folk legend

Chapter 39

As soon as the work on this side was over, Jiang Liu called Han Yucai who had been standing outside the coffin shed, and told him, "In a while, cover your brother with the sheet. Remember to tear off a piece of the sheet. In the future Make pillows for children."

Thatch sheet refers to the red cloth sheet that is put on the dead body after the body has been encoffined.In some places, black cloth or white cloth is used.

There is a local saying in the paddock that a pillow made of cloth torn from the thatch sheet can ward off evil spirits, and it is the best pillow for a newborn child. That's why Jiang Liu specifically told Han Yucai.

It was originally for his sake, but after Han Yucai heard about it, his face turned ugly as if he had eaten bitter melon, which made Jiang Liu a little puzzled.But now he didn't think too much about it, because there were more important things waiting for him to do.

Taking the dozen or so people that Han Gui had chosen for him, Jiang Liu led them to the mountain west of the village.Han Youcai hanged himself to death. As the old saying goes, such a death is a violent death and cannot be entered into the ancestral grave. He had to choose another cemetery.What Jiang Liu has to do now is to choose another cemetery for Han Youcai.

After all, Jiang Liu, who was just 20 years old, was the first time to have a black child. Even though he was suppressed by Han Xiazi for three years, he still couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart. Lian ran away.As a result, the yellow cloth bag on his back was even more bumpy.

The people who followed were also moved by Jiang Liu's lightheartedness, and temporarily forgot the horror that the continuous death brought them. They talked and laughed, and even teased each other if they had a good relationship.

In this way, this group of people followed Jiangliu around half of the western mountain, everyone was sweating all over their bodies, and finally stopped at a mountain depression. Seeing everyone getting tired like this, Jiangliu also felt a little uncomfortable. Sorry, quickly let them find a place to sit down and rest for a while.

Originally, the matter of choosing a cemetery was all Mr. Yin Yang's business alone. It was the first time that Jiang Liu led a large group of people around the mountains and plains.However, I can't blame Jiang Liu for this. Who told Han's nest shop, a place with green mountains and bad waters, that even a better cemetery is so hard to find.

So after turning around in a big circle, it was like choosing a general in the scorpion, so I chose such a place that seemed to be okay. Standing here, I looked down the mountain with a glance, and the field of vision was very wide. Moreover, under the root of the mountain, there is a The stream meanders by.From the point of view of geomantic omen, it is enough to make up a pattern with a solid back and a hopeful future.

But the only fly in the ointment is that this is the hill on the left that protects the sand, and a winding path passes through the middle of the hill, breaking the feng shui of the left green dragon like cutting it down the middle.

However, Jiang Liu was gratified to be able to choose such a cemetery in such a poor place.So when the big guy was resting, this guy was not idle, untied the yellow cloth bag, and took out the compass from it.

Smooth the grass on the ground, then put the compass on the ground, pull the yarn apart, and then, looking at the pointer on it, Jiang Liu squatted down and counted with his fingers.

It seemed that this kid was quite satisfied with the place he had chosen. After doing some calculations, he stood up abruptly, and then walked to the left while looking at the compass. After walking six steps, he took another three steps across. After arriving at this place, Jiang Liu stomped his feet and said to the few people sitting on the ground resting: "Come on, this is here! There are green mountains above the head and feet on the river, and the ancestors have produced high-ranking officials in succession. Not bad!"

When he was happy, Jiang Liu actually recited all the formulas in the Xunlong Jue. After reading, he also regretted it. He hurriedly looked at everyone and found that they didn't care about what he just said, so he was relieved.

The people who came with Jiang Liu are all the crops in the village, and they don't have much culture in their stomachs.Although he heard what Jiang Liu said, he couldn't understand the meaning of the words.

But they all suppressed their curiosity and didn't ask Jiang Liu about it. As for the reason, these villagers thought that Mr. Yin Yang's profession was very good, so don't say something wrong and piss them off. Once they hold grudges in their hearts, they will make things worse for themselves later, how much and how little! ! !
Secondly, it is still the idea of ​​old farmers sweeping the snow in front of their doors. Everyone thinks that it doesn't matter what you say, anyway, you are Mr. Yin and Yang.If you tell us to beat the dog, we will never chase the chicken out, just obey.If something went wrong, we can't find it.

Driven by the curiosity and excitement of having Hei'er for the first time, Jiang Liu saw that no one said anything.So he stood on the chosen spot and shouted to everyone, "Bring me the cock,"

When Mr. Yin Yang selected the cemetery and prepared to break the ground, he had to use a rooster, and it had to be a pure white rooster without any stray hairs.

