Taoyuan Little Miracle Doctor

Chapter 111 Sending cattle and horses on the road to the underworld

All things are sentient.

Even the gray wolf, who is regarded as ruthless and cold-blooded, is no exception.

It's just that many times, people don't understand the way they express their feelings.

Just like Wang Chen's situation at this time.

If he hadn't heard the story his grandfather told him, he probably wouldn't have known that the male wolf gave him his teeth as a gift to recognize him as a friend.

If you hadn't experienced this kind of thing personally, I'm afraid no one would believe that people can actually become friends with wolves.

However, Wang Chen was not prepared to let others believe it, because he was not prepared to tell the matter at all.

After putting the wolf fang in his pocket, he pulled a strip of cloth from the rotten clothes and wrapped it around the wound on his arm.

Wounds in summer are easily inflamed. Although they are not deep, if not treated, they will cause a lot of trouble to Wang Chen.

After the bandage was completed, he picked up the wolf cub on the ground.

Wang Chen still couldn't figure out the mother wolf's intention of leaving the cub behind.

He didn't know whether the mother wolf gave him the cubs or let him take care of them temporarily.

But these are no longer important.

He has become friends with the wolf, no matter which one it is, he will take good care of the little wolf cub.

Moreover, even if these things did not happen, he would not sit idly by and watch.

The benevolence of doctors, no matter what, is still a living life.

The little wolf cub may have eaten enough, or it may have felt that it was out of danger. After being picked up by Wang Chen, it lay in his arms and fell asleep.

Wang Chen looked at it with a smile, then looked at the direction where the gray wolf left for a while, and then ran down the mountain.

Originally, Wang Chen wanted to leave the wolf cub to Li Qian's care first, but when he passed by Zhang Hu's house, he found that they had turned off the lights and closed the door.

After some thought, he went to the empty house of Widow Yang's house.

He found a cardboard box, simply laid some things on it, and then placed the little wolf cub inside.

Looking at the little wolf cub who was still sleeping, Wang Chen smiled and said, "You stay here for one night. I will come to you tomorrow after I have taken care of Uncle Quan Zhu's funeral affairs."

After saying that, he closed the lid of the box and pressed a few small wooden boards on top while leaving a gap to prevent the little wolf cub from jumping out and getting lost.

After all this was done, Wang Chen rode back to Zhang Tong's home.

Several relatives of Zhang Tong's family lived in the house, while Wang Chen and Zhang Tong stayed at the tomb.

Zhang Tong was very sad and lost her usual liveliness. Seeing her tears running dry, Wang Chen didn't know how to comfort her.

In fact, he understood that any words he could say at this time were useless.

Simply, it would be better to let her vent.

Crying is the most direct and simple way to release emotions.

The customs in the village are very complicated. The vigil the night before the funeral does not consist of just standing next to the coffin. There are also some things that must be done.

Among them, three things are the most important.

[-]. 'Send cattle and horses'!
Regarding this custom, there are two different opinions in the village.

One is that before a person dies and is buried, a ghost will come to lock the soul, and the ghost is the legendary bull-headed horse face.

The bull-headed and horse-faced people do not come from both, but are divided into genders. For example, if a woman dies, then the horse-faced person comes. The old man said that women belong to yin and horse-faced people belong to yang. Only one yin and one yang can step into the underworld.

On the contrary, if the person who dies is a man, then what comes is a bull’s head. Men belong to yang and bull’s heads belong to yin, which means one yin and one yang.

Another statement is somewhat similar to the previous one. The same thing is that they both use the principle of one yin and one yang. The difference is that the cows and horses are not here to lock the soul, but to send it away.The cows and horses in these two statements are all made of paper.

No matter which version is used, paper cows are burned when men die, and paper horses are burned when women die.

The process of sending cattle and horses also involves the second custom, which is the underworld.

The so-called road to the underworld is to prepare some sawdust, pour some gasoline on it, sprinkle it along the road according to the prescribed route of the funeral, and light it.

In this way, a line of flames formed on both sides of the road, illuminating the road for sending cattle and horses.

There are some small details in these two statements.

For example, the length of the road to the underworld is 99 steps, and the place where the cattle and horses are burned must be on 1 step.

Before burning, a small bridge must be built with sorghum poles. The old man said that the bridge is the Naihe Bridge in the myth.

[-]:[-] midnight.

Wang Chen placed the mixed mixture of gasoline and sawdust at the door.

He turned around and walked inside, placing the paper cow next to the coffin.

Zhang Tong, on the other hand, first lit incense in front of the coffin, and then took a basin filled with water and hay and shook it under the cow's mouth a few times, implying that the cow would be full and take her father on the road.

When the incense was half burned, she patted the coffin and murmured, "Dad is on his way." '

After three calls, she led the paper cow out.

Wang Chen walked in front of her, lighting a mixture of gasoline and sawdust along the way.

After taking 99 steps, Wang Chen stopped.

He took out the sorghum poles prepared in advance and built a very simple bridge.

When he just finished, Zhang Tong came over with the paper cow.

She placed the paper cow in front of the bridge, knelt down, and burned the paper while crying.

The next step should be to burn the paper cow and the bridge together after burning the paper.

However, no matter how Wang Chen and Zhang Tong lit the fire, the paper cow could not be lit. It was either blown out by the wind, or the paper cow fell down and was destroyed just after it was lit.

Even though he was his biological father, Zhang Tong was so frightened that his face turned pale when he saw such a scene.

"Brother Chen, what...what's going on?"

Wang Chen twitched the corners of his mouth twice. Even though he was an atheist, he still had a chilling feeling when he encountered this scene.

However, he is a man.

No matter how scared you are, you have to stand up now, not to mention, the matter will eventually be solved.

He thought for a while and asked: "Did we make any mistakes during our process?"

Zhang Tong said tremblingly: "No, I did it according to Mr. Li's instructions."

Wang Chen scratched his head: "Maybe it's because Uncle Quan Zhu was a little reluctant to see you before he died."

"Then... what should we do?" Zhang Tong muttered with a pale face: "Although I don't want my dad to leave just like this, but Grandpa Li said that if the mistake is not corrected, the family will definitely be uneasy. . It’s not good for me, my mom, or my dad.”

Wang Chen frowned and thought hard: "Kneel down and talk to your father."

Zhang Tong knelt down and cried without thinking.

Wang Chen also knelt beside him and said piously: "Uncle Quanzhu, I know you can't let go of Nizi and Aunt Xiaoyan.
But you are dead after all, and staying here will not only do them no good, but will also bring them bad things.

Uncle Quanzhu, let's go, Aunt Xiaoyan and Nizi, I will help you take care of them and won't let them be bullied again. "

(End of this chapter)