Every country has its own particulars about funerals, and what might be the season of funerals in one country might just be in the right place for another. In the mainland, because of the vast land and abundant resources, the ceremonies for offering sacrifices can be said to be varied, and some are even unimaginable. In a certain family's home in Liluo Village, a funeral ceremony is being held. This funeral is no different from that of other nearby families. After a person dies, a familiar onmyoji must calculate the date of birth through the horoscope, and then give a time to burn the body.On the days when the bodies of relatives were not cremated and buried, the bodies were placed in the peach house, that is, in the living room for offering.

Every night, four relatives are required to keep vigil all night. The watchmen don’t need to do anything, they just need to pay attention to the soul-inducing lamp and don’t let it go out, otherwise it is said that the soul of the corpse will become a ghost because it can’t find the way back. Tonight is the fifth and last night. At eight o'clock tomorrow morning, the body will be transported to the crematorium and burned.After the burial, there will be a day of big night, and the memorial ceremony will be completely over. Liluo village has a lot of people and gods, and every family in the countryside builds a big house.It is famous for producing a special essence, and the villagers are quite rich.

The family who did the funeral was surnamed Hu, and was considered a middle-class family in Liluo Village, so the funeral was held quite grandly.The one who died was Mr. Hu, who passed away at the age of one hundred and seven. It should be a happy funeral, so the night watchmen had food and drink, and played poker happily. The weather in summer nights is very sultry. In the countryside without street lights, the outside world is so dark that you can't see your fingers.An incandescent lamp hangs in front of the gate of the courtyard, blocking out the surrounding darkness. A gust of wind blew by, and the many wreaths piled up under the lamp made weird and ugly sounds.A family with a funeral, at night, is more like a foreign world where human beings should not exist.

The four relatives watching the night tonight are all great-grandchildren. In Liluo Village, the great-grandson is called "Momo". These four people are very young, the oldest is no more than twenty-five years old, and they belong to the fourth generation of the Hu family.Young people are not only aggressive and curious, but also the most contemptuous of ancient rituals.Especially Huhu among the four, he has studied in college and doesn't believe in ghosts and gods at all. They sat in front of the closed door of the peach house, played cards and drank, and soon past twelve o'clock.

Mr. Hu's body was only a few meters away from them. It was sweltering in summer and the body had been placed for five days.So you can often smell a rotten stench. The man named Huhu in Zhongyu couldn't stand the stench anymore. He stood up and walked to the door, as if he was about to open the door to breathe. "What are you doing?" Hu Yu raised his head just in time to see this scene. "Open the door, it smells so bad inside, it makes me want to vomit!" Huhu replied. "Grandma reminds me thousands of times, don't open the door of the peach house at night."

Hu Yu frowned: "This is the rule for funerals in Liluo Village." "Grandpa Zeng is dead, do you still want to suffocate us together? It's too smelly. The customs in this ghost place are really fatal. I don't know how to change it in such a hot day. I can imagine how many maggots there are." I'm having a good time eating the meat of Grandpa Zeng." Huhu smacked his lips, and those words made the three of them feel sick. "Xiaohu, Grandpa Zeng treated you the best when he was alive, please keep your words clean." "Well, if you don't open it, you can't open it, what's the big deal."

Huhu sat back on the chair with a grunt. But after a while, the stench in the room seemed to get stronger.He felt that he couldn't take it anymore, so he stood up again and wanted to open the door. "Don't open it." His Shougang was about to touch the door lock when Hu Yu's voice came over. "Tch, superstitious. Are you really only twenty-five years old? I thought you were an old man incarnate." Huhu cursed and looked at his watch, it was almost half past twelve. The sweltering weather gave birth to a kind of nausea amidst the foul smell of corpses, and Huhu felt that he was going crazy.In the sealed space, the wind blowing from the fan is also hot, but it just transmits the stench from the other end to this end, which is disturbing.He threw the cards in his hand irritably, and shouted: "Stop playing, go to bed."

After speaking, he pulled a wicker chair and put his feet on it, closing his eyes. The three of Hu Yu also seemed to find it very boring, the night was still very long, and it would take more than seven hours for other relatives to come. "Go to sleep too, we take turns keeping watch." Hu Yu nodded to the other two. After an unknown amount of time, Huhu was called out by Huyu. "You are the second child. It's your turn to keep watch. Wake up the third child in an hour and a half." Hu Yu patted his shoulder. "It's very annoying, I just slept for a short time."

Huhu sat up straight with a dark face, but he had to listen to his boss's orders. This guy bullied him a lot when he was a child, and he still has fear in his heart. "Who told us to be brothers, we just have to work harder." Hu Yu sat on the chair and closed his eyes, and he still didn't forget to say: "Don't open the door, watch the soul lamp, if there is no oil in it, remember to add it in time." "Understood, the cock is very good." Huhu cursed in a low voice, rubbing Rourou's eyes with his hands.The clock on the opposite wall pointed to a position close to three o'clock, and it was really annoying to be bored alone for an hour and a half.

