Chapter 55: Burning Seven
I heard my grandmother Luo say that we have a custom for the funeral of the Han people here, called burning seven, that is, burning paper on the seventh day after death, and burning it every seven days in the future. This is because the Han people believe that people have three souls and seven spirits, and every seven days, burn the paper once and send away one soul, a total of seven times, and send away all the seven spirits of the dead. And the three souls need three years of dojos, and one soul is sent away in one year.
Grandma Luo said that she helped people and did dojos for people - this is not surprising. In the Northeast, since ancient times, there has been a phenomenon of Manchu and Han people blending with each other and helping each other in wedding and funeral customs.
In China, the customs and religions of ethnic groups are mutually respected, and there is almost no confrontation or slander.
The most important thing for the Han people is the first seven, which is the first seven days after death.
On this day, before the sun rises, burn paper at a crossroads, and also burn a ladder made after zero, and the person's closest relatives use gold dust to "point the gods" on the ladder, and after the ladder of the gods, there is divine power, and after burning, it becomes a ladder of heaven, and the deceased can follow the ladder to heaven.
Who are they? Why do you want to burn seven for my dad?
――Do the math, today is really the seventh day of my father's death, but who are they?
If I burn seven for my father, I have to be one of the heavenly ladders, and who else will I be? How can such a little girl order it?
What is the relationship between this little girl and my father? Isn't it An Lingyan's words...... Strict, strict self-discipline?!
This girl borrowed my father's seed, mine, my half-sister?
Another sister came out.
When they came to a crossroads, they burned a bundle of yellow sheet paper, and in the midst of the flames of the yellow sheet paper, they threw the ladder into it, and some wind blew away the yellow sheet that was burning with the flames.
The woman said to the man quietly, "Old Yan, hold it down!"
The man hurriedly pressed the yellow sheet with a stick in his hand.
His surname is Yan, and he is strict with himself!
Suddenly I saw a thin whirlwind blowing from east to west, and I realized at once that it was my dad!
It was my dad who came to collect the paper money and ladders they burned. After a while, when my dad blows, I want to rise with the wind, throw myself into my dad's arms, kiss my dad, and ask my dad a lot of things.
And so, when the little whirlwind blew over the little girl, I jumped up and threw myself into the little whirlwind.
I feel up, up, up, up.
There was a lot of grass foam, dust and smoke in the whirlwind. There was the smoke of the cigarette that I smoked, and the smoke of burning paper, which choked me so much that I couldn't open my eyes.
I thought my dad was going to take me to a clear and clean place soon, so he hugged me and said with tears streaming down his face, "Red, my son!"
However, this did not happen, and I was left at a car stop.
I went to see the stop sign and saw that there was a No. 3 bus!
Bus No. 3 is the bus that leads to my grandmother's house!
I understood: my dad knew about my condition, and he asked me to take a ride to Grandma Luo's house, find Grandma Luo, and let Grandma Luo send my true soul home.
But why didn't my dad see me?
Our Shigongshan morning bus starts at five o'clock in both directions. After a while, the No. 3 bus came by, and just as a person got on the bus, I jumped on his shoulder and got on the bus with him.
After getting into the car, I stayed by a window, which opened a small crack, and I grabbed the window with the wind on my back and waited.
Pay attention to the outside, once I get to the vicinity of my grandmother's house, I will jump down, like a sailboat, grasp the direction, with the help of the wind, to my grandmother's house.
I now feel that after this night's travel, I am much stronger, and I can consciously control myself, and I will not be like I did at the beginning, drifting with the crowd and letting it drift.
When I arrived at Grandma Luo's house, let Grandma Luo dial me a little bit, how to increase my own divine power, so that the true soul is out of the body, and it is also good to travel to the world like this. Being able to know things that I wouldn't normally know is like this, and I'm a little obsessed with it.
I was a little distracted, I had arrived at the station of my grandmother's house, because I wanted to get into the wrong, missed the best time to jump out of the car, when I realized that I had arrived at the station, the car had already started, I didn't dare to slack off, and I turned out of the car with a heel.
The wind from the car swept me under the wheels. The moment I got under the wheel, I thought, it's over, it's over, it's definitely over! True souls, fake souls, can't afford the wheels? When the wheels are rolled, why don't they be crushed? But I was thrown out from behind the wheels!
Is my true soul attached to the hollows of the wheel, or is the wheel simply unable to help my true soul?
I don't know. I was run out by the wheel, threw me out, plus the wind brought by the car rushing over, mixed with the force of the exhaust fumes of the car, threw me out of the far, far away, I was almost thrown up, just when I didn't know what to do, someone grabbed me, I was shocked, looked up, it was Grandma Luo, I was ecstatic, shouted, "Milk!"
"Hey, my little red!" I threw myself into Grandma Luo's arms, who put her arms around me and ducked to the side of the road.
I burst into tears and said to Grandma Luo, "Milk, how could it be you?"
"If it's not me, who can save you?"
"Milk, how do you know I'm in trouble?"
"Hey, my little red touches my heart, you're in trouble, can I know?"
"...... , are you now?"
"What you are, I am. Otherwise, can you get into my arms?"
"You can also go out of your body?"
"As a shaman, you can still have this ability, but how did you get out of the body?"
"It was Sister Hua who tortured me, and I let her torture her twice out of her body. ”
"This is not good, fold your yang life!"
"However, I couldn't stop her, she caught me and tortured me desperately, and we tortured me to the point that I was out of my body, and she didn't let go. ”
"Hey!" Grandma Luo sighed deeply. She obviously knew how Hua Xiangrong tortured me, "This child will also damage her longevity." ”
"Milk, I see my dad. ”
"Ahh
"I felt like it was him, he was the one who sent me to the 3rd station. I knew it was him, but I couldn't see him. ”
Grandma Luo breathed a sigh of relief, "I said, you can't see him." ”
"Why can't I see him?"
"He is a yin soul, you are a yang soul, you can't see it when you walk to the other side, you can only feel that it's you. ”
"Milk, can you see my dad now?"
"Neither can I. Now, he's not yet formed. ”
"Didn't you say he's a baby already?"
"That's just an analogy, now it's a little bit of a thought, I can think about something, it's not formed yet, it's just a gust of wind now, it's not formed, it's not formed. ”