My master is invincible

Chapter 600 Wind Burial (19)

After thinking about it, I really don't have the financial ability to buy this coffin, so I had the audacity to ask her to lower the price.

She seemed to see my financial predicament, so she said: "Well, you take this coffin first, and wait for the money, and then pay me back when you have money. As for the price, it must not be lower than 15." , because we have the custom of adding money to increase longevity, I hope my youngest son will live a long life, and I hope you can understand."

I nodded, expressing that I understand her difficulties, but buying a coffin has to be careful, and you can't pay for the coffin in arrears, otherwise it will be bad for the deceased.

For a while, neither of us spoke, and we were silent for about a minute. Then Wang Chuyao suddenly spoke, and she said, "Brother Jiu, I have some savings, how about I lend you the money?"

When I heard this, I was taken aback for a moment. I remember that when I was at Su's house, she wrapped me a red envelope, saying that it was all her salary. Why are there savings coming out now?Just say: "No need!"

After I finished speaking, I thought for a while, the coffin is a big deal, I'll talk about the coffin first, as for the funeral expenses, I'll figure it out later, after all, if Meng Ke's body doesn't go into the coffin, something might happen.

At that moment, I said hello to Shi Liu, and asked Chen Tiannan to go to the tent and ask some people to come over and carry the coffin over.

Then Chen Tiannan said good, and walked towards the direction of the tent.

After he left, I remembered Lang Gao's confession, so I said to Shi Liu: "Madam Shi, I want to ask you for a favor."

"What's busy?" she asked.

"I want to set up Meng Ke's mourning hall in a tent two miles away. I hope you can help me convince some villagers in the Wanming Pagoda. As for the place where Meng Ke will be buried, I will pay for the land." I told her my plan. .

After hearing this, she frowned, "This is not easy to handle. Our Wanming Pagoda has never allowed outsiders to hold funerals here, let alone bury us."

"Meng Ke is not an outsider." I explained.

She gave up and said, "She married you in the dark, that is, her married daughter. She can't hold a funeral here, let alone be buried here. Chen Jiu, I may not be able to help you with this matter."

Hearing what she said, I froze for a moment and said, "There is no room for negotiation?"

She shook her head and said, "Other matters may be discussed, but I'm afraid there is no need to discuss funeral matters. This is the rule passed down by the ancestors."

I wanted to say something else, but she directly stopped me from speaking, and said, "Chen Jiu, it's not that I won't help you, but that you have stepped on the bottom line of our Wanming Pagoda, and I hope you will hold Su Mengke's funeral in another place. In addition, remind me You, please, don't do the funeral in secret, otherwise, even if it is buried, it will be dug up."

To be honest, I kind of understand their difficulties. Take our village as an example. If a married daughter is to be buried in our village, our village will definitely not agree.First, it will destroy the Feng Shui of our village, and second, the married daughter will be buried in her natal family, which means returning home, and this returning home means divorce among the people.

Let me ask, with these two taboos in it, who would agree?
Seeing that I didn't speak, Shi Liu said, "Chen Jiu, in my opinion, you'd better take Su Mengke's body to your house! Wanming Pagoda may not be able to accommodate her."

Listening to what she said, I didn't open my mouth. Instead, Wang Chuyao spoke. She said, "According to what you said, if a woman never gets married, there will be no place to bury her after she dies?"

That Shiliu smiled, glanced at Wang Chuyao, and said, "Little girl, what you are talking about is another situation. What we are talking about now is that according to the custom, a married daughter cannot be buried with us. If it is a woman who has never married in her life, she can be buried with us, but a monument must not be erected."

"It's unfair to women." Wang Chuyao muttered.

"It's customary, how can there be any fairness?" Shi Liu said this and didn't say anything more.

In an instant, the whole firewood room fell silent, and no one spoke.

It was quiet for a while. During this period, I have been weighing the pros and cons of the funeral. What Shi Liu said is not unreasonable. It is indeed unreasonable for a married woman to be buried in her mother's house. I cannot break the rules here because of selfishness.

After thinking about it, I decided to take Su Mengke's body back to Hengyang.

Immediately, I told Shi Liu about this plan.

After hearing this, she looked relaxed, and said a lot of things in a mess, basically, let me bury Mengke in a good life, don't treat the woman in Wanming Pagoda badly, and handed me some money, about one thousand and two, Said it was her gift money.

Regarding her gift money, I didn't hesitate at all, and just took it away. There's nothing I can do about it. I'm currently short of money for Meng Ke's funeral.

Afterwards, we chatted for a while, at about 8:15 in the evening, Chen Tiannan led a dozen middle-aged men to come. The first thing he did when he entered the door was to throw the plastic bag in his hand at me. Throwing it over, he said, "Ninth Brother, there are [-] in total, and the other [-] are made up by those bodyguards."

I nodded, thanked those middle-aged men, and handed the money to Shi Liu. She glanced at it roughly, but didn't count it in detail, and asked me to burn some yellow paper in front of the coffin.

I understood what she meant, this was a ceremony of changing owners, so I asked her for yellow paper, burned some yellow paper, and wiped the coffin from top to bottom.

After wiping the coffin, I thanked Shi Liu again, and began to arrange for people to carry the coffin. Since it was empty and there were no dragon ropes, we could only carry the coffin with our hands. The middle-aged man had plenty of strength, so the process of lifting the coffin was relatively easy.

Soon, we returned to the tent with the coffin in hand. Before we entered the tent, Lang Gao rushed out and scolded me when he caught me, "Chen Jiu, why are you crazy? You have to pay for such a good funeral." All the funeral expenses to buy the coffin, why don't you think about what to do next?"

After being scolded by him like this, I was so fucking drunk. Just as I was about to speak, he began to scold again, "I don't know what to say about you, so you can't negotiate the price with her? Even if it's [-] less! You have to Give her all."

"I..., she..." I didn't know how to answer his question at all. After all, Shi Liu made it very clear that she sold the coffin to give her son money and longevity. !Isn't this scolding her son for having a younger life?Perhaps it is for this reason that I am destined not to be a businessman in my life.

"What about me? You're so thin-skinned." Nalang Gao became impatient, and walked up to me, regardless of my carrying the coffin, and said, "How much money do you have with you?"

I thought for a while and said, "Just now that Shiliu gave me a gift, about one thousand and two!"

"Fuck!" He burst into a foul language, "You prodigal son, within a few hours, 15 will make you lose everything."

Listening to his words, I don't know what's going on, I feel that Lang Gao has changed, giving people the feeling of a housekeeper.It wasn't until later that I realized that the reason why Lang Gao changed so quickly was because he had begun to adapt to the status of a knowledgeable guest and treated funerals as a knowledgeable guest. In his coffin career, he has gone farther, and it is because of his existence that there is the later Iron Triangle.

I was stunned for a while, and then I said to him: "Director Lang, I have to trouble you with one more thing. The mourning hall can't be set up here, and I might have to go back to Hengyang."

"What?" He exclaimed, looked at me in disbelief, and said, "Chen Jiu, are you kidding me? Do you know how long it takes to get to Hengyang from here? And do you know how much it costs on the way? Are you fucking Crazy, as an intellectual, I don't recommend you to do this, the cost is too heavy."

(End of this chapter)