My master is invincible

Chapter 1013 Colorful Coffin (136)

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, Li Jiangang and the others had already placed the coffin on the ground, with two logs under it, and firecrackers were being set off beside it. A group of people bowed to the colorful coffin and burned yellow paper, while You Tianming and others played suona on the side.

I knew that this was a coffin park, and the real funeral would only be considered after the meal, so I walked over to Li Jiangang and asked, "Is there anything unusual about the coffin just now?"

He put down the yellow paper in his hand, "Nothing unusual, no different from an ordinary coffin."

Hearing this, I breathed a sigh of relief, and took the seven boys and arranged them next to the colorful coffin according to the method of four boys standing on the left and three girls standing on the right, and I took it from Li Jiangang. The yellow paper made them and the Eight Immortals stand in front of the coffin.

After preparing all this, I chanted some words to the coffin, burned some yellow paper, and finally made everyone who participated in carrying the coffin and playing the suona kneel down.

I do this as coffin worship, which means kneeling down to the dead, so that the dead will not do anything wrong on the road, and bless the journey smoothly.

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

Hell.

I turned my head to look again, but there was still no one there, but the feeling was getting stronger each time.

This made me a little confused, and I felt that this was not a good omen, my face sank, and I stomped my right foot on the ground, and said in a low voice: "The name is Geng Qianqiu, a descendant of Guangqi, Yeyuejuan, smiling Jiuquan, upright and bright, the sky does not leave one, the old has the right to life, the virtues die, the virtues are in the UK, and the name will last forever."

This time I read it in four characters, which roughly means that the deceased is back to bed, don't make troubles, and the lonely ghosts passing by don't make plans for the coffin.

After reading this word, my complexion sank again, I lit seven pieces of yellow paper, walked around the coffin on seven-star steps, and when the yellow paper was almost burnt out, I immediately threw the yellow paper under the coffin and lit another. For the white wax, it was inserted at the front of the coffin, and finally a red rope was found and tied to the hemp rope at the end of the coffin.

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

I told him that the red string is for hanging happiness.

He asked me again, the deceased did not come back to bed at the end of his life, and the happy event did not arouse the resentment of the deceased.

I thought for a while and explained: "This time the journey is far away, and there will inevitably be some happy events on the journey. If you encounter someone else getting married, wouldn't that be a bad luck for someone else? If you want to be happy, it can be regarded as accumulating virtue!"

I say this because there is an unwritten rule in our village that white weddings must give way to red weddings, and the journey from Shanghe Village to Qiping Town is too far. I'm not sure whether there will be a happy event.

Once they meet, the colorful coffin has a happy ending, so it won't embarrass the other party.

You know, when a red wedding event meets a white wedding event, if the owner of the red wedding event disagrees, it will be a big deal.

After all, coffins are something that everyone doesn't like very much, especially for weddings, even talking about coffins is a taboo.

When Li Jiangang heard what I said, he nodded, stretched out his hand and pulled me, motioning for me to speak to the side.

I looked at him suspiciously and asked, "What can't be said here?"

He was taken aback, and said in a low voice, "About the cost of carrying the coffin."

Hearing this, I was a little stunned. I have been busy with the funeral for a while, and I forgot the fee. People like Lang Gao, Yang Yan, and Chen Erbei didn't feel much about the fee, but Li Jiangang, Feng Tiaoyushun The four brothers rely on this door for food, so they said, "How much do you want?"

He smiled awkwardly and said: "Master, don't tell us that we are realistic. Since the funeral, our brothers have used our own money to support living expenses. We have been busy for nearly a week in vain. Now, brothers I just hope to carry the coffin this time to earn some living money."

I hummed and understood their difficulties. They are all rural people. Anyone who doesn’t understand what’s going on here said, “How much does it cost?”

He glanced at me in embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "I heard that the master gave you 15 yuan for the funeral, and during this time, some funeral things have been contracted by Daoxu, even this morning's Breakfast is also contracted by Daoxu, and brothers are not greedy, there are five of us, and the palace lord can just give five thousand."

I thought about it, and his words were not too much, and could even be said to be cheap. After all, it took several days to get from Shanghe Village to Qiping Town, and the coffin was carried, and the five thousand was purely exchanged for labor.

It's just... the 15 yuan has been burned by fire, how can I have money now!
What?

If I told Li Jiangang that he had no money, it would inevitably chill his heart. After all, the 15 yuan was actually handed over to me.

If I told him that the money was burned, not to mention him, even I would not believe it, 15, how could it be burned.

For a while, I was a little embarrassed, and I felt in my pocket. There was a bank card in it. Yang Dalong transferred 2 yuan to this card. I spent some when I was in Fuxian Lake last year, and there were about [-] yuan left. Last night, Lang Gao and I made some money moving bricks in the Eight Immortals Palace, about fifteen thousand or so.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, even if he suffered a little loss, he must not lose Li Jiangang and the others, so he said, "Okay, I will give you five people [-] yuan, and carry the coffin well!"

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

As soon as I saw his smile, I didn't know why, but a flash of relief flashed in my heart.The reason is that, according to Li Jiangang's idea, I took 15 and only distributed [-] to them, but they didn't show any displeasure on their faces.

"Old Li!" I called him, and said in a low voice, "If I said that the 15 yuan was burned, would you believe it?"

I say this, just try him.

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

After finishing speaking, he seemed to think of something, and added: "Palace Master, then the five of us don't want any money."

I gave him a blank look, "Just take the money I gave you!"

Then Li Jiangang wanted to say something, I stopped at him, signaled him not to say any more, then walked to the side of the colorful coffin, and asked the seven boys to bring some yellow paper to the deceased.

After doing all this, it was almost seven in the morning, and all of us went back to the village for breakfast.

Needless to say, the Taoist made this breakfast quite sumptuous, with ten large bowls of dishes, and gave each person who came to have a wedding banquet a towel, a pack of cigarettes, and 12 yuan for the drink.

After we were full of wine and food, we gathered together with the Eight Immortals, roughly talked about the route, and walked towards the entrance of the village in a mighty manner, preparing to carry the coffin to Qiping Town, and the Taoxu arranged for six villagers from Shanghe Village to attend the funeral , took a wreath symbolically, and finally hired four laborers to pull the rickshaw, which was filled with firecracker yellow paper.

When I came to the entrance of the village, I roughly counted it. Including the suona craftsman brought by You Tianming, there were a total of 60 people attending the funeral this time.

Seeing this, I glanced at the main house in Shanghe Village. This funeral has really been going on for a long time, and now it is finally going to be 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 son and daughters. Daoxu said that this matter should be taken care of by him, and that we can carry the deceased on the road with peace of mind.

(End of this chapter)