smuggler

Chapter 105
But hearing the old man say that Fengshan Village held funerals for all those who died a long time ago, this runs counter to death itself.

I became more curious about Fengshan Village in my heart, and asked, "Old man, can you tell me what's going on in detail?"

The old man fell into deep thought, and seemed to think for a long time before he said to me: "In the early days, this place was not developed, and Fengshan Village was an old village isolated from the world. Many of their customs are different from ours. It has been passed down from generation to generation, but it is unknown who their ancestors were."

"However, they believe that human beings are born into the world as a kind of crime, and it is God's punishment for people, so that people come to the world to wash away their sins."

The old man said slowly, "And this kind of injustice and sin can only be washed away at the time of death. They believe that because people have washed away their sins, they transcend reincarnation, so death... They all believe that it is a kind of death." relief."

"On the day of the funeral, the family members of the deceased will specially invite the theater troupe to sing big plays on the stage, and not all of the songs are sad and joyful. If someone who is not familiar with the inside story hears it, he will think that It's a wedding, not a funeral."

After listening to it, I fell into deep thought. This is the first time I have heard of this weird custom.

But listening to what the old man said, I probably guessed that the villagers of this Fengshan Village probably had many weird bad habits that have been passed down from generation to generation because of their isolation from the world and lack of information.

This point is similar to XZ Heaven, those people will put their bodies on the celestial burial platform after death, and let the vultures eat their bodies. They think that the body imprisoned the soul, and the soul can be freed only after the vultures eat the body.

It should be something like this.

"It was like this when I went to play when I was a child. When people died in their place, they would not go to the funeral to bury them. Instead, they would directly put the corpse in the coffin, and then find an open space near the house to bury it directly. And the people there died In the end, they were all buried with masks on."

What the old man said also made me feel a little strange, because we usually call ghosts and souls dirty things and evil things.

When encountering coffins, paper money, and shrouds, one should avoid them from a distance, and even spit a few times, for fear of getting bad luck.

People's living communities and tombs are often separated by boundaries.

For example, a river, or setting a cemetery in a hill or woods where no one lives, no one would set a tomb in their own yard or in a village.

Our traditional funeral custom is indeed to separate the living area from the cemetery. Since the yin and yang have been separated, don't bother each other.The funeral customs of Fengshan Village are obviously completely different from our traditions.

"Humans and ghosts live in the same village!"

As I spoke slowly, a layer of icy air rose from behind my back.

"Living people pay attention to the difference between yin and yang, and people and ghosts have different paths. Let's not talk about being disrespectful to the dead, but this village still wears masks for the dead? Why do they do that?"

This custom has gone beyond people's cognition, and there is even a kind of ugly marriage habit that is exactly the same as that in many places.

Because after death, people pay attention to clear ears and clear eyes, and go on the road decently. What is the meaning of wearing a mask?
"I don't know about it. I heard that it is a rule passed down from the ancestors."

The old man hesitated for a moment, then continued, "I heard from the fortune teller in the town that there is actually a reason why Fengshan Village is haunted by ghosts, because there are bones in their ditch, and there are ghosts in the bend. As for the mask, it should be that people and ghosts live in the same village. , in order to suppress the ghosts, there is a method of wearing a mask for the dead body."

"I saw it once when I was a child. The mask was very strange. It didn't look like it was used to suppress ghosts, but rather..."

"like what?"

I saw that the old man looked wary and seemed to be very scared, but he stopped at a critical point, which aroused our curiosity.

The old man lowered his voice and said slowly, "The mask he wears seems to be promoting the immortality of ghosts. I was lucky enough to see it once. When they put the dead in the coffin, they will put a mask on the dead. Men and women wear it. The masks are exactly the same, but you are guaranteed to take a look at that mask, and you will never want to look at it again in your life."

I said, "What does that mask look like?"

The old man must have brought back the weirdness from the beginning, he took a breath, his voice was a little trembling: "The blue-faced fangs, Shura Guisha, are more terrifying than evil ghosts."

Hearing what the old man said, if what he said is true, then what I feel when facing Fengyin Village is no longer pure curiosity, but a kind of fear that arises spontaneously in my heart.

Although I have experienced so many things, I now have a very strong feeling that this village may be a thousand times, ten thousand times more terrifying than I imagined.

No wonder the old woman asked me to come here to pick up the lamp, and even would rather provoke karma to give me a birthday.

"Actually, I think those people who entered the village disappeared without a trace, which may have something to do with the previous customs of Fengshan Village."

The old man calmed down, and said while rowing, "A long time ago, Fengshan Village had a rule for outsiders not to stay overnight."

"They don't exclude people from other villages, but at night, they have to leave the village."

Then, the old man talked about what happened when a few young people from other villages entered the village and stayed overnight.

Those young people were also trying to die, Fengshan Village saw that it was getting late, so they let a few people out of the village.

As a result, these young people were curious and wanted to see what secrets Fengshan Village had.

So he agreed on the surface, but he walked around and sneaked back, and found an empty house at night, just to see why Fengshan Village didn't keep anyone at night.

That night, one of them vaguely heard a child crying outside the house in his sleep. He got up and opened the door to look outside the house, but there was no one at the gate of the yard.

Back in the house, the three of them had nightmares at the same time. After waking up, they summed up and found that they had the same nightmare. The three of them were instantly frightened.

They recovered from the shock. A man saw a wardrobe in the room and wanted to open it. Unexpectedly, he screamed and passed out as soon as he opened it. When he woke up, his eyes were full of panic.

He said incoherently that there was a grimace in the closet, which was exactly the same as the one he had dreamed about.

When the other two heard this, they boldly went to open the closet together, but found nothing.

That night, the fainted man developed a high fever bizarrely.

There was another wave of ups and downs. Another man slept until midnight and suddenly heard the sound of scooping water outside the house. He got up and looked through the window.

He found a woman taking a bath by the well in the middle of the yard, probably feeling that someone was looking at her, the woman turned her head and gave him a weird smile, and then jumped into the well.

The man was terrified by the sight in front of him, and the woman threw herself into the well in front of his eyes!

He came back to his senses and hurriedly called the other two friends to go out to save people.But when they rushed out, they found that there was nothing in the yard.

The water in that well did not have any waves, the ground beside the well was dry without a trace of water, and there was no sign of anyone jumping into the well.

(End of this chapter)