In the Northeast, the dead in the family generally have to be put for three days, until the morning of the third day can be cremated and buried, the next day the body of the deceased is placed at home for another day, the master arranged for me to sit next to the deceased and recite the scriptures, and he was idle and had nothing to do with the deceased's three sons and daughters to sit on the kang and chat with melon seeds, looking at the master's leisurely appearance, I felt jealous, I thought to myself that one hundred and fifty yuan a day is really not easy to earn.

The busiest day was the third day, when the body was cremated at the funeral home by the hearse in the morning, and the deceased's second son drove me and Master to the cemetery.

"Dao Chief, my old mother is buried in this place, where do you say my father should be buried" The second son of the deceased asked my master.

"Male left, female right, bury your father's bones on the left side of your mother's grave and let them have their patella, and when you dig a pit, you must dig close to your mother's grave, and let your mother's coffin show a piece out, and then your patella will be used," said the master, pointing to the left side of the second grave.

"All right, everything is arranged by the chief," said the second son of the deceased, and then ordered those who had come to help to start digging the pit.

The ashes of the deceased did not arrive, but the coffin was carried to the mountain first, the coffin was made of pine wood, the appearance of the coffin was brushed with a layer of red paint, and the pattern of the eight immortals crossing the sea was also printed, and the middle of the coffin lid was printed with the word Shou.

At about 10 o'clock in the afternoon, the ashes of the deceased were wrapped in red cloth by the eldest son, and the eldest son of the deceased had just cried with red and swollen eyes.

"Daoist, how should my father's ashes be placed," the deceased's eldest son asked Master.

"Leave it to me," Master reached out and took the ashes of the deceased.

"Next, I will lay the ashes of the old man, and you will cover the coffin with a red cloth so that the sun will not burn the old man's bones," the master turned to the crowd and commanded.

The eldest son of the deceased beckoned those who came to help to pull the red cloth, and everyone covered the coffin with a red cloth four meters long and three meters wide.

"Someone will help open the lid of the coffin," Master continued to instruct the group.

"Okay Taoist," the deceased's second son led someone to lift the lid of the coffin and gently put it on the ground.

"Girl, did you bring your father's mattress?" Master asked the deceased's daughter.

"Bring it to the Taoist," said the deceased's daughter, and after saying this, she found a golden silk mattress and brought it to the master.

"You spread the old gentleman's mattress into the coffin first, and put the burnt three catties and six taels of paper on both sides of the mattress," the master instructed the deceased's daughter.

"Yes, Dao Chief," the deceased's daughter first spread the mattress at the bottom of the coffin according to the master's words, and then the deceased's daughter put the burned three catties and six taels of paper on both sides of the coffin.

It is said that the soul of the deceased will encounter the obstacle of the ghost when it goes on the road, and the three catties and six taels of paper are used to bribe the ghost.

After the deceased's daughter had placed the bedding and three catties and six taels of paper money, the master stepped forward and opened the red cloth containing the ashes of the deceased.

"Master, why is it that my grandmother is ashes after cremation, and people are white bones after cremation, and the bones are very neat" I stepped forward and asked my master.

"The crematorium is divided into three grades of cremation furnaces, high, medium and low, and the body of the old man is cremated in a high-end furnace, so this is the case, it is estimated that your grandmother's body should be cremated in a low-grade furnace, so it is the ashes" After the master explained to me, he first put all the white bones in his hand in the coffin, and then placed them one by one from head to toe.

I stood beside the master and looked at the white bones in the coffin, and I hated my father a little in my heart, although my grandmother died and didn't leave a penny, but the house left by my grandmother was also sold for more than 100,000 yuan, he actually harshly put my grandmother's body into a low-grade cremation furnace for cremation, I was angry when I thought of this, my father he was too much, he didn't deserve to be a son or a father.

When Master finished arranging the bones of the deceased, I looked into the coffin again, and the bones of the deceased were neatly arranged by Master from skull to foot.

"Master, why are the four ribs on its chest black?" I asked Master, pointing to the blackened ribs of the deceased.

"The deceased must have had a disease at **** before he died, so he had four ribs in his chest that were blackened, and that position seemed to be his lungs," Master explained to me.

"The Taoist is right, my dad died of lung cancer," said the deceased's eldest son, looking at the four blackened ribs.

"Dao Chief, this is a red envelope for you to put my father's bones, please accept it" The second son of the deceased walked up to the master and politely handed the master a red envelope.

"Thank you," Master said thank you, and unceremoniously took the red envelope from the old hand and handed it to me, and I took the red envelope from Master's hand and put it in my pocket.

The deceased's three sons and one daughter are all in good condition, the four children all drive cars, the second one drives a Land Rover of more than one million, the eldest and the third drive a car of more than 500,000 yuan, and the youngest daughter's car is a new white Accord.

