I Became Popular in the Underworld After Live Broadcasting Taoism

Chapter 39 – 2 More

The sudden turning point made the audience in the live broadcast room confused.

Soon, many Guizhou viewers who knew about this funeral custom spontaneously popularized science in the live broadcast room, and with the help of the director team, they quickly found relevant information from the big data and inserted it into the live broadcast room.

It turns out that in Guizhou Province, whenever the elders with high status in the family die, the descendants of the younger generations will perform the ceremony of wrapping around the coffin at the funeral.

There are slight differences in customs across the province, but the two items of “scattering flowers around the coffin” are roughly the same.

The former is ‘wrap around the coffin’.

On the day before the deceased is buried, Mr. Yin and Yang nearby are invited to perform a coffin-sealing ceremony on the coffin.

After the coffin is sealed, Mr. Yin and Yang will be in front, and then let the juniors in the family line up in descending order, followed by them, forming a circle around the coffin of the deceased.

Under the leadership of the master, the juniors began to circle around the coffin.

Or run and shake with a bell in hand, accompanied by wailing and mourning songs;

Or let the eldest son and the second son hold the soul-calling flag and hold the spirit tablet in both hands, and the other filial sons and grandsons offer a stick of incense, and salute to the dead elders in the coffin every time they go around to the coffin…

In some places, there are three or five circles, while in some places, it can be circled twelve times.

This link is to express the reluctance and respect of the younger generations to the deceased, as well as the meaning of mourning.

The latter is “San Hua Wen”.

After the ceremony of the descendants encircling the coffin, relatives and friends who came to the funeral will sit around the coffin and listen to the ceremony of scattering flowers by the master or Mr. Yin and Yang.

Under normal circumstances, the content sung in prose is to praise the deeds of the deceased, or to bless their reincarnation.

[I’m a native of Guizhou Province, and I’ve heard a little bit about this custom, but it’s a ceremony only for burials. Now many people choose cremation, and funerals are not as weird as before. Never seen a coffin around. 】

[Respect the culture and etiquette of various places, but I still want to ask, isn’t it really scary to cry around the coffin in the middle of the night? I’m afraid I’m the kind who can pass out just by looking at it…]

[This is the first time I heard about this kind of funeral ceremony, and it feels quite grand. 】

【So what did this younger brother do? 】

Hearing Gu Zhisang mention the rituals performed at the funeral, sister Xiaoxi pursed her lips and said:

“My great-grandfather’s funeral is indeed done according to the most traditional way. He has never been out of the village in his life. He is very old and has a high status in the village. When we returned, half of the village went to worship. It was a funeral banquet that was held for three days.”

She turned her head to stare at her younger brother, and said coldly, “Say it yourself, what good did you do?!”

Xiao Cheng hesitated and hesitated, feeling a little guilty.

He didn’t like this great-grandfather since he was a child, and he was really reluctant to go to the funeral, and he did something that made him feel a little guilty.

But that matter was so secretive that he was sure no one but himself would know.

On the one hand, he is ashamed to say it in front of the camera, on the other hand, he still has unrealistic fantasies:

Maybe this contestant was just cheating on herself, how could she even know about that? !

Xiao Cheng said: “I didn’t do anything, sister. At the funeral, you didn’t let me laugh or make me cold-faced. I pretended to be crying, and people shouted. Didn’t you watch me the whole time? I can do it.” what?”

“Are you still stubborn? The master told you to reflect on yourself!”

Seeing his younger brother with a stiff neck and a stiff mouth, Xiaoxi became anxious and angry.

At this moment, Gu Zhisang spoke. She didn’t expose Xiao Cheng directly, but looked at the faces of the two siblings and said: “I see that the foreheads and faces of both of you are flat, from the Tianting point to the Biancheng point. Connected into a line, this piece of forehead has the center and the Futang, and in terms of the twelve houses on the face, it is the Parents Palace and the Fortune Palace.”

“The second palace is flat and empty, and there is no obvious parental line, which means that both of your parents died when you were very young. This also caused you to be in a bad situation when you were young, and you didn’t enjoy any blessings.”

The siblings didn’t expect her to suddenly mention her parents, and their expressions were stunned.

Gu Zhisang stretched out his fingertips, tapped his inner temple, and said:

“Have you ever said that your hair is thick and messy here?”

“Some people often say that…” Xiaoxi nodded and said, “My brother and I both had low hairlines since childhood, and there is a circle of fine fluff like lanugo. My brother’s short hair is not obvious mixed together, and my long hair is tied. When the hair is on the head, this ring of fluff is particularly obvious, and sometimes it looks a little messy when the hair is fried, but I don’t like it.”

Gu Zhisang twitched the corner of his lower lip, “That place is Tiancang, also known as the Migration Palace.”

