Han Daring rode a bicycle to Huzhuang to see his uncle, and not far from Zhuangzi on a bicycle, he saw a family doing white things. In front of this house, there is a colorful archway with blue and white paper flowers, and there is a white paper on the side of the door to pick up money, and a square piece of white paper is pasted on the other side, which reads "Forgive me for not reporting well".

In the old days, I paid attention to the big funeral, and when the family was gone, I had to spend more money to do white things to relieve my distress. The custom of doing white things in Beijing and Tianjin is particularly grand.

At that time, there were "southern rites" and "northern rites" for doing white things, and rich people and poor people were not the same. For example, one of the family's hometown is going to die, and the family is about to run out of breath, and the family has to hurry up to study how to take care of the aftermath, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is the number of ways to arrange the cost of money. Rich families have to hire a general manager, set up an account room, set up accounts, and spend all the expenses of white affairs, and those who have no money don't need to be so troublesome.

But regardless of whether you have money or not, you must first find a "white thing knower", Tianjin Wei is called "big", which is a general term for Tianjin Wei to preside over the wedding and funeral organizers. In the past, ordinary people were not very clear about the cumbersome process of white things, and they were afraid that the organization would be bad and let relatives and friends pick it up, so Tianjin people had to invite "big" whenever there was white things at home.

When the big one comes, he quickly gives it to the deceased, and holds a small burial ceremony, such as a haircut, shaved face, scrubbing, combing hair, and then wearing a "wrap", that is, wearing a shroud. Of course, there are also people who have just swallowed their breath, and when they go to ask for a big time, they will start to clean their faces and scrub their faces at home, and they will be wrapped in clothes and wraps, but they are afraid that if they are delayed for a long time, it will be difficult to wear and wrap as soon as the body is stiff. Tears should not drip onto the wrap during this small burial, otherwise it will be unlucky, and the soul of the deceased will not be able to die.

In the past, this dead man was dressed and wrapped, and those who believed in Buddhism paid attention to full-body Taoist clothes, wore water socks on their feet, and wore blue tweed plates with gold threads and thick soles of blessing shoes. The entire "Diamond Sutra" Dhara Sutra quilt is embroidered with Sanskrit gold characters. This dharani is also called "the death quilt", the common people in the Qing Dynasty could not use it, they had to be used by the concubines and nobles, and the princes and ministers had to wait for the emperor's reward if they wanted to use it.

After dressing and wrapping, put the body of the dead on the auspicious board, which is the bed board that is erected, the feet should be on the wall, and the wall should be hung with a gauze curtain. Then he stuffed a piece of money into the dead man's mouth, saying that it was money, but in fact it was Fang Kong's old money, which was called pressure money, which was the boat money for the dead man to cross the Yin River.

Take out the white cloth of the big five blessings stored at home, and sew it into filial piety robes, filial piety hats, filial piety trousers, and belts. The grandchildren's filial piety hat wears a red pompom in the middle, the grandson's red pompom has to be on the side of the filial piety hat, and the great-grandson wears two red pompoms.

Send a letter to relatives and friends from all walks of life, set up a money paper on the left side of the door, and paste a square white paper on the right, with "forgive forgiveness". I also have to go to the bar room to talk about the bar, and ask the master of the bar room to build a shed. At that time, Tianjin Wei was the most famous "Wei family bar room", and the master in charge called "Wei pigtail", the old man was old and still had a pigtail on the back of his head, so he got his name.

The shed was set up, the lights were lit in the shed, and the paper bundles were placed, like paper people and paper horses, the men died and the paper horses were placed, and the women died and the paper cows were placed. If the deceased is over 60 years old, he will also put a paper sedan chair, four paper sedan chair men, and a pair of boys and girls who lead the way. The obituary of the funeral came out, and relatives and friends from all walks of life came to revoke it, and wreaths, tents, elegiac couplets, and were lined up on both sides according to their identities. If you have money, you have to ask the monk to take turns chanting!

The offering table is placed in front of the head of the deceased, and there is no photo in the middle of the posthumous photo, so the tablet is placed, the incense burner is placed as a tribute, two white candles are lit on both sides, and an oil lamp is lit in the front, and the lamp cannot be extinguished, which is called the everlasting lamp. A brazier is placed in front of the table for filial sons and grandsons to burn paper money for the dead.

Burn paper money are rectangular straw paper, on the top of the moon knock out the square hole money seal, the moon is a kind of iron tool for knocking paper money, cylindrical, one side is like an iron chisel back, the other side is a round edge that is not sealed up and down, the middle is a square core, put on a stack of straw paper, with a hammer to smash is a copper coin shape, because the round edge up and down is not sealed, so the shape of the copper coin is connected to the straw paper, can not fall, the whole sheet is picked up horizontally seven vertical five, several rows of copper coin pattern.

