After everyone left, Lu Changsheng knelt on the ground, looking like he was ready to be punished by Lu Zeng.
In the past, if he made a mistake, he would definitely be whipped with a horse whip, not to mention that he disobeyed his father this time, but this time he did not regret what he did. If he was given a chance to choose, he would still
Make the same decision.
"Get up." Surprisingly, Lu Zeng didn't hit him this time.
Lu Changsheng looked at his father curiously, but he couldn't see any expression in his eyes as deep as ancient wells, as if what just happened didn't happen.
"Today is your birthday, and it's also the anniversary of your mother's death. It's been eighteen years!" Lu Zeng sighed, "It's time to tell you something."
"What happened?" Lu Changsheng asked. He always felt that something bad was going to happen.
"Follow me to pick up gold from your mother's grave tonight." After Lu Zeng finished speaking, he returned to the room, leaving Lu Changsheng confused.
However, he does know what picking up gold is for.
Picking up gold, commonly known as picking up bones, picking up feng shui, is also called "secondary burial".
In the first burial, the body was placed in a wooden coffin, "lying" and buried in the soil, and piled into a long grave, indicating that the person was still "sleeping" and no tombstone was erected.
In addition to attaching great importance to the funeral, the burial is very simple and generally casual. It can be anywhere on the field, beside the fields, or on the barren slopes of Maoshan. It does not pay attention to "Feng Shui", but it is still necessary to ask a Feng Shui master to determine the direction of the tomb and the time of burial.
After the first burial, five to seven years after the carrion has been "purified", the tomb will be opened on an auspicious day and the "pure bones" will be picked out, which is the meaning of "gathering gold".
The bones were picked up and placed in a clay pot, also called a "gold pot." It was about two feet high and the mouth of the altar was about seven inches in diameter. The appearance of the altar was yellow, with embossed dragon and phoenix patterns. The "Feng Shui Treasure Site" was chosen for the official reburial. This is called "second time."
burial".
"Collecting gold" is an important ceremony for the deceased to finally rest and return to their homeland, and it is also a solemn and solemn custom in many places.
Wu Gu Village has always had such a tradition, but Lu Changsheng had read the book on burial techniques. Her mother had been dead for eighteen years, and it was past the time to collect gold, and now his father suddenly proposed on his eighteenth birthday
Picking up gold really puzzled Lu Changsheng.
However, since his father has said it, Lu Changsheng will naturally not object, and his father is a very good burial master and knows much better than him in this regard.
When Lu Changsheng walked out, Lu Dahai looked at him in surprise: "You weren't beaten?"
"Yes, I am going to pick up gold with my father tonight." Lu Changsheng said.
"Finding gold?" Lu Dahai was stunned, but didn't care, "It's good that I didn't get beaten. It seems that my dad has changed his gender."
"What is picking up gold?" Zhou Xingxing couldn't help but asked curiously.
"It's a custom that you can follow at night to see." Zhong Youde said with ill intentions.
"Pick up gold?" Ning Weiwei also became interested, "Can I go too?"
"No, pick gold and avoid women." Zhong Youde dismissed his idea directly.
"Why, there is a taboo on picking up gold. Isn't it something illegal?" Ning Weiwei said angrily.
Lu Changsheng was not prepared to explain. He just took a shower, changed his clothes, and began to prepare the tools he would use to pick up gold in the evening.
Because of what happened on the martial arts platform, they did nothing for one day. They all stayed in the stilted building and did not go down the mountain.
Only Lu Changsheng's father went down to the village to dispose of the bodies of the Lin brothers. He was the only one in the village who knew what to do.
Compared with people who died normally, those who were killed on the martial arts platform did not need to go to the dojo. They only needed to seal the coffin and find a hole for burial.
It wasn't until dinner that Lu Zeng came back in his raincoat. He didn't have time to eat, so he called Lu Changsheng out and explained many things. Then he went to the kitchen, took out the leftovers by himself, and sat on the stove to chew them.
stand up.
Lu Changsheng called Zhou Xingxing and others out again and asked, "Are you going at night?"
Ning Weiwei shook her head like a rattle. Apparently he had learned from Zhong Youde about picking up gold. Zhou Xingxing looked excited and said: "Go, how can such exciting things be done without me?"
As he said that, he looked at Ning Weiwei and said with a smile: "The ugly daughter-in-law will meet her mother-in-law sooner or later, why not meet her tonight?"
Ning Weiwei's hair stood on end, she glared at him and said: "Fuck you, I'll stay here and won't go anywhere at night!"
"I'll go." Zhong Youde said bluntly, "I want to know more about Miao Taoism. If anything happens to me, I can help."
When Lu Dahai glared at him, he felt guilty and thought about Lu Changsheng's sleepwalking.
After discussing, they decided to leave Lu Dahai and Ning Weiwei to look after the house. Zhou Xingxing and Zhong Youde followed them to pick up the gold. After Lu Changsheng explained to them, he called his father and left with his things.
Rhubarb is definitely not allowed to go with it, because cats and dogs are taboo to pick up gold. If the corpse in the coffin has not decayed, once the yang energy of the cat or dog sticks to it, it will be easy to fake the corpse.
