The host is a middle-aged man who invited me and Lao Zhang into the house, and after greeting each other, the middle-aged man said: "Lao Zhang, you also know the situation in my family, the family is a little bit of thin land, and there is no economic income, it is a poor household in the village, I want to let you do all the funeral this time, in terms of price, I hope you can give a discount." ”

Lao Zhang was originally a coffin bearer, he only knew how to carry the coffin, and other things were not clear at all, so he looked at me and asked: "Liu Yanzi, since you have inherited the mantle of your old man, do you have the ability to take it down?" ”

Before Lao Zhang finished speaking, the middle-aged man glanced at me, saw that I was young, and his face was surprised, and said, "That's right! Little brother, do you have the ability to do this? ”

As soon as I heard it, I wondered, I am a little kid, I have just come into contact with this industry not long ago, you must know that in general funerals, the host will definitely invite some old Taoist priests who are quite old and fairy, and a little doll like me will inevitably be disliked, why didn't this master dislike me?

I have been a village Taoist priest for less than two months, and my reputation is not obvious, so there must be something strange about this

I picked up the teacup and took a sip, but I didn't agree directly, I looked at the middle-aged man suspiciously, and said the doubts in my heart, but he said that he believed Lao Zhang.

Hearing this, I almost knew in my heart, I am afraid that this family is a poor household, the economy is too tight, and I can't afford to hire those old Taoist priests, so I used the cheapest price to invite me, a young man who has just emerged.

After thinking about this, I readily agreed, this time I don't want money, I just want to have an experience, as long as I have the heart to show off my skills in the Fa, let the people in the surrounding villages know that I am good, and the business will be easy in the future.

What's more, this kind of old man who dies is not a person who dies by mistake, and generally does not cause anything strange.

Next, we began to negotiate the price with the middle-aged man, and I didn't know what was going on, Lao Zhang opened his mouth for three thousand, the middle-aged man didn't think about it, and readily agreed, let us contract to carry the coffin, look at feng shui, and do the three main procedures.

Lao Zhang said again: "Three thousand yuan is our coolie money, and the red envelope or something has to be counted separately." ”

Middle-aged people naturally understand these rules, but let's not dislike red envelopes.

After negotiating the price, the middle-aged man stuffed a red envelope for each of us, as well as a pack of cigarettes for ten yuan.

The red envelope contains 66 yuan, which is called 66 Shun, which means that the funeral was done smoothly.

However, the red envelope of sixty-six yuan is indeed a little less, some families with good family backgrounds, this red envelope will be given at least six hundred and six, and even some families will give six thousand six, and there are some local tyrant families, sixty thousand six is not a problem!

Although this red envelope is a little smaller, it is still very happy for me to do a funeral for the first time, after all, this is the first time I have taken over the business of a dead man, although the price is a little lower, I should buy an experience, and I don't care about the money.

Then the host invited me to drink Lao Zhang had a meal at his house, after three rounds of wine, Lao Zhang and the main family drank a little too much, Lao Zhang said: "Lao Wu! I kind of can't figure it out. The funeral expenses of 3,000 yuan are a bit low, but when you negotiate the price with those old Taoist priests, you may be able to ask for it, so why contract it to us? ”

The host took a sip of wine, was stunned for a long time and said, "Brother! I don't hide it from you, in fact, my old mother did not die of old age, she disappeared the night before yesterday, last night we found her body in the mountain behind the village, I looked for the old Taoist priest to see, said that it was bitten to death by the evil ghosts in the mountains, afraid of defrauding the corpse, no matter how much money was paid, I did not dare to take it. ”

When I heard the master's family say this, I was a little angry in my heart, but since I agreed, I definitely couldn't go back, so I had to hold the angry old Zhang and say to the master: "Take me to see your mother's body, I want to check it carefully." ”

The host agreed, and his eyes showed infinite sadness and sadness, and a trace of fear led us to the room where the corpse was parked.

I followed behind the main family with some apprehension, but Lao Zhang, who was a little drunk, was not afraid at all, and swaggered in.

The room where the deceased was located was not large, only a dozen square meters, and several large benches were padded with a large door panel, on which lay a corpse, the face of which was covered by yellow letters, and there was no reason for it on the surface.

On one side of the door panel knelt a middle-aged woman, who seemed to be the daughter of the deceased.

When this woman saw us come in, she didn't pay much attention to it, and continued her work at hand, kneeling on the ground and crying for her father and mother.

The host smiled awkwardly, stepped forward and pulled the woman up and said, "This is my sister, Wu Xuemei, don't be surprised." ”

I waved my hand and said, "I'm going to check the corpse and ask a few people to get out of the way." ”

With that, he motioned for the lord to take his sister out.

After the two of them went out, only me and Lao Zhang were left in the house.

I asked Lao Zhang to close the door, and no one should be allowed to enter without my order, and took a few steps forward, uncovered the yellow paper on the corpse's head, and looked at it intently.

I saw an old man with a wrinkled face lying on the bed, his face as pale as paper, as if all the essence and blood in his body had been sucked up, I noticed that there were two inconspicuous holes on the left side of the old man's neck, this wound was only the size of a soybean grain, and if I didn't pay attention, I really couldn't see it.

Seeing the two wounds on my neck, a thin layer of sweat broke out on my forehead.

As soon as I saw this situation, I hadn't spoken yet, Lao Zhang behind me spoke, he said: "I have been a coffin bearer for so many years, and I have never seen such a strange corpse, you see that her body has begun to grow white hair, do you think it will cheat the corpse?" ”

I nodded and said softly, "This person is pale, there is not even a drop of blood in her body, this is unreasonable, plus the wound on her neck, I suspect that she was bitten to death by zombies." After death, the corpse poison enters the body, and the corpse hair will appear on the body, and when the corpse hair grows to three inches and two minutes, the corpse poison enters the body, and I am afraid that the corpse will have to be cheated. ”

When Lao Zhang heard me say this, he immediately woke up most of the wine, and he was a little trembling when he spoke: "Fraud...... Scam the corpse! No way! Is it really so evil? ”

"There are times when you are afraid." I saw Lao Zhang's panicked appearance, and smiled: "Don't be afraid, as long as I am here, I will definitely not let this happen." ”

As I spoke, I took out a dark yellow corpse talisman from my bosom and pasted it on the corpse's seal.