Today I was forced to resurrect again

If people say it's not, then it's not.

It is impossible for Lu Xiaoyu to press the heads of Shen Qiuji and Gu Rong and say, "You two hurry up and get together", he is enough to eat the dog food of Chen Jin and Xie Zihan.

Gu Rong was still wondering if the three of them just came to Huanshan to play after forming the team, but they were quite interested in their sketching homework, so they only walked around for an hour, and it didn't even arrive at two o'clock. Not enough shopping, Lu Xiaoyu and the others began to look for the places and scenes that they planned to sketch tomorrow.

The scale of Huanshan Hot Spring Resort is quite large. They walked along the main road. After walking for half an hour, except for Shen Qiuji, they all had sore legs and weak feet, so they thought about renting a sightseeing car of the resort.

It is also a coincidence that the place where they stop now is the station headquarters of Huanshan Hot Spring Resort. The tourist buses, sightseeing buses or passenger cars of Huanshan Hot Spring Resort all depart from here, which can reach the whole Huanshan Mountain.

"I'm going to rent a car." Xie Zihan volunteered to find the driver.

The rest waited outside the station.

Being idle is boring, so Gu Rong looked around at the scenery outside the station. He wanted to take a look at it casually, but after a glance, his eyes were caught by a hotel next to the station.

This is a hotel named "Moon Bay". The hotel matches its name, and it is in the shape of a half-curved crescent. Although its shape and name are related to "Moon", the hotel is dark blue and purple—the exterior wall is painted Blue-purple paint, all glass and doors are also dark blue-purple. The overall design style is neither modern nor contains any folk elements. Instead, it has a feeling of Hong Kong style in the 80s and [-]s of the last century. All windows of the hotel are tightly closed, and the cold The light reflected by the glass is cold and temperatureless, which makes the hotel stand out among the red-tiled and brown-walled national-style buildings.

"How can there be such a hotel here?" Lu Xiaoyu exclaimed before Gu Rong, "I feel that the painting style is completely different from the surrounding buildings."

Gu Rong thought so too.

"But the shape is very unique." Chen Jin suggested to Lu Xiaoyu, "Why don't you come here to sketch tomorrow?"

Lu Xiaoyu took out his mobile phone and wrote down the location in the memo: "Alright, let's write down Moon Bay first, we will paint here for fifteen days, how can one Moon Bay be enough to paint? We have to go to other places to see. "

After all, Lu Xiaoyu and the others are not professional painters. Compared with folk buildings with more ethnic elements and complicated patterns and textures, it is naturally easier to draw a building with a simpler design like the Moon Bay Hotel. They will make this decision. Rong was not surprised, he also persuaded Shen Qiuji: "Why don't you draw Moon Bay tomorrow? I think it is relatively easy to draw."

"Sure." Shen Qiuji doesn't care what he draws, "Then what do you draw?"

"I'm definitely looking for a place with a better view to sketch." Gu Rong still pays attention to improving his painting skills. He turned his back to Moon Bay, pointed to the square in front of him and said, "Let me draw this square."

Opposite Moon Bay Hotel is a large square. In the center of the square is a totem sculpture of an ethnic minority on Huanshan. The "knife" is also painted with bright colors and complex patterns. At this time, there are still many tourists standing in front of the sculpture to take pictures.

It is still somewhat difficult to draw such a whole scene so that it falls vividly on paper.

Therefore, Gu Rong felt that this was also a challenge for him, so he was willing to come here to sketch tomorrow.

A few minutes later, Xie Zihan, who had rented a sightseeing bus, came out with the driver. The driver of the sightseeing bus was a dark-skinned middle-aged man in his early 40s. This honest driver was probably surprised by Xie Zihan, who loved women's clothing, just like Shen Qiuji before. When they arrived, they looked a little dazed. After everyone got into the car, they urged a few times and started the car in a daze.

"Master, do you know this Moon Bay Hotel? Why do I feel that there are no people living in this hotel?"

"I know, Moon Bay Hotel, an old hotel in the village." The driver spoke with a local accent, but everyone could understand it, "There used to be, but now there are few people living there. Besides, everyone in the village has houses. Come on. Tourists here rarely live here, they all live in homestays, or rent a big house over there."

