Huang Yixian shook his head and replied resolutely: "No! He had too much resentment during his lifetime, and he also cast evil spells on himself when he was dying. In addition, he had been raised in this layer of blood and soil for decades.
, if the corpse is not cremated, I am afraid that the corpse will transform! Therefore, not only must he be cremated, but he must be cremated as soon as possible! But after all, he is from your Li Village, and you have to make your own decision on this matter."
Hearing that there was a possibility of corpse transformation, Li Changshui's face suddenly turned pale and he didn't speak for a long time. Everyone else also looked at each other. Although they may not know what corpse transformation really means, these two words were enough to touch their hearts.
of fear.
After a while, Li Changshui turned to an elder and asked, "Third uncle, does Li Fangtian have any descendants in his family?"
"Their family has only one generation for several generations, and he was only ten years old when he died, and he was not married. How could he have descendants?" the elder known as the third uncle replied.
"Okay! I will make the decision on this matter. I will take out his body and cremate it! Then I will find a geomantic treasure place to place his ashes again, which can be regarded as letting him rest in peace."
Just as Li Changshui finished speaking, Huang Yixian said: "I'm afraid he can't be laid to rest! After being cremated, his ashes must be scattered into the river, so as to avoid future troubles forever."
"What!? Does it have to be so thorough?"
"It must be so thorough!"
Huang Yixian's tone was very firm. Li Changshui felt helpless and sighed: "Well, since Master Huang said so, let's do what Master Huang said."
Since we still implement the burial policy here and there is no crematorium in the county, you have to build a special firewood pile yourself for cremation. Huang Yixian said that there is something special about building this firewood pile. He asked Li Changshui to find paper and pen and draw
He drew a pattern and asked Li Changshui to find someone to build the pile of firewood into the shape shown in the pattern.
Li Changshui quickly summoned a group of young and strong men, led them to find an open space about ten meters away from the square pit, and began to build a firewood pile. Huang Yixian was not idle either. He took out a firewood pile from his backpack.
Several yellow flags were inserted at the four corners of the square pit. He took out a stack of paper talismans and a few copper coins. He leaned down and spread the paper talismans flatly in the center of the square pit. Then he used those few talismans on the talisman paper.
The copper coins are arranged in the shape of a Big Dipper.
I know a little bit about the knowledge of copper coins to ward off evil spirits. It is recorded in "Yin Yang Xuan Shu". It says: The shape of copper coins is a circle on the outside and a square on the inside. The outer circle represents the sky, the inner square represents the earth, and the emperor's reign is in the middle.
It represents people and gathers the three essences of "heaven, earth, and people" into one body, so it can transform evil spirits and ward off evil spirits.
However, copper coins can only be regarded as low-grade evil-proof objects, and their effect is not even as good as a fresh and hot child's urine, so they are generally not used as pottery. However, Huang Yixian used copper coins, and also used them.
The copper coins are arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper. I don’t know what the meaning is.
Out of curiosity, I quietly leaned over under the cover of the crowd, stood behind Huang Yixian, stretched my neck, and took a look with wide eyes, only to find that the words "Destroy ghosts and exorcise evil spirits" engraved on the coins seemed to be.
This word makes me a little puzzled. Because copper coins are usually engraved with the reign name of a certain emperor. For example, copper coins from the Qianlong period are engraved with Qianlong Tongbao. How come there is something engraved with "kill ghosts and exorcise evil spirits"?
Is it considered a copper coin?
Just as I was wondering, Huang Yixian suddenly stood up, which shocked me. I quickly stepped back and hid behind the others. Fortunately, Huang Yixian did not turn his head. He said to a young man next to him: "Go.
Go to your Uncle Shui and ask him to get a big crowing rooster, one with a big red crown!"
The young man said "Hmm" and ran away quickly. Not long after, Li Changshui personally brought a big rooster. The feathers of this big rooster were bright and bright, and the comb on the top of its head was really unusually big.
It looks like he is wearing a blood-red crown, looking full of energy and high-spirited.
Huang Yixian took the rooster from Li Changshui, raised it high above his head, and after muttering "chirpy croak" in his mouth, he took out a sharp knife from his waist and gently touched the rooster's red crown.
As soon as it was touched, the rooster immediately struggled hard, but because a pair of wings were tightly held by Huang Yixian, it could not break free. It soon gave up its resistance and allowed Huang Yixian to grab its big red comb and drain the blood from the comb.
Drop it on the paper charms laid flat in the square pit.
It is recorded in the book that the blood from cockscombs is very masculine, so it was a clever way for Huang Yixian to use it to offer sacrifices to paper talismans. I secretly made a note in my mind, thinking that when I go back, I can also draw gourds in the same way and use the blood from cockscombs to offer sacrifices.
Those paper charms that Jianqian and I drew might have some effect.
