I swept over the faces of the Eight Immortals one by one, they bent down slightly, put their shoulders on each other's shoulders, buckled each other's shoulders, and made piles for each other, and the eight Eight Immortals holding the coffin next to them grabbed the dragon frame with both hands, ready to wait.

Seeing that they were all ready, I gave Lang Gao a look, meaning that I could smash the jar.

He nodded, didn't say a word, and slammed the jar into the ground with a loud 'bang'.

The Taoist priest on the side immediately blew the suona, followed by the sound of firecrackers, gongs, and fireworks at the same time, and the scene was really lively.

I took a deep breath and shouted, "One, two, three, up." ”

As soon as the words landed, we worked together to slowly lift the coffin, the coffin was a little heavy, and the headache on the shoulders was terrible, and the feet seemed to be unable to bear the weight, trembling slightly, and almost fell down several times.

I glanced at the stammer, he was in a similar situation to me, and then looked at the other Eight Immortals, several of whom were pressed into the color of pig liver by the coffin, but the Eight Immortals who were holding the coffin were quite relaxed.

It couldn't be helped, it was more laborious to carry the coffin than to hold it, I withdrew my gaze and gritted my teeth, I just wanted to carry the coffin to the exit of the town as soon as possible.

Once this coffin is lifted, it must not stop and rest if it does not reach its destination, and more than a dozen of us Eight Immortals are afraid of venting the breath in our mouths, and we dare not say anything along the way, so we can only grit our teeth and walk towards the destination.

Fortunately, the location was not very far away, and it took us more than thirty minutes to carry the coffin to the exit of the town.

There was a truck parked there, and the driver leaned against the back of the car smoking a cigarette, and when he saw us coming, he opened the door of the cargo box and placed two wooden benches in front of the door.

We put the coffin on a wooden bench with great difficulty, and prepared to carry the coffin to the car and send it to Balipu.

At this moment, many Eight Immortals began to make noise, "Made, this coffin is too heavy, it is so difficult to walk on the road, how to carry it when you get to Balipu, this coffin can't be lifted." ”

"What's the noise, I don't want to carry the coffin when it's heavy? If your father dies and no one helps carry the coffin, are you alone who can carry your father up the mountain? Liu Weimin said angrily at the man.

"Okay, there's no need to be noisy about a little thing, let's rest for a while, everything is easy to discuss!" I took out a cigarette and gave one to each of them, and said, "The coffin is a bit heavy, so let's do it, I will increase everyone's salary tenfold, 1,000 yuan per person, a white sand cigarette, and 200 yuan for shoes. ”

"Chen Baxian, it's not that we make things difficult for you, but this coffin is too heavy, estimated to be 1,500 to 2,000 catties, our eight immortals are stronger than normal, but this weight is too much more than ordinary coffins, you must know that ordinary coffins, at most, are 500 catties, and now they have multiplied several times, where can we eat." The person who spoke was a Eight Immortals beside Liu Weimin, with a burly figure and a mole in the lower corner of his right eye.

"Forgive me, the main family may not have taken this factor into account when buying the coffin, which made the coffin a little big and heavy. Let's be the Eight Immortals, how can we encounter the truth that the coffin is heavy and we don't lift it? Isn't this smashing the signboard of our Eight Immortals? I bent down at the man and stuffed a red envelope into each of them, just thinking that the eight immortals would carry the coffin together.

They just gave up, refused to accept the red envelope, and said they wanted to leave, even if Liu Weimin threatened on the side, those people did not pay the bill. Fortunately, no one in our group of eight immortals said to leave, but just sat on the ground with a sad face and smoked.

Seeing this situation, I was a little embarrassed, there were about six of the eight immortals who were making trouble, once they were gone, this coffin really couldn't be lifted, I threw Liu Weimin a look for help, mainly because those people didn't eat with me, some things were not easy to say, and he had to be allowed to say them.

He nodded, came to his senses, glanced at the five or six Eight Immortals, and said, "I have been abducted and deceived outside with Boss Liu all these years, to be honest, I have made a lot of money, but I am not sure. Every night when I went to bed, I dreamed that the dead came back to me and asked me why I was leaving halfway, and I couldn't answer their questions, and I felt ashamed. Many years ago, the ancestors passed down the rule that once the coffin falls on the shoulder, if anyone leaves halfway, they will definitely suffer a catastrophe, and they don't know what is going on. ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a while, his tone became a little stern, and said: "Because of this, we are getting more and more bold to carry the coffin, and often carry the coffin halfway and leave, today I Liu Weimin don't want to say anything here, everyone is over half a hundred years old, if this bad habit is passed on, and when we die and lie in the coffin, someone else will carry our coffin halfway and run away." ”

The last sentence, he shouted.

Those eight immortals were stunned for a moment, and they didn't speak, as if they were considering Liu Weimin's words. The whole scene was quiet for about a minute or two, Liu Weimin spoke again, and he said with a calm face: "If you are willing to stay and continue to carry the coffin, you will stay, and if you are not willing, get out early, and save the shame of Balipu." ”

Hearing him say this, I immediately walked over and gave the six eight immortals a red envelope, the meaning is obvious, if they are willing to stay to carry the coffin, they will definitely accept the red envelope, and if they are not willing to stay, they will definitely not accept this red envelope, this is our business rule.

Five red envelopes were sent in a row, and those eight immortals were all accepted, and when the sixth red envelope was issued, the man knocked my hand off and said, "Life is more like life than the so-called rules, as for after I die, it will be decades later, and I don't have the time to think about it now." ”

I raised my eyes and glanced at this person, with a Chinese face, a little big forehead, and a pitted face, and asked lightly: "What is your name, where are you from?" ”

"Guizi Village, Liu Dafa." He glared at me, his tone a little fierce.

"Huh!" I sneered and shouted at the stammer: "Stammer, write down the name of this person's village, and when he or his relatives die, whoever carries his coffin, Lao Tzu will kill him if he doesn't want to give up his life." ”

After speaking, I have some fire in my heart, the most unbearable thing is the eight immortals who have no professional ethics, you can be greedy for money, you can also ask for red envelopes, but this deceased must be respected, this coffin must be carried, if you can't even do these two, what is the difference with a fake immortal?

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, threw the red envelope on the ground, stretched out my hand and pointed at Liu Dafa, and said angrily: "You remember one sentence for Lao Tzu, I, Chen Jiu, have been a coffin bearer all my life, and on the day you or your relatives die, I Chen Jiu should have a little reputation in Dongxing Town, and when the time comes, don't say that no one will carry the coffin of you or your relatives." ”