Seeing this, I nervously asked, "Division... Brother, what are you going to do? ”

He smiled slightly, glanced at the nail of my right index finger, and said lightly: "There is a pine tree in the southwest Gengxin position, you went over and cut it." ”

I hummed, didn't dare to hesitate, and walked in that direction, to be honest, I was a little afraid of my brother at that time, and I didn't dare to disobey my brother's intentions, and I did what he said.

When I came to the southwest Gengxin position, there was a pine tree as before, this pine tree was not big, about the size of the first pine tree, what made me extremely depressed was that I had just raised the axe and cut it down, and the senior brother came directly from behind, "Chuanzi, are you showing me your softness?" ”

My face turned red, I raised the axe and cut it down hard, and the senior brother came over, slapped a palm on my waist, and said lightly: "Cut down the tree to unite the waist and the horse, and wave the arm to be strong and powerful." ”

I didn't speak, I raised my axe and slashed down again.

In this way, the whole morning was spent in the shouting and scolding of the senior brother, and about nine pine trees were cut down, according to the senior brother's meaning, I was asked to chop off the branches of those pine trees, but after cutting down those trees, my whole body was about to collapse, and I sat on the ground and gasped, and the senior brother shook his head, took the axe from my hand, and while chopping off the branches, he said how he learned the art when he was with the master, and said that the young people are lazy now.

I have to say that the whole action of the senior brother splitting the branches, like flowing water, every action is done in one go, without the slightest superfluous action, and it can even be said that watching the senior brother split the branches is simply a visual enjoyment.

After chopping those branches, it was almost noon, the senior brother sat down next to me, handed me a cigarette, and asked me if I smoked, I wanted to say no, but when I saw the senior brother's face, I immediately took the cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, choked so badly, tears were about to come out, I heard the senior brother say lightly: "Smoke is a good thing, you have to learn, in the future, you come to help people work, smoke can make your relationship with the owner one step closer." ”

I sighed, didn't speak, and smoked with my head down.

After a cigarette, I couldn't hold back the doubts in my heart, so I asked my senior brother, "Senior brother, what kind of coffin does Wei Dezhen want to fight, and why do you refuse her again and again?" ”

Senior brother glanced at me, laughed miserably, stared at his body for a while, and slowly said: "Chuanzi, since the master asked you to follow me to learn art, I can't let you come in vain, so naturally I want to teach you some skills, and this cutting down trees is only the first step, and the second step is to teach you how to recognize the coffin, hit the coffin and what kind of person to hit what coffin." ”

I hummed, looked at my senior brother curiously, and heard him say: "First of all, you have to remember one thing, we ghost craftsmen have three taboos when beating coffins, one is that the coffins of the wicked cannot be beaten, the second is that the coffins of children cannot be beaten, and the third is that the coffins of the newly married people cannot be beaten, especially this third kind of coffin, which must not be beaten. ”

Speaking of this, the senior brother paused, raised his eyes and glanced at the village, and continued: "And the coffin that Wei Dezhen asked for is similar to the third type of coffin, and the man in her family died on the day of the wedding. ”

As soon as I heard it, I immediately felt that something was wrong, I remember Wei Dezhen said that she always dreamed that her man told her about the child, and listening to the tone of the senior brother, Wei Dezhen just got married and her man died, how did the child come about?

I asked this doubt, the senior brother took a deep puff of cigarette, and said lightly: "The parents of the two of them did not agree to this marriage, the two eloped out, pregnant six times, and I don't know why, the six children died in the womb before they were born, and then the parents of the two saw that they were pitiful, so they agreed to their marriage. ”

"How did you die?" I asked with a tight breath.

The senior brother sighed, did not speak, only smoked with his head stuffed, and after about three or four minutes, the senior brother stood up and said to me, "Carry these trees back, and make that kind of coffin in the afternoon, you can just watch from the side, don't touch it." ”

I wanted to ask the reason, but when I saw the solemn look on my brother's face, I didn't dare to ask, so I followed my brother back to the village with those tree poles.

When we returned to the village, the senior brother first threw those tree poles into the pond, saying that before making the coffin, we had to let these branches eat some water, and then asked Wei Dezhen to cook a Chinese meal for us.

Therefore, when we saw our Chinese food, my brother and I were stunned, only to see that Wei Dezhen hobbled with two bowls of white rice porridge in front of us, and said: "According to your request, no lard, no vinegar, no soy sauce, by the way, I will get you some dried radish later." ”

Originally, I was doing physical work in the morning, and I was already hungry and unbearable, and when I saw this Chinese food, I was speechless, and that's it, because the senior brother didn't dare to lose his temper with Wei Dezhen, he said to me: "What are you stunned, hurry up and eat!" ”

The grievance in my heart, who did I provoke, I didn't speak, and drank white rice porridge with my head down.

After lunch, the senior brother first fished out the pine trees that were placed in the pond, and then set up two long wooden benches in the hall of this village, saying that he had to start beating the coffin, I wanted to help, but the senior brother called me again and again, saying that I could not help with that kind of coffin, and that if I helped, it would hurt me.

In desperation, I had to stand on the side and watch my brother peel off the pine trees and split them into coffin boards, my brother's hands seemed to have magic power, and it only took him an hour to split the nine pine trees into coffin boards, which looked about four centimeters thick, about two meters seven long, and twenty-eight centimeters wide, and I asked my brother why he split them like this.

He explained to me that the general coffin is to make the effect of five drums and three circles, the upper cover is the sky, the lower bottom is the ground, the two sides are the bang, the front and back are bosoms, the proportion of the upper and lower wood is four or six points, and the proportion of the front and back is three or seven points.

As soon as I heard it, I immediately wondered, the general coffin is a coffin with six sides, six sides, and five sides, which is a bit wrong, so I asked the senior brother why.

As he smoothed the pine, he explained, "As long as you put your mind on it, there is nothing that cannot be made of wood, remember, there is a heart that knows everything." ”

After saying this, he stopped his movements and glanced at me meaningfully.

I understand what he means, he blames me for putting my mind on studying, I am really drunk, the elders generally hope that their descendants will study hard, and when it comes to the senior brother, it is a mistake to put my mind on studying.

I didn't dare to speak, so I just sighed on the side.

As soon as the words fell, the afterglow of my eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of the pine wood in my brother's hand... There was a crimson liquid oozing out, and there was an indescribable strangeness about the liquid, and the speed of oozing was extremely fast, and in less than a moment, the entire pine plank had turned bloody.