Qi Zihuan sent the guests away, returned to the counter, looked at the list that he had hastily written down just now, and began to ponder with his chin propped up.

What this middle-aged man does in his family is not an ordinary white thing, but the old saying of yin marriage, also known as dark marriage.

This yin marriage existed before the Han Dynasty, and to put it bluntly, it was actually to find a spouse for the dead.

In ancient times, some young men and women died for some reason after they were engaged. The old people believed that if they were not married, their ghosts would make the house uneasy. Therefore, it is necessary to hold a yin marriage ceremony for them, and finally bury them together, become husband and wife, and bury them together.

This could have been regarded as a kind of emotional sustenance from relatives to the deceased.

However, later, due to the vigorous advocacy of some folk public opinion masters, if there is a lonely grave in a family, it will definitely affect feng shui and cause great obstacles to the prosperity of the future generations of the family. Therefore, it gradually developed into a rich family or nobleman who could afford it, as long as a young unmarried person in the family died, he or she would find a suitable age for him or her, who was also dead, and arrange a yin marriage ceremony.

In fact, this form has been banned in all dynasties and generations, for example, there is a cloud in the "Zhou Li": "It is forbidden to move the burial and marry the dead." ”

However, this trend is still repeatedly banned.

For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, a generation of heroes Cao Cao did this.

It is said that Cao Cao's favorite son at that time was Cao Chong. That's right, it's the little prodigy in the cartoon, the one who uses the boat to weigh the elephant. This Cao Chong was very unfortunate and died at the age of thirteen, so Cao Cao hired the deceased Miss Zhen to be Cao Chong's wife and buried them together.

There is also the most famous bald old Jiang in modern times, whose younger brother unfortunately died before he reached adulthood. The Jiang family was grieved, so they found a girl surnamed Wang who died early, and the matchmaker prepared wine and fruit at the tomb and sacrificed them for marriage.

In modern times, China has long not allowed non-governmental organizations to organize such activities, and it has been occasionally heard in the past, but it is quite rare in recent years.

There is a way that flowers bloom inside the wall and fragrance outside the wall. The ritual of yin marriage has spread to Japan and South Korea, and now it is in full swing, and various funeral companies in Tokyo have launched yin marriage programs to provide one-stop "joint burial" services after the death of customers. In less than a year, more than 1,000 people have purchased such services, and some have even set up "joint burial seminars", where everyone gathers for regular discussions and talks about the aftermath.

Qi Zihuan was in a daze for a long time before shaking his head and began to carefully study how much oil and water should be scraped out of this business.

After a while, I had a rough mental spectrum, and I made a complete list in the computer again, marked the itemized quotation and total price one by one, and was about to send it to Ah Fei's mailbox on the Internet.

At this time, Ah Fei went and returned, and returned to Qi Zihuan's store alone.

"Hey, why are you back again? I'm going to send you a quote and call you. Qi Zihuan didn't get up to greet him, and said suspiciously.

Ah Fei was in a good mood, and after finding a stool and sitting down, he said with a smile: "Today, my father rarely gives me a holiday, just let me accompany this uncle to run a few more funeral supplies stores, I will come to you directly when I think about it." Hey, it didn't take long for it to be settled, and my uncle hurried back to arrange other things for the burial in four days. ”

"Why did you leave? The price hasn't been negotiated yet. Qi Zihuan said with a frown.

Ah Fei dragged the stool to the computer, and reached for the mouse.

"I'll check for you first."

"Do you understand? You don't know how much this item costs, how long it will take, and it's not like your drink, and there is an official guide price. Qi Zihuan has never had anything good to say about Ah Fei, and complained as usual.

I didn't think that Ah Fei dragged the list down, glanced at the total price directly, and then waved his hand and said quite atmosphericly: "Don't look too carefully, in short, on this basis, everything will be increased by another 20%." ”

Qi Zihuan's brows furrowed more and more, and he said with some hesitation: "This is not very good, right?" The previous offer already had a lot of moisture. ”

"When it comes to business, you still have to learn from me." Ah Fei glanced at him proudly, and said earnestly, "You, unlike my family, which sells drinks in a flowing water, you rarely have a big business, you must seize the opportunity to make a few months of profits back." ”

"I said that the fat young owner, the object of this ruthless fishing is your relatives. The cost of paper is very low, and I have already offered a high price, and I think it is a bit too much to go any further. Qi Zihuan couldn't cry or laugh.

"There's something you don't understand here."

When Qi Zihuan heard this, there was still a hidden secret, and he hurriedly asked, "What do you say?" ”

Ah Fei glanced out of the empty door, leaned his head in front of him, and said mysteriously: "My uncle didn't elaborate, but you also know that this kind of thing sometimes doesn't come from a clean way. Of course, I don't know the details, I don't know. ”

Qi Zihuan's eyes narrowed.

In fact, the superstitious activity of yin marriage, which has a sense of ritual, has been more or less existing in rural areas, but it is said that it has really begun to disappear because of some news reports in the past few years.

At that time, there were continuous media exposures that in order to meet the needs of the corpse source for the yin marriage, many people were willing to take risks for tens of thousands of yuan, some exhumed graves and robbed corpses, and some stove workers pretended to be cremated and hid corpses for money, and even killed people for this.

The cases were shocking, and the departments concerned also reacted quickly and cracked down on the activities of unmarried marriages nationwide.

"Don't you know, before coming to you, my uncle asked about several funeral stores in their town, but most of them felt that it was very troublesome to receive custom orders or was afraid of getting into trouble, so they resolutely refused to accept this business. Only one company wanted to make this money, so they simply tried a few things, but they did very poorly. Ah Fei lowered his voice and continued, "This deceased cousin has been in the ice coffin for several days, and it costs a lot of money every day, and I heard that the woman will also arrive in three days, so I can't rent an ice coffin and put it there." My uncle was also in a hurry, and it is said that he went to several shops in other towns, but he couldn't find a suitable one. ”

"So in this desperate situation, you fooled me here?" Qi Zihuan smoothed out these things and relaxed.

Maybe the origin is unknown, that matter is what Ah Fei thought, and besides, he just sells paper ties, and he doesn't do it specifically, so no one can find it if they are looking for trouble.

"Moreover, I am absolutely confident in your craftsmanship. Therefore, when you ask for the price, you can take a more open step and be bolder. Rest assured, his family is very rich. Ah Fei stared at Qi Zihuan and smiled sadly.

"Who asked him to give me only five yuan red envelopes for the New Year!"

Hiss, terrifying Ah Fei.