Chapter 5 Doing a ghost marriage
The mage left, and this time my father did not force me to guard the mountain. Maybe he was afraid that I would suffer from some disease again and that it would affect his grandson.
I followed my father's butt home. I was in a bad mood. I didn't want to see my father's stinky face, so I slipped into my uncle's house!
As soon as I entered the yard, something fell on my head. I subconsciously reached out and touched it. It was a flat thing. I took it down and saw it. It was a leaf. I cut it. I thought it was something, it wasn’t it just a leaf?
But the leaves are actually yellow. Will there be yellow leaves in July? When I looked up, I saw the yellow leaves all over the tree rustling there!
My first reaction was whether the tree was dead, but the trunk of the dead tree should be withered. I cut a piece of bark with my fingernails, which was damp inside, which means that the tree is not on the verge of death.
What's going on?
I entered the house with doubts. There were not many pieces of furniture in my uncle's house. He lived a poor life and had been a bachelor all his life. He never married a wife when he was old. I suddenly felt that the "ghost marriage" thing was also a comfort for my dead uncle, so that he would not be so lonely in the underworld.
According to my father, I left nothing or anything before my uncle died. However, I wanted to see what is memorable here to take away, which is also a memory of my uncle!
The most valuable thing in the whole house is the flat cabinet placed on the kang. This thing is more common in rural areas in Northeast China, called "Kangqin". After opening the drawer of the kangqin, I found a small red cloth package. I saw this thing when I was a child. At that time, I was always curious about the rare objects in it. I always wanted to take it over to take it over when my uncle was not paying attention. However, my uncle was very careful. When he was alive, he locked the drawer.
However, this time the drawer was not locked, which made me realize my childhood curiosity, so I can finally take it over and take a look.
The red cloth was disassembled, and there was a copper coin inside, with four words printed on it, "Kangxi Tongbao"!
The copper coins were not the only thing in the red cloth pocket. There was a red cloth under it, which was soft. When I opened it, I saw that it was a red satin bellyband with nine pomegranates embroidered on it, as well as a Buddha's hand and a peach.
Didn’t my uncle never get married in his whole life? How could he have a child’s bellyband? Whose bellyband belongs to this bellyband?
Out of curiosity, I held my bellyband in my hand and observed it carefully. The bellyband was embroidered on both sides, the front was a pomegranate pattern, but the back was embroidered with the Bagua array and some characters I couldn't understand.
What does this character mean?
Just as I was thinking, I suddenly heard two "meows", which shocked me. I quickly went out to take a look. A black cat jumped on the trunk of the old poplar tree at the door, staring at me!
The cat's voice is a bit cunning, as if it's calling Chun there!
At this moment, my mother entered the yard of my uncle's house and said, "I can't find you everywhere. It turns out that you are here. Come home with me quickly. The mage came and said that I would do something for your uncle tomorrow and I have to explain it to you if you have something to do!"
"What? I still have something to do?"
Isn’t it just a “ghost marriage”? My idea is to put two dead people in the coffin and announce the joint burial. Why did I send work to me again?
"Yes, the mage said that if you don't go back, your dad will be anxious!"
"Oh, I understand!" I quickly put Kangxi's copper coins and red cloth bag into my pocket and followed my mother out of the yard.
After returning home, my father couldn't help but scold him, saying that it was time for him and he was still running around.
The Shaman sat in the yard, not wearing the outfit he had when he opened the coffin in the morning, but wearing an ordinary peasant cloth shirt.
"Boy is back!" Before I could say hello, the mage actually spoke first.
"Yeah!" I nodded and sat next to him.
"Okay, you must remember what I said and don't forget it!" the mage instructed.
"Yeah!" I nodded again.
"Tomorrow, everyone will go to the mountain on time. Heroine Liu, you and your wife will prepare the things as I said. When you put your elder brother out of the coffin, put it directly on your boy's back. Then you kowtow on your uncle's back. Remember not to let your uncle's feet go to the ground?"
"Why me?"
"The female corpse felt that it was your yang energy and your uncle's identity. Naturally, you would come to worship with your uncle!"