Not long after, there were only the slight breathing of three people in the peach house. Huhu kept walking up and down in this stuffy room, really not knowing what to do.Flipping through the novels brought by others, the more I read, the more scared I became. When I saw the cover, it turned out to be an anthology of horror stories. He has the heart to curse people, which bastard bought a book that brings horror novels to the mourning hall, it's a test of courage!Throwing away the book in his hand, Huhu simply sat on the chair and became dazed. Grandpa Zeng's body was just around the corner. His thin body was wrapped in a black shroud, and his face was covered with a white linen cloth.

Fortunately, none of the skin on the corpse was exposed, otherwise, in the continuous high temperature of more than 30 degrees, if the corpse was placed for five days to see the rotten state wrapped in cloth, I am afraid that the timid people paralyzed by fright. Huhu felt that the corpse lying in the middle of the peach house was terrifying. Although he was his close relative before death, the corpse after death looked extremely strange.Perhaps this is the difference between life and four, no matter how kind and kind a person was in life, he is terrifying after death. Especially when you're the only one still awake. In the huge peach house, it seemed as if he was the only one left, so quiet that he could almost hear his own heartbeat.Fortunately, the breath of the other three people can occasionally pass into his ears, proving that he is still in this world. Not far away, the stench from Mr. Fox's corpse was disturbing. He had been in this room for more than five hours in total. Why couldn't his nose get used to the abnormality of that environment. It's a pity that it's obvious that Huhu can't get used to the smell of dead bodies. No matter how ingenious and spoofed the metaphors in his head are, the stench keeps pouring into his nostrils and irritating his nerves. He moved the chair to the foot of the wall, as far away from the body as possible, but to no avail.Finally, Huhu glanced at the gate of Peach House, struggling with a thought in his head.Otherwise, Jiangmen should be opened for air?Forget it, if you want to wake up the boss, you have to scold yourself to death. It's better to open the door a crack and go out to the yard to take a breather. He felt that no one would know about this matter, nor would it wake others up, so he couldn't wait to act. The stench in the room was driving him crazy. The customs in my hometown are really strange. It is obvious that the soul lamp is used to guide the souls of the dead to return home, but they have to keep the door tightly closed and are not allowed to open it at night. This is obviously self-contradictory. Let the soul come back, and then close the door to not let it in, it is incomprehensible. Huhu grew up in the city since he was a child, and he is not so clear about the customs and habits of Liluo Village.The so-called ignorant man is fearless, he opened the peach house and was about to go out, when suddenly, a strange wind blew in, making him feel cold all over.Huhu shivered, he scratched his head, but still walked out.The yard is very quiet, and even there are very few insects.After escaping the stench and stuffy heat, Huhu took a few deep breaths, lit a cigarette and muttered in a low voice while smoking: "The environment in the countryside is good, and there are more negative oxygen ions than in the city." After smoking three cigarettes, he felt that the time was almost up, so he walked into the peach house and carefully closed the door.He was about to wake up the third child, but the outstretched hand suddenly stopped in the air. The soul-inducing lamp didn't know when it went out!The so-called soul-inducing lamp in Liluo Village is filled with sesame oil in a small plate, and then used as a lamp guide with oil-soaked hemp rope. During the whole funeral process, no matter day or night, it must not be extinguished until the body is burned. until the burial.It is said that when the soul-guiding lamp is extinguished, the soul will become a lonely ghost, wandering in the village, bringing disaster to one's closest relatives. Was it the gust of wind that blew out the lamp when the door was opened?Huhu guessed.The wind was really strange, it could blow from the opposite side of the peach house to the innermost part, and even extinguished the oil lamp hidden under the Lingtai. He scratched his head, walked over nonchalantly, and prepared to light the soul-inducing lamp with a lighter.In short, no one knows if it is extinguished. After death, can it really turn into a ghost and ask oneself to settle accounts?Nonsense. Huhu's lighter was lit several times, but it couldn't ignite the wick of the soul-inducing lamp. It's strange, it used to be bright at one point.He bowed his body, and simply held the wick in his hand and roasted it over the fire. After trying for a long time, the wick showed no sign of being ignited.It was so weird that he was a little scared.Although I don't really believe in the existence of ghosts and gods, even atheists will be afraid under certain circumstances.A setting like a funeral is one, especially when there is a body behind you. At this moment, another strange wind blew, and a piece of white linen floated to his feet. That piece of sackcloth is obviously a face covering used to cover Mr. Hu's body!The door is clearly closed, and the fan is blowing towards the entrance of the peach house. Where can there be wind blowing in?Huhu's whole body was stiff, and he wanted to turn around to take a look, but what he saw was a face, a face that should have been familiar, but was rotten. Mr. Fox's face. A few days later, there was such a piece of news in a local newspaper. A few words in it mentioned that far away from the world, in Liluo Village in the deep mountains, there was a family surnamed Fox. On the last day of the funeral, three of the four young people died in the mourning hall for unknown reasons. All have signs of being eaten. Another young man in his twenties named Huhu is even missing.That same family, immediate family members started dying.After investigation, experts pointed out that the cause could not be found for the time being.