I heard it's not good to be a magic stick

Marriage and funeral both pay attention to timing. The former seeks auspiciousness, hoping that the couple will have a long and happy marriage for a long time, while the latter seeks peace of mind, hoping that the soul of the deceased will rest in peace and protect future generations.

As for the location of the tomb after cremation and the time of entering the tomb, that is the feng shui of the yin and yang.

However, these few people were not hired to watch Fengshui, and it was not their turn to worry about such things. At this moment, they were still playing the role of passers-by. After the local Fengshui master said "Get up", several strong men shouted With "one, two, three" the coffin was lifted up.

Because of the horrible rumors, everyone avoided the funeral of the deceased. Not many people participated in the funeral this time, most of them were relatives.

Someone pulled the shed down, and the canopy slats fell to the ground lightly, feeling like the end of the song.

"It's a custom." Asi said in a low voice, "We call it a shed to send people away. If the shed is not opened, it means that there are still people going in, which means that people will die, so this is a necessary procedure."

"Oh." Zhang Lin said happily, the shed was about to be evacuated when people left, but some customs were spread so horribly.

"Don't look, turn around, everyone turn around." Someone yelled.

The four people followed Daliu to face the front, Zhang Linle asked, "What do you do when you turn around?"

"Don't look back, and don't turn back." Asi replied in a low voice: "This is also the custom of funerals. When a person dies, he is not in Yang..."

Xu Xu quickly gave Zhang Linle a wink, and cut off the conversation: "Axi's skill in telling ghost stories is top-notch. Before you and I received a business to go to the mountain to exorcise evil spirits, he was the guide who went into the mountain. Opening your mouth will scare people, so don't listen to him."

Asi bowed his head, feeling very wronged: This is indeed a local legend, I didn't make it up.

"Shut up." Li Jingxing said, "Watch the road."

"Oh." Asi stopped talking and continued to walk forward.

The four of Li Jingxing walked at the end, there were not many people in total, and the entire funeral procession seemed empty.

It was still dark, and I had to use a flashlight when I walked.Before dawn in late autumn, it was dark and cold. The people who carried the coffin in front were sweating profusely, while all the people behind were walking with their necks hunched. The white cloth strips fluttered in the wind, adding to the desolation Occasionally, one or two unknown wild birds flew from the sky, flew over everyone's heads with a "cheep", and then sank into the end of the mountain.

According to local customs, the coffin can only be lowered at a specific place and at a specific time, and it is necessary to kneel and kowtow to express condolences after walking a few steps. Amid the sound of various musical instruments, the relatives who sent the funeral just knelt all the way and kowtowed. Head all the way.The four of them don't need to kneel down, but the people in front of them stop and go, and they can only waste their time.

Zhang Linle said in a low voice: "The local funeral etiquette is too cumbersome. I remember that when my grandfather left, he sent the ice coffin directly to the crematorium's car. Everyone drove their cars with double flashing lights all the way to the crematorium." It's fine, it doesn't matter so much."

"Rural areas pay more attention to traditions, and funerals are a major event, and there is no room for sloppy work," said Asi.

"After a hundred years, I will be burned and sprinkled into the sea. The man will make his home everywhere, saving the money for the tomb and occupying the land of the living." Zhang Linle smiled.

"It can't be done." Asi frowned.

Zhang Linle shrugged: "This is already the best result. In our business, we have no choice where to die. I don't know if it will be realized in the future?"

Li Jingxing glanced at him calmly.

The team in front started moving again, and several people followed the team and walked for two miles. After tossing and tossing for almost two hours, they finally arrived at the crematorium.

From a distance, a huge soaring black brick chimney stands on top of the bungalow, with thick smoke billowing from it, like the chimney of an old-fashioned factory.

The environment of the crematorium is depressing and heavy.

"Too backward." Zhang Linle felt uncomfortable looking at the chimney.

Asi leaned his head over and asked puzzledly, "What's behind? This is cremation, not burial."

Xu Xu spoke up: "Not every place can afford electronics, and it would be a pleasure to burn it, which is much better than burying it and rotting slowly."

"From now on, everyone, be careful." Li Jingxing reminded.

The others immediately followed in, but coming to this kind of place was more frustrating than the cemetery, and Zhang Linle was always depressed.

He is different from the others. The others have dealt with Yin and evil before, and they are used to it. They are not afraid to come to this kind of place. Zhang Linle rarely goes to the crematorium, and he doesn't want to stay here for a long time, as long as he wants to , The living and the dead can be seen everywhere, but not all the people lining up at the crematorium died of natural causes, and some of their appearances really made him feel uncomfortable.

Seeing Zhang Linle's discomfort, Asi hurriedly asked, "Are you okay?"

Zhang Linle shook his head: "It's too noisy, I'm not used to it."

"It's a bit noisy." Asi listened to the dirge, and felt that a single song was going to repeat in his ears for a long time.

Zhang Linle didn't expect Asi to understand him, so he forced a smile to respond.

Relatives lined up to wait for the cremation of the deceased after paying their final condolences and paying homage to the remains.

There are six cremation furnaces in the spark room, and many dead people are waiting. After the previous one is burned, relatives have picked up the ashes, and it is the turn of the next one.

"Hey, this is the last stop. The dead are all passengers, and the cremator is the driver," Asi sighed. "The passengers line up to get on the bus and go to the underworld."

Zhang Linle felt that Asi's description was quite appropriate, so he couldn't help but answer: "It's still a one-way trip."

