The paper money on the roadside is very new, and it is estimated that it has been scattered no more than ten days ago. There are also a few pieces of paper money on the ground at intervals, which seems to indicate that a funeral procession passed by this road.
In the era before Lin Xi, when someone in the family died, the relatives would organize a funeral procession, playing funeral music, scattering paper money, setting off firecrackers, and inviting masters to chant sutras along the way. It was a very grand procession.
Generally, the funeral procession will start from the mourning hall and go all the way to the cemetery.
All that is done along the way is usually to express mourning for the deceased, but also to guide his soul so that he can find the way home and go where he should go.
At that time, funeral was a very important matter. Even the poorest families would try their best to hold a decent funeral ceremony for their deceased relatives.
However, after Lin Xilai came to this era, he found that people in the city seemed to no longer be interested in this.
Most of the time, after a loved one passes away, they may rent a mourning hall from a funeral home for a few days, and then they will be cremated. Then the ashes will be sent to the cemetery, and that's the end of it.
The funeral procession disappeared immediately.
Of course, this may also be related to some current environmental protection policies and traffic safety issues.
After all, if this were done in the city, with people playing music and singing along the way and scattering paper money, it would not only cause traffic jams, but also make it difficult to clean up the paper money.
You may also be reported for practicing feudal superstition, affecting social order, etc.
So even though Lin Xi has been here for so long, he has never seen a complete funeral ceremony in the city.
Seeing paper money on the roadside, I couldn't help but feel emotional.
This road leads to the township. There are no longer high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, but farmland and vegetable fields. Occasionally, there are self-built houses on the roadside, so the control is not as strict as in the urban area.
After driving forward for a while, they were getting closer and closer to the place where Lin Xi sensed Ruan Xile's soul.
And what's very coincidental is that the paper money along the way is also moving in this direction.
Finally, Lin Xi and his friends parked their car at the entrance of a village.
The rest of the road was too far for cars to drive, so they had to get off and walk.
When getting off the bus, Lin Xi discovered that there were more and denser paper money on both sides of the road. It was possible that the deceased with the funeral traces he encountered on the road was from this village.
She stood where she was, looked forward, and found that the direction in which the paper money was scattered was actually the same as the direction she wanted to go.
That is to say, it is consistent with the direction of Ruan Xile's soul.
Lin Xi frowned.
This is purely a coincidence.
Or is it that the disappearance of Ruan Xile's soul is related to the deceased in this village?
She thought for a moment and gradually came up with a guess.
We have to verify whether it is exactly what she thought.
Retracting his gaze, Lin Xi immediately said to Yin Zhongyu and the others, "Let's go, that place is not far away."
Only by reaching the destination as soon as possible and finding Ruan Xile's soul can the mystery be solved.
Lin Xi walked towards the direction where the sensation came from. As soon as he entered the village, he ran into two villagers.
Seeing that they looked unfamiliar, the two villagers couldn't help but look at them for a few times, then muttered.
"Whose relative are you? Why can't you recognize me?"
"I don't know, maybe it's from Old Man Zhang's family. Didn't a lot of out-of-town students come to his house recently? I wonder if these are the ones."
Some time ago, Old Zhang from their village died, and his funeral was held in his hometown. Many relatives and friends came to attend his funeral.
Old Zhang is old and used to be a teacher. He has been teaching for decades and has many students all over the world.
It’s just that maybe he overexerted himself when he was young, and he developed Alzheimer’s disease a few years after retirement.
Fortunately, his children were very responsible to him. They took him in and took care of him. Only after he died of old age did they bring him from the city to bury him.
In order to let him pass away in a dignified manner, his children held a grand funeral and hired a professional funeral procession. It is said that they spent tens of thousands of dollars to hire a master who specialized in chanting sutras.
Not only that, all his former students also put down their work and rushed from all over the world to see him off for the last time, which was very heartfelt.
During those days, everyone in the village was talking about this matter, saying that the number of strangers their village had seen at Lao Zhang's funeral was more than the number of strangers they had seen in the past few years.
But it’s been a week since Lao Zhang’s funeral, so why are there still people showing up?
Could it be that something delayed me before and I can only come here to pay my respects to him now?
The two men were too embarrassed to ask, so they could only stand there and watch Lin Xi and his group walk towards Lao Zhang's grave.
Lin Xi and his companions followed the direction that Ruan Xile's soul had sensed before, and soon reached their destination.
The destination was beyond the expectations of Yin Zhongyu and others. It turned out to be a tomb.
And it’s a new grave.
