"Yes," Liang Zi responded: "The firm that Wang Dafu and I are doing now has some business dealings with Lao Geng, and in the past month or so, Lao Geng seems to be investigating the whereabouts of Jiuzhou Ding." Alas, don't worry about it so much, you just say it's okay. ”

His tone was very anxious, which made me irritable: "Okay, I don't know if I say it, I have to discuss this matter with my master." ”

Liang Zi paused, and then I heard him sigh and say, "Alas, okay." When are you going to send me news? ”

I said, "Evening." By the way, Senior Brother Geng is ...... looking for Kyushu Ding."

Before I could finish speaking, Liang Zi hung up the phone.

I didn't call him back, I picked up my bicycle, went to the art building to meet Liang Houzai, and then hurried home.

On the way, I told Liang Houzai about Liang Zi, and Liang Houzai also suggested that I discuss it with Master.

When I returned to the Mass Grave Mountain, my master was sitting in a rocking chair, drinking tea and reading the day's newspaper.

When he saw us coming back, Master put down the newspaper, and he stared at me for a while, then raised his eyebrows and asked me, "Liangzi called you?" ”

I was stunned: "Master, how do you know?" ”

The master smiled and said, "Hu Nanqian called today to say that Geng Youbo asked her for your phone number from her, and I guess Liang Zi asked him to ask for it." What, what did he say to you on the phone? ”

I thought about it for a while and said, "Liang Zi just said that he and Wang Dafu found a tomb, and said that the tomb was related to Kyushu Ding. ”

Master continued to follow my words: "Then he entrusted you to help you investigate the matter of Kyushu Ding?" Hmph, this ghost idea must have been given to him by that kid Geng Youbo. ”

I looked at Master, nodded, and then asked, "How does Senior Brother Geng Youbo know that there is a clue to the Kyushu Ding in the secret gate, Master, didn't you say that no one has read the ancient books in it for a thousand years?" ”

The master touched his chin and said, "Indeed, the library of our Soul Village is divided into two pavilions from the secret door, and everyone in the Outer Pavilion can read the ancient books of the Soul Village, and only those who can urge the seal of Fan Tian can open the secret door and enter the cabinet." But many of the books in the outer cabinet are simple copies of those ancient books in the cabinet, Geng Youbo has probably read those simple copies, and there are clues to Kyushu Ding, but the clues in the simple manuscript are definitely incomplete. ”

After Master finished speaking, I found an opportunity to say, "Listen to Liang Zi, Senior Brother Geng has also been investigating the whereabouts of Jiuzhou Ding recently. ”

Master nodded: "Well, this is normal, your Senior Brother Geng is an expatriate from the Cultural Relics Bureau, and if he learns the information about these antiquities, he will definitely start to investigate." By the way, I've been forgetting to ask you all this time, can you urge Fantianyin now? ”

I thought about it before I responded to Master: "After using the Great Void Technique last time, I feel that my mental power has improved a lot, and now I can urge the Fantian Seal, which can last for two or three seconds." ”

Master raised his eyebrows: "It's only two or three seconds?" ”

I nodded helplessly at the master, and the master asked me again, "How much have you studied the secret technique of our Soul Village?" ”

"Blood Talisman, Great Void Technique, and Coffin Urging," I said, snapping my fingers, "I can basically master these three techniques, and the others haven't been studied yet." ”

Master nodded: "Well, this thing is a magic technique, when you practice, you pay attention to gradual and gradual, and it is not easy to be greedy, but now I have learned three kinds of it, which is already a lot." Well, you don't want to study those secret techniques these days now. ”

As he spoke, he had already stood up, and as he walked towards the earthen house, he said, "Inheritance is important, but in addition to inheritance, there are some old crafts that need to be passed on from generation to generation. ”

As Master spoke, he waved at me and motioned for me to follow.

I followed Master into the house, only to find that the hut was full of tools such as saws and hammers, and there were several large wooden planks in the corner of the wall.

As soon as I saw these things, I knew what Master was going to do, and he was going to teach me how to make coffins.

In the first few years, Master mentioned that in addition to inheritance, there are three crafts to be learned, papermaking, carpentry, and cooking.

Carpentry and cooking skills are easy to say, the so-called papermaking, in fact, is the use of soil method to make rune paper.

I have been following the master for so many years, and I have never learned any of these three crafts, which is also something that cannot be helped, a few years ago, I was tight with my schoolwork, and the master was in a hurry to teach me and teach the craft, so it has been put on hold.

At this time, Liu Shangang also followed me into the house, and my master glanced back at him, waved his hand at him, and said, "Houzai, you can go home for dinner first, we don't know how long we will be busy here?" ”

Of course, Liang Houzai knew that my master said this because he didn't want him to see the process of making the coffin, so he nodded at my master, and then left like a gust of wind.

My master ran to the door of the house and watched Liang Houzai walk away before closing the door again and saying to me, "Look at it, remember the steps of making the coffin." ”

After saying that, the master walked to the corner of the wall, stretched out his two hands, grabbed the largest plank, took out the green steel sword, and carefully shaved the raw edges of the plank.

