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Li Yuan followed the mourning team to Lutang Village, and was taken to the He family by the person in charge of the funeral.The He family is not a rich family, but rather poor.But they made the funeral very grand, and invited ten mourners alone.

5000 yuan is already a lot of money for such a family, not to mention that the funeral is more than these expenses.

At first, Li Yuan thought it was because the deceased was a child loved by his parents before his death, and after his death his parents put so much thought into the funeral.After Li Yuan knew that the deceased was the only child in the family, he felt even more that his deduction was correct.

It's just that no one expected that the inside story was more exciting than he thought.

The poverty of the He family is first reflected in the house. For the surrounding small buildings or villas, their family only has a two-story old-fashioned red brick house, which is particularly eye-catching in Lutang Village.

When Li Yuan and the others arrived, the deceased had not yet entered the coffin, and he was lying on a bamboo mat in probably the neatest and most beautiful clothes he had seen in so many years, and someone was painting his pale face with red and green makeup, quite To complete the weird makeup, someone brought a white cloth to cover his face.

It's not that Li Yuan has never seen someone hold a funeral, nor has he never seen a dead person, but he couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw the deceased who was going to mourn.

Is the dead child 15 years old?

So young, died of illness?

Li Yuan looked away after the deceased was covered with a white cloth. Although he was puzzled, he was not stupid enough to ask people face to face.It took a while before the ceremony began, and the mourning team was brought inside the house to meet the parents of the deceased first.

The parents of the deceased may look older than their actual age due to years of hard work. A couple in their forties looks like they are 60 years old.

The person in charge pointed to Li Yuan and the others and said, "Dashan, you should be familiar with these few. They are all professionals who have mourned for our villages. The other few are people from surrounding villages. If you want more people, you should I'm in a hurry, I'll have to ask them to make up the numbers for a while, but don't worry, they are only responsible for crying, simple, who can't cry, right?"

Mrs. He took out a few red envelopes and stuffed them to the person in charge and the right person to mourn, "I will trouble you for today's matter."

"Hmph." He Dashan was smoking a pipe beside him, as if he couldn't wait to see them.

The person in charge knew He Dashan, knew his temper, and also knew some inside stories about today's funeral, so he was not angry when He Dashan put on his face, but felt sorry for him from the bottom of his heart.

After coming out of the yard, the person in charge called the mourners to one place, and reminded them earnestly, "Everyone is from a few nearby villages, and a broken leg is considered a brother. Let's take care of this matter today. Otherwise, it will be embarrassing if you don’t look up and see you when you look down, who will dare to invite you next time when you have a job?”

"Especially those of you who have never cried in funerals, be smart, no wonder I didn't remind you, this is not an ordinary funeral for the He family, no mistakes are tolerated, if something goes wrong, it's not your fault alone. By the way, what Aunt He gave just now is just the happy money, you take it yourself. As for the salary, you can come to me to collect it after the matter is settled."

Before leaving, the person in charge said one last sentence, "The funeral will take two days. The He family only has such a small space and there are not many rooms. You should be wronged for a while, and a few people squeeze together. I also discussed it with the He family. I'll give you an extra [-] for your hard work when you're done."

There are some rough people present, tell them that it is nothing to stay up all night, and it is not easy to earn 600 yuan.

After the person in charge left, the mourning team leaned around the yard talking in twos and threes before it was time to work.Li Yuan sat with his eldest grandson, and now he finally found an opportunity to ask out the doubts he had been having all the way.

"Dasun, what's the situation with the master's family? Then who is He Dashan? Why did his son die when he was young? Did he die of illness?"

"Keep your voice down, I heard that you and I will be kicked out, and I'm still waiting to receive the 600 yuan." The young man called Dasun hissed, and Li Yuan quickly expressed his understanding.

Seeing this, Da Sun glanced at the people around him, and then lowered his voice and explained to him, "I don't know much about what you asked. But He Rong, the child who died, did not die of illness, it is said that he committed suicide. "

"Suicide?" Li Yuan became interested.

