In 1995, at the gate of the post office in Anyang City, I sat in front of the stall as usual and watched the legs of passers-by in a daze.

The so-called urban antique market here is not a market, in fact, it is a street, like a bazaar, and the vendors follow the road, forming a certain scale that is not big or small.

Of course, I'm one of those people here, and I've been working on this street ever since I graduated from school.

In the crowd of people, a vague figure approached me, and my scattered gaze suddenly became clear due to focus.

It was a young man with very good eyes, and when he came over, he squatted silently in front of the stall, and after sweeping the goods on the ground, he looked up and said to me, "Dude, can you give me a piece of toilet paper?" Go to the toilet".

“……”

I thought that after a day of setting up a stall, now it is finally going to open, but it turns out that I still can't escape the fate of today's unlucky day.

I reached out and handed him the day's newspaper that had been under my butt, and I bowed my head and began to close the stall, ready to go home.

At this time, my pager rang, and I flipped it out and saw that it was Liang Zi's message: "Don't call back, you kid hurry home, I'm at your door." ”。

I know that this kid has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and after packing up and riding a motorcycle, he will go home. The road was not very far, and it didn't take long to reach the door of the house, and I saw a thin man clubbing at the door.

He's my iron buddy - Liangzi!

Since my father was in prison, many of my classmates gradually stopped associating with me, but Liang Zi has always been very good with me. He was smart when he was a child, so he dropped out of junior high school, not because of poor study, but because he wanted to make a lot of money, so he skipped to the "social university" in advance, and the following days may have been as long as he could in the mix, and he is still as tall as he was 16 years old.

"You've got to have a treat this time." Liang Zi shouted happily, and then dragged my head and whispered to me: "The road in the city is just past your ancestral grave, and your kid is lucky, and I will give you a subsidy per square meter." ”

"I said that I have been so unlucky lately, and it must be related to this matter, and you still have the face to tell me what is a good thing?" I angrily retracted my head from his arm, then locked the car and opened the door and entered the house.

Liang Zi followed up and sat on the sofa, lit a cigarette and said: "You are stupid, your ancestral tomb is about 100 square meters, and the compensation is at least more than 50,000 yuan."

When I heard this number, my heart trembled, 50,000 yuan is a lot of money!

Speaking of our family's ancestral grave, it is now a big grave, because in my grandfather's time, burials were still used, and the cemetery occupied a large area, so his old man bought a vacant land of more than 100 square meters as a cemetery, so that the descendants could be buried together, such a cemetery was very ordinary at that time, the key is that my grandfather's generation has been living in the local area, so the ancestral grave has been well preserved.

Liang Zi kept talking to me at home until he had a meal, and he didn't leave until he was invited to the tavern to drink and eat to his heart's content.

When I returned to the house, I was the only one left, and I felt tired after a busy day, and then put incense sticks in front of my mother's portrait, and fell asleep.

I slept until noon the next day, and I was about to go out for a casual bite to go to the antique market, but I found a piece of paper pasted on the door of my house, which asked me to go to the city construction company to discuss some content about the relocation of the grave and compensation.

I secretly admired the well-informed kid of Xia Liangzi, so I rode straight to the address where the payment was announced.

When I arrived at the city construction company, I was greeted by a man who claimed to be the assistant manager, and I was actually a lobbyist.

After a round of fierce verbal warfare, the two sides reached a final agreement: Party A, they compensated 53,000 yuan; Party B, I am responsible for moving the grave. After both parties signed the contract, we remembered that we hadn't been to worship the ancestral grave for a long time, and besides, the grave would be moved in a few days, so we bought some offerings on the road and went to the cemetery.

When it comes to the custom of worshiping relatives, it is actually very particular, and a series of procedures such as putting wine fruits, burning paper money, offering incense, pulling out messy grass, cultivating new soil, planting new branches, and prostrating are indispensable.

After the worship, I carefully looked around the surrounding environment, and I am also slightly proficient in feng shui, but the feng shui of our ancestral tomb is indeed very ordinary, unlike the trend of worshipping by the mountains and rivers and the nine streets in some novels, but as a descendant, I still respect the ancestors' choice of land, and finally decided to choose a new cemetery nearby.

After wandering around for a long time, I selected a corn field with similar feng shui not far away, and then went to the village brigade to discuss with the village chief.

Because the rural land management system in the 90s was still very imperfect, many people were building factories and buying cemeteries in the countryside.

As soon as the village chief heard that I had bought a new cemetery because of the relocation of the grave, his pig-like face was as happy as a flower.

After some bargaining, I bought a new cemetery of about 30 square meters for 7,000 yuan, and finally agreed to help me hire a few villagers from my village to help me on the day of the grave relocation.

After the incident, I paged Liang Zi to inform him that he would move the grave the night after tomorrow to help, in order not to give him a chance to refuse, I also asked him not to call back on the page.

In fact, this is also necessary, no one wants to help move the grave, especially Liang Zi, a person who likes to play tricks.

Moving the grave is a very serious matter, you can't talk and laugh in the process, otherwise you will be cursed by the dead, and because of the separation of yin and yang, open the coffin, find the whole bones, and change the coffin must be in the sky without leaking light, that is to say, to move the grave at night, because the old man has rested in the ground for so long, and then digging it out and seeing the light is a very unlucky thing, so this is a kind of etiquette, but also a ritual.

Besides, my grandfather and grandmother in the ancestral grave are buried, and my grandfather, grandmother and mother are cremated, after such a long time, it is inevitable to change the coffin of my grandfather and grandmother in the grave, so this time I also learned the method of paging Liangzi last time, so as not to be excused by him when he finds an opportunity.