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280 Tombstone Flame

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    Guessing that my father has returned, we knelt down one by one.  After all the procedures were completed, the father's clothes, shoes, hats and pillows placed on the temporary bed were all gathered together in one place.  He also took down the pillow that had been thrown on the roof when his father had just passed away.  Then, we took the yellow paper and my father's clothes that my mother had sorted out in advance and went straight to the new grave.

    It was when the moon was dark and the wind was high, and our destination was the cemetery.  If it's just one person, then I'm afraid it's really unavoidable to be frightened.  Fortunately, we are a group of people going together.  But even so, I can feel the intensification of my wife's heartbeat beside me.

    The second uncle walked in the front alone with a flashlight.  We follow in turn.  The further back you go, the less bright light you see.  Therefore, the last person also has a flashlight.  In this way, no matter whether it is front or back, it will not feel too dark.  At that time, autumn had come to an end and the weather was getting cooler, so there was no need to worry about the harassment of snakes, rats and ants.  Otherwise, it is estimated that our heartbeat will be more violent.

    Passing through the farmland, under the scanning of the second uncle's flashlight in front, we saw small protruding mounds.  It is said that in the dead of night, these small mounds may burst out with dim blue fireballs.  I don't know, if there is a "wild fire" rising from an old grave at this time, will we who came together be frightened and run away?  However, if he really fled, then the father's return home ceremony could not be finally completed.  From the perspective of feudal superstition, if this is the case, it will definitely have a very adverse impact on our father in the underworld and us in the underworld.  In fact, this feeling of sharing interests is really good.  It makes people feel that the father still exists.  Perhaps, the setting of this kind of superstitious thinking at the beginning was just to enable future generations to better remember their predecessors and ancestors.  Superstition is indeed false and unreliable, but if it really condenses the meaning of remembering the ancestors, then from this point of view, I am afraid it may not be a bad thing.

    Finally, we came to my father's grave.  It seems that my father's tomb is still brand new, but I saw that there are criss-crossed small cracks on it.  We haven't been back since my father was buried.  But I learned from a phone call with my mother that cracks began to appear on my father's mound shortly after his burial.

    In my opinion, it is very normal for the sand and soil here to accumulate in one place and lose its original moisture after a period of time.  However, my mother said it quite solemnly.  Obviously, the mother did not regard this as a normal phenomenon.  My mother told me in a worried tone that according to people who knew the village, the appearance of this crack indicated that there were "blood men" among those who buried and worshiped my father at that time.  The so-called "blood person" refers to a person who is pregnant.  Of course, I don't believe in these, so I just made a few perfunctory sentences.

    But who would have thought that later, my sister was found to be pregnant, and it was a relatively dangerous ectopic pregnancy.  After my mother learned that my sister was pregnant (of course, we did not disclose the possibility of an ectopic pregnancy to her for fear of worrying her), she called me again: "Let me tell you, cracks on the grave indicate that there is blood."  People', but you just don't believe it!"

    I can hear that there is a sense of victory in my mother's words.  In fact, there is absolutely no necessary connection between the crack in the grave and my sister's pregnancy, it is just a coincidence.  However, it was precisely because of such a coincidence that my mother became more convinced of feudal superstition.  However, as far as my mother's stubbornness is concerned, I can't change it.  Therefore, I didn't mean to justify this at all, but I just said helplessly according to my mother's words: "If there is a 'blood man', there will be a 'blood man'. It doesn't mean that my sister won't participate in my father's funeral, right?  No matter what, it¡¯s unreasonable!"

    "Of course you have to attend the funeral. But people who know it say that if you are pregnant, you must never 'respond to seven'!" The mother emphasized with certainty.

    "It's nothing! Anyway, my sister and I didn't have 'Ying Qi'!" While I was answering, I was secretly glad.  Fortunately, we don't have "Ying Qi".  Otherwise, how long would mother worry about her stubborn feudal superstition?  It seems that if this unit does not follow the rules, it is not necessarily all bad things.

    After more than a month, the colored paper on the grave cap has become old due to fading, but the square-shaped mud block is still the same because of the grass roots, and there is not much change.  However, it seems that now is not the time to repair the grave mounds. Therefore, we choose to ignore the cracks on the mound mounds and the fading of colored paper.

    We put all the clothes we brought over in front of my father's grave.  Then, kneel down and worship in front of the tombstone in order.  While we knelt down, the second uncle and the old man in his eighties were in charge of?Light the yellow paper aside.  After everyone kneels down and worships, all father's clothes are set alight with yellow paper.  Clothes and the like are flammable, so in the blink of an eye, a large pile of clothes is engulfed in flames.  Perhaps it was because of the darkness that all we could see was the skyrocketing flames, not the billowing smoke.

    I looked at my father's clothes engulfed by the flames in a daze.  In fact, I really don't understand why all the things my father used during his lifetime should be burned.  The so-called thinking about people by seeing things, it is also good to keep one or two as souvenirs.  However, in our place, it seems that as long as it belongs to the dead, it is classified as unlucky.  People have a mentality of "get rid of it and make it quick" for these inauspicious things.  It's okay for others to think so, but as the closest person to think so, it's hard for me to understand.

    "I'm going back! These things won't be finished in a while." Seeing me staring at the fire, the old man in his eighties kindly persuaded me.

    Under the reminder of the old man, I came back to my senses, and after an "oh", I walked back with everyone.

    On the way back, the 80-year-old man continued: "Last time (referring to the burial), the fire was completely burned (after the burial, the wreaths, flower baskets, and yellow papers sent by relatives and friends were all transported to my father.  In front of the grave and lit together) one night. The raging fire almost illuminated half of the sky."

    I don't know if ghosts are afraid of fire.  If they were not afraid, they might all gather around the bonfire to hold a grand welcome ceremony for their father under the attraction of the fire.

    ?From the perspective of feudal superstition, the day when the ghost returns home is when the ghost really realizes that he has died.  After returning home for the last time, the ghost returns to the tomb again.  Therefore, our action at the grave should be to give father a final sentence, incinerate all the things used by father, so that father can rest in peace.  Superstition, superstition, are not credible.  The reason why I write these details is only out of respect for local customs.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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