If you don't consider the reason for age, this boss lady is really good-looking, it can be regarded as the kind of charm that still exists, and people who come to the restaurant must be inseparable from two reasons, one is to fill their stomachs, and the other is to see the boss lady.

I thought back to the scene just now, the father and son mentioned by Grandpa Sun had indeed been sitting there all the time, neither ordering nor looking at the proprietress of the house, so why did they come to the small restaurant?

Thinking of this, I said to Grandpa Sun, "You're right, I also remembered, they didn't eat anything on the table except tea, so what do you say they are doing, it won't be a simple rest, and the proprietress can't let it!" ”

"Two reasons, either eyes and ears, or let off the wind!"

"Eyes and ears? Whose eyes and ears are they? Lookout? Who are you giving the wind to! ”

"Have you ever heard of the 'Three Doors of Romon'?" Grandpa Sun asked me.

"Rohmon is Romon, how can there be 'three gates'!" I have never heard of the "Three Gates of Rohman".

"There are three gates in Luomen, one is the official gate, the second is the stone gate, and the third is the flower gate!"

"Yo, these three names are pretty good, what do those three doors mean?"

"You should be able to guess that you just showed me something to do!" Grandpa Sun said.

"Me? What have I shown you? "I didn't come up with it.

"It's your high-tech!"

I remembered the effort to say this, I showed him the map of his mobile phone just now, but what does this have to do with the "Romon Sanmen" in his mouth.

"Think about it!"

I patted my head and suddenly remembered, "Do you mean those three streets?" ”

According to the instructions on the mobile phone map just now, there are three streets on the boundary of Luomen Town, Coffin Street, Huashou Street and Stone Tablet Street, and judging from the names of the three gates, "Guanmen", "Huamen" and "Shimen" are not these three streets.

Grandpa Sun patted me on the shoulder, stretched out his thumbs and gave me a thumbs up, as if to say that this kid's head is finally bright!

"That's what you said, but the 'Three Gates' don't just refer to the name of the street, but the three forces are reflected behind the 'Three Gates'."

"What three forces?"

Seeing that I was listening carefully, Grandpa Sun continued, "Guanmen" represents a large family that deals in coffins, "Huamen" specializes in wreaths and shrouds, and "Shimen" specializes in tombstones and inscriptions. ”

"Oh, and that's the first time I've heard of it!"

"Then guess which door is the most powerful?"

"This? I don't know much, but if it was in ancient times, the 'official door' should be the most powerful, the ancients fancied into the earth for safety, this coffin is equivalent to the private house of the dead, I like this very much, but now burial is not popular, coffins are not so popular. ”

"Well, now many crematoriums have launched the service of renting coffins, old people park in the coffin for a while, they will take it to practice, if you meet a person who pays attention to the funeral, you will also consider buying a longevity material, if you are not particular, rent it in the crematorium and it will be over, and you don't have to consider the problem of disposal after the fact, which is both economical and affordable." Grandpa Sun affirmed me.

"So who's the hell?" I thought about it.

"Actually, it's really what you said, Luomen Town has been operating a white business since the Ming Dynasty, and it has a history of about five hundred years, and the surname of the ancestors of the 'Guanmen' is Luo, which is also the source of the name of Luomen Town, it is said that the ancestors of the Luo family are dedicated to making coffins for the dead, and what is the most important thing about the coffin?"

"It's wood!" I answered.

"Yes, it is said that the ancestors of the Luo clan have been looking for the most suitable place to make coffins, and the northeast is a place where there are few varieties, and the red pines all over the mountains on Lizi Mountain have attracted their attention."

"I've heard them say that in this place in the Northeast, if anyone has red pine wood for longevity, it is quite good." I've heard of red pine making coffins.

"The red pine tree is high into the clouds, straight and straight, it is the material of the natural pillars, if it is made of coffins, the texture is dense and straightforward, the shape and color are beautiful and not easy to deform, the decay resistance is strong, it is the most ideal coffin wood in this place in the Northeast. Luo's ancestors now settled here and steadily started this coffin business, and later the business became bigger and bigger, and gradually attracted other people who did white business to come and settle down. ”

"That's why there are more stone gates and flower gates!" I continued Grandpa Sun's words.

"Well, the first to come is Shimen, Shimen is engaged in the business of carving monuments, doing this business is the same as making coffins, the raw materials are more exquisite, and it happens that the mountain opposite Lizi Mountain is rich in marble, which naturally provides raw materials for the Shimen family."

"So that's the case, no wonder Luomen Town is called this name, it turned out that the ancestors of the Luo clan were the first to press here, so what are the stone gates and flower gates called?"

"Shimen's surname is Qian, and Huamen's surname is coincidental, it's Hua's surname!"

"It's interesting, but what about after that? I mean, even though there are three, there must be one to take the lead, after all, one mountain can't accommodate two tigers. ”

"At first, it was the Luo family, that is, the Luo family of the 'official gate', but now there are fewer and fewer people buried, although the cremated people don't use coffins, but they will also set up tombstones or something in the cemetery, so the Shimen family is gradually rising."

"Can the official be happy?"

"Of course I'm not happy, engaging in white business is also a chain of interests. According to the customs of the past, when people are old, they will first prepare the coffin board, then the shroud, and then engrave the monument after death, buy wreaths or something, which forms an industry, that is, a one-stop industry of white things, all the dead people's business throughout the ages, the coffin is the first step, this Luomen town has been based on the official door for many years, if there is a business with the outside world or something, it is also led by the official door, and the other two doors cooperate. But in recent years, with the decline of the coffin industry, the official gate was defeated, and Shimen gradually rose to the top of the town, thinking of taking the leading position in Luomen Town. ”

"Is there any benefit to this leadership?"

"As I said just now, this is a chain of interests, the leader naturally has many benefits, and when talking about business with people from other places, it must be the leader who has the most kickbacks, so now Shimen is eager to try, the official status is not guaranteed, and the two families are very incompatible."

"What about Hanamon?" I remembered another door.

"Huamen is relatively modest, because their business is small, and shrouds and wreaths are not as valuable as coffins and stone tablets, and their attitude is that the family is okay, the key is to give their family a bowl of rice to eat."

"Oh, don't you say I don't know yet, there are so many things to say in the small Shimen Town." This is like the four families in "Dream of Red Mansions", one loses and one prospers, everyone is a grasshopper on the same line, and no one can do without anyone, but people are like this, who doesn't want to be the leading grasshopper?

"You told me so much, what does it have to do with the father and son who didn't order at the restaurant just now?" I'm a little confused.

"But all people from other places, when they enter Luomen Town, the people of the three gates will analyze these outsiders, whether they are here to do ordinary things, or to talk about business, or even to find trouble and smash the field, if the first is the first type, naturally there is nothing to say, just do their own business, if it is the second type, they will secretly investigate what business is to talk about, you can start first, take the opportunity to win over to your side, if it is the last, then it can trigger their family defense mechanism."

"Hey! That's what you say! I thought back to it, and the father and son had been staring at us from time to time since we entered the house, "Then you say, which one are the two fathers and sons?" ”

"I don't know this yet, as the saying goes, 'Be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years', every grass and tree, every brick and tile in this Luomen town is said, we just entered the small restaurant in the town, and it was opened on the edge of the town, maybe which sect's sentry is there!"

"So you didn't say what you wanted to do in the restaurant, and you wanted to find it through your mobile phone, but you just didn't want to have more trouble." It dawned on me that it was no wonder that Grandpa Sun didn't inquire directly like me.

"Yes, but your method is not bad, at least it's convenient and fast!" When Grandpa Sun said this, he glanced forward and said to me, "It's here!" ”