"Chen Baxian, come and listen to the two sentences called chuang, you need to match the expression to call, otherwise, this dragon ball will not be handed over to you." The man laughed.

A black line flashed on my forehead, and it was getting more and more excessive, and if it weren't for the sake of the funeral, I would have wanted to slap him, and my big ears would have shaved him.

"It's almost half past two, and if it continues to make trouble, there is not enough time for the ceremony." I found a reason that I thought was good.

The man took out his mobile phone and looked at the time, looked down and thought for a while, fortunately, he didn't continue to make trouble, but smiled: "Let you go this time!" ”

I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, if he forcibly asked Lang to scream, I would be embarrassed to my grandmother's house this time. Sometimes I have to say that when it comes to funerals, there are loopholes in many rituals, such as this Dragon Ball.

However, the funeral customs in the countryside are like this, cry where you should cry, laugh where you should laugh, and only in this way can it be considered a perfect funeral.

After saying that, he raised the dragon ball in his hand and danced in the air a few times, and I danced a few times in accordance with his movements.

Then, he handed me the Dragon Ball, took off his face, showed a very familiar face, and smirked at me, and I almost went up and beat him, considering his identity, I gave up the idea.

I glared at him angrily: "Director Liu Qi, you are making things difficult for me like this, do your parents know?" ”

He smiled and said, "Haha... It's no wonder I'm not guilty, if I let someone else send the dragon, maybe it's even more excessive than me. ”

What he said is not unreasonable, I saw a funeral when I was studying, the person who sent the dragon asked the person who took the dragon to drink urine, he said it very plainly, and if he didn't drink urine, he didn't want to get the dragon ball. In the end, he was forced to have no choice, and the person who was solitaire drank half a pot of urine.

I talked to him casually and asked him why he came to participate in this funeral, and he said that there was nothing to do in the New Year, and he heard that there was a dragon in Dongxing Town, and there was a lack of helmsmen, so he came over to join in the fun.

In this regard, I was also drunk, so I didn't say anything to him, so I asked him to rest, I held the dragon ball in my left hand and the pu fan in my right hand, and led the dragon team in the direction of the mourning hall.

When he came to the door of the mourning hall, he stammered and walked over, shouting "Longlin", and Guo Fatzi lit a firecracker.

After the sound of firecrackers stopped, I led the dragon team into the mourning hall and circled around the coffin. To be honest, the mourning hall is very large, but it is absolutely impossible to accommodate a thousand meters of long dragons. Therefore, it became extremely difficult to get the dragon to circle around the coffin.

It took half an hour, only seven turns, and it was about to be 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was definitely impossible to complete the 108 circles, and finally had to reduce the 108 circles to 9 circles, which means the respect of the ninety-five, symbolizing the deceased in the next life Jackie Chan and Phoenix, which is also considered a good fortune.

After nine turns, I took the dragon ball and made three strokes towards the coffin, burned some yellow paper, and then took off the dragon ball and placed it next to the deceased.

Some things are really strange, just put the dragon ball in the coffin, the deceased's eyes closed without warning, which made me put my heart down, it seems that the deceased is dead.

After doing these things, he was about to start the link of 'back building', Ah Da walked over, with a calm face, and said: "Chen Baxian, how can you do a funeral like this, I asked Long to give my aunt a lively funeral, the original 108 circles were reduced to 9 circles, this is the face of my mother's family, you will definitely not be able to do this." ”

I know very well what he means in my heart, in the funeral, in order to show respect and filial piety to the deceased, the mother's family often puts forward some requirements.

I glanced at him, took out my phone and showed him the time, and said, "It's already 3:20 after nine turns, and if you finish 108 turns, it won't be around 10 p.m. no matter how fast you do, won't other ceremonies be done?" ”

He was stunned for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "If you don't turn 108 times, you will have to turn at least 7749 turns, right?" If I only turn nine times, my aunt will blame me and attract gossip from others. ”

I can understand his feelings, this is not to say that Ah Da deliberately made things difficult, but as a mother's family to invite the dragon, I must hope that the dragon will circle the coffin 108 times, because this represents the face of the mother's family, and it is also a filial piety of the mother's family to the deceased.

So, I showed an apologetic expression and said embarrassedly: "Just get your heart, you don't need to care so much about other things, you see, as soon as I put the dragon ball in the coffin, the eyes of the deceased were closed, which means that the deceased has accepted your filial piety." I gestured to the inside of the coffin.

He looked at the place of my finger, plucked for a moment, and then knelt down on his legs and shouted loudly: "Auntie, you did not enjoy the filial piety of your nephew during your lifetime, and your nephew can only ask the dragon to do his filial piety for you." ”

After saying that, he kowtowed to the ground, and I handed him three pillars of incense and some yellow paper on the side, and asked him to burn them in front of the coffin.

At this point, the ceremony of inviting the dragon is completed, and the next step is to make meritorious service on the back, the so-called meritorious service on the back, which refers to carrying the 'shadow' of the deceased to turn around in the Dharma field for 1,1188 circles, so that the deceased can bless future generations. (Shadow: As explained above, a scarecrow dressed in the clothes of the deceased.) ）

There is also another theory that this ritual of making meritorious contributions in the back is actually an opportunity for the deceased to take revenge, similar to the first seven soul nights. However, because this statement has no basis, most of the people on our side do not believe it.

I first found the stammerer and Guo Fatzi, and asked them to get the shadow of the deceased, and then called Ah Da, Hu Qin, Yu Qian, and Yu Jianhao to the left side of the mourning hall to discuss who to 'back'. (The first recitation here, the back is the shadow of the deceased.) ）

According to normal funerals, the person with this back is the eldest son, and the person who takes the photo of the deceased is the eldest grandson. And the current situation is too special, I don't know how to get it at all, because Ah Da is a two-tier identity, one is his mother's family, and the other is his family.

However, Huqin's side is the deceased's relatives, and there will definitely be opinions. This back is different from other rituals, and it has been rumored on our side that whoever has a back represents who the deceased will kiss and who will bless him. So on our side, brothers often fight with each other because of the back, and even tear their faces and cut off their brotherhood, which shows that this back is valued more on our side.

I glared at Ah Da and Hu Qin's family of three, and said straight to the point: "Which of you will take the back?" ”

Ah Da was silent and did not speak, and the three members of the Huqin family were also silent and did not speak.

After about a minute of silence, Hu Qin spoke first, she said: "Cousin, I heard my mother-in-law say in Hong Kong, only my mother-in-law can carry it, my man is now arrested, in my opinion, you are your mother's family, let my family Jianhao come back, after all, he is the eldest grandson of his mother-in-law, and usually his mother-in-law also loves him."

"No way!" Ah Da said in a resolute tone, "Yu Qingsheng, that brute strangled his aunt, if he let his son's back again, where will he put my mother's family?" I'd rather find an outsider to have your back than let anyone in your family have your back. God knows, will you use your backs to gather wealth, and to put it bluntly, I am very disappointed in your family and no longer believe in you. ”