A few people sat down, and soon the hot meal was served.

The Northeast has a large amount of food, and I brought back a lot of things.

Fat sausages, white meat and blood sausages, garlic eggplant, Zhou Qingsong also killed the sauerkraut of the pig vegetables and put a handful of vermicelli in it. One table of dishes is enough for four people.

When I was full, I stayed with the table.

Most of the wine and food went into Xiao Dang's stomach, especially a bottle of Lao Baigan, which was drunk for three and a half catties, which made Zhou Qingsong stunned.

"Hey, Erleng, I didn't even know you could drink so much." He took a bite of pork and joked casually, he didn't know that the one in front of him was taken by the immortal family, and he thought it was the villager he knew.

Xiao didn't care about those, and the food and drink were the same.

In the end, he was full of food and drink, and he was interesting enough to let us all go and rest. For the second half of the night's vigil, he was enough.

With him here, I am naturally relieved. It happened that the strength of the wine also came up, I yawned and went back to the house to sleep, Zhou Qingsong went back to his own house, and the knife man went to another room to rest and recharge for tomorrow's funeral activities.

There was nothing to do all night, only a few lonely ghosts wanted to steal some tribute and food, and they were all sent away by Xiao's family.

Early the next morning, the gongs and drums sounded, and the suona team that played the funeral song also came.

Before the official funeral, there are still several processes to go.

The man with the credit knife wore a long coat on both sides of black and white, held a peachwood sword, and recited the mantra in the door frame: "Yang world, yin world, go on the southwest road, take Mingguang Avenue, go to the middle of the three roads, take a car on the dry road, and take a boat on the waterway." The soul does not stay, the spirit does not stop, the Huangquan Road is long, and the cattle and horses are walking. ”

After reciting the mantra, his peachwood sword struck three times on the left and right sides of the door frame, and then the hilt of the sword pointed to the sky, and the tip of the sword pointed to the ground, and knocked three times on the threshold.

This is called 'pointing the way', and it is also for the deceased to show the way to the netherworld.

It is said that in order not to miss the hour, the deceased will ride the paper cow and paper horse burned by the living to go to the netherworld. And some little ghosts will stumble on the Huangquan Road, stumbling the hooves of cattle and horses, so that the deceased will not be able to enter the ghost gate in time and become a lonely ghost.

The man with the credit knife was still holding a peachwood sword, and walked out of the door in three steps, swinging his sword and slashing towards the empty avenue.

I'm in charge of maintaining order and keeping the crowd out of the way on both sides.

The person who wields a peachwood sword on credit is different from him wielding a knife, one sword with ten steps, ten steps with a sword, and there are words in his mouth.

"Today, open the cow trip, stand in front of the old cow temple, the Buddha comes to lead, the dead return to the west, the west sees the Buddha, and comes back to protect the homeland.

Today, the horse stumbled, and the white horse stopped in front of the door. The immortal family comes to lead the way, the dead go to become immortals, and the immortal court is blessed, and the descendants are blessed in God. ”

In this way, the person with the knife has to go all the way to the cemetery where the caves are fixed, which means that all the way to cut off the stumbling cow and the horse rope to ensure that the road to the funeral of the deceased is unimpeded.

According to our previous division of labor, when he went to open the cattle and horses, I was responsible for consecrating the 'paper cows and paper horses' before they were burned.

I took a pair of paper cow paper horses to the four coffins, and I held my breath and concentrated, throwing away distracting thoughts, silently reciting the mantra of opening the light in my mouth, while mixing the cinnabar pen evenly.

Xiao Dangjia's Dharma Body was watching the excitement from the sidelines, and at this time he spoke: "Let a judge personally see off the deceased, and these four dead people will also have to bear it." ”

I glanced in his direction and smiled, "I'm not wearing a robe now, so I'm not a judge." Put on the robe to be yin and yang, take off the robe and become a mortal. By the way, why have you been hanging around here for the past two days? If you are free, why don't you go and accompany Teacher Qian, she hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet, right? ”

Xiao snorted, didn't pay attention to my question at all, turned around and went to the knife man to watch the excitement.

I rolled my eyes: what a person!

Pack up your mood, re-open the light for the cow and horse, and recite a mantra in your mouth:"

Open your eyes and look at the West, you are doing your work for the dead. Open the nose, smell the grass, and smell the fat of the hay fine smell.

Slap in the face, listen to the ten directions, you take the dead to the West. Open your mouth, eat grass, and you drink muddy soup for the dead.

Happy light, really bright, you know that the owner is kind-hearted. Open the end of the light, through the intestines, drink water and burden you.

Open the foot, walk busy, the dead ride Moliuwang. ”

Reciting a mantra in his mouth, using a pen in his hand, and a cinnabar pen little by little, he finished all the eight paper cow paper horses, and it took a lot of time to look at the time, it was already around noon.

The funeral was not scheduled for time, and there were less than two hours left.

Zhou Youcheng ran before and after to help, and then ran over again and said that the village chief had asked us to come over for lunch.

I looked at the time and said, "I don't have time to eat, and I can't delay the funeral." The time is almost up, come, you can help move all the paper cows and paper horses to the yard. ”

"Eh, okay." Zhou Youcheng should come down, pick up the two paper cow paper horses and run out.