Da Sun: "I also heard rumors that on the day the child committed suicide, he seemed to be scolded or beaten by He Rong. I didn't think about it, ran to the lake, jumped into the lake and committed suicide. The lake should be in the south of Lutang Village In the woods, think about when I was a child, I used to fish with people by the lake.”

Li Yuan suddenly felt that he was getting old, "Are you going to commit suicide like this?"

Think about when Li Yuan's mother died young when he was young, he grew up under Li Fengsheng's stick education.If according to the current thinking of the young man, I'm afraid he didn't know how many times he would commit suicide.

"Who knows." Dasun shook his head, "The Green Pond is a little far away from our Sanxi, and I rarely come here, and when something like suicide happens, the people in the Green Pond will not gossip around for fear of ruining their village. I don’t have any acquaintances here, so I can only pick up other people’s saliva.”

"But." Dasun glanced at He Dashan who came out of the front door with a stinky face, "I heard people say that He Dashan is not a good character. He smokes and drinks every day, and has a bad temper. He likes to beat children when he is drunk. People scolded him. So it’s not surprising that one day the child couldn’t stand it and committed suicide. I heard that He Rong was only 15 years old and still in junior high school. Hey, it’s a pity, because I didn’t think about it for a while, so he just disappeared.”

Li Yuan listened very seriously. He has met many people in transportation, whether they are in the city or in the countryside, some parents seem to think that their children are their private property, and they can beat and scold them whenever they want. For domestic violence, I will not reflect on myself, and I will scold others for meddling in their own business.

Among the bystanders, a small number of people will help them from the perspective of the abused, but most of them stand by and don't care.And this kind of situation is more in some remote, old feudal villages.

"Those over there, it's time to work."

Hearing the person in charge's voice, Dasun and Li Yuan immediately stood up, and followed the rest of the mourning team into the house again...

In a hurry, he walked out of the yard again only to find that it was almost dusk.

The He family was in charge of the dinner, and the cooks were all village women invited from the village.There was not room for so many people in the house, so everyone set up a few tables in the yard to eat together.

Li Yuan and the rest of the mourning team were at the same table, and because they were farthest from the kitchen, the food was served the slowest.Before it was their turn to serve food, Pan Erzi from Xiaoshan Village suddenly yelled, holding his stomach, "Oh, no, my stomach hurts too much, I have to go to the toilet"

After Pan Erzi left, someone said, "How many times has this guy been running today?"

"Who knows, just now when the deceased was put into the coffin, he ran quietly twice. Fortunately, the owner and the person in charge didn't see it, otherwise we would all have to be scolded." Another person said.

Others: "Pan Erzi usually seems to be quite capable of trouble, but why did he lose the chain at a critical moment."

"Fortunately, nothing happened tonight."

"It's not..."

Pan Erzi didn't know what was going on with him, he ran to the toilet three or four times during the day, obviously from yesterday to today, he didn't eat anything, how could he eat up his stomach so well?

After Pan Erzi finished stretching, he finally felt comfortable.After washing his hands, he went out of the toilet, and when he was about to leave the house to eat in the yard, he saw a child in white clothes standing in front of the coffin placed in the hall.He thought it was a relative's child, and when he was about to urge him to eat, the white shadow in front of the coffin disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Pan Erzi quickly rubbed his eyes, but no matter how many times he rubbed, who was in front of the coffin?

Gudong!

Pan Erzi swallowed, somehow feeling a little cold in the house.

When he returned to the dinner table, Pan Erzi couldn't help but secretly looked at all the people in the yard.Because they came to attend the funeral, except for He Dashan and He Dasao, two direct blood relatives who wore white gowns, the rest of the people wore black or dark clothes to show respect. .

Recalling the figure of the child in white, Pan Erzi felt that the other party was exactly the same as the boy lying in the coffin...