"Now you can cover the coffin, and only after the coffin can the red cloth be removed," the master instructed the crowd.

"Second, third, let's help our father close the coffin lid," the deceased's eldest son said to his two younger brothers with tears in his eyes.

"Okay big brother" The second and third children also answered their eldest brother's words with teary eyes, so the three of them lifted the coffin lid on the ground and covered the coffin without the help of others.

"Okay, the red cloth can be removed," the master instructed those who were pulling the red cloth, and those who came to help were obedient to the master's words, and they did whatever the master told them to do.

"Next, I'm going to nail the coffin, how you usually call the old gentleman, you can call it whatever you want, and you have to add three words to dodge nails, understand?" Master's descendants said.

"Understood," everyone responded to Master in unison, and Master nodded to everyone in satisfaction.

"Bang, bang, bang....." Master took seven nails and nailed them to the coffin, three nails on the left side and four nails on the right side.

"Dad dodged the nail......"

"Grandpa dodged the nail......"

"Grandpa is hiding from the nail......." shouted the descendants of the deceased together.

"Okay, now you can bury the old man's coffin," said the master, putting down the hammer in his hand, and said to the crowd.

"Yes," more than a dozen people answered, walked to the coffin together and tied it up with ropes.

"Be careful not to mess up the bones in the coffin when carrying the coffin into the pit," Master instructed the men.

"Got it," everyone replied to Master.

At this time, there were eight people carrying the coffin, four on each side of the coffin, and the eight of them lifted the coffin and carefully placed it in the pit dug not far ahead.

"Slow down, slow down, don't be in a hurry," Master instructed the eight men who carried the coffin.

"Alright, put it down slowly," Master then instructed the eight men as the coffin was lifted directly above the pit.

"Bang" The coffin made a soft sound and was placed in the dug pit, and the eight people tried to pull the wood from the rope that bound the coffin, but the master stopped them.

"The coffin is not in the right position, I want to use a compass to correct it," Master said to everyone, and after listening to Master's words, I opened the old-fashioned leather box that Master had brought without Master's instructions, took out the compass and handed it to Master.

"Not bad," Master said with a satisfied nod at me, and I just smiled at Master without speaking.

The master took the compass and walked to the coffin, he put the compass in the middle of the coffin, the master looked at the pointer on the compass carefully and counted it with his hand, and he didn't know what he was pinching.

"Lift the coffin, and move the coffin a little south," the master commanded the crowd, looking at the compass.

Everyone listened to Master's words and lifted the coffin, and Master helped move the coffin a little south, then east, and finally the compass pointer was straightened before Master asked the person carrying the coffin to put the coffin down.

"Next, I want to play the patella for the old gentleman and the old lady," the master said this, and then took out a pair of chopsticks and jumped into the right side of the old man's coffin, and the master put a pair of chopsticks side by side, one end next to the coffin of the old gentleman's wife, and the other end next to the old man's coffin.

"Master, what are you doing here," I asked Master.

"Use chopsticks to build a bridge for the old gentleman and the old lady's patella," Master said to me.

"Oh," I replied with a nod.

"Okay, the patella is finished, now you can bury the earth, you four grab the soil and raise it on the coffin first," the master climbed up and instructed the old gentleman and the four children.

"Okay, Dao Chief," the four sons and daughters of the deceased grabbed the soil from the ground and raised it towards the coffin.

"Dust to dust, earth to earth, life will eventually die, the spirit will eventually perish, all things will eventually perish, no matter how brilliant, but a pinch of loess, a handful of ashes, a hundred years of life, how can there be an eternal immortal, the end of the sunset, the horror can be heard, but time passes, the deceased rest in peace, may you drive the crane west to the Elysium as soon as possible, immeasurable heavenly honor" Master stood in front of the old gentleman's coffin and read.

When everyone picked up shovels and threw the dirt on the old man's coffin, the old man's three sons shed tears at the same time.

"Dad, Dad......" the old gentleman's daughter cried as she looked at the coffin and cried out sadly.

"Poof", the old gentleman's daughter fainted due to excessive crying of grief. The old gentleman's second son hurried to his sister's side and lifted her sister up from the ground.

"The old gentleman's funeral is over today, and the first seven of you and your four children must wait for him at the old gentleman's house, because the old gentleman's soul will go back to see you in the first seven," the master said to the old man's four children.

"Well, Daoist is really grateful to you these days, you see that I can give you more money," the old gentleman's eldest son walked up to the master and asked.

"Well, you can give me four thousand," said the master to the old man's eldest son.

"Dao Chief, I have prepared 5,000 yuan, this time you are working on my father's funeral, our brothers are very satisfied, the extra 1,000 yuan is considered to be your blessing," the old man's eldest son said to the master with satisfaction.