The mansion the driver mentioned was the mansion villa area outside the scenic area.

"We used to call it Huanwan here. 'Huan' means moon. In Chinese, our village can also be called Moon Bay. But later it was called Huanshan. People from the hotel government came to persuade the boss to let him The hotel was pushed to be rebuilt, and if the funds are tight, the government can also help. It is planned here that it can generate income for the village, but the boss doesn’t want it, so he just won’t demolish it.”

After listening to the driver's explanation, Gu Rong understood roughly. This Moon Bay Hotel used to do very well in business. After all, it was a rare big hotel in the village, but later Huanshan invited Qincheng University to make a good plan, and it became a hotel. There is a villa area at the back of the resort. Most of the tourists who come here come for the scenery and hot springs of Mount Huan. In this kind of place, you must live in a homestay to be comfortable.

Some people with more money simply rent villas for a short period of time. It’s really not possible. There are also star-rated hotels on the side of the villas—they are old, and the style is incompatible with the Huanshan Hot Spring Scenic Spot. It is also close to the Moon Bay where the noise of cars is easy to hear. Of course won't be their first choice.

Now only large-scale tourist groups with a large number of people will stay in Moon Bay, because the number of rooms in the homestay cannot satisfy a whole tour group, and there is only one hotel in Moon Bay in the resort.

Ask yourself, if Gu Rong came to this kind of place to travel by himself, he would definitely stay in a B&B to experience the folk customs of Huanshan Hot Spring Scenic Area, instead of staying in the old hotel Moon Bay that feels like the 80s of the last century.

"This hotel is not suitable for Murakami. I heard people say that even if the boss is not willing, it may be demolished in a few years." The driver opened up after being questioned by them, "You can stay here if you want to play here. I live in the house in the front, next to the street, and there is a bar, which is very lively at night."

The driver of the sightseeing bus was very worthy of Xie Zihan's car rental money, and drove them around the entire village of Huanshan Hot Spring Resort. Only then did everyone find that there were quite a lot of tourists in this resort. Chen Jin and Xie Zihan also went to ask about the homestay, and found that Most of the better and more famous B&Bs are fully occupied, and the few unoccupied B&Bs have various problems and problems. It is better to live in the dormitory provided by the school.

Gu Rong was a little curious, and asked casually, "Don't you want to live in the dormitory?"

Although he is also picky, but this time the villa dormitory provided by the school has a good view and a new house, even he feels that there is nothing to say. Are Chen Jin and Xie Zihan more picky than him?

As a result, after asking, Xie Zihan told him: "It's not that I don't want to, I just want to open an hourly room."

Gu Rong was even more surprised: "Hour room? Why do you want to..."

Before he finished asking this sentence, Shen Qiuji patted Gu Rong's waist lightly from behind, but Shen Qiuji couldn't hold back his strength, and Gu Rong was shoved by him. When the person was pushed down, he hurried to help him up.

After Gu Rong steadied himself with Shen Qiuji's arm, Chen Jin replied with a burly, masculine beard on his face, "The school dormitory is not soundproof."

Gu Rong: "..."

Lu Xiaoyu was beside him without saying a word, but his face was distorted because of the suppressed laughter.

Shen Qiuji leaned over slightly, whispered in Gu Rong's ear, "Are you so curious about the life of the couple's hourly room? You pervert."

Gu Rong wanted to give himself a few words, tell him to remember, and don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked in the future, otherwise he will be called a pervert if he is not careful.

At around 06:30 p.m., the driver of the sightseeing bus took them back to the station. Huanshan Mountain is very close to the south. Even in the season of November, it was still dark after 7:8 p.m. Even a sliver of orange sunset glow could be seen. No, according to the driver, the sun will start to set around [-]:[-] in the evening, and it will be completely dark at [-]:[-] and [-]:[-].

A few people returned to the station, and after getting off the bus, they found that the place was different from before they left—the square actually started to become lively.

To be precise, it is not a square, but a family at the southeast corner of the long street in front of the square. There is a white cloth hanging on the eaves of that house, and a wreath is placed in front of the door. An old lady, standing next to the wreath is a pair of cute girls with mascara on their cheeks and a little red mole between their eyebrows, made of paper.