The young men sitting on both sides of Erzi Pan looked at him suspiciously. It wasn't winter, so they were shaking like crazy.

Li Yuan happened to be sitting opposite Pan Erzi, and when he looked up, he saw the other's face gradually turning pale, and the sweat dripping down his face, thinking to himself why this person seemed to have seen a ghost.

Others at the table thought that Pan Erzi's face was blue and his lips were pale because of his stomach discomfort, and he looked so immature that he couldn't be more vain. Those with good intentions were already thinking about whether they should help him find some rest after dinner. Take laxatives to cure diarrhea, look at how hard this child is.

After dinner, everyone stayed in the yard for a while, then went back to their rooms to play poker.With such a fight, it lasted until the early hours of the morning.Li Yuan couldn't sleep because of the noise, and felt urgent to urinate, so she went out of the room and went downstairs, planning to find the toilet to solve her physical problems.

Who knew that just after returning from using the toilet, he bumped into the person in charge who came back from the outside.

"Hey, Li, Li Yuan, right? You came just in time. I need your help with something here."

Li Yuan apologized and wanted to go upstairs, but the person in charge suddenly stopped him.

Li Yuan looked like he had some extra money, and his heart immediately became active, "Uncle, do you have work?"

"There is a job, and it happens to be cheap for you." The person in charge laughed.

According to the person in charge, in addition to paying for the mourning team, the He family also paid for a vigilante to take their place. The reason was that they were old and their bodies might not be able to withstand it.But those who knew the inside story guessed that it was actually the He family couple who had a guilty conscience and were afraid that the ghost of the child would come back. After all, everyone knew that He Rong committed suicide after being beaten and scolded by He Dashan.

And the brother who was supposed to take the place of the He family's vigil tonight has already arrived.But at dinner, I knew that something happened to my mother, so I had no choice but to put down my work and go back.The person in charge is not an unreasonable person. If someone's mother has an accident, it is impossible to force the other party to stay.Besides, guarding the spirit is an easy job, and there is money to be paid, so if you think about it, you are not afraid of not being able to find someone.

Didn't he just come back and see Li Yuan, so he asked a casual question.

The person in charge said: "The old rule of keeping the spirit is three hundred. If you do it, I will give you three hundred. I won't let you do it for nothing. If you don't do it, I will go upstairs and ask other people."

Li Yuan embraced the other party's shoulders with great enthusiasm, "Uncle, let me eat this 300 yuan, why ask someone else to do it, I didn't say no to it."

The 300 yuan plus the 600 yuan in the morning, he earned nearly 1000 yuan in less than two days. If he doesn't do such a beautiful job, he will be no different from a fool!

"Okay, it's your luck, you let me come back and hit you first." The person in charge pulled Li Yuan's hand away, looked at his watch and said, "I still have something to do here, you boy have to take care of me." Stare, the kerosene lamps and candles in the hall can't be extinguished, don't let me fall asleep."

Li Yuan made a statement of guarantee, "Uncle, don't worry about my work. Go ahead, I'll watch over here."

The person in charge was not very relieved, but seeing his confident appearance, he thought to forget it, there should be no problem, and he hurriedly left He's house after a few more instructions.

After the person in charge left, Li Yuan rubbed his chin and sighed with emotion, "I'm so fucking lucky that I picked up another 300 yuan for nothing."

Li Yuan, who narrated this to Mingxing, really wanted to shoot himself yesterday, lucky?That's obviously bad luck!

The wake in the first half of the night was very relaxing. From time to time, some people would come down from the second floor to go to the toilet. At this time, Li Yuan could chat with them a little bit, and it was not boring.

But in the middle of the night, after everyone started to fall asleep, Li Yuan started to feel a little lonely and lonely watching the candlelight. He didn't dare to doze off, just in case someone didn't notice, so he let the candles on the table go out.

According to the villagers' thinking, it would be very unlucky if the candles were extinguished on the night of the vigil.