After a few drops of rooster comb blood were dripped on each paper talisman, Huang Yixian handed the big rooster back to Li Changshui, then took out a two-foot-long peach wood sword from his backpack and began to swing it.
He was waving a mahogany sword and mumbling words. In addition, he was wearing a khaki Taoist robe. This posture immediately reminded me of my master. Back then, my master often dressed like this, and I felt an inexplicable sadness in my heart.
After dancing with the sword, Huang Yixian bent down to collect the copper coins, and picked up the paper talismans dripping with chicken blood and ignited them. When the paper talismans were fully burned, he raised his head and said to Li Changshui: "Now you can find someone to dig it up."
The layer of blood and soil lifted the coffin out."
The young men who were digging the ground just now were quickly called over by Li Changshui. They all had sad faces, and they were probably very depressed. They only received a hundred yuan as wages for digging the ground, and now they actually had to lift the coffin. However,
As the saying goes, "It's easy to eat someone else's mouth, but it's easy to take advantage of someone else's hands." Since they accepted the money from Li Changshui, they couldn't shirk it, but they were a little reluctant. After all, lifting a coffin was no more physical work than ordinary physical work, and it was very touching.
It was a bad thing. So Li Changshui added another fifty yuan to each person, and then several people started digging with hoes.
After digging for a while, a crisp sound of "click" was heard, and a rotten wooden board was dug out. Upon seeing this, Huang Yixian hurriedly shouted to the side: "Slow down! Slow down! Don't dig up the body.
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The young men immediately slowed down their digging speed. Huang Yixian stepped forward, picked up the excavated wooden board, and held it in his hands to examine it carefully.
This wooden board must be part of the coffin. According to Fatty Niu, they did not prepare a decent coffin for Li Fangtian at that time. They just made a simple coffin that could just fit his body into it. Not only was it small in size, but the board was also very thin.
It was thin, so it was dug up so easily. But the strange thing is that even though the coffin boards have been dug up, there is no smell of putrid corpse, but there seems to be a faint aroma.
Li Changshui also noticed the fragrance and asked Huang Yixian in confusion: "What kind of wood is this? How come it still has fragrance?"
Huang Yixian's eyes did not leave the wooden board in his hand, and he frowned and replied: "It's just an ordinary fir."
"How can fir trees emit such a fragrance!?" Li Changshui didn't believe it.
Huang Yixian said: "That's because it has been eaten by corpse maggots, and their feces will emit a strange aroma."
"Corpse maggots? What are they?" Li Changshui asked.
Huang Yixian did not answer, but with a slight exertion of his hands, the severely rotten wooden board was easily broken in half. Immediately, several white maggots fell out from the cracks in the wooden board and fell to the ground, struggling desperately.
After a few clicks, there was no movement soon. I took a closer look and saw that it was the same big maggots that were crawling all over the mouse corpse. Unexpectedly, they were also found on the coffin board.
"Is this the fragrant corpse maggot?" Li Changshui was a little surprised.
Huang Yixian nodded.
Li Changshui asked in confusion: "Since the feces of this thing can emit fragrance, why is it still so smelly even though there were so many rat corpses crawling on it?"
Huang Yixian smiled: "Haha, the feces of the fragrant corpse maggots have a scent, but they never poop in the place where they eat. Moreover, their saliva can speed up the decay of the corpse, making it more rancid." It turns out that, then,
A lot of rat carcasses are just food for corpse maggots. But why those rat carcasses appeared there is still a mystery.
At this time, a young man boldly stepped forward and gently picked up a corpse maggot with a wooden stick. However, the corpse maggot did not move at all.
"Why doesn't it move? Is it dead?"
"That's right! Corpse maggots can only survive in dark places underground. Once exposed to sunlight, they lose all signs of life."
After listening to what Huang Yixian said, I couldn't help but become more curious. I thought to myself: "I will definitely get some corpse maggots back later and study them carefully."
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard a cry: "Oh my God!"
Everyone was shocked. Before they could figure out what was going on, all the young men who were digging the coffin threw away their hoes and crawled out of the pit.
Looking again, it turned out that a large piece of the cover of the coffin had been dug out. They must have been frightened because they saw what was inside the coffin.
Li Changshui grabbed one of the young men's arms and asked, "What's wrong?"
"There's... there's a ghost..." The young man looked frightened.
"Don't... don't talk nonsense. Where can ghosts come from in broad daylight..." Although Li Changshui said this, his face instantly turned pale. After all, this place is inherently evil. Now that there is a ghost in the coffin, who cares?
It's hard to avoid feeling a little nervous after hearing this.
The crowd of onlookers immediately became commotion and retreated one after another.
Although I was a little scared in my heart, I felt that this was a little unreliable, because according to the book, ghosts are evil creatures that cannot stand the sunlight, so they generally do not appear during the day, let alone now.