Chapter 5: The Serpent in the Coffin
Zhang Shuai, like Zhang Hao, went to the society without a few years of school, but this kid does everything for three days to fish and two days to dry nets, and no job can be done for half a year, so the money he has earned in the past few years after going out only ensures that he will not be starved to death, and there is no money at all. The only gain www.biquge.info the pen fun pavilion is to rely on his own mouth to beg a daughter-in-law outside. As the saying goes: before marriage, you talk about love, and after you get married, you live your life. After the two got married, the burden on Zhang Shuai's shoulders increased suddenly, especially