Chapter Ninety-Six: The Unjust Ghost Chunqiao
Chunqiao said this, suddenly his tongue stretched out, his hands drooped, his eyes looked down, and he made a hanged ghost action, but these people in the room were frightened, they were frightened and took several steps back, at this time Xiao Wu Xiaoliu was still kneeling on the ground, they were trampled by the retreating people Wow Wow screamed, I saw that their hands were trampled out of blood, these people who retreated, their feet were dead, once they stepped on it, it was broken bones and tendons, two people howled there, but no one took pity on them, but stopped, Spit on Little Five and Little Six.
Chun Qiao's appearance of the hanged ghost said: "In fact, the hanged people have protruding eyes, tongues stretched out vigorously, a turbid breath in the stomach, can not be spit out, will follow the body, three feet deep into the ground, into a piece of charcoal, but I don't, because of the strong resentment, and my soul combined, so that my soul gathers and does not disperse, eyes do not protrude, do not stick out tongue, when hanging me, I heard the sound of bones breaking, and then I don't know anything, when I know, I see myself hanging on a rope, Move slightly, and then you will know the rest of the story. ”
After finishing speaking, as soon as his body became weak, he fell to the ground, and everyone wanted to go over to take a look, but then Zhou Da suddenly sat up, crying and said: "I died more unjustly, these things are none of my business, but I just put it on the table, and let me bury the dead alive." Little Five, Little Six, you killed me, I want to ask you for your life. ”
Xiao Wu and Xiao Liu quickly kowtowed when they heard this, at this time they couldn't care about the hand pain, because the hand pain is not as important as their little life, needless to say, it must be the male ghost, I said to the male ghost: "If you have any grievances, just say it in front of everyone, and Lord Zhou will call the shots for you." ”
As soon as the male ghost heard it, he talked about his own experience, and the male ghost said: "My name is Ma Xiaoer, I am the guy of Li Ji's coffin shop, that day I sat outside the door and waited for business, the shopkeeper sat in the coffin shop, drinking tea and fanning Pu fan, you are very comfortable, I looked at the shopkeeper's happy appearance, but I squatted outside, my heart is not a taste, this person and people, the gap is so big, think about it, I look good now."
Three years ago, my hometown was affected by the disaster, I followed the adults out to ask for food, the adults were starving to death, I was left alone, I was hungry and fainted on the side of the road, if it wasn't for the shopkeeper's rescue, now it would have become a pile of bones, although the work with the shopkeeper is tired, and I can't eat, but it's better than asking for food outside.
I was thinking, at this time, the sun was high, and the shady place where I was squatting was gone, so I moved my body towards the shady ground again. It's a hot day. I thought it would be nice if it rained, when there was the sound of horses' hooves on the road, and I looked up and saw two horses running towards us, and when I saw that it was a business, I quickly got up and waited for the two men to dismount, and I stood at the door and waited, and did not meet them.
