The soul-attracting lamp burned slowly in the oil, and the orange flame looked very strange under the coffin. Remember our address novel: The mourning hall was noisy because of the group of people who played mahjong. Time was moving slowly, and soon, eleven o'clock came. The oil in the oil lamp was running out, and I took the oil drum and added some to it.

But the next scene almost scared me to the ground. I saw that the light of the soul-attracting lamp suddenly turned green, cold green. The cold flame of light seemed to shoot directly into the depths of the heart, freezing the heart.

He blinked vigorously, but as if an illusion, he regained his gentle orange color.

Delusion?

I scratched my head and told no one, I didn't want to add to Linoi's fear.

Hopefully, it's really an illusion!

Just like the ancient bride to sit in a sedan chair and share the New Year's money, the wake is an indispensable custom of the Chinese people.

It is a kind of remembrance of a deceased loved one by a living person.

In ancient times, a living person believed that although his relatives were dead, his soul remained in the world and did not go to the underworld. The soul is also nostalgic for his living relatives. It doesn't want to go to the underworld alone, so it goes back to its original home before going to the underworld.

The living are afraid that their souls will get lost on the way home, so they will light a lamp and place it next to the body of the deceased, and the living are afraid that the lamp will go out and the deceased relatives will not find a home, so they will sit in the room where the body is parked all night to make sure that the guiding light is always burning.

However, with the increase in population, the housing shortage brought about at the same time limited the original wakes in the home, and as a result, the way of wakes also changed. At present, there are two main types of wakes: family wakes and wakes in funeral homes.

Family wakes are to vacate rooms at home and arrange them according to the requirements of the mourning hall, and relatives, friends and children wait in the mourning hall day and night to receive relatives and friends who come to mourn. Family wakes should not only arrange the vigilers, prepare midnight snacks and emergency spare medicines, but also pay attention to the safety of electricity, gas, and fire candles.

It is more troublesome to set up the wakes at home, and they have to be dismantled and sorted out afterwards. To make room for a mourning hall, this is even more stretched by the city people who do not have enough housing. Nowadays, the funeral home has a service project called a wake, which can be used for both a memorial service and a wake. The funeral hall is equipped with all kinds of household utensils, which saves many troublesome things for the bereaved family.

Of course, most of the rural areas still retain the most traditional local folk customs and funeral customs. This is the case in the village of Liluo, for example, where the funeral rites have never changed, according to Linoy. It seems that once there is a change, it will bring disaster to the village.

But as time went on, more and more new things were introduced to the village. Wealthy villagers came into contact with technology and increasingly felt that superstitious customs were a nuisance burden. Especially the younger generation nowadays, they take care of themselves a lot and are unwilling to bear the inconvenience caused by customs.

For a long time, funeral customs have been a taboo in the village. If it weren't for the yin and yang in the village in the past dynasties and the pressure of the older generation of the Li family and the fox family, I am afraid that the funeral in Liluo Village would have become another concise version.

Now the older generation is almost dead, and the oldest of the two big families in the village is only in his fifties. The fox family is almost dead, and there is no authority in the village. And the Li family has always been drilling for money, and all their thoughts are spent on fighting for power.

It is estimated that the funeral customs will be completely cut off from this generation. Perhaps the funeral of Old Man Li will be the last ancient custom of Liluo Village.

The old man's peach house is very old, and the surface is only painted with a layer of white ash. Directly opposite hangs the red long flat of the 'Heaven and Earth Monarch', which is used to worship ancestors. On the parallel line of the word 'Jun', there is the only high-tech in the house, a wall clock.

Zhong pointed steadily at eleven o'clock.

When the mahjong players under the plaque were fighting fiercely, Li Li pasted a big card and pushed the card in front of her, "I want to go to the toilet." ”

"I haven't heard Yin Yang mention it, there is a toilet in the middle." Li Yuan was in a bad mood because he lost, and his tone was very stinky.

Li Li frowned, her expression scared, "That old man died inside, mildew." I'm not going to go in and relax. ”

"Isn't it that you are not good to the old man in front of you, for fear that he will curse you." Li Jia scoffed.

"Che, there is anyone in this room who was kind to him when he was alive. Everyone is the same, to be cursed, you must be the first to die. Li Li snorted without letting go, "No matter, I'll go out to the toilet." ”

"Yin and Yang indicate that the door of the peach house can only be opened at seven o'clock in the morning." Li Yuan hesitated.

