If the soul of the dead is not dispersed, it needs to be sacrificed to comfort and forgiveness the spirit, and if it is reluctant to go, it will turn into ghosts and disturb the people.

Xiaolu's grandmother is in good health, although she is over 70 years old, she is not deaf or blind, and it is common for her to go up the mountain to collect firewood and work in the field. In rural areas, there are many elderly people who are physically tough, and this is also an indirect exercise in physical fitness through perennial labor.

But there are unforeseen circumstances, once Xiaolu grandma went up the mountain to collect firewood as usual, this time it was a whole day, seeing that the sky was getting dark, and the family did not see the old man come back. So I hurriedly called the neighbors to go up the mountain to search, and everyone shouted along the path that usually went up and down the mountain while holding a flashlight to search, so tossed down, or no gain.

Almost every household in the countryside has a dog, and Grandma Xiaolu also has a big yellow dog, this dog has been following Grandma Xiaolu for seven or eight years, and he usually never leaves. But today it is gone, and because everyone is in a hurry, they have forgotten its existence for a while.

Seeing that it was getting darker and darker, everyone still hadn't found Grandma Xiaolu, so they were going to go back to the village to call the police first, and by the way, call more people to look for it together. On the way back, a sudden dog barking attracted everyone's attention, and followed the sound to find it, and then found the figure of Grandma Xiaolu.

At this moment, the person has been dead for a long time, and his body is stiff, depending on the situation, he should have accidentally fallen, and then rolled down to this place, with abrasions all over his body. Everyone hurriedly carried Xiaolu's grandmother's body back, according to the customs of Xiaolu's hometown, when encountering this kind of horizontal death, the corpse generally has to be placed at home for seven days.

During these seven days, some special ceremonies are held to send off the deceased, relatives and friends at home must be present, the more people the better, and the more lively the atmosphere, the better. The first is to comfort the deceased and let them leave with peace of mind, and the second is to increase yang energy and prevent the dead from still being nostalgic and disturbing people.

In this way, the body of Grandma Xiaolu was sunk in a cold coffin and placed in the living room for everyone to worship. But it wasn't until the seventh day, and it happened to be the day when Grandma Xiaolu was going to be buried.

According to the auspicious time of the family, the time for burial is coming soon, Xiaolu and other grandchildren are kneeling in the compound, and the fathers are busy in the hall. Originally, everything was going in order, but at this time, Xiaolu's father suddenly screamed a few times.

I saw that after he shouted, he looked at everyone around him with a blank face and a dull gaze, as if he had lost his soul. At the beginning, no one noticed that Uncle Xiaolu was the first to find out, and he pulled Xiaolu's father over and said nervously.

"Second, second, what's wrong with you?"

Xiaolu's father didn't speak, he stared at the uncle for a while, and said in a hoarse voice.

"You're a big kid!"

This eldest child is the nickname of the uncle, and when Xiaolu's father finished saying this, he startled Grandpa Xiaolu, who was sitting on the side, and after thinking about it for a while, Grandpa Xiaolu suddenly cried. The people present were also at a loss, Grandpa Xiaolu sat on the ground while crying, and kept chattering about Grandma Xiaolu, it turned out that Xiaolu's father usually called Uncle Brother, and the name of the eldest child was only called by grandparents.

And judging by the tone of Xiaolu's father's speech just now, including the voice, it is exactly the same as the grandma who was already lying in the coffin at this time, it is obvious that Xiaolu's grandmother is reluctant to let her family go, so she took Xiaolu's father at the last moment.

Seeing this scene, the relatives and friends who came to mourn all panicked, and everyone hurriedly retreated outside the house, and soon only the people of Xiaolu's family were left in the hall where the coffin was placed.

A few adults told Xiaolu to stay in the courtyard and never enter the hall, but Xiaolu couldn't bear it. Thinking about his grandmother when he was alive, he loved him the most, and now that he is the eldest grandson, he has a reason to go and see what happened.

So Xiaolu sneaked up behind the adults, slipped in, and leaned against the window to see what was going on inside. Through the window, Xiaolu vaguely saw that his father was lying on the clay kang, and several uncles and uncles were sitting around, and his grandfather was crying and talking.

"it, go away, don't toss the child anymore! Go down and wait for the blessings, and we will go to the grave to see you during the New Year's holidays. ”

Then Xiaolu suddenly saw his father's mouth move, and said this in an extremely strange voice.

"What's the quarrel, I know, the second child is also my son, if it wasn't for the last resort, I wouldn't have gotten on him."

The tone of his speech was exactly the same as when Grandma Xiaolu was alive, and Xiaolu couldn't help but be taken aback after hearing it, and shouted unconsciously.

