The black wind carried a cold air, and I couldn't help but shiver.
I shivered, and I didn't hold the pole in my hand, so it fell to the ground.
Now I was completely convinced that this coffin could not be lifted at all.
"Well, I was right! This coffin can't be lifted at all!" said the man from before.
"Dongfang, do you see what's wrong?" Zhou Hai came over and asked me.
I shook my head, "I haven't seen anything yet!"
"Could it be that my third uncle still has some unfulfilled wishes, so he doesn't want to leave?" Zhou Hai asked me.
"Impossible!" I shook my head and said with certainty, "If it was your third uncle who really had an unfulfilled wish, you wouldn't be able to carry the coffin here at all. Now halfway through, the coffin suddenly feels as heavy as a hill.
There must be some other will in this."
My grandfather once told me that after death, some people still have nostalgia for the earthly world and indeed refuse to be buried. Therefore, when future generations lift up the coffins to bury their ancestors, they will always encounter various unexpected situations.
For example, when lifting the coffin, the rope or pole may suddenly break.
In short, if the ancestors really have unfulfilled wishes and are unwilling to leave, then the descendants will have a very difficult time carrying the coffin at the beginning, instead of like now, the road ahead was going well, but when they get here, they suddenly can't carry it.
Moved.
Zhou Hai looked at me with confusion, not understanding why I was so sure, so I explained the reason to him.
"Does that mean that the reason why we can't lift the coffin now is not because of the coffin or because my third uncle has an unfulfilled wish, but because there is something wrong with the place we are now?" Zhou Hai asked me
a possibility.
Thinking about the black wind that blew by when I was carrying the coffin, Zhou Hai's words reminded me that the problem seemed to lie in the land under our feet.
I looked around carefully. Maybe there was something wrong with the feng shui of this place, so we couldn't lift the coffin.
Just as I was thinking about the feng shui of this place, Zhou Hai came over to me, "Dongfang, my fourth uncle wants to tell you a few words. He said he might be able to figure out why we can't carry the coffin."
"Where is your fourth uncle? I'll go find him!" I said to Zhou Hai.
I don't doubt Zhou Hai's words. Many old people have lived for decades, traveled all over the country, and have seen a lot. They know a lot of things. It can be said that they "know astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom."
Zhou Hai pointed not far away. I looked in the direction of Zhou Hai's finger and saw an old man with white hair looking at me and Zhou Hai.
The old man has white hair and looks to be sixty or seventy years old, but he is in good spirits.
I walked over to the old man and saluted with dignity, "Master Thursday."
Master Zhou smiled and nodded to me, "Young man is not bad, he knows etiquette quite well."
I went straight to the topic, "Master Zhou, just now Zhou Hai said to me, you know why we can't lift the coffin."
"That's right." Mr. Zhou said with certainty, "In fact, the situation we are in today happened to me once when I was young, but it was many years ago. In addition, I am old and haven't carried a coffin for a long time.
, so I didn’t think of it for a moment, don’t blame me for being stupid!”
I hurriedly said, "Master Zhou, please tell us quickly what is going on?"
Master Zhou saw that I was eager to know why, so he didn't give in. "We must have encountered a ghost dragging the coffin!"
"Ghost dragging coffins!" I vaguely thought I had heard rumors about expensive dragging coffins somewhere.
When I thought about it carefully, I found that ghost dragging coffins was introduced in the "Encyclopedia of Yin and Yang Magic", but I browsed through it in a hurry and didn't remember the specific content, and I didn't react immediately.
When I heard Mr. Zhou talking about the ghost dragging the coffin, I had a thought in my mind, and then I ignored the strange looks from Zhou Hai and Mr. Zhou and took out the "Encyclopedia of Yin and Yang Magic".
I quickly turned the pages of the book, and soon came to the page that recorded the ghost dragging the coffin. "The Encyclopedia of Yin and Yang Magic" recorded in detail everything about the ghost dragging the coffin.
The ghost drags the coffin when the coffin bearer is walking smoothly on the road. Suddenly the coffin becomes extremely heavy and the shoulders cannot bear it. Then the coffin bearer can no longer lift the coffin.
As for the reason, no one knows about some lonely ghosts when they die, and no one usually worships them.
So when they see someone being buried and enjoying the offerings from future generations, they will feel resentful and deliberately come forward to cause trouble.
The experience of carrying a coffin described by Mr. Zhou when he was young is basically the same as what we encountered before. They both encountered ghosts dragging the coffin.
I continued to look down, and fortunately, the "Encyclopedia of Yin and Yang Magic" also recorded the method of breaking the ghost dragging the coffin.
I quickly browsed through the "Encyclopedia of Yin and Yang Magic" on how to crack the ghost's coffin, and then said to Zhou Hai, "Do you have any paper money with you?"
Zhou Hai nodded heavily, "Yes."
"The reason we encountered a ghost dragging the coffin is because there is a lonely ghost nearby who is deliberately causing trouble. You can burn some paper money next to the coffin to see if you can invite him away."
Zhou Hai hesitated for a moment: "Then what if you don't want to leave!"
I sneered, "If he refuses to drink wine as a fine, then I will have to use violent means to let him go!"
Then Zhou Hai walked away, picked up the paper money and started burning it next to the coffin.
I also went over to help. I kept putting paper money into the fire, muttering, "We passed by here today. If I accidentally disturbed you, I apologize to you. The paper money I burned for you is an apology..."
"
The others were shocked when they saw me talking to myself, but they didn't say anything.
After the paper money was burned, I shouted to the Eight King Kongs, "Try raising the coffin again!"
The leading coffin bearer nodded, and then called on the others to start carrying the coffin.
"Boom..." This time the coffin was lifted up, but before we had time to cheer, the coffin fell heavily again after it was more than ten centimeters above the ground.
"Dongfang..." Zhou Hai looked at me in panic.
"Humph..." The scene before me made me very angry.
I adopted a very gentle method according to the "Encyclopedia of Yin and Yang Magic". I thought that this lonely ghost who came to cause trouble would be fine after we burned the paper money for him, but who knew that he didn't leave!
I was really angry. I looked around and happened to see a willow tree not far away. I immediately ran over and broke a willow branch.
I would say that this is the best thing about rural areas. The trees are lush and green, and the things needed to catch ghosts, such as peach branches and willow sticks, can be found everywhere. You can almost use them locally.
On the contrary, conditions are not so good in cities.
I held the broken willow stick, stood next to the coffin, then suddenly raised my hand and aimed at the right side of the coffin to pull it away.