I couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing. This little girl was also amazing. If her class teacher knew about it, I don't know if she would be mad to death.

The host smiled awkwardly, picked up the little girl and said, "My daughter Li Shuyan, please don't be offended!"

I gave up and said that the girl had a great future, and then I motioned to the host to take the little girl out. I looked up at the bed and saw an old man with wrinkles lying on the bed, with a red face and slightly open eyes.

A gap was revealed, wearing a khaki canvas coat, and holding the edge of the bed tightly with both hands.

As the saying goes, living people have the appearance of life, and dead people have the appearance of death. Generally, after death, the complexion of a person will turn vegetable green, which is what is commonly known as the appearance of death. The dead person not only does not have the appearance of death, but his complexion is more beautiful than the complexion of the living person.

When I saw this situation, before I could speak, Lao Wang spoke first. He said, "Jiuyaozi, something is wrong with this situation. Will there be trouble?"

I smiled bitterly and said, "It should be fine!" After hearing this, Lao Wang didn't say anything and leaned closer to me.

"Are you afraid sometimes?" I laughed at Lao Wang and asked him to call the direct descendants of the master's family to burn leadership papers. I also asked him to find a few coffins of the Eight Immortals and bring them to the main room.

The so-called leadership paper is actually what we call it in Hunan. The popular name is burnt yellow paper, and this burnt yellow paper is somewhat different from the usual yellow paper. It needs to be burned according to a certain weight, usually eighteen

A pound of gold is said to be used to bribe the two envoys. To put it bluntly, this kind of yellow paper is just to buy money for traveling.

I walked back and forth in the room several times before the master came in with about ten people. The leader was the master and his two brothers, the second row was the master's nephew, and the third row was the master's wife and his brothers.

daughter in law.

As soon as they arrived, I felt something was wrong with the atmosphere in the room. I won't tell you what it was, but I just felt that the atmosphere in the room was weird. If I had to describe it, I can only say that the air was not as fresh as before.

I nodded, slowly took off the deceased's clothes, picked up the corpse towel from the basin, twisted it to about half wet, and gently wiped the deceased's feet.

I glanced at them with a frown and asked them if they had taken a shower. They nodded and said, "After the old man got angry, our whole family took a shower!"

I just had the attitude of giving it a try, not expecting my host to agree, so I had no choice but to ask my host to find some pot ash and smear it on my face, and then asked for a red envelope.

This action is called kinship selection, choosing the person closest to the deceased to wipe the body of the deceased. In some places, wiping the body is called wiping the body to provide a legacy, and our Eight Immortals call it Qinglong.

As the corpse towel rotated, the eyes of the three brothers of the host almost popped out, and their breathing became a little faster. However, there was something unexpected about the position where the corpse towel stopped. What the hell, it stopped in the west, facing directly.

Hold me.

"No, this is the old man's wish!" the three brothers of the host family said in unison.

Seeing this scene, I scolded the ancestors of the old scholar from the Qing Dynasty to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era in my heart. Damn it, what kind of work did he recommend? Yes, there are benefits to wiping the corpse, but the prerequisite is that the deceased is a direct relative. I don't care.

The person who organizes the funeral has no relationship with the deceased. Once the body is wiped, not only will he not be blessed, but he will be in bad luck for three years.

After the air in the house got a little better, I asked the master to call his children and wife out, leaving the master and his two brothers behind. I also asked the master to prepare half a basin of water and put it in the middle of the house, but the master did not dare.

If you were too lazy, you quickly followed my instructions. After a while, the host brought half a basin of water and placed it in the middle of the house.

Burning leadership papers inevitably involves a lot of mourning. The crying was really shocking. Weeping ghosts and gods. I felt so sad that I almost brought down the house from crying. I quickly stopped them and said: "There are still seven days, don't cry at the top of your lungs."

Silent."

The room was not big to begin with. After burning the leadership paper, the room was filled with smoke, making it difficult to breathe. Only after the owner opened the windows did some air flow into the room.

I thought that wiping a corpse would be a very difficult task, but I didn't expect that as soon as I wiped my feet, I became completely accustomed to this behavior, as if the corpse in front of me was not a corpse, but a newborn baby.

Then, I asked the host to prepare a corpse towel (the corpse towel is actually a towel, but this towel is a little different from the usual towels. The custom here is to pull off a piece of cloth from the deceased's favorite clothes during his lifetime.

, some places are face washcloths used by the deceased during his lifetime.)

After preparing these two things, I bowed three times to the deceased and asked the three brothers of the master's family to stand in the east, south and north directions of the water basin. I stood in the west position and put the corpse towel into the clear water.

It turned seven times to the left and eight times to the right. When the water was almost overflowing the basin, I let go and let the corpse towel rotate with the water flow.

I glanced at the three brothers from the host family, smiled awkwardly, and said, "How about we go around again?"

I didn't say anything further, so I asked them to kneel on the bedside in the order of their descendants and daughters-in-law, and asked them to fold the yellow paper in half when burning it. They were a little surprised, but when they saw that my expression was wrong, they didn't say anything.

He did as I said.

There are certain risks in wiping the corpse. Some people are not fully dead yet, and later generations rush to wipe the corpse of the deceased. Once the deceased suddenly wakes up, the person who wiped the corpse will most likely be scared to death. If he is timid, he will be scared to death.

It's not impossible, although the probability is very low, it still happens occasionally.

It's not that I love money, but it's a custom. When outsiders wipe the body of the deceased, they usually have to get their faces dirty and then ask the owner for a red envelope, because the ashes at the bottom of the pot ward off evil spirits and the red envelope is auspicious.

Of course, risks are often accompanied by some benefits, but this benefit greatly outweighs the risks. It is rumored that those who wipe the corpse of the deceased will receive the blessing of the deceased. This seemingly illusory blessing is a huge benefit to future generations.

.In order to wipe the body of the deceased, it was not uncommon for brothers to turn against each other. Later, the funeral organizers came up with a way to choose a bride.

This metaphor is a bit inappropriate, but that was really how I felt at the time. Later, I learned that there is a kind of people who are destined to deal with corpses from birth, and I am the leader of this kind of people, that is,

The so-called genius is just that this genius is not recognized by outsiders, which is a bit sad when you think about it.

The owner was not stingy either. He gave me twenty-four yuan and told me to wipe the deceased’s body clean!

Soon, I wiped three-quarters of the deceased's body, leaving only the head. Now, I was in a bit of trouble. The deceased's dead appearance was so beautiful that I didn't know how to start.

I took a deep breath and kept telling myself, Chen Jiu, don't be afraid, what you are wiping is not the corpse, but doing good deeds, and you will live long and prosperous in the future.

Needless to say, this method was really effective. I suppressed the uneasiness in my heart, twisted the corpse towel, and wiped it on the face of the deceased with trembling hands.

The feeling in my hands was very soft and warm. I gently wiped the deceased's cheek, every movement was very gentle, for fear that if I was not careful, I would wake the deceased up.
Chapter completed!