Chapter 2 Scales
The Qin family is a single surname in Jiuxingwan and has no close friends. After Qin Chun died, all the burial of him fell on me, a wild man.
??Although I am only eighteen, life has long taught me to become an adult. I can do it as long as I am willing to spend money on Qin Chunsheng’s funeral. The only difficulty lies in the joint burial.
??There are many requirements for relocating graves or building new graves. The most taboo is to open graves and bury them together. Not only should the new deceased be buried in peace, but the tomb owner who died first cannot be alarmed.
??Because there are too many taboos, basically no outsider is willing to interfere in this kind of thing except those closest relatives.
??There is no one in the Qin family, and no one in the villagers are willing to help me. I can only ask someone to do this for a lot of money.
??I was looking for young people in the village. Young people are not afraid of ghosts and gods. They go to do things when they collect money, and don’t even pick on the time. But it is precisely because the young people have no awe that something happened when they open the grave.
?? When Qin Chunsheng buried my mother, he was a thin coffin. He buried it underground for more than ten years, and the coffin was almost completely corroded. When he moved the coffin, several young people did not know the importance of it, so they immediately dispersed my mother's coffin.
??As soon as several young people saw this, their faces turned green.
??Just as these bastards were trying to find a way to shirk each other, a boy named Bajiao suddenly came out and said, "Look, this coffin is not empty, right?"
??Although the corpse will corrode and melt over time, the skeletons and shrouds must still be there. But the coffin board in front of me is empty and there is nothing.
??When this happened, I was kneeling in the monastery to serve the guests. It was Bajiao who ran back and told me.
??I immediately followed him to the cemetery after hearing this. The fact was the same as Bajiao said, my mother's coffin was indeed an empty coffin.
??No corpse, not even a shroud.
?? Looking at the empty coffin in the tomb, I was not only sad, but also didn't know how to solve such a problem.
??There were many villagers watching, but they were just standing far away to watch the fun. I didn’t know who to ask, and no one came to give me any advice.
??Just when I was in a state of lordship, Mr. Hu Duan came.
??When I saw him, I felt like I had found the backbone. He was also present when my mother was buried. I quickly asked him why my mother's coffin was empty.
?? "Qin Jue, don't ask first, go down and look for something in your mother's coffin."
?? "What's there?"
?? "Don't ask so much, go and look for it."
??No one dared to move my mother's coffin after it fell apart. I jumped down and moved the coffin pieces away piece by piece, and finally found something at the bottom of the coffin.
??This thing is the size of a palm, oval, and is dazzling red, like a piece of burning red charcoal.
?? "Mr. Hu Duan, what is this?"
?? "Please put it away first and don't let people see it. I'll tell you later."
??This thing looks like fire, but it feels very cool to the touch. I put it in my pocket and crawled out of the tomb.
??Hong Hu Duan asked me not to worry about my mother's body for the first time, saying that the most urgent thing today is to give birth to Qin Chun first, and the more you delay it, the more trouble it will be.
??The funeral has been held halfway, and it will indeed cause me a lot of trouble if I drag it on.
?? Almost all of his savings have been spent on organizing a funeral for Qin Chunsheng. If he cannot get into the soil smoothly today, I really don’t know what to do about the next thing.
??It will cost a lot of money to hold another game, and the key is that the villagers will not come to participate.
?? "Mr. Hu Duan, can my mother's corpse be retrieved?" I asked.
?? "This... I can't tell you the answer now. Let's do this. Go to my house tonight and remember to bring the things in your pocket. Then I will help you divine and ask."
??"All right."
??My mother has been dead for more than ten years, and no one cares about her corpse except me. But this matter is too strange. Even if I want to find it, I don’t know where to look for it.
??The only thing I hope is Hu Duan Gong. No matter how he arranges, I can only listen to him.
??When I saw that I agreed, Hu Duan Gong turned around and walked towards the villagers, and his few words of light dispelled all kinds of doubts in the hearts of the villagers.
??He said that my mother's five elements belong to water, and the northern Gui water life is. The five elements produce and overcome earth and overcome water. The body encounters earth but does not have a normal Feng Shui phenomenon.
??However, this tomb can no longer be used. If used, it will cause evil spirits and will not be beneficial to the entire Jiuxing Bay. Qin Chunsheng needs to open a new tomb.
??Hu Duan is respected when fair, and no one doubts his words.
??Next, Mr. Hu Duan first asked someone to refille my mother's tomb, and then directed the villagers to dig a new tomb in the Qin family's private land. When Qin Chun's life was safely buried, the storm was calmed down.
??In the evening, I rode my bicycle to the town to find Hu Duan Gong.
??As soon as I met, Hu Duan asked me if I had brought the item. I nodded and wanted to show him the item.
??He reached out to stop me, looked around, and said in a low voice: "Don't show it to me first, let's talk about it when you enter the house."
??After entering the house, Hu Duan closed the doors and windows, and first respectfully lit three incense sticks of god statue of Sanmao in the middle hall before asking me to hand him the thing.
??The room was very dark, and the lights were not turned on, and only a red candle was lit.
??Hong Hu Duan took the thing under the red candle and looked at it carefully in the candlelight. I was busy all day long, but I didn’t have time to look at what this thing looked like. I took the opportunity to follow him to take a closer look.
??This thing is neither like a stone nor a jade. When it is shined by candlelight, the raised side is even brighter, like a beating flame.
??Then, Hu Duan Gong turned it over, and the concave side was blue. When shined by candlelight, it was like a pool of water.
??The more I looked, the more surprised I became. I couldn't help but ask: "Mr. Hu Duan, what is this?"
?? "This is a piece of scale." Hu Duangong said.
?? "What scale?" I was even more curious.
??Hu Duan Gong did not answer me directly, dipped his finger in some tea and wrote a word on the desktop.
??After writing, I only showed it one look and then quickly erased it.
??When I saw this word, my first reaction was how could this be possible? How could there be such a thing in the world?
Just as he was about to ask, Mr. Hu Duan made a ban on voice gesture to me and said with a serious expression: "Qin Jue, if the Dharma is not passed on to the six ears, this thing cannot be said."
?? "Is this... true?"
?? "I didn't believe that this kind of thing really existed in the world, but now, the facts are in front of me, and I can't help but believe it."
??Hong Hu Duan Gong said that the protruding side of this scale is called the yang surface, the red sun surface looks like fire, representing the Li fire in the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. The concave side is called the Yin surface, and the blue sun surface looks like water, representing Gui water.
??The five elements are born and restrained, and water and fire are incompatible.
??There is only one magical creature that can have the shape of water and fire at the same time from ancient times to the present.
??Hong Hu Duan would not joke with me, but I still couldn't believe it for a while.
??The most important thing is that even if there is such a creature in the world, its scales will not appear in my mother's coffin.
??My mother is a silly girl, and she is the wife picked up by Qin Chunsheng.
??No one cared about it during his lifetime, and he was unknown after his death.
??I can’t figure out what the relationship between my mother and this scale will be.
?? "Mr. Hu Duan, why is this thing in my mother's coffin?"
?? "I don't know why. I asked you to look for it because someone told me that I could find it in your mother's coffin."
?? "Who told you?" I asked again.
"I." A cold female voice suddenly rang out from outside, hoarse and deep.
Chapter completed!