After that, it will be turned on and sent off. Kaiguang is to wipe the eyes, ears, mouth and nose of the deceased with cotton dipped in liquor, and recite auspicious words while wiping. Then use a small mirror to shine from the dead man's head to his feet, which is equivalent to letting the undead look at it for himself, and finally breaking the small mirror.

After the event, it is to send the way, and the way is said to be to send Fulu, and some say that it is to send the dead on the last journey, and they pass through Wangxiangtai smoothly. When sending off the road, it is nine or ten o'clock in the evening, from the older to take relatives and friends with paper cows, paper horses, paper sedan chairs, sedan chairs, boys and girls, wreaths and the like, and the others each have a lit incense in their hands, a team of people walked to the crossroads, burned the paper cows, paper horses and other papers, kowtowed to the fire according to the generation, and then returned to the mourning hall from another way, and could not turn back along the way. The spirit will be suspended for at least three days, and on the third day, the spirit will be resigned.

The topic is too far, let's go on to say that Han Daring saw this house, set up a shed, and the shed was lit with everlasting lanterns, paper people, paper horses, paper sedan chairs, chanting and chanting Buddha, mixed with the sound of weeping and wailing, seeing that this means that he has just died and has not yet sent away.

These are not strange, the strangest thing is that there is a magic charm written on yellow paper and red pen on the door of this house, but who is the dead man sticking a charm! There were many neighbors watching outside the courtyard, and they were looking into the courtyard, and there were bursts of gongs and drums and bells ringing from the courtyard. Looking further into the courtyard, there is an old Taoist wearing a nine-beam Taoist crown and a gossip Yunguang Taoist robe, with two apprentices, in the courtyard.

If you want to say that who did white things at that time, it was common to invite a Taoist priest. But the strange thing is that there is a god table in front of the Taoist priest, there is an incense burner wax skewer, glutinous rice and sulfur, the Taoist priest steps on the gang, holds the sword and pinches the mantra, is grabbing the sulfur glutinous rice, sprinkles it on the candle flame, and the two apprentices throw a rattle and a spiritual rune. It looks like the fake Taoist priest who did it in Xiaoxiguan Prison before.

Although Han Daring was suspicious, but what people were willing to do at home was a private matter, even if they tied their father's corpse to the sky monkey and put it in the sky, they couldn't care about it. So I could only look at it twice, and then rode to my uncle's house.

Han Daring and his uncle like boys, but he gave birth to two daughters in his life, the eldest one just got married in his first year, and the younger one is still a daughter at home. The uncle happily let Han Da'er into the house, and asked people to make tea and serve fruit snacks, which made Sensei more happy.

His uncle was very happy when he heard that Han Da'er had been promoted, but when he heard that he had been transferred to the Investigation Department of the Police Department, he was a little worried. Although Han Daring is full of martial arts, but now in the world of firearms, it is much safer to be a patrol officer on the street than to deal with murderers and bandits every day, so he persuaded him to find someone, it doesn't matter if he doesn't make money in other departments, don't hunt for murderers and thieves, and finally take his life.

Uncle was kind, but Han Daring couldn't say anything else, so he could only agree. Mei finally transferred herself to his side to run errands, and pointed to herself to help him make meritorious contributions, and she must not let herself be transferred elsewhere. Besides, if you are good at investigating murder cases, you might as well not be a police officer if you want to do anything else!

Han Daring told her uncle that her mother wanted to come to see her brother and stay here for a few days by the way, but the weather was humid and she suffered from rheumatism in the past few days, and it was inconvenient to move, so she didn't come. Han Daring bought everything for his uncle, and said that when he was on his uncle's birthday, he would come over to kowtow and pay respects.

Before noon, my uncle hurriedly asked my aunt to put on the dinner, and specially added a few dishes that Han Da'er loved to eat. By the way, let my aunt even arrange dinner, and be sure to stay at home for a few days. During the banquet, Han Dada'er accompanied his uncle to drink a few glasses, and asked about the strange behavior of the family in Zhuangzi who did white things.

Han Da'er and his uncle talked about the strange news that happened in Zhuangzi in the past two days.

The surname of the family is Xu, and the old man Xu in the family who died, his big name was Xu Gui, less than sixty. His wife died early, she was a widower for more than 20 years, and she raised her two sons by herself. Both sons were married, and the family lived in the same yard. This Xu Gui is very short-tempered, and he can't teach children, so he will do it if he doesn't understand, so these two brothers have been beaten a lot since they were young.