"Then why can't my feet go off the ground?" After asking, from the look of my father looking at me, I realized that I might be talking too much again.
"There is yang energy on the ground. Your uncle is already dead. He is considered a yin person. It is not good to receive yang energy!"
To my surprise, this mage was very patient with every question I asked.
"Okay, there's nothing else. Old Man Liu, the relatives talked about two more people to help drive cats and mice!"
"Okay, okay!" My father shrunk his palm and answered honestly.
"Boy, don't think too much. Have a good sleep. Maybe it's over and your problem will be cured!"
"Well, I know, Master, please go slowly!" Even I didn't expect that I would actually send this old man out of the door.
As soon as the mage left, his father and mother went to arrange the things they needed. Not only that, they also had to invite some relatives. According to the mage, although it was a "yin marriage", it would be better to have a lively marriage and be more popular. Besides, with more people, there are more yang energy, which can shake the ghosts.
At night, I heard from my parents that Qian Laoqi and the others raised the price for tomorrow, which made them feel very embarrassed, but they had to use it.
I was lying alone in bed, feeling mixed feelings, mocking myself for being incompetent. I had graduated from college and had not found a decent job. If I had money, my parents would be so embarrassed.
As the saying goes, there are troublemakers in remote and remote villages. Don’t look at these people in the village. People usually come to reason with it. If someone has something to do, not only will he not help, but he will also have to hide from you.
"Xiaowei is better!" I naturally sighed to myself.
I decided that when I go back this time, as long as Xiaowei doesn't dislike me for being poor, I will propose to her immediately.
Lying on the bed, I wanted to fall asleep as soon as possible, but I recalled the little things I had with Xiaowei again. Alas, I didn’t seem to have been sleeping with her for a long time. As I thought about it, my heart became hot again.
To be honest, I have a strong desire. If I weren't very tired, I would have a good night almost every night. In high school, I was so angry that my face was full of acne, and it would not be better after one after another. At that time, I was young and the mountain people were very feudal. My parents had never told me such things, and I didn't understand the matter between men and women, so I thought I had a strong growth hormone.
Later, when I went to college, I became friends with Xiaowei. It was like finding a life-saving straw. I lived together in less than a month. Xiaowei mocked me at that time, saying that it seemed like I had been holding it in for decades.
In order to rent a house with Xiaowei and to reduce financial pressure for my family, I endured a lot of hard work and half-study in four years of college. This state has been maintained until I graduated and didn’t go home for four years of college, which is actually to save travel expenses.
Alas! When I think of this bitter and sweet thing, I never ended up thinking about it. But to be honest, no matter how tired I am, I am much better than these young men in the village. Not only can I marry a wife, but when I heard that it was from a "half-life village", no one wants to work.
Thinking of this, I got out of bed and my whole body was still hot. I wanted to wipe my body with cold water. If it were the case, I would have reacted long ago, but now, no matter how hot it is, it will still be as wilted as eggplant caused by frost!
After finishing the wipe, I felt a little more comfortable and soon fell asleep in a daze.
As soon as the chicken crowed, my father pulled me up. In a short while, many people had gathered in the yard. Everyone carried pig's heads and newly slaughtered chickens and ducks and prepared to go up the mountain.
Of course, I also saw the red candle and the big red joy.
When he arrived at the cemetery, the shaman changed into the outfit that was feathered everywhere yesterday, and started to make a move.
The women pasted two big red wedding words on the uncle's coffin and the nanmu coffin board, and lit red candles on the desk.
After chanting the spell, the shaman shouted, "Open!" Qian Laoqi and the others lifted my uncle out of the coffin and put it behind me.
As soon as my uncle got on my back, I felt my knees sinking. My uncle was not a fat man, but I still felt very heavy.
It seems that there is still a difference between carrying a living person and carrying a dead person. Although living person is not light, he can adjust the position according to your strength, and the dead person will be different. It is no different if you carry a dead person on your back and carry more than 150 kilograms of rice.
"Can't touch the ground!" "Can't touch the ground!" I kept silently reciting in my heart, putting all my strength up and working hard.
It rained all day yesterday, and the soil was not dry yet. I walked to the nanmu coffin with my uncle in my back, and I was so tired that I was sweating profusely.
