The best mysterious doctor

Chapter 8 Liu Family Funeral
Having said that, I still didn't have a good time in class this day, and I was only thinking about going back to see how things are going at Grandpa Liu's house.

Daxiong also didn't have a good class all day, and the anger on this guy directly made him a joke in the class, and even the teacher frowned and looked around in class.

Except for me, every child in the class didn't have to look at him strangely. His cute girl deskmate directly held her nose to give him half of the table, and she didn't even need to draw a dividing line.

But I have to admire Daxiong's thick skin, this guy is like a normal person, sitting there with the old god, not going out to play after class, shrinking there during class, and dragging me out until after school.

I intend to keep a certain distance from him, to guarantee my innocence, but this guy is like a rascal, grabbing my arm and refusing to let go.

After school, I almost had the same purpose as him, he was going to my house to hide from the imaginary Grandpa Liu, and I wanted to go back to see how my grandpa was doing.

The two children got into the car in a hurry, returning home like an arrow all the way, and went straight to my house after getting out of the car.

When he ran to the entrance of the village, Nobita stopped, bowed his head and remained silent.

I turned back in a hurry and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why don't you leave?"

Daxiong hesitated for a long time before he said: "Grandpa Liu lives next to your house, I, I'm afraid..."

"coward!"

I said something to him, turned around and ran away.

It's all at the door of the house, so I don't bother to care about him.

I ran to the door of my house in a hurry, and I saw two big white flowers hanging on the gate of Grandpa Liu's house. The yard was wide open, and many people inside and outside were busy with it.

"grandfather!"

I rushed to my house first and found that the door was locked tightly. Not only my grandpa was not at home, but even my mother was not there.

Where did it all go?
At this time, I heard someone calling me: "Xiao Ning."

When I turned my head, it was my mother.

She was standing at the gate of Grandpa Liu's house, waving at me.

I ran over in a hurry, my mother pulled me aside, put the key in my hand and said: "Mom has prepared a meal for you, it is heating in the pot, you go and eat. Your grandpa Liu has gone, they The family is too busy, so Mom is here to help."

It turns out that my mother has been waiting for me here, how long will it take?I couldn't help feeling warm in my heart.

"Mom, where is my grandpa?"

I stood at the gate of Grandpa Liu's house and looked in. I only saw people in the courtyard, but I didn't see where my grandpa was at all.

My mother gave me a hand and said, "Children, don't look blindly. Your grandpa is going to be in charge. You should go back to eat first. After eating, do your homework quickly, and then go to sleep. Don't come out if you have nothing to do."

I was relieved to hear that Grandpa was fine.

I nodded, turned around and walked back, when my mother stopped me again, gave me two dollars and said: "Mom may not be able to make breakfast tomorrow morning, you can buy it yourself!"

Holding the two dollars, I smiled and said, "Thank you, Mom!"

"Well, let's go!"

I saw my mother waited for me to open the door and enter the courtyard before turning around and entering Lao Liu's house.

I quickly closed the door, lost my schoolbag, pulled the ladder from the yard, turned over to the wall, and climbed up with the ladder.

Although there is only one wall between our house and Lao Liu’s house, our house is a brick wall close to two meters high, and their house is more than one meter high. Therefore, from the top of our house wall, the situation in their yard is clear at a glance.

From the outside, their house seems to be very lively, but from my perspective, there are not many people there.

According to the rules here, after a person dies, his relatives must be notified, he must be buried in a coffin, and a Taoist priest must be invited to perform ceremonies.

The coffin has to be kept at home for three to seven days, but from the looks of these people, it doesn't seem like it will be kept for that long.

Grandpa Liu's family has two sons, the eldest son is Liu Tai, an honest farmer, and married a wife who is a well-known stingy woman in the next village. Her name is Xie Meizhi, and I usually call her Aunt Meizhi.

The second son is the sick and dead ghost I saw last night, his name is Liu Quan, and he is seven or eight years younger than the elder Liu Tai.

Liu Quan had a heart attack since he was a child, and because he was a child, he was loved by the elderly, so he developed a pampering problem since he was a child.

Thinking about being so poor in the countryside, the so-called pampering is nothing more than letting him choose what to eat and drink first, and the rest is for parents and brother-in-law.

Just like that, Liu Quan also developed a habit of eating, drinking, and gambling.

Until now, the Liu family has not been able to afford a decent house.

Two years ago, because of gambling outside, this kid was said to be a big player. He lost all his money with a single card, and died of a heart attack.

The debtor found the house and ransacked Liu's house inside and out. The Liu family was so poor that even a mouse would shed tears after seeing it.

Grandma Liu was also so angry that she collapsed on the bed, and went too soon.

Fortunately, the stingy daughter-in-law of the Liu family, Aunt Meizhi, can live a good life, and the eldest Liu Tai is hardworking and willing to work. With the help of the neighbors around, she has recovered some vitality in the past two years.

Seeing that the days were getting better day by day, Grandpa Liu died suddenly again, which really made things worse.

