Not long after, Liu Wensan pushed open the door and walked out, and the door of Blind Chen's room next to him also opened in response.
I briefly talked about opening the coffin and the statue of Duke Ai.
Liu Wensan, who was still a little sleepy, suddenly became sober and a little excited.
Gou Huang led the three of us out of the courtyard and to the main room of Gou's family.
At this moment, Liu Yushu was nowhere to be seen, and the tied people were sent to unknown places.
Outside the main room, in the open space at the junction of the branch of the hanging river and the gate of the Gou family, there are quite a few tables, chairs, and table cases.
The iron coffin was placed on a long table. Three sacrifices were worshiped in front of it, and incense and candles were lit.
The incense was placed in a three-legged bronze tripod. It seemed that the incense burner was valuable and should be an old item.
The brazier on the ground burned mostly paper ingots and paper copper coins.
At this moment, the fire was dim, the smoke was lingering, and the air was filled with the aroma of incense and burning paper.
Gou Santang changed into a light blue gown and wore a round hat with a long tail feather on the top of the hat.
This is not the kind of official uniform hat worn in the Qing Dynasty. It has an air of cleanliness.
It's just that the Gou family's family fortune seems somewhat inconsistent with this aura.
There were about ninety people collecting corpses, all standing in front of the tables and chairs without sitting down.
After we walked out of the main room, Gou Santang also looked over and nodded.
Of course, I returned the favor.
Blind Chen is relatively plain and has no expression.
Liu Wensan was much more direct, looking at the iron coffin with some expectancy.
Gou Huang took us to sit in front of the three empty seats, which were closest to the iron coffin.
Dusk has fallen, and the flaming clouds in the sky, reflected by the setting sun, reveal a blood-like loneliness.
Gou Santang hammered his chest, coughed twice, and seemed to clear his throat.
He shouted angrily: "The twenty-fifth generation head of the Gou family, Gou Santang, respecting the instructions of our ancestors, took the coffin of our ancestor Ai Gong and placed it in front of the gate of the Gou family's house!" "The Gou family will bow to our ancestors!"
His voice was so loud it almost echoed off the tributaries.
At the same time, on both sides of the main hall of the Gou family and at the door openings of the corridor, a large number of people wearing the Gou family's unique clothes, commoners and white cloth-wrapped hats, filed out. There are about a hundred men, women, old and young who can come out together.
They arrived behind Gou Santang in an orderly manner.
Gou Santang was the first to kneel down, and they all knelt down at the same time.
"Kneel down three times and kowtow nine times to thank Duke Ai for protecting his descendants. The Gou family will bloom and the family will live forever!"
He shouted again loudly and kowtowed three times in a row!
The members of the Gou family also completely imitated his actions.
But Gou Santang's words shocked me.
Ancestor of the Gou family, Duke Ai?
Did I hear it correctly? Is it the Ai Gong in the statue of Ai Gong?
But isn't that the ancestor of the corpse hunter?
Turning my head to look at Liu Wensan, I found that his eyebrows were also knitted into the Chinese character Sichuan, his hand was tightly holding the handle of the seat, and his eyes were full of doubts.
However, those who were collecting corpses behind the Gou family did not seem to be surprised. They seemed to have known all this for a long time.
After thinking for a moment, Gou Santang knelt down and kowtowed three times before standing up again.
He picked up a stick of incense and looked back at everyone.
While his forehead was red, there was also a bit of red light on his face, and he said in a deep voice: "Most of the corpse collectors in the world don't know that the Gou family is the descendant of Duke Ai. Fortunately, there are still some who have stayed in the Gou family for a long time. These are the corpse collectors." The orthodoxy of the corpse man! This second time of kowtow, Gou Santang invites you to kowtow to the coffin of Grandmaster Ai Gong!"
I frowned more and more. This matter did not seem to be a fraud, but the word "orthodox" mentioned by Gou Santang made me feel biased.
Not to mention that the Gou family actually didn't have that many corpse collectors. I had heard from He Xianshui before that they only had a few people left, and then they taught a group of people, and some of them were hired.
Furthermore, most of these people are only interested in profit, so how can they be orthodox?
Although Liu Wensan is not very disciplined, he is much more orthodox than these people.
However, Gou Santang's words were obviously very useful to those who were collecting corpses below.
They all looked extremely excited and knelt down along with Gou Santang.
Liu Wensan also stood up and knelt sideways facing the iron coffin of the statue of Ai Gong.
After kneeling and kowtowing three more times, everyone stood up and returned to their seats to sit down.
There were already some blood stains on Gou Santang's forehead, but he was not aware of the pain, and the excitement on his face was even more intense.
The Huoshaoyun has been swallowed up by the night, and the last trace of skylight has disappeared.
All the lights in front of the Gou family went out, and I don't know when they made preparations. The small river banks on both sides of the tributary of the hanging river were actually filled with white candles, and some servants of the Gou family went to light them.
Coupled with the light from the mourning hall itself and the slowly coming out of the moonlight, the line of sight was not much hindered.
Gou Santang faced the coffin and continued shouting loudly: "This third kneeling is for the descendants to respect the ancestral instructions, open the ancestor's coffin, take the good corpse to change clothes, and use the feathered corpse to sit in the Gou family hall. It will not rot for thousands of years and receive The incense of descendants, let’s see the Gou family prosper again!”
This time Gou Santang knelt down alone and kowtowed three times!
The sound of "dong dong dong" almost formed an echo.
Gou Santang was kowtowing like this, and I was even afraid that he would faint.
When he finally got up again, he just raised his hand!
Immediately, three people from the Gou family came out. Each of them held some tools in their hands and came to the iron coffin on the long mourning hall table!
The iron coffin also has iron nails. According to ordinary principles, the nails should have rusted and integrated with the coffin lid after being soaked in water for so many years.
But when the Gou family was trying to pry the nails out of the coffin, there were no obstacles.
The nails were intact and not rusty at all.
I sighed in my heart, this was entirely due to the dragon energy in the hole. Although the coffin was made of iron, it was still alive.
About half an hour later, hundreds of iron nails were removed from the iron coffin.
Then there was a soft creaking sound, and a crack appeared in the coffin lid. I didn't know if it was because my eyesight was dazzled, but a puff of white air came out.
Of course, this white air is fleeting.
"Open the coffin!" Gou Santang shouted!
Together with the three Gou family members, he lifted the coffin lid! The coffin was exposed to the moonlight.
Those who retrieved the corpses all looked extremely nervous.
Liu Wensan also raised his head, wanting to look inside.
However, the height of the coffin happened to be equal to the head of the person sitting down, and no one stood up now.
After all, this was an important moment for the Gou family, and no one caused any trouble or broke the rules.
Gou Santang looked straight at the inside of the coffin. His body was trembling slightly, and he said tremblingly: "Get the body up! Please ask our ancestor Ai Gong to come out of the coffin."
The four of them reached into the coffin to fish it out.
The next moment, a white-haired old man was carried out of the coffin.
I was also stunned.
