Seeing that I didn't speak, the sixth elder of the Lu family walked up to me and asked softly, "Chen Baxian, how high does the tombstone need to be?" ”

I glanced at the tomb, the coffin of the nine sons, and the tombstone, and roughly estimated it in my heart, and said: "The coffin of the nine sons is two meters long, the tomb is three meters deep, and the height of the tombstone is about two meters. ”

"Is there anything else you need to pay attention to?" The eighth member of the Lu family asked.

I shook my head and said, "It's nothing to pay attention to, but when I was buried, there was such a saying that whichever direction the coffin is biased will be beneficial to the heirs of which room, and the eight members of your Lu family correspond to the eight directions, headed by the east, and so on, I don't know how many, do you want to make the coffin of the nine sons biased?" ”

I would say this, in fact, it is to test whether the eight sons of the Lu family are really united, of course, that statement is also true.

"Does it affect my father?" The eight sons of the Lu family asked in unison.

As soon as I heard this, I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and it was filial piety to be able to think of the old hero first, so I shook my head and said, "It doesn't have much impact on the old hero, it's just some simple feng shui." ”

"Chen Baxian!" The fourth elder of the Lu family bent down and said, "Whether it has an impact or not, I hope you can bury your father here with formal etiquette." ”

As soon as he said this, several other people immediately agreed, and they all said that they would be buried according to the regular etiquette.

In this regard, I am completely relieved, and the hard work of the old hero has not been in vain.

Immediately, I began to arrange the burial ceremony, the process was quite smooth, that is, when the dragonfly dotted the water, the coffin of the nine sons shook slightly, but fortunately, the number of people was quite large, and the coffin of the nine sons did not exceed the position below the dragon vein.

After getting the coffin of the nine sons, I asked the boss of the Lu family to shovel the first handful of soil, and then piled a lot of dirt underneath, filled the empty ground, killed an ordinary rooster, dripped some blood on the dragon vein, and then wrapped the birthday of the eighth son of the Lu family with a piece of grease and buried it in the dragon vein.

To get all this done, we picked some soil from the neighborhood and completely covered up the coffin of the nine sons, because the coffin of the nine sons was exposed on the outside, so the tomb was much larger than the ordinary tomb.

Afterwards, we decorated the graves of the old heroes and put some fireworks and firecrackers.

After the sound of firecrackers stops, the burial is completely completed, and the remains of the old hero can be regarded as a real farewell to this world.

After doing all this, the eighth son of the Lu family handed a red envelope to me, the stammerer, and the villagers who carried the coffin, which was very thick, about 2,000 yuan.

Those villagers don't want to live or die, saying that it is fortunate to be able to participate in the funeral of the old hero, how can they ask for a red envelope, I told them that this red envelope is the heart of the main family, it belongs to the etiquette, and it must be taken, otherwise the old hero will be at peace in the underworld.

As soon as I said this, those villagers did not refuse, so they accepted the red envelope, saying that they must buy something to commemorate the old heroes during the Qingming Festival.

In this regard, I agreed with the eight sons of the Lu family, and without saying anything more, we began to discuss the matter of the tombstone.

The tombstone is set up at the time of the burial, which is considered to be a blood monument, according to normal etiquette, it is seven days later, but the coffin of the nine sons is more special, if there is no tombstone to accompany it, it is easy to have an accident.

Immediately, we rested for a while, smoked a few cigarettes, talked about some household matters, and when we had recovered some strength, we began to set about the tombstone building.

I slaughtered a chicken, smeared some chicken blood on the tombstone, and recited some scriptures.

At the same time, I asked Stammer to lead some villagers to fill the front of the grave with a height of 80 centimeters of earth, and beat the soil with hoes and iron trees.

To be honest, filling in the mud feels like a snake is a snake, after all, after filling the soil, you will have to dig a hole in the soil later. However, the tombstone is like this, and the ceremony must be done, otherwise it is easy to have an accident.

About half an hour later, I had just finished reading the scriptures here, and the tombstone pit on the stammering side had just been dug. The height of the tombstone is two meters, and it needs to be buried 55 centimeters, and the newly filled soil is 80 centimeters, that is, the tombstone is completely erected on the newly filled soil.

The tombstone will be erected in this way, it will definitely not work, the newly filled soil, even if it is firmly rooted, the stability is definitely not as good as the old mud, and the tombstone has not been erected, and the soil is loosened first.

After discussing it for a while, I couldn't come up with an idea for a while.

At this time, the second child of the Lu family, who had never spoken, spoke, he first sent a cigarette to each of us, and then said, "Chen Baxian, do you think this is okay?" Shall we find some rocks to throw in? Then use two tree poles on both sides of the tombstone to support the tombstone, and when it is clear, then take the tree pole away, and then the letter mud will become old mud, and the stability will definitely be no problem. ”

Hearing him say this, I shook my head and said: "The coffin of the nine sons itself is a coffin put together, if the tombstone is supported by a tree pole, the meaning of many disasters and disasters is in it, which is not a good sign, so the tombstone must be independent there, and it cannot be supported by things." ”

After speaking, I took a puff of cigarette, walked to the tombstone, stretched out my hand and broke it, this tombstone is a bit heavy, it is estimated that it weighs seven or eight hundred pounds, not to mention the new mud, even if it is the old mud to stand this tombstone is a little difficult.

What to do? How can a tombstone be erected?

This question is really difficult for us to die, there is an old saying that is good, three stinkers resisted Zhuge Liang, and the whole scene was quiet for about three or four minutes, Cui Zhigang spoke.

He said, "Guys, what do you have to think about, this place is not good, let's change the place, you look at the back of the grave, isn't there a small hillside?" The height is just eighty or ninety centimeters, and it would be nice to touch it up a little. ”

With that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the back of the grave.

I followed his finger and saw that it was next to the tomb, a little higher than where we were now. If, according to his idea, the tombstone was erected behind the tomb, it would not be ceremonial.

So, I shook my head and said, "Putting the tombstone behind the tomb is to cut off the back road of the tomb, and there is the intention of cutting off children and grandchildren in it, which is not in line with etiquette." ”

Cui Zhigang was stunned and said, "Chen Baxian, you are too worried, the tomb of the old hero is round, and it should be divided into front and back." ”

As soon as I heard this, I thought for a moment, and it was really like this, the grave of the old hero was round, and when I was digging the tombstone pit, I had a preconceived idea that the small hill was the back, and I took it for granted that the position where we stood was the front.

Now listening to him say this, it is really feasible to erect the tombstone on the hillside, but another problem arises.