The eldest son's name is Xu Dabao, introverted, honest, a bit of a scumbag, a stuffy gourd who can't kick a fart with three legs, is filial piety, and loves his brothers. But after marrying his daughter-in-law, his daughter-in-law is a strong person, and she is also powerful, Xu Dabao is afraid of guilt, and listens to her daughter-in-law, and then she is much worse than Xu Gui, but she still takes care of three meals a day.

The second son's name is Xu Erbao, but he has a short temperament, like his own father, and he talks with him all day long, and the two of them almost do it. These two daughters-in-law are very virtuous and filial, but they can't control the two of them, so they can only let Xu Erbao and Xu Guicheng quarrel with each other.

Although this old Xu lives in the same courtyard with his two sons, he is actually almost the same as a separate family. At most, the eldest son or second daughter-in-law brings the old man the meal every day, and if you want to say that you can eat at one table, it is absolutely impossible, because you haven't said three words yet, maybe you will break the table!

Xu Gui was originally from Tanggu, and in his early years, he caused some trouble at the door of his home, and in order to avoid trouble, he got on an ocean-going ship and worked hard and followed the ship overseas. He has no culture, he can't recognize many words, and he doesn't have much talent. Working on a ship, at most, is to dump some foreign goods. Who knew that after a few trips overseas, he also saved a lot of money.

He was quite old to marry a daughter-in-law, and he married a girl from Huzhuang by the North Canal, and later had two sons. When he went to sea, he was just in time for the Gengzi National Revolution, and Tanggu's hometown was destroyed in the war, after he married his wife, he bought some fields in Huzhuang with the money he had accumulated over the years, and lived by collecting land rent. If it weren't for the money and land in his hands, and his temper that is not human, it is estimated that these two sons would have moved out long ago.

Xu Gui went out for a walk a few days ago, maybe he was exposed to the wind outside, he was so tired that he ate dinner and went to bed early, and he swallowed his breath in the middle of the night, and the doctor didn't have time to ask, and the person died suddenly. The two sons hurriedly reported to Dibaona, and the police station also sent a servant to examine the body, there were no external injuries, and there was no sign of poisoning, saying that it was a sudden death, and the corpse was filled. The two sons hurriedly found the eldest and did white things.

Originally, this was just an ordinary white matter, who knew that in the middle of the night the next day, Xu Gui's corpse would be defrauded.

In the past, many independent courtyards were three bright and five dark, with three main rooms, wings on both sides, and a shadow wall behind the inverted room. The main house is a three-room room, and the middle one is a hall house, and the overall shape is like a yarn hat wing. Xu Gui's family is rich, and the yard is not small. The house was built neatly and neatly, the two sons and daughters-in-law lived in the east and west wings respectively, and Xu Gui himself lived in three main houses.

That night, Xu Gui's body was parked in the living room in the middle of the main house, and the body was parked on the auspicious board, with his feet against the wall, and an offering table in front of his head, with incense and candles, offerings, and ever-bright lamps. There is a shed in the yard, and there are paper people and paper horses. Although the family is rich, the second child does not agree to do it, saying that he is going to die, and he has to live in the future. The eldest daughter-in-law also means this, the eldest listens to the daughter-in-law, and the second daughter-in-law can't speak, so it is not too big, and only a few monks are invited to chant all night in the shed.

Xu Gui has a bad temper and poor popularity, and the relatives and friends who come to revoke the family are really limited, and only some neighbors help out. There were a few young people, who did not leave at night after their busy work during the day, so they rested in a small room on the side. said it was a break, but in fact, a few people were secretly pushing pai gow in a whisper, anyway, the monks outside were singing and singing, and they couldn't hear the sound of these boys pushing pai gow.

The two sons took turns to keep vigil, the eldest keeping watch in the first half of the night, and the second keeping watch in the second half of the night. At this time, it was the boss who kept the spirit, and he knelt in front of the spirit to burn paper. When it was nearly three watches, there was a sudden gust of wind in the courtyard, and for a time the dust was full of the courtyard, and the paper people and paper horses in the shed were blowing, and the paper sedan wreath was crooked.

The lamp in front of the table flickered on and off, and the boss hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold the lamp, but the evil wind was swept into the house, and the embers of the paper money burning in the brazier swirled with the whirlwind, and the house flew all over the house with a bang, and the house and outside the house were full of paper ties, and the boss was afraid of going out of the water, so he hurriedly threw himself with his hands. One was not paying attention and fanned the old man's face.

The eldest son was just about to reach out and cover it, when he heard the voice of a wild cat on the roof. The lantern in front of the table went out with a "flutter", and the whirlwind in the yard stopped suddenly! Seeing the dead man Xu Gui lying on the auspicious board, he fluttered and suddenly sat up!