Chapter 74 Eight feet in the hole in the ground

It is said that immediately after the death of a person’s head down to the feet, naked inverted in the soil, can be the soul of the dead to suffocate, never to transcend life, the night the yellow nymphs came to see the dead are willing to do so, will no longer be pursued by his descendants, this debt even if it is a one-off, since ancient times unfiliality has three, no posterity for the great, the old sheepskin for the continuation of the fire, no matter how to do it will not be hesitated to save their own children and grandchildren, or else! Yellow Fairy a but come to the door, the sheep family descendants is certainly no way to live, not only the things at home have to let the Yellow Pi pouring light, and catch a three decline and six Wang, have to hang with a bunch of small Yellow Pi for life ……

The old sheepskin finished and his son hugged and cried, there is a sad parting of life and death, which we have heard of this kind of evil and crooked things, my grandfather with the feng shui graves with a lifetime of dealings, the “burial scripture” can be recited backwards and forwards, but I did not even listen to him to mention this kind of “cave land eight feet, naked corpse buried upside down” of the strange customs, and the old sheepskin but said But the old sheepskin said something serious, it seems that the situation has reached a very serious and unmanageable point, we do not know what to do for a moment.

Fatty, Ding Sistern and I discussed this, first of all, we are atheists, even if the old weasel can harm people, it is not possible to have heavenly and earthly magical powers, we do not believe that after death there will be a reincarnation of souls, we feel that we should stop the old sheepskin this irrational action, if you are dead and buried in the home for seven days and seven nights and then dug up, it is not good to even open the death certificate.

But we then considered, the old sheepskin family is convinced, in case we oppose, making the old sheepskin today really have a long and short, after all, we are outsiders, then this responsibility can be too big, not as good as temporarily agreed to him, so that he can rest assured to recuperate, and then rushed to the flag to ask the doctor to give him a diagnosis of the disease, this is a palliative measure, although not good to deceive people, but the motive is not any problem.

So we said in unison, promised the last wish of the old sheepskin, let him rest assured that everything will be done as he commanded, but unexpectedly the old sheepskin and forced the crowd to swear, we have no choice but to face him orally swore heavily, on the one hand, and in the heart even said: “Not counting, not counting, not counting… …”

I would like to find an opportunity to slip out to the flag to find a doctor, but the old sheepskin stared at us not to let go, repeatedly instructed all the details of his death, until the crowd confirmed that they do understand to remember, suddenly rolled his eyes, stirrups legs and swallowed gas.

The old sheepskin died very suddenly, the crowd did not react, and so understand what is going on, found that has not been able to rescue, who is powerless to return to heaven, all the people from the sadness, can only be put on the sadness of the voice, crying for a long time, the old sheepskin’s son begged us to help the youth to take care of the aftermath of the old sheepskin everything according to the old sheepskin’s life before the last words to deal with.

This came to the three of us a good deal of difficulty, would like to delay a go to find a doctor to the old sheepskin treatment, who knows that he said without warning on the go, we feel for the first time, the impermanence of human life, things have come to this point, but also have to act in accordance with his last words, after all, the death of people for the great, which is also a kind of respect for the deceased’s wishes before life.

Fatty and I endured the emotions of grief, in the yurt underground dug a grave pit, the rest to the remains of the undressing of the burial, should not have outsiders present, we three youths waiting outside the yurt, the old sheepskin’s son buried his father, the yurt closed tightly, do not go to the outside voice.

The pastoral area is sparsely populated, few outsiders come, in addition to our three youths, plus the old sheepskin’s son and daughter-in-law of the five people, since no other people know about this, only the first to hold back the spirit of the wake, and so seven days later, and then formally convergence of the old sheepskin’s remains.

I and the fat man, Ding Sishen three very heavy heart, a few days since the poor farmers living together old sheepskin, even said gone, a person from life to death how can be so easy? Things suddenly a little people can not accept this reality, sitting on the grassy knoll not far from the yurt, looking at the boundless grassland, the heart is empty, as if someone cut away with a knife what, ding Sishen even cried into tears, two eyes are like rotten peaches.

Fatty and I can not persuade her, until Ding Si-Shuang cried not to cry, sitting silently on the grassy knoll, three people look at each other speechless, in a trance, until the evening, the old sheepskin’s daughter-in-law opened the meal, greeted all the people to eat, but no one has no heart to eat and drink, wait until the evening in the other yurt sitting around together in the night watch.

We remembered the old sheepskin life said tonight there will be yellow skins to howl in mourning, regardless of what happens to the strange things do not pay attention to, although this is very unreliable, but our hearts are still inevitably some apprehension, who can not be sure that the night will not be in trouble, ding Si sweet tired of crying, face hung with crystal tears slept, I and the fat man is sitting on his knees, supporting the ears to listen to the wind outside.

