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The Chinese Mourner

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By dawjacksonPublished 2 years ago 7 min read
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The funeral industry is very delicate, especially in ancient times, the selection of the yin house even more than the selection of the yang house people pay attention to.

But in modern times, because the state advocates cremation, this industry also followed the decline. Young people, not to mention doing this line, some people have not even heard of.

And I, considered an exception.

My name is Jing Offer Ran, twenty-five years old, go Yin Yang has been five years, is also considered the son of his father's business.

Many people say that this line of work often deal with the dead is too bad luck, but I do not think anything. Although cremation has been popularized, but the earth burial still exists. In addition, not many people do this line, competition is not big, there is no problem to support the family.

More importantly, it is much freer than those who work, when the store is open, depends on when I wake up.

Of course, there are also times when you are half dead tired, take this time, working for five or six days to sleep for more than ten hours. It's hard to catch up on sleep, but before I wake up naturally, I was woken up by a series of urgent knocking on the door.

This situation is very angry, with dissatisfaction will open the door, but see Zhang Mei is anxious face standing at the door.

Zhang beautiful is a big five thick man, the family business coffin, and I in a street. Because his parents are rich, he grew up spoiled, doing nothing to wander around all day.

In fact, I have always wondered why a man to give such a name without any sense of incongruity, but asked several times, did not get the desired answer, and finally no longer care about this.

Looking at the trance-like Zhang Mei, I yawned and asked him what was going on, early in the morning is not to come over to call for life.

Zhang beautiful face tense incomparable, held half a day this just said: "Xiu Ran, I'm in trouble ......"

This guy although more than twenty people, but because of the spoiled reason, mentally still a little immature. Once in people have ordered the coffin carved on top of their own name, for this matter, his family will kick him out, those days are following me crowded in a **.

This time I do not know what has been done again, sit on the bench and ask him how it happened, is not carved on the coffin something.

But Zhang Mei Li shook his head repeatedly

head, said nervously, "Not this, it's something else."

"What is it?" I did not take it seriously and asked absentmindedly.

Zhang Meiyi stammered for half a day and didn't say anything, hurriedly closed the store door, and then stood in front of me and suddenly took off her T-shirt.

This action also really scared me, did not understand what Zhang Mei wanted to do, he turned around and turned his back to me.

In his back, there was a black handprint.

The handprint is about the same size as an adult, but it has been scratched open, but the flesh and blood under the skin is still black.

This scene looked creepy to me, shivered and asked him what he had done something unethical, how the back would appear such a thing.

Zhang beautiful sitting next to me bare-chested, shivering feel out a packet of soft China, himself smoked one, handed the rest to me, trembling and said: "A few days ago someone hit a coffin said to move the grave, I thought this thing should be very simple, I concealed my parents to deal with the past ...... "

Moving the grave this thing is very delicate, determine the hour, a large family of people to wear mourning early waiting in front of the old grave, and so take the yin and Yang gentleman settled before the coffin to pick up the bones.

But Zhang Mei past, the coffin has long been excavated, placed in the open space above, and at the side of the coffin stood only a man who did not wear any mourning clothes.

This line of experienced encounter this kind of thing, will certainly directly turn head away.

But Zhang beautiful after all is not walking yin and yang, the way of this is not clear, but pretend to look like a Taoist master, not only blind command, but also personally help the subject to the skeleton for a coffin.

After the grave is moved, they put a string of cannonballs on the hastily. But when he left the grave, he felt a little uncomfortable, his back vaguely have a kind of hot burning sensation.

Nervous Zhang Meiyi also did not take this matter to heart, the family drove back under the gratitude of the subject.

After returning home and having dinner, he intended to take a shower and go to bed, but just took off his clothes and found a black handprint on his back inside the mirror.

When it comes to this kind of situation, everyone knows that this thing is definitely not simple

The actual handprints are not simple.

When he realized that things were not good, he frantically wiped the handprint on his back, but the wipe did not fade a bit for half an hour.

The uneasiness in his heart gradually turned into panic, and seeing no way to wipe down, he scratched with his hands like crazy. Under the scratching blood flowing, the black handprint not only did not disappear, but also more obvious up.

This thing almost did not scare him to death, and then burned incense and worship Buddha, the handprint still did not disappear. Because I did not dare to tell my family, and the gentleman who took the yin and yang only knew me, so he drove over early in the morning.

When he finished, I have almost figured out.

Although we deal with the dead in this business, but do not believe in what the ghosts and gods say.

Zhang Mei encountered this situation is not the ghosts and monsters, but the so-called bad luck. From the degree of bad luck that has spread to the flesh and blood inside, Zhang Mei is not bad luck okay, if bad luck, it is fatal.

After saying this thing, just put the clothes on Zhang Mei suddenly went limp, grabbed my pants and asked me how I should solve this thing.

Let him not be afraid, I said: "You say this thing is simple and simple, complex and complex, that the owner should also have suffered this, but the transfer of bad luck to your body, certainly need a medium, you think about it, there is nothing from the owner's home to take."

"No ah." Zhang beautiful head shook like a rattle and said, "I gave me some reward when I left, and two packs of cigarettes, just that soft Chinese, you also smoked, there is nothing to do ah."

At this juncture, Zhang Mei certainly did not dare to lie to me.

Squinting eyes for a long time, this will cast a look outside the van.

The summer wear less, the owner of the matter is not likely to do anything explicitly in the Zhang beautiful body tampering. Now the only possibility, fear is in this car tampering.

Thinking I went out to open the door, a rotten smelly smell instantly swept away. Pinching his nose to see Zhang beautiful face bewildered, I did not ask, hold your breath on the car rummaging up.

Conspicuous place nothing found, and finally the seat cover lifted, only to see the following pressed with a corpse smell of blue clothes.

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