Looking back at the copper coin in the bamboo flat, this is the right thing to do now. The twelve coins were placed in turn, and the one at twelve o'clock had a drop of egg yolk on it, and the yolk was on the left side of the hole, which also meant that the hour was not yet twelve. Cha Wenbin bent down and picked up the copper coin and went out to tell the people who had been waiting for a long time that Second Master Hai left yesterday, and today is the second day of the funeral, and he will be able to go out of the funeral tomorrow.

Just such a slight deviation can be regarded as a great help to the second master Hai's family, who were already very poor, and with one less day of expenses, this funeral may still make a little profit.

Seeing that his grandmother was busy there, Cha Wenbin knew the difficulties of Second Master Hai's family. The dumb man had to keep Cha Wenbin for a meal, and even compared to the politeness of dragging and dragging to death, Cha Wenbin couldn't refuse, so he had to find a seat, which happened to be at the same table as me.

Hai Erye's family really doesn't have any family background, but the funeral banquet in the countryside will not be worse than the wine, the large plate of braised local pork, the stewed authentic old hen, braised duck, braised crucian carp, melons, fruits and vegetables are all home-made, these classes are pure natural green food. Of course, this white mourning naturally has to eat old tofu, which is their own soybeans with a stone mill to grind out a little bit of soybean milk and then hand-beaten, the taste is full of fragrant taste.

Although there was crying and crying inside, the people who ran the vegetables outside were sweating profusely with cigarettes on trays, and the iron pots hit by the shovels in the kitchen. This is the uniqueness of rural funerals, that is, the so-called happy funerals, although the age of the second master of Hai is not full of flowers, but this will not affect the lively atmosphere in the slightest.

On such occasions, even a child like me would not care that there was a corpse parked inside, and the fear and fear would be replaced by the lively scene outside. Second Master Hai's family is down, and naturally there will be no distinguished guests on weekdays, and Cha Wenbin can already be regarded as a guest. Those who came to toast and greet, there are too many people in this area who have been helped by him, and Cha Wenbin didn't eat a few mouthfuls of food at this meal, and they were all busy greeting the enthusiastic villagers.

When I was eating, I learned that Second Master Hai was still from Cha Wenbin's own family, and his surname was Cha, and his full name was Cha Minghai. In our generation, this surname is a very small surname, the rural people are hospitable, and a few old people who are confused are counted there, and Cha Wenbin has become the distant cousin of Hai Erye. This is good, there is one more "cousin" who has passed away, this time, Cha Wenbin can't leave if he wants to. So he decided to stay and help the "cousin" who suddenly appeared to give him a ride, which can be regarded as a family game.

During the banquet, Cha Wenbin looked for his grandmother and told her to arrange for someone to send the Taishi chair to the warehouse in the village commune for a while, on the grounds that this thing was used by Hai Erye in front of him, and if others sat on it, they were afraid that it would be bad. He opened his mouth, and his grandmother didn't believe it, so she immediately found a few young people and carried it away.

After coming and going, Cha Wenbin became the person in charge of the funeral, and he was busy sending funeral letters, writing elegiac couplets, and preparing the materials needed for the dojo.

In the evening, he first went to bathe and change clothes, changed into a robe, and then set up an incense stand in front of Second Master Hai's coffin, and walked all the way in the past. Anyway, I should watch a lively, chanting, burning paper, and not pulling down the same excess, Hai Erye was alive and dead, but the death was quite grand, as soon as I heard that Cha Wenbin did it himself, people from several villages around came to see the excitement, everyone knew that his ability was good, but it was more and more difficult to get out of the mountain.

In this way, a funeral completely became the stage for Cha Wenbin's performance, and after sending the second master to the grave mountain for burial on the second day, Cha Wenbin did not go home directly, but went to his grandmother's house to rest.

He and his grandmother's family are really old acquaintances, and the sunspot has been returned to his uncle since he was often not at home, and he doesn't know how arrogant he is on weekdays, but since Cha Wenbin came, the black dog has been docile like a sheep, sticky with him.

Heizi naturally can't forget the toad that Cha Wenbin carried, these two met and it was called a funny, you chased me to catch up with the toad flying dog jump, the three-legged toad at that time was obviously much bigger than before, Cha Wenbin had to prepare another bag with it.

"Uncle Xu, let me ask you, is there a black coffin in the warehouse in the village?"

