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Chapter 27 The Ancestral Compass

Chen Ziyang's grandma lives in his uncle's house, which is very close to his house.The straight-line distance between the two buildings is only 150 meters.Chen Ziyang's grandma is in her 70s this year, but she is still in good health. Although her hair is all white, her ears are still working well.It is normal to have some inflexibility in the legs and feet, after all, I am old.

Chen Ziyang explained his purpose to his grandmother.Grandma Chen agreed, but only asked him not to break the compass, which was left to his grandma by Chen Ziyang's grandfather.Chen Ziyang's grandfather died before Chen Ziyang was born, and it is said that the compass was passed down by Chen Ziyang's great-grandfather.

Chen Ziyang's grandmother lived in a room by herself, and there were two large camphorwood boxes in the corner of the room.These two boxes were used as dowry when Chen Ziyang's grandmother married.It has been placed by Grandma Chen's side for nearly 60 years.Chen Ziyang flipped over to the compass from the bottom of the box.

The compass was packed in a thick wooden box with a soft cloth lining underneath.The first time Chen Ziyang saw this compass was when he was young. At that time, his parents were both working and the old man had not yet appeared. Chen Ziyang's grandmother took care of him for his parents.At that time, Chen Ziyang was quite mischievous, and Grandma Chen couldn't coax her with her best efforts. Later, she took out this compass for him to play with, because it was made of pure copper, so she wouldn't be afraid of being damaged by him.It should also be said that Chen Ziyang has a predestined relationship with Fengshui, as long as he holds this compass, he will be honest immediately, and he will not be able to get back the compass if he is given any other toys.

Chen Ziyang took the compass home and looked at it carefully.This compass is just as Yang Lei said, it is really a good compass.The whole body is made of brass.All kinds of lines and characters on the surface of the compass are criss-crossed and densely packed.Although the lines and patterns on it are very dense, they are very clear.On the back of the compass is a "Swastika" pattern composed of four dragons, which looks very imposing.

The compass is well preserved, even the red paint and black paint in the grooves on the surface of the compass are well preserved. It is estimated that this thing is not usually taken out, but there are many scratches on the back of the compass.It may be that Chen Ziyang put it on the ground and pushed it back and forth when he was playing with it when he was a child.

There is one biggest difference between this compass and other compasses.This compass is very large and very thick.

A traditional compass is a copper circular inner disk set on a square outer disk. The diameter of the disk is generally eighteen to twenty centimeters, and the side length of the outer disk is more than twenty centimeters, which is considered a large compass.And Grandma Chen Ziyang's compass has a side length of more than 30 centimeters.It is very heavy in the hand, very textured.It also looks very majestic, no wonder Yang Lei wanted to borrow it to support the scene.But this compass is good-looking, but if you really hold it in your hand and use it, it will exhaust you to death.

Chen Ziyang didn't think about it before, the appearance of this compass is definitely a good thing, and it's not too young, why is this compass in the hands of his grandfather? Could it be that the ancestors of the old Chen family also read Fengshui?
Chen Ziyang finished his business and had nothing else to do, so he walked to the coffin shed of Liu Banxian, wanting to see how Yang Lei was doing as chief executive for the first time.

The custom in Big Walnut Town is to park for two days after death and hold a funeral on the third day.Including the day of death, the morgue took three days.During these three days, both the chief executive and the family members of the deceased had to do a lot of things.On the day of the person's death, the family members invited the chief supervisor to start handling the funeral affairs according to the arrangements of the chief supervisor.

The first step is to buy shrouds, coffins and rent coffins. After the shrouds are bought, family members are required to bathe and change clothes for the deceased, and then arrange coffins.Because there is no crematorium in the town, when people die, they find a piece of open space near the downstairs of their own house to build a coffin. The deceased lies on a wooden shelf one foot above the ground in the coffin. Send condolences to relatives and friends.

The deceased was wearing a shroud, his face was covered with a yellow cloth for safety, his feet were wrapped with red strings to prevent fraud, and there was a pressed copper coin in his mouth.

It seems that the sayings about this custom of snagging money are different from place to place.Pressing money is to put a copper coin in the mouth of the deceased.When Chen Ziyang was in college, he heard from his classmates that they only gave money to those who were killed, which is commonly known as death in vain, such as those who were murdered or died in a car accident. If you want to file a complaint in front of the king of hell, the king of hell will interrogate the living. If this is not good for the family members of the deceased, it will affect the life of the person.If there is a pressure money in the mouth of the deceased, the copper coin will fall out when the deceased opens his mouth to complain. The king of Hades knows that the copper coin is a bribe for him, and the king of Hades will not care about the death of the deceased in vain.The mouth money in this statement is kept in the mouth of the dead body, and it is not taken out until the burial.Chen Ziyang didn't quite believe this kind of statement. He could bribe the Lord of Hell with only one copper coin, and he was too easy to deal with.

The customs here in Big Walnut Town are different.The eye of this pressed copper coin is tied with a red string, the money is put in the mouth of the dead body, and the red string is placed outside the mouth.It is said that the reason for putting down the money was that the deceased had hidden money in his mouth, and reserved it for the deceased to pay for the ferry on the Wangchuan River.If you don't hide the money in your mouth, you will be snatched by the kid on the way to the Wangchuan River.If there is no money to pay for the ferry, the boatman will not take him across the river, or throw the human soul into the river when crossing the river.The water in the Wangchuan River is full of poison and water ghosts that corrode the soul. If a person's soul falls into the river, he will never come out. He will suffer from the poison in the river all the time, and will become New water ghost, continue to wait to pull others into the water.

According to the custom here, when the coffin is loaded, the copper coins should be taken out of the mouth of the deceased, pulled out by the red rope, washed, and worn by the living. Blessed by the spirits of the dead.

Chen Ziyang has been soft since he was a child.Although he has learned Taoism from the old Taoist, it is useless for him to learn or not, in the words of the old Taoist, because people with soft characters have insufficient yang energy in their bodies. It's useless.All Maoshan spiritual masters who have achieved great success are as hard as heaven.The horoscope is so hard that it jumps out of the three realms and is no longer in the five elements.Among Chen Ziyang's old Taoist skills, there are only two things that will be useful after he learns them. One is the technique of earth master, that is, searching for dragons and tapping acupuncture points; the other is yin and yang eyes.

Therefore, Chen Ziyang would not get too close to this kind of coffin shed for the dead.Afraid of provoking things.It's funny to say that the dignified descendant of Maoshan has nothing to do with dirty things.Chen Ziyang stood in the distance, looking at Yang Lei busy, it really seemed like that.

Those who came to express their condolences kowtowed and bowed, and the family members also kowtowed and bowed in return.Chen Ziyang looked at it, and suddenly found that there seemed to be someone in the coffin shed where the paper man and paper horse were placed.

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