The last book said that Sun Yiheng Sun Xiucai, who opened a longevity shop at home, had the intention of befriending Yang Congxun because of the exorcism of Lu Da's tongue, so he ran to the door to find Yang Congxun in high spirits.

In order to completely dispel Yang Congxun's doubts about himself, Sun Yiheng not only revealed his intentions, but also offered to tell Yang Congxun a story.

Just like Yang Congxun's silk and satin village also bought some spices, fat powder, moon cloth, pancreas and other groceries (most of the customers who came to the silk village to buy fabrics in the past were women), Sun Yiheng's longevity shop not only sells coffins, but also has a lot of related livelihoods such as paper incense candles and groundbreaking.

And the most special one of them is the 'donor officer'.

It is said that the Holy Ancestor Kangxi raised money for the peace of the 'Rebellion of the Three Feudatories', and the first Qing season donation was included in the official road, which has become a practice today.

There are many people in the world who are happy to seek fame and fame, but have no ability to rise to the top, and compete to go to the gate of the household to line up in front of the gate of the household to donate officials, called 'make a trick'.

Affected by this, some large families in the world who have extensive savings also like to donate money to their newly deceased elders who have not yet been buried and have not been admitted to the imperial examination, so that they can wear an official dress when they are buried.

According to Sun Yiheng, the style of this official dress is similar to the crane mending dress and top hat usually worn by first-class civil officials, but the ruby beads on the top of the top of the hat and the flower feather inserted in the feather tube behind the hat are not precious and genuine, and they are only dyed with wooden beads.

According to Sun Yiheng, the head of the household department of the capital made this title of the underworld official very expensive, and it would be difficult to do it without giving away a hundred taels of silver.

But the official who donated the silver in vain is actually just an empty title, and there is no real official to fill the vacancy, and the person who bought the official will only pay a lot of money in exchange for the official dress that has a false appearance.

However, it is the false name of 'you can be buried in official dresses', but it has attracted countless big families in the world to chase after it like a carp crossing the river, and it is also called "seeking a gap for the ancestors"!

Listening to Sun Yiheng, the elders of his family have some ways among the nobles in the capital, and they can exchange the low price of about 30% for the commission of the household to seal the underworld, so they started the business of donating the underworld on behalf of others, and Sun Yiheng The story he is going to tell next is related to this donation of the underworld.

As he was talking, Sun Yiheng suddenly sighed at Yang Congxun: "Presumably, Brother Yang has also learned from the head of the school that Sun does not have the ability to take the test, and the reason why he wants to come to this Guanliu Academy to study is just to touch less of the copper smells at home." ”

However, Sun Yiheng is the only son of the Sun family, and most of the business of this longevity shop will still fall on his shoulders in the future.

Therefore, in addition to reading books with his classmates every day, Sun Yiheng also had to go to the longevity material shop at home every once in a while to take inventory, and the incident happened last month when Sun Yiheng went to the longevity material shop to take inventory.

As the saying goes, 'don't open for three years, open for three years', here is talking about the longevity shop.

Just because in the past, people died like life, and the richer the family, the more important they paid to the coffin for burial.

Listening to Sun Yiheng, the best longevity material that people can usually use is called 'four corners', that is, the cover plate, the bottom plate and the side plates on both sides of the coffin should be cut out with a whole piece of wood, and it is never allowed to use two wooden boards of the same color to put together.

Before the primer on the longevity material, the people who buy the longevity material should come to check whether the longevity material is the 'four corners', and the people who come must see with their own eyes that the four boards of the longevity are indeed cut out of the whole wood, and there are no traces of the board joints and damaged insect eyes before they will be willing to pay for it.

If you want to make a pair of 'four corners', you have to find the right wood for a year or two to get it.

Therefore, in the past, the longevity materials in the longevity material shop were basically customized by customers.

Fujian customs are both cloudy: 'Thirty years of payboard, look at you so bold', which means that if you don't prepare a coffin for yourself after the age of thirty, it is likely that there will be no coffin available in the future, and you will end up naked in the ground.

Unless something happens, few customers will pay for a ready-made coffin in a shoucai shop, and the shoucai shop will not prepare too many ready-made coffins.

Generally, the owner only puts a pair of stocks in the shop, which is not only used as a sample to show the craftsmanship of his carpenter, but also to help those customers who encounter accidents to solve their urgent needs.

When Sun Yiheng went to his own longevity material shop to take inventory, he found that there were no new coffins in the shop in the past few days, and only made a few small businesses such as paper and incense candles.

Seeing this, Sun Yiheng couldn't help but smile.

After all, these paper jobs are not worth much, and Sun Yiheng went to take inventory and check the accounts only to check those big jobs that order life materials and donate to the dead.

This is also a way for the owners to win people's hearts in the past.

Therefore, Sun Yiheng flipped through the account book casually, closed it and handed it back to the account office on duty on the counter, and at the same time began to wonder if he should take advantage of this gap to listen to a play in the theater garden in the city, so as to relax.

However, just as Sun Yiheng was about to get up and leave, a middle-aged man dressed as an outsider with a worried look came to the shop.

After the man was greeted by the guy who specially opened the curtain in the shop to answer the door, he went straight to Sun Yiheng, who was sitting behind the counter, and saluted: "Dare to ask the shopkeeper, can this shop donate a ghost official pattern on behalf of others?" ”

Seeing that it was a big business, Sun Yiheng quickly stood up and greeted the guests: "The villain is the young owner of this shop, don't hide from the guests, my family has a lot of ways in the household, and the price of 90 taels of silver can donate a trick. ”

Seeing that Sun Yiheng answered confidently, the person who came was obviously relieved: "That's good, this proprietor, I want to donate three tricks, I don't know how much money I need to pay?" ”

Sun Yiheng was stunned when he heard this, just because the ninety taels of silver were not small money, and the annual salary of the county order of Nayi County was only forty-five taels of silver.

This donation of money to a dark official is worth two years of the county lord, not his own close male elders, even if the big family is reluctant to donate a lot of this trick.

Now this person is donating three tricks with one mouth, and the white flowers are easily given out for three hundred taels of silver, which is not counting the expenses such as buying longevity materials and burying them in the future, dare to ask your family is not going to have a good life in the future?

Although he felt strange, Sun Yiheng still rushed to the person and bowed: "The practice is to pay a deposit, and it can be paid ten days after the payment. ”

After listening to Sun Yiheng's offer, the visitor groaned for a while, and then took out three leather paper silver tickets from his sleeve and handed them over: "Here are thirty taels of official tickets, let's count it as a fixed money, and ask the proprietor to hurry up and handle this matter for me." ”

Seeing that the person who came really paid the fixed money, Sun Yiheng hurriedly took out a pen and paper and handed it over: "Please also ask the guests to leave the official secrets of the nobles in the family, so that the household department can copy the commission." ”

However, after Sun Yiheng took over the official transcription of the man, his eyes widened like a toad that had been struck by lightning: "Guest, guest, don't joke!" This, who is this big red, Ah Huang, and white forehead eyes?! ”