“Your brothers and sisters have a lot of miscellaneous and uneven migration palaces, which means that when you were young, you often changed your place of residence, or were sent to others or lost your home. This is also the saddest experience in your heart, so it is embodied in your migration palace. “

“It is precisely because of these experiences that your siblings have left their hometowns and hated going back to that place to see those people. Am I right?”

After a long silence, Xiaoxi smiled wryly and said, “Although I don’t know what Master Gu is doing to bring up these past events, you are right.”

“Actually, our family was quite rich when we were young. My parents rented a shop in the county to open a noodle restaurant. Although they didn’t buy a house in the county, they didn’t have to worry about food and drink. They were the most respectable among several relatives of the same clan. “

In Xiaoxi’s memory, she and her younger brother had pocket money of two or three yuan every day, and they were the children with the most new clothes and snacks when they returned to the village during the holidays.

However, everything ended in an accident.

“When I was nine years old and my younger brother was five years old, my parents had an accident when they went out to buy goods, and both died. Since then, our two children have been taken back home by the elders of the same clan, and we took turns at the houses of those uncles and aunts. Life.”

“We lived in one house for three months and another house for half a year. I don’t need to say that everyone can think of this kind of life under the fence. After all, it depends on the faces of the elders. Later, when I graduated from high school, I took my younger brother. Get out of there.”

When Xiaoxi said it, his expression was cold, and it was obvious that he had deep conflicts with his relatives over there.

She suddenly thought of something, and suddenly turned her head to look at her younger brother, “You, you won’t do anything disrespectful at the grandfather’s funeral because of what happened before, right?”

This time Xiao Cheng pursed his lips and said nothing.

He was reminded of bad memories, recalling the grievances he suffered when he was a child, and said angrily:

“Those people are also called relatives? How did they treat us after our parents died? Did they do anything? They are not afraid of being stabbed in the back by our parents after death, and they are not afraid of retribution. I have What are you afraid of!”

It was almost an admission in disguise that he had indeed done something at the funeral.

“You!” Xiaoxi’s eyes widened in anger, and he slapped his younger brother on the shoulder twice, “Didn’t I just go through the motions after I said it, and then I will never communicate with each other again, why are you so disobedient!”

“If you still recognize me as a sister, tell me honestly what you have done, otherwise I will not treat you as a brother.”

Seeing his only family member getting angry, Xiao Cheng became anxious.

“I said, can’t I even recruit you? Sister, don’t be angry.” He hesitated for a moment, looked at the camera, gritted his teeth and said, “I know what I did was unethical. After the show was broadcast, netizens would scold me I admit it, but I have to tear off the face of those people today, and let the people of the whole country see what kind of wolf-hearted thing they are!”

From Xiaocheng’s mouth, everyone heard a more detailed version of their childhood encounters.

It turns out that their family has four generations living under the same roof.

Their father had three brothers and a younger sister. There were five children in the previous generation. Their father was the only one of the five who left the mountain village and settled down in the county. The family conditions were the best at that time. Although this mother was quite critical, she did not stop her.

Among their grandparents, there was only one child, grandpa, and the grandpa’s father was the grandpa. The grandpa was the head of the whole family at that time.

After their parents had an accident, Xiaoxi was just over nine years old, and Xiaocheng was just six years old;

The two children had relatives and uncles, so it was impossible to send them to the orphanage, so the grandfather and grandfather called other members of the family to discuss how several families would raise the two children together.

When they were helping them in the past, they said they were brothers, but now when they heard that they wanted to raise a child, several families began to shirk.

It just so happened that the person who killed their parents was a local factory owner, and he went to the family and said that he was going to private, and the two adults paid a total of 200,000 yuan in compensation.

To the villagers of Huangtu, the 200,000 yuan paid more than ten years ago was like a huge sum of money from heaven.

Although the grandfather insisted on calling the police, several uncles and aunts in the family kept dissuading them, saying that their parents were dead, and they might as well ask for some compensation to raise the two children.

Finally, they came to the grandpa. The silent old man looked at the dilapidated courtyard and the sallow and emaciated grandchildren, and finally gave up.

The Xiaoxi Xiaocheng siblings were ignorant, and their future fate was arranged.

The several families agreed to use the compensation money to raise the children together, and promised that the orphans left by the brothers would never suffer.

But in fact, the two children barely have food and clothing. Their cousins eat meat and they can only drink soup, and they have no pocket money for new clothes.

I also have to clean the house, feed chickens and geese, and be bullied and ridiculed by the juniors of various families.

One year, the siblings even overheard that a certain uncle said that there was a bachelor in the village who wanted Xiaocheng to adopt him as his son, and promised to give their family 50,000 yuan as an “adoption fee”.

They quarreled and ran to grandpa and great-grandpa to expose the matter, saying that their siblings would never be separated.

The two old men were indeed very angry and disagreed, and scolded the uncle, but the situation of the two children has become even more difficult since then.

