Chapter 153: Burial Together
Because the occasion is not suitable, I did not finish reciting the entire text of the Ksitigarbha Sutra. After reciting the first chapter, I dedicated it to Xiao Zhu's mother with seven rebirth mantras.
No one in the village knew Xiaobai and me, but what we did brought them good feelings, and people greeted us enthusiastically.
"Xiaobai, I really didn't expect you to be like this. It's amazing." Chu Meng hugged Xiaobai's arm and said with envy.
At this moment, an old man with a crutch came in outside the door. This man gave me a strange feeling and looked so yin. When the villagers said that, I realized that this man was the only man in the village. He had done funerals when he was a teenager and had been doing it all his life. He often dealt with dead people, so it was normal for his heavy yin energy to be strong.
As soon as the old man entered the room, he stared at Xiaobai, with many emotions such as surprise and disbelief.
I was a little nervous. I was afraid that this old man had seen Xiaobai's identity, so don't underestimate Mr. Hei from Northeast China. Those who have worked for life are not comparable to those who fool people. Yin and Yang eyes are just their basic skills.
Xiaobai glanced at the old man and blinked.
The old man looked abrupt and smiled and said, "Girl, thank you very much. I am old and my legs are slow. After hearing this, I rushed to the place."
Xiaobai waved his hand, "It's just a simple task, and you will depend on you, the old man."
I breathed a sigh of relief. The two of them seemed to have communicated through eye contact. This old man would not expose Xiaobai's identity.
Of course, people like Xiao Zhu would not think of asking Mr. Hei to come, but Mr. Hei couldn't take the initiative to come to the door. It was his second uncle who went to report to others.
"Dear fellow villagers, this old lady is a good person when she was alive. It is as cold as it is today, and it is not easy to get burial. It will be a good life tomorrow. After cremation, it will rely on everyone's help." The old man said to the onlookers.
Xiao Zhu and his second uncle bowed to the villagers when they heard this. The villagers were not bad-hearted. Although they looked down on Xiao Zhu, they still agreed.
I also watched the excitement. Mr. Hei has come, so it’s not the case that he surrounds him again. The villagers left one after another, and we greeted the old man and left.
The old man is very enthusiastic about Xiaobai, and I guess it has something to do with him seeing Xiaobai's identity.
It is rumored that after the end of his life, Hei Xian has been giving away his last journey and has made good relationships below, so most of them can embark on the road of cultivation, and some can even do a job below directly, which can be regarded as rewarding for goodness.
If you do Qingfeng, then it will definitely be beneficial or harmful to establish a good relationship with the immortals. After all, you cannot catch your brother alone.
When I walked out of the Zhu family yard, I was stunned for a moment. Not far away, the woman who looked like Zhang Ying on the train actually appeared again.
However, she quickly turned around, and with the darkness, I couldn't see her face clearly, so I couldn't determine whether she was Zhang Ying.
Maybe it's just a bit like that. I thought so because I really couldn't find a reason for Zhang Ying to come here.
"Xiaobai, you are so awesome. Can you teach me?" Chu Meng said, shaking Xiaobai's arm.
"I learned it by accident, and I wanted to try the test tubes and it didn't work, but I didn't expect it to work." Xiaobai's eyes rolled and he was talking nonsense.
Chu Meng is not so easy to deceive. She hugged Xiaobai's neck and said, "You are lying. If you don't teach me today, I will eat you!"
Xiaobai stuck out his tongue funny, "Let me go, I will teach you."
Chu Meng naively thought Xiaobai was telling the truth, but as soon as she let go of her hand, Xiaobai ran away.
Chu Meng was so angry that she stamped her feet and shouted and chased after her.
I sighed, and I really didn't want to move, so I followed slowly.
Xiaobai ran fast and stopped from time to time to turn around and make a face. Chu Meng was so angry that she went to fight Xiaobai with a snowball. Xiaobai also fought back with the snowball. The two of them fought all the way, and then they stopped when they got home.
Xiaobai said that Chu Meng did not have the fate of learning this in her life. If she forced herself to learn, she would have five disadvantages and three disadvantages, and she would easily be single for the rest of her life.
Chu Meng immediately gave up the idea of learning when she heard this. It might be more attractive to find a little brother than to learn this.
It was already very late. Xiaobai and the others entered the house and ran to another room and closed the door.
I also went back to my room, washed up and went to bed. I don’t know if it was because of the fun. I was dreaming of hanging the ghost all night, which scared me so much that I was sweating all over.
After being woken up by scare, I found it was still dark outside, but when I saw that my phone was already seven o'clock, it was sunrise in the north in winter, which was very common. I put on my clothes and washed up and started making breakfast.
After a pot of hot soup noodles was prepared, I spent a lot of effort to wake Xiaobai and Chu Meng up.
Xiaobai told me that because her Taoist practice has not reached that level, she has been using her spiritual body state to consume a lot of energy, and she can replenish her energy through eating and sleeping. Therefore, she works hard to eat and sleep. Of course, sometimes she will use more limited means - to absorb my yang energy.
During breakfast, Chu Meng said she was going to attend Xiao Zhu's fucking funeral and asked if we wanted to go together.
