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Chapter 149 Carrying the Coffin
He Lingjiang followed their gaze and saw the funeral procession, but there were only a few people.

The current young people should be the relatives of the deceased, dressed in plain linen, with a sad face, and the few following behind should be neighbors and friends, with only a hemp rope tied around their waists.

In the middle of the team is a pair of paulownia coffins, which looks quite heavy, but only two people carry this huge coffin in tandem.

The two big men had stern faces, big shoulders and round waists, and were dressed in indigo blue shirts with hemp ropes tied around their waists.

Although he was carrying a heavy coffin, his feet were very stable.

A crowd of people stood by the stall to avoid them, and some of them asked suspiciously, "Which family is this for a funeral?"

"According to our custom here, eight people are used to carry the coffin, and only the child with a pendant who died early will use two people. I think this coffin is the size of an adult, how come there are only two people to carry the coffin?"

"You don't even know that." Someone followed the funeral procession to see the excitement, and then followed along, "This is the old carpenter Jiang from the north of Le'an City."

"Ah... it's actually Carpenter Jiang..." passersby sighed.

This carpenter Jiang was a well-known craftsman in Le'an City.

His carpentry skills can be described as perfect, and the furniture styles he makes are also novel and unique, so many people ask him to do carpentry work.

Even if Carpenter Jiang has a lot of work on his hands and doesn't have time for the time being, the big guy would rather wait in line for him than go to the carpenter next to him.

Even he, some time ago, because his daughter was getting married and was going to pay a dowry, he even went to Jiang Carpenter's place to customize a dressing table for his daughter.

"Why did Carpenter Jiang go like this?"

Although he is nearly sixty, he is not deaf or blind, and he has a lot of strength. Compared with the ordinary old man, he looks much younger and healthier. I have never heard of what kind of illness he has before.

"Who knows?" The man earlier shook his head.

A few days ago, Jiang Feng, the grandson of Carpenter Jiang, came home from the academy. Unexpectedly, when he entered the house, he found his grandfather lying unconscious on the ground.

He was startled and stepped forward in a hurry, only to find that Carpenter Jiang had lost his breath.

Jiang Feng couldn't help crying, and the neighbors heard the news and rushed over, and only then did they know that Jiang Carpenter had passed away.

Although the carpenter Jiang went suddenly, the deceased was already dead, and Jiang Feng, as his only relative, had to press his grief and put him to the coffin with the help of the neighbors.

Now that the weather is getting warmer, according to the local custom, it will only stop for three days, and the funeral will be held today.

Unexpectedly, when it was time for the funeral, something strange happened. The eight coffin bearers couldn't lift his coffin, as if it weighed thousands of pounds, and couldn't move half an inch.

The eight coffin lifters are also veterans of coffin lifts, and they have seen a lot of the world.

But they have been carrying coffins for many years, but they have never encountered such a situation.

Several people looked at each other in dismay, and they all felt that this was quite unfortunate. They bowed their hands to Jiang Feng, then quit the job and left without looking back.

The onlookers were also beating their hearts out.

Just when Jiang Feng was at a loss, two burly men walked out of the crowd, bowed their hands to Jiang Feng, then lifted the coffin with ease, and strode out of the house.

This is someone carrying the coffin!

Jiang Feng didn't care so much, he greeted the neighbors who helped with the funeral and followed, and the funeral team set off smoothly.

The passers-by on the side were amazed when they heard him say so much. They could not have imagined that there was such a strange thing in the funeral of this carpenter Jiang.

He Lingjiang, who was sitting at the back of the booth, narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

She stood up, walked to the front of the stall, and said softly to the stall owner, "Boss, I'll lend you some glutinous rice."

The stall owner didn't know why, but when he cooked porridge in the morning, there was indeed some glutinous rice left, so he took it out from under the wooden board.

"Thank you very much." He Lingjiang nodded in thanks, then reached out and grabbed a handful of glutinous rice, avoiding the crowd and raising it in front of the funeral procession that was coming this way.

The white glutinous rice spread instantly, and then rolled down at the feet of the funeral procession.

The current man couldn't help but stop.

When people buried the coffin, they would sprinkle glutinous rice under the coffin to ward off evil spirits and prevent the corpse from mutating.

However, the coffin has not yet been buried, and the soul of the deceased has not yet been determined, but glutinous rice has been sprinkled on the road, which is very disrespectful.

Jiang's cover couldn't help sinking. Although he was a scholar, and he was eccentric, he was also unhappy at this behavior that obviously broke the customs.

The stall owner was also shocked. How could he have thought that this little lady borrowed the glutinous rice and wanted to sprinkle it on the funeral procession. Didn't she want to collide with the deceased?
Seeing that the current person in the funeral procession stopped and looked towards this side, he could not wait to squat down to the stall.

Jiang Feng just wanted to step forward, but there was a commotion in the team.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw that the two big men carrying the coffin did not stop at their feet.

He didn't even look at the sticky rice that was strewn across the road.

Jiang Feng frowned fiercely and called out loudly, "You two, stop for a while!"

However, the two big men shouted at the back, but they didn't hear it, and their feet were even faster, but in the blink of an eye, they walked a few feet away from the breakfast stall.

Jiang Feng found out that something was wrong with the two of them. An accident happened on the way to the funeral. How could the two coffin-bearers disregard the wishes of the relatives of the deceased and insisted on carrying the coffin forward?

He caught up and stretched out his arms to stop them in front of them: "You two stop!"

But the big man who carried the coffin in front of him still had a stern expression on his face, without blinking, he slammed into Jiang Feng and continued to move forward.

Poor Jiang Feng, a weak scholar, was knocked to the ground by him and staggered.

Are these two people trying to snatch the body of my grandfather?
Jiang Feng's color changed greatly, and he didn't care about the pain in his body, so he quickly got up from the ground, grabbed the thigh of the coffin-carrying man behind him, and prevented them from leaving.

However, the big man was so sturdy that a scholar like him who carried a pen could not move him.

After tearing it, I only heard a "stab", and he pulled a slit out of the big man's shirt, exposing his inner thigh.

Jiang Feng, who was holding his thigh, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. The skin of this leg was heavy, and there were textures on closer inspection, like the glazed old wood.

Previously, he only felt that the thigh was tight, how could he think it was actually a piece of wood!
If this person had a wooden leg, how could he carry the heavy coffin and still walk like a fly?

Before he could understand it, he heard an exclamation from the crowd on the side of the road. When he looked up, he saw a kitchen knife flying towards him.

Under the sun, the swirling blade surface folded out a cold light.

He couldn't help but narrow his eyes, and then he heard a "squeak", and the crowd suddenly exclaimed: "Murder!"

Killed?

However, he never felt pain, did he?
Jiang Feng looked up blankly, and saw the kitchen knife stuck in the back of the coffin carrier.

(End of this chapter)