I stopped, glanced at Wei Dezhen, and asked her, "What's wrong?" ”

She walked over quickly, took out a red envelope and stuffed it into my hand, "Well, this is for you, and we will live under the same roof from now on." ”

I took the red envelope, it was so thick, it was estimated that there would be a thousand yuan, and I immediately put on a smiling face, "Hello eldest sister!" ”

"This is a good boy, don't worry, in the future, your senior brother will bully you, tell your sister, and your sister will teach him a lesson for you." Wei Dezhen waved his hand and said briskly.

I don't know why, I suddenly felt a trace of bitterness in my heart, smiled at her, and couldn't help but speed up a few steps to the second floor, tidy up my room, and move things to my brother's room.

I had just moved my things to my brother's room, and he came, glared at me, and then said, "There's a room under the stairs, you can sleep later." ”

I said oh, I originally thought that Wei Dezhen was here, and I could have a trace of home warmth, but I never thought that my senior brother would let me sleep in that room, as if I fell from the sky to the ground all of a sudden, that sense of loss is really not enough for outsiders, picked up my own things, I walked downstairs, tears flowed out of my eyes.

Although when I was at home, my parents were partial to the children of my second uncle's family, but I would never do it so obviously, and I suddenly began to feel homesick.

Senior brother should have seen the change in my mood, and stood on the second floor and said to me, "Chuanzi, you have to remember that the heavens are entrusted to the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, empty their bodies, and do what they do, you are here to learn art, not to enjoy." ”

I nodded solemnly, didn't speak, walked to the first floor, and cleaned up the house, this house used to be a senior brother to put tools, there was a strong smell of ink in it, the room is not big, only a bed and a bookcase, there is no light bulb in the room, the senior brother sent me a kerosene lamp, saying that I should use the kerosene lamp in the future.

At first, I believed my brother's words, but the more I thought about it at night, the more I felt that something was wrong, and I always felt that my brother was deliberately supporting me, afraid that I would disturb his good things with Wei Dezhen.

For a long time in the future, my brother has been making coffins and selling coffins, and rarely goes out to work, while Wei Dezhen completely acted as the hostess, responsible for washing and cooking for me and my brother, I asked them tentatively why they didn't get married, and they both said at the same time, this is the end of this life, and there is no intention of getting married, I asked them the reason, and they said that they were afraid of gossip from the neighborhood.

If you want to talk about time, it flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, I have been at my brother's house for a year. In this year, my brother's attitude towards me has always been neither hot nor cold, but when teaching the craft, it is true, a year down, the senior brother's hand coffin craft, I have learned nine points, the remaining one point, the senior brother is unwilling to teach, saying that the master teaches the apprentice to leave three points, and the senior brother and the teacher can teach nine points.

I can't say anything about this, but Wei Dezhen has been blowing the pillow wind in the senior brother's ear, and asked him to teach me the rest of the point, but the senior brother said that this is his bottom line, and he can't teach anymore, I really want to learn, let me go to the master.

I don't have a good impression of the master, and I haven't visited his old man's home, and this matter has been delayed, but I have learned a few percent of the senior brother's engineer's language.

To be honest, looking back now, the year in the coffin shop was the happiest year in my life, because only that year, I felt the warmth of home, although the place of residence is poor, but Wei Dezhen has always regarded me as a younger brother, and I took care of me very much in life, and I am also grateful to her.

I thought that life would go on like this, but in September of my sophomore year of high school, my senior brother found me in class with a solemn face.

"Chuanzi, you come out!" My brother stood at the door of the classroom and shouted at me.

I looked at the teacher, he nodded at me, I slowly got up, walked out of the classroom, and heard my brother say, "Follow me." ”

Following behind the senior brother, we walked straight out of the school, and the senior brother stopped abruptly and said to me: "Chuanzi, you have almost learned my craft, and there is no craft to teach you, Zhenzhen and I plan to go to a long door, and this coffin shop will be handed over to you in the future." ”

"Ahh I stared at him with a stunned expression, "Senior brother, I... I... I can't, the coffin shop can't do without you. ”

Senior brother glared at me and said sharply: "The eagle will always have a day to spread its wings, how can you hide under the eagle for the rest of your life, you are now 17 years old, it's time to take some responsibility." ”

After saying this, the senior brother took out 20,000 yuan from his pocket and put it in my hand, and continued: "In the past year, you have helped my senior brother do a lot of work while learning art in the coffin shop, and the 20,000 yuan is my reward for you. ”

After speaking, the senior brother took out the key to the coffin shop and put it in my hand, and stopped talking, and walked forward.

After walking seven or eight steps, he stopped, didn't look back, and said lightly: "I have a book under the bed, I originally planned to wait for you to graduate from high school, and then give you that book, but now the situation is different, when you are fine, take a look at that book, it is some of the virtues that the senior brother usually wears the coffin, and it can be regarded as a little thought from the senior brother." ”

"Senior brother!" I want to cry.

He didn't say a word, but walked straight forward.

I really wanted to catch up, and I also wanted to ask my brother what happened, but I didn't dare, because I understood my brother's temperament, and what he said rarely changed.

Looking at his back, tears flowed from my eyes.

I know that the departure of my senior brother means that from now on, I can only guard the coffin shop and live alone.

I don't know how long I stood in place, until the bell rang for the end of class, I came back to my senses, asked the teacher for half a day off, and went directly back to the coffin shop, the door was closed, I took out the key to open the door, but the familiar coffin shop seemed a little strange to me.

I walked straight in, my eyes were attracted by a pool of blood stains near the stairs, this blood stain is not like ordinary blood, but a hint of dark red, turned my head to look at the stairs, and found that there was also a pool of blood stains over there, and walked along the blood stain to the second floor, the blood stain dripped all the way from Wei Dezhen's room, and when I opened the door, I saw that a large pool of blood stains next to the bed looked so dazzling.

I immediately understood that my senior brother was taking Wei Dezhen to treat the disease, and it can be seen from these blood stains that Wei Dezhen is not lightly ill, but I can't know what the disease is, but I vaguely feel that this matter may be related to the five-sided ash coffin.

However, what puzzled me was that in the past year, I never found out that Wei Dezhen was sick, and she was like a normal person, and she couldn't see any traces.

After staying in this room for a while, with all kinds of doubts, I cleaned the blood on the ground, and went home with the 20,000 yuan left by my brother, and I don't know why, my father took the 20,000 yuan I handed over, and said something inexplicable to me, he said: "Thank you, please go back!" ”

I don't know why my father is so cold, but I know that when my father said this, my mother was crying on the side, and kept saying, "I'm a miserable baby!"

I glanced deeply at my parents and said to them, "The remaining 10,000 yuan, I will try to send it over as soon as possible to treat my second uncle." ”

With that, I left, with my disappointment in my father.

When I returned to the coffin shop, it was already night, and I was lying on my brother's usual bed, holding a book that had been turned out from under my brother's bed, which was a codex, and the contents recorded on it were all about the craftsmanship of ghost craftsmen.

What I didn't expect was that this book was not only about making coffins, but also about all kinds of furniture and garden craftsmanship.

I held the book and saw it in the middle of the night, and I only had one thought in my mind, I had to use the craft at hand to earn 10,000 yuan to treat my second uncle.

Something seemed to be predestined in the dark, and the next morning, I was getting ready for school when an unexpected person approached me.