Bone Picker

Chapter 2 Grandpa's Last Words
If I want to live, then I must borrow my life.

There are two ways to borrow life, one is to borrow the life of the living, and the other is to borrow the life of the dead.

But borrowing the longevity of a living person is harmful to nature and morality, and belongs to evil and heretics. Although my grandfather knew some such techniques, he couldn't do them.

Then the remaining way is to ask the dead to borrow their lives.

Many people may not understand, how can a dead person have a positive life?
some.

Many people have lost their vital signs even though they have not yet reached the end of their lives, but he is not dead, but similar to a vegetable.

Their families thought they were dead, so they buried them, and the remaining Yangshou was left on the remains.

In the past, it was a burial, and the body would slowly rot in the coffin, and the remaining Yangshou would also be displayed in other forms.

One is dead ginseng, the other is bone fungus, and the third is Tai Sui.

In the past, rich people liked to eat ginseng, especially when they were sick and bedridden before death, they ate ginseng tonic.

As the body rots in the coffin, the ginseng seeds begin to absorb the body as nutrients, take root and germinate, and grow slowly until the body is completely reduced to bones.

The Li family has picked up bones for generations, opened countless coffins, and only five ginsengs were encountered.

The growth of bone fungus is similar to the process of corpse ginseng, that is, the master liked to eat mushrooms and other fungi during his lifetime, and bone fungus will be produced during the decay process of the body after death, which will attach to the bones.

But unlike ginseng, ginseng will shrink and dry automatically, so it can be stored for a long time.

The shelf life of fungi is too short, from growing to rotting, it takes only a few dozen days. If it is not picked before it rots, it will rot.

Therefore, bone fungus is hard to find, and the difficulty of obtaining it is similar to that of corpse ginseng. It has to be on the day of opening the coffin just in time for these dozens of days, but there is no such thing as a coincidence in the world.

The last one is Tai Sui.

This is relatively common in life, and you can often see reports that someone picked up a Tai Sui in a certain place, how many catties it weighs, and news worth millions.

Tai Sui, also known as Ganoderma lucidum, experts say it is a slime mold complex, my grandfather said these experts are farting, it is a mass of lifeless meat.

But wherever Tai Sui is found, people have died there, and they are people who died before the end of their lives.

Why Tai Sui can nourish the body and mind and prolong life, because it itself has Yangshou.

So my grandfather picked me up at the time, and he said that it was fortunate that he picked me up. If I were replaced by someone else, even if I was picked up, I would be destined to be unable to support me. This is the reason.

Only a bone picker can often open coffins to pick up bones, which is reasonable and legal, and can openly find these three things to save my life. If it is someone else, other business, there is no such condition.

The corpse ginseng accumulated by several generations of the Li family was used on me by Tai Sui, and the geomantic treasure land accumulated by five generations of luck was also used to exchange for my in-laws.

I once asked my grandfather, is it worth it to give up everything in the Li family to treat me, a person who has no blood relationship with the Li family?
My grandfather sighed and said that this is the fate of the Li family, and it is also my fate. The Li family has picked up bones for generations, studied Feng Shui, spied on the secrets of the heavens, and suffered the scourge of heaven, so that the number of people withered. In his generation, he will be left alone. People, not married, and no heirs.

He thought that the Li family would be broken in his hands, but who would have thought that he would pick me who was also sentenced by fate in Fushouyuan.

He said that Dao is fifty, Tianyan is forty-nine, and people are one of them.

I am that one.

He tied the luck of the Li family to me. If I live, Li Jiaxing, if I die, the Li family will die.

It's a big gamble!
Since picking me up, my grandfather always took me by his side every time he went out to work. I have been fascinated by it since I was a child, and with my grandfather's careful teaching, I have gradually stepped into the bone picking business and inherited my grandfather's mantle.

And every time the coffin is opened to pick up the bones, if these three things appear in the coffin, my grandfather will ask me to kowtow to the owner of the tomb, because this is borrowing someone's life to extend his life. Such a great kindness deserves a kowtow.

In this way, I borrowed the life of the dead to survive.

But there is still one month before my birthday, but grandpa is dying.

Before dying, grandpa called me to his side and explained the funeral.

One is about my marriage.

The second is about the mission of the Li family.

The third is to find out the real cause of my grandfather's death.

After explaining it, he handed me the "Book of Calculation by Feeling the Bone" handed down by the ancestors of the Li family.

In addition, there is a half silver dollar.

He told me to keep it safe. If one day, someone comes looking for the other half silver dollar, let me play by ear and distinguish whether it is an enemy or a friend.

He said that they were friends before, but they only have eternal interests, and there are no eternal friends. For the sake of interests, friends can become enemies in the blink of an eye.

"Okay, what needs to be explained, I've finished explaining to you, grandpa can go away at ease."

After finishing speaking, he looked at me with piercing eyes and said: "Time flies so fast, 18 years have passed in the blink of an eye. I think it was only a little bit when I picked you back, and now I have become a young man. Mo Bai, let Grandpa take a good look at you again."

After finishing speaking, grandpa raised his hand with difficulty and reached for my head, but because he had no strength, his hand was very slow.

I quickly lowered my head, leaned into his hand, and was pampered by my grandfather as I was when I was a child.

But before I leaned my head up, Grandpa's hand suddenly dropped down and remained motionless.

"Grandpa..." I couldn't bear it anymore, and cried out.

Grandpa is gone...

Grandpa is gone, and my faith has also collapsed.

I have never vented my emotions so unscrupulously, crying loudly.

Until I was exhausted and my tears dried up, I fell asleep lying on my grandfather's body.

For two days in a row, I didn't eat or drink, and I didn't know I was hungry, so I stayed by my grandfather's side.

On the third day, I took off his shirt according to my grandfather's instructions, and found that his back was full of tattoos.

I took out my phone and took a picture of the map on my back.

I changed my grandfather into a funeral uniform, and then I started to send funerals to the five families who were engaged to me.

The five families also came, including some people who had been helped by my grandfather.

The five family members helped my grandpa's funeral affairs very well. They were really caring.

I also met those five girls who were never masked.

Needless to say, one is more beautiful than the other, and each has its own characteristics.

After sending my grandfather away, everyone left, and so did the five families, and they didn't say a word about my marriage to their girl.

I thought maybe it wasn't my birthday, and now it's the time of my grandfather's funeral, so it's not suitable to mention it.

Then just wait, anyway, in less than a month, there must be an explanation for the five marriages that were exchanged for the luck of the five generations of the Li family.

(End of this chapter)