Chapter 92 Chapter 4 Moving the coffin

The ancestral tomb of the Wu family is on the sunny side of a rocky mountain. The mountain is about 200 meters high, and it is not spectacular. There is not only one tomb of the Wu family there. The graves are all the private residences of rich families in the village.There is a dirt road up the mountain, because usually there are not many people walking, and weeds are overgrown. Fortunately, it is winter, there are many people wearing clothes and the grass is thin, so it is not very difficult to walk. In front of this rocky mountain, there was originally a big mountain stream. The so-called Fengshui treasure land, people at that time just had the concept of the mountain in front of the water, but now some people have built small hydropower and dug sand. dried up.

The ceremony of moving the coffin was chosen on the morning of the third day I arrived in the village. It is a good day to read the almanac, so not only our family, but also many other villagers are also preparing. I belong to the eldest son and grandson, and I knelt down in front of the grave a long time ago. The Taoist priests on one side are still making preparations, and there are firecrackers all around. I have always been very interested in what the Tufuzi’s tomb would look like, but I was really disappointed when I saw it. It is similar to an ordinary peasant’s tomb. The tomb is poured with cement like a fan-shaped screen. Behind it is the soil that connects with the mountain, full of weeds, if there is no cement part, you will never see that there is a grave there.

The third uncle told me that our family’s ancestral tomb is considered old in the village. In the Qing Dynasty, there were squires who rebuilt it. The cement was poured after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. About six or seven meters below is the ancestor's grave. They haven't seen what it looks like, but there will never be an underground palace. Tell me not to count on it. If you do this business, you just want to have a whole corpse. It is not possible to do things that require large-scale construction. When I heard Qi Qiran, I suddenly felt very funny. About half of the kneeling crowd here were digging other people’s graves. I wonder if they will do it after digging up the grave. I couldn't help laughing at the shoveled picture.Tomb robbers moved their ancestors' graves and forensic doctors examined the bodies of their relatives. I am afraid that most of them are helpless.

Kneeling there for two or three hours, I was shivering with the beating and freezing. It was almost 11 o'clock when the Taoist priest wearing NIKE finished his ritual. My father took a few relatives and uncles to erect the tombstone first, and then Start digging with a mason's hammer. This is completely unskilled work. It took two hours to break through the grave. It was four parallel cement holes, and the coffin was stuffed in it. Two holes were empty, which may be for me. Grandma and my father prepared the ones, and the other two contained two wooden coffins. I know that one of them is my grandfather's, but I don't know who the other one is.

The second uncle counted the names on the tombstone, traced back here, and it is a pair with the genealogy, there should be nine coffins inside, the third uncle said that some must be clothes tombs, such as the grandfather and the wife, this generation is too big, go up I don't know how to call it, and I don't know the condition of those old coffins. If they fall apart, it will be even more troublesome. The two coffins were carried out, and then the old man smashed all the concrete graves above to level, and then began to dig the mountain mud below. This is the strength of the third uncle and the others. They can dig very deep with the effort of a cigarette. Soon the blue brick was poked, and that was the top of the ancestor's tomb.

I am not qualified to watch the next process. I was called out by my father and the others. Then they jumped down and began to open the top of the grave. The Taoist priests began to recite scriptures and sprinkle paper money. I don't know the situation in the old grave, but it seems that it's too old, and it's a bit difficult to handle. It wasn't until the sun went down that the first coffin was lifted up. It was an old coffin that was rotten and rotten. , You can tell it's not modern at first glance, and it emits an uncomfortable smell as soon as it hits the ground. It should be the unique smell of underground soil.

Then one after another, some were still dripping with muddy water, and soon, all nine coffins were carried out, and they were laid out in a row on a flat place on the hillside.People around were spraying the head of the coffin with water, where the name of the coffin owner was engraved.Then the Taoist began to take notes. I was almost frozen to death. Although it was the first time I saw this kind of scene, I was not interested at all. It was too cold on the mountain. Seeing the last coffin being lifted, I finally felt relieved. Ann, I thought that the damn thing is finally over, this shitty project is really a big project, it's not as easy as going down.

The next step is to wash the coffin a little bit, and carry it to the ancestral hall for a while, because the ancestors go first, so the oldest coffin must be lifted first, and the one behind can follow, so we have to wait for the person who recorded the name People find their ancestors. Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, we suddenly heard my father yelling. We turned our heads to look at them, and saw that the people in the grave were still pulling something. The sun was about to set, and the sky was getting darker and darker. The cousin yelled loudly in Changsha dialect, asking what happened?

"There's one more!" my dad yelled. "Ah?" There was a commotion in the crowd, everyone looked over there, and then we all saw another coffin being lifted up from somewhere. "How is it possible?" Cousin looked at the tombstone, then at the coffins on display, and said inexplicably, "Strange, why is there an extra coffin?"