Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 54 The trip to Xiangxi
After the third uncle finished speaking, he called me into the room. He took out a paper package from under the pillow. The paper package had to be opened more than 60 times before revealing a book with a yellow cover.The third uncle said that this book was left by his master. He was blinded 65 years ago and couldn't read it again. He wrapped it in paper every year to prevent insects from biting it.

The third uncle gave me the book and said that this book was given to me by his master, seeing that I am a ghost raiser, I hope it can be useful to me.I took it over and took a look. The title of the book on the cover happened to be something I didn’t know, and I was embarrassed to ask my third uncle, so as not to expose my poor literacy. It seems that I have to wait for Ye Feiji to come back and teach me to read a little more!
In the end, the third uncle told me that he would ride a crane to the west, hoping that I could take him back to his hometown for burial, and fulfill his wish of returning to his roots.Although I am willing, I am still embarrassed to say how to take such a large body, and what to do if someone finds out and says that I was caught halfway through the murder and sent to jail.

The third uncle smiled and said, "You are so smart, why can't you think of a way?"

I thought about it, and thought that all the graves at home were buried in tile jars, and the jars were filled with bones. It would be much more convenient to put the third uncle's bones in the jars and take them away.In this case, the body of the third uncle would be put into the bottom of the river, and the flesh-eating sand would eat up the meat, but this would count as treating the third uncle as a kind of food.

Although I think this approach is inappropriate, I still told my third uncle this idea, and he said let's do it this way!
After the third uncle finished speaking, he invited me out of the house, and as soon as the door was closed, he shouted to me outside the house: "Remember to come and take me home tomorrow morning, please, Li Tiaohe, thank you!"

Looking at the closed door in front of him, Third Uncle could no longer open it by himself. The moment he closed the door, his life was declared over, just like this closed door.

I yelled into the house: "I will take you home no matter what, you can go westward with a crane at ease!"

I don't know how I walked back to Village Chief Zhang's house. I didn't have any appetite for food all day. In the evening, Village Chief Zhang's family came back from sweeping the grave, and Researcher Wang and Lao Ding also came back.

I told Village Chief Zhang that the third uncle would return to the west with a crane tomorrow morning. His last wish was to return the fallen leaves to their roots. I hoped that I would take his bones back to his hometown for burial.After hearing this, Village Chief Zhang didn't doubt my words, and didn't ask any other questions. He just sighed that the third uncle was a poor man who had suffered all his life.

Village head Zhang said that his third uncle picked up his life. It turned out that village head Zhang was weak and sick after he was born.In the end, the third uncle found a big rock for him, and asked Village Chief Zhang to recognize the big rock as his godfather, and his health gradually recovered.It was the time of the Cultural Revolution, and the third uncle did this to be beaten as a monster, so Village Chief Zhang has always been very grateful to the third uncle.

That night, Village Chief Zhang and I went to the town to buy a crock pot for bones overnight, and put them in snakeskin bags so that no one would see them.At 04:30 in the morning, I came to the third uncle's house. He was not breathing and his whole body was stiff. He probably passed away after twelve o'clock.

Village head Zhang gave a few symbolic calls to the third uncle, but he didn’t respond, so he immediately found a plate and started burning paper money. I lit incense and candles in the room and said, “Third uncle! I’m here to take you home. "

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw my third uncle appearing in the hall. I couldn't see his face and feet, but he was waving at me, then bowed to me three times, turned around and disappeared into the wall.

I told Village Chief Zhang that the third uncle hoped that we would put his body in the river and bring back the remains. Village Chief Zhang nodded.After burning paper money and candles and lighting incense, the body of the third uncle, the head of the village Zhang, was carried on his back. I picked up the tile jar containing the remains, and the two of them sneaked out of the village like thieves to the river.

When we got to the river, Village Chief Zhang and I put the third uncle's body into the water, and then I secretly called Tongtong out, and asked her to drag the third uncle to the middle of the river and sink.Village head Zhang couldn't see Tongtong, he only saw the body of the third uncle who seemed to have swam to the middle of the river by himself, and asked me if I was cheating on the corpse.

I lied to the village chief that the third uncle was a corpse chaser, and he gave me a method today, which I used on him, so he could still swim to the middle of the river after he died.The village head was convinced, saying that the third uncle had suffered all his life, and today he was finally relieved, and it was his lifelong wish to go home.

At this moment I closed my eyes, as if I saw my third uncle lying quietly at the bottom of the river, the sand crawled from all directions, crawled onto his body and covered him, and the third uncle's body in the sand immediately felt like a candle was heated melt.

Ten minutes later, under the protection of Tongtong, I went into the water to fish out the bones of the third uncle, put them one by one into the jar, packed them in snakeskin bags, and took them back to his home.

After dawn, we pretended to find out that the third uncle passed away. I asked someone to buy a coffin, and hurriedly closed the coffin and nailed it.The third uncle is a bachelor. He has no parents, no children, no siblings, so there is no need for a funeral.

After killing the chicken and burning incense, worshiping in front of the coffin, a string of firecrackers was lit and the coffin was carried out of the mountain. Of course, it was just an empty coffin.In order that the coffin bearers would not feel that the coffin was too light, our Village Chief Zhang stuffed a water-soaked quilt inside, and the heavy shoulders of the coffin bearers were all over their shoulders.

