My master is invincible

Chapter 267 Empty Coffin (33)

Thinking of this, I tightened the flashlight in my hand, and turned my head to look at the funeral procession. For some reason, the funeral procession had stopped. Those who carried the coffin and the villagers who helped were sitting on the ground smoking, and the coffin was placed on the ground. Near the foot of the mountain, two wooden benches were placed underneath.

And Qingxuanzi was standing next to the coffin, as if he was tinkering with something. Seeing me holding a flashlight and shining it there, he shouted: "Chen Baxian, where are the four of the master's family doing? If they don't come, the coffin Why send it up the mountain?"

I didn't speak, but waved to him, meaning let him come over.He came over knowingly, put down the things in his hands, and walked over.

Wang Fangmin seemed to realize something was wrong here, and followed Qingxuanzi's pace.

After the two of them came to me, I glanced at them and said, "I'm going to fish up the bones from the river." As I spoke, I pointed to the river.

The two of them glanced at the place where my finger was, and their expressions changed slightly. Wang Fangmin said, "Isn't this bad? We're in a funeral procession. We stop to pick up other bones, and the dead will be displeased."

"My fellow is right, we are attending a funeral, and it is very unlucky to mix it with other funerals." Qingxuanzi agreed with him.

"Are you looking at these bones floating in the river?" I frowned and said.

Hearing this, Qingxuanzi sighed, took the flashlight from my hand, and shone it towards the river, said in a deep voice: "These bones are a bit abnormal, let's go to the funeral first, and we should wait until dawn to discuss the matter of picking the bones." .”

I was taken aback for a moment, what is wrong with these bones?Just ask him why.

He pointed to the river and said: "The water on this river flows downstream. Look at the bones, they seem to be fixed, and there is no tendency to flow downward at all. The so-called abnormality must have a demon. Let's go to the funeral first." !"

I looked along his fingers, and there was indeed some abnormality. Although the river water could not be called a torrent, the naked eye could still see the water surface slowly flowing downward.

However, those corpses seemed to be fixed there, as Qingxuanzi said, and did not float down with the current.

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

He shook his head and said, "It's too dark. The light from the flashlight can't see through the water. You can only see it clearly in the daytime."

I saw his serious expression, so I knew he didn't intend to retrieve the 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 sorry. If I go down the river to find the bones now, then Qingxuanzi has already made it very clear that there may be something wrong with the bones.

I froze on the spot for a few minutes without opening my mouth to speak. That Qingxuanzi pulled me and persuaded: "Don't read it, it will delay the auspicious time. Let's talk about this corpse at dawn."

To be honest, after listening to his analysis, I felt a little relieved, so I planned to do what he wanted.So, I said to him: "That's fine, I'll burn some yellow paper by the river first, and then continue with the funeral!"

After finishing speaking, I found some yellow paper, lit it, and made three bows towards the river, and said, "I don't know which family you are from. My boy, Chen Jiu, is going to the funeral today. I saw you showing your real body. However, there is a funeral. The only thing I can do is burn the yellow paper first to express my apology, and after dawn, the boy will definitely fish up your old bones and let you rest in peace."

When the words fell to the ground, I was stunned and was about to turn around and leave when I saw the yellow paper on the ground, which was only half burnt, and was blown by the wind towards the direction of the coffin.

This scene made me frown. When I was burning the yellow paper just now, I had explained that the yellow paper was for the owner of the bone in the river, but now that the yellow paper is moving towards the coffin, it is another What do you mean?
According to folklore, as long as you specify who you want to burn yellow paper, those lonely ghosts will not come to snatch it, let alone the dead sleeping in coffins.

That Qingxuanzi also seemed to notice this scene, he thought for a while, then said with a sullen face, "I think the bones may belong to the deceased, otherwise, these yellow papers would not move towards the direction of the coffin."

"Impossible." I shook my head and said, "The deceased has only been dead for a few days, and the body cannot decompose so quickly."

"Then how do you explain this scene?" Qingxuanzi said in a deep voice.

When he asked me this question, I was speechless, so I had no choice but to let it go, expressing my ignorance, and staring straight at the half-burned yellow paper. They moved to the coffin as we guessed.

After those yellow papers were settled, it was right in the middle of the coffin.Seeing this, I suddenly had an idea, found some yellow paper, lit it, and said: "Old man He Xiuhua, my boy Chen Jiu will do the funeral for you, please forgive me if I am not thoughtful, and I will burn some yellow paper to express my apology." .”

After I finished speaking, I fixed my eyes on the yellow paper on the ground. The yellow paper lay quietly on the ground and burned without any tendency to move. Even if there was a slight breeze, the yellow paper still burned quietly.

Now, I was very puzzled. 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 in a daze, Wang Cheng walked over with his wife and daughter, stood beside Wang Xi, and asked Wang Xi a few words in a soft voice. It seems to be talking there.

After about a minute or so, Wang Cheng seemed to know what happened here from Wang Xi. Without saying a word, he knelt down facing the river and wailed: "I am a bud, you Why did you come out?"

Hearing his wailing, I was stunned. The Shaoyang dialect is not very different from our Hengyang dialect. The bud Laozi in his mouth means father.Ma De, the bones on the river are those of Wang Chengcai's father, that is, the husband of the deceased. How could this be?
As soon as I ran to Wang Chengcai, I didn't care about his wailing, so I asked him, "Why do you think it's your father's bones?"

He knelt by the river and howled, ignoring me. Looking at the situation, he couldn't ask anything. I didn't ask him again, so I ran to Wang Xi and asked, "What's your father's situation?"

He froze for a moment and said, "Just now my dad has been crying and mourning, so he didn't notice what's going on here. I told him about it, and he's just like that."

"You don't know why?" I asked suspiciously.

He was slightly taken aback, and said with a look of embarrassment: "Back then, Grandpa seemed to have committed suicide by the river. Dad must have regarded those bones as Grandpa."

Hearing what he said, I suddenly remembered that when the body of the deceased was salvaged, he told me that his grandfather committed suicide by jumping into the river. drowned.

(End of this chapter)