Han Gui, who is familiar with these things, naturally knows the things needed, so when Jiang Liu led everyone away, he asked a villager to take the rooster he had prepared.Now, that person heard that Jiang Liu wanted a rooster, so he hurriedly brought it to him.

With one hand pinching the rooster's wing, the other hand naturally dropped. Jiang Liu closed his eyes, touched his upper lip to his lower lip, and began to recite the earth-breaking spell.

This incantation mainly serves the function of worshiping the gods, and the main idea is to tell the local land that I want to break ground here, and I hope the land will bless me.

At this moment, a gust of mountain wind happened to blow, and Jiang Liu, who was standing facing the wind, closed his eyes tightly and had a serious expression on his face.So I didn't dare to chatter anymore, and stared at Jiang Liu intently.

Suddenly, Jiang Liu shouted, "Sacrifice." The unprepared villagers trembled in fright.

Immediately afterwards, everyone's eyes lit up, and Jiang Liu raised the knife in his hand and fell, and a piece of the bright red meat crown of the big rooster was cut off, and the blood splashed a foot high before falling to the ground.

……Oh oh oh oh oh oh……

The rooster, whose feet were tied up with hemp rope, wailed again and again from the pain after the crown was cut off. After being thrown on the ground by Jiang Liu, it was still thumping wildly.The little calf ignored the flat-haired beast, pointed to the place where the rooster blood was splashed on the ground, and said to everyone: "This is the center, let's start digging."

Digging is the name of the paddock, which means breaking ground to dig a grave. According to the old rules, when digging a pit, the son of the deceased should first dig a few shovels of soil, then kowtow to everyone, and then everyone starts digging.However, Han Youcai's son was only that old, so it was impossible to do it himself, so this time, there was no such thing as a trick.

Following Jiang Liu's order, the villagers who had rested enough stood up one after another and approached the place he designated.Then, swinging the pickaxe, swinging the shovel, started in full swing.

As the saying goes, it’s easy to work if you have a lot of people. After a while, a rectangular hole was dug out on the originally flat ground.During this period, Jiang Liu kept watching from the side, and after making sure that the location of the hole was correct, he didn't care about it anymore, and went back with the rooster.

When Jiang Liu returned to Han Youcai's house again, the coffin was being prepared in the yard.

Han Youcai's daughter-in-law, with a filial hat on her head, was half kneeling and half lying in front of the coffin.The sudden blow made the rural woman's voice hoarse from crying, unable to speak a complete sentence, and could only keep sobbing.

Next to her, her little son was kneeling. The little guy also imitated his mother at this time, kneeling on the ground with both legs, but in his cognition, he didn't understand what the adults were doing at all. Holding his mother's neck, his two eyes looked curiously at the villagers added to the yard.

Behind the couple, stood Han Yucai with red eyes, staring at the coffin being nailed in the sand in the coffin, shouting.

"Brother... hide from the nail... brother... hide from the nail..."

Inside the mourning shed, the invited old carpenter held an ax with a handle wrapped in red cloth in one hand and a nail in the other.First hit it lightly a few times, and after the nail is fixed on the top of the coffin, then swing the ax round, and smash it down hard on the nail with all your strength.

This old carpenter has also worked as a carpenter all his life. The ax in his hand has been sanded countless times on the coffin nails, and his cloudy old eyes are used to seeing parting.So at this moment, he, who couldn't see a trace of sadness or joy, was swinging the ax expressionlessly, and even Han Yucai's voice shouting with the rhythm of his ax falling could not attract the slightest attention from him.

Following the close contact of the ax and the iron nails, the old carpenter quickly nailed the coffin, and took the happy money prepared by Han Gui with a blank face, without looking back Out of the yard.

At this time, no one can send the old carpenter off, let alone say polite words such as coming back when you have time.Because when a person is dead, the work that a carpenter does is called "hot work".

The old paddock people always say a curse word called "catch the hot work", and this is where it comes from.

Jiang Liu stood aside, watching quietly after nailing the coffin, and waited for everyone to help Han Youcai's daughter-in-law away. Then he went to the coffin and said to Han Yucai, "Your brother's son is too young. You can carry the coffin later." ?”

Han Yucai didn't refuse at all this time, and as soon as Jiang Liu finished speaking, he happily answered "Yes".While the neatness surprised Jiang Liu, it suddenly reminded him of something else.

Carrying the coffin means that when the coffin comes out of the coffin, the son or junior of the deceased should carry the head of the coffin, and the people behind will carry it.Lift the coffin from the inside of the bier to the bars tied outside.This is an important step in funeral ceremonies in the paddock.

But things are often like this, the more important it is, the more evil things will appear.

Because the chain is only dropped at critical moments.

(End of this chapter)