The so-called "holding a dead chicken" is a funeral custom, also called "riding a phoenix".

This "holding the dead chicken" has to be a rooster, which is choked by the throat of the deceased's sons and daughters, scalded with hot water, plucked, placed on the head of the deceased's coffin, and eats incense in the mourning hall with the deceased.

When it was time to be buried, the chicken also accompanied it - the chicken ate incense and became a phoenix, which means that the deceased will ride this "phoenix" to the sky, which means that the children will fulfill their filial piety.

Bai Huoxiang said as if she didn't understand: "So, the people who died in this village are all parents?" ”

It should be—but what caused so many parents to die together?

Xiao Hei Wuchang sneered and said, "Not necessarily, it may be that the village picked up gold bones." ”

Picking up gold bones is another custom - some ethnic minorities have this belief, saying that after a person dies, the spirit body is attached to the corpse, the corpse is rotten and dirty, and the soul will also be uncomfortable, so every once in a while, the village will carry out the ritual of "picking up gold bones", that is, the bones of the dead are cleaned up, re-cleaned and exposed, and then put back for burial.

The process of picking up gold bones is the same as that of ordinary Han people celebrating the Midyear Festival, and there will also be rich sacrifices.

I thought about it too, it wouldn't be surprising if the people of this village were celebrating the festival of collecting gold bones.

As the car drove over the mountain road, a scent wafted in through the window.

Cheng Xinghe wrinkled his nose and immediately grabbed me: "Qixing, did you smell it?" Lotus leaf chicken, called flower chicken, roast chicken, sauce chicken, chestnut stewed chicken......"

Cock Cock Cock, did you drop the chicken coop?

Although I am not as sensitive to food as Cheng Xinghe, I can smell it, and the aroma of chicken wafting from the streets and alleys is indeed wafting out.

Bai Huoxiang became interested: "What, this phoenix still has to be cooked before the dead can ride it?" ”

Wrong...... Although the dead chicken is plucked, there is a rule, that is, the dead chicken must be kept intact - otherwise the deceased will ride a phoenix and fall down. So the dead chickens are all corpses, and I really haven't heard of cooking them.

Could it be that this place is different from other places, and it is really some ethnic minorities with special beliefs?

And Xiao Hei Wuchang observed the surrounding feng shui, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said to himself: "This feng shui is good." ”

As soon as I heard it, I followed it, and I saw that this place was surrounded by nine peaks.

Jiuzhen flowing water is also a very ordinary feng shui, living here has a good climate, suitable for growing crops, and nothing else - in the old society is different from now, working people are not willing to face the loess with their backs to the sky all their lives, this kind of feng shui is also out of the peasants, far less popular than the golden pot carp.

But when I looked closer, I couldn't help but be convinced—I hadn't seen it clearly before, but there was a fallen pine tree growing on the peak in the middle!

The fallen pine tree is a pine tree that grows on the cliff, the whole tree is horizontally long, and the ground is at a 90-degree angle, this kind of fallen pine tree, also known as "phoenix mouth"!

With this fallen pine tree, this place is not nine flowing water, but nine days of phoenix roaring!

This kind of feng shui must have a treasure!

I was also happy all of a sudden—I couldn't see it so clearly before, but it seems that I killed that mountain charm, and I actually rose to the first order, and now it is the second rank of the Xuan Rank!

No wonder Xiaoxiang is so much bigger in an instant!

Not to mention, it really deserves to be the road of the Suzaku Bureau of Fortune, where it goes, it is like the treasure house of Alibaba, there are good things everywhere, first the mountain charm, and then this.

Xiao Hei Impermanence noticed that I also saw Feng Xiao Jiutian, and couldn't help but look at me with admiration: "You kid really stepped on shit, this can be upgraded." ”

It's easy to say that opportunities and risks have always coexisted.

I can see that Xiao Hei Impermanence can't bear it anymore - now that their family is poor and scum, they can't afford to keep it and don't make money, and they can't support the oil money from the Suzaku Bureau, so he got out of the car directly, looking for what good things are in this place.

Naturally, we also came down - these two first-class seniors are here, and it won't be our turn to have a baby, but everyone is very hungry, and it would be nice to be able to eat a mouthful of hot chicken.

The village was bleak, although it was broad daylight, and the heat had not completely passed, but the whole village had an eerie feeling, and the doors of every house were closed, which made people panic indescribably.

If I hadn't smelled the fresh smell of chicken, I would have thought it was a ghost village.

The black and white impermanence brothers squatted down to look at the soil - this may be their specialty, Cheng Xinghe found a family to knock on the door, I saw a rickety reflection through the crack in the door, there were obviously people in the house, but it was strange to say, the people inside heard the knock on the door, not only did not come to open the door, but ran in as if they had to run for their lives.

