My master is invincible

Chapter 11 Preparing for the burial
After wiping the dead man's face, I opened the dead man's mouth, wiped his teeth, and then cleaned the dirt from his nostrils with a corpse towel. Get up quickly, and quickly clean up the face of the deceased.

Just as I was about to throw down the shroud, the master spoke up, and he said, "There's eye droppings in the corner of my eye!"

I turned my head and took a look. There was indeed a gum in the position of my left eye. If I didn’t look carefully, it would be difficult to find it. I wrapped my fingers with a corpse scarf and tried to wipe off the gum.

Suddenly, a cool wind blew in the room, I couldn't help shivering, turned my head and looked back, and found that there was no movement in other things in the room, only the position where I was standing was windy.

Something is wrong, this was the first thought in my mind, I didn't care about that much, I quickly reached out to wipe off the eye gum.

Just when I touched the dead man's eyes, the dead man's eyes suddenly opened, and he stared at me blankly, his eyes were very empty, and his belly was pale.

To be honest, at the first moment, I was so scared that I almost dropped the burial scarf and ran away, but the fear disappeared when I saw that the deceased did not move.

On the contrary, the three brothers of the master's family, seeing the dead man's eyes open, knelt down in fright, kowtowed desperately, and said, "Father, the three of us brothers have done our best to you, so please don't try to scare us. "

I calmed down, helped the three brothers from the master's family up, and said, "Don't be afraid, this is a normal reaction, and it's not because you guys didn't do well."

The three brothers of the master's family stood up tremblingly, and asked me if it was true. When I said it was true, they breathed a sigh of relief and told me to arrange the funeral well, and they were willing to add another five thousand in terms of money.

I will definitely not refuse the free money, not to mention that when I opened my eyes just now, I was also taken aback. I told them that I would do my best to finish the funeral, and let them not tell the Eight Immortals about the blink of an eye of the deceased. , I am afraid that the Eight Immortals will refuse to carry the coffin if they know this, and it will be difficult to handle.

They are all rural people, and they also understand that this kind of thing cannot be spread outside, and they promise not to tell it immediately. However, a problem arises in front of us, how to make the dead close their eyes.

I pressed down the eyes of the deceased a few times, but they all opened. Just when we were in a difficult situation, Lao Wang came. When he saw the eyes of the deceased, he was stunned for a while, and then asked me what was going on.

The relationship between Lao Wang and me is both a teacher and a friend. I didn’t hide anything from him, so I told him some things. However, the deceased’s fate didn’t tell him. I reject this funeral.

After hearing this, he said, "How difficult is this? Just stick it with glue." After speaking, he handed me a bottle of glue.

Looking at his proficient appearance, I actually had the illusion that this guy shouldn't have prepared glue long ago, right?
I took the glue, put two drops in the dead man's eyes, and pressed his eyelids on the glue. After a while, the dead man's eyes were tightly closed. At first glance, he died peacefully.

After finishing this, I asked Lao Wang: "Has the coffin been brought to the main room?"

As soon as I heard it, I finally encountered a fairly normal thing, so I asked the three brothers of the master's family to call the deceased's relatives to stand at the door, waiting for the coffin.

After the three brothers of the master's family left, I asked Lao Wang to help, put the shroud on the deceased, then took a copper coin and put it in the deceased's mouth, then took a gold ingot in the left hand of the deceased, and a silver ingot in the deceased's mouth. right hand.

There is also a reason for such an approach. China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times, and this ceremony is the most intense in funerals.

The copper coin I put in the mouth of the deceased is called Hankou', also known as Hankou and Fanhan, which refers to the custom of giving the deceased something in his mouth. In the second chapter of Miscellaneous Notes in "Book of Rites", there is such a sentence, 'Cutting out a towel to feed rice' is also mentioned in the etiquette annals in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty.

The ancients believed that if there were boats on the Styx River, there would also be boatmen responsible for ferrying them. When the dead crossed the river, they should pay the boatmen as in the world. The money in the mouth of the deceased is the fare paid to the boatman.

The gold and silver ingots are actually funerary objects. The folks pay attention to letting the deceased hold gold in his left hand and silver in his right. Most people will let the deceased hold one or two heavy gold ingots in his left hand and one or two silver ingots in his right hand. Today, most gold and silver ingots are replaced by fake ones. The reason why this custom is still adopted is the etiquette passed down from the ancestors.

After finishing these things, Lao Wang and I broke out in a cold sweat. Lao Wang was better, but his back was a little wet, and I was sweating profusely. After all, this was the first time, and it was bragging to say that we were not afraid.

After the two of us rested for a while, Lao Wang asked me what to do next. I asked him to carry the deceased to the main room for me. I needed to go to the coffin to make some arrangements. I believe Lao Wang should be able to handle such a short distance. After all, in addition to carrying the coffin, the Eight Immortals also take on some jobs like this.

Old Wang nodded, and asked, "I'll give you the red envelope for carrying the corpse, or..."

I said, "Old Wang, if you believe me, don't accept any of the red envelopes from this funeral, but give them all to me. If you don't believe me, I can only tell you that the deceased has something wrong. If you take the red envelopes, you may be punished."

After hearing this, Lao Wang was silent for a while, and said, "I believe in you!"

I didn't say anything to him, fearing that I couldn't help but tell him the fate of the deceased, which would harm him, so I walked towards the main room with a sack and a stack of yellow papers.

When I came to the main room, apart from a big black coffin, there was an altar with some ancestral tablets and an incense cup on it. The coffin was opened, and the coffin lid stood aside.

This kind of coffin is generally more particular. The wood around the coffin is made of pine and cypress. It is taboo to use willow. Pine and cypress symbolize longevity. Early thunder strikes, but we don't have these customs here, and the bottom of the coffin is usually made of seven-star boards, which have the meaning of praying for longevity.

I opened the sack, sprinkled the ashes inside on the bottom of the coffin, then sprinkled a layer of yellow paper on top of the ashes, and finally found a cotton mattress to spread on it. (Ash, the husk of rice grains ignited and burned, leaving a residue.)
As soon as the coffin was finished, Lao Wang came with the deceased on his back, followed by all the relatives of the deceased, and there was another earth-shattering, weeping ghosts and gods wailing.

I signaled Lao Wang to stand outside the main room and not to come in, and asked the master to find a tile and put it in front of the coffin.

Then, I made three bows to the coffin, picked up the mourning stick I had prepared, circled the coffin seven times, and finally stopped in front of the tile.

(End of this chapter)