The only Taoist priest in Sheshan Village is my grandfather. Grandpa Liu died in the courtyard. According to the rules, my grandfather will open the way for the ghost of Grandpa Liu in the courtyard.

I have seen these things several times since I was a child, and I am naturally very familiar with them.

The wealthy people in the surrounding villages usually invite my grandfather first when there is a funeral at home. Anyone who has a little money will make a big gauze lantern and invite ten or eight gentlemen to recite the mantra for a few days.

Mister is Mister Yin-Yang, which is what the older generation calls it. Now the word Mr. is used too widely, so most of them change it to mage.

But my grandfather insisted on calling people Mr., saying that it is an old tradition and cannot be changed.

Rich people do a lot of things. The dead have to take a bath first, then lie on the door panel for several hours, and wait until the husband arrives before being put into the coffin.

Putting the coffin into the coffin is relatively more particular, and the bottom of the coffin should be sprinkled with ashes from various families.

Ashes from all kinds of houses are stove ashes, a filial son must go to all kinds of houses to find them, and then let the husband sprinkle them into the coffin in circles.

This process is extremely cumbersome, but it is indispensable, because it is used to absorb corpse water, and limestone is used as walls in many ancient tombs, which is also the reason.

Lime can absorb the water vapor outside and the corpse water inside, and the more it absorbs, the stronger it is.

If the corpse fluid is not sucked away, but stored in the body, well, it becomes a zombie.

Having said that, none of us has ever seen a zombie. Every time I ask about zombies, my grandpa refuses to talk to me about it. I think he should have seen it.

Of course, this is just my guess.

Another advantage of this Baijiahui is that it can fix the corpse, so as to avoid the dislocation of the corpse when lifting the coffin.

Then at the funeral, Taoist priests would lead Lu to throw paper money in front, followed by filial sons and filial daughters crying for funerals, supporting the poles, carrying the coffin, and digging wells plus a dozen people.

Although Liu Tai is a dutiful son, the Liu family is too poor, so naturally they can't afford such a grand ceremony. As for my grandfather, he probably did his voluntary labor for the sake of his neighbors, and taking ten or eight yuan afterwards is just a formality. .

But Liu Tai still prepared filial piety clothes for Grandpa Liu.

This filial piety also has a saying, there must be seven layers, the innermost layer must be a red base, and the outer six shrouds are divided into gray, brown, and black.

It is rumored that after death, people who cross the Naihe Bridge will be interrogated by ghost messengers, and those who have done bad things in the world will be tortured by skinning, and ghost messengers must be stripped until they are bloody, so they must wear seven layers of shrouds. Red base.

Of course, I don’t know if this is true, but I know that the richer the family, the more troublesome it is, and the poorer people are more agile, find a few boards and order a box to store the corpse, and they don’t pay much attention to etiquette. Find a Taoist priest with two swords to lead the way and it's over.

According to my grandfather, these are all made for the living to show the filial piety of filial sons and filial daughters, and the importance they attach to their parents. In my opinion, it is a joke. If you are not filial when you are alive, you will waste it when you die. Is it to show you are rich or to show your filial piety?
But no matter what, it is better to do something better than not to do it well. Although a person is dead, his soul is still there. At least after death, he can still know that my children have done such a big ritual, and he is satisfied.

There is an old man in our village who lived over 90 years old. When his wife died, his children were with him, but he invited a dozen gentlemen to make a big fuss for ten days.

On the day of his wife's funeral, the old man smiled and said to the old lady's tombstone, you are lucky, there will be such a big battle after death, old man, it would be nice to have you like this when I die someday!

What people care about is not how well they lived in front of them, but how rich their children are after death.

As a result, the old man lived for more than 90 years, looking forward to death every day, but he did not die. He has been living to see his children grow old and gone, and he has become a widowed old man. He would complain about his failure to live up to expectations. If he knew it earlier, he might as well have drunk the pesticide as soon as possible.

Far away, Grandpa Liu has passed away. It seems that he didn't plan to hold a lavish funeral. He simply invited friends from the village to help him take care of it. The banquet was held that afternoon, and there were about five or six tables opened. The people are also those who come to help from the village.

You can only work when you are full, let alone this kind of trivial matter, you can't just work hard.

Each of these people brought their wives, wives and children to eat free meals. I watched more and more people in the yard. When the last family walked in, I couldn't fall off the ladder.

This family is not another family, but Gan Yunshan's family. At this time, that coward Gan Chengxiong actually followed behind his father in a decent manner, and walked to the mourning hall to kowtow to Grandpa Liu.

I can see his pious look when he kowtows, I guess this kid is praying to Grandpa Liu not to ask him to buy tofu nao at night, or why is he shaking all the time?

This bastard, didn't you agree to come and live with me at night?This will leave my brother alone at home. Did he go to eat free meals?
This won't work, I have to go down and have a look, my grandpa and mother are there to help, I sleep alone at night, I'm also scared!

　It's three o'clock...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)