Selling a coffin is not something else, if you go up and ask people if they buy a coffin, if you don't get it right, you may be beaten, although the coffin is called Shoucai, but after all, that is used by the dead. As I stood there, two men dismounted and came over in a swagger, and one of them looked at me and said, "Is your shopkeeper in the store?" ”
I hurriedly said, "In the store, is there anything wrong with the two masters?" ”
The man said, "What can I do with you, of course, is to buy a coffin." ”
At this time, the shopkeeper got up from the chair, came to the two of them and said, "What kind of longevity do you want?" We have everything here, you see these are all made of fine wood, real materials, and will not rot for a hundred years. ”
The man said, "We don't understand this either, you pick a good wood and send it to the Zhou Mansion in our Zhoujiazhuang." ”
When I heard about the Zhou Mansion at the time, I knew that these two people were not simple, and the Zhou Mansion was a hundred miles away. As soon as the shopkeeper heard about the people of the Zhou Mansion, he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly asked me to serve tea, and then asked two people to sit down and talk, and the two people sat down there and drank tea, and the shopkeeper asked cautiously: "Dare to ask the two masters, who is this coffin for?" In this way, I can find a suitable one for the second master. ”
Another person said, "This coffin is for the maids of our Zhou Mansion." ”
When the shopkeeper heard this, he said: "This is easy to say, the maid's coffin, it doesn't need to be too good, there is just the right price here." ”
The man said: "This is not good, this maid is different from others, she and our second lady are like sisters, and the second lady is kind-hearted, the second lady said at home, let us buy a good coffin, let the maid go on the road in a beautiful way, all the way well, as for the price, it is easy to say." ”
When the shopkeeper heard this, he hurriedly said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, then I have to find a good coffin that won't rot for a hundred years." ”
At this time, the housekeeper: "The shopkeeper, there is one more thing, that is, after the funeral, our Zhou family can't spare no one to deliver this coffin, because it is a young death, their hometown is not convenient to pick up, and please ask the shopkeeper to find an honest and reliable young man to help transport the coffin home." The second lady said about the money, and she must give enough money. ”
A dignified Zhou Mansion said that it was impossible to draw people back, but it was just rhetoric, just because it was a subordinate who died, and the people in the mansion were also subordinates, so they were unwilling to send a subordinate coffin back. The shopkeeper also knew it, he said: "This, this matter is not easy to do, I really can't find it for you, find someone to send the coffin back to your hometown." ”
The guy looked at me and said, "I think your fellow is good, so let your fellow send the coffin back." ”
When the shopkeeper heard this, he said, "This ......"
The housekeeper said with a cold face: "What? Our Zhou family still asks you to fail? ”
The shopkeeper hurriedly apologized and said, "No, no, no, that's not what I mean, don't be angry." ”
The man said, "It's good that doesn't mean that." After speaking, he threw two oceans on the table at once, and then said: "Two oceans, one is a fixed money, and the other is for your buddy to buy a good dress to wear, don't embarrass the Zhou family." ”
The shopkeeper hurriedly thanked him, and the man said, "Remember to send the coffin to Zhou's house in the afternoon."
The shopkeeper quickly nodded and agreed, and the two people got up and rode away, and then I learned that these two people were called Xiao Wu, and one was called Xiao Liu, after the two people left, the shopkeeper took me to the street to buy clothes, to be honest, I didn't wear such good new clothes, after buying clothes, the shopkeeper told me the skills of transporting the coffin and some ways to deal with the mutation of the corpse.
The shopkeeper said to me: "Xiao Er, although you have worked in my coffin shop for three years, but this is the first time you have transported the coffin of the dead, when the coffin does not contain the dead, it is called longevity, and when the dead are loaded, it becomes the coffin of the owner, because the coffin you want to transport, the deceased is a woman, and you must not inquire about the age and appearance of the deceased." Nor can I think about anything.
If you encounter a special situation, you must open the coffin, you must light three incense sticks and pray before you can open the coffin, and when you stay and eat, you can't sit at the corner of the table, let the corner of the table face you, because that is where the dead sit. When eating, be sure to salute the coffin first, and when you are staying, you must pay attention to the night owl barking. ”
In this way, the shopkeeper told me a lot of things, I wrote them down one by one, sealed the coffin on the cart, I pulled the coffin and walked towards Zhoujiazhuang, this coffin, is a coffin of white stubble, because it is not a longevity coffin, it is too late to paint, so it is just brushed with a layer of tung oil. Zhoujiazhuang is ten miles away from our coffin, and I finally arrived in Zhoujiazhuang before the evening. After handing over the coffin to the Zhou family, the matter of pretending to be a corpse is not something that I can see as a person who sends the coffin.
The people of the Zhou family led me to eat, the food of the Zhou family was very good, there was wine and meat, I ate that fragrant, think about my father and mother are starving to death, and I can't help but feel sad, when my mother was dying of hunger, she said to me that she had never eaten a full meal in her life, if she could eat a full meal, she would be willing to die. I just thought about it while eating, and I kept eating until I couldn't eat it anymore, and I felt my bulging stomach before it was over. ”