Yin Zhongyu's face was filled with shock. He looked at the grave before him, then turned to look at Lin Xi, and asked her uncertainly, "Master, Xi, is Xile's soul in here?"
Lin Xi nodded.
This was the place where she had sensed the situation before, and in order to prevent any mistake, she had just summoned Ruan Xile's soul again, and was certain that her soul was here.
Seeing Lin Xi nod, Yin Zhongyu and his companions racked their brains but couldn't figure out how Ruan Xile's soul could be here?
On the way here, they kept thinking about who had killed Ruan Xile and who had captured her soul.
But in that case, her soul would definitely be hidden in some very secret corner, such as someone's home, in a secret passage in a room, or something like that.
But they thought of various possibilities, but they never thought that her soul would be in a grave!
"Could it be that someone deliberately trapped Xile's soul in the grave, preventing her from getting out?"
Mother Ruan asked Lin Xi hurriedly.
But Lin Xi shook his head.
She had just quickly checked the tomb and the area around it, and did not find any formations or evil spirits.
If it is true as Mother Ruan said, that someone deliberately imprisoned Ruan Xile's soul in the grave, then a formation must be set up around the grave to trap her.
Moreover, such insidious behavior will also be reflected in the gas around the grave, and evil energy will inevitably overflow.
But none of these exist, so we can directly rule out the idea that Ruan Xile's soul was imprisoned in the tomb by someone maliciously.
Mother Ruan was stunned: "Then, what on earth happened? It can't be that Xile got in by herself...?"
Since she wasn't imprisoned, she was the only one who could have gone in.
But is this possible?
My daughter would only do such a thing if she is crazy!
Mother Ruan couldn't believe that her daughter would go into this grave by herself.
Lin Xi heard this and suddenly said something.
"Besides man-made events, there are also accidents."
Whether he was imprisoned in the tomb or Ruan Xile moved in, it can be attributed to "man-made".
However, some situations are beyond human control.
For example, accidents.
When Mother Ruan and others heard this, they were immediately surprised.
Accident?
What does this mean?
The problem is that nothing unexpected happened on the morning of their wedding.
Seeing that they still didn't understand, Lin Xi had no choice but to speak frankly.
"On the day of the bride's arrival, did your motorcade encounter a funeral procession?"
Mother Ruan and the others were still thinking about it, but Yin Zhongyu's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he immediately said.
"Yes, we did encounter a funeral convoy that day!"
And the place where we met was the same intersection as before.
When talking about this matter, Yin Zhongyu still feels a little unlucky.
After all, in the public's perception, funerals, that is, when someone dies, are somewhat unlucky.
Whenever he met someone, he had to go to get rid of his bad luck before going home, not to mention that it was the wedding day of Yin Zhongyu and Ruan Xile.
At that time, the two of them were sitting in the wedding car, which was the second seat in the motorcade.
At the front is the photography team invited to record the wedding.
When they passed the previous intersection, the first people to see the funeral procession were the photographers. However, because they happened to pass the traffic light at that time, Yin Zhongyu and his car was a second late and did not dare to drive forward, so they could only stop and wait for the green light.
In this way, the wedding car of Yin Zhongyu and his wife will be at the front of the line.
While waiting for the traffic light, Yin Zhongyu saw the funeral procession on the right side of the road, and his face suddenly looked a little unhappy.
It would definitely be considered unlucky to encounter a funeral procession on a happy occasion. Moreover, they were at a crossroads with the funeral procession at that intersection, so the funeral procession had to pass in front of their procession if it wanted to move forward.
In this way, Yin Zhongyu and Ruan Xile would directly see the car containing the dead body.
Even just passing by them makes me feel uncomfortable.
At this time, they really had no way to avoid it. There was a red light in front of them and other vehicles in the convoy were blocking the way behind them. Where else could they hide?
So Yin Zhongyu could only tell Ruan Xile that when the funeral procession passed by, they should close their eyes, thus deceiving themselves. If they didn't see it, it was the same as not encountering it.
Ruan Xile didn't say anything at the time, so Yin Zhongyu thought she also agreed with his proposal.
So when the funeral procession's vehicles started moving, Yin Zhongyu immediately closed his eyes, calculated the time, and opened his eyes again when he thought the funeral procession's vehicles should have passed.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he found that the funeral procession had indeed left.
Actually, if you think about it, it doesn't seem like a big deal. It's just a coincidence that we encountered a funeral procession.
Someone dies every second in the world, and seeing dead people is not a very rare thing.
So Yin Zhongyu quickly put this matter behind him.
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