While he was busy with the work in his hands, he said to me, "The best wood for making a coffin is gloomy wood, but this kind of wood is hard to find, although there are still some of them in the Soul Village, but they are usually not used." In normal times, we use sandalwood and golden silk nan, and we can't find the material, so we will also use fir wood. These coffins are usually prepared for those ancient corpses with identity, you will deal with the evil corpses in the future, try to do it without killing, in the past, when you dealt with the evil corpses, you were used to using the black water corpse coffin, this habit should be changed, because once the evil corpse is dissolved by the black water corpse coffin, it will soon dissolve into pus, so that our coffin will not be sold. ”

Speaking of this, Master raised his head and smiled at me: "You have a way to remember, in essence, we are businessmen. In the case of ensuring that the evil corpses can be suppressed, you must also find an opportunity to earn two more copper plates. ”

After saying that, the master shaved the plank with great speed, and then made grooves and rivets on the board.

Master's movements were very swift, and after a while, the prototype of a coffin appeared in front of me.

He opened the cupboard, took out a small burden from it, and said to me: "We make a coffin in this vein, which is divided into three major processes and nine small processes, and the three major processes here are the form, the plate, and the carving, and the shape is to simply splice all the parts together to make the shape of a coffin, and then put the coffin in a place where there is no light, wait for seven hundred and forty-nine days, and then disassemble the coffin, and put all the plates in the sun for nine days. ”

"Nine days in the sun?" I couldn't help but ask, "Aren't all these woods out of shape?" ”

Master glared at me: "You're in a hurry, I haven't finished yet!" ”

As he spoke, Master opened the bag and took out a glass bottle from it, and I saw that the bottle was filled with crystal clear bodily fluids.

Then the master said to me, "These oils are a specialty of our Soul Village, as long as they are evenly applied to the plate, the plate will never be deformed. ”

After speaking, the master pointed to the things in the baggage and said to me, "This is a jujube core nail, this is a butterfly tenon, and these two long nails, do you see the two small holes in the butterfly tenon, these two long nails are ...... Listen well, don't get distracted! ”

After that, Master showed me how to use these things, and he used these rivets and nails to reassemble the coffin in a rough way, and then pointed to the coffin that looked like it was about to fall apart and said, "After the coffin is ready, store it in a cool and ventilated place, during which you have to sacrifice the coffin with incense, and stick seven soul sealing charms on the lid of the coffin, which is mainly to prevent lonely souls and wild ghosts from entering the coffin, once something dirty enters the coffin, the coffin cannot be used." After burning incense for seven days, you don't have to worry about it anymore. ”

I, I thought it would take three or four days at most to make a coffin, but I didn't expect it to be so troublesome, first forty-nine days, then nine days, and finally seven days of burning incense, adding up before and after, it took more than two months to produce a coffin.

The master lifted the green steel sword, patted the heavy coffin lid again, and continued: "The last and most important step in making the coffin is carving. There are also three kinds of patterns carved on the coffin, the simplest one is the seven-star begonia, if you can ensure that after the evil corpse enters the coffin, it will not rise again in the future, you can use this pattern. The second is the Kyushu map, if the corpse is not exhausted when the evil corpse enters the coffin, it is necessary to rely on the righteousness of Kyushu to resolve the corpse. The last one, and the most troublesome one, the Nine Dragons Pressure Hall, this kind of pattern is generally used in conjunction with the Kyushu map, some of the corpse gas on the body of the evil corpse is too heavy, and the Kyushu map cannot be resolved, so it is necessary to use the Nine Dragons true qi to suppress the corpse qi of the evil corpse first, and then use the Kyushu map to dissolve. If you really encounter this situation one day, first engrave the Nine Dragon Pattern, and then engrave the Kyushu map, remember? ”

This time, I didn't dare to get distracted, and listened intently to Master's words, and then nodded solemnly.

The master took a long breath of smoke and said to me, "I have told you all the steps to make a coffin, but you have never done carpentry work before, so you still have to start from the basics." You come with me! ”

With that, Master strode out of the room.

I followed Master to the courtyard, and Master raised his hand and pointed to an axe leaning against the courtyard wall, and then to an old tree outside the courtyard, and said to me, "Cut down that tree and break it into planks." ”

As soon as I heard this, I was afraid that I would be stunned on the spot.

Isn't it, to do carpentry work and cut down trees?

Master patted me on the shoulder: "I have the property right to this land, and the tree is also mine, so don't worry about cutting it down." ”

I looked back at Master's face, and he was looking at me with a very determined look, and I knew that if I didn't pick up the axe again, Master would definitely let me copy the scriptures, and I guess he had the paper and pen ready by now.

Instead of copying the Tao Te Ching, I think I'd better cut down the tree.

Eventually, I let out a long sigh, picked up the axe from the wall, and went to cut down the tree.