Chapter 31: A Late Night Funeral

Huo Di sat up, I gasped for breath, I don't know how long it took, I woke up from the memories of the dream, waved my sleeve and wiped the cold sweat on my forehead, I let out a long sullen breath, and turned to the master and said: "Master, I, I had another nightmare, exactly the same as the last few times, Master, I think I'm dying." That dream, that dream has tormented me so much that I don't dare to sleep......"

After speaking, I pouted aggrievedly, but I didn't hear Master's words of comfort, Master actually stretched out his finger to his mouth, made a silent gesture to me, and whispered: "Don't speak, there seems to be movement on the dirt slope in front!" As he spoke, Master's eyes stared unblinkingly at a dirt slope behind the village in the distance, and under the clear moonlight, the dirt slope looked closely, and it did seem that there was some movement.

Especially in the middle of the night, when the moonlight is refracted on anything strange, it will be seen from afar, very clearly. On the dirt slope in the distance, it was clear that some white things were shaking, and before I could see the reason, I saw the master stand up immediately and said anxiously, "Ergou, let's go and have a look!" Before the words fell, Master flew towards the mud pit like lightning, and under my stunned eyes, Master easily swept over the mud pit.

"Uh...... Didn't you say that this mud pit can't be crossed? I watched the Master's figure getting farther and farther away, hurriedly climbed up to the ground, and walked quickly to the mud pit. Why did Master pass over? Master Dare Qing didn't plan to spend the night in the village in front of him before! Otherwise, with Master's skills just now, there would be absolutely no problem.

It's just that now that Master is gone, even if I can't go anymore, I have to find a way. After glancing left and right, I walked along the edge of the mud pit for a while, and sure enough, more than ten zhang away, the distance between the front and back of the mud pit was shortened a lot. I took a few slow steps back, then slammed a few big steps forward and jumped over. Dangerously landed on the edge of the mud pit here.

I don't know how deep the mud pit is or what will happen if you fall into it, but no matter what, getting covered in mud in the middle of the night is not much better.

I rubbed my chest and ran briskly in the direction where Master was. It looked close, but it was really far to walk, and it was about half an hour before I came to the dirt slope out of breath, and the master had already arrived at the location of the group of people, a group of people? I can see clearly at this moment that it is indeed a group of people, and this group of people is still wearing filial piety clothes and belts around their waists, and they are sprinkled with pieces of white paper money.

"This ...... It's like...... "I suddenly remembered the scene in my dream, and this scene is almost exactly the same as the scene in my dream!" On the side of the group, there was a tree with a crooked neck. By the way, and a crazy old scalper? I, I, I can't be a dream come true, right? I saw this place in a dream repeatedly, but I never thought that I would really see it in reality now!

Cautiously approached the group of people in front of me, and always glanced left and right, for fear that the old scalper would rush out like crazy and try to kill me. It's just that I watched for a long time, and I didn't find any trace of the old scalper, but I heard the cry of a young man in the crowd: "Grandpa, my grandson is not filial, and I couldn't give you a beautiful funeral, but I quietly sent you down to the ground in the middle of the night, and my grandson wronged my grandfather for his marriage, and my grandson is really unfilial!" Woowoo woo ......"

What is it for marriage? What is unfilial piety? What did this man mean by crying?

I curiously approached the master and glanced at the crowd, speaking of which, this group of people is similar to what I saw in my dream, but I have almost forgotten the faces of those people in the dream, it seems that I can only see clearly in the dream, once I wake up, I can only remember the scene and what happened, as for the details inside, I can't remember it at all. There were a dozen or so people here, all around a dug grave, and in front of the grave, a young man dressed in linen and filial piety was lying on the ground and crying, and those words just now must have been what he said.

The young man could not see his face, but because he was lying on the ground, when he raised his head, he could see that he was a young man in his twenties, and he was handsome and handsome. It's just that his cry makes people's hearts sour, I took a look at the grave, there is indeed a coffin inside, but this coffin is not the same as the coffin in my dream, the coffin in the dream does not have a coffin lid, but this coffin is a coffin nail, and the people around are preparing to fill in the soil and bury it.