Although I didn't want to move, considering that it was not good for us to stay alone at her house after Chu Meng left, I agreed.
The crematorium is in the county, and Chu Meng is not a family member, so she doesn't plan to go with her. After breakfast, we waited for the cart to pull the ashes to come back.
At around nine o'clock, there was a noise outside, so we packed up and went out.
I glanced at it and found that there were quite a few people attending the funeral. Although Xiao Zhu was a bastard, the dead were the most important, and everyone gave him the money, not him.
Due to customs, Xiao Zhu's mother was buried in a small coffin after cremation. Several juniors from the Zhu family carried the coffin, and Xiao Zhu was also listed, but this kid was reluctant at first glance.
The villagers who were attending the funeral followed behind, and the sound of suona resounded throughout the sky. God might also feel sorry for this miserable man, with clear snow floating on the sunny day.
"Big girl, go forward on the Southwest Road!" The old man from Hei shouted in a desolate voice.
The villagers also shouted, "You go forward on the Southwest Road."
"The southwest road, settle in the sky, use money in the air, ride horses on the Khan road, and take a boat on the water road. There are three southwest roads. Which one do you take in the middle? The southwest road is in front. The three roads are in the center. Don't take the wrong road, step on the lotus to go to heaven." The old man shouted while walking.
The villagers continued to shout, "This is a guide to the road, which is intended to point out the road in the underworld for the dead."
With the changes of the times, funeral customs have changed a lot, and steps such as stopping spirits have been omitted by most people.
Some believers in Christ simply did not even invite Mr. Hei. After cremating his dead family, the priests in the church recited a Bible and buried them in the cemetery to put two bouquets of flowers.
In fact, this is very bad for the deceased, because no matter what faith it is, it requires practice. I have never seen the heaven and hell recorded in Christianity, but I am sure that it is not possible to go to heaven by believing in Jesus. There are many monks and Taoists in front of the gate of hell. Even believers cannot go to heaven by themselves, let alone their relatives. This will only lead to one result, that is, the deceased will be in a mess when they arrive there.
Due to the planning of the scenic area, all the villagers' ancestral tombs were unified into one area.
Even though it is covered with snow, you can still see that the mountains and rivers are beautiful here. I have to say that the local parents are still very good.
Because Xiao Zhu's father passed away many years ago, he needed to raise a grave and bury it together.
The tools were carried by a dedicated person, and the relatives of the Zhu family tried their best to wield the sheep horns and picks.
The old man was there to command the overall situation, and there were many links that should have, such as the groundbreaking text.
Because Xiao Zhu's mother devoted her life to the old Zhu family, and Xiao Zhu's place was unwilling to buy paper money, so the relatives raised money to buy a car for him, and the old man was so glorious.
"The three families in the Yang world are husband and wife, and the underworld is not separated. The red chopsticks set up the Styx River Ferry, and the next life is expected to meet again." After the grave was set up, the old man put the red chopsticks on Xiao Zhu's parents' coffin.
After some more procedures, the funeral finally ended and people formed a team to set off on their way home.
On the way back to the village, I saw the person who looked very much like Zhang Ying. This time I made up my mind to see if she was Zhang Ying, so I quickly chased after her.
Just after running a few steps, my phone suddenly vibrated. When I opened it, I saw that it was a message from Zhang Ying, "Don't come over."
I stopped suddenly and felt puzzled. It turned out that the man was really Zhang Ying, "What are you doing here?" I replied with a message.
However, Zhang Ying did not speak anymore and ran away.
Could it be related to the opportunity that Xiaobai said? As I thought so, I fell into deep thought for a moment.
"What are you thinking! Why did you suddenly run in front of you?" Xiaobai caught up and patted me on the shoulder, looking at me suspiciously. She didn't seem to notice that I was chasing someone.
"Nothing." I smiled. Zhang Ying didn't like Xiaobai, so Xiaobai naturally wouldn't care about her, so I think it would be better not to say it.
When he returned to the village, Xiao Zhu arranged for the people attending the funeral to sit in a restaurant in the village. I personally think that he had more thoughts about receiving gifts than thanking the villagers.
Mr. Chuhei always leaves after finishing his work, and cannot stay for dinner, nor can he send him off. There is a saying here: Fury is not as good as happy events. He is too enthusiastic about Mr. Chuhei and has a bad meaning of hope that he will die again, so the old man has long lost his shadow.
Chu Meng said that she was gifted by her family, so Xiaobai and I also had a meal. According to Chu Meng, we had to eat after all, but we were not going to eat.
I didn't see Zhang Ying in this hotel. Her parents left early and were both villagers, so it was impossible for them to have relatives here, so there was no reason to come to sit.
During the meal, I was thinking about why Zhang Ying came here, but she didn't reply to WeChat, and it was impossible to get an answer out of thin air.
After dinner, I used the excuse to buy snacks and sent Xiaobai and Chu Meng back first. After they left, I called Zhang Ying to voice.
Zhang Ying refused the voice as soon as the voice was broadcast. Soon, a message was sent, "What I'm here for has nothing to do with you. Go with your little fox, please don't bother me."
I was in place for a moment and didn't know what to go back, so I could only put away my phone helplessly.
Chapter completed!