I said: "Can't sleep." Athena also shook her head and said, "Let's talk for a while."
But the four of them looked at each other and seemed to have nothing to say.
I looked at Wang Jiale: "Where are you from?"
Wang Jiale said: "Cloud City."
Chen Ge said: "Why did you get to Sky City?"
Wang Jiale said: "Isn't Yuncheng Tiancheng right next to him? My home is close to Tiancheng, so I fled towards Mang Mountain."
I smiled and said, "Mang Mountain is very famous in the three southwestern provinces."
Chen Ge said, "Brother Wang, what were you doing when the corpse change just happened?"
Wang Jiale smiled: "Don't mention it, three days before the corpse was changed. A good friend of mine got married. I drove to his house before dawn. His family lives in the mountains. The road is called a bad guy. When I arrived, I drove to his house. , It's noon."
"We are good friends for many years, and it's rare to see us. Naturally, we have to stay a few more days. On the third day, the old man in his neighbor's house seems to be his cousin's grandfather returning to his soul..."
Chen Ge asked: "Return to the soul? What do you mean?"
Wang Jiale said: "Which is their local custom, that is, the old man died and was buried. The soul will come back once on the fifteenth day, led by the black and white impermanence, and finally look at the place where he lives in front of him, and then never come back again. Up."
Chen Ge smiled: "It sounds so mysterious."
Athena asked: "What is black and white impermanence?"
I said: "The ghosts in Chinese legends are almost... well, equivalent to the death god carrying a sickle in the Western world."
Athena chuckled: "This is really funny, what happened later?"
Wang Jiale continued: "My friend's house lives in the mountains, and there are five or six families around, all of whom are related to each other, so if the family has something to do, everyone will help."
"That day, my friend and I went to his grandfather's house. The family members have already prepared the banquet. We just sat down to drink after the ceremony."
"I saw flour spread all over the hall, with a banquet table in the middle, and grass and thorns on the floor at the door, so I quietly asked my friend, what was that doing?"
"My friend said that the banquet in the middle of the hall is for the black and white impermanence. The ground is sprinkled with flour. When the black and white impermanence and my grandfather return, they will stay.
footprint. "
"I said, what are the grass and thorns for?"
"My friend said, as for the grass and thorns, my grandfather would think that the house he lived in in front of him was abandoned when he saw it, and the grass and thorns were growing. He would say to himself:'Oh, there is no one in the house anymore. Live, I won't come back later.'"
I heard Wang Jiale talking about this, and there was some bleakness in my heart. I only heard Athena ask: "Where will the soul of the dead go after it leaves? Is it heaven?"
Wang Jiale smiled and said: "My friend's custom does not have the concept of heaven. They think that the soul of the dead will follow the black and white impermanence, cross the Naihe Bridge together, and then drink the Mengpo soup before reincarnation."
Athena said with a sense of enlightenment: "This is very good. For the dead, it is the beginning of a new life. Well, I said this ending is better than our Western paradise."
I smiled and said, "Why?"
Athena said: "If you think about it, everything goes well in heaven, but if you live for a long time, there will be a day of boredom."
I, Chen Ge, and Wang Jiale laughed together, and I said, "This is also true. If there is no comparison of suffering, a comfortable life in heaven day after day is another kind of suffering."
Wang Jiale went on to say: "I saw that the banquet was very strange, there was a red egg, but there was only one chopstick on a table, and I asked my friend, what is it?"
"My friend said that red eggs are dedicated to black and white impermanence. There is only one chopstick, so that the black and white impermanence can't hold the egg. The soul of my grandpa can stay at home for a while."
"I said, if the black and white impermanence has not been able to eat the eggs, wouldn't it be necessary to stay forever.
"My friend said, no. The family members will light firecrackers and push the door in the middle of the night calculated by the husband, and the black and white impermanence will leave with Grandpa's soul."
"After listening to my friend's explanation, I became curious, will Black and White impermanence and his grandpa's soul really come back? Will they really leave footprints on the flour?"
Wang Jiale continued: "People in the mountains drink like cold water. Later, I drank so dizzy that I went to lie in the penthouse next to the main room, thinking about when my friend left.
, Will call me, who knows that when I wake up, there is a black rumbling in front of me, there is no sound at all. "
"I was so drunk, my throat was so dry, I saw fire in the hall, so I walked in. As soon as I entered, my whole body's hairs stood up. Guess what?"
The three of us haven't answered yet. Wang Jiale continued: "There is no one in the hall, only two red candles are lit in front of the portrait of the deceased. The candlelight is shaking and gloomy to the extreme."
When we heard this, it felt both horrible and funny. The three looked at each other, and I held back a smile and asked Wang Jiale: "Your friend didn't wake you up?"
Wang Jiale said: "The house in the countryside is not well lit, and the small penthouse where I lay is dark. Maybe no one sees me."
Chen Ge couldn't wait to ask: "What happened later?"
Wang Jiale said: "Later, I softened on a chair and wanted to run out of the hall, but my body was so limp that I couldn't get it up with any strength."
I imagined the situation of Wang Jiale at that time. His face must be pale, and all his fears were like a boulder falling to the ground at that moment, curled up into a ball, almost slipping off the chair.
Wang Jiale continued: "My heart is pounding, I can't see a little light outside, it should be dark outside."
"I remembered what my friend said, at auspicious hour in the middle of the night, everyone would push the door in together, but I don't know how much time is left before auspicious hour."
"That time, I really frightened me. I couldn't help but look at my friend's grandfather. I only felt that the person in the photo seemed to be smiling at me. It was just that smile with a breath of death."
Chen Ge sneered: "You're scared again, so you still have to watch it, won't you let it go?"
Wang Jiale said: "I also know this truth, but I don't know how to do it. The more scared I was, the more I couldn't help but look at it. Suddenly I found that there were really a few pairs of footprints in the flour sprinkled on the ground."
Chen Ge said, "Is it true that the grandfather of Black and White Impermanence and your friend really came back?"
Wang Jiale said: "My scalp exploded, and I heard footsteps coming in from behind the hall. I didn't know where the strength came from. I jumped up and opened the door to escape. Who knows what do you think? "
I said, "There are zombies outside the door?"
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