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Chapter 22: Farce!

I ran into the house. The old man was preparing a ritual. When he saw me in, his eyes were confused, "Has the incense burned?"

I pulled him over, squatted under the altar, took out the Sancai Xiang behind him and showed him. He took it and frowned deeply and whispered, "People are most afraid of three longs and two shorts, and incense is most afraid of two shorts and one long. If this incense comes out of the home, someone will surely die!"

"You mean someone in the Liu family is going to die?" I asked.

"This is for sure. Come prepare the ritual quickly. After dark, we will quickly handle the ritual and let the corpse be put into the coffin. If it is too late, I am afraid of causing trouble!"

I nodded and helped the old man put things in place. The old lady of the Liu family had already gotten up. She walked slowly with a cane. The old man hurried forward to stop her.

"Sir, I'm fine, just let me see the child." She cried, and two lines of old tears flowed down her cheeks.

The old man sighed, held her and walked slowly to the edge of the bamboo mat. The old man pinched his fingers, pointed a few fingers on the corpse, and then pulled off the talisman paper sticking to the forehead of the corpse.

When the old woman saw her own body, she was about to faint from crying. The old man grabbed her and pointed her in the eyebrows. "The dead need rest, and the stranger must live well. I hope Lady's Day will make me sad and change!"

"My son is fine, why did he commit suicide? Is there anything you can't think of, God, tell me." The old woman was heartbroken. Old Master Liu ran out of the inner room and held her in one hand.

"Axiu, Axiu, come and help your mother-in-law in."

Mr. Liu shouted several times, the woman didn't come out just now, and he sighed, holding the old woman and going in. The woman grabbed the Lingmen and refused to let go. She shouted, "You let go, you let go, I don't want to go into the house, I want to see my son, you let go."

Her extreme crying attracted a lot of people for a while, and the women in the village came to comfort her. After a while, eight aunts and seven aunts persuaded her. They finally persuaded her, but she wanted to clean the body from the dead.

"No," the old man immediately disagreed. He looked at the old woman with a red face and said, "In ancient times, filial sons have given their elders purity and their first wife purify their husbands. Where can I say that the mother purifies his son? You are simply making a fuss!"

The old man was quite majestic when he got angry, and he yelled all the people in the hall for a moment.

"Wu Ming!" He suddenly shouted, and I looked at him in a daze. Seeing that there was no movement for a long time, he glared at me fiercely, "I'm calling you."

"Oh!" I hurried forward, full of doubts. When did I have an unknown name?

"Get water and open the jar! Call your first wife!" The old man shouted, signaled to Old Man Liu, and asked him to pull the old woman out.

"All you guys are here, please go out of the Lingmen and take care of your children. Those who die outside are very resentful and should not peek!"

After hearing the old man's words, people left the spirit gate one by one. I took out a piece of white cloth, then stripped the body of the body, covered him with a white cloth, took a few clean towels, and then brought three basins of clean water under the bamboo mat.

The old man opened the hall, then recited French, signaled me, and I shouted to the outside.

"The first wife entered the spiritual gate to purify her body!"

But after more than a minute, no one came in. The old man and I frowned and I shouted again.

"The first wife entered the spiritual gate to purify her body!"

"What's going on? People haven't come in yet?" the old man asked. I glanced outside the Lingmen, but no one came in. I was so angry that I pulled the Lingmen open, poked my head out and shouted.

"Who is the first wife of the deceased? Come in and cleanse yourself quickly, and let the deceased die with his eyes open?"

After I shouted, there was still no movement outside. Mr. Liu looked at me with a embarrassed look, his eyes full of guilt and embarrassment.

"Where is the person?" The old man couldn't sit still and threw the altar and went out. He stared at Mr. Liu tightly, and saw Mr. Liu stammeringly.

"A Xiu was afraid of the corpse, so she didn't dare to purify herself!"

"What are you afraid of? It's a little cold, it's a little cold. I'll die before I die, but I won't care if I die?" I could tell that the old man was very angry. The most feared thing about driving corpses was that the owner didn't cooperate because he didn't let the corpse be safe, and the trouble of the corpse-driver would always be there.

"this……"

"Okay, if you come, who can wash the body on behalf of your wife? If not, let's do it yourself."

After hearing the old man's words, no one came up, and everyone retreated. Who would have thought of causing some unclean things on this day?

"I'll do it." After a long time of silence, a voice finally came. The old woman who gave me potatoes just now walked up staggeringly, and then walked into the Lingmen. The old man glared at Mr. Liu, then pulled the Lingmen up and took me and the old woman to the side of the body.

At this time, the corpse was already purple. The old man said something bad, and pointed it at the corpse's forehead, and then drew a symbol on the forehead of the corpse with chicken blood and cinnabar.
Chapter completed!
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