Some time ago, the special profession of crying mourners spread on the Internet.After watching the news, many people think that this crying mourner is easy to make money, so they cry casually for two hours, and 1,800 will be in hand.I also heard that some people have been crying and mourning for a few years, and they actually bought a garage in a big city.Who would have thought that crying and making a lot of money also made many people struggling to survive in big cities sigh.But the profession of crying and mourning people, but dealing with the dead and eating is also the food of the dead.As the saying goes, how can you not get your shoes wet when you stand by the river, and you will encounter ghosts when you walk at night for a long time.There are also taboos for crying and mourning, and if you don't pay attention to it, it's easy to put your little life in, my name is Wu Chen, I am an orphan, and I was adopted by my mother-in-law since I was a child.My mother-in-law is a traditional mourner.The whole village respects my mother-in-law.Whenever someone in the family dies, I will ask my mother-in-law to mourn when the first seven days of the dead are gone.Every time the mother-in-law cried and mourned, she would explain something to the master's family.Sometimes the host will be asked to burn some of the deceased's favorite clothes and ornaments, or let the host offer some wine and meat to the deceased during the Qingming Festival every year.At first, I didn't understand my mother-in-law, and I always laughed at my mother-in-law for engaging in feudal superstition and chattering.But my mother-in-law always smiled and never explained to me, just told me to study hard.Slowly, as I grew up, my self-esteem also rose.I always feel that my mother-in-law's profession is a lowly profession, and I don't even want dignity in order to make money.My mother-in-law was not angry, but kindly reasoned with me.said that as long as you earn money with your own hands, you don't steal or rob, it's clean money.It is also said that the division of labor in society is different, and there are always some people who want to do something that is not understood.I didn't understand it at the time, and it wasn't until I experienced a weird crying and mourning incident that I completely changed my misunderstanding of my mother-in-law.I remember the fifteenth day after I graduated from the high school entrance examination, that is, when I went to the middle school in the town to get the admission letter.It was originally a happy day, but I didn't expect my classmate Li Qiang to drown in the plum blossom lake in Tomb Mountain when he came back.According to the traditional customs of our rural areas, generally minor children do not do anything after they die, and they will be buried in the ground the next day at the latest.But Li Qiang's parents are the richest families in our village, and a few years ago, they came to make money and went out to work on the construction site to make a lot of money.In addition, Li Qiang is an only son, and his parents want him to go more beautifully, so they made an exception and held a grand funeral for him.Because Li Qiang drowned in the lake and died unexpectedly, he invited my mother-in-law to cry and mourn in the first seven.For rural funerals, the body will be parked for seven days.During these seven days, there will be Taoist priests who practice day and night, and will not be buried until the first seven days after the soul breaking ceremony is held.Li Qiang is usually high-flying and loves to bully people, and I don't have a good impression of him.But in terms of classmate affection, and I grew up in the same village, I still thought about going to his funeral.So on the night of the first seventh, my mother-in-law and I went together.The crying funeral ceremony is also the last goodbye ceremony for relatives and the deceased, when the mother-in-law received 1,000 yuan from Li Qiang's parents, she found three incense sticks and lit them, and muttered a few words in her mouth, bliss ascended to heaven, and broke the mortal dust; After purifying the body, purifying the body, and repaying the kindness of the parents in the next life, the mother-in-law led Li Qiang's relatives to cry.It is said that sadness is easily contagious, which is not false at all, and I feel very bad in my heart, and the female classmates who came to participate in the praise behind me also secretly cried.Li Qiang in the black-and-white posthumous photo is smiling, with a smile that youth should have.But the strange thing is that as long as I stare at the black and white posthumous photo, I feel chills all over my body, and I always feel that Li Qiang's eyes are staring at our group of classmates strangely.And just when I felt uncomfortable, my mother-in-law, who was still crying and mourning, suddenly stood up, directly returned the 1,000 yuan of crying and mourning to Li Qiang's parents, and dragged me home.I was confused by my mother-in-law's actions, and on the way back, I asked my mother-in-law what was wrong, but my mother-in-law lowered her