"I'm busy shopping for groceries right now. Besides, I'm not Mr. Baishier, and I'm not a relative or descendant of your family. You... what did you ask me to come over for?"
I got used to swearing and almost lost my quality.
On the other end of the phone, Xia Shuishui's voice rose two points:
"Xiang Yunfeng, why are you so heartless? Even as a friend! Can't I invite you here? I tell you, if you dare not give me face! I will ask my uncle to arrest you and put you in jail. "
"Don't mention it, how good is our relationship? Your grandfather is my grandfather. I've actually been ready to go." I said.
After saying this, I couldn't help complaining in my heart: "If any man marries you in the future, he will be unlucky for eight lifetimes."
To tell the truth, given her natal background and being the only daughter of the Xia family, the man would never dare to bully her, and she was the only one who bullied the man.
When I arrived at Xia's house around 10 o'clock, the funeral procession was already lined up and ready to leave.
Today, the sky is blue and the clouds are white, the wind is sunny and beautiful. There are many people coming to participate in the wedding ceremony, and I basically don’t know them.
There were more than ten strong men responsible for carrying the coffin alone. Xia Shuishui was dressed in white as a dutiful son, and her father was also dressed in dutiful clothes. He was holding a photo of Mr. Xia's death. This white event was huge in terms of the number of people. .
In those days, there were still such idle things, but now you hardly see such scenes. Nowadays, in many places, especially in rural areas, unofficial things are done secretly in the middle of the night in order to save money.
In order to show respect, I changed into more formal clothes before I came, and also tied a small white flower on my chest.
After a brief chat with Xia Shuishui, I learned that Mr. Xia’s burial place is on Peach Blossom Mountain a few kilometers away. It would take at least two hours for a large group of troops to walk there. Because of the distance, we set off so early. We had to arrive at noon. The coffin was buried before twelve o'clock.
This is a bit puzzling to me, because such rich and famous families basically have family burial places or cemeteries. Why should Mr. Xia be buried alone in the remote Peach Blossom Mountain?
There must be an explanation for this arrangement. It would be great if Uncle Cha was around. He should know what's going on.
Soon, someone shouted: "The auspicious time has come! The coffin is ready!"
Everyone started to leave.
Along the way, golden boys and girls held up paper bundles, crying piteously, soul flags stood in many places, and paper money floated down all over the sky. Pedestrians passing by couldn't help but stop and watch.
I mingled in the middle of the team and looked up to see the expressions on the faces of the dozen or so strong men carrying the coffin in front of me. The ropes as thick as a child's arm and the eight bamboo bars were all slightly bent. How heavy it was... ... I wanted to secretly take two photos with my mobile phone, but I didn't dare.
The funeral procession went all the way up the mountain. The group placed the coffin under the sunshade that had been set up in advance. Everyone took a break to drink water, and now they are waiting for the auspicious time to be buried.
I looked at the surrounding environment and sighed that the feng shui of this place was so good. No wonder I chose to bury people here.
The mountains around this cemetery are undulating and winding. The main mountain behind it is shaped like a dragon's tail. The mountains that can be seen in the front are overlapping and seem to be surrounded by hills. This is what Feng Shui masters call "the ins and outs". If It would be great if there is a small river at the foot of the mountain.
"Dude, are you hot?"
At this time, a man suddenly came to me to lend a hand, and I recognized him as one of the dozen coffin bearers.
I handed over the lighter and asked, "How long will it take to wait?"
He lit a cigarette and held it in his mouth. He took out his cell phone and looked at it and said, "It's almost there. He will be buried in less than twenty minutes."
I nodded and asked, "I saw along the way that the coffin's bars were bent. Is it very heavy?"
"Well, I don't know what's going on. It's so heavy." He looked around and whispered, "I've helped someone carry a coffin before, and this one weighs several times more."
"Maybe a coffin," I said.
He shook his head: "It's just a coffin made of iron. It doesn't take so much effort for us to lift it. Look at what my place is like."
He took off his coat and showed me his shoulders, and I saw large areas of redness and swelling from the pressure of the bar, and the skin was broken.
He flicked the cigarette ashes and said: "I guess they must have put something in the coffin. It may be something that the old man liked during his lifetime, which is a burial object. After all, he is a rich family and doesn't care about this."
"What is your relationship with the Xia family?" I asked.
He smiled and said: "I have nothing to do with Mao. I was introduced by a friend to help carry the coffin. I was given two thousand yuan after the lifting."
"If it doesn't matter, why do I ask you for help?" I asked again.
He explained: "Maybe it's because I was born in the year of the Ox. There were twelve of us carrying the coffin, and these twelve people were all born in the year of the Ox."
He threw the cigarette butt to the ground and stamped it out, then asked me in a low voice: "Hey, buddy, have you heard of a rumor?"
"What rumors?"
He turned his head and looked over there, with a slightly frightened look in his eyes and said, "There are rumors that the old man lying in the coffin has no head."
"What did you say?"
"It's just headless!" He gestured: "No head."
"Impossible! Who the hell is talking nonsense!"
"I don't know! Anyway, I heard what others said. It is said that the person who customized the shroud for me saw it. There was a sack on the body above the neck. He removed it with a gentle touch of his hand. The sack was stuffed with cotton. .”
"Don't talk nonsense like this."
"I know, isn't this just a casual chat between us brothers in private? Let's go, it's time, call us over."
"You go over first, I'll go right away."
After watching the people leave, I thought about it and took out my cell phone to make a call.
"Boy, what's the matter?"
"Uncle Cha, have you returned to Nanping?"
"I came back early and was renovating my home. Are you still in Chun'an?"
"Well, Uncle Cha, let me tell you something. Do you know where I am now?"
"You kid, I'm not a god, how could I know?"