At two or three o'clock later, which was also the coldest time at night, Li Yuan couldn't keep his mouth shut, and he was bold enough to move a bench next to the coffin, and chatted with the "people" in the coffin.

"Your name is He Rong. I heard that you committed suicide? Are you still a junior high school student? Hey, you said that there are some hurdles in life that you can't get over. Why did you commit suicide? My mother died early when I was young, and there was only one father. At school, people bully me and my buddies every day. Oh, my buddy is just as miserable as me. There is no father or mother, only a grandfather. We are neighbors and have a good relationship. At that time, people in elementary school scolded me I have no father or mother with my buddies, no one loves us, little bastards, etc., you can scold us whatever is unpleasant."

"Excessive ones will throw our books into the trash can, stick notes on our backs, and block us in the toilet. It was miserable at that time, and it's embarrassing to think about it now. But my buddies and I didn't admit defeat, who bullied us , we suppressed them and beat them. There were too many of them and we couldn’t beat them, so we picked out one to beat them, so that the little brother would hide from us now. Later, the matter went to the teacher and everyone was called Parents. But we didn't suffer that time, my brother, who was smart since he was a child, just pretended to cry and pretended to be weak. At that time, he studied well, and the teacher felt sorry for him."

"Let me tell you, sometimes we can't be too brainy, we have to learn to be flexible, like my buddies. If you commit suicide in any situation, the whole world doesn't know how many people die every day..."

Li Yuan babbled a lot, and said that in the end, his lips were a little dry, and he got up to pour water for a drink, but when he twisted his feet, he turned towards the coffin next to him.Although he moved fast enough to stabilize his body in time, the coffin still had more than half of the coffin lid covering it because of his push.

As soon as Li Yuan lowered his head, he met the corpse lying in the coffin.I don't know if it's an illusion, but for a moment just now he seemed to see a corpse and opened his eyes...

Li Yuan laughed dryly, and hypnotized himself, "If you scare yourself, how can a dead person's eyes move. How much you offend, how much you offend, my lord has a lot, I'll help you put the coffin lid back on right now."

Li Yuan muttered to himself, and swiftly moved back the coffin lid that had been rubbed off.

After restoring the coffin to its original state, Li Yuan turned around and poured water.He's family used a kettle, which was placed on the table in the corner of the wall.There happened to be a window facing the yard on that wall, and Li Yuan could see the scenery outside the yard when he passed by.

He drank water twice with a disposable water cup, and when he was about to go back to watch the light after drinking, suddenly a white shadow flashed outside the window.

Li Yuan was stunned for two seconds, then leaned over to look outside.Looking around, he didn't see anything. When he was about to take his eyes back, he suddenly glanced at the place on the right hand side of the iron window. At some point, there was a person standing there, with half of his body pressed against the window.

It was a child, wet all over, his skin seemed to have been soaked in water for a long time, white and swollen, and the most terrifying thing was a pair of eyes, only the white of the eyes and no pupils.

No matter how courageous Li Yuan was, when he saw such a scene in an instant, his heart almost stopped beating in fright.

The person outside the window seemed to be trying to play a prank, and after frightening Li Yuan, he disappeared.Li Yuan finally mustered up the courage to look around, there was no one else outside, only the night wind blowing over.

At that moment, Li Yuan felt extremely cold all over.

At this time, it was not yet four o'clock.

Li Yuan returned to the chair full of thoughts. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Another corpse opened his eyes, and another ghost hit him in the middle of the night. Why is this He family so evil?

At that time, Li Yuan suspected in his heart, this dead He Rong, don't have some grievances?

After that, until the others woke up at six o'clock, Li Yuan did not encounter any strange things again.When he thought he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, who would have thought that strange things would soon come to his door again.

In the morning, everyone ate leftovers from last night. Vegetables and soup were placed in two big pots, just like eating stew. Everyone gathered together, which was very lively.

Seeing Li Yuan's haggard look, Dasun gave him a bowl of soup, "Li Yuan, you don't look like you stayed up all night, but you seem to hang out with some female ghost all night."

