After thinking about it, I really couldn't afford to buy this coffin, so I had to be cheeky and ask her to pay a little shorter.

She seemed to see my financial predicament, so she said: "That's it, you pull this coffin first, the matter of money, wait for it first, and then pay me back when you have money, as for the price, it must not be less than 150,000, because we have the custom of adding money and longevity, I hope my youngest son will live a long life, and I hope you can understand." ”

I nodded, indicating that I understood her suffering, but when buying a coffin, I also paid attention to it, and I couldn't owe the coffin money, otherwise it would not be good for the deceased.

For a while, none of us spoke, and we were silent for about a minute, when Wang Chuyao suddenly spoke, and she said, "Brother Jiu, I have some savings, or should I lend you money?" ”

As soon as I heard this, I was stunned for a moment, I remember that when I was in the Su family, she wrapped a red envelope for me, saying that it was all her salary, why did she come out with her savings now? He said, "No! ”

After speaking, I thought about it for a while, the coffin is a big deal, let's get the coffin first, as for the funeral expenses, I'll find a way later, after all, Mengke's body doesn't enter the coffin again, and if it doesn't work, something will happen.

At that moment, I said hello to Shi Liu, and asked Chen Tiannan to go to the tent and call some people to come over and carry the coffin over.

Chen Tiannan said yes, and walked in the direction of the tent.

After he left, I remembered what Lang Gao had said, so I said to Shi Liu, "Mrs. Shi, I want to ask you for a favor." ”

"What's the busy?" She asked.

"I want to set up Mengke's mourning hall in a tent two miles away, and I hope you can help me convince some villagers of Wanta that as for the place where Mengke is buried, I will pay for the land." I told her what I was going to do.

After hearing this, she frowned, "This is not easy to do, we Ten Thousand Towers have always not allowed outsiders to hold funerals here, let alone bury our ground." ”

"Monko is not an outsider." I explained.

She stopped and said, "She has been married to you, she is the daughter who got married, she can't hold a funeral here, let alone be buried here, Chen Jiu, I may not be able to help you with this." ”

Hearing her say this, I was stunned for a moment, and said, "No room for negotiation? ”

She shook her head and said, "Other things may be negotiable, but about the funeral, I'm afraid there is no negotiable, this is the rule handed down by the ancestors." ”

I still wanted to say something, but she directly stopped me from speaking, so she said: "Chen Jiu, it's not that I don't help you, but you stepped on the bottom line of our Ten Thousand Towers, and I hope you will change places to do Su Mengke's funeral." In addition, I would like to remind you that you must not sneak around for funerals, otherwise, even if you bury it, you will be dug up. ”

Frankly speaking, I understand their plight a little, taking our village as an example, if the daughter who marries is buried in our village, our village will definitely not agree. One will ruin the feng shui of our village, and the other will be that the daughter who marries out buries her mother's house, which has the meaning of going home, and this homecoming has the meaning of divorce in the folk.

Let's ask, with these two taboos in it, who would agree?

Seeing that I didn't speak, Shi Liu said, "Chen Jiu, in my opinion, you should still pull Su Mengke's body to your house!" The Ten Thousand Towers may not be able to accommodate her. ”

Listening to her words, I didn't speak, but Wang Chuyao spoke, she said: "According to your statement, if a woman does not marry for the rest of her life, there will be no place to bury her after death?" ”

Na Shiliu smiled, glanced at Wang Chuyao, and said: "Little girl, what you are talking about is another situation, what we are talking about now is that the daughter who marries out, according to custom, cannot be buried on our side, if it is a woman who has never married in her life, she can be buried on our side, but a monument must not be erected." ”

"It's not fair to women." That Wang Chuyao muttered.

"How can it be fair if it is customary?" The stone willow said such a sentence and did not speak again.

In an instant, the entire firewood room fell silent, and no one spoke.

After a while, during this period, I have been weighing the pros and cons of the funeral, what Shi Liu said is not unreasonable, the woman who married is buried in her mother's house, it is indeed a little unreasonable, I can't break the rules here because of selfishness.

After thinking about it, I decided to return to Hengyang with Rasu Mengke's body.

At the moment, I told Shi Liu about this intention.

After she heard this, her face relaxed, and she said a bunch of things in a mess, roughly speaking, let me bury Mengke with a good life, don't treat the woman of Wanta badly, and handed me some money, about one thousand two, saying that it was her gift money.

I didn't hesitate about her gift money, and just put it away, but I can't help it, I'm short of money for Mengke's funeral now.

Then, we chatted for a while, about half past eight in the evening, that Chen Tiannan led more than a dozen middle-aged men to come, the first thing he did when he entered the door was to throw the plastic bag in his hand towards me, and said: "Brother Jiu, there are 150,000 in total, and the other 2,000 are made up by those bodyguards." ”

I nodded, said thank you to the middle-aged men, and handed the money to Shi Liu, she took a cursory look, and without counting it, she asked me to burn some yellow paper in front of the coffin.

I understood what she meant, this was the ritual of changing hands, so I asked her for yellow paper, burned some yellow paper, and wiped the coffin up and down.

After wiping the coffin, I expressed my gratitude to Shi Liu again, and began to arrange for people to carry the coffin, because it was an empty coffin, plus there was no dragon rope or anything like that, we could only use our hands to support the coffin, fortunately, those middle-aged men had enough strength, so the process of supporting the coffin was quite easy.

Soon, we carried the coffin back to the tent, and before we entered the tent, Na Lang Gao rushed out and scolded me when he caught me, "Chen Jiu, what kind of nerves do you have, it's a good funeral, you have to buy a coffin with all the funeral expenses, why don't you want to think about what to do next?" ”

I was so drunk by him that I was about to speak, but he scolded again, "I really don't know what to say about you, can't you talk to her about the price?" Even if it's 10,000 less! You're going to have to give it all to her. ”

"I..., she..." I didn't know how to answer his question at all, after all, Shi Liu made it very clear that she was selling coffins to add money to her son's life, I can't say, less! Isn't this scolding her son for his young life? Perhaps for this reason, I am not destined to be a businessman in my life.

"What am I, you are so thin-skinned." The man was so angry that he walked up to me, and despite the fact that I was carrying the coffin in my hand, he said, "How much money do you have on you?" ”

I thought about it for a while, and then said, "That Shiliu gave a gift money just now, about one thousand two!" ”

"!" He burst into a foul word, "You loser, in less than a few hours, 150,000 will make you lose everything." ”

Listening to his words, I don't know what's going on, I feel that Lang Gao has changed, giving people the feeling of a housekeeper. It wasn't until later that I learned that the reason why Lang Gao changed so quickly was because he had begun to adapt to the identity of Zhike, and treated the funeral as a Zhike.

I was stunned for a while, and then said to him: "Director Lang, I have one more trouble for you, the mourning hall can't be located here, and I may have to go back to Hengyang." ”

"What?" He exclaimed, looked at me incredulously, and said, "Chen Jiu, are you fooling me?" Do you know how long it will take to get from here to Hengyang? Do you know how much you have to spend on the road? Are you TM crazy, as a knowledgeable guest, I don't recommend you to do this, the cost is too heavy. ”