Chapter 31: The Funeral

My aunt also heard my uncle's words, and her crying stopped, and she grabbed me by the shoulder, her eyes full of pleading: "Young man, did you see that man, I beg you, please tell the police, let them find the murderer, and avenge my son."

The cry that had just stopped sounded again, and the words that the aunt said later were also out of breath, and she felt that she would faint in the next second.

"I beg you, save my son!" The aunt was even a little unconscious, and kept shouting for me to save his son.

It was like a hammer hitting my heart.

I felt an indescribable grievance in my heart, and I felt that there was a breath blocking my throat that I couldn't go up or down.

I began to hate my incompetence a little, if I could have been more decisive at that time to find something to break the chain, maybe I could have saved Gu Xinliang.

But it's too late to say anything now.

I hesitated, the force coming from my hands and arms was very strong, my uncle and aunt were like drowning people, and I was their last straw.

But in the end, I shook my head, if I said that I saw the confessions I made with Ah Wei and Xiaoyun at the police before, it would all be reversed.

For the sake of Ah Wei and Xiaoyun, I can't retract my confession.

Seeing me shake my head, my uncle dragged my hand down, and my aunt fainted all of a sudden, fell into Lily's arms, and her body was also falling, and finally collapsed on the ground.

Ah Wei and I hurriedly took a handle and lifted my aunt to the kang in the wing room, and Lily led us out of the house after covering the quilt for my aunt, and I walked at the end.

Just about to leave the house, I went to feel the chill from a corner of the house, and I subconsciously used Zhou Tiangong to resist the sudden cold.

But in an instant the chill disappeared, and I looked back and looked around, but I didn't find anything unusual, I thought it was my heart.

After all, the first seven souls after death all happened at night, and this early morning could not be Gu Xinliang's soul.

Out of the house, I heard Lily talking to Ah Wei, walked over, and the two of them looked at me.

"Auntie has been like this for a while, and sometimes she doesn't even know that she will treat others as Ah Liang."

I said that I can understand, after all, Gu Xinliang died too suddenly. No one feels good in their hearts.

As she spoke, Lily's eyes turned red again. Lily said that she and Gu Xinliang have been dating for almost two years, and both parties have met their parents and are engaged.

"I didn't expect him to leave like this, what should I do in the future!"

It can be seen that Lily is truly in love with Gu Xinliang.

Because in rural areas, if you are only engaged and the man or woman dies suddenly, the other party will not appear at the funeral. After all, it is unlucky.

But Lily was able to appear here, and she thought that she ran out of the house despite the opposition of her family.

At this point, Ah Wei and I were silent.

It didn't take long for the sound of suona to sound in the yard, and the sound of blowing made people want to cry instantly.

After a while, when the aunt woke up and came out of the room, the people who had come to worship were finished, and many young people were talking to Lily a few words, and then they went to stand in other corners of the courtyard.

Waiting for the funeral to begin.

Soon, an elderly man began to preside over the funeral ceremony.

This person who looks like a person in the village who specializes in white affairs is also called a white affairs intellectual.

Before the funeral, Bai Shizhibin carried a live rooster, and the rooster fluttered in Bai Shizhibin's hand, trying to break free, but Bai Shizhibin raised the knife and opened a mouth on the rooster's neck, and the chicken blood sprayed out instantly.

Bai Shizhibin walked around Gu Xinliang's coffin with a rooster, and the chicken blood was evenly sprinkled on the ground.

This sprinkling of chicken blood is also particular, chicken blood has always been used by the gods to drive away evil spirits, so the chicken blood is sprinkled around the coffin to place the soul of the deceased to leave the body and leave it in the world.

Therefore, when sprinkling chicken blood, it is necessary to control the amount of bleeding, otherwise the chicken blood will not flow before the circle is finished.

The Bai Shi Zhibin invited by the Gu family should be an experienced person, and the blood in each place in the circle is very even.

But soon there was an accident.

Seeing that a blood circle was about to be completed, but when he returned to the front of the coffin again, the rooster that should have died in his hand fluttered a few times, and the chicken blood in the final circle was not a circle, but a gap.

Bai Shizhibin frowned.

"Hiss" gasped in his mouth.

The voice was very small, and the people around him didn't notice Bai Shizhibin's abnormality because they all lowered their heads.

But I felt that Bai Shizhibin's movements were hesitant, but soon Bai Shizhibin increased the force in his hand, so that the chicken blood flowed out a little more, and filled the gap.

Next, Bai Shizhibin plucked the chicken feathers near the cockscomb and pasted them on the front end of the coffin, and then put the rooster on top of the coffin, and the rooster was no longer bleeding at this time.

After doing these white things, Zhibin called 8 people to be responsible for carrying the coffin.

The person who carries the coffin is not something that can be found casually, under normal circumstances, the eldest son of the deceased needs to come to the door in person to kneel and invite, and generally the person who is invited will not refuse.

But nowadays, it's usually the people who provide funeral services to ask for it.

In addition, there are many particulars as a coffin bearer, such as the invited coffin bearer to the deceased's home, do not touch the door and window frames, I heard that if the door and window frames are touched, it will affect the luck of the deceased's descendants, so the coffin bearer will pay attention to this aspect.

There is also a person who carries the coffin must be a married person, because the yang energy of the man who is not married is too heavy, and the deceased person is very heavy yin, if the man is not married, it is a serious conflict of yin and yang and unlucky.

In addition, there are many precautions, but the 8 coffin bearers in front of them are obviously veterans, and they soon found their place around Gu Xinliang's coffin, inserted a wooden stick at the bottom of the coffin, and waited to carry the coffin out of the funeral.

At this time, as soon as Bai Shizhibin waved his hand, the honor guard prepared at the door moved and began to walk out of the courtyard, followed by a drum band, and the sound of suona changed its tune, announcing the beginning of the funeral.

Behind the guard of honor and the drum band are the inscriptions and spirit cards. Later, a boy of six or seven years old, dressed in linen and filial piety, acted as a "filial son".

After all, Gu Xinliang is not married, so this "filial son" is also replaced by the children of relatives at home.

The little boy hunched over and pulled the fiber slowly in front of the coffin with a "funeral stick", which was only more than two feet long, and was made of flowers cut out of white paper and pasted on a bamboo pole.

On the left and right of the little boy are Gu Xinliang's parents, Lily, and his best friends before his death.

On the outside, a man on the left is carrying a lantern, and on the right is a basket of paper money.

Paper money is to be sprinkled on the road for a while, meaning "to buy road wealth".