"Hurry up, just stick your head in! Do you really want to let my child and I be left alone in that cold and damp place?"

In a courtyard in the slum area of the southern city of Yishou City, there is a crooked neck tree growing in the yard. It is said that it is a crooked neck, and the lowest branch is also three or four meters high, and this lowest branch is tied with a hemp rope. A middle-aged man of twenty-four or five years old, holding one side of the loop hemp rope in each hand, hesitated to think about whether to stick his head into it.

Although this man's expression was not as haggard as Ziliang's, the flowing black qi on his forehead had spread to his entire face. Of course, this flowing black gas is not something that everyone can see! Like Ziliang, Ziliang Niang, and Douer Niang, no one can see it, this black gas is what we often say: 'mildew', when this black mildew reaches a certain amount, it will change people's fortunes, and let people step by step on 'bad luck'!

And this man is at the head of bad luck, so he can be tempted by his dead wife and son.

His wife held their four-month-old son in her arms, standing lily in the air, babbling in his ear. I have to say: this man is a man with a very firm position, no matter how his wife seduces and seduces him, he is unmoved. Although he didn't say anything, as the days went by, repeating the events of the previous day again and again, his dead wife seemed to gradually remember something.

No, just tonight, although he understood in his heart like a mirror, his brain was drowsy, and he was a little confused: unconsciously according to his wife's wishes, he folded the straw paper prepared at home into a square box, and put it under the crooked neck tree in the yard, step by step like a staircase, until he could reach the hemp rope set on the crooked neck tree. I clearly know very well in my heart: how unbelievable all this is, how can this empty cardboard box made of straw paper stand up to itself?

Obviously, all this is an illusion, as long as you stick your neck into it, you will definitely eat the straw paper box under your feet, and you will be dead.

"Hurry, what are you hesitating about? This poor family has nothing! What is there to be ?......nostalgic for?" his wife begged beside him, and according to his observations in the past few days, he knew that his wife was still in a state of ignorance, and the only thing that could make him feel was that his wife tonight was much colder than the previous days, and this coldness was getting worse day by day, and he immediately thought of it: The wife's immediate time seems to be constantly delayed, but the time of its return has not changed, and the cold aura on its body is getting worse and worse, which can only show that the energy of the place where it is staying is stronger!

It's not that he doesn't want to live! It's just that there really is no hope of living!

The promise of the city lord Fei Qing has been delayed again and again, and now it is no longer a matter of compensation! Not only that, but now even the number one gang in Yishou City, and the only gang, Yishoutang, can't control the situation!

Because just yesterday, their chief minister, Putuo, heard that he was a 'divine man' hired by the head of the Yishou Hall at a high price. But this high-paid hired 'god man', after successfully killing dozens of ghosts, was 'heroic and heroic' just yesterday!

This matter also starts with a business opened up by the low-level disciples of Yishou Hall - keeping the spirit is a folk custom, that is, guarding the spirit bed, coffin or spiritual seat.

The wake is also known as: vigil. The ancients believed that a person should return home for a visit within three days of death, so the children waited in the mourning hall for his soul to return. Relatives and friends are with them every night until the body is buried in the coffin. In order to increase their income, the low-level disciples of the Yishou Hall monopolized this vigil.

"The Inner Scene of the Yellow Court: The Heart of the Heart": "The Heart of the Dan Yuan Character Guards the Spirit." Note: "The heart is the source of the Tibetan mansion, and the house of the god of fire in the south, so the spirit is also guarded." “

Wakes have developed into a folk custom, just like the ancient bride had to sit in a sedan chair and share the New Year's money. Because after people die, their souls will stay on earth for a while, and before going to the underworld, they will always return home to have a look. Loved ones are afraid that the soul will get lost on the way home, so they will light a lamp and place it next to the deceased. The living feared that the lights would go out and that the spirits would not find a home, so they sat all night next to the bodies to make sure that the guiding light was always burning. Therefore, it is called "keeping the spirit".

After death, the body should stay at home for a while, which is called 'stopping the spirit'. At night, the family members will guard them to fulfill their filial piety. The wakes are basically limited to three days, and there are those who keep vigils in the mourning booths and mourning halls in the residences, and there are also those who rent the hall in the funeral parlor to keep vigil. In the suburbs, there is still the move of "shelving the three dynasties". In "The Book of Rites: Asking for Funerals", there is "those who are buried after three days will be buried in order to survive." Three days without birth, and without birth. The heart of filial piety has also declined. The plan of the family, the clothes and utensils have also been completed. Relatives can also be far away. Therefore, the saint made a decision for it, and the three-day ritual system was also adopted. “

Therefore, the three-night vigil is not entirely out of superstition, but in three days, the preparations are complete, and relatives and friends from afar can also arrive, which is enough to fulfill the favor.