"!"

At this moment, the father of Xiaolu, who was possessed, pointed to the window where Xiaolu was lying on his stomach and said.

"Quickly call my eldest grandson in, what are you doing hiding outside?"

The uncle said that it was too late, so he hurriedly rushed out, and when he saw that I was peeking, he hurriedly pulled me in and scolded.

"Disobedient little one, I'll clean you up later!"

Father Xiaolu chirped a few times and said lightly.

"I don't want to be a child, but I can't go."

"Why?"

The adults in the room hurriedly asked, only to see the possessed Xiaolu Dad first looked left and right, and finally said unhurriedly.

"Isn't it customary to put the knife used to kill New Year's pigs at home, this guy is so powerful! I'm so scared that I don't dare to take a step closer now, my body can be transported out by you, but my soul can't get through, why should I go to the ghost gate to report! ”

Xiaolu's father has never been a joker, let alone when his mother is about to be buried, at this time, Xiaolu is very sure that the father in front of him must be right, but why does his grandmother's voice come out of his mouth. When everyone looked up, they really saw that there was indeed an inconspicuous pig-killing knife standing at the door.

The uncle was an impatient, and before everyone in the room could react, he quickly stepped forward and threw the iron tongs out of the courtyard, and also tore off the door gods and couplets of the two doors of the hall.

When he returned to the house, the uncle said to the possessed Xiaolu father.

"Mother, now you can go into the ground, come out as soon as you can, I'm afraid the second child's body can't stand it."

"I know, I'm not done yet, there's one more thing. You should talk to the third child, let her go back to her mother-in-law's house, after a year, everything will be fine, let her persist again! ”

The father of the possessed Xiaolu asked, and everyone in the house listened and quickly nodded and agreed. After a while, I saw Xiaolu's father slowly look at everyone in the house again, and finally his eyes fell on Xiaolu, at that moment, Xiaolu saw the grandmother who loved him the most from his father's eyes, and finally Xiaolu's father said.

"Okay, it's okay now, you can bury it normally."

As soon as the words fell, Dad Lu, who was sitting in the chair, began to twitch vigorously, and Grandpa and several uncles and uncles stepped forward to grab him tightly. After a while, Daddy Xiaolu stopped convulsing, and after a while, Daddy Xiaolu opened his eyes and wondered while touching his head.

"I'm so dizzy, what's the matter, what are you doing, my mother should be buried."

As soon as everyone saw that Xiaolu's father had recovered, they hurriedly stepped forward to continue to prepare for the burial.

After the funeral, the uncle pulled his aunt aside, first told him what had just happened, and then said in a serious voice.

"Sister, you should be obedient and go back to your mother-in-law's house, listen to your mother's words. Bear with your mother-in-law, didn't my mother say it, it will be fine in a year. ”

My aunt wanted to say something, but finally nodded and agreed, and returned to her mother-in-law's house. A year later, my mother-in-law, who had been torturing my aunt, suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at home.

In the future, every holiday, Xiaolu and his family will burn paper to his grandmother on time to worship, saying that after his relatives die, he will become a ghost and will not hurt his family, Xiaolu firmly believes in this. Since then, Xiaolu's life and Xiaolu's family have been very smooth, and Xiaolu's own academic work is also very stable, maybe in the dark, Xiaolu's grandmother is guarding him.

This story was told to me by a friend from the same village, and I didn't believe it until my grandmother died.

On the night of the burial in our hometown, we had to burn paper, and this time we needed to go to the immediate family members. By the time we had finished kowtowing and burning the paper, it was already dark, and as we were walking back, I looked back, and through the faint light of the fire, I actually saw my grandmother on crutches.

She was hunched on the ground picking up something, and I could see it, when my grandmother suddenly looked up at me, and then showed a familiar smile. At that moment, I didn't feel scared, on the contrary, a sad emotion came up, until the adults in the family came back and pulled me.

In ancient Chinese funeral customs, after the funeral, the corpse should be parked for a period of time before being buried, and this process is called "funeral".

"The funeral of the Zhou people on the west steps is still the guest, and the funeral is taken from the guest, which means the guest. The corpse carrying the deceased will travel far away from home as if it were a guest.

The place of stopping is generally on the west step of the main hall, and the filial piety hall is set up to keep vigil day and night, and the funeral is carried out within three days, and some are buried every other ten years. Some were buried in the temple, and later generations often kept the coffin to be buried in the Buddhist temple.

Until now, each place has different funeral culture and customs, and the taboos are also different. In short, people attach great importance to death, which can be said to be the last journey of life. It's like setting up a banquet at birth, even if the person concerned doesn't know it.