"Uncle Cha, guess what day it is today?"
"Today? Is...the day when the old man was buried?"
"That's right, I'm following them on the mountain now, and will be buried soon. When I came here just now, I saw that Mr. Xia's coffin was very heavy, and the skin was broken on the shoulders of more than a dozen strong men carrying it. Moreover, the coffin had already been lifted. The coffin was sealed with nails in a few days, and I heard from Xia Shuishui that his father put a toad in the coffin."
"Release the toad? Are you dead or alive?"
"It must be alive. I didn't see it, so I don't know, but I heard a noise in the coffin in the mourning hall. Xia Shuishui said it was the sound of a toad hitting the coffin lid."
After listening to my words, Uncle Cha on the other end of the phone suddenly stopped talking.
I thought the signal on the mountain was not good, so I shouted several times.
After more than two minutes, Uncle Cha spoke again: "The golden cicada jumps out of the coffin...whose idea was this?"
"Uncle Cha, I thought it was a trick you gave to the Xia family before you left."
"I didn't! You kid, don't blame me for everything! To be honest, except for that nice little girl, I don't have a good impression of their family. Have you received the money for doing things? "
I hurriedly said: "I have only received half of the money for now, and it is all in my card. Uncle Cha, are you really sure you don't want it?"
"No, I feel uneasy spending that kind of money that is stained with karma."
"Okay, then don't worry, Uncle Cha, I will donate the money to those in need according to your last wish."
"What last wish? I'm not dead!"
"A slip of the tongue is not a last wish! It's a heart wish!"
"Uncle Cha, you haven't told me what the Golden Toad said about jumping into the coffin."
"What can I do if I tell you? The result is fixed and cannot be changed. Besides, it would be very troublesome for me to explain this matter to you, a layman, about Zhu Youke. All you need to know is that it has something to do with wealth. ”
I was talking to Uncle Cha when I suddenly saw Xia Shuishui waving at me not far away. She motioned for me to come over quickly, so I said something and hung up the phone in a hurry.
The person who presided over the affairs of the Xia family this time was a new gentleman. I don’t know where he found it. He was quite old and had white hair.
As soon as I passed by, I heard the old man read loudly in a loud voice: "Green smoke curls up to the nine heavens! Relatives have gone to the west and will never return! Family bones are buried in a pile of loess! We will renew our fate in this life in the next life!"
"The auspicious time has come!"
"Relatives and friends line up! Dutiful sons kowtow!"
Xia Shuishui and a group of immediate family members immediately knelt down and kowtowed.
Subsequently. The old gentleman took a broom, symbolically swept it three times in front of Mr. Xia's coffin, and said loudly: "Auspicious day! Heaven and earth are open! Mr. Baihe is here! Be the Xia family's grave sweeper! Sweep the eastern Jiayi wood ! Sweep out the life-giving souls of the wood of A and Yi! Sweep out the fire and life-giving souls of Bing and Ding from the south with the second sweep! Sweep out the life-giving souls of the fire and Bing-ding from the west! Sweep out the life-giving souls of the water of Geng and Shen from the west with the third sweep!"
He immediately said loudly: "Sweep three times and get five seals! One seal for blessing from the heavenly official! Two seals for good health in the underworld! Three seals for longevity for strangers! Four seals for white evil to disappear! Five seals for prosperous descendants!"
"bye!"
A group of people kowtowed again.
The old man cleared his throat, and I knew that the next paragraph should be about Po Tu Jue, which was nothing more than reciting those few sentences: "The three strange things in the sky, the sun, the moon and the stars, penetrated the sky and the earth, and the ghosts and gods were frightened. The gods bowed their heads and worshiped, and the evil evil cracked the gap between them. Keep walking, the sky is clear, the earth is clear, the ground is broken today, good luck and good fortune... these words."
Then he probably had to wait until the coffin was put into the pit. He was reciting the previous paragraph: "The time is auspicious, please bring the coffin to the hall. The time is auspicious, the heaven and the earth are open. The first move brings money and food, the second move brings descendants, the third move brings gold and silver, the fourth move brings wealth. Yes, there will be blessings and fortune in the five moving earths, and noble people will go to the mountains to bury the dead and ascend to heaven early."
I feel like I can fuck me, but I'm a thin-skinned person and don't dare to show off in front of so many strangers, so I just think about it in my mind.
After a few seconds, as I expected, the old gentleman began to read these words.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he read the beginning, a loud sound of firecrackers suddenly came from the foot of the mountain.
The old man who presided over the wedding might have thought that this was the master's arrangement, so he immediately started reading louder.
As a result, the sound of firecrackers became louder and louder! The sound is so dense that it feels like Chinese New Year! As a result, many people couldn't hear what he was saying!
Xia Shuishui's father's face changed. He immediately stood up and said to the people next to him: "Go and find out what this is doing! Just say that there is something silly happening on the mountain! Don't cause trouble for us!"
This man kept saying yes, and he was about to go, when everyone suddenly looked up to the sky, including me.
"boom!"
"Snapped!"
I saw colorful fireworks blooming in the sky in broad daylight.
At this moment, the expressions of everyone in the Xia family changed.
Especially Xia Shuishui's father, his face was ashen! Veins loomed on his forehead, obviously he was extremely angry.
Yeah, this is a sad day, who the hell comes here to set off fireworks?
I followed a group of people and ran over to look down the mountain! I saw a few black Passats parked at the foot of the mountain, and a group of young men dressed as gangsters were smoking cigarettes and lighting firecrackers.
When I saw the leader, my eyes gradually narrowed.
At the foot of the mountain, hundreds of meters away, I saw Li Kangyang, dressed in a suit and tie, holding a cigarette in his hand and saying hello to me from a distance.
