Listening to Lao Wang's words, I immediately planned his words, and said, "Lao Wang, are you mistaken?" Since ancient times, metaphysics has paid attention to conforming to nature, and this retrograde arrangement is against the heavens, right? ”

"No, no, no," Lao Wang said three nos in a row, and said: "I remember that Lao Xiucai said that everything is changeable, and this retrograde plaming is not against the heavens, but it is just a kind of directional positioning, and it will be used in some large-scale funerals." ”

I nodded thoughtfully and asked him, "Then how do you judge that the back of the coffin is in the direction of Gen Bing?" ”

"Bing Ding chases after A and B, and so on, Gen is eight, Dui is seven, the heavenly stem is retrograde, and the gossip is retrograde, this is the order of plating." As he spoke, he handed me the figure in his hand.

Not to mention, this old Wang's drawing skills are really good, a round gossip, stunned by him to draw an oval, no wonder I thought it was a bit like gossip before. What puzzled me was that around the figure, he marked the characters A, B, C, D, E, JI, G, and Xin, which correspond to the eight trigrams: Dui, Gen, Li, Kan, Xun, Zhen, Kun, and Qian.

Looking at those words, my first reaction was not the direction, but the shock of looking at the old king, Made, didn't this old king not know the big characters, when did he actually learn to write?

I asked him, "Old Wang, when will you learn to write?" ”

He smiled and said, "Live to learn!" I was idle at home, so I asked my daughter to teach me to write a few words. ”

"She taught you to write these words?" I wonder very much in my heart, generally teaching people to write, all of them are writing, how can the words "great", "heaven", and "king" be taught the words Qiankun, A, B, C, D.

He nodded and said, "Yes, as a coffin bearer, you naturally have to know how to write these words." ”

Hearing him say this, I was speechless, and I didn't continue to dwell on this issue, so I asked him, "Ten days are ten words, why is there only eight words written on your retrograde gossip?" Where did the other two words go? ”

He scratched the back of his head in embarrassment and said, "I can't write the words 壬 and 癸, so they should be marked on the upper left of Qianyun and Kun." ”

壬、癸 can't write? That's, isn't it? The eight words of gossip can be written, but can not be written? Even if you can't write, it's excusable, the word Ren is so simple, how can you not write, this old king isn't fooling me, right?

The old king ignored the doubts in my heart, but continued to speak: "Jiu Yanzi, you look at the direction of Gen, it is two degrees different from C, with the retrograde direction, east and west, south and north, my palm should be placed in this position, you see, Gen Bing is just pointing to the deceased's dragon coffin." ”

I suppressed the doubts in my heart and looked at Lao Wang's palm, indeed as he said, Gen Bing happened to point to Shen Jun's coffin, and someone must have asked, since it was in which direction, why didn't he hang the kettle in front of the coffin.

There is also a reason for this, under normal circumstances, it is not allowed to hang things in front of the coffin, only one thing can be nailed to the front of the coffin, that is, the red cloth, but this red cloth must also be nailed for special reasons.

At this point, I said a few words to Lao Wang, and was about to find a kettle for my sister-in-law, but Lao Wang grabbed me and said: "Jiu Yanzi, the kettle is not in a hurry in advance, find the auspicious position first, otherwise I can't get it when the meeting opens, if the red wax is extinguished again, I am afraid that those women will run away with a nest of fire." ”

I thought about it and felt that this was reasonable, so I said: "Mr. Fan seemed to say that the main palace is in Xin, and the Zhengyin is in Gui, does it mean that it is auspicious?" (癸:gui)

The old king thought for a while and said: "This sentence should be auspicious, but I'm afraid it refers to two auspicious positions, the main palace refers to the nine-square grid, and the words of the nine-square grid should refer to the ghost, please walk the eight ancestors of the horse village, plus you, the eight immortals, just correspond to the nine-palace grid, Xin is the Xin position of the ten heavenly stems, and it should be here." ”

As he spoke, he walked in the direction of the offering table, stopped on the left side of the offering table, and said, "Nine gentlemen, you will invite ghosts in this position later." ”

After speaking, he looked at his palm again and muttered, "If you say it, it should be there." He stretched out his hand and pointed to the right side of the threshold, which was also a little strange, the position he was pointing to was about seven or eight centimeters away from the place where the bricks had been dropped, and if I had stood according to the auspicious position, the bricks would not have scratched me.

Seeing this, I have some faith in Mr. Fan's words, is it true that with the progress of the times, some customs and etiquette of funerals must change?

At this moment, the old king walked over, put one hand on my shoulder, interrupted my train of thought, and said: "Nine people, the position has been found, and the rest of the things will depend on you. ”

I nodded, and looked at Lao Wang strangely, he was still like that, in his fifties, with a Chinese face, a beard, and a little hideous left eye, but why did he give me a strange feeling now.

After thinking about it for a while, I asked him: "Lao Wang, why do I feel like you have changed after I came back from Quyang?" ”

He was stunned and said with a smile: "Do you think I have a domineering aura in me, and you can't help but want to praise me a few words?" Hey! ”

He laughed dryly, stretched his head over, and said in his ear: "Jiu Yanzi, I won't tell you, Widow Liu said that I am getting stronger and stronger in a certain aspect, and all this is due to..."

When I heard the old king say that all this is due to a few words, my whole nerves tensed, could it be that the old king is like the protagonist of those, has an adventure, and when I listen to it, there is a very discordant voice.

"The old man said that the two of you are endless, grinding and chirping there, and you can't do the funeral, and if you don't do the funeral, the old man is leaving, and the shops in the town are closed for a day, and you will pay the stall rent?"

Hearing this, I frowned, looked up, and saw that Mr. Fan came over, first glared at us, and then said, "It's almost nine o'clock, why are you two big men so inky?" ”

I was really drunk, at a critical time, what did Mr. Fan do, at the moment, I ignored him, and asked Lao Wang, "What is all this due to?" ”

Who knows, the old king seemed to have changed, and immediately said: "What is attributed to what, I didn't say anything just now." ”

Made, hearing this, I almost didn't scold, so I said, "Old Wang, you... You..."

He didn't speak, but gave me a look, which means that Mr. Fan is here, and he is not easy to speak.

Seeing this action, I put my mind at ease, and planned to wait for Mr. Fan to leave, and then ask Mr. Wang.

Subsequently, I made a mark on the auspicious position pointed out by Lao Wang, and asked my sister-in-law for a kettle, and filled some water and hung it at the end of the coffin.

During this period, I didn't know what Mr. Fan was thinking, he kept standing next to Lao Wang, and occasionally said a few words to Lao Wang, I didn't hear it very clearly, but I vaguely heard them mention my master.

After I have done that, I plan to follow what Lao Wang said, and first invite the ancestors and ancestors of Yanma Village to come to the hall in Jiwei, which is commonly known as 'inviting ghosts'.

To be honest, I didn't have any faith in this ghost, and I thought about following my original plan to see if the deceased had any wishes unfulfilled. However, the deceased has been in Changsha for many years, and the people in Yanma Village are not very familiar with him, and the only person who is familiar with him, the little boss, did not come to the funeral, which makes me have no idea where to start, so I can only 'ask ghosts' to bless this funeral.