After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 22 Yongan Cemetery
Mother Chen slapped her thigh and said, "Hey! If I had known earlier, I would have asked you to buy paper gold! There's no one selling this in town anymore, and business at the restaurant has been booming lately, so I don't have time to make it myself!"

"Mom, we can just ask Miaozhu to buy it during the Chinese New Year! The one we bought is also good, it looks so grand! It's just a token of our thoughts when paying tribute to our relatives, as long as the thought is there." Chen Shuanghe said.

She is the successor of scientific socialism, how could she believe in feudal superstition?

"Speaking of this makes me angry. I asked you to look online for old yellow paper with hand-punched holes, but you bought this whole thing!
I always suspect that because I had nightmares recently and dreamed that my house was flooded, it was because you didn’t buy the right paper money and your father was unhappy.

When he was alive, he would specially ask the master to buy it for him when he worshipped his ancestors." Aunt Chen said angrily.

"Not everything is available online!" Chen Shuanghe said helplessly, "I looked for it, but I couldn't find it!"

Song Miaozhu came over and took a look. Wow, it was all colorfully printed ghost money.

No wonder Uncle Chen was dressed in gray last time and didn’t follow the trends in the underworld at all. He must be poor!
I feel a bit sorry for Uncle Chen.

Unfortunately, paper money can be sold but not given away. She used these gold ingots to burn at the graves of her relatives, and there are not many left to give away.

But she could go with Aunt Chen and the others and burn some at Uncle Chen's grave.

Mother Chen scolded Chen Shuanghe for a while, then finally let her go: "Alright, let's go! He's your father after all, he won't blame you."

The small van shook for forty minutes and finally arrived near Yong'an Cemetery.

After getting off the bus, Song Miaozhu bought a few bouquets of fresh flowers from a nearby stall as Qingming gifts.

Fortunately, she didn't have any deceased relatives to attend the flower show, so buying some flowers was enough.

Below the quality level of Qingming hangings, the best ones are those made by paper craftsmen, followed by Qingming hanging paper flowers made by relatives in the world of the living. If these are not available, real fresh flowers will also do.

At least it looks like a real flower, but it cannot carry the longing, and it has no special effect in the underworld.

It's like the difference between fireworks and sky rockets in the dark night.

Although sky rockets are not as dazzling as fireworks, they at least make a sound. The paper flowers pressed by machines don't make any sound at all. It is very likely that a large paper flower will be inserted, but the ghost will only get a dull paper petal.

The Qingming hangings that Chen Ma and the others brought were made by a machine bought in town.

Song Miaozhu didn't say anything. Whether it was machine-pressed or fresh flowers, it was impossible for them to win at the Fengdu Qingming Flower Festival.

In this case, the Qingming hangings only serve the purpose of decoration and display, and it doesn't matter what kind they are.

The Qingming Flower Festival has been held for so many years that the ghosts no longer rely solely on the Qingming hangings sent by their relatives in the world of the living.

Many ghosts also save money for their own birthdays, buy Qingming hangings and participate in flower festivals, just like the old ghost in official robes last night.

Anshoutang is the only shop in Fengdu that has a complete legacy of both spirit and ghost paper-making, but there are many ghost shops that sell ghost paper-making.

Throughout the dynasties, there have been so many craftsmen working in the funeral industry!
As long as you are a skilled craftsman when you are alive, you can still make a living by making Yin paper-cuts after you die.

However, you can’t learn it after you die. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to make a good quality paper-made object.

After entering the cemetery and going up the mountain, there were already many tombs with various Qingming hangings or flowers placed in front of them.

However, Song Miaozhu looked around and saw that there was not a single one that had reached the highest quality.

Perhaps because it was daytime, she saw no trace of ghosts. Instead, she saw more yin energy, which is common in the underworld but less common in the living world, and it was concentrated near the tombstones.

Looking closely, the illusory figure that flashed by above, if it wasn't a ghost, what else could it be?
Maybe it's because the Yang energy is too strong during the day, which damages the ghost body and makes it inconvenient to come out!
Song Miaozhu first went to Uncle Chen's grave with Chen Ma and Chen Shuanghe.

Although the Yong'an Cemetery bury only cremated ashes, it also takes into account the old customs. There is a place to burn paper money in front of each tomb, and there is also a small area behind the tombstone to insert Qingming hangings.

"Auntie Chen, let me help you!" said Song Miaozhu.

Taking advantage of the Qingming Festival hangings, Song Miaozhu walked behind the tombstone. Guided by Uncle Chen's ghost, she found the gap behind the cover stone where the ashes were placed. She pretended to have just seen it and shouted, "Auntie Chen, look here!"

Mother Chen came over and squatted down to look: "Why is there a hole here?"

"Auntie Chen, it rained a lot recently. We should ask someone to take a look! If the ashes are soaked, Uncle Chen will have trouble sleeping." Song Miaozhu said.

Mother Chen got up and went to look for the people from the cemetery. The cover stone was sealed and locked, and it couldn't be opened without tools and keys.

"Mom! I'll go with you! Miaozhu, please help look after the things!" Chen Shuanghe also went.

Song Miaozhu breathed a sigh of relief. After this inspection, Uncle Chen's tomb would no longer be flooded by rainwater.

"Thanks to your help, Miss Song, I can finally live comfortably!"

Uncle Chen hid in the tombstone and thanked her.

"It's just a small favor." Song Miaozhu asked curiously, "Uncle Chen, can't your ghosts come out during the day?"

She was quite curious about this.

"The Yang energy is too strong during the day. If you stay out for a while, your soul will fly away.

Even at night, only the lonely ghosts who have no tomb, no household registration in the underworld, and have sunk into the netherworld can come out and wander around.

However, lonely ghosts have no shelter and will usually disappear quickly.

Our corpses have been buried and entered the underworld. With the presence of ghosts in the tombs, we cannot come out and walk around freely not only during the day but also at night.

The tomb is both a protection and a restraint for ghosts in the world of the living.

At most, they can only move around near their own graves and cannot go too far.

Only on the day of the Ghost Festival when the gates of hell open wide can one return to the world of the living to visit relatives.

If the cemetery is broken and flooded, the binding force will be reduced. Then the loophole will be found and they will go back to try to send dreams to see if it will work. Unexpectedly, the ghost power is too weak and even the dream will not work.

You must have opened your third eye! Your Song family does this. I heard that there was someone in your family who could see the underworld. I didn't expect it to be true.

If it weren't for you, I'm really afraid that the cemetery would be destroyed.

Although I have a household registration in Fengdu, I won’t become a wandering ghost even if my tomb is destroyed, but without my tomb, I will no longer receive offerings from the living world, and my life will be difficult!"

At this point, Chen Daming saw the paper money and incense that his wife and daughter had brought on the ground. The incense had a foul smell, but it didn't matter. The paper money was also poor quality printed banknotes.
"Song girl, can I ask you for one more favor? Ask your mother Chen and Shuang He to stop buying me incense and paper money like this in the future!"
The ones you make are really good, let them buy from you in the future!"

(End of this chapter)