Li Yuan's face changed slightly when he heard the word "ghost", and he might even say a yellow accent, but now forget it, he can't stand it.

Dasun didn't know why, he just thought he was tired, so he didn't say much, holding the soup and preparing to take a sip.And this time he bowed his head and drank the soup, he was almost scared to death, "Damn it!!"

With Dasun's scream, his bowl also fell out.

"Oh my god, what's in the soup!"

"There are ghosts! There are ghosts!"

"He Rong, He Rong is back!!"

Before everyone recovered from Dasun's reaction, there were several screams and throwing bowls on the other side.

Li Yuan and the others hurriedly looked down at the bowls in their hands, only to see a ghost figure floating in the clear soup, and the face of that ghost figure was He Rong lying in the coffin!

In an instant, there was another crackling noise in the yard.

He Dashan was smoking in the house, but he hurried out when he heard the sound, and then he saw the broken bowls lying on the ground, and he immediately exploded, "My bowl, my bowl is broken, why are you What's going on? Why did you smash all the bowls in my house!"

The person in charge was also in the bowl-throwing row, and he walked towards He Dashan in embarrassment, "Dashan, it's not our fault, we were all taken aback just now."

"In broad daylight, don't tell me that you've run into ghosts together." He Dashan blushed with anger, "I see that you are clearly collaborating to come to my house to wreak havoc!"

"We really hit a ghost together." The person in charge wiped his sweat, his voice trembling, "Dashan, we saw your son!"

He Dashan's face changed drastically, "You mean... He Rong?!"

Mrs. He stammered, "Isn't my little Rong dead? How could you see that?"

The person in charge swallowed, "I didn't lie to you. If you don't believe me, ask other people. Many people have seen it just now. Your He Rong appeared in the soup."

Someone tremblingly said, "Uncle Dashan, your family He Rong has turned into a ghost and returned."

"Ridiculous! What the hell are you in the world?" He Dashan's face turned green and pale for a while, pointing at them and yelling, "I think you are clearly gathering a crowd to make trouble! Don't think that these broken bowls will not be used if He Rong is involved. Compensation, damn it, if you make trouble for me again, you won’t even want the money for these two days!”

He Dashan slammed the door and walked into the house, leaving everyone in the courtyard in panic.

The eldest grandson approached Li Yuan, and said with some fear, "Damn it, brother, I'm a bit smarter, nothing will happen when I'm buried later, right?"

Li Yuan lowered his voice, "Did He Rong really commit suicide? Why do I see that the other party is about to turn into a ghost and come back to seek revenge?"

"Don't scare me." Da Sun trembled, "I asked the people in Lutang Village last night, and they all said that He Rong committed suicide."

"you sure?"

Da Sun paused for a long time, hesitating in his words, "I, that's what I heard from them. They said that the police didn't find anything when they came. Is this suicide or what?"

Dasun scratched his head distressedly, "I didn't say no until I got here. Damn, I can't bear the 600 yuan."

Li Yuan was also reluctant, not to mention the 900 yuan, he had worked all day yesterday, and he was about to be buried today, so was all his work wasted?Thinking of this, he touched the amulet hanging around his neck and ordered him to give it to him. With this thing, he should be able to withstand it, right?

Although everyone present was terrified, most of them thought the same as Li Yuan's grandson, working hard for money and not for nothing, and in the end all of them stayed.

When the auspicious time came, the coffin in the hall was finally carried out.

According to the custom of Lutang Village, they would first carry He Rong's coffin to the cemetery chosen by the He family in advance, and then let the coffin be buried in the soil for a burial ceremony.After the ceremony was over, they would pick an auspicious time to lift He Rong's body out of the coffin, then send it to the funeral home, and finally wait for the ashes to come back, and put them back in the coffin for formal burial.

Li Yuan looked at the coffin being carried to the yard, and his right eyelid began to twitch. He always had a bad feeling.

And soon, his premonition came true.