Chapter 1167: She Would Pick the Bones
Soon, they had already halfway through the digging process and the red lid of the coffin could be seen.
He Xiyan stood in front of the grave and placed a hand over her chest. She felt as though her heart was about to burst out of her chest.
Yuan Yuan helped to support his mother. He was afraid that his mother would faint from her sorrow.
He was not afraid of the coffin being opened since he did not believe in ghosts and otherworldly beings.
“Please be careful not to damage the coffin,” He Xiyan said hoa.r.s.ely.
It was considered bad luck if the ax were to hit the coffin when they were digging up the coffin, signifying bad luck for the gravediggers.
These men were professional grave diggers, so they would not commit such an amateur mistake.
They finished digging up the grave 30 minutes later and He Xiyan saw the bright red coffin in its entirety.
She still remembered accompanying her mother to buy the coffin. Her father had pa.s.sed away so suddenly that they were completely caught off guard.
Her mother had bought the most expensive coffin.
Then, it was time to open the coffin and pick on the bones.
The staff from the funeral services company brought a big black umbrella over. The umbrella was very big and it could almost cover the entire grave.
He Xiyan knelt in front of the grave. The men in the family were supposed to pick the bones of the deceased and according to local tradition, this was usually performed by the son or son-in-law of the deceased but He Xiyan didn’t have a brother or a husband. Su Ye was the most suitable candidate to perform this job but was usually so busy and lived abroad with Man Man, so she didn’t invite them because she didn’t want to impose on them.
He Xiyan decided that she would pick the bones herself. There was nothing to be afraid of since they were her biological parents and they wouldn’t scare her.
Soon, the two men lifted the lid of the coffin.
Yuan Yuan suddenly took two steps backward the moment the lid was lifted. He was still a child after all, so he felt a little afraid when he saw the white bones.
He Xiyan took a deep breath.
She saw the bones of her father in the coffin. His body had decomposed a long time ago and his bones were all that was left of him.
She saw her father’s skull and the red robe he had worn when he was placed in the coffin. According to custom, men were supposed to wear red and women were supposed to wear green when they were buried.
He Xiyan knelt in front of the grave and carefully picked her father’s bones out. His bones had already scattered and they were no longer a structured set of bones. She picked up his femur, then his rib bones, his arm bones, before she finally picked up his skull.
Her hands trembled as she picked her father’s bones. She felt as though her heart was about to stop beating because all she could think about was her father when he was alive. She remembered his straight and upright back, callused hands, and his deep-set eyes that were as black as ink.
Now, he was reduced to a pile of bones and the color of his bones was black as though they would decay if they were left untouched for another couple of years.
It usually took slightly more than 10 minutes to pick those bones but He Xiyan spent almost 30 minutes picking the bones. After she was done, she had to be supported back to her feet by the staff from the funeral services company. She was a little unsteady on her feet because she had spent such a long time on her knees.
“Mom…” Yuan Yuan quickly stepped forward to hold on to his mother’s arm.
The fengshui master, Mr. Liu approached them. He sighed loudly before he shook his head and said, “The negative energy is so strong here that his bones have turned black. It is not a suitable place for burial. We should bury him at the foot of another hill.”
He Xiyan nodded in agreement. She agreed that there was something disturbing about the color of his bones.
Soon, they started to work on the second grave.