"Dad, what are you doing?" I looked at my dad's strange behavior and looked confused.

My dad looked up at me and said, "You are back? Come on, help me!"

I put down the instant noodles: "What's the matter?"

The father pointed at the uncle's body and said, "I don't know where there are many ants coming out, and I can't stop crawling on your uncle's body. No matter how I drive it, I can't drive it away?"

Ant?

I quickly walked over and looked closely. Sure enough, there were many ants crawling around on the white shroud, like black sesame seeds, densely packed, making people's scalp numb.

My father kept slapping the ants down. As soon as he drove this wave, he climbed up again, one after another, and he kept trying to drill into my uncle's body.

There were circles of ants scattered on the ground, all of which were trampled to death by my father after he drove them down.

"Jiujizi, have you ever seen this?" Dad asked me.

I helped slap the ants on the shroud and found that these ants were ordinary ants and nothing unusual.

I shook my head. Since I became a corpse driver, I have seen many corpses, but I have never seen such a situation in front of me. Why are so many ants crawling onto the corpse? Such a vision makes me puzzled.

My father and I worked for a long time and finally wiped out the ants on the shroud.

I originally wanted to go to a convenience store to buy a bottle of insecticide, but then I thought about it and let it go. If the insecticide is sprayed on the body, it would be bad.

I thought about it and later went to a convenience store to buy two boxes of mosquito coils. I put a box of mosquito coils on the head and soles of my uncle's body. The mosquito coils have the effect of repelling mosquito ants.

I couldn't find lime powder for a while, so I bought a few packets of salt and sprinkled a circle of salt around the mourning hall to form a protective wall to prevent ants outside from crawling into the mourning hall.

After doing all this, we finally barely controlled the situation. We cleaned the corpses of the ant on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief. Although it was an autumn night, we were tired and sweaty, and the instant noodles placed beside us were already cold.

My father and I were so tired that we sat down, holding the cold instant noodles.

We were already hungry, and with this toss, I was so hungry that I almost rolled my eyes.

"Why do I buy two more boxes?" I said.

"It's okay, just eat it, it's just a little cold!" said the father, and ate the foam noodles.

I knew my father was reluctant to waste it, and didn't say much, and ate the noodles in big mouthfuls.

Although the instant noodles were cold, we were already hungry and couldn't care about so much. We ate the instant noodles into our stomachs after a few seconds. Even the noodle soup was gone, and our empty stomach finally felt better.

"Jiujizi, if you are sleepy, go and sleep for a while!" Dad said to me.

"It's okay, I'll keep you in peace!" I said.

The flames in the brazier in front of me cannot be extinguished, so I have to keep burning paper into the brazier. Naturally, the keeper cannot sleep. From night to morning, I have to burn paper, light candles, and burn incense. Although it seems to be a few tedious things, it is actually quite tiring.

After finally staying up until dawn, my father and I looked like eggplant made from two frosts.

I don’t know if that circle of salt worked this night, but the ants never came again.

Regarding the emergence of ants, I personally analyze three reasons:

One is a mourning hall built in the courtyard of the community, surrounded by flower beds and shrubs, and there are many ants, so a large number of ants crawled into the mourning hall.

Another reason may be that the wooden board used to store corpses. I don’t know what wood the board is, so it may provoke ants.

The third reason is corpses. The ants themselves also like to eat rotten food. Because the corpses have not been sealed in the coffin, the ants smell the corpse and ran in groups to find food.

Of course, I told my father these three reasons to make him happy.

Actually, if you think about it carefully, these three reasons are not true. Maybe there are ants coming, but there will not be so many ants. Moreover, the target of these ants seems to be the corpse of my uncle. I have never seen such a vision. Although I vaguely feel something is wrong, I can't think of a reason. Anyway, the matter was solved in the end, so I didn't continue to think deeper.

In the morning, the aunt came and called a corpse transport truck from the funeral home, preparing to send his body back to Shuiwa Village as his uncle's last wish.

However, vehicles can only reach the town, and it is not open to traffic from the town to Shuipu Village, and it takes dozens of miles of mountain road.

I hung up the phone number to Village Chief Ma in advance and asked him to inform Leizi, and asked Leizi to bring a few coffin carryers to the town to wait for me, so that I had work to do.