"The groom picks up the bride!" With the shaman's shout, I knelt in front of the Nanmu coffin. To be precise, my uncle and I should be kneeling in front of the Nanmu coffin.
The women quickly slapped the big red flowers on their uncle's body, and another group of women spread around the nanmu coffin, including dates, peanuts, longans and lotus seeds.
"Give birth to a child soon!" I looked at these four dried fruits and almost laughed out loud. What a joke, these are all dead people. Can we still have children?
According to the mage's arrangement, my next job was to wait for the nanmu coffin lid to be opened and put my uncle inside, but at this moment, something unexpected happened.
A black cat rushed out and stood on the lid of the nanmu coffin and screamed twice.
"Blow it away!" The Shaman was a little anxious.
Everyone rushed to bombard the cat. The cat jumped for life and jumped onto my shoulder. Although this thing was small, it was very powerful. I couldn't help but sit down while kneeling.
Just now, I suddenly felt a little desperate. It's over! My uncle's foot must have hit the ground.
"No, the dead man's feet are on the ground! Disperse the yin energy. This cat is coming strangely. Open the nanmu coffin quickly! Hurry up and buried it together!" The mage also discovered this problem and shouted quickly.
Everyone hurriedly opened the nanmu coffin, but what no one expected was that the female corpse had completely changed!
Her clothes were neatly decorated with Xipa on her head. Now her clothes were completely messy. Xipa was not as flat as before, but was just randomly placed on it, full of wrinkles.
"Master, this?" My father also seemed something was wrong, so he quickly asked the mage.
The atmosphere around suddenly became tense, and a gust of wind blew, making it cold and cold. Everyone's eyes were gathered in two places, the female corpse and the mage.
"Gaga!" Suddenly, the crows cried out from the woods. They flapped their wings and flew around in the air.
"No, I'm going to cheat the zombie!" the mage shouted.
"What?" My father and I were both stunned!
"When this female corpse died, there was still a breath in her chest. If it was rushed by cats, dogs, mice, it would be resurrected. The animal soul would be possessed on the corpse. The cat just now came to approximate the soul." said the mage.
I suddenly remembered something, "Dad, when I went to my uncle's house yesterday, I seemed to have seen this cat on the poplar trees in his yard."
"Then why didn't you say it earlier? If you say it earlier, just catch the cat first and beat it to death!" Dad complained.
"Your boy didn't know that this cat would come to the cemetery!"
"What should I do now?" my father asked.
"It can only be done by the situation!"
The Nanmu coffin sounded again, and some timid villagers chose to go home. The remaining brave ones were all looking at each other with fear, curious and scared.
Of course, the most tragic thing is me. On the one hand, I was so scared that my legs were weak, and on the other hand, I had to keep my uncle's feet no longer touched the ground.
An unexpected thing finally happened. The female corpse slowly sat up from the coffin, and Xipa slid down her face.
She still had that handsome face, but she still didn't open her eyes, but slowly raised her hand and pointed in the direction of the crowd.
Seeing this, the shaman quickly picked up his peach wood sword with one hand and reached into the pre-prepared pottery jar with the other hand.
When the hand was taken out of the peach wood jar, there was a red powder on it.
"Borrowing the corpse to revive the soul, it's a ruthless thing. Cinnabar is here to collect it!" The mage shouted this while smearing the hand covered with cinnabar on the forehead of the female corpse. A red mark was added between the female corpse's forehead.
The female corpse shook a few times and was still sitting there straight.
The mage repeated the action of shouting spells three times. The female corpse shook more and more powerfully until the last time, and it didn't fall down!
After the female corpse fell down, the Shaman was sweating profusely. He suddenly collapsed on the ground, looking exhausted, and kept muttering, "It's over, it's over, I'm over!"
"What's wrong with you?" My father asked the mage.
"Oh, man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations. I have never escaped this disaster. This female corpse has been temporarily suppressed by me. Whether it will harm people again depends on your luck!"
Somehow, I saw despair in the mage's eyes.
I turned my eyes to the female corpse again, and she was lying down again as if she was asleep.
Chapter completed!