"This line of work is not easy." Asi glanced at the cremation industry. "You have to witness so many deaths at a young age."

Zhang Linle followed Asi's gaze. There are so many cremators, all of whom are elderly. Just such a young man looks quite abrupt.

"In cities, even if the wages of cremation and chemical industry are high, everyone is reluctant and taboo." Zhang Linle said.

Asi nodded: "Young people in the countryside like to go out to work, and no one wants to do this."

"Oh." Zhang Linle responded casually, without looking at Asi at all.

The two young men were a little sentimental, while the other two veterans were still rarely affected, thinking about the mission.

"In the evening, Liuwan saw evil spirits in the ice coffin, and now the deceased looks completely fine. If according to the previous speculation, the deceased should have a Gu infection, so far I can't see any clues." Xu Xu was puzzled. with.

Li Jingxing: "I still don't know which link the problem lies in. I'll talk about it later."

"Okay." Xu Xu covered his nose with his hand.

The crematoriums in remote villages are different from those in big cities. The crematoria in big cities are much neater, while the crematoriums in small mountain villages are not clean enough, full of rust, and there is a disgusting sour smell in the air. .

The information of the deceased in big cities was made into a QR code and posted by the fireside, and here a small blackboard was used to write the name and time of death of the deceased, and the relatives could check it by themselves.

For the convenience of observation, Li Jingxing and the others did not stand very far away, and they were with their relatives, just outside the railing of the furnace entrance.

When it came to them, the staff of the crematorium pulled out the hearth floor, put the dead body on it, and pushed it into the furnace.

Asi leaned into the stove, stood up and whispered to Zhang Linle, "Did you see the blades inside? I heard that people have to be sliced ​​before they die, otherwise they will explode."

Zhang Linle clutched his heart: "Don't talk nonsense."

Asit nodded solemnly, and was slapped heavily on the back of the head by Xu Xu.

"Master?"

"Can you give me a break?" Xu Xu said, "Where did you hear about it? The country implements civilized cremation, and the steel ingots are used to raise and lower corpses. Can you spread a little more horror?"

"Master, don't believe it. I also heard that someone was burned alive and sat up in the furnace."

"How dare you say it!" Xu Xu laughed back angrily, and raised his hand to hit him.

Zhang Linle held Xu Xu's arm in time: "Brother Xu, Asi grew up in the mountains since he was a child. The people there are backward in thinking and spread rumors indiscriminately. Don't be angry."

Xu Xu put his hands down and did not speak. Zhang Linle turned back and explained to Asi: "What you are talking about is not burning a living person, nor is it cheating a corpse. It is just that the molecular chain of protein is dehydrated and condensed under high temperature, and the muscle contraction occurs."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Asi glanced sideways at the others: "Is there really no burning alive in this world..."

Xu Xu was almost dizzy with anger. I really don't know what this fool was thinking when he said this as soon as he entered the crematorium.

"If I make a move, you won't have any problems anymore." Li Jingxing looked at the corpse furnace coldly, his voice stern.

Although Li Jingxing didn't look at him, Asi knew that the words were aimed at him, so he completely shut up now, and he didn't dare to speak casually about hearsay anymore.

After the corpse was put in, the furnace door was closed, and everyone waited outside, watching helplessly that the other furnace had burned for one and a half rounds, and some stoves had been fired for two rounds, and this side was still burning.

"Is this stove broken?" Assi said.

The rest of the people didn't reply to him, and everyone waited for a while before the bones on this side cooled down and pushed out.

It was still in the shape of a human being when pushed out, but it was all turned into ashes. The skull was not burnt, and the urn needed to be smashed later.

The family members were busy picking up the ashes, Li Jingxing and others were watching from the outside, and there was indeed no difference.

After the cremation, the four of them went back to the village chief's house. Sure enough, there was still no one there.

Asi boiled hot water, and several people took turns to take a bath, changed back into their own clothes, and sat on the village chief's bunk for a small meeting.

"The crematorium did not find anything suspicious, and everything went according to plan," Zhang Linle said. "It is very likely that the problem came from the night of the vigil."

Xu Xu nodded: "If this kind of thing still happens, we will try to break this Gu during the night watch."

Axi sat cross-legged on the innermost side of the bed, rubbed his calf with his hands, and swayed his body back and forth gently with the movement of his hands: "It's strange, what kind of voodoo technique can make people dream of dead people, Then, in a few days, this person died for no reason, and if this continues, no one will dare to go to the funeral. At that time, is it possible that the funeral home will directly carry the body and burn it?"

"Wait a minute," Li Jingxing stood up, "Axi is right, maybe the other party's purpose is to prevent people from attending the funeral."

"What is the purpose of doing this?" Zhang Linle spread his hands.

Xu Xu patted the table: "It's related to the corpse."

Asi was confused: "It's all turned into a handful of ashes, what's the matter?"

"Then what if it's not Ash?" Xu Xu asked.

"What will Sirius do with the dead body?" Zhang Linle suddenly thought of those walking corpses in the sewer, and couldn't help feeling a little startled.

"The first task is to investigate the missing passengers in Southeast Asia, and it is found that they are assassinating people born in Yin and Yin. The second task is to enter the South|Illusion in the South China Sea. The water ghost floated over with the coffin. You said, they went Where can we find so many dead people?" Li Jingxing asked.

"Stealing corpses from remote places in the country?" Zhang Linle followed the analysis, but was taken aback by this conclusion.

"No, the body was cremated, but it was still in human form." Asi corrected.

"I have a guess." Li Jingxing said.