This thing was not sinking in the first place, so I went back and forth with him a few times, and soon piled up all the paper cows and paper horses in the yard.

According to the custom of funeral, the next step is to burn cattle and horses.

The cinnabar used to open the eyes of the cow and horse is mixed with cow blood and chicken blood, making them look really alive at the moment, as if they are going to come to life.

Some of the villagers followed the knife man to watch the excitement, and some gathered around the courtyard, and some simply climbed the wall to see what to do.

I endured the pain and bit my fingertips, the yellow charm was stained with blood, and ignited it with fire, one by one, and the paper cow paper horses were ignited.

At the same time, he kept reciting the mantra in his mouth: "Horses and horses, you have heard that there are a lot of gold and silver treasures of the dead, and the distance to the west is long, and you have to carry them."

Cattle and cattle go up the west slope, there are many children in the dead and the Yangshi, you will leave the clear water, and you will drink the muddy water. ”

The paper cow and paper horse were burned, the fire in the yard was flirting, and the sparks were flying, but the magic was that these smoke and dust sparks did not fly around or splash around, and after the burning, only ashes remained.

I called Zhou Youcheng and the families of the deceased and told them that they could start burning paper money and ingots for the deceased. Cattle and horses are burned, and then paper money ingots are burned, and no matter how many cattle and horses are carried, they can't tire the dead.

After explaining to them, I walked to the door, and looked into the distance waiting for the knife man to come back from the cattle and horses. The time is almost up, and the eight immortals who temporarily carry the coffin are also full of wine and food, and they are all in place, waiting for the funeral.

I didn't have to wait long, and soon the knife man returned, and the time was close to two o'clock in the afternoon, and the time was approaching.

The man with the sword on credit asked the eight immortals to start from the left and bury the four deceased in turn. The first funeral on the left, the family is dressed in linen, the child wears filial piety, and the eight immortals wear bars and ropes, each in place, and screams!

But I saw one by one, the teeth were clenched, the face was red, the face was hideous, and the green tendons on the neck were bursting up. It looks like he has used all the strength to eat, but the coffin just doesn't move and can't be lifted.

The villagers were a little panicked at this time, and they all looked at me and the knife man on credit.

I also frowned, after all, I am not Mr. Yin and Yang, and I am not good at this kind of thing, so I turned my head and asked, "Why don't I invite an immortal family to come and ask?" ”

Xiao came over: "Why don't you ask me?" I'm also a fairy family. ”

I patiently asked, "Do you understand?" ”

"I don't understand." Xiao Dangjia replied confidently.

You're deliberately finding fault, aren't you?

I don't know if he's idle for a while, what's wrong with deliberately adding to the chaos?

At this time, the knife on credit said: "There is no need to work the old immortal family, this is just the wrongful death of the deceased." A resentment suppressed the coffin, which made the eight immortals unable to lift it, it's okay, I can handle it. ”

As he spoke, the man pulled out his peachwood sword again. With words in his mouth, he walked to the coffin, drew circles with his fingers, and tapped lightly on the coffin with a peachwood sword, while reading: "Don't be anxious, don't be annoyed, don't make trouble, you have your own justice." The soul returns to Xi as well, and from then on the yin and yang are understood. ”

After chanting, his right hand was raised, he slapped the coffin lid, and drank in his mouth: "Get up!" ”

When the Eight Immortals heard this, they fought fiercely, and the coffin, which had just been motionless, was finally lifted.

And this is not over, the person who gave the knife recited the spirit mantra in his mouth, which was read when the coffin was funeral: "The coffin is raised in front of the filial piety hall, and the Dharma protector altar is on both sides, first ask Marshal Zhao of the Black Tiger to raise the whip and cut the pass to keep it safe."

The door god guards are divided into left and right, twenty-eight treasure chests, this is not a place to rest, and the dead will walk in the west. ”

After chanting the mantra loudly, the person with the credit knife led the way with a peachwood sword, and the eight immortals carried the coffin behind him, all of them carried it steadily, and they didn't dare to make mistakes.

Because the coffin is carried with the attention of the coffin, where the coffin falls, the coffin is buried, so the coffin can not be touched to the ground before going to the cemetery.

When they arrived at the door, the two members of the family were already waiting at the door with a basin.

Wearing linen and filial piety, holding a basin in his hand, red eyes, crying a few times, and smashing the basin hard.

With a click, the clay pot was shattered.

The man with the knife on credit raised his voice again and recited the mantra of falling the mourning basin: "Kneel in the dust with the golden basin on your head, escort the generals on both sides, kneel in front of the filial piety men and women, and escort the deceased to Yaotai." Kneel! ”

With the word 'kneel', except for the son who took the lead holding the posthumous photo, other relatives and friends knelt on both sides of the road.

The desolate and desolate song cried seven levels and blew up, and the hearts of those who listened to it were stuffy.

The son of the family took the lead with the posthumous photo, followed by the person holding the peachwood sword, followed by the eight immortals carrying the coffin, and finally the suona team, playing all the way, and went straight to the cemetery for the funeral.