Chapter forty-six: evil spirit burning incense
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Chapter 46: Incense
Seeing the incense that quickly became shorter in the incense burner, everyone present changed their faces.
There are some special things to see when the incense person holds. From the time of starting the coffin, light three incense sticks, then set off on the road, and change three incense sticks before the incense is burned, and then change three incense sticks.
In total, incense can only be consumed three times. The coffin must reach the tomb before it is burned out. If the incense is burned out three times but it is not arrived, it cannot be buried.
It is said that these three incense sticks were for the underworld to see. After the person was buried, the earth soul left his body and entered the ground. The function of this tomb is the passage for the dead to enter the ground. Every year, the deceased returned to the sun on the Ghost Festival, and this passage is also passed.
Lighting these three incense sticks is said to remind the ghost officer that after the three incense sticks are burned, the passage in the underworld will be opened for the deceased. If the deceased fails to reach the tomb at that time, he will not be reincarnated.
It can take longer. Generally, the incense you see is the big incense, and the Zhang family uses the special incense that cannot be burned for two hours, just to reach the ancestral grave before burning.
But now, looking at the speed of shortening, it will take less than ten minutes at most, and the first three incense sticks will have to be burned.
In addition to us, everyone here also knows a little bit and knows what it means to burn incense. Although we were so tired that we were out of breath, we still tried our best to carry the coffin and go down the mountain, all of us speeding up.
But I saw that Tan Jin's incense was still getting shorter in his hands. I guess we just ran, and we couldn't walk one-third of the journey before the incense was burned.
Mr. Feng obviously knew this, so he stopped and a sneered at the corner of his mouth: "Hmph, the evil spirit burns the fragrance, there is still this one." Then Mr. Feng shouted, and immediately the Zhang family brought two benches and asked us to put the coffin down first.
Although the fragrance is still shortening quickly, it is very anxious to see it, since Mr. Feng said we can only listen.
Then Mr. Feng let go of the joy bar and took out a simple folding fan from his bag and opened it. I saw four words written on the fan of the folding fan: "Eliminate disasters and solve problems." Then Mr. Feng took the folding fan and fanned quickly towards the incense burner. His technique was very clever. The wind that fanned out was facing the incense head, but he never raised the ash in the incense burner.
I was stunned at first sight. What does this Mr. Feng mean? The fragrance is burning so fast and you still fan the air. Wouldn't you add fuel to the fire?
But the scene in front of me made me widen my eyes. The burning speed of the incense head was slowed down by Mr. Feng. What is the principle?
Mr. Feng held an incense burner in one hand and a fan in the other, and said, "Tan Jin, get the coffin." Tan Jin responded, walked over directly, took over Mr. Feng and raised the head of the coffin. I remember that this kid had said before that he would not carry the coffin, but it seemed that he was really fooling people.
Then Mr. Feng slapped the incense in front and led the way, and we followed behind.
As he walked, Tan Jin turned around and looked at me with a slutty smile again: "Do you know what evil spirit burns incense?" Seeing me shook my head, Tan Jin explained: "If the deceased's way of death is wrong and he is unwilling to go to the ground, it will become a ferocious coffin, and the ferocious coffin will bring evil spirits. The ferocious coffin is the deceased using evil spirit to burn incense. In this way, the incense is burned and the deceased cannot be buried before it reaches the place." I still don't know much about what evil spirit burns incense, but I saw that Old Master Zhang in the coffin seemed to not want to be buried.
I don't understand this. Generally speaking, whether it is a fierce coffin or a kind coffin, if the deceased in the coffin does not want to leave, the coffin carryer will use various methods to resolve the deceased's reluctance or unwillingness, such as asking the deceased's family to persuade him. There are also records of how to resolve the deceased's obsession.
But when I see Mr. Feng and the Zhang family now, I don’t realize that they are trying to resolve the obsession of the deceased. It is like I want to suppress Mr. Zhang and force the coffin to the tomb.
If you carry the coffin like this, even if you arrive at the place and are successfully buried, the resentment of the deceased will not dissipate, and there will definitely be no good things at that time. As the saying goes, the deceased is the most important. No matter how good the Feng Shui is at the place of the burial, if the deceased still has resentment, no matter how good the Feng Shui is, it will be damaged by resentment.