Fatty asked me, “Are we being a bit materialistic? I always think so buried the old sheepskin is very improper, his old man must be sick confused, burned out his brain, he is playing the bamboo boards of the chanting of the three sounds – think of one out is one out ah, but we have reason, with a high degree of theory of the class struggle and a wealth of practical experience in the struggle, the old sheepskin is confused, old Hu we can not follow him to commit a piece of I nodded and said, “That’s right.

I nodded and said, “I can’t approve of this way of burying the dead with a naked body planted upside down, I haven’t heard of such a precedent from ancient times to the present day, but you have to know that this is as dead as a lamp, no matter whether the old sheepskin said nonsense before he died, after all, we have shared the same pain and suffering into the death of a, is a comrade-in-arms, if we don’t agree to his wishes, I’m afraid that he will leave the human world with deep regret. If we don’t grant his last wish, I’m afraid he will leave this world with deep regrets, which is something we don’t want to see, right?”

Fatty and I discussed for a while, purely belongs to the salty eat Rob Fade worry, the last thought, in accordance with the old sheepskin dying will be buried, which is also the old sheepskin family mean, we have no qualifications too much interference, a side of the soil to raise a side of people, a side of people also have a side of people live, China is so big, there must be a lot of folk old-fashioned customs are we do not understand, although theoretically should be criticized for this kind of Although theoretically should criticize this kind of crooked way, but some things can still be changed, anyway, only seven days, seven days after the regular way to open the memorial service according to the ordinary and not too late, as long as the five of us to keep a secret, outsiders and how to know? As long as the word doesn’t get out, it shouldn’t be a big problem.

We sighed and remembered the life of the old sheepskin, think he lacks a kind of rebel spirit in the bones of the king would rather have a kind of spirit, a lifetime of living in a wimpy, but also to arrange their own afterlife, I do not know whether this is sad or pathetic, in any case, let a person think of it, I feel the heart is not a good taste.

Have been waiting to the second half of the night, suddenly outside the tent sad winds, whimpering wind sound more and more tight, the sky from time to time there is the sound of muffled thunder rumbling, I and fat man’s nerves immediately taut up, this is not a good movement, I’m afraid that something is going to happen, only to listen to that the sound of thunder gradually increased, the explosion of thunder one after the other, ding Si sweet was also awakened by the sound of thunder from his dream, wiping the tears on his face, the look is very panicky, I waved his hand to her, gestured that Don’t worry, plug your ears and you won’t hear it.

But the prairie rain is not much, and now at the time of the winter drought, the thunder is really abnormal, we would like to wait and see what happens, but the thunder is not right, as if around us down, so people really can not afford to sit down, had to go outside to see, look at the sky black clouds thick, a lightning bolt in the burial of the old sheepskin of the yurt above the constant appearance.

The old sheepskin’s son saw the situation, scared of a thud on the ground, I held him and asked how in the end? This thunder is too evil.

The old sheepskin’s son clumsy, squeaking half a day to make the words clear, it turned out that he felt that the old sheepskin stripped down buried in the crypt, some too inappropriate, this is not the way of the son of man ah, too ungrateful, which can be so treated their own father? This thing in the future if the rumor is spread, he can never raise his head as a man, so thought of a compromise, with a layer of white silk to the body wrapped, and then only head down on the feet upside down planted in the cave buried, which is designated as not listening to the instructions of the old man, causing trouble.

I and the fat man looked at each other, all feel strange, wrapped in a layer of white silk on the body of what is the big deal, that does not cause such a big thunderstorm to, and look at the thunder and lightning, this is not to split what ah?

People are asking me what to do now, this thunder according to this fight, sure to have an accident, but this matter has been beyond the scope of what I know, how do I know how to do, the fat man but the idea said: “is not the old sheepskin blame his son refused to obey, this is to give us a wake-up call, or quickly go to the earth to re-digging, that wrapped the body of the white silk to him to remove the anyway, try it, in case it works. If it works.”

The old sheepskin’s son is the most unassertive, very soft ears, listening to the fat man said, he even slapped himself, certainly not according to the last words of the command, not even a fraction of a mile off, do not know if it is still too late to remedy, but there is no other way, now can only hurry to the yurt to dig out the corpse.

We risked the danger of being thunder, hastily picked up a shovel to dig that afternoon just buried a good grave pit, digging to half of the thunder on the weakening, but still in the clouds from time to time issued a dull rumbling sound, such as thoroughly planing the buried soil to see, everyone was stunned, this grave is buried in the old sheepskin or yellow skin?

Muffled thunder over the grassland, the old sheepskin’s son with me and the fat man hands, re-excavate the old sheepskin’s body, cave eight feet and buried, to re-excavate is quite waste of energy, but in the hypnotic sound of thunder, we dare not have a half delay, not much effort, the pit has been exposed to a layer of white silk.