Nanmanyuan: "?"
The little girl got angry, her two tiny eyebrows raised: "Which irresponsible person told you this! Tell me! I'll smash him to death with a coffin!"
The premise of having no taboos is that the family is exceptionally firm in their disbelief in these things and is a staunch materialist.
But when she was in the hospital, she heard Yao Xianglu's father say that her mother often consulted fortune tellers and believed in such things. How could she be considered to have no taboos?
Yao Xianglu shrank back and stammered, "This... my mom said it..."
Nan Yuanman: "..."
She clenched her fists in anger and punched them repeatedly on the spot: "You, she, are really going to be the death of me."
"The date of burial after a person's death is very particular. Not only the day, but also the month and hour must be considered. The birth chart of the eldest grandson in the family must be taken into account, and days that clash with the year's ruling animal must be avoided, and so on."
"If the burial date happens to clash with the Tai Sui (Grand Duke Jupiter), it will bring misfortune to the descendants. There are also certain rules regarding the zodiac signs of the people attending the burial!"
She pointed angrily at Yao Xianglu: "You didn't even consider the auspicious date, and just buried her like that, no wonder she'll haunt your whole family from the afterlife!"
No wonder her mother suffered the most severe injuries and almost lost her life!
Nan Yuanman said irritably, "It's fortunate that you have merit, otherwise, given the speed at which this ghostly energy is eroding you, your family of three would have been killed long ago."
Yao Xianglu was stunned. She was young, and her parents usually took care of the family affairs. She had never known that there were so many customs and traditions involved in burial after someone died. Her mind went blank after being scolded: "Then, what should I do?"
Nan Yuanman: "Dig up the grave, exhume the coffin, lay the body in state for three days, perform three days of religious rites to sincerely apologize, then calculate a new auspicious day for burial, and burn a lot of paper money."
She spread her small hands: "You'll have to find another Taoist priest to do all of these. I'm too young to do rituals."
Performing rituals requires an enormous amount of physical exertion, and she simply didn't have the strength to do so.
Upon hearing this, Yao Xianglu felt a little flustered and subconsciously blurted out, "I...I don't know any Taoist priests!"
Nan Yuanman: "..."
Does she already know him?
Seeing Yao Xianglu's bewildered expression, Nan Yuanman sighed heavily like a little adult, and made some calculations with his chubby little hands.
She pointed southeast: "After you return to the village today, walk in the southeast direction, and you will meet a Taoist priest who is destined to be with you. Just ask him to come back and perform a ritual for you."
Yao Xianglu said gratefully, "Okay, thank you, thank you for making it a success."
She reached into her pocket and pulled out five hundred yuan from her back pocket. With an embarrassed expression, she handed the money to her, saying, "I only have five hundred yuan left. Here, take it all as payment."
Nan Yuanman only drew one card: "I'll only accept one hundred, after all, I haven't done anything for you."
"Of course there is! If you hadn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have known there was a problem with the family graves." Yao Xianglu quickly stuffed all the money in her hand into Nan Yuanman's pocket, not giving her a chance to refuse.
Nan Yuanman pursed her lips, looked at her for a while, and took out a purification talisman from her bag and handed it to her: "Here, this is for you. Carry it with you and get some sunshine these next few days. Once the Taoist priest has performed the ritual, your luck will improve."
Yao Xianglu looked touched: "Thank you for the perfect ending."
After a whole day of fussing, it gradually got dark, and Nan Yuanman and Yao Xianglu didn't linger and hurriedly went down the mountain.
When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, the sun had already completely set, and the village buses had stopped running, so the two had no choice but to spend the night in the countryside.
After settling Nan Yuanman at home, Yao Xianglu headed southeast as instructed.
After walking for a while, Yao Xianglu was surprised to find that the house that had been abandoned a year ago near the end of the village had been rebuilt at some point. However, the gate was tightly closed and there was no sound coming from inside, so it seemed that no one lived there.
but……
Yao Xianglu stepped back a little, looked up at the sky, and saw wisps of black smoke rising from the chimney of the house, confirming that someone lived inside.
"Hey? Lulu, what are you standing here for?" A familiar and kind voice suddenly came from behind Yao Xianglu.
Yao Xianglu turned around and saw that it was Aunt Li from her next-door neighbor's house. Aunt Li was carrying a bamboo basket with some wild vegetables in it, so she must have just gone out to dig for wild vegetables.
Aunt Li looked at Yao Xianglu curiously, then gestured slightly with her chin towards the family: "Do you know this family?"
Yao Xianglu shook her head: "I don't know it. I just got back today. I didn't even know when this room appeared. Wasn't this place abandoned a year ago?"
She works in S City for a long time, and even when she goes home, she stays at home playing games, so she is not very aware of the changes in the village.
“Hey, it’s normal that you don’t know them, we don’t know them either.” Aunt Li pulled her along and said mysteriously, “This family suddenly appeared a year ago. They said that a very rich old lady was going to retire in the countryside, so she bought this land and rebuilt a house.”
"We didn't notice when that old lady arrived. She stayed inside all the time and didn't go out. If it weren't for the coughing that kept coming from inside and the smoke coming out of the chimney, we would have thought that the old lady had died in there!"
As Aunt Li spoke, she couldn't help but warn her, "Let me tell you, this family is very strange. You should stay away from their door."
“A few kids from the village were playing shuttlecock nearby. The shuttlecock fell into her yard. When she knocked on the door and no one answered, she climbed over the wall and went in.”
"As soon as they climbed over the wall, they saw the old woman standing below with a long face, glaring at them fiercely. The child was so frightened that he screamed and developed a high fever that night!"
"After that, things went downhill for no reason. Dazhuang almost fell into the water and drowned!"
Yao Xianglu felt a chill run down her spine as she listened, not to mention that her family's problems were still unresolved. She quickly pulled Aunt Li away and asked, "Why didn't my mother tell me about this?"
"Hey, what's the point of telling you young people all this? You wouldn't understand anyway. Didn't your mother go to see a shaman later? It's alright!" Aunt Li gossiped for a few more minutes, and when she learned that she was going to see a shaman, her eyes lit up: "I know!"
“Old Zhang! He lives at the end of our village! Come on, I’ll take you to find him!” Without saying a word, Aunt Li pulled Yao Xianglu and strode forward.
Yao Xianglu tried her best to keep up, but just as she was about to leave, she glanced back as if possessed.
Suddenly, she realized that the tightly closed door had been opened at some point, and a pair of eyes were peering at her through the crack in the door.
Yao Xianglu: "!!!"
Startled, she quickened her pace.
At this moment, behind the door, an elderly woman with gray hair, dressed in a black cheongsam, looked exceptionally elegant as she stared at Yao Xianglu's back before slowly closing the door.
She wore a necklace made of red cord around her neck, with a dark bead hanging at the end.
The bead moved slightly with her movement.
The old woman's cloudy eyes brightened slightly. She raised her hand and gently stroked the bead, her voice hoarse yet incredibly soft: "Little one, are you awake? Are you hungry? Mommy has made food, I'll feed you right away..."
As she gently coaxed him, a wisp of pale golden mist gradually floated out from inside the bead, slowly coalescing into the image of a dazed, adult man...
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