After hearing this, my father didn't think so much, so he beckoned me not to drink too much, saying that he would discuss something with me during the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

I agreed to come down, followed Lao Wang and walked towards his house, although Lao Wang and I are next-door neighbors, but the house is different from heaven and earth, he made some money by carrying the coffin in his early years, and renovated the adobe house into a red brick house, and the ground was also paved with a layer of floor tiles, and the decoration of the home was also slightly done, which looked very comfortable.

After entering Lao Wang's house, he took me into the bedroom, beckoned me to sit down, and brought a bottle of liquor, the liquor has three words on it, all of which are traditional characters, I don't know, and the packaging should be quite expensive.

Subsequently, he asked Erya to make some fruit plates, melon seeds, and two empty cups, and strangely, Lao Wang asked Erya to paste a piece of red paper on the cup.

After getting all this done, Lao Wang poured me some liquor and said, "Jiu Yanzi, you have been walking into the Eight Immortals for a while, although we are neighbors next door, we have not had time to have a good drink, today while the New Year, let's go first!" ”

As he spoke, Lao Wang raised his wine glass and touched the glass with me, and he drank it all, and I didn't want to embarrass him, so I drank all the liquor in the cup.

Immediately afterwards, the two of us talked about it for about ten minutes, and Lao Wang kept silent about what was going on with me.

I couldn't help it, poured him a glass of wine, and said, "Lao Wang, we have a relationship, if there is anything you can do, I will do my best." ”

He picked up the wine glass, took a sip of it, and said, "Jiu Yanzi, I'm not looking for you to have something, but we have a big deal in Dongxing Town, and the funeral cost is one million!" ”

After speaking, he spat a mouthful of saliva on the ground, "It is not auspicious to say that the funeral is a big New Year." ”

"Huh? A million funeral expenses? I took a phone call and said a million funeral expenses! Did you get a call too? I asked nervously.

Lao Wang took out a cigarette, gave me one, and said while lighting the cigarette: "Jiu Yanzi, you are still a little tender, not only I received the call, but the people related to the funeral in the entire Dongxing Town have received this call." ”

I was stunned and asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?" ”

He stood up, did not speak, and made three gestures towards the position of the hall, and then asked me to also bow to the position of the hall, and said, "For the New Year, I hope that the ancestors and ancestors will not be surprised." ”

I was even more depressed by Lao Wang's actions, just talking about a funeral, not so orthodox, so I asked him what was going on.

He hesitated for a while, poured a sip of wine, and with the strength of the wine, said, "Nine gentlemen, let's not talk outside, if that person calls again, I won't go." At the same time, I also advise you, don't touch the funeral in the New Year's month, don't talk about his millions of funeral expenses, even if it's 10 million, don't touch the funeral. ”

"Why? Don't you always say respect for the dead? Could it be that you don't go to the funeral in the first month? I asked.

"Bullshit, if your life is gone, what do you have to respect the dead, let me tell you this! I used to take in two apprentices, in their 30s, they didn't listen to me, in order to covet money, the first month of the year ran to carry the dragon coffin, within three years, their eyes were blind. Lao Wang said angrily.

"Why is that?" I was even more confused.

"I don't know why, I know that we are eight immortals, we can't carry the dragon coffin in the first month, as long as we lift the dragon coffin, the luck of that year will be bad to death, and in the third year, it will be unlucky, the light will be broken hands and feet, and the heavy will return to the west." Speaking of this, Lao Wang seemed to be very scared, pointed to his one-eyed, and said: "When I first entered the industry, I didn't believe in this, my eye was blown blind in the third year after the coffin was carried in the first month." ”

Made, you can't be so evil! I always thought that Lao Wang's eyes were blinded by explosives, but I didn't expect that there were so many things inside, so I asked him: "What should I do if the first moon is dead?" ”

"If you die a year ago, you must be carried out and buried before the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and if you die in the first month, you must put the body at home, and wait until after the Lantern Festival to do the funeral!" Lao Wang explained.

I thought for a moment and said, "No! When I was studying, Zhao Laosan of our village died on the third day of the first month, and he was carried out on the seventh day of the first month! ”

Lao Wang calmed his face and said: "That situation is a bit special, when Lao Xiucai gave him the helm, he said that Zhao Laosan was an unblessed person who died in the first month, so don't pay attention to those things." And the current situation is that the person can take out 1 million for funeral expenses, which proves that the deceased is a blessed person, but the blessed person dies on an unblessed day, which is a big taboo, no matter what zodiac sign will do! ”

I pondered for a while, a million funeral expenses, to be honest, I was a little moved, it was a million! I don't know how long it will take to count the money, plus it's the New Year, and the red envelope is even heavier to death, if that funeral is done, I can earn at least six figures, 100,000 or a guaranteed estimate, or even more.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Lao Wang said angrily: "Nine boys, you don't really plan to go, do you?" I can tell you, you have to spend your life to make money, you are still young, don't lose your life because of the money in front of you. ”

I smiled awkwardly and said, "The person is not dead yet, let's discuss a P here and drink!" ”

"Nine Boys!" Lao Wang's voice raised by thirty or forty decibels, and said: "I'm not joking with you, don't go to the funeral in the first month, think about your parents, they are just a son like you, if something happens to you, what should your parents do?" Have you thought about it? Lao Tzu can warn you that if that person calls again, you must decisively refuse and ask him to ask those who ask for money and death! ”

"Alright! I know, although my family is poor, I don't even want my life for money! When the time comes, the man calls, and I just refuse him. I took out a cigarette and handed it to Lao Wang, stayed at his house for a while, and then went home.

When I returned home, my father had already pasted the Spring Festival couplets and went to the hall with the three animals, and I originally wanted to go to the hall too. However, when I thought of the young people in the village who had returned from working in Guangzhou, I dispelled this idea.

As for the reason? Professionally, I have low self-esteem and am embarrassed to stand with those young people.

Because I know in my heart that those young people work in Guangzhou, although it is hard, but when they return home, they are uncles, and this is not done, after all, people have made money and have the capital to be uncles. As soon as I carried the coffin, in the words of young people, it was to fish out of the door, earn money without conscience, and I was ridiculed when I went to the hall, but it was better to wait at home for my father to come back and have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together.