Boss Yu looked up at me slightly, his eyes were red, his face was a lot haggard, as if he had aged a lot overnight, and asked, "Aren't my mother and Jianhao buried in the same land?" ”

I shook my head and said, "According to the custom on our side, you can't be buried together, it will break the rules." ”

"I want to bury my mother and Jianhao together, can't I change this rule?" He stared at me for a moment and said.

"No, since you came to our Hengyang for a funeral, you must respect the customs on our side." I'll explain it to him.

He thought for a moment, and then softly spat out a few words from his mouth, "Send Mother." ”

I don't know why, after listening to his choice, I have some sympathy for him, choosing between a mother and a son, what an ironic choice, originally there was no conflict between the two, and now..., it is only because of the wrong step that this situation will be caused.

I didn't say anything to him, and began to busily carry the coffin, first I tied the mourning frame to the coffin with a dragon rope, and then painted the dragon rope red with cinnabar.

A mourning frame has four dragon backbones, which can only be carried by eight people. However, the coffin was too heavy, and it took sixteen people to carry it, and there was not so much space at all. That's why I use eight lifts and eight supports. (Dragon's back: The log lying horizontally on the mourning frame, also known as the falling wood, to put it bluntly, is the hanging wood of the mourning frame.) ）

The so-called eight lifts and eight supports, which literally means, eight people carry the coffin, and eight people drag the mourning frame with their hands to reduce the weight of the coffin.

Which eight people carry it, which eight people hold it, I don't know the bottom in my heart, our group of eight immortals, in terms of strength, still know better.

However, Liu Weimin's gang of eight immortals, except for one person to bury the little boy, there are seven people left, and it is not clear what their strength and character are.

If they are asked to hold all the coffins, I am a little worried, this is not a matter of strength, the main thing is that they are afraid that they will disobey the yin and yang, deliberately do not use force, so that the weight of the coffin will be all pressed on us, in this way, even if we are not crushed to death by the coffin, we will be half paralyzed.

If we let all of our people hold the coffin, Liu Weimin and they will definitely not be at ease.

I was stunned for a while, and it was not easy to arrange which Eight Immortals to carry the coffin and which Eight Immortals to hold the coffin.

Liu Weimin seemed to see my embarrassment, walked over, and said: "Chen Baxian, our two groups of eight immortals used to have a lot of contradictions, this is our first time partnering, in terms of personnel arrangements, I won't say anything, you and I carry the coffin in front, one person on the left, one person on the right, there are six people left, three people on both sides of us, and the others hold the coffin, what do you think?" ”

I thought about it for a while, this method worked, the two groups of eight immortals were carrying the coffin, and the previous worry about yin and yang was gone. However, a new question has come out again, will the eight immortals who hold the coffin be afraid of the coffin heavy and lazy, once one person is lazy and afraid of force, the eight immortals in that part will suffer a big loss, after all, this coffin is too heavy, it is a matter of life and death, so I have to be cautious.

I expressed the doubts in my heart, Liu Weimin glanced at me, and said, "Don't worry, the eight immortals I brought are all upright men, and there is no one who is lazy and afraid of death." ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the Eight Immortals he had brought, and shouted, "Brothers, are you right?" ”

"Yes, we Eight Immortals are definitely not the lazy people who are afraid of death." Those eight immortals shouted.

As soon as they saw this situation, the eight immortals who came to help were so desperate, how could our group of eight immortals fall behind, and they immediately expressed their positions, among which Guo Fatzi's voice was the loudest, he said: "Whoever dares to be lazy, Lao Tzu will sit on him to death." ”

As soon as he said this, everyone laughed. Not to mention, in terms of boosting morale, Liu Weimin does have a few brushes, just a few words, so that the two groups of eight immortals invisibly began to compete, even I have a heart to compare, which group of eight immortals has the strength.

Subsequently, it is the personnel arrangement, me, Liu Weimin, stammering and a Eight Immortals brought by Liu Weimin, the four of us raised our heads, the thin monkey and a Eight Immortals brought by him carried the left behind the coffin, and the right was the two Eight Immortals brought by Liu Weimin, Guo Fatzi was arranged by me to drag the coffin, and it was held in Liu Weimin's part, and the remaining Eight Immortals held the coffin like Guo Fatzi.

After arranging these, Liu Weimin's words hurt Guo Fatzi's self-esteem, he said: "Little fat man, you have to use all your strength to hold the coffin, don't let the coffin crush my old bones." ”

", what do you mean by that, Lao Tzu has a lot of strength, and he can hold up a hundred pounds of things with one hand." Guo Fatzi said angrily.

"Okay, little fat man, remember your words." Liu Weimin laughed for a traitor.

Guo Fatzi wanted to say something, but I put it on his shoulder and said with a smile: "Okay, he is stimulating you, you can just do more later." ”

Hearing me say this, Guo Fatzi glanced at Liu Weimin with disdain, gave a thumbs up and pointed down, and didn't speak, just stood next to Liu Weimin, but his face was angry.

After all the eight immortals carrying the coffin were arranged, I asked Lang Gao to hold a jar, and when he was about to shout the coffin, he took the lead in breaking the jar. This practice is to deter the lonely souls and wild ghosts around the spiritual hall, so that those lonely souls and wild ghosts know that our group of eight immortals is not easy to mess with.

Lang Gao nodded and agreed, and found a jar in the corner of the mourning hall and held it in his hand.

Then, I went to the seven Taoist priests and asked six of them to go with us to Balipu, where they led the way, beating gongs and drums, blowing suona, and sprinkling yellow paper. The remaining Taoist priest stayed in the mourning hall, and after dawn, he found a car and some people to send the wreaths in the mourning hall to Balipu, and then knocked down the mourning hall and set it on fire.

The Taoist priest was stunned and said, "Lingtang, I can understand, why can the wreath be sent to Balipu after dawn?" ”

I smiled bitterly and said: "Normal funeral, the wreath is to go up the mountain with the coffin, but it is now the first month, and our lack of manpower is a reason, mainly because the wreath is too eye-catching. ”

The man nodded, said he understood, and asked me again, "When will I take down some white linen hanging from those houses in the town?" ”

When he mentioned this, I remembered that the whole town was hung with white, and it stands to reason that when the coffin goes out, the white hemp will be taken off, but now it is less than five o'clock in the middle of the night, and they are all asleep, how can I have time to take the white linen.

I thought about it for a while, and finally handed over this task to Lang Gao, he is the director of the police station, and there are some public security officers under him, so it is most appropriate for him to do this.

After hearing this, Lang Gao directly agreed, saying that his brothers were very black, and the Great New Year was mixed with the funeral, and a certain amount of money was needed to impress them.

I smiled and said, "Money is not an issue, just do good things." ”

After everything was done, we were ready to start carrying the coffin, Lang Gao stood at the door of the mourning hall, holding a jar in one hand, Boss Yu and Ah Da stood on the left and right sides of the coffin, six Taoist priests stood in front of the coffin, and another Taoist priest stood beside Lang Gao with a roll of earth red.