Chapter 233 Chapter Two Respondents

The five of them lined up in the main room, the one-eyed one stood in the middle, and there were two blind men on the left and right.They put their palms together and bowed like an old man's coffin.Those standing by the old man's coffin bowed in return.Because the old man has no son or daughter, and no immediate relatives, he can only invite acquaintances in the village to greet the hanger. However, people in the village are generally unwilling to give gifts to people who are not their relatives, because this is not an auspicious thing.Whoever gives a gift to the diaoke means that someone's family has died. It's no wonder that no one is willing to do this unlucky but unlucky job.

After discussion in the village, it was decided to let the red-haired ghost be the one to answer the gift.The red-haired ghost was rescued by his grandfather on Jiangjun Slope, and the female sex ghost and Gui Taoist were subdued, and no other ghosts wanted to use it.It is still the same as before, doing manual work for people to earn a little food. But an old man immediately retorted, saying that the one who answers the gift must be a human being, and there are living people who send the dead, but how can there be ghosts who send the dead?Although the red-haired ghost is different from other ghosts in that it has a physical body, it is a person who has died after all and cannot be regarded as an ordinary person.

Although the gift is small, it is only necessary to return the salute when the guest comes to worship. The guest bows first, and the recipient bows in return; then the guest kneels down and kowtows, and the respondent kowtows in return, and the guest kowtows three times. , The person who answered the gift also kowtowed three times. Things are indeed small, but this is a matter of ritual, small as it is, but it cannot be done without. However, no one in the village is willing to do such a small thing.They were all afraid that this incident would bring bad luck to their families.Seeing that the old man's body was going to stink soon, the village leaders were very anxious and offered a reward of 100 yuan to ask someone to answer the gift.At that time, one hundred yuan was already a considerable sum.

But still no one came to accept. The old man didn't expect that after his death, he had built a soul house for other dead people all his life, and in the end there was no one to help him answer the gift. Just when the leaders of the village were at a loss, a person who was not from Wentian Village came to accept the task.This person is the chosen woman.Many people were surprised.In other words, the old man was also responsible for catching the womanizer. It stands to reason that the woman selection should resent the old man very much, but he actually took the initiative to be the gift-bearer for the dead old man.

But his reason is very good, he is alone, his wife is just a female ghost, even if being someone else's gift giver brings bad luck, it will not hurt other people.But he has one condition, that he does not accept the reward of one hundred dollars. The four blind men and one one-eyed man knelt down after bowing and kowtowed to the old man's coffin in unison.The chosen woman kowtowed solemnly. I looked into the main room at the banquet in the shed, saw Xuan Po's back lying on the ground, and guessed his mood at the moment.I can't figure it out.I looked at the shiny black coffin again, wondering how the old man would feel if his soul was still in the coffin at this moment.I can't figure it out either.

"Thank you, old man, for giving us a place to live, so that we won't be drenched in rainy weather, sun-bathed in sunny days, dew-drenched, and cool breeze won't blow us in." The five said in unison, and then gave them devoutly. Kowtow to the coffin of the old man.