In front of the square, a large stage was set up. The tablecloth was clean white, and the stand was dark black. The theater troupe on the stage was beating gongs and drums and singing operas. They also played festive disco music on the big radio. Beside the stage, a group of local residents from the village who came to see the excitement clapped their hands and laughed wantonly.

After a while, a group of men, women and children in sackcloth and filial piety came out from the main gate. Although they looked like they were doing business at home, they didn't show any sadness on their faces. Rendu laughed after a few words, and the laughter was loud and powerful as if on purpose.

Lu Xiaoyu couldn't understand what these people were doing: "What are they doing?"

"This is a funeral. The stage set up in the square was set up by that family to invite the villagers to watch the play."

However, Gu Rong made up a lot of folk customs and folk taboos. Even though he saw it for the first time, he could still clear up the confusion for everyone who laughs on the street. But they couldn't set up a stage, so they had to use the spaciousness of the square to set it up.

Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaoyu asked again: "What is joy and mourning? Are you celebrating her death?"

Gu Rong: "..."

Shen Qiuji: "..."

Gu Rong really wanted to say that ignorant people are fearless, and the word "death" is the most taboo to directly say "death" in casual affairs. Fortunately, this is a happy funeral. If the guests are sad and solemn, the host will be unhappy , It’s okay to tease twice, it doesn’t matter.

But afraid that Lu Xiaoyu would say something he shouldn't say later, Gu Rong kindly explained to him the difference between happy funerals and ordinary funerals and some basic precautions.

After listening to it, the three of Lu Xiaoyu said that they had learned a lot, saying that their grandparents and grandparents passed away early, and their grandparents are still there. They have never experienced their own funerals, so they don’t know these taboos. Thank you Gu Rong for explaining to them. Then he bowed his head and apologized to the old lady again and again, and went to watch the opera sung by those people on the stage again.

"It seems that Rong Zai is indeed studying hard, and he knows so many things." Shen Qiuji smiled and folded his arms, "I feel that you can do well even if I don't come this trip."

"That's right, I've read half of the book you gave me." After Gu Rong finished listening, Shen Qiuji still raised his head in the previous sentence, feeling proud of being praised.After listening to the rest of Shen Qiuji's words, he quickly grabbed his clothes, frowned and said, "You don't want to skip class tomorrow so you don't come to paint, do you?"

"Where are you thinking, am I that kind of person? I also want to improve my painting skills?" Shen Qiuji asked three times to express his determination.

The two of them didn't pay attention to the sound of the victim breaking the funeral basin while they were tugging. When they noticed, the victim's filial sons and virtuous grandchildren were already kneeling on the ground side by side, and a long string stretched out of the square. The coffin came out of the house and passed over the heads of the people kneeling on the ground.

Lu Xiaoyu patted Gu Rong on the shoulder again, and asked him, "Gu Rong, Gu Rong, what about this? What are you doing here?"

Gu Rong couldn't understand either. He didn't understand this item in the process of funerals and funerals. He shook his head and said truthfully, "I don't know either."

"This is a funeral. Children and grandchildren kneel on the ground, paving a road leading to heaven, and sending grandma to the realm of bliss." Shen Qiuji chuckled while listening to the conversation between the two of them, Xu Sheng said.

"The funeral has already taken place?" After hearing Shen Qiuji's words, Gu Rong's eyes also showed confusion, "It shouldn't be...why did the funeral start?"

They came to the station at noon, and they must pass through Long Street to enter the depths of the village.At that time, the white cloth hadn't been hung up in the victim's house, but when he came back in the afternoon, the funeral had already started. The speed was completely different from other mourning events, which made people confused.

However, before Gu Rong could think about it, he heard a hoarse and elongated shout from a middle-aged man at the door of the victim: "The old lady is on her way—all those who confront each other, harm each other, and torture each other should turn their backs and avoid—" —”

Confrontation, mutual harm, and mutual punishment all refer to people who are incompatible with the old lady's zodiac signs. It is best not to come to the funeral for such people. But speaking of it, what does the old lady belong to?

