Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 400

Grandma Jin's funeral is very simple, she has no children, so many unnecessary links are saved.

In accordance with Grandma Jin’s wishes that she had mentioned to the villagers many times during her lifetime, several women put on the clean shrouds that the old man had prepared for her, put their hands on their stomachs, and stuffed them with the only jade-mouthed cigarettes and pots that they could not put down.A triangular yellow talisman paper packet was stuffed into her mouth, and a wooden mask was used to cover her face. The corpse was parked on the kang of her house, with the doors and windows closed, and the coffin was considered complete.

After all this was done, it was almost noon.

Under the auspices of Park's second father and a few old people, everyone set up a few tables of simple banquets inside and outside the courtyard of Mrs. Jin's house, played and danced with various ethnic singing and dancing instruments, and the white wedding was over.

Xiao Ran and Second Uncle were anxious and disappointed, after attending this simple funeral, they hurriedly packed up all their things and prepared to go on the road.

Just as they were loading the salute into the car, they saw the men who had finished packing the tables, chairs, stage and Mrs. Jin's belongings came back, holding more than a dozen arms-thick ropes in their hands.

Under the command of Park's second father, the two drove the car out of Mrs. Jin's yard, parked in the open space in the center of the village, and then turned back, wanting to see what the villagers could do next.

When they returned to Grandma Jin's yard, all the wooden fences outside the yard had been dismantled, and the doors and windows of several houses near Grandma Jin's house were also closed.

Those big thick ropes have been fixed to a circle of hooks on the outer wall of Mrs. Jin’s house. The men with towels wrapped around their mouths are divided into several teams, and each team pulls the ropes in their hands until they are stretched. They all look at the nearby roof. The second father of Park.

"Listen up, young and old... Hey, honored guests, come up too, don't let the dirt fool your eyes..."

Xiao Ran and Second Uncle followed Park's second father's guidance and climbed up the wooden ladder next to the wall to the roof.

Following Park's second father's order, dozens of men yanked the rope in different ways at the same time, and the wall of Mrs. Jin's house cracked evenly into several pieces, and was pulled down at the same time in an instant, and dragged out about two meters away.

At the same time, the pointed roof was buckled straight down, shutting down the original room and the kang where Jin Tainai's body lay.The window on the roof that used to be higher than the fence also became a small door half a meter high.

"The yang house... has become the yin house?" Xiao Ran exclaimed.

The second uncle nodded slightly, and said: "What's more, if I remember correctly, you said that the method of collecting the body of Mrs. Jin just now is a method of making a corpse. This is not only a shady house, but also a murderous grave." ..."

The second father, Pu Er, who was on the side, heard the uncles and nephews muttering, and thought they were just curious about this burial method, so he leaned over and explained: "This is what Mrs. Jin told me before she was alive. where.

"The walls of her house are all spliced ​​with whole boards, and then sealed with mud, leaving some hooks on the outside, and it becomes what you saw before. Even the roof was built in the shape of a pointed grave from the beginning. Later, erect those walls and circle them around, sprinkle some soil, and the grave will be completed, and this is not a waste of things..."

Pu Erpai explained that the dust and dust below had dispersed for seven or eight years, and the men began to dig holes around the house to facilitate the erection of the fence.

Xiao Ran asked curiously: "Then there's a grave in the middle of your village, don't you think it's... unlucky."

Father Pu stroked the beard on his chin, sighed, and said, "Grandma Jin is an old senior in the village, and she has helped us juniors all her life, and she will definitely protect us when she reaches the heavens and the earth...

"Hey, it's all feudal superstition. If you die, you die. What are you afraid of? Besides, once she leaves, we won't live here. When spring comes, we will go back to live on Baishan Mountain."

The second uncle also asked: "Back to Baishan? Do you still have a village in Baishan?"

Pu Erdi smiled and said: "Guests, you don't know that we are actually one village and two places. This is Yingwei Village, and on the Baishan Mountain is Yingshan Village. Every winter, we go to Yingwei Village below to spend the winter when the mountain is blocked by snow.

"Didn't the conditions get better in the past two years? The higher-ups said that they want to make...changes? Or let it go? They said that in the future, Yingshan Village will be able to engage in tourism and forestry, and we will live in Yingshan Village from now on... "

Camp Mountain Village?Xiao Ran was a little puzzled, this word was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where it was at the moment.

Just when he was frowning and thinking, Pu Erpai handed him a package and said, "This is what Mrs. Jin asked me to give you this morning..."

Xiao Ran took the package, opened it, and found that it was Grandma Jin's mask, cloak, drum, etc., all of which he had seen Grandma Jin use yesterday and today.

"These things...why would Mrs. Jin give it to me?" Xiao Ran was surprised.

Father Pu shook his head and said, "It's strange to say this. In the past, when she saw anyone, she would tell everyone what she would do with her funeral and who to give her things to. She even made arrangements for the needles and threads in the cabinet. Only these things have never been told to anyone. Whoever said that when she left, the one who took over came.

"Two distinguished guests came to the village last night, but Mrs. Jin really left today, and she said that this is for you. It's so strange..."

Since it was a last wish, Xiao Ran couldn't refuse it anymore.But remembering that Mrs. Jin vomited black water with her mask on, Xiao Ran slowly put the mask in front of her nose with some disgust, and sniffed it.

The strange thing was that it didn't have the rotten or halazi smell he had imagined, but a fragrance from forest trees.Even the colorful leather cloak has a milky smell like cowhide, which is quite pleasant.

At this time, Yi Jiukui secretly said: "Old Xiao...this thing has spirituality, and it's a kind of spirituality...that I can't even comprehend."

Xiao Ran asked curiously: "You can't figure it out, so you must be older than you?"

Suohun Dinglingzhu interjected: "No, no, Bayan, it's not an old problem. This mask and robe have a great soul."

"You mean, a lot of souls are on it?"

Xiao Ran looked at the robe and mask, no matter how old the ancient kingdom is, their religion is like shamanism, which emphasizes animism.There are many souls on these "magic tools", which makes sense.

"Great sound has no sound, but the big image has no shape; the big square has no corners, and the big weapon can't be completed..." Yin Yang mirror also interjected.

Xiao Ran frowned: "You guys are all talking, can you speak human words?"

"Brother, let me tell you. What they mean is that the soul of this thing is too big, so big... so big that you know there is a world, but you can't see it, you get the moon Only when you go up can you see clearly that the world is a ball!"

As soon as Shenxing Wuyujian opened his mouth, as usual, he focused on a "resentment between elegance and vulgarity".

But combining the words of several artifacts, Xiao Ran understood the meaning.The energy contained in this set of magic tools is too great, so big that even Yi Jiugui can't see the whole picture of this thing clearly.

"This thing...is it so magical?"

Thinking of Mrs. Jin's miraculous performances like a prophet, which made the second uncle's expression change, Xiao Ran hurriedly put away the package.

At this time, there was nothing else going on in the village, and Li Dongfu had settled down at home, waiting beside their jeep with a small bundle.

Xiao Ran and Second Uncle bid farewell to Park Er's father and Li Dongfu's family who saw him off, and then drove on the road again.

(End of this chapter)