This is a very simple spell. If the deceased has been reincarnated, the grave grass will emit yellow smoke, if the deceased is in the underworld, the smoke will be blue, and if the deceased has any grievances, black smoke will emit.
In fact, Ye Shaoyang just tried it casually, and the result... a very unexpected result: the smoke is very light, but the smoke that comes out is normal.
Of course, it can't be that the spell failed, such a simple spell, and when performing the spell, he clearly felt the generation of spiritual power, which interacted with the Grave Grass... Ye Shaoyang's heart moved, thinking of a certain possibility.
While the servants were cultivating the soil, he picked a few more weeds from the grave and tried again, but the result was still the same.
Ye Shaoyang had a little idea in his mind, and waited calmly until the end of the soil cultivation. When Biqing called him back, he told Biqing that he wanted to stay here for one night and go back tomorrow.
"Stay here for one night? How can that be, you will get sick." Bi Qing disagreed.
"Just leave me the blanket in the carriage. I have something to tell my parents, and I want to stay here with them for a night. It's okay." A hundred years later, the era when he was afraid of his wife was different. At this time, the man was the head of the family. He insisted repeatedly. Although Biqing tried hard to persuade him, he had no choice but to think of a compromise:
In a small village five or six miles away from the ancestral tomb, there is their old house, but it has not been lived in for a long time. Biqing asked the two servants to clean up a room in the old house, so that when Ye Shaoyang wanted to rest at night, he could go directly to the old house.
Ye Shaoyang agreed to let her go back with Guagua first.
After Biqing gave all kinds of instructions, she reluctantly jumped into the carriage and left with Guagua.
"You two go and clean up the room, just come and find me later." Ye Shaoyang also sent the two servants away, and stayed by the cemetery for a while, and it was gradually getting dark.
Today is a cloudy day, there is no moon, and there are no stars. There are only large clouds in the sky, covering the entire sky.
Ye Shaoyang lit the oil lamp left by the servant, put it on the edge of the grave, picked up the shovel, and began to dig the grave...
Yes, he wanted to see with his own eyes what was going on with the body, or, to see if there was a body in it.
Digging graves is a laborious task, but you can only do it by yourself. If someone sees you dig up the grave of your "parents", you will probably be regarded as a heinous lunatic.
After digging for half an hour, I finally dug a hole more than half a meter deep, which was almost level with the ground. I dug it down vigorously, and I dug another 20 centimeters, but the coffin was still missing.
Ye Shaoyang felt incredible. According to Chinese traditions, coffins are generally not buried deep, no more than 20 centimeters. There is one possibility, that is, before the deceased is buried, there are signs of corpse change. After processing, the coffin should be buried deeply, lest the real corpse in the coffin may crawl out if the burial is too shallow (of course, it is just a worry) ), but Ye Shaoyang didn't feel the corpse aura below.
Curious, Ye Shaoyang continued to dig, and suddenly there was an exclamation not far away: "Master, what are you doing!"
Ye Shaoyang looked up and saw that it was broken, it was the servants who went to the old house to pack things, but he forgot that they would come back. The two servants stared at Ye Shaoyang dumbfounded, as if they were looking at a lunatic.
"I… "
Ye Shaoyang wanted to find an excuse to explain, but looked down at his current situation... For a while, he really couldn't think of any excuse to support himself in digging his parents' graves.
"Come here and help me."
Ye Shaoyang simply waved at them.
The two of them came over almost on their knees, and they were so frightened that they tremblingly said: "Master, what are you doing, why..."
"Come and help me dig the ground." Ye Shaoyang said seriously, "I found out that there is no coffin in this cemetery!"
The two were stunned and walked over together.
The older one said: "How is this possible? I carried the coffin when the old lady was buried. Later, when the old lady passed away, I also helped to bury her together..."
When he walked to the grave, he saw the empty pit dug by Ye Shaoyang, so he swallowed back the words that followed. The other was also stunned, and sat down on the ground, and said in a voiceless voice: "Who the hell stole our coffin!"
Ye Shaoyang looked at them. These two looked at one of them in their fifties and the other in their forties. Biqing said before that both of them were old people in the family, and they were brought over from the old house.
Suddenly my heart moved, and I asked: "When my parents passed away, were you all there when they were buried?"
The two nodded together, "Master, have you forgotten?"
Ye Shaoyang climbed out of the pit, sat on the ground, folded his arms, looked at the two people, and said, "Who would steal the coffin? Even if it is a tomb robber, it is impossible to steal the corpse and the coffin together?"
The two looked at each other, and walked around the pit a few times, really unable to figure out what was going on.
Although the pit is small, it is enough to prove the situation. After all, the position of the coffin is particular, it must be directly under the grave bag, and it is impossible to bury it elsewhere.
Ye Shaoyang asked some details about the burial at that time, and the two of them exchanged fluently, and it was impossible to lie. Ye Shaoyang jumped down into the pit again, and checked around. Judging from the surrounding soil, there was no trace of burial once the soil was dug out Refilling, within a few decades, there will be a significant difference. This discovery confuses Ye Shaoyang.
Could it be that the location of the tomb was wrong
This is basically impossible, there is a stele in front of the grave, engraved with the name of the deceased, the date of birth and death, and the stele will be erected on the day of the burial, it is absolutely impossible to make a mistake, but there is no coffin under the grave, Ye Shaoyang feels very strange .
Ye Shaoyang couldn't explain this question, so he had no choice but to jump out of the pit and sit on the edge of the grave to think hard. The two servants also lost their minds, standing aside and staring. They always thought that the coffin was stolen, because they had participated in the burial at the beginning, and they firmly believed that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the place.
"Are there any other graves around here?"
"There are many tombs on the east mountain, all of which are ancestral tombs from the nearby villages." The old servant said.
Ye Shaoyang grabbed the shovel from the ground and asked them to take him there.
The two of them didn't know what he was going to do, so they could only follow obediently. After going down the mountain, they came to the opposite mountain and saw many graves on the way. Ye Shaoyang searched for a long time, found a new grave in a relatively hidden location, and asked the two to help him dig it together.