and Wang Hongzhi also passed by there and asked Wang Hongzhi to drive over. Li Xuyang walked on the way home, thinking about the book "Funeral Records" that he had never heard of.

Li Xuyang came to the door of the shop, walked all the way and thought about it all the way, planning to ask his father if there was such a thing. If not, how did Wang Hongzhi hear about it, it is impossible to come out of nowhere. After making up his mind, Li Xuyang walked into the shop, and Li Yongan was still busy tying paper people.

"Dad, I want to ask you something. Li Xuyang took a small bench and sat opposite Li Yongan.

"What's the matter? If you want to ask, just ask! Why are we two still so polite" Li Yongan didn't stop what he was doing, and he didn't even look at Li Xuyang.

"Do we have a book left by our ancestors?" Li Xuyang did not directly say what "Funeral Record" was, but directly changed the title of the book to a book, if he directly asked if there was a "Funeral Record", then maybe it was not this name, and other books left behind would be prevaricated by Li Yongan. It's a different way of asking, so that whether it's "Funeral Record" or not, you can ask something.

After Li Yongan heard Li Xuyang's words, he paused, then raised his head and did not answer his question directly, but asked rhetorically, "How do you know?"

"I listened to Wang Hongzhi, Wang Hongzhi listened to his grandfather. Li Xuyang replied truthfully.

"Yes, it's called "The Undertaker's Record". In fact, I plan to keep this matter from you, and I don't want you to know about the existence of these things, and since you already know about it, it doesn't hurt to tell you. Li Yongan put down his work, then stood up and walked into the room.

Li Xuyang looked at his father's departing figure, and his heart inevitably felt a little heartache. This man who has resisted himself on his shoulders since he was a child, this man who has given himself the greatest fatherly love since he was a child, is now old.

After a while, Li Yongan walked out of the room again, holding something covered with a white cloth in his hand, and then carefully placed it on the table in front of Li Xuyang.

The cloth was carefully opened for Li Yongan, and Li Xuyang saw that his father's hands were shaking when he opened the cloth. The cloth was opened, and the black box held by the white cloth, and the black box contained the "Funeral Person's Record".

A tattered book with blurred handwriting was placed in front of Li Xuyang, Li Xuyang looked at this book that had been kept for an unknown amount of time, and suddenly didn't know what to do.

"This is what our ancestors left behind, and I haven't seen the content of this thing. And your grandfather used to hide it from me, but then I found out, and your grandfather told me all this story. And now that you know about it, it's time for me to tell you everything. Li Yongan said, his eyes kept looking at the "Funeral Record".

Li Xuyang knew that his father was going to speak, so he poured a glass of water and put it in front of his father, and listened silently.

"A hundred years ago, our Li family migrated here from Hongdong in Shanxi, and coincidentally, this place is also called Xin'an. A hundred years ago, when our Li family was still in Shanxi, our family had already declined a lot at that time, but it was still much better than now. Li Yongan said this, glanced at Li Xuyang affectionately, and continued.

"Your grandfather's uncle is the last mourner of our Li family, and our Li family is also burdened with an inviolable fate, that is, there must be a mourner every century. But in the time of your great-grandfather's uncle, the name of the mourner disappeared. ”

When Li Xuyang heard this, he interrupted his father Li Yongan's words and asked, "What is the name of my grandfather's uncle?"

"His name is Li Tianyang. Li Yongan replied.

"Li Tianyang?" Li Xuyang repeated, and then thought of this somewhat familiar name in his heart. "By the way, I seem to have seen this name when I was looking through the family tree before. ”

"Well, it was also because there were some changes at that time, and Li Tianyang's successor was his younger brother Li Tianheng's eldest son Li Qingshu. But then Li Tianyang died inexplicably, and although this "Undertaker's Record" was given to Li Qingshu, he didn't understand it, so he didn't become a mourner. So starting from your grandfather's generation, there are fewer and fewer people in our family, so that now it has become a single lineage. Because the undertaker has strict taboos, and if you want to become a mourner, you can't pass it on in a single vein, so there is still no mourner from your grandfather's time to now. Li Yongan said.

"Is it difficult to become a mourner?" Li Xuyang asked incomprehensibly.

"I don't know very well, after all, I haven't read the book, and I've only heard a little bit from your grandfather. However, there are two conditions that are difficult to fulfill. Li Yongan took a sip of water after speaking.

"Those two?"

"The cycle of life and death, sign the 'soul contract'. ”

"What?" Li Xuyang was shocked when he heard this, the cycle of life and death? If this wasn't for what his father said, Li Xuyang would definitely laugh, who would be able to come back to life after death? Isn't this a fantasy?

"So, our family's incense is not at its peak, so I don't want you to know about this, so you went to join the army at that time, and I didn't stop you, I just let you get out of these things. Li Yongan said.

Although Li Xuyang knew that his father had said a lot, he still felt that there was something missing, because he didn't know, so he didn't know how to ask.

Could it be that becoming a mourner would change the fate of his family, or would it be a curse for his family to become scarce?

"I've taken this book and read it?" Li Xuyang said, picking it up and turning around and leaving without Li Yongan's consent.

Li Yongan looked at the back of Li Xuyang leaving with the "Undertaker's Record", did not speak, and could only pray silently that he couldn't understand it, so that he could not become a mourner, and he could still get married.