Cheng Xinghe scratched his scalp: ", can't it be that every family here owes usury, so the door is closed and the debt collection is hidden, right?" ”

Bai Huoxiang and I also knocked on the doors of several houses, and the result was the same as Cheng Xinghe - no one dared to open it, as if it was an evil ghost who knocked on the door.

Cheng Xinghe couldn't get angry, and said: "The people here are too xenophobic, this can't work, brother can't starve to death, Qixing, you have good skills, just burn the dead chicken outside, I'll go over there to beat some chestnuts on the tree to make chestnut roast chicken." ”

You can pull it down quickly, you can eat the dead chicken, and you are not afraid that the dead will find you unlucky?

The third uncle and grandfather said that there was a shortage of materials in the past, some people were greedy, and they stole the dead chicken on the funeral of others, and since then they feel that their shoulders hurt every day, and they are getting worse and worse day by day, find a doctor, the doctor can't see it, go to the goddess, and the goddess is shocked at a glance, saying that you are a little rabbit cub who dares to eat anything - you eat other people's phoenixes, and people use you as a phoenix to ride, and sit on your neck for seven days!

This almost scared the man, and then he didn't know how to solve it, anyway, the man had never eaten chicken in his life, and said he was afraid.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if we eat yin and yang rice, the evil things don't dare to do anything to us, this dead chicken is strangled to death, and there is blood in the belly, and there is no good taste when we eat it.

Cheng Xinghe sat on the ground and said I don't care, I just want to eat chicken, if you don't get it for me, I'll roll on the ground.

Bai Huoxiang smiled immediately, pulled me and said, "Li Beidou, don't do it for him, I want to see how he is going to do this." ”

At this time, a small voice sounded timidly: "Don't eat our chicken, the old man and the old lady will fight!" ”

I looked back and saw a little girl.

The little girl was only seven or eight years old, and she was dressed in a batik blue cloth dress, which was obviously the dress of an ethnic minority, but there were many ethnic groups in this place, and they were all dressed similarly, and I couldn't tell which race she belonged to.

She spoke Mandarin quite well, so I beckoned her over and asked, "Which old man and old lady are you?" ”

The little girl showed a very innocent smile and pointed to the coffin in front of the door: "There are miles lying inside!" ”

I said in my heart that this little girl was afraid that she would often be frightened by adults with ghost stories, so she replied: "The old man and the old lady are dead, how can you beat people?" ”

Who knows, the little girl said very seriously: "Death is death, but I have to come back overnight, saying that it is cold and hungry underground, and I want to eat." ”

These words gave me goosebumps on my back at once, and Cheng Xinghe's laughter froze, what do you mean, in this village, the corpse is collectively deceived every night?

"Don't talk nonsense!" At this time, a young woman ran out, hugged the little girl, and looked at us very vigilantly: "Who are you? ”

I explained my intention, and the young woman suddenly noticed the feng shui bell on my waist, and grabbed me coldly: "You can see things, Mo?" ”

Hey, this woman has seen the world, even feng shui chimes.

It turned out that she married in from outside the mountain, and she had seen the people of the Heavenly Master's Mansion subduing demons and subduing demons.

Then, she put down the little girl and shouted all over the village: "There is help, the gentleman from the outer mountains is coming!" ”

As soon as she shouted, everyone opened their doors, poked their heads out, and looked at us in disbelief.

As soon as the black and white impermanence brothers saw this formation, the little black impermanence sighed: "There is trouble again." ”

Xiaobai impermanence: "My brother is right. ”

When the people in the village heard about our identity, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed to us: "If a few gentlemen can do the things in our village, how many chickens do we want, how many chickens we will give!" ”

I hurriedly pulled them up: "If you have something to say, if you can help, I will do my best." ”

Presumably, it is also a great merit.

The little girl thought about it for a long time and replied, "This matter is very messy, where to start talking about it...... By the way, let's start with the fact that the graveyard was dug up! ”

The graveyard has been dug open, and there are grave robbers in this place or what?

It turned out that there was no faith in this village, and the coffin was not set up for the purpose of collecting gold bones at all.

At the beginning, there was a family who went to the grave, and suddenly found that their ancestral grave had been dug up, and his father's coffin and everything had been overturned.

No matter what nationality, people dig your ancestral grave, it is all the hatred of the sky, this person was suddenly confused, and said that it was not the usual enemy who did it, so he quickly called the family members and hurriedly cleaned up, it didn't matter, he found that there was something missing in the coffin.