"Do you really listen to that dead superstitious word? Also college students. Li Li laughed at her cousin, "I'm afraid to hide in the corner of the house and bite my fingers and cry, old lady, I'm not afraid of ghosts, ghosts, and gods." Not afraid of revenge from old things! ”

Li Jia suddenly spoke, "Li Yuan, are you hiding something from us?" ”

"It's just a meaningless legend in the village." Li Yuan said: "Didn't you also mention that the fox family has almost died from the direct to the collateral." It has been rumored in the village that someone may have opened the door of the mourning hall and extinguished the soul-attracting lamp on the way to the vigil. So the ghost of the old fox who couldn't find his way home cursed the entire fox family, causing their entire family to be destroyed. ”

"Are you afraid of this?" Li Li scoffed, "Idiot, believe all this kind of boring rumors, what are you messing up outside!" No matter, I can't hold it back, my mother wants to go out to pee! ”

As he spoke, he prepared to open the door with the key inserted in the lock.

When her finger was about to touch the key, I said, "Don't go out." ”

"What are you, and why dare you stop me?" Li Li turned her head to look at me in surprise, her expression ugly.

"I'm a thing, you're not a thing, I really don't dare to talk to you." I shrugged my shoulders, "But to get out of this door, you have to get my permission." ”

"There is no royal law, this is in our house. It's polite not to tell you to get out. Li Li may have been really anxious, and she scolded and prepared to open the door again.

I walked quickly and grabbed her arm, "Don't go away." ”

After listening to what Li Jia and Li Yuan said, he summarized what had happened in the recent period. I always felt that what was hidden inside was not simple, and there might be thousands of pairs of eyes in the darkness watching every move of everyone in the village. The revenge of the ghost of the old man of the fox family seems to be nonsense, and I don't believe it very much. But the fox family is almost dead, this is a real thing, and Li Nuoyi has indeed had an inexplicable phenomenon. This has to be cautious.

Since the entire village says that the death of the fox family is related to the fact that the funeral taboo is not observed, then I have to be on guard. After all, I have encountered so many strange incidents, and if I don't know how to be cautious, I don't know how many times I will die.

"Let go, damn it, you dare to be wild in our Li family. You're just a little white face who relies on women to eat soft rice, and you dare to do anything with me. Li Li tried to scratch and bite me, but I easily dodged it, but my hand still pulled her tightly and pulled her back to the door of the back room on the right side of the coffin.

"If you want to excrete, please go in for convenience, people who can't even follow the rules of their own house are not qualified to lose their temper at me." I snorted coldly and pushed her through the back door before letting go of my hand.

Li Li's stomach was about to burst, and she looked at me with a dark face, her eyes full of hatred. She didn't pee, and turned her head to look at the person at the mahjong table, "My good brother and good brother, don't you feel heartache at all to see me being bullied?" The Li family's face has been lost by you, so many people, a little backbone, beat me to death this arrogant little white face. ”

Li Jia didn't snort. Li Yuan glanced at his eldest brother and his face became strange. He thought that his eldest brother loved face the most, and he hated Li Nuoyi to the bone, and now he actually gave up the blow and was obviously a guy with that cheap woman, could it be that little white face is weird? So he also became cautious and did not echo his second sister.

Interpersonal relationships are originally a complex thing, especially the rich second generations who are not on the same front and have entanglements of interests. The grandchildren of the Li family, because Li Nuoyi occupies the main position of the company, the contradiction is not obvious for the time being, so they can still sit together and play mahjong harmoniously. But the interaction between them only stops there, and it is absolutely nonsense to talk about deeper mutual assistance.

Li Li is also very aware of this, and she began to instigate her boyfriend, "Bastard, you see me being bullied, what are you doing stupidly there?" Aren't you often boasting that you're a karate black belt judan? ”

Karate black belt ten dan? When I heard this, I was dripping with waterfall sweat. Even Li Nuoyi, who had been silent, laughed out loud: "Isn't there only nine dans in karate?" ”

"Not necessarily, Yamaguchi Gangxuan, the founder of the Historical Gangrou Association, seems to be known as the ten black belts." I scratched my head, "Maybe your cousin's boyfriend is a ruthless character who hides and secretly fights invincible opponents all over Japan." ”

The sarcasm in our tones didn't seem to affect Li Li's boyfriend at all, and the non-mainstream patted his girlfriend on the shoulder with a smug face, "Don't worry, leave it to me." Flattening a little white face, it's just a matter of raising your hands. ”

He walked towards me. As he walked, he took a strange kung fu stance and flew at me. It's a heroic stance. Although I am also a layman in my knowledge of kung fu, after all, I have learned some fighting skills in Yang Junfei and Lin Zhiyan. In the face of his flying legs, I didn't bother to dodge, grabbed his ankle and lifted it with my hand, and he fell to the ground upside down.

The non-mainstream boy was about to burst into tears, and he cried out in pain, shaking his fists in annoyance.

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