After Lao Wang left, I asked the master to ask a few relatives to accompany me to keep vigil in the hall at night, not that I was afraid, but that the vigil must be accompanied by relatives, otherwise, it is easy to have an accident.

The main family called the three brothers of his family, made a few mats and put them in the hall, and brought some melon seeds and fruits and other things and put them there.

This night, the four of us stayed in the hall and slept in turn for a while, nothing strange happened, but when it was a while, I don't know if the weather was getting cooler or what's going on, the temperature in the hall was a little low, and I didn't care.

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, I asked the main family to start building the mourning hall, and the main family also understood the customs, so my three brothers cut some green bamboo, split it in half, folded it into a semicircle and hung it on the door of the hall gate, and tied some cypress branches and lotus flowers folded into white paper.

For the next five days, I stayed in the hall and did not leave, during which some relatives of the main family came to mourn and sent some firecrackers, wreaths, ceremonial flowers and other things.

On the sixth day, because I was the undertaker of this funeral, I spent more than 5,000 yuan to invite seven 'Taoist priests' to open the way for the deceased. (It's not that I'm better than the Taoist, but the Taoist priest in the countryside only understands the ritual of opening the road, and other things are all stinking and don't understand, and some don't even know the ceremony of opening the road. )

Things have been going very smoothly in the past few days, but I have not been careless because of this, no matter what, I try to do the best in etiquette, at eight o'clock in the evening, Lao Wang came to me with six eight immortals, and said: "Nine gentlemen, the tomb has been dug, but the number of eight immortals is not enough, and there is one less!" What to do? ”

I pointed to myself and said, "Add me, it's exactly eight!" "After speaking, I looked at the eight immortals that Lao Wang had brought, there were only three familiar faces, and the remaining three had not been seen, presumably not from our land, it should be invited by Lao Wang from somewhere else, I sent them a cigarette, let them have a good rest, tomorrow's coffin may be a little difficult to lift.

They said that Lao Wang had told them about the stakes, and they came to carry this coffin, not for money, but for the industry of the Eight Immortals, and they didn't want some fake immortals to laugh at us.

Listening to this, I had a sense of belonging to the industry of the Eight Immortals for the first time, if nothing else, just because our Eight Immortals dare to carry any coffin, it seems to be a ridiculous sentence, but the meaning of this, laymen will never understand.

Afterwards, I arranged for them to rest on both sides of the coffin, and asked the host family to give each of them a handkerchief, a pair of cloth shoes, a pack of cigarettes, and as for the red envelopes, I told them to give them later.

As soon as everything was arranged, Lao Wang hurriedly pulled me out, I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "Nine people, don't you die?" You are the one who receives the funeral, where can you carry the coffin? ”

I turned my head, glanced into the hall, and said, "It's okay, I've done it for myself, and there's no problem at all!" ”

"Is that really okay?" Lao Wang asked with concern and said, "You are the person who knows the most among our eight immortals, once something goes wrong, our eight immortals will have no hope." ”

I said, don't worry, I'm measured! After that, we walked into the hall, because there was a funeral tomorrow, and the relatives of the deceased had to stay in the hall, so the hall was a little crowded, and it was densely packed with people.

Then again, although there are many people, tonight is the most idle night, and it is only in the second half of the night that the coffin is busy, and the nerves that have been tense for six days are finally relaxed at this moment.

As soon as I walked into the hall, I saw a little girl squatting in the corner, with a sad face sticking to something, I approached and saw that it was the little girl who burned the test paper a few days ago, and she was tinkering with a rag doll.

Thinking of the little girl's words about burning the test paper that day, I was playful, beckoned Lao Wang to sit with the Eight Immortals, and called him again when the coffin was sealed, so I walked over to the little girl.

"What are you doing? Is there something going on? I asked, crouching down in front of the little girl.

As soon as the little girl saw me squatting, she said pitifully, "Brother, can you help me glue this doll up, I can't get it right!" Dad and uncles ignore me, please help me, okay! ”

"Hmm!" I touched the little girl's head and said, "Take it, my brother will help you glue it!" ”

"Hmm!" The little girl nodded and sipped on my face, "Thank you, brother!" After speaking, he handed me the rag doll and glue in his hand.

I smiled, took the rag doll and looked at it for a while, then asked suspiciously, "There is no damage, where are you going to stick it?" ”

"Eyes!" The little girl said lightly.

"Why?" I was a little curious, gave her a strange look, and asked.

"It was fun to see my brother glue my grandfather's eyes that day, and I wanted to try it too, but... But yesterday I played a game with the little fat next door and asked him to close his eyes, and I poured a lot of glue on his eyes, but I was beaten by my father, and I had to try it with a rag doll. She said with a sad face.

Listening to this, I was also drunk, and I mourned for Chubby for a while, and I didn't expect so much, so I glued the eyes of the rag doll for her, and then chatted with her, I always felt that this child was very fun, teasing her, and making me feel more cheerful.

The little girl took the doll and smiled with satisfaction, and asked, "Brother, how old are you this year?" ”

I said 18, what's the matter, the little girl stared at my face for a long time, and said slowly: "There is a male classmate in my class, and his sister is also eighteen years old this year. ”

I smiled bitterly, is the little girl going to introduce me to someone, this family is too enthusiastic! I was about to refuse, but the little girl's next sentence made me collapse.

She said: "That sister drove a BMW at the age of eighteen, but my brother was eighteen years old but he was carrying the coffin here!" After saying that, he sighed.

In an instant, I didn't want to talk to her, it hurt my self-esteem too much, is there such a burying person? was especially buried by a little girl, and if she said it, she would definitely be laughed to death.

I wanted to tease her for a while, but I didn't expect to be played by her, and I couldn't lose my temper, so I scraped her nose, got up and walked to the master's house, and there were things that needed to be said hello to him.

What I didn't expect was that a few years later, the main family handed over the little girl to me to take care of for a few days, and that time I was almost tortured by the little girl and 'went crazy', it was too pitiful, but the little girl almost died that time, and since then I remember the name of the little girl, Li Shuyan, of course, these are later words, and I will not tell them for the time being.

When I came to the master's house, the three brothers of his family were arguing with a middle-aged man about something, and the two companions were arguing with red ears and red faces, full of gunpowder, and they were about to pinch it.