head and didn't speak, and pulled me home.When I finally got home, my mother-in-law immediately closed the doors and windows, took the incense and knelt down to Master Sanqing.When I saw my mother-in-law finish bowing, I quickly helped her up and asked her what had happened.The mother-in-law sighed a few times, and then told me in a serious tone that when she was crying and mourning just now, one of the three incense sticks was extinguished, and Li Qiang's unjust soul came back.also told his mother-in-law that he was pushed down the Plum Blossom Lake by Tian Wa.After listening to my mother-in-law's words, a cold sweat broke out on my back.Because when I was attending the salute just now, Tian Wa was standing behind me.No wonder I always feel that Li Qiang's portrait seems to be staring at us.I also know Tian Wa, his family is very poor, he hardly likes to talk, and he was often bullied and scolded by Li Qiang when he was at school.The most excessive time was when Li Qiang shook the cigarette ash in the water in front of the whole class and forced Tian Wa to drink it.I looked at my mother-in-law's serious appearance, and my heart was also drumming, could it be that Tian Wa really hurt Li Qiang.But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it is not right, this Tian Wa is timid on weekdays, and she is used to being bullied by Li Qiang, where did she dare to push Li Qiang into the water Seeing that I didn't speak, my mother-in-law sighed again, saying that Li Qiang had resentment in his heart and had turned into a ghost, and the second first seven would come back to Tian Wa to ask for his life.When I saw my mother-in-law's solemn expression, I was also skeptical, so I asked: "Mother-in-law, can you help Tianwa" "Hey" Mother-in-law sighed and said, "Okay, okay, mother-in-law will make an exception to help your classmates once."
You go and tell Tian Wa not to go to Meihua Lake within these seven days.And you, you can't go to Meihua Lake to bathe for seven days, you know" "Well, I know. ”I immediately agreed to my mother-in-law and hurriedly went to Li Qiang's house to find Tianwa.When I saw Tian Wa, he was about to go back from Li Qiang's house, and I wanted to call him to stop, but Tian Wa seemed to be crazy and ran away when she saw me.I chased him for a long time but couldn't catch up, so I had to go home and prepare to tell him the next day.But strange to say, from the next day, it rained heavily in our place for a week.Because Tian Wa lives in a relatively remote area, I can't contact him.However, what I didn't expect was that what my mother-in-law said at that time really happened.On the seventh day after Li Qiang's burial, Tian Wa really drowned in Plum Blossom Lake.And the location of the drowned is exactly the area where Li Qiang was drowned before.When I heard the bad news, I immediately began to blame myself.If I had been able to tell Tian Wa about this at the time, maybe he would have escaped this fate.When my mother-in-law saw that I blamed myself, she also comforted me and said, "Wu Chen, this is the will of heaven and a catastrophe, no one can escape it, there is no need for you to blame yourself."
In our line of work, if you want to live a long life, many times you can't help yourself. ”That being said, I still feel very sorry to go.Later, as time went on, I slowly forgot about it.And my mother-in-law also told me some secrets about the crying and mourning, saying that the crying and mourning are passed on to women and not men.This is because a woman's physique is yin and prone to psychic spirits.A man's physique is yang, and yin and yang are not suitable for crying and mourning.It is also said that if you cry for a person who is in mourning, when you go to mourn for a dead person who dies, you will put three sticks of incense.If the incense is extinguished during the mourning, it means that the person died unexpectedly, and if this happens, he will leave immediately and must not turn back.He also instructed me not to come into contact with mourners in the future, or to cry for others.Because the real mourners are those who eat the food of the underworld, they will be cursed by the five evils and three deficiencies, and they will lose their longevity.This is the biggest secret belonging to the mourners, so I must not tell it.I was too young to understand the taboo behind this.But because of my mother-in-law's entrustment, I didn't dare to talk nonsense.Later, as I grew older, my mother-in-law grew much older.After I was admitted to university, my mother-in-law vowed not to mourn the dead again, saying that she wanted to live two more years to see me start a family.At that time, I also smiled and comforted my mother-in-law, saying that I would make money in the future so that my mother-in-law could enjoy the blessings.But what I didn't expect was that in the first week of my senior year, something happened that almost broke me.It was Friday, and I went to the classroom as usual, but before I got to the classroom, my second aunt called me and told me the shocking news that my mother-in-law had died in a coffin: