ghost craftsman

Chapter 6 That Coffin
To be honest, I have never seen a person with such a rich expression. When Wei Dezhen saw that his brother agreed, his originally angry face immediately became extremely tender. After expressing a big thank you, I handed over another 1 yuan to the senior brother, saying that she would wait for the senior brother at home tomorrow.

The senior brother gave up in disgust and sent Wei Dezhen away.

After Wei Dezhen left, I asked my brother: "Didn't you like Wei Dezhen before, why did you still charge money?"

He asked me back, is it wrong to collect money for the coffin?
In an instant, I immediately understood why Wei Dezhen was not with my senior brother.

Afterwards, I asked my senior brother why he refused to open Wei Dezhen's coffin. The senior brother only said one sentence, saying that some coffins cannot be opened, and then walked straight to the second floor.

In the early morning of the next day, which was Monday, I was going to go to school, but my brother stopped me. He said to me: "I will ask the school for a day off today, and I will go to Wei Dezhen's house with me later."

I was a bit reluctant, and was about to speak, but my brother didn't give me a chance to speak, so he said, "That's the decision."

Hearing this, I froze in place, extremely unwilling in my heart, but my senior brother has already said so, what else can I say, I eat, drink, and scatter at my senior brother's house, so I can't refuse him, that would be too ungrateful, let alone My father originally sent me to learn art, not to school.

At that moment, I hummed and said that I was going to school to ask for leave, but my brother gave up and said, "No need, I already asked for leave for you yesterday afternoon."

Afterwards, I washed up with my brother, and left at about 07:30.It is worth mentioning that before going out, the brother meditated in front of the patriarch for half an hour, and I kept muttering something, but I couldn't hear it clearly. It seemed to be reciting some scriptures or praying.

The village where Wei Dezhen lives is a little far from the town, probably seven or eight miles away. I thought my brother would definitely rent a motorcycle to go there, but my brother said that you can’t use external force to beat the coffin at home. It will ruin the blessing of the owner. One footprint walked over.

On the way, my senior brother told me a lot about coffin-making techniques.He told me that you should not ignore some steps in the pursuit of speed when making a coffin. He also told me that the coffin is a house in the underworld, and you cannot use nails on it. Sprinkling a handful of the sun on the head of the deceased will break the blessing of the deceased in the afterlife.

I was puzzled at the time. I remember that some carpenters in our village couldn’t move the nails when they were building coffins. Besides, after the deceased was put into the coffin, they would rivet in a few longevity nails. Those longevity nails were also nails.

The explanation given to me by my brother was that only a low-level carpenter would do such a rough job, and a craftsman like him would not do such a low-level job. The coffin is closed.

When he mentioned the word "Ghost Craftsman", Rao was a calm senior brother, with a bit of pride on his face.

When we came to the village where Wei Dezhen lived, Wei Dezhen changed her attitude from yesterday and showed great respect to her brother. Even I was honored by my brother. She first gave him a red envelope, and then gave me a red envelope. .

I squeezed it, the red envelope is a bit heavy, it is estimated to cost dozens of dollars.

I don't understand. It's a bit bad to get a red envelope before work starts.The brother said, this red envelope is a red envelope for starting work, usually helping people to make a coffin, this red envelope must be given by the owner, as for the amount of red envelope, it depends entirely on the owner's meaning.

I didn't think much about it at that time, I took the red envelope and stuffed it in the pocket behind my buttocks.

Seeing us putting away the red envelopes, Wei Dezhen smiled, and quickly invited us in, and brought us two bowls of noodles. To my dismay, the bowl of noodles she brought to the senior brother contained six eggs, and I There is only one egg in this bowl of noodles, which is very small.

I muttered, "This is too obvious!"

The senior brother glared at me, and I was so scared that I quickly lowered my head to eat noodles, and Wei Dezhen said from the side, "Don't be convinced, little bastard, this is the treatment of Dagong. It would be nice if I can give you a meal."

After breakfast, Wei Dezhen sat down across from us. She didn't know what happened. She seemed a little excited. First, she stroked the loose hair on her forehead, and then said to my brother with a solemn expression: "Master Wang, We met once, this time please be sure to beat the coffin with your heart."

"Don't tell me, it's better to call Wang Mazi, it's more pleasing to the ears." The senior brother was still angry with Wei Dezhen's behavior yesterday, and said something eccentric.

Then Wei Dezhen was taken aback, smiled awkwardly, and said: "Master Wang, I had no choice but to do it yesterday, because you chased me before, so don't bother with me, at most, wait until the coffin is finished." ,I marry you."

As soon as I heard it, the noodles spurted out from my mouth, and I stared at them both in amazement, and the senior brother was even more exaggerated, almost didn't jump up, and hurriedly said: "No, no, absolutely no."

Wei Dezhen's expression shrank, and he sighed deeply, "You really despise me."

"No, nothing." The senior brother panicked.

I watched all this from the sidelines, and I was very puzzled in my heart. My brother has always given me the impression that the clouds are calm and the wind is breezy, and he seldom pays attention to certain things, but when it comes to Wei Dezhen's matter, he shows a bit of a boy. Some are shy, especially the sentence just now that there is nothing to do, which is so unashamed.

"Since you don't dislike it, then you marry me." Wei Dezhen leaned over, stared straight at the senior brother, and said, "I know you haven't married a wife and had children all these years, but you were waiting for me. Back then, I..."

Before she finished speaking, the senior brother seemed to have returned to normal, and quickly stopped and said: "Don't mention this, let's discuss the coffin first."

As he said that, the senior brother was stunned, and said in a deep voice, "Are you sure you want to open that kind of coffin?"

She nodded and said: "Okay, you also know that my man has been dead for almost three years, but in the past three years, I have often dreamed that he brought a few boys and told me that they lived separately down there, and it was very lonely." ,I…."

Speaking of sad, Wei Dezhen even wiped away tears, I couldn't bear to see it, so I pushed my senior brother.

The brother turned his head and gave me a look, and said: "But... once you hit that kind of coffin, your life will be ruined. You are still young, so there is no need to spend the rest of your life for a dead person."

"Since I'm married to him, now that he's dead, I naturally want him to have a better life down there." Wei Dezhen said slowly.

These words seem to be very light, but to me, there is some meaning in it. If Wei Dezhen gave me the impression of a shrew yesterday, today she completely subverts my perception.However, it's right to think about it, if Wei Dezhen is really such a shrew, and the senior brother doesn't like her, it is estimated that there is really no other way, so he made such a bad plan.

The senior brother sighed, nodded and said: "Alright then, since you've already made up your mind, I won't stop you."

As he said that, the senior brother got up slowly and gave me a pull, "Chuanzi, follow me to the back mountain to find wood for a coffin."

I was taken aback for a moment, and asked puzzledly, "Aren't all the coffins made of sun-dried wood?"

He glanced at me and explained: "General coffins are indeed made of sun-dried wood, but this coffin is different from ordinary coffins, and the materials naturally cannot be ordinary wood."

(End of this chapter)