Although Lu Changsheng had the Corpse Controlling Insect, he was not worried about deceiving corpses, but after all, it was his mother, and it was impossible to use the Corpse Controlling Insect to control her anyway.
The mountain wind blows "whirring" and the dead silence of the mountain road always makes people feel chills on their backs, as if something is following behind.
I don't know how long we walked, but Zhou Xingxing felt a little bored, so he said, "Do you think we will encounter the same thing as last time?"
"Bang!" Lu Changsheng and Zhong Youde both felt their hearts skip a beat. They wished they could find a piece of cloth to plug his mouth. They had given many instructions before coming, but they didn't expect that this guy would forget the taboo in the end.
The most important thing to avoid when picking up gold is that people talk nonsense, especially at night. You must not talk nonsense, otherwise you will attract a lot of dirty things.
And Zhou Xingxing seemed to realize that he should say hello to the mountain ghost before speaking, so he quickly said "woohoo" before continuing: "Okay?"
The two of them glared at him but said nothing. Lu Zeng, who had been leading the way, didn't pay attention to their conversation and just walked calmly with a flashlight.
From time to time, they will be reminded that there is space under their feet or something.
About an hour later, when the Witch Gu Village was completely out of sight, Lu Zeng suddenly stopped. Lu Changsheng asked: "What's the matter, Dad?"
"You have never been to your mother's grave, right?" Lu Zeng asked.
"No, didn't you tell me that I couldn't come here?" Lu Changsheng said.
"Okay, now I'll tell you the reason." With that, Lu Zeng started to walk forward again, saying as he walked, "People in the village say that your mother is a witch, and the farther she is buried, the better."
"So, you don't let me come to worship my mother, right?" Lu Changsheng asked, feeling a little sullen in his heart.
"It's just one of the reasons." Lu Zeng said, and then explained, "The other reason is that you don't want anyone to discover your mother's burial place, otherwise..."
"What else?" Lu Changsheng asked, he had an unknown premonition.
Sure enough, Lu Zeng didn't explain. He strode forward. When he reached a desolate haystack, Lu Zeng suddenly stopped, looked at it with his flashlight, and said, "This is your mother's grave."
As he said that, he handed Lu Changsheng a sickle, but Lu Changsheng stared at the haystack blankly and couldn't believe it. Even Zhong Youde didn't understand why. This place was not a good acupuncture point at all.
Going down would be fatal to future generations.
Lu Changsheng didn't say anything. He waved the sickle and began to chop down the branches growing on it, as if he was venting something.
After half an hour, he finally cleared out a small dirt bag. If it hadn't been for Lu Zeng's guidance, no one would have believed that this place was a tomb.
Lu Zeng took out the sacrificial objects, while Lu Changsheng chopped down the surrounding trees.
"Xiyazi, come and pay homage." Lu Zeng said.
Lu Changsheng put down the sickle, banged it, and knelt in front of the grave. An inexplicable emotion surged in his heart. This feeling made him uncomfortable.
In eighteen years, not only had he not seen her mother, he was not even qualified to worship her as a son.
Zhou Xingxing and Zhong Youde didn't say anything, but Lu Zeng began to read the memorial inscription, which roughly meant that he hoped Lu Changsheng's mother would not blame them for disturbing them.
After reciting the sacrificial inscription, Lu Zeng said: "Pull the soil!"
Lu Changsheng picked up the hoe and started digging the soil. Because a lot of it was rocky, sparks would fly from time to time, while Lu Zeng lit a bonfire beside it.
Zhou Xingxing was scared and excited at the same time. He was scared because he would see the coffin later, but he was excited because he came to dig the grave in the middle of the night.
If Zhong Youde hadn't been watching him all the time, he might not have been able to help asking now.
"Hurry up, don't go past the hour!" Lu Zeng said. This sentence seemed to remind Zhong Youde, so he also picked up the hoe to help.
You must pick up gold within a specific time. Once the time passes, anything may happen.
After another half an hour, the coffin lid was finally dug, and then Zhou Xingxing joined in, digging along the entire coffin. After a while, the entire coffin was exposed, and the dark coffin still maintained its original appearance.
There isn't much corruption.
Lu Zenggujing looked at the time calmly, then threw a pair of pliers to Lu Changsheng, and stood at the end of the coffin, saying: "Pull out the nails!"
Lu Changsheng didn't ask anything, and began to use pliers to pick out the nails around the coffin, seven in total.
These seven nails are called "Children's Nails", and they must be opened by the children and grandchildren themselves. After pulling out the nails, Lu Changsheng stood at the head of the coffin, which means getting ahead.
Seeing that the coffin was about to be opened, Zhou Xingxing suddenly said excitedly: "Do you think there will be zombies?"
Lu Changsheng's expression changed, and even Lu Zeng frowned and glared at Zhou Xingxing coldly. Zhong Youde immediately covered Zhou Xingxing's mouth.
"Dong dong dong" suddenly there was a creepy sound in the coffin, as if the people inside were about to break out of the coffin.
"It's broken!" Lu Zeng's face darkened, he was destined not to be peaceful tonight...