Whenever they asked for the cost of books, it was the most embarrassing time when their uncles and aunts would criticize and say that they secretly took money, and kept complaining about how much money it was to raise a child.

But what they saw was that a few uncles built a new house and bought new appliances with the money they “earned” from nowhere in just a few years.

The so-called “studying for them in the future” money left by the great-grandfather was also “borrowed” by other grandchildren.

He felt sorry for the other grandchildren, so he acquiesced to these actions, but it chilled the hearts of the siblings.

When Xiaoxi graduated from high school, her grades were very good, and she could get a very good one.

But when it was time to get tuition fees, an aunt in the family told her not to go to college, saying that she had already arranged a good marriage for her in the village.

The aunt said: “Do you think we can afford to pay? It’s very conscientious to raise you and your brother so much. Don’t talk about two hundred thousand. What can two hundred thousand do now?” ? Besides, you are a girl, what’s the use of reading so many books, and you still want to get married in the end! The person I introduced to you doesn’t look like he has a technical secondary school degree, but his family is rich. If you are not young and good-looking, he would still look down on you…’

After hearing this, Xiaoxi was so angry that she shed tears, and finally gritted her teeth and took her younger brother to leave the mountain.

She worked part-time as a summer job, and borrowed money from her former high school teacher, so she rented a small apartment to pay for her tuition.

In the past few years, most of her tuition fees and Xiaocheng’s tuition fees have been earned by her part-time jobs and summer jobs.

Xiao Cheng was already choked up when he said this: “My sister and I have never eaten a few pieces of meat since we were young. We do all the work at home, so they still want to harm my sister! This kind of person is not worthy of being called Relatives, I feel disgusted when I see them! Why should we go back and cry after they die?”

If it weren’t for those shameless uncles talking about their dead parents, saying that they were rebellious, dishonorable and filial, and their parents would be scolded by their ancestors underground, they wouldn’t go back to attend any funeral.

Gu Zhisang said: “So you have always had resentment in your heart. You hated each of them. This hatred reached its peak the night before the burial, at the moment of ‘wrapping the coffin’.”

Xiao Cheng took a deep look at her, nodded and said, “Yes, I think each of them is ridiculous and hateful!”

It turned out that in their mountain nest, there was another ritual during the “wound around the coffin”, which was to put a copper basin in front of the deceased’s coffin.

In the process of walking around the coffin, under the leadership of Mr. Yin Yang, the juniors will throw real gold and silver RMB into the basin while walking around.

It is said that this is to pray for the deceased to bless them with wealth in the ground.

The more you sprinkle into the basin, the better your fortune will be. They also call it ‘turning gold basin’.

Afterwards, Mr. Yin Yang will take 30% of the money in this ‘Golden Pot’ as hard work expenses, and the rest will be used as money for carrying the coffin for burial the next day, or for entertaining guests.

Perhaps it was to show in front of most of the village that their family lives well and is rich, or they are really filial to the grandfather. They really believe that the more money they lose, the better their luck. Those uncles are all in the “golden pot”. Lost a lot.

There are 6,000 or 10,000 or 20,000.

Based on such a rough estimate, Mr. Yin Yang can get 10,000 to 20,000 yuan for one ritual!

The surrounding villagers are all smacking their tongues that the younger generation of this family is rich and filial, but Xiao Cheng is very uncomfortable listening to it.

As the representative of his father’s lineage, he must stand at the forefront.

When Mr. Yin Yang in front beat the gongs and drums and circled the coffin, he felt that this so-called ceremony was really ridiculous and stupid.

Out of the corner of Xiaocheng’s eye, he could see the cousins and sisters behind him also smiling, running and splashing, the bright red banknotes in their hands flying all over the ground, surrounded by the noise of villagers and uncles.

He looked at those faces and suddenly felt very unfair.

Why did he and his sister work so hard every day just to survive, while the money his parents earned with their lives was squandered by these so-called relatives to build a house for enjoyment?

When they were still working hard for next year’s tuition fees, these people would send tens of thousands of yuan to Mr. Yin Yang for a trivial matter.

The anger in Xiao Cheng’s heart became more and more intense, and at that moment he had an idea.

“I took the money in that basin.”

After Xiao Cheng said it, the big rock that had been pressing down on his heart relaxed instead.

He smiled wryly and said, “I know it’s stealing and shameless, but I don’t think I did anything wrong. This is my parents’ life money! I deserve it.”

The money in the ‘Golden Basin’ had to be kept upside down on the ground behind the coffin overnight. Xiao Cheng got up at two o’clock in the morning that day and went to the mourning hall.

The mourning hall was pitch-black, and the coffin in the center was particularly gloomy. He was a little scared, but he still gritted his teeth and got behind the coffin.

Xiaoxi:!

