The last ritual before the funeral of the deceased is to occupy the flowers.

At this time, the children and grandchildren of the deceased must kneel in front of the coffin and quietly listen to the reprimand of the village Taoist.

Once the village Taoist priest rings the copper bell in his hand, he reaches out and asks for money.

The family members of the deceased must stand up and put the cash prepared in advance into the copper basin placed on the desk to show their respect and filial piety to the deceased.

Every time you shake the copper bell, you have to reach out and ask for money once, which is a tacit agreement until the money in the copper basin is full and the village Taoist priest is satisfied.

The money in these copper basins naturally belonged to the village Taoist priests in the end.

Occupying flowers, it is when the rural Taoist priest gets a lot of oil and water, and a poor family like Wang Hui's family has to get at least 3,000 yuan to make a rural Taoist priest like Wu Qingquan satisfied.

If it is a rich family, there are as few as 10,000 or as many as hundreds of thousands.

Therefore, the rural Taoist profession also has the saying of "not opening for three years, opening for three years".

I watched the flower ceremony of Wu Qingquan, a village Taoist priest, and to be honest, he was more suitable for flower occupation than me.

I had no experience at a young age, and I had no experience in playing the deceased. On the other hand, when Wu Qingquan played Wang Hui's parents, it was a handful of snot and a handful of tears, and he really cried when he cried! The performance is really called a sincere feeling, and those who don't know really think that this Taoist priest is possessed by the dead.

Wu Qingquan knew that Wang Hui's family was poor, and he was from the same village, so he was not easy to do black, so he finally wrapped three or four thousand yuan in the copper basin to spend money, and he was satisfied.

I have to say that this guy is quite insidious, he knows in his heart that he doesn't expect to make money a few days before the funeral, and he does dirty work, and this is the most profitable time is the flower ceremony on the last day of the funeral.

That's why I picked a day, and when I was about to go out of the funeral on the sixth day, I came to the door to grab business from me.

After the flower-occupying ceremony was completed, the shou nails had all been nailed by the coffin bearers under Wu Qingquan.

Although this Wu Qingquan is a fake Taoist, he is also afraid that something will happen when the shou nail is riveted, so he coated a layer of cinnabar on the shou nail in advance to ward off evil spirits.

It can be said that all this is going very smoothly, there is not even a trace of wind and grass, according to reason, people who are killed by zombies belong to the people who have died, such dead people, their funerals are often difficult to do, but in fact, except for the time when I nailed the dead to the peach wood and nailed them into the burial, there was no accident.

After sealing the coffin, Wang Hui led a group of relatives to cry in front of the two coffins in the lobby for a long time, which was the last goodbye to the deceased.

Wu Qingquan saw that the time was almost six o'clock, and immediately called all the coffin bearers under his command to come over and prepare to carry the coffin.

Wu Qingquan, as the undertaker of the funeral, walked to the coffin where Wang Hui was standing, and put on a compassionate posture and said: "Xiao Nizi, I know that your family is poor, we are all from the same village, and we are not greedy, the price of this coffin is three hundred per person, do you think it will work?" ”

The price broke out, Wang Hui's face turned a little pale, she knew that the price of my coffin bearer was only one hundred and five per person, and now this Wu Qingquan and his coffin bearer actually sat on the ground and raised the price, which was too unkind.

Wang Hui wanted to follow them to theorize, but when she thought of her parents, she endured it, as the deceased's own children, she just wanted to carry the coffin out, so she nodded and agreed.

Wu Qingquan saw that the main family agreed, naturally he looked complacent, deliberately walked outside the courtyard as if he wanted to show off something to me, came to me, patted me on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Liu family boy, you are quite knowledgeable about current affairs, much better than your grandfather Liu Daring, why don't you follow my brother and me to eat in the future?" ”

"It's over!" I said coldly: "How can my little craftsmanship be compared to my old man, as for eating a mouthful, I am used to being free and comfortable, and I don't like to squat under other people's roofs to live." ”

"Humph!"

When Wu Qingquan heard me say this, his face turned cold, he didn't bother to pay attention to me, and began to beckon the group of coffin bearers under him to tie the dragon frame to the coffin.

The so-called dragon frame is the thickest log tied to the center of the coffin.

When carrying the coffin, it is important that the coffin does not touch the ground, and it is ominous if it touches the ground. Therefore, when tying the dragon frame, the coffin bearer needs to be extra careful, for fear that if it is not tied well, something will happen on the way to the halfway.

After they finished the dragon frame, I stepped forward and asked Wu Qingquan again: "Are you sure you must hold this funeral?" ”

"What are you doing? Do you want to smash my job? Wu Qingquan glared at me fiercely: "If you grind with me again, I will ask someone to drive you out of Hongshan Village." ”

I smiled coldly and asked, "If something happens next, you won't blame me for standing by, right?" ”

"It's just a dead man, what can happen?" Wu Qingquan said impatiently: "Get out of the way for Lao Tzu, I'm going to get up the coffin." ”

"Good! This is what you said, and the path you have chosen will be completed on your knees, and I hope you will not come to me when the time comes. Leaving these words, I chose to be a bystander and retreated into the crowd of onlookers outside the courtyard.

At this time, Wu Qingyuan took out his watch and checked the hour, signaling that the main family could set off firecrackers.

Suddenly, the crackling sound resounded throughout Hongshan Village, and the smoke lit by firecrackers filled the sky over the entire village, and then Wu Qingyuan held a few yellow papers in his left hand and a spirit flag in his right hand, and shouted: "Get up the coffin!" ”

With this shout, the sound of gongs and drums rang out, followed by the cries of the relatives of the deceased.

The whole scene was quite lively, Wu Qingquan looked fearless and ignorant, holding a spirit flag, sprinkling yellow paper and walking in the front to lead the way.

Wang Hui's uncles, uncles, and aunts were crying beside the coffin, while Wang Hui kept beating the coffin, crying inside: "My mother, father, why did you leave so early!" Before you see me get married and have children, you are gone, the sky is really blind......"

The cry was earth-shattering, and even suppressed the sound of firecrackers, and even I, who was watching from the sidelines, was touched and felt a little lonely.

"Daochang Wu, it's not good, the coffin is dead, and it can't be lifted." Wu Qingquan was walking in the forefront and scattering yellow paper to open the way, when the coffin bearer's hurried shouts came from behind him.