Chapter Eighty-Four: Into the Ground for Peace
Ermao heard that I agreed, quickly knelt down, and kowtowed to me again and again, his head was broken, snot and tears mixed with blood, and there was an indescribable nausea.
I hurriedly said: "Enough, the body you use is your brother's, don't be so uncherished, what I promised to do for you, I will definitely do it, what do you have unfulfilled wishes, say it quickly, if you don't have it, leave quickly, go to the ground." ”
After listening to me, it stood up and thanked me, saying that it had no other wishes.
I nodded and motioned for it to leave, only to see a puff of white smoke coming out of the top of Da Mao's head and diving into the ground, and Da Mao fell down.
Lao Pi and his daughter-in-law hurriedly stepped forward, helped Da Mao up, and asked me casually, "Mr. Zhang, what's wrong with my son?" Why do you faint? ”
"The ghost has been in the human body for too long, the yang energy will inevitably be lost, fainting is a normal phenomenon, get him some vinegar to drink, and then put it in a sunny place to dry it, and it will be fine."
Lao Pi then asked: "Then, Ermao's corpse, when are we going to dig it up?" ”
I didn't answer him, I walked to the door, lifted the curtain, opened the door and walked to the middle of the courtyard, half-covered my eyebrows with my hands, looked at the red sun, and asked Lao Pi in turn.
"What day is the lunar month?"
"May 9th, Mr. Zhang."
I was silent for a moment, and calculated in my heart, "May 9th, well, yes, it's a good day to move the grave." Give me your son's birthday. ”
Lao Pi didn't ask again, went back to the house and wrote a note and stuffed it into my hand, picked it up and looked at it, and pinched it with his left hand, "Okay, that's it!" Lao Pi, you go and find two dragon men from your village, go with us to dig up the bones, you must dig them out before noon, and then find him a sunny boundary to bury him, and everything will be fine. ”
"Okay, I'll go!"
There are not many people in this mountain village where Lao Pi lives, but it is very large, and the road is rugged, more than two hours have passed, and only two strong and burly men have been brought back, I looked at them and confirmed with the two of them the appearance of their subordinates, there is no problem, and then set off.
As soon as they arrived at the depression, they dug up in full swing, Ermao has been dead for many years, the mountain has been eroded by the wind, snow and rain has changed greatly, and it took more than two hours of excavation to see the bones, at this time, the pit has been dug almost a foot deep.
"Hmph, Brother Pi, it's really hard work! Your youngest son is buried so deeply. One of the dragon men said.
Lao Pi didn't answer, the person who answered was me, "It's not strange that after so many years of water and soil action, it is buried so deeply!" Below it may be a centipede nest, be careful. ”
The two of them dug with a hoe and a pickaxe, and the bones were dug out little by little, and sure enough, there was a nest of dozens of large centipedes with a bundle of long.
"Girl, this centipede has become a sperm!" The digging man complained, I stood on the pit and looked down, Ermao's bones had been eroded black by centipede poison, and the nest of centipedes were all strong and lively, I couldn't help sighing and saying, "This nest of big centipedes and this dead man's bones, if it is taken by the head descending master to practice descending, it is just right!" ”
"What? What's the head lowerer? What centipede descends? The talkative man asked three times in a row.
"It's nothing, you don't understand it."
I sprinkled a large handful of quicklime inside, and the centipede that was sprinkled with quicklime quickly dodged and let go of the bones.
"You wear gloves, the bones are poisonous, all right, now you can dig up the bones. A man has two hundred and six bones, and neither one nor one less must be found. If the bones are incomplete, Ermao will not be blind! I told them vigorously, lest the two careless men make a mistake.
The bones were dug up and thrown up piece by piece, and I stitched them together piece by piece......
"Two hundred and one, two hundred and two, two hundred and three, two hundred and four,...... Hey, there's still two pieces missing, so you can look for it carefully and dig it up. ”
The two big men got impatient and complained to me: "You kid is just talking, you don't know the hardships of working people, will you come down and dig it?" ”
I didn't get angry, and patiently replied: "I know you are working hard, I can't hold on anymore!" The two of you belong to the dragon and this child's physiognomy, so you have to do it. ”
Lao Pi also came up to help, "I'm sorry for the two brothers, Mr. Zhang is a master of yin and yang, listen to him, count you helping my brother!" When we're done, let's have a good rub, please. ”
The two dragon men still complained angrily.
"What Yin and Yang Master! I think the yin and yang eggs are pretty much the same. ”
"That is, if it weren't for Brother Pi's face, Lao Tzu would have stopped doing it a long time ago."
Lao Pi had no choice but to compensate me on behalf of them, and I just smiled faintly and didn't say anything.
"Hey, this skull, I dug it up, and then." A child's skull was thrown up from underneath and caught by me.
"Good, it's the last piece!" I said as I put my skull on top of my neck bone.
"Huh! Odd! "I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, how did this skull crack? I'm pretty sure that Ermao didn't fall to his head on the ground, because his pelvis was shattered, obviously his buttocks hit the ground, and he looked at the crack in his skull as if he had been bitten.
"The last piece, this is the last piece! Grab it! ”
"Nonsense, such a big centipede is wrapped around the bones, how can you take it?"
"It's not over if you shoot to death!"
When I heard the word 'shoot to death', I was anxious and shouted "I can't kill", but it was still too late, and the shovel took a picture of the centipede coiled on the bone.
But the strange thing is that this centipede, which is as long as a small arm, is not dead, and is still trying to twist its stump, and I know at a glance that this centipede has some cultivation.
The man who patted the centipede was also a ruthless man, scolded angrily, and a few shovels were slapped, and the centipede became a meat puree, and a fishy smell diffused in the air.
The man didn't take it seriously at all, a shovel pulled out the minced meat of the centipede and the sacrum of Ermao, threw it in front of me, and said, "The last piece." ”
There was movement in the grass not far away, and I saw a black snake with a triangular head crawling into the jungle.
"What's wrong?" Lao Pi asked.
"It's okay, a snake, don't go and recruit it for being poisonous!" I casually replied and began to pack Ermao's bones.
By the time we came to a sunny and somewhat dry mountain area not far away, it was almost half-past twelve, and I told them to dig a pit here and bury it.
Everyone made a move, and it didn't take long to dig a square pit that was one meter long, eight wide, one meter deep, and half a meter deep, spread a straw mat, and arranged Ermao's body neatly, and then filled in the soil for burial.
When everything was finished, I recited the Great Compassion Mantra to the grave, and then stuck a branch on the grave and told Lao Pi to carve a stone tablet as soon as possible and erect it, and then take them away.
Ermao he, he can finally settle in the ground.