“How can you do such a thing?! Are you trying to **** me off?”

Xiaoxi burst into tears with anger, hating iron but not steel.

When she asked how much money her younger brother took, she cried even harder.

Facing the tens of thousands of yuan in the basin, Xiao Cheng only took 3,800 yuan.

His grades were not particularly good. In addition, he always wanted to work part-time to relieve his sister’s burden during high school, so he was not focused on his studies. In the end, he was only admitted to an ordinary secondary school.

Hearing that the tuition fee was more than 7,000 a year and the accommodation fee, he immediately gave up studying and wanted to go out to work directly.

Because Xiaoxi alone has to pay his own tuition fees, living expenses and rent for the two of them, even with his part-time job money, there is still a difference of about 4,000 yuan.

But Xiaoxi disagreed and insisted that she absolutely had to go to school.

A few days ago, she had been worrying about how to make up the money.

Because of his own tuition fees, Xiao Cheng lays on the bed after work every day, thinking about how to make up as soon as he closes his eyes.

That’s why he moved the copper basin by mistake that night.

He thought to himself:

It was my great-grandfather who said before that he would keep the money for the tuition of their siblings, but the great-grandfather broke his promise;

Now I am only fulfilling my promise back then.

So Xiao Cheng didn’t take more, and didn’t even think about squandering it.

It was precisely because he didn’t take too much, the next day those relatives and Mr. Yin Yang were busy carrying the coffin for the burial, and they didn’t realize that some money was missing.

After crying, Xiaoxi said with red eyes: “It’s me, the older sister, who didn’t educate you well. Let’s go and pay back the money tomorrow. We can solve it as we want. I’ll apologize to them.”

“I’m the one who apologizes. I was obsessed with ghosts at the time.”

Xiaoxi is still worried because the amount is neither too big nor too small, but if those relatives become angry after watching the show and sue Xiaocheng, his life will be over.

At this moment Gu Zhisang said slowly: “When you want to solve this matter, don’t forget to call the police.”

“If I remember correctly, Xia Guo’s law does not allow major accidents to be private, right? As long as someone dies, they must be sentenced, not to mention that you two are the immediate relatives of the victim, and those relatives will be taken without your consent. This is not a private settlement, but a bribe to cover up a crime.”

“If you want to settle the accounts, you have to settle the accounts from more than ten years ago together.”

Brother and sister audience:!

[! That’s right, the anchor is right, criminal cases are not allowed to be private! Those relatives broke the law too! 】

[Ahhh, Sister Sang, I love you to death! I almost thought that my younger brother was going to die, and those relatives who had this crop would probably ask them to ‘solve it in private’. 】

[Too ruthless, these relatives, who are all brothers’ children, how can they do it? Are you really not afraid of retribution? 】

[Two hundred thousand ten years ago is equivalent to millions now! 】

After realizing this, Xiaoxi felt a little relieved, but she was still very angry, “I said that a poor man can’t be short-sighted, and you really let my sister down.”

Xiaocheng apologized repeatedly, and sincerely apologized to the camera, saying that he was willing to bear the consequences for his actions, so that the audience in front of the camera should not learn from himself.

Xiaoxi asked again: “Master Gu, is it because he took the money from the back of the coffin and disrespected the grandfather that he made the grandfather angry?”

Gu Zhisang looked a little weird, “That’s indeed the reason, that night happened to be its first seven nights, and it went back to the funeral and knocked your brother straight, but the elder of your family didn’t seem very angry, on the contrary, it was very angry with you. The feelings are quite complicated, and I feel guilty.”

“The reason why it makes your younger brother’s luck lower is probably because he thinks it’s not good for the younger generation to do such a thing. He wants to teach your younger brother a lesson and scare him.”

The siblings were stunned, “Is he… guilty?”

When people get old, they always think about the past.

In fact, their great-grandfather has always remembered the situation of the two children back then, and he also knew that they felt wronged in their hearts, and always felt ashamed of their grandson and grandson-in-law who died early.

It wanted to apologize to the two juniors, but it was too late after the damage had been done, and he couldn’t open the mouth.

This guilt lasted until it closed its eyes and brought it into the coffin.

As a result, in the first seven nights, it ran into his great-grandson head-on, and sneaked behind the coffin to touch the money.

Gu Zhisang smiled and said, “When you were haunted by the water ghost, the reason why you were only injured and left the village safe and sound is that your great-grandfather has been protecting you and preventing that water ghost from harming you.”

“This old man is quite contradictory.”

That’s why Xiao Cheng said, sometimes when he sleeps, he always feels something looking at him. In fact, it may not be a water ghost, but it may also be the ghost of his great-grandfather who follows him.

Hearing this, the siblings felt even more complicated.

Gu Zhisang asked:

“It should be trying to compensate you in this way? Or to alleviate your guilt, do you want to see it?”