Lu Xiaoyu's voice was mixed with the shouts of the middle-aged man, and because he was standing close, Gu Rong could hear what he was muttering clearly: "The joy and mourning are so special, they smiled so happily when they sent the old lady on the road, And the old man at the front, why is he still wearing red shoes and a red jacket? There is a little red in the white bushes, and he still smiles so happily, it feels like a young girl sitting on a sedan chair is carrying out her boudoir, and he is The groom."

"What nonsense are you talking about again?" Chen Jin hastily taught him a lesson, "Where is there an old man in a red coat?"

Xie Zihan did not stand by his partner's side, but helped Lu Xiaoyu speak: "No, Ah Jin, I saw it too, really, he even clasped his fists to greet people on the road, just like an old man lying in a coffin The person is his daughter-in-law, and he wants to take her home, Gu Rong, is this in accordance with the rules?"

Xie Zihan and Lu Xiaoyu couldn't figure it out, so they came to ask Gu Rong again.

At that time, Gu Rong lowered his eyes and was thinking about the six offenses, the six evils, and the six punishments. All he saw in his eyes were the black leather shoes of the mourners or the black cloth stained with dust, and he didn't see the one Lu Xiaoyu mentioned The old man in red cloth shoes heard Xie Zihan asking him again at this moment, so he raised his head and glanced at the funeral crowd.

As soon as he raised his eyes, Gu Rong met dozens or even hundreds of pairs of eyes that were staring at him straight and wide-eyed.

The family members of those who were dressed in sackcloth and filial piety stopped delivering the coffin, their eyes were bloodshot and their eye sockets were red, as if they were looking at some big enemy, and their sinister eyes were like sharp arrows shooting at Gu Rong. Gu Rong felt chills down his spine and shivered, but the pair of paper-wrapped golden boys and girls who accompanied the coffin made Gu's hair stand on end and trembled all over.

Because the pair of golden boy and jade girl were originally paper dummies, unable to move, but at this moment they are as if they are living people, their bodies are still, their necks are turned lightly, just like this, they turned their heads like this, and the pair of black bean eyes drawn with ink brushes also "look." With "Gu Rong.

Gu Rong's heart seemed to be held by the big hands formed by these gazes. Every time one of them felt cold and difficult, he took two small steps back, but the sights staring at him did not decrease, but became more intense. Too much—they came from under the coffin, kneeling on the ground, the owner's family, they didn't look up, they just looked at him with their eyelids raised, then quickly crawled to Gu Rong's feet with their limbs and ground, and grabbed him He yelled loudly, "Old lady, go on the road, how dare you disrespect her—!"

"I do not have……"

Gu Rong struggled to speak with trembling lips, but his voice was weak and weak, even he couldn't hear it clearly, because the sound of paper being rubbed and crumpled and unfolded sounded behind him, overpowering his explanation, and then Two immature, ethereal, but extremely weird childish voices appeared, from the pair of golden boys and girls made of paper: "The old lady is on the road, how dare you disrespect her—!"

After finishing speaking, the little hands of the golden boy and jade girl patted his shoulders from left to right, then on the top of his head, and finally pushed his back, pushing him with a force that a paper dummy could not burst out. Gu Rong pushed towards the coffin.

The coffin that should have been closed is now wide open, and the black hole looks like the mouth of a man-eating abyss.

Looking deep inside, there is no old lady inside, the coffin is empty, only he is the one who went into the coffin.

Gu Rong opened his eyes wide and almost suffocated. Just before entering the coffin, someone squeezed his wrist heavily. The tingling sensation awakened Gu Rong's consciousness. His body could not stop the falling movement, but fell Into a warm and generous embrace, his chin rested on the man's shoulder, and Shen Qiuji's familiar deep voice was next to his ear: "Pull up your hair and throw it away, I can't help you, you pull it out yourself, remember not to pull out your hair Break it, Qi Gen should grab it and throw it far away."

Gu Rong's legs were weak and his body was weak, and when his feet stepped on the ground, there was an unreal feeling like being on the clouds. Even though his hands were shaking unbearably, and he didn't even have the strength to pull out a hair, he took three deep breaths before he felt back to the world. , Qi Gen pulled out a hair and threw it a little further away.