The fact that Wenzhi was sucked by his wife Dou Erniang is not the only one, nor is it a coincidence. Similar to the incident in their family, there are many families, but the experiences of each family are completely different, even though they are strange, but there has not been a single homicide from beginning to end.

On the third day after Wenzhi was absorbed by Dou'er Niang, an old man from a family not far from the fence set up by the disciples of Yishou Hall died of illness. All the matters handled by this family in the white affairs naturally have to be fully owned by the disciples of the First Hall of Righteousness.

They always carry the corpses of the relatives of the main family to the mourning hall they built, because the city of Yishou is very large, so the four cities of Yishou City in the east, south, west, and north have the white affairs hall built by the Yishou Hall, and because the four white affairs halls will have at least one or two Pepsi every day, and sometimes they will deal with six or seven white affairs a day, so these four white affairs halls are also very well arranged.

Yishoutang can become the only gang in Yishou City, on the one hand, because they are ruthless enough, and on the other hand, it must be because it can be recognized by the majority of residents, otherwise no matter how strong they are, it will not be able to last long!

This mourning hall was rebuilt from a standard three-entry quadrangle, and the disciples of Yishou Hall made full use of every room here, and set up a total of six mourning halls, namely: the 'inverted seat room' next to the gate, which is generally the place where the gatekeeper and the subordinates, or some friends live, were opened by the disciples of the Yishou Hall, and were designed as a mourning hall, a morgue and a place for relatives to rest; Passing through the outer courtyard and entering the second gate, the left and right sides are the east and west wings, which are the places where the sons and ladies of the family live, and the east and west wings have also been changed into two mourning halls by the disciples of Yishou Hall; Then there is the main house of the second courtyard, which is what we often call the hall house, which is basically unchanged: the main house is regarded as a mourning hall, and the left and right 'ear rooms', that is, the 'left and right side rooms' we call are the morgue and the resting place of the deceased's family respectively, and there is not much attention to how to use the two side houses locally, which completely depends on the wishes of the deceased's family. However, the main house, the left and right wings, and the enclosed courtyard of this mourning hall are the most expensive! From the left and right sides of the main house, you can walk to the 'backyard', and there are no left and right wings in the backyard, only the last row of houses in the whole courtyard, which is called: 'back cover room', which is generally used to store sundries and the like. Although the layout and size are similar to those of the left and right wings and the inverted seats, they are also the cheapest two mourning halls in this white hall because these two mourning halls are next to each other.

This is almost enough, if there is any emergency, they will temporarily set up a corpse storage place in the inconspicuous corners of the three courtyards, and order the worship services of the six mourning halls to be accelerated to make room for the next family!

It can really be described as: a unique business, a lot of money!

There is a saying: there is a wrong, and there is a debtor!

Recently, there have been a lot of strange things in the entire Yishou City, and all the main persons in charge of the Yishou Hall are not there, so their disciples are also very cautious. In the beginning, they didn't take any blank business, and left it to each family to deal with it, and they sold them all the funeral supplies at most.

But as the days go by, it won't work! The expenses of the huge Yishou Hall will have to be tens of thousands of dollars a day, and there is no income every day, how can they support such a big stall? Although they are involved in almost all the industries in Yishou City, they are all kinds of income! It is impossible for people to stick to you for a long time?

Therefore, after the first seven years, these disciples in charge of the White Affairs Pavilion could only reopen! However, they still did not touch the funerals of those family members and relatives who died in Long Fengxuan!

But even so, not only did all the six mourning halls in this white hall be rented out, but even the foot of the west wall of the outer courtyard and the foot of the west wall of the backyard still had six corpses. Not only their white affairs hall, but also the other three white affairs halls in Yishou City are similar to here.

If it weren't for the extremely harsh choices they made now, and the fact that many poor families couldn't afford to pay for the White House, I'm afraid there would be more corpses parked here. According to incomplete statistics: hundreds of people die of illness in Yishou City every day on average!

It was a death of illness! It was not an accidental death! Those families who had relatives suffering near Longfeng Xuan, although the family members looked sluggish, but they had no worries about their lives!

When it came to the later time, the relatives in the six mourning halls would rest in the rest room on the side, and the disciples of the Yishou Hall who were responsible for the vigilance were also very dedicated, and the eight disciples of the Shou Tang set up two tables of mahjong on the left and right sides of the mourning hall. One mourning hall accompanies eight security disciples, this is a rigid rule of the Yishou Hall, and it cannot be changed!

However, the rules of Yishoutang are not only overbearing to customers, but also very strict to the disciples in their sect - that is, they must not be disrespectful to the dead! Think about it: people are dead, and their hearts are full of grief, you are laughing here, who will stand it?

In the long night, the eight old men can't stare at each other, right? So, they can play for a while, but they are not allowed to make any sound......

"Bang Bang Bang...... Boom Boom ......"