Chapter 11 The Ancestral Hall
Hearing this, my heart suddenly became bitter, and at the same time, I said a little unwillingly: "Are you so sure, I am the village keeper?" ”
"Or else?" The old smoker looked at me, his expression still heavy.
I retorted: "You said that the people who guard the village are born with five disadvantages and three deficiencies, lack of soul and soul, I am not good, is it possible that I and the old madman glanced at each other, and also blinded the heavens?" ”
I've wanted to ask this question for a long time.
It's just that I've endured it all the time.
And I also knew that even if I asked, the old smoker would not necessarily explain it to me, and every time he spoke, he would babble so vigorously that it would be as if he would kill him if he wanted to finish an answer.
However, the old smoker looked me up and down again and then said: "Five disadvantages and three shortcomings, of which the five disadvantages are widowhood, widowhood, loneliness, loneliness, and disability, among which you have already accounted for three things, and the three shortcomings refer to money, life, and power." ”
"What else do you have besides your life?"
I listened, and for a moment I was a little speechless.
Speaking of which, I really seem to have the majority of it.
But if that's the case, what about the old madman?
He is definite and blinded......
Not like me?
As if seeing my doubts, the old smoker spoke again, "You and I...... Old madmen are different. ”
"Five disadvantages and three shortcomings, he has not lacked anything since he was born, and it is only because of some reasons that he stayed in this Niang'er Village."
"But if that's all there is to it, it's really not certain that you're the village keeper."
"After all, ordinary people will inevitably have something missing in their life."
"The only thing that can be sure is your life!"
"Life?"
I'm a little speechless.
But the old smoker didn't mean to say anything more to me, and walked directly to the end of the black coffin, and then beckoned me to the end of the white coffin before he spoke again: "Send the coffin!" ”
Without waiting for me to ask, the old smoker directly pushed the black coffin towards the depths of Niang'er Village, and didn't even give me a chance to refuse.
This made me reluctant to follow the old smoker and push the remaining white coffin to follow.
What surprised me a little was that I originally thought that the coffin would be very heavy, after all, it was wooden, and there were corpses in it, whether it was one or two, it should also be very heavy, and normal people had to have four people to carry it more easily.
However, I pushed the white coffin, but I didn't feel the slightest resistance, and I didn't even expend much effort.
It also made me feel even more empty.
It's just weird, after all.
It's just that the old smoker didn't give me a chance to ask, and I had to follow him.
After a while, the old smoker stopped.
There is also an extra room in front of us, but this house is different from the houses in Niang'er Village in my impression, it is much larger, and it does not have the rotten feeling of other houses, and it looks like it gives people a very grand feeling.
The old smoker said that this is the ancestral hall of Niang'er Village.
In this, there is the soul of the entire Niang'er Village.
When he had stopped, the old smoker motioned for me to put the white and black coffins side by side, and then, without waiting for me to ask any more, he made a fire and threw it on the two coffins, and in an instant, the two coffins were ignited by the fire, and in an instant they were burned to ashes.
At that speed, it was as if paper was burning, not a coffin.
Even the corpses inside disappeared like coffins in an instant.
I was dumbfounded, and my scalp was tingling.
This can't be described as weird anymore.
Although I was taught by an old madman to read and write, and I didn't know much, I also knew that under normal circumstances, just a piece of wood the size of a coffin would not be able to burn it in a while.
Not to mention human corpses.
When the old smoker left, I still dealt with it.
After a long while, I couldn't help but ask, "Old smoker, what's going on?" ”
The old smoker didn't answer me, but knelt down directly towards the ancestral hall and kowtowed three times.
After the three heads were knocked over, a gust of wind suddenly blew up, and the ashes left over from the burning of the coffins and corpses were blown into the ancestral hall at the same time as if they had been pulled by something.
Looking at this scene, my scalp was even more numb.
However, this is not the end of the story.
After the ashes were blown into the ancestral hall, familiar voices began to come to my ears, the voices of women who would have only appeared in my burning paper money and in my dreams, as if they were right in my ears.
There was laughter.
There was crying.
There are also voices that I can't hear clearly.
Someone was calling me by name.
There are also people who seem to be calling the name of the old smoker.
The appearance of these voices made me feel a chill behind me in an instant.
I subconsciously looked at the old smoker and said, "Old smoker, did you hear anything?" ”
The old smoker was smoking one cigarette after another, his eyes were fixed on the ancestral hall and he never moved away, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
Hearing my words, the old smoker looked at me, and after taking another puff of cigarette, he said in a deep voice, "Let's go first." ”
I know the old smoker probably didn't hear those sounds.
But he should know something.
However, he obviously didn't mean to say more, so I could only honestly follow him out of the ancestral hall.
When I arrived at the place where I lived, the old smoker suddenly seemed to have been seriously injured, and before he could sit down, he vomited out a mouthful of blood, and his face was even more bloodless.
I was startled, and was about to help him, but the old smoker waved his hand to let me leave him alone, and then took out his cigarette stick and lit it, and took a sharp puff, and his face looked a little better at the same time.
After sitting down, the old smoker looked at me again and said, "From tomorrow onwards, you will go to the ancestral hall to burn paper at night." ”
"Why?" Hearing this, I was slightly stunned.
Although I had never been to the ancestral hall of Niang'er Village before, this time I went with the old smoker, but it gave me some very bad feelings, which made me subconsciously a little repulsed.
But the old smoker has a very tough attitude.
After taking another puff of cigarette, his voice was a little cold, "If you don't want to die." ”
"Just go!"
"And." He looked at me again, "Prepare some paper money." ”
"Tomorrow I will send some to every household in Niang'er Village."
"And when you send it, you have to shout, you're getting married."
"As loud as you can!"
When I heard this, I was directly stunned, and asked a little puzzled, "Why am I getting married?" ”
"I don't even know about it."
The old smoker pointed to the room with the opposite door.
"Tomorrow will be your day of great joy."
"Now Lord Chenghuang has noticed you."
"If you don't marry her."
"In less than three days, you will surely die!"