He was still leaning on Shen Qiuji's body, facing the Moon Bay Hotel, and his back was facing the coffin-delivery crowd, he was hugged by Shen Qiuji so that he didn't slip and knelt down on the ground, and asked tremblingly: "...what's wrong with me?"

Shen Qiuji told him: "You are overwhelmed."

"The old lady is on her way—all those who confront each other, harm each other, and torture each other should turn their backs and avoid—" the middle-aged man's elongated voice continued to shout.

Shen Qiuji continued to talk to him: "The old lady should be a rooster, there is a golden rooster with colorful feathers on the wreath, and the golden rooster is also leading the way in front of the coffin."

If you belong to the rooster, the opposite is the rabbit, the harm is the dog, and the punishment is the chicken.

"...How would I know, I thought it was just an ordinary wreath, besides, aren't the guides all golden roosters?" Gu Rong said in a miserable voice, suppressing his crying.

Not to mention Gu Rong, Shen Qiuji has never participated in a funeral. Ordinary funerals require a golden rooster to lead the way. He didn't think much about the rooster when he saw the rooster. Who would have thought that the funeral customs in this village are somewhat special, and they are actually guided by the zodiac signs. .

Shen Qiuji is a tiger, if his guess is correct, Chen Jin should be a tiger just like him, and has nothing to do with a rooster, so he can't see anything.

And Lu Xiaoyu and Xie Zihan said that they both saw the old man wearing a red coat and red shoes. It was a hallucination, but it was a good fantasy. If he guessed correctly, they must be the ox, the dragon, the snake and the rooster. Auspicious people.

Only Gu Rong, who had opposite zodiac signs, was miserable. He didn't turn his back to avoid it, and he didn't know what he saw to make him so frightened.

As expected, there were one after another of evil things around Gu Rong.

Shen Qiuji took a deep breath, caressed Gu Rong's back and comforted him: "This village has a special custom, the coffin's head is over the top, and the custom of descendants kneeling down in the coffin is only seen in southern Xinjiang, I didn't expect it to exist here too. The old man’s words should be to remind the onlookers that those who belong to the rabbit, dog, and chicken in the village should have been reminded when the victim went to report the funeral, and they would not come to watch the funeral.”

Gu Rong now has his back to the funeral crowd, and is hiding in Shen Qiuji's warm embrace. He is not as scared as before, but he still sucks his nose and holds back his tears. Water mist, Gu Rong saw several windows of the Moon Bay Hotel facing him at the moment were opened, as if the people in the hotel heard the news of the funeral and also opened the windows to watch the excitement.

But there were only people standing in front of two windows, a woman in a white dress stood behind one window, and a man in black and a woman in red stood behind the other window.

Gu Rong blinked his eyes, and the mist in his eyes condensed into tears. He is very sensitive to the sight of people staring at him now, so he wiped the physiological tears from the corners of his eyes with his hand.

Going to Moon Bay Hotel again, the open windows are still open, but the man in black and the woman in white dress have disappeared, only the woman in red is still looking at it, with a cigarette between her fingers, leaning against the window and swallowing clouds Spit fog.

Until the funeral crowd disappeared outside the square, Chen Jinlu and Xie Zihan and the three still didn’t argue over whether the old lady in the red coat and red shoes was there. Under such circumstances, Shen Qiuji couldn’t tell them that they had seen a ghost. Press the red coat and red shoes The old lady should be the old lady's husband, and he came to accompany her.

After watching the excitement, Xie Zihan found that Gu Rong was leaning against Shen Qiuji's arms weakly and pale, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with Gu Rong? Are you feeling unwell?"

"He's motion sick." Shen Qiuji made an excuse casually.

"Then let's go back to the dormitory. The cafeteria at the base is almost ready for dinner. Let's come back tomorrow." Seeing this, Chen Jin suggested, "It's just that we have to take the bus back. Gu Rong will suffer."

"...Just go back and lie down." Gu Rong couldn't wait for this proposal, and when he heard the words, he agreed, and was helped by Shen Qiuji to the bus to take him back to the villa base.