After hearing my words, my father was very angry, slapped his palm on the table, and said angrily: "Nine boys, you want to fly now that your wings are stiff, right?" Look at the coffin bearers around you, how many young people are there? Don't talk about Guo Fatzi, that's what you pulled him into the water! Let's just say Lao Wang, Gao Lao, and Liu Kai, which of them is not forty or fifty years old, you are an eighteen or nineteen-year-old fine man, dealing with coffins and dead people all day long, do you want to marry a daughter-in-law in the future? ”

Father's words are reasonable, so I don't even have the words to refute, in our coffin bearer's line, we are all elderly farmers, just I am a young man, that Guo Fatzi and Yang Yan both entered the coffin bearer because of my reasons, as for Chen Tiannan's local tyrant, he was purely idle and came to the countryside to experience the coffin.

I held it for a long time, and finally held back this sentence, "I... I... I can make a lot of money carrying the coffin and share the responsibility for the family! ”

"Huh!" The father sneered, slapped his palm on the table again, and said, "Qian Qian Qian, in addition to money in your eyes now, do you still have me and your mother?" Do you know why I didn't go to Guangzhou to carry the mud while working as a farmer? That Lao Tzu told you today that I am a skilled person, and I disdain to do coolies, and it will be disrespectful to my ancestors to do coolies. I have now decided, you will go to work in the shoe factory next year, I will go to my old job, let me pay off the debt, and you can save the money to marry a daughter-in-law in the future! ”

"Lao Chen, you promised your father-in-law that you won't do that anymore, what...?" Mother asked nervously.

I grew up without seeing my father's craft, and I had always grown crops at home, and now I was a little surprised when I suddenly said that there was a craft, and I pricked up my ears to listen to my father's answer to my mother's question.

My father took out a cigarette, lit it, took a few deep breaths, glared at me, and said to my mother: "At the beginning, the poor family had no money to open a pot, and Jiu Yanzi was idle at home, so he asked Lao Wang to take him into the industry, but I didn't expect to provoke so many talkers. Jiu Yanzi hasn't married a cousin yet, if there is too much gossip, which girl is willing to marry into our family? My old Chen family is such a lone seedling, if he can't marry a daughter-in-law, the old Chen family will be broken, and after death, where will I have the face to see the ancestors and ancestors. So! Let me do my job! I'm old, and I don't get gossiped about. For the sake of the nine sons, or for the sake of inheritance, I plan to start my old business. ”

After speaking, my father turned his head to look at me and said viciously: "Jiu Yanzi, for the sake of the old Chen family, for the sake of my father, please don't carry the coffin, you should understand the truth that washing feet and poisoning people will not die and annoy, those rumors and rumors are very uncomfortable in my ears." I'm only less than fifty years old and I have another craft, it shouldn't be a problem to repay debts, I can't build a red brick house for you, and you honestly go to work in a shoe factory to save money to marry a daughter-in-law. ”

"Jiu Yanzi, your father's words are not unreasonable, you are only nineteen years old after the New Year, doing the work of a coffin bearer, it is indeed easy for people to gossip, your father will return to his old business, our family's economy will be more prosperous, you will go to work in the shoe factory!" I don't know what's going on, my mother actually leaned towards my father's side, and before going to the hall, she said that it was nothing to carry the coffin, but now it's like a different person.

I was stunned for a moment, and instead of directly agreeing to my mother's request, I looked at my father and asked him, "What kind of craft do you have?" Will people gossip? ”

My father took a puff of his cigarette, glanced at me, and with a look of pride on his face, he said, "Lupai, carpenter! ”

Lupai? Carpenter?

I looked at my father suspiciously, what is the mystery of the carpenter of the Lu faction? There are many carpenters in this society, and they all think that they are Lu Ban's subordinates, known as Lu Pai, where will they recruit people? Don't...?

Thinking of this, I was a little excited, and asked my father in a trill, "Your craft is Shigong?" Specializing in coffins? ”

My father nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Yes, when I was your age, I followed your grandfather to make coffins in the countryside. Later, your grandfather felt that this was reasonable, so he no longer asked me to make a coffin, and before he died, he repeatedly told me not to make coffins, saying that it was not good to make money from the dead, and that future generations would be punished. Since then, I have been honestly working as a farmer at home, I didn't expect you to carry the coffin and also recruit people, nine sons, listen to what my father said, be an ordinary person, don't be a eight immortals, don't take on funerals. ”

Hearing this, I was so shocked that I couldn't speak, I dared to love our family, and they all had a relationship with the coffin! My father made the coffin, and I carried the coffin, which is incredible.

My father took my look in his eyes, lit a cigarette, and said: "Jiu Yanzi, after I made coffins from my old business, you don't need to worry about the family's debts, you should go to work in a shoe factory and be an ordinary person, even if God wants to punish you, I will take them one by one, and it will definitely not affect your generation." ”

Speaking from the heart, listening to my father say this, I was a little shaken by the idea of being the Eight Immortals, but when I thought of my father going to make a coffin at an age, my heart was inexplicably uncomfortable, not to mention anything else, just take an ordinary coffin as an example, at least 400 catties, and the person who made the coffin needed to put it together piece by piece, and recite some incantations.

In the process of making a coffin, some strange things will be invited. After all, making a coffin is equivalent to building a house for a dead person, and I understand the danger in my heart.

I didn't agree to my father's request, nor did I refuse, I sat at the table and was silent, this society is all about money, if there is money, who dares to say that the coffin bearer is not good, Lao Tzu smashed him with money to shut up, the problem is, I don't have any money.

The atmosphere at the dinner table was a little stuffy, my mother looked at me and my father, sighed, and said: "Old Chen, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, let's not talk about those who are unhappy, let Jiu Hanzi think about it himself, you let him accept your request at once, he is more or less uncomfortable in his heart, the child can't help his parents, you were also this kind of character back then, have you forgotten?" ”

Hearing this, my father did not speak, but stared at me for three minutes, gave me a cigarette, put one hand on my shoulder, and said, "Son, you will be nineteen years old after tonight, there are some things you have to think about clearly, because my father doesn't want to tell you some big truths, you think about it yourself, if you give birth to a son in the future to carry the coffin, what do you think in your heart?" ”

After that, my father stood up, turned on our black and white TV, and screwed to the central station to watch the Spring Festival Gala hosted by Ni Ping and Zhao Zhongxiang, and our family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner finally began with their voices.

Because of work problems, this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was a little dull, during which our family of three rarely spoke.

After dinner, our family gathered around the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala, the Chinese New Year's Eve night in the countryside, in addition to the sound of firecrackers, this Spring Festival Gala is the most lively, we have been seeing 11:30 p.m.

According to our custom, at the turn of the year, it is necessary to 'close the door of wealth' before 12 o'clock, which means to keep the year's mildew outside. This 'closing the door of wealth' is very simple, it is to light a long firecracker and use the sound of firecrackers to drive away the mildew.

I don't know if my father was angry or what's going on, he sat in front of the TV and didn't move, and asked me to take two rolls of firecrackers to close the door of the house. I didn't expect so much, I walked out of the door with firecrackers, and I was ready to set off firecrackers to close the door of wealth. At this moment, my mobile phone rang, and I took it out and saw that it was the unfamiliar number from before, which is the so-called million funeral expenses.