The master just watched all this quietly, did not interject, and did not ask any more questions. An elderly man around him came to the young man at the right time and comforted him gently: "Xiao Mu, your grandfather knows your filial piety, and he will rest in peace under the Nine Springs." Alas, now it's not a way, after all, this is all arranged by your grandfather when he left, I'm afraid that the Zhang family will be difficult for you, and he won't marry his daughter to you a poor boy, at this juncture, if you do a big funeral for your grandfather, the Zhang family can be regarded as having a reason to delay the marriage with you, you must know that we are no richer than others, if this is delayed with you, I am afraid that your lifelong event will be yellow! This is what your grandfather is most worried about, so he let people bury him quietly, and it will not affect your future marriage. Xiao Mu, you have to understand your grandfather's hard work, now everyone is about to start breaking ground, what else do you have to say to your grandfather, hurry up and talk about it. ”

"Second grandfather, I'd rather not marry the daughter of the Zhang family, but also have a good funeral for my grandfather......" The young man named Xiao Mu choked up and said.

"It's not nonsense!" When the old man, who was called the second grandfather, heard this, he immediately blew his white beard and said angrily: "Do you want your grandfather to die without turning a blind eye?" You, you, your grandfather and grandson have relied on each other for so many years, and everything your grandfather has done is not for you? This is all for your own good, your grandfather did this, you should understand, Xiao Mu, your grandfather can understand your mind, everyone starts to break ground, the dead are the greatest, and the earth is safe as soon as possible! ”

The old man's words fell, and everyone began to break ground. But in the words of the old man just now, the sentence that did not blink my eyes made me tremble, I remember that in the dream, the old man's corpse has always been wide-eyed, unusually mad!

Seeing that everyone began to break ground, the young Xiaomu suddenly howled again, and lay on the ground weakly, and kept calling grandpa. I don't know why, inexplicably thinking of my grandfather, I and Xiaomu's life experience is almost identical, I am also dependent on my grandfather, I don't know the warmth of my parents since I was a child. The eyes were slightly rosy, and I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes without a trace.

"Moo!"

Suddenly, I was frightened to hear a cow barking, which frightened my legs, and hurriedly glanced around, but saw an old ox running in the distance, so ...... That old scalper, yes, this old ox with two horns, it's really coming towards me! When everyone heard my shout, they all stopped what they were doing and hurriedly turned their heads to look at me curiously, but I exclaimed in disregard, "Master! It's this old scalper, it's it, it's trying to kill me! Block it! As I spoke, as if I had become proficient, I instantly jumped up the crooked neck tree, and the crowd, including Master, were almost all looking at me like a strange creature.

Soon, I watched in a daze as the old ox just ran to the grave, stopped in front of everyone, turned his head in the direction of the grave, and "mooed" again, uh...... This, how is this different from my dream? It stands to reason that this old scalper should have rushed towards me, why did he stop at the grave? Dare to love that this old scalper didn't come to attack me just now, but the destination was in front of that group of people, is my dream really different from reality?

Just when I was thinking nonsense, I saw that the young man named Xiao Mu had tears in his eyes, slowly stood up and came to the old scalper, stretched out his hand to caress the old scalper's neck, and then cried in the direction of the grave: "Grandpa! Our old cow has come to see you off, woo-woo-woo...... "But when I heard that an animal had come running to see off the dead who had raised it, I broke down with tears.

My feet slipped, and I fell to the ground with a thud, and I grinned in pain, but I didn't care about my ass, but looked at the old ox in a daze, and actually "mooed" in the direction of the grave again. In this situation, my tears couldn't stop flowing out. And the young Xiaomu choked up again and said, "Old Niu, do you also know that my grandfather is gone?" In the future, the two of us will depend on each other for our lives in the future, woo woo woo ......"

Before he finished speaking, the young man Xiaomu hugged the cow's head and cried.

When I limped back to the old ox, the people had already buried the grave, and set up a small stone tablet prepared in front of the grave. In this way, the young Xiaomu knelt down again and kowtowed three times to his grandfather's grave, as if to repay his grandfather's kindness. At this moment, the old man, who was called the second grandfather, looked at me and the master in surprise and asked, "...... you Who are you? And you, young man, how did you just react? Have you ever seen the old cattle of the Xiaomu family die? Why did you run to the tree in fear when you saw this cow? ”

"I ......"

Seeing that I was speechless, the master immediately clasped his fists and saluted, and said respectfully: "Old man, our master and apprentice are foot walkers, and we want to go to the direction of Yunju Mountain. I never thought that the deceased was buried late at night, but speaking of which, it doesn't quite conform to the funeral rules! ”