Fortunately, the place of burial was not too far away, and besides the eight people who carried the coffin, the mourners were me and Village Chief Zhang.The coffin pit was dug early in the morning, and when the coffin was put down, the soil was buried, and a string of firecrackers was set off to complete the work.

It stands to reason that just after the burial, incense should be burnt every morning for three consecutive days, but the third uncle has no offspring, so he can't care about this, let alone the third uncle is not in the coffin at all.

In the afternoon, I tied the crock pot containing the remains of my third uncle to the back of the car, and when I arrived at the county town, I came to Ye Feiji’s noodle shop. At this time, she was lying on a rocking chair in the noodle shop, and Xiao Jianzaki was standing beside her making tea for her. Tea is poured.

I called Xiao Mizaki, and when she saw it was me, she immediately put down the teapot in her hand and rushed out happily. I knelt down and asked her if Sister Feiji was bullying you, and Xiao Mizaki nodded.

Ye Feiji saw me coming, jumped up from the rocking chair quickly, pretended to pat the dust on the chair with his hand, then bowed to me solemnly and said: "Boss, please sit down!"

I told her to stop doing this and let you take care of Xiao Mizaki. Xiao Jianzaki said that you bullied her. What's going on?Ye Feiji looked dissatisfied, saying that Xiao Jianqi didn't eat, and always wanted to eat candy. She didn't give Xiao Jianqi so much sugar, so Xiao Jianqi falsely accused her of bullying her.

I said forget it, forget it, I don't care about it with you, I can tell you that the black is white, Xiao Jianzaki is only four years old, so I don't know how to slander you.Ye Feiji asked me why I came to the county seat, was it because I was afraid that she would sell Xiaojianzaki?I laughed at her and said that she didn't have the guts to ask you to sell you. I came here to tell you good news. I decided to raise your salary to 20 yuan a day.When Ye Feiji heard that I had raised her salary so much, she jumped up happily, and praised me for being a talented woman with discerning eyes, saying that she should be worth the price.

I told her to stop talking nonsense. I gave her a salary increase in the hope that she could go to Xiangxi with me. She knew many dialects and learned them quickly. I needed to take her with me.Ye Feiji asked me why I went to Xiangxi?How long will I go, I told her that it is estimated to be within a week, and if it exceeds a week, I will give her 30 yuan a day.Ye Feiji applauded excitedly after hearing this, and asked me what are I waiting for, let's go now!
I said no rush, it's already evening, and I'll leave tomorrow morning, but Ye Feiji said that although he didn't leave today, the 20 yuan a day's salary had to be calculated from today.Ye Feiji is the head of the big sister, but she really doesn't want to take any losses, and takes advantage of it if she can. I am really speechless to her.

At this time, an eleven or twelve-year-old boy walked in outside the store. Ye Feiji immediately took his arm and introduced that this was her younger brother, named Ye Feicha.I laughed and said that the names of your three brothers and sisters are really unique. Ye Feiji said that the names of your brothers and sisters are also very distinctive!Ye Feiji's rebuttal made me depressed for a while.

After a while, Ye Feiji's mother also came back from outside, holding a bamboo basket with several empty bowls on it, saying that she had just returned from delivering food for someone.When Ye Feiji's mother saw me, she was pouring tea and asking questions. She said a few words to Boss Li, and the compliments made me get goosebumps. As expected, like a mother, like a daughter, Ye Feiji won her so much. Mom's inheritance.

I went out to the door to untie third uncle's urn from the car, and Ye Feiji asked me what it was and if I could eat it.I told her it was dynamite and I was fine with her eating it.Ye Feiji's mother also came out of the store, saying that Boss Li was so polite and wanted to buy something.This mother and daughter made me want to go crazy. I almost told them that it contained human bones, but I was afraid that there would be no place to put it if I told them.It can only be said that there are poisonous insects inside, and they asked them to find a safe place to put it temporarily, and told them not to open it, otherwise they would kill people.

A few people came into the store to eat noodles, Ye Feiji's mother was busy, Ye Feiji took me and Xiao Jianqi to wander around the county town, we bought a few bunches of candied haws and ate them while walking, and finally came to A booth to sit.

I told Ye Feiji that her parents might be worried about going so far this time, so I hope she won't tell her parents that after completing the task of this trip, she will be rewarded with 100 yuan.After hearing this, Ye Feiji almost knelt down to thank me, but she said that no matter what I did in Xiangxi, she would only do translation and take care of Xiao Jianzaki, and she would not do dangerous things.I told her not to think too much about it, as a weak woman, what else could I do dangerously with her, she thinks too much of herself.

I stayed at Ye Feiji’s house at night, and I shared a bed with Ye Feiji’s younger brother Ye Feicha. Ye Feicha always grinds his teeth when he sleeps, and after a while he put his legs on my chest again, which made me unable to sleep all night. .

The next day, I temporarily left the car at Ye Feiji's house, and took the car to Yongzhou with my third uncle's ossuary in my arms.After arriving in Yongzhou, you need to transfer to Shaoyang, then transfer from Shaoyang to Huaihua, then transfer from Huaihua to Xiangxi, and finally take a bus to Huayuan County.

(End of this chapter)