I was stunned for a moment, and when I came to my senses, Master had already rushed into the house, and I hurriedly followed him.
As soon as I entered the door, I met a few big men running around in panic. Everyone had a look of fear on their faces. What on earth could scare them like this...
Master and I rushed into the mourning hall and saw a strange scene!
We saw Tan Chen and Tan Xi sitting on their knees in front of the portrait respectively, facing the curtain of the mourning hall. We could just see their front faces. The circles under their eyes were black, as if they had been smeared with soot.
Each took a scented candle and placed it in front of their faces...
The candlelight was close to their faces, burning their skin, making a numbing sound, and the skin on their faces had been wrinkled together by the fire...
But despite this, they didn't make any sound from their mouths. They didn't seem to feel the pain. They even slightly raised the corners of their mouths with an unpredictable smile.
The master frowned, rushed forward and pasted a grudge-resolving talisman on each of their foreheads, then slapped the incense candles from their hands twice, and streams of black air came out from their foreheads and penetrated into the talisman.
In the paper, at the same time, a pungent corpse smell filled the mourning hall.
"Corpse Qi!"
After realizing this, I turned around and looked at the three coffins in the middle of the mourning hall. I was surprised to find that one of the two knots on the largest coffin was broken. I felt nervous and hurriedly walked over and bent over to check carefully.
The gap in the coffin lid.
Sure enough, at one corner I saw that the edge of the coffin lid was severely deformed, and at the end the gap became larger, with strands of corpse air coming out from the middle!
Several cinnabar lines closer to the gap were also corroded and incomplete by the corpse gas.
"Master!"
I shouted, and Master came over and noticed this. He immediately tied the Dharma knot again, mixed glutinous rice with Dharma water to make a paste, and sealed the gap bit by bit, making it airtight.
Then use the ink fountain to flick the cinnabar line again.
At this time, Tan Chen and Tan Xi were already unconscious. Their faces were burned, but fortunately it was not particularly serious, but they were definitely disfigured. Thinking of the weird scene before, I still can't help but feel chills running down my spine.
.
No wonder even those sturdy men were so frightened that they ran around.
I called two people from outside the mourning hall to help carry the brother and sister back to their respective rooms. Since I knew a little about medicine, I briefly bandaged and treated their wounds.
Someone suggested sending them to the hospital, but the master refused. The reason was that none of them could be absent during the Great Soul Resurrection Night, otherwise it would not be as simple as disfigurement!
After coming out of Tan Xi's room, I couldn't help but look around. I didn't see Granny Tan from beginning to end. Logically speaking, she shouldn't have failed to show up when there was such a big movement.
"There's no need to look for it. Granny Tan went to the cemetery early in the morning. This is her habit..." Master said.
"Why go to the cemetery?" I wondered.
"Go and see if the place where her closest relatives will be buried is comfortable..."
"The dearest person?!" I said in surprise.
The master did not answer any more questions, but looked at the mourning hall downstairs with a worried look on his face.
Originally, today was the last day, and everyone was relatively relaxed, but after what happened, everyone became uneasy. In this uneasy mood, people spent the whole day in fear.
Finally...night falls...
At midnight, kerosene lamps were lit in all the rooms in the Tan family's old house. Looking up from the patio, the whole house looked like a honeycomb, bringing some faint light to the dark house...
At this time, Granny Tan, Tan Chen and Tan Xi were all dressed in plain clothes in the mourning hall, kneeling in front of the portrait and burning paper money. After repeated confirmation from the master, Tan Chen and Tan Xi still insisted on supporting the soul...
But I could see that this was not voluntary on their part, especially after what happened during the day, the two of them were on the verge of emotional collapse. The reason why they still wanted to support the spirit was because Granny Tan forced them to do so.
Master looked at the time and said in a deep voice:
"It's almost time, get ready to go!"
As soon as he finished speaking, eight coffin bearers came forward, four of them carried the largest main coffin, and the remaining four carried the two smaller coffins connected by red ropes in pairs.
Tan Chen and Tan Xi stood on either side of the main coffin at the front, one on the left and the other on the right. The master did not ask them to support the spirit in the true sense, but asked them to each hold a porcelain doll and follow.
And the one standing at the front of the team is me, the guide...
After preparing all this, the master gave me a look. I took a deep breath, held the gong in my left hand, and the gong hammer in my right hand, and struck hard!
"Bang!!!"
"Coffin lifting!!!"
I shouted, threw a handful of paper money over my head, and stepped out of the Tan family's old house and walked to the cemetery on the back hill!
The coffin-carrying team followed closely behind and walked out one after another. The Tan family's old house was located in the suburbs, and it was midnight at this time, so the surroundings were dark and quiet. All they could hear was the "creak" of the coffin's dragon bars.
The sound of our feet, and the sound of our walking.
We walked very slowly, and after rounding a small bend, I threw a handful of paper money over my head, struck the gong again, and read aloud:
"There are no inns on the road ahead, so you must hurry and don't stop!"
"Bang!!!"
As soon as the gong sounded, my heart also dropped. I had already walked nearly half of the way to the cemetery. I looked around vigilantly, not daring to relax at all!
Just then, a strange voice came from behind...
"Dong...dong...dong..."
The sound was dull and my first reaction was that someone was knocking on the coffin...
"ah?"
"Um!"
What followed was a series of exclamations from the coffin bearers.
I subconsciously slowed down, turned my head slightly, and asked:
"What's going on?!"
"The coffin...there is movement in the coffin...it seems to be a corpse..."
"Dong...dong dong..."
Before he finished speaking, there was another dull sound, and the frequency seemed to be much faster than before!
"What...what should I do..."
"Where did Master Huo go? Didn't he follow him?!"
Tan Chen and Tan Xi, who were following me closely, also became nervous, and their voices were trembling when they spoke.
"Don't panic! Speed up your pace. As long as the coffin is dropped firmly into the cemetery, everything will be fine!"
I yelled, and then walked quickly towards the grave. The people behind me also walked a few steps faster, and the "creak" sound of the dragon bar became louder, which was very disturbing.
When I was about to strike the gong again, I suddenly saw a figure appearing on the dark mountain road ahead. The man had his back to us and walked slowly in front of us. The strange thing was that he was not getting farther and farther away from us, but
Getting closer.
It doesn't look like I'm walking forward, but like I'm walking backwards...