The aunt walked into the mourning hall and didn't ask if we had eaten last night. She was even more unlikely to care whether we had breakfast. She pointed at my father and me and said voluntarily: "What are you still standing there? Carry your elder brother into the car!"

My father and I held back our anger, carried the wooden board one after another, lifted our uncle's body up, and carefully put it into the corpse transport truck. Then, my father and I, as family members, guarded our uncle's body and sat in the carriage.

The staff at the funeral home asked the aunt to sit in. The aunt refused to do so. She scolded the staff and then drove her red Audi out of the community.

At this time, even the staff couldn't stand it anymore and reminded the aunt: "This is transporting the body. I'm afraid it's not appropriate to drive a big red car?"

The aunt rolled down the car window and cursed with a fat face: "Do you care about me!"

The staff turned to look at us, and I shrugged: "She does whatever she loves, we can't control it!"

The staff shook their heads speechlessly and started the corpse-cartridge.

I turned my head and looked at the fat woman, cursing in my heart: "What an idiot. I drive a red car on the way to transport the corpse, and I don't have to worry about rushing!"

In fact, there are many things to pay attention to at the funeral. The most basic thing is that you cannot wear bright clothes or bright outfits, especially bright red. Because red represents festiveness, is it a festive thing for the dead at home? This is a kind of disrespect for the deceased. In terms of the trick, what I just said, it is easy to have conflicts. Those who are beaten by evil spirits may get seriously ill after going back. Since this fat woman is so arrogant, let her fight against evil spirits and suffer a little, which is also a punishment for her.

By the same token, white and black are taboos for wedding banquets, so bright colors are needed to represent joy. So when we go to other people’s wedding banquets, try not to wear plain white and black clothes. We are going to congratulate, not to attend funerals. We can originally be contaminated, but in the end we will fight against evil, which will not be worth the loss!

The corpse cart was walking in front, and the fat woman drove a big red Audi and followed behind. The scene attracted passers-by to look at each other, but the fat woman looked like nothing was wrong, with a cigarette in her mouth. I really wanted to slap her fat face, making the fat fly.

Compared with other people's funerals, my uncle's funeral seemed extremely cold. There were only two cars in front and behind, and there were no one to see him off. Even those friends from the world did not come. Yesterday, those big figures in the political and business circles never showed their faces.

I felt very sad in my heart. I didn’t expect my uncle to leave so coldly and lonely. I really don’t know what he would feel when he knew about it.

Logically speaking, with the uncle's wealth and status, his funeral should be glorious and well-known to everyone in the city.

On the way I came, I had imagined that it must be a long convoy, with no end to see, all the cars driving with double flashes, with white flowers on the front of the cars, solemn and grand, with a huge show.

I never expected that it would be like this now. Even I couldn't stand it and felt sore in my heart.

"That fat woman seems to have no concern for uncle's death!" I said.

The father smiled bitterly: "What did she care about? The only thing she cares about is the inheritance left by her uncle!"

"By the way, dad, do uncle have no children? Why have I never seen his children?" I suddenly thought of this question.

The father said, "Your uncle has no children. I heard that your uncle seems to have some problems in that aspect and cannot make his wife pregnant. Therefore, your uncle has never had a status in the woman's family and can't even raise his head. Even if he became rich later, he was not accepted by the woman from beginning to end, so this is why no one came to see him off!"

I sighed for a while, is this considered a retribution for reincarnation? When my grandmother left, my uncle did not come back to see her off. Now my uncle is dead, no one will see her off. So as the saying goes, people are doing things and God is watching. No matter what you do, God is watching you. It’s not that there is no retribution, but the time is not coming.

At about noon, the corpse cart finally arrived in the town.

Leizi and the others had been waiting in the town for a long time. In addition to Leizi, five coffincarvers also came, a total of six.

Because the journey is long and there are still dozens of miles of mountain roads, we need to call two more coffin carryrs, and we will carry them in turn.

I am familiar with the other coffin carryrs. I have seen them almost before, so Lao Huang is also among them. He greeted me enthusiastically and said hello for a long time, thanking me for having a business that I can remember these brothers.

There was a brand new black wooden coffin in front of Lei Zi and the others, with a varnished paint surface, and it looked like a top-notch product.

Two days ago, after my father and aunt were on the phone, my aunt asked her to buy a coffin, so as soon as my uncle's body came back, the coffin was ready to wait.

Before leaving, of course, we must fill our stomachs.
Chapter completed!