Even I know this kind of thing, so Mr. Feng naturally doesn’t understand it, but he still did this. What is the purpose of?
Mr. Feng walked in front and fanned all the way, and the speed of fanning was very fast. I looked at him for a long time and felt his hands were sore, but he still looked expressionless, and his hands were as fast and steady as the clockwork. Ordinary carpenters do not have the strength, and only people like him who swung axe all day to chop off longevity materials have this wrist power.
Tan Jin turned around and smiled, "Do you know what Boss Feng is doing?" I shook my head honestly, and Tan Jin said, "That fan is called the disaster relief fan, which can fan away the bad yin and evil energy. If your boss fans the evil energy with a fan, the fragrance will naturally burn slowly." As he said that, he looked at Mr. Feng in front of him, and his eyes moved slightly: "But even so, he is fanning the incense head with a fan. Although the evil energy is gone, the incense will definitely burn faster. The incense could have been burned for half an hour, but now it is probably only 20 minutes." I looked over and said, and indeed, although the incense burned much slower than before, it was indeed much faster than usual. If this continues, it would be difficult to reach the tomb before the three incense burns.
Sure enough, when we reached the second mountain, there was only a little left of the three incense sticks in the first round.
The Zhang family brought three more incense sticks. Mr. Feng took the incense and wanted to light it himself, and the coffin stopped again. It was not because of anything else that I and the other coffin carryrs could not walk anymore. There were no big mountains around Dongting Lake, but there were many small hills. It was so tired to carry the coffin uphill. After stopping the coffin, four more Eight Immortals invited by the Zhang family came to replace it.
However, I couldn't change the waist of the coffin on the right. Mr. Feng said that the four of us must be carried all the way to the tomb. However, besides me, Lao Huo, Tan Jin, Chu Sili, each of them didn't know if they were born in the year of the ox. After carrying it for so long, they didn't even sweat much. Tan Jin was a little gasping, and Chu Sili and Lao Huo both didn't blush. I murmured in my heart, and these two people were probably still rhino.
The coffin was parked here, and Mr. Feng was lighting incense there.
According to convention, changing incense must be ignited with the previous incense, and no other fire can be used. Mr. Feng picked up the first incense stick and faced the incense head with the residual incense in the stove. However, after a while, there was no movement. He picked it up and saw that the incense head was burned black, but there was no sign of burning.
Mr. Feng changed three incense sticks, and no exception could attract them.
Of course, this is not a matter of the quality of incense. With the financial resources of the Zhang family, I guess this incense stick is more valuable than the property I have on my body, so there can only be something else that is blocking it.
Seeing that the fragrance could not be lit, Mr. Feng opened his mouth and said, "Yiming, give me your cigarette rod." I was stunned for a moment, reached out and pulled out the cigarette rod from my waist.
Mr. Feng took out another pack of things that seemed to be tobacco from his bag, filled them slowly in the cigarette bowl, and then lit them and handed them to me: "Take a sip." I took the cigarette rod as I said, took a deep breath, and felt a thorny smell in my mouth. The cigarette seemed to be different from what Mr. Feng gave me before.
Then Mr. Feng held three incense sticks in his left hand, pointed at the remaining incense in the incense burner with his right hand, and said, "Spray at the incense head." I didn't say anything, nodded, and then sprayed a sip of cigarette at the incense burner.
Who knew that this squirting was like those juggling. I only felt a hot face in front of my face, and a flame suddenly burst out from the incense burner, almost burning my face.
This shocked me to take two steps back, but the fire just flashed and disappeared. Mr. Feng's eyes were fast and his hands were fast. At the moment the fire burst out, three big incenses on his left hand were in the incense burner. When he looked again, the three big incenses were already burning, and three wisps of smoke were slowly floating.
The three remaining incense sticks in the incense burner suddenly went out at this moment. The next moment, Mr. Feng inserted the three incense sticks in his hand into the incense burner.
At this moment, I seemed to hear a wail from the coffin.
Chapter completed!