Wanhua Merry

The old man in gray cloth was holding a broom in his hand and was struggling to clear the snow.

The snow here is already very deep, this is not good, it can't make this place look like such people take care of it.The old man's body is rickety and thin, but he was born in poverty since he was a child. Naturally, he couldn't watch the heavy snow last night turn this place into a world of snow powder.Get up early in the morning, make breakfast for your sick wife, and then leave the house to work here.

This is a Yizhuang, the name is Tianguo Yizhuang.To put it bluntly, it is to provide a place for the unidentified dead and the small family to place the coffin temporarily.

Tianguo Yizhuang is located in the remote suburbs of a small county tens of thousands of miles north of the imperial capital. Usually, ghosts are not seen. People who pass by here will subconsciously speed up their pace and leave, fearing that a ghost will come out of this place with a deep ghostly aura to kill them. His little life is hooked away.

The work here has always been done by bold people, and there are also people like old man Li who have to go out to make a living.The wages paid by the government are good, and there are noble people who come here to inspect it every month. It is said that the philanthropist paid for this yizhuang.She would come here every month to see how she was taking care of her. If she was well taken care of, she would be happy and be able to reward two silver coins, which would be enough for old man Li to be happy.

In this way, there will be money to buy two good medicines for the old woman, and the old woman's old problem of chest tightness and asthma will be comfortable for a few days, right?It is the law to get rid of the roots.

Old man Li knew that those masters who can practice have panacea in their hands, and it is not expensive. You can buy one for every gold coin, and ten in a row can completely cure the old lady's lung disease.But where does he have money?It can only be so stiff.He is 79 years old this year. He has biological children all his life. He adopted a boy in his early years. When his parents grew up, he learned of his life experience from a talkative gossip woman. , and the baby moved to live in a big city together.The old couple's evening scene was bleak, if the neighbors and neighbors couldn't help but help, they might have died a long time ago.

In this way, at such an advanced age, the old man can no longer do heavy work. It happens that there is a lack of cleaning and night watchmen here. He is also forced to have no choice but to work here with courage.After coming and going, the courage has also grown, and I always do this job. Not to mention, it is not a problem to support the family.

As for the issue of taking care of the elderly in the future, the old man has already thought about it, and I will ask the kind-hearted county magistrate in the future.No matter which one of them and his wife returned to the west in the end, the county magistrate was asked to help make a thin coffin, and it was parked in the Yizhuang for seven days, and then pulled out to bury it hastily.Isn't that what people do?Although the older you are, the more you fear death, but there will always be such a day, it's no big deal. [

The old man kept thinking about the behind-the-scenes matter when he might come, and tried his best to clear the snow in the yard.Because he reckoned that the nobleman was probably coming to inspect it, so he had to clean it up today.In this way, maybe that bodhisattva-hearted lady can reward a few more silver coins?It's been a good month.

The old man was making small calculations and worked hard to clean up the snow in the yard, almost suffocating from exhaustion.I think when I was a strong young man, I was a good hand at manual labor, but I am old and useless.

Sighing, the old man got a water basin, got hot water from the stove in the hut where he was resting, washed his face in the water basin, wrung out a large rag, took the water basin into it, and filled it with a few magic pearls for lighting. Yizhuang hall.

The place here is not small, it looks like thousands of square meters, and there are thousands of coffins parked here, all of which are simple coffins, and of course there are dead people inside.

When he first came here to work, especially during the night vigil, the old man was terrified enough to scare himself.But now that he has the courage to deal with the dead all the time, what else is there to be afraid of?

In terms of feeling, he felt that the dead here were all friends and poor people. "After I die, I will lie here, and after the first seven days, I will be pulled out and buried."Just thinking about it this way, he still has an intimacy for this place that others don't have.

The rag flew up and down, carefully wiping the outside of each coffin clean.He has been thinking about a question recently: If he is lying here, will others wipe his poor thin coffin?Let's accumulate virtue first, so that when I die, maybe because of today's diligence, other people will help me wipe my "home" after death.

Comparing his heart to his heart, he always takes these poor dead people so seriously.

What he didn't know was that there was a lot of yin here, but because he was so selfishly thinking about the dead, those beings who lingered after death and almost turned into ghosts would definitely not harm him.In reality, he was blessed by ghosts.

He couldn't see, when he was working, more than a hundred ghosts gathered behind him, watching his every move, with gratitude in their eyes.

Ghosts are also a kind of spiritual body, and not all of them can harm people.The so-called, if there is a grievance, there is a debt, and they seldom get the wrong target.

Old man Li did not feel wrong to feel the warmth of a friend. These ghosts all regarded the lonely old man as a friend. If they had the power, they would definitely help the old man live a better life.It's a pity that the ghosts here are too weak to do anything except a little power of thought.

The old man changed the water back and forth, carefully wiped every coffin in the hall, and finally cleaned the walls and the dark gray floor, and put burning incense in the censer, making the place cleaner.

He looked here with satisfaction, looked at the shiny coffin, and talked to these dead people to himself.Ask them to bless their old woman to survive this cold winter.If the old woman is gone, he feels that he really has no motivation to live.

To live with one breath is to live with one thought. [

There are more and more ghosts around, listening to the old man tell how his adopted son abandoned his old couple, although I have heard it many times, these ghosts are still more angry.It's a pity that none of them dared to leave here at will. How could they have the strength to help the old man teach the ungrateful beast a lesson?

At this moment, all the ghosts seemed to be frightened, and ran back into their coffins with their tails between their legs.Because, they sensed that the terrifying woman who came to visit this place once a month was approaching.

That woman is so powerful, every time she can scare those old ghosts who have been lingering here for several years and refuse to leave, almost to death again.Fortunately, people never pay attention to them, which is considered a great luck.

"Uncle Li, how are you?" A gentle word suddenly reached the ears of the old man who was talking to the coffin.

The old man was startled, turned around, and saw a beautiful woman in her thirties standing at the hall door smiling and looking at him.

Hurry up to meet them.

"Ma'am, you are here, come in quickly, it's cold outside."He knew that this woman was surprisingly courageous, so he naturally let her in.

The beautiful woman stepped in with a smile.

What old man Li couldn't see was that the eyes of the woman would occasionally have twin pupils of light and shadow.

This is the light and shadow display of running the double pupil technique, in the eyes of this person, all the ghosts in this hall can be seen at a glance.