When they came to the entrance of the village, Li Jiangang and they had put the coffin on the ground, with two logs below, firecrackers were being set off on the side, a group of people were shaking the colorful coffin, burning yellow paper, and You Tianming and others were blowing suona on the side. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

I knew that this was a coffin, and only after the meal could it be regarded as a real funeral, so I walked over to Li Jiangang and asked, "Was there anything unusual about the coffin just now?" ”

He put down the yellow paper in his hand, "It's nothing abnormal, it's no different from an ordinary coffin." ”

Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, so I pulled the seven boys, and arranged them on the edge of the colorful coffin according to the method of four men standing on the left and three women standing on the right, while I took the yellow paper from Li Jiangang's hand, and let them stand in front of the coffin.

Preparing all this, I chanted some words to the coffin, burned some yellow paper, and finally let the people who participated in the coffin carrying and blowing the suona all kneel.

I do this to worship the coffin, which means to bow down to the deceased, so that the deceased will not behave on the road, and bless the smooth journey.

At the moment when the Eight Immortals knelt down, I didn't know what was going on, I suddenly felt as if there was something behind me, and when I turned my head to see it, it was empty, and there was nothing, but the feeling was getting stronger and stronger, as if there was a person standing behind me, and a chill hit my neck.

Hell alive.

I turned my head again and saw that there was still no one, but it felt better and better each time.

This made me a little confused, I felt that this was not a good sign, my face sank, my right foot stomped on the ground, and I said in a low voice: "The name Geng Qianqiu, the descendants of the light, the night moon and the cries, the nine springs with a smile, the righteousness and brightness, the sky is not left behind, the old life is right, the virtue is dead, the virtue is in the UK, and the name is eternal." ”

This time, I read it in four words, which roughly means, the deceased will return to the right place, don't mess around, and don't fight the coffin idea of the lonely souls and wild ghosts passing by.

After reading these words, my face sank again, lit seven pieces of yellow paper, stepped on seven star steps, and circled around the coffin, and when the yellow paper was about to burn out, I immediately threw the yellow paper under the coffin, and lit a pair of white wax, inserted it in the front of the coffin, and finally found a red rope and tied it to the hemp rope at the end of the coffin.

After all this, Li Jiangang asked me, why do you tie the red rope?

I told him that the red rope was a joy.

He asked me again that the deceased did not return to life, and that the joy did not arouse the disgust of the deceased.

I thought for a moment and explained: "This time the journey is far away, and it is inevitable that there will be some happy events on the way. “

I say this because there is an unwritten rule in our rural area, saying that when a white happy event meets a red happy event, the white happy event must give way, and this time we are too far from Shanghe Village to Qiping Town, and no one dares to be sure that we will not encounter a red happy event.

Once encountered, there is joy on this colorful coffin, and it will not embarrass the other party.

You must know that when a red wedding meets a white celebration, the owner of the red wedding will open up if he disagrees.

After all, everyone doesn't like the coffin very much, especially the red happy event, and even talking about the coffin is a taboo.

When Li Jiangang heard me say this, he nodded, stretched out his hand and pulled me, and motioned for me to come to the side to talk.

I looked at him quizzically and asked, "What can't you say here?" ”

He was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice: "About the cost of carrying the coffin this time." ”

As soon as I heard this, I was a little stunned, I had been busy with the funeral during this time, and I actually forgot about the cost this time, I, Lang Gao, Yang Yan, and Chen Erbei didn't have much feeling about the cost, but the four brothers Li Jiangang and Feng Tiaoyu Shun relied on this door to eat, so they said: "How much do you want?" ”

He smiled awkwardly and said, "Palace master, don't talk about our reality, since this funeral, several of our brothers have been using their own money to pay for living expenses, and they have been busy for nearly a week in vain, and now, the brothers are counting on this coffin to earn some living money." ”

I snorted, I can understand their suffering, they are all rural people, who don't understand what is going on here, so they say, "How much does it cost?" ”

He glanced at me embarrassedly, and said in a low voice: "I heard that the main family gave you 150,000 yuan for the funeral, and during this period of time, some funeral things have been contracted by Daoxu, even this morning's breakfast is contracted by Daoxu, and the brothers are not greedy, the five of us, the palace master can give 5,000." ”

I thought about it, his words were not excessive, and they could even be said to be cheap, after all, it would take several days to get from Shanghe Village to Qiping Town, and carrying a coffin, and taking five thousand was purely exchanging labor for money.

It's just that... The 150,000 have been burned by fire, where do I have money now!

What to do?

If you tell Li Jiangang that you don't have any money, it will inevitably chill his heart, after all, the 150,000 yuan is really in my hands.

If you tell him that the money is burned, let alone him, even I don't believe it, 150,000 yuan, how can it be burned.

All of a sudden, I was a little embarrassed, I touched my pocket, there was a bank card in it, Yang Dalong transferred 20,000 yuan to this card, I spent some last year in Fuxian Lake, there was about 10,000 left, plus I and Lang Gao made some money moving bricks in the Eight Immortals Palace, about 15,000.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, even if he suffered a loss, he definitely couldn't lose Li Jiangang and them, so he said: "Okay, give 10,000 to the five of you, and carry the coffin well!" ”

"Thank you, Palace Master!" Then Li Jiangang smiled at me.

As soon as I saw him smiling, I didn't know why, but I felt a flash of relief in my heart. The reason is that, according to Li Jiangang's idea, I took 150,000 yuan and only distributed 10,000 to them, and there was no displeasure on their faces.

"Lao Li!" I called out to him and whispered, "If I say that the 150,000 were burned, would you believe it?" ”

I say that, just to try him.

"Believe, I believe everything the palace master says!" Then Li Jiangang came over and smiled.

After speaking, he seemed to remember something, and added: "Palace master, then the five of us don't need money." ”

I gave him a blank look, "The money I'll give you, just take it!" ”

What else did Li Jiangang want to say, I stopped at him, signaled him to stop talking, and walked over to the side of the colorful coffin, and asked the seven boys to take some yellow paper and burn it to the deceased.

After all this, it was almost seven o'clock in the morning, and we all went back to the village for breakfast.

Not to mention, Nadao made this breakfast quite sumptuous, ten large bowls of dishes, and sent a towel, a pack of cigarettes, and twelve yuan of wine money to each of the people who came to eat and drink.

After being full of wine and food, we gathered around the eight immortals, roughly said the route, and then walked towards the entrance of the village, ready to carry the coffin to Qiping Town, and arranged for six Shanghe Village villagers to be funeral, and symbolically took a wreath, and finally invited four laborers to be responsible for pulling the manpower bucket cart, which was filled with firecrackers and yellow paper.

When I came to the entrance of the village, I roughly counted it, including the suona craftsmen brought by You Tianming, the number of people who came out of the funeral this time was a full sixty.

Seeing this, I glanced at the hall house in Shanghe Village, this funeral has been long enough, and now it is finally going to be a funeral.

It is worth mentioning that before we came to the entrance of the village, I asked Daoxu to dispose of the bodies of the deceased's sons and daughters, and Daoxu said that this matter was on him, so that we could carry the deceased on the road with peace of mind. (To be continued.) )