C1 Rules
People were divided into different classes, and the corpses were judged to be good or bad!
My profession was very special. In the words passed down from the previous generation, it was called the Corpse Measuring Man. To put it bluntly, it was just to measure the body of a dead person and make a birthday dress for them!
However, I was only responsible for measuring the body, but I didn't make a birthday dress! Moreover, not everyone in this profession was called the Corpse Measuring Man!
I never measured the body of the dead! Instead, I only measured the bodies of those who suddenly died at a young age! For example, accidents, illnesses, murder, and so on. Only those who were not in good health could make me measure their bodies!
Actually, Corpse Measuring Man didn't just have the skill of measuring the body! At the same time, we could also see a lot of things from the corpses!
As the saying goes, the cold of the corpse knows the life of its master, and the change of the corpse breaks the Yin and Yang!
From the minute changes on the corpse, we could see some things that were about to happen!
For example, the fortune of the younger generation, or whether the deceased was willing to let go of the resentment in his chest and leave!
Because I had been in contact with people who had died in a car accident for a long time, there were some indescribable things on my body that were destined to not be peaceful for my entire life!
As the saying goes, there are rules for every profession! We, Corpse Measuring Man, were no exception!
Actually, because we had to deal with the dead frequently, we had to avoid a lot of things!
The most important thing was that before becoming a Corpse Measuring Man, you had to measure your body at midnight on the first day of the new year! Then, you had to personally make your birthday dress before the seventh day of the new year!
In our lifetime, we can only make one type of birthday clothes for one person! That is us!
The Corpse Measuring Man burning incense was different from others! Other people would usually offer three incense sticks to the deceased, but we, the Corpse Measuring Man, would burn seven.
Because people were most afraid of shortness of life, and ghosts were most afraid of shortness of life!
Once the incense stick was short, we would not say a word and turn around to leave. No matter who called us, we would never turn back!
Once we turned back, we might never be able to come back in this lifetime!
I heard from my father that when my uncle was measuring the corpse for someone else, he made such a mistake! In the end, he almost lost his life!
At that time, my uncle was only in his thirties, and he was in his prime! Moreover, our Chen Family Corpse Measuring Man could be considered to be a very famous family in the surrounding villages! If something like that happened in the surrounding villages, they would all come to our house to ask us to help them measure the corpse!
That time, my uncle was the one who went!
Because the victim of that time was not someone from our village, and the other party’s family was also quite far away from our village, my uncle had long since followed the person who came to invite him out.
Because my uncle was careless, when he went out, my grandfather had repeatedly told him to do things according to the rules.
My uncle just casually responded and left.
It was almost evening when he arrived at the entrance of the village. However, he did not enter the village. He remembered the rules of the Corpse Measuring Man: Corpse Measuring Man would not measure the corpse during the day!
Therefore, he waited outside the village until nightfall before entering the victim's house.
The moment the victim saw that his uncle had gone, he was naturally very happy! He first gave his uncle a big red packet, then he said a lot of good words!
He took someone's money to help him get out of trouble!
Since his uncle had accepted the money, he could only do his job properly.
Therefore, he took out seven incense sticks and lit them in the incense burner. Then, he quietly stared at the three incense sticks.
As the incense stick burned longer and longer, the incense stick did not have any short or long incense sticks!
In this way, his uncle was relieved and no longer cared about the incense stick that was still burning!
In his opinion, the incense stick had already burned to this extent. Even if there were any changes, it would not change much! Therefore, he took out a ruler and started to measure the corpse.
However, he did not notice that the seven incense sticks were slowly changing into short and long incense sticks.
To measure a corpse, one needed to move the corpse's hands and feet.
At the beginning, his uncle did not realize that something was wrong. However, as time passed, he realized that the corpse in front of him seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. In the end, he used all his strength, but he could not even lift up one of his opponent's arms!
[That shouldn’t be!]
While Uncle was still confused about what was going on, he noticed that the shape of the incense stick was exactly the same as the legendary three short and four long!
His heart was in his throat when he saw the incense stick!
[It’s said that one shouldn’t touch a corpse with three short and four long! However, not only did I touch it, I even touched it for a long time!]
Just as he was about to follow the rules and turn around to leave, he suddenly felt something tripping him. He fell on the corpse with a thud. His face was almost touching the corpse’s face!
Just as Uncle was about to get up, he suddenly noticed that the corpse’s eyes were slowly opening. A pair of pitch-black eyes were staring at him.
Uncle was panicking when he saw this scene!
Just as he was about to react, the corpse suddenly exhaled.
Those with experience knew that after a person died, they would inhale a breath of air. It was commonly known as miasma!
This miasma was the last remnant of the person’s will in the world. It was very evil! No matter who it was, if they were touched by this miasma, they would be unlucky for three years. They would be unlucky for three years! It was like drinking cold water and stuffing their teeth! The more serious ones would get sick! They might even die!
That was why many people would turn their back to the corpse when they were carrying it into the coffin. They would rely on the command of the person behind the corpse to put the corpse in the coffin! That was to avoid the miasma!
However, Uncle was unable to avoid the miasma. Not only that, he had accidentally inhaled some of the miasma into his body!
Instantly, his eyes rolled over and he lost consciousness! There were no eyeballs left in his eyes. All that was left were white eyeballs!
When they saw this situation, the people in the victim’s family panicked! When had they ever experienced something like this?
When they were at their wit’s end, they hurriedly arranged for someone to carry Uncle and run back to our house.
By the time that person brought Uncle back, it was already midnight! The people in the house were almost asleep.
After being woken up by that person, Grandpa was the first to run out. When he saw Uncle in such a state, he hurriedly told my father to carry Uncle onto the bed and lie down. Only then did he ask the person who brought Uncle back what had happened.
Although that person didn’t know why Uncle had suddenly fainted, he still told his family about what he had seen!
After hearing that person’s story, Grandpa and my father’s expressions changed! They understood that Uncle’s expression changed when he saw the incense stick. He must have found something on the incense stick!
Therefore, his grandfather asked his father to follow that person back to continue measuring the Corpse Measuring Man. The Corpse Measuring Man could either not be measured or must be measured. There was no reason to measure half of it!
This was very bad for the family of the victim! The children born in the future would have the highest chance of dying prematurely! Although this matter had nothing to do with our family, we still have to live up to our conscience!
His father agreed and left with that person in a hurry.
His grandfather walked in front of the ancestral tablet and grabbed a handful of ash from the incense burner and placed it in a small bowl. He also added some water into the small bowl and stirred it casually. Then, he drank it for his uncle.
His grandfather's method was actually the simplest method. As long as his uncle drank the bowl of water with the ash and spat out a few mouthfuls of black water, nothing would happen.
However, the truth was indeed so!
After his uncle drank the water in the bowl, he started to vomit. However, what he vomited was not black water, but large mouthfuls of blood!
