Thinking of this, I tightened the flashlight in my hand, turned my head to look at the funeral procession, I don't know what was going on, the funeral procession had stopped, those who carried the coffin and the villagers who helped, sat on the ground and smoked, the coffin was placed near the foot of the mountain, and there were two wooden benches underneath.

And Qing Xuanzi was standing next to the coffin, as if he was tinkering with something, and when he saw me carrying a flashlight to shine over there, he shouted: "Chen Baxian, where is the main family of four?" If they don't come, why will this coffin be sent up the mountain? ”

I didn't speak, but beckoned to him, meaning to let him come over. He came to his senses, put down what he was holding, and walked over.

That Wang Fangmin seemed to notice that something was wrong here, and followed Qing Xuanzi's steps.

When they came to me, I glanced at them and said, "I'm going to get the bones from the river." With that, I pointed to the river.

The two of them glanced at the place where I pointed their fingers, their faces changed slightly, and Wang Fangmin said, "Isn't this okay?" We are at the funeral, and stopping to pick up other bones will attract the displeasure of the deceased. ”

"The fellow is right, we are at the funeral, and then mixed with other funerals, it is very unlucky." Qing Xuanzi agreed with his words.

"Do you want to see these bones floating in the river?" I said with a frown.

Hearing this, Qing Xuanzi sighed, took the flashlight from my hand, shone it towards the river, and said in a deep voice: "These bones are a little abnormal, let's go out of the funeral first, and the matter of picking up the bones will wait until dawn." ”

I was stunned, what is wrong with these bones? Just ask him why.

He pointed to the surface of the river and said: "The water on the surface of the river is flowing downstream, you look at those bones, they seem to be fixed, there is no tendency to flow downwards at all, the so-called abnormal things must have demons, let's go out of the funeral first!" ”

I followed his finger and saw that something was not normal, although the river was not a rapid, but the naked eye could still see the surface of the water slowly flowing downward.

However, those bones were as Qing Xuanzi said, as if they were fixed there, and they did not float down with the current.

I asked him, "Is it because there is algae under the bones?" ”

He shook his head and said, "It's too dark for the light of the flashlight to see through the water, and you can only see it clearly during the day." ”

I saw that his expression was a little serious, and I knew that he didn't plan to collect bones, and I didn't want to embarrass him. If these bones are allowed to float by the river like this, I feel a little reluctant to go, if I go down to the river to fish for the bones now, then Qing Xuanzi has already made it clear that there may be something wrong with this corpse.

I was stunned for a few minutes, and I didn't speak, the Qing Xuanzi pulled me and persuaded: "Don't look at it, if you continue to look at it, it will delay the auspicious time, and this corpse will talk about it at dawn." ”

To tell the truth, after listening to his analysis, my heart was a little loose, and I planned to do what he wanted. So, I said to him, "Okay, I'll burn some yellow paper by the river first, and then continue to mourn!" ”

After speaking, I found some yellow paper, lit it, and made three gestures towards the river, saying: "I don't know which family you are, the boy Chen Jiu sent a funeral today, and saw you showing your true body, but the funeral is in the body, only to burn the yellow paper first to apologize, and after dawn, the boy will definitely fish up your old bones and let you be buried in the ground." ”

When the words landed, I was stunned, and was about to turn to leave, when I saw that the yellow paper on the ground was so strange, they were only half burning, and they were blown in the direction of the coffin.

This scene made my brows furrow, when I was burning the yellow paper just now, I had already made it clear that this yellow paper was burned to the owner of the bone in the river, but now the yellow paper is moving in the direction of the coffin, what does it mean?

According to folklore, if you burn yellow paper, as long as you tell who you want to burn it to, those lonely ghosts will not come to rob it, let alone the dead who sleep in the coffin.

That Qing Xuanzi seemed to have noticed this scene, he thought for a while, calmed his face, and said: "I think this corpse may be the deceased, otherwise, these yellow papers will not move in the direction of the coffin." ”

"Impossible." I shook my head and said, "The deceased has only been dead for a few days, and it is impossible for the body to decompose so quickly." ”

"And how do you explain this scene?" Qing Xuanzi said in a deep voice.

When he asked me this, I was speechless, so I had to give up, saying that I didn't know, and my eyes were fixed on the half-burned yellow paper, which moved in the same position as we guessed, coffins.

After the yellow paper settled, it was impartial, right in the center of the coffin. Seeing this, I had a temporary idea, found some yellow paper, lit it, and said: "Old man He Xiuhua, the boy Chen Jiu will do the funeral for you, I hope you forgive me for anything inconsiderate, and I apologize for burning some yellow paper." ”

After saying this, my eyes were fixed on the yellow paper on the ground, the yellow paper lay quietly on the ground and burned, without the slightest tendency to move, even if there was a little breeze, the yellow paper still burned quietly.

At this time, I was very puzzled, and my sense of professionalism told me that the bones might have something to do with the deceased, but it was definitely not the deceased.

Just when I was stunned, Wang Cheng came over with his wife and daughter, stood next to Wang Xi, and asked Wang Xi a few words in a whisper, I didn't hear what he was talking about, I knew that the father and son seemed to be talking there.

About a minute later, Wang Cheng seemed to know what was happening here from Wang Xi's mouth, and without saying a word, he knelt down to the river, and wailed in his mouth: "I'm a bud Laozi, why did you come out." ”

Listening to his wail, I was stunned, Shaoyang dialect is not very different from our Hengyang dialect, the bud Laozi in his mouth is what my father meant. Made, the bones on the river are the bones of Wang Chengcai's father, that is, the husband of the deceased, how can this be?

As soon as I ran to Wang Chengcai, I didn't care about his wailing, so I asked him, "How do you conclude that it is your father's bones?" ”

He knelt by the river and wailed, ignoring me, seeing the situation, he couldn't ask anything in his mouth, and I didn't ask him again, so I ran to Wang Xi and asked, "What's the situation with your father?" ”

He was stunned for a moment and said, "My dad has been crying just now and didn't notice what happened here, I told him about it, and that's it." ”

"You don't know why?" I asked, confused.

He was slightly stunned, and said with an embarrassed face: "Back then, grandpa seemed to commit suicide by this river, and dad should have regarded those bones as grandpa." ”

Hearing him say this, I suddenly remembered that when he was salvaging the body of the deceased, he told me that his grandfather committed suicide by jumping into the river, and I was still lamenting that this family was so strange, my grandfather died in the river, and my grandmother also fell into the river and drowned.