Xie Yuqing asked what to do next, and Ye Shaoyang told her without thinking that the only clue now was Li Xiaoqiang, and now he could only investigate according to the trajectory of his life: check the files he had turned through before, and go to that building to see if there was anything wrong.
Xie Yuqing nodded, glanced at her watch, and said, "It's not too early, should we go back to Shicheng first, or rush to the school to investigate?"
” Ye Shaoyang shook his head, looked at Li Xiaoqiang's corpse, and said, "Don't go anywhere, today is the night of his soul, I want to stay here to guard his soul."
Faced with the questions of the two, he said: "He is a mage, and no one will be buried after his death, since I have met him, I have to give him a ride according to the rules." ” Xie Yuqing immediately frowned and said, "Isn't he already gone, if you give him a ride, he doesn't know." ” "The funeral is originally a kind of sustenance and sorrow for the living, according to what you say, even if his soul is still there, and he goes to the underworld to report, it has nothing to do with the body, why do you want to bury and burn paper or something?
After all, his physical body is still there, and it is also a part of his soul body, and sending him away safely and securely is a kind of respect for the dead by the living, and it is only related to his present life, and has nothing to do with his soul itself. ” After a pause, Ye Shaoyang continued: "Besides, I always have a feeling that something is going to happen on the night of returning to the soul today, this feeling has been in the spirit hall before, I can't describe it well, it's a kind of mage's intuition." ” Xie Yuqing frowned and said, "He's all gone, what else can happen?"
” "I just don't know, so I have to stay, and I can rest assured when I see his ashes cremated."
Xie Yuqing nodded and said, "Then I can't accompany you, I have to go back to go through the formalities and help you confirm your identity." ” "My identity?"
"You'll know when you look back."
Xie Yuqing smiled mysteriously.
Pushing Li Xiaoqiang's body back into the freezer, Ye Shaoyang and his party came out of the morgue, and as soon as they arrived outside the door, they saw Lin Yongchang and the female classmate who presided over the funeral standing at the corner and probing their brains to look this way, as soon as they saw Ye Shaoyang, the girl immediately came over and said to him: "Why are you here, the things you want have been bought, we don't dare to mess around, wait for you." ” Ye Shaoyang nodded, and before he could speak, the female classmate communicated with Liu Yinshui again, asking him if there were any procedures to do, if there was no problem, he wanted to send Li Xiaoqiang's body to the mourning hall and hold a farewell ceremony for the body.
Liu Yinshui said that there was no problem, and took Lin Yongchang to go through the procedures together, Ye Shaoyang sent Xie Yuqing away, and then followed the female classmate to the mourning hall, found a piece of paper, and wrote on it the things needed for the farewell of the body, and then the girl found two male classmates to buy it.
Ye Shaoyang put the eggs and other three offerings in place, made an ever-bright lamp, lit it and put it in front of Li Xiaoqiang's statue, although his soul has been destroyed, but the procedure still has to go, and it is also a kind of respect for the deceased.
After a while, Lin Yongchang and Liu Yinshui pushed an ice coffin and entered the memorial hall through the back door, the ice coffin was a crystal coffin with a freezing device, as long as it was plugged in, it could ensure that the corpse did not decay.
Because there is a local habit of keeping vigil next to the corpse, the funeral home is also happy to do this business.
Liu Yinshui was not in the mood to deal with dead people, and after saying goodbye to Ye Shaoyang, he left on his own.
Not long after he left, it was overcast and it began to rain.
Ye Shaoyang asked Lin Yongchang and another classmate to help, opened the ice coffin, then took a basin of cold water, put it next to the corpse, and then began the procedure: Ye Shaoyang first stuffed a Five Emperor Coin into the corpse's mouth, dipped it in water with a towel, folded it into a three-knife coin, and covered it on the corpse's face door, and then began to change the corpse's shroud.
This process seems very simple, but it is actually very particular, because the whole body is hard after death, coupled with freezing, the joints are stiff, the clothes are difficult to take off and difficult to wear, and according to the custom, the towel on the face can not be lifted during the dressing process, so as not to see that his body is not dignified, and he is resentful.
This adds to the difficulty.
In this matter, there are skills but no shortcuts, Ye Shaoyang held one of the corpse's arms, pinched the muscles, moved the tendons, and pushed the joints, and after a set of procedures, the joints were finally opened.
Then start from the half of the body to simply wipe the body, put on clothes, and then tie the corpse's feet and hands with a white cloth, the five fingers together, the thumbs are buckled, the hands are clasped, and they are placed on the lower abdomen, the left hand is on the top, and the right hand is on the bottom, because according to the folk saying, the left hand is good, the right hand is evil, and the left hand wraps the right hand, which means that the next life is from the beginning, abandoning evil and promoting good.
After doing all this, Ye Shaoyang took off the towel covering the corpse's face, took out the copper coin in the corpse's mouth, looked around at the classmates watching from the side, and said, "This corpse money can keep it safe, who wants to take it?"
” Everyone didn't dare to ask for it, after all, there were some taboos about dead people's things, and they were later asked by Lin Yongchang.
This was followed by a farewell ceremony......
After the end, most of the classmates went back in the rain, and only a few classmates who had a good relationship with Li Xiaoqiang stayed and kept a vigil for his first seven days.
Ye Shaoyang was not familiar with them, so he borrowed an umbrella from them, left the mourning hall, and walked around the crematorium in the rain, actually checking the yin situation here, and found that the crematorium was built in a mountain col, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there was only one road leading to the city.
Moreover, Ye Shaoyang looked at the rain curtain in front of him and thought worriedly, today is still a rainy day.
Because there are often people guarding the spirit, so the funeral home also has a canteen, Ye Shaoyang paced to the door of the canteen, went in for lunch, and when he came out, he was surprised to find that the light rain turned into a torrential rain and poured down.
Ye Shaoyang ran to the mourning hall in the rain and was dumbfounded: the water outside the door of the mourning hall flowed into a river, constantly pouring into the hall, and a layer of water had accumulated, and several male classmates were sweeping the water with brooms.
Ye Shaoyang turned his head to look, only to find that the terrain of the memorial hall was lower than the outside, so it would pour rainwater.
Supposedly, that's fine.
But from the rain under his feet, Ye Shaoyang smelled a trace of unusual smell, and while everyone was draining, he drew a trial talisman and threw it into the water, and after a few seconds, he picked it up and saw that the rune paper turned black, as black as ink!
Ye Shaoyang looked at the rune paper, his expression froze, in this rain, there was actually such a strong corpse qi!
After thinking for a while, he understood where this corpse qi came from!