Because my grandfather Xu Luban was originally a coffin, and the husband and wife were famous for opening the coffin, so my grandfather really knew a little about this.

"It's one thing, the style of the coffin is different from what I've ever seen, I've never seen a coffin with a small head and a big tail in my life, it's the opposite of the coffin we usually see. But the lacquer of the coffin is really good, it was the land reform when the previous generation moved down from the mountain, there was said to be a large house, the old people said that the place used to live the emperor. ”

When Cha Wenbin heard this, he laughed, and his grandfather hurriedly gestured: "Don't believe it, the foundation of that place is made of such a big granite, and we all went there to pry the hemp stone down to make a grinding disc." The grinding discs of every household in this village are all taken from there stones, and there were originally some old houses, which were also tall and important, and later the Cultural Revolution was demolished in those years, and the coffin was also found when the stone was taken. ”

In turn, what the man in white said was not true, and Cha Wenbin asked again: "Then when it was dug up, was there anything in the coffin?" ”。

"No, it's empty, it's just a coffin, by the way, it doesn't seem to be covered, it's all full of mud at that time. Because I was in this business, I was also regarded as an educational object for feudal superstition at that time, and later they asked me to clear the coffin, but in fact, those Red Guards just wanted to find treasures in it, and there was nothing in the coffin. ”

At that time, my grandfather had been running a coffin shop, so he was also listed as one of the enemies of the socialist proletarian revolution. It was because of the torture of those years that his right leg fell into the root of the disease, so that in his later years, that leg walked a little lame.

"Are the Red Guards still there?"

Speaking of this, my grandfather was angry and said, "Yes, why aren't you there, those rabbit cubs are still embarrassed to see me now." ”

Cha Wenbin didn't say much after answering, and at night, he took the sunspot and said that he was going out to do something, and left.

Where did he go? Naturally, he did not go home, but first went to the warehouse of the village commune. The person who watched the warehouse was also a five-guarantee household, and his house had fallen and there was no land to live in, so the village arranged for him to live here, and by the way, he would give him some food money a month.

After carrying two bottles of wine and a bag of peanuts, the old man opened the door of the warehouse for Cha Wenbin, which was mainly stacked with agricultural machinery and equipment and seeds and fertilizers in the village, and some were collective grain and old assets left over from the past. As for the coffin, the old man guarding the door handed Cha Wenbin a kerosene lamp, pointed in the direction and walked away, obviously he did not want to approach the thing.

The coffin was stacked in a small corner, covered with dust. Cha Wenbin wiped it with his hand, and the paint surface below was really bright and new. The coffin was now stacked with harvested grain, and sacks of rice and corn had taken the place where the dead were supposed to lie.

The coffin was very thick, and there was a dull sound when it was knocked on, and there was no sign that the thing had ever been in the ground. As my grandfather said, the head of this coffin is very narrow, but the tail is very wide, this design, Cha Wenbin is also the first time to see this design. It is said that after death, the coffin is made into a rectangle with a wide and high head and a narrow tail, or the same width as the whole body, according to the structure of the body.

When he came out, there was nothing on the Taishi chair, and Cha Wenbin stared for a long time without seeing the man in white appear again. patted Kuroko's head, but the dog only cared about licking his palm, and didn't seem to notice any anomalies here, you must know that Kuroko has opened the eyes of the sky, if the man in white is really there, it will never be invisible.

Out of the warehouse, looking up to see that the starlight in the night was quite sufficient, and the shadow of ten meters could be faintly seen on the road outside, so he patted the sunspot, and walked towards the mountain behind the village with one man and one dog.

No one can say how deep the back of this mountain is, even the farmers here have gone up the mountain to collect firewood and dig herbs. In short, this mountain, it seems to be a mountain after a mountain, stretching for a long distance, no one has ever climbed this mountain to see people, my mother also went there to hunt pigweed and dig herbs when she was a child, she often high-speed the mountain behind my grandmother's house is a hundred thousand mountains, there is no end.

After passing by the small reservoir of the past, there is a trail left by logging, and there is no road to the inside. Cha Wenbin walked up along a small mountain stream, which is actually a small ditch, because since there were people on this mountain who used to be active, they definitely needed a water source, and it was the fastest and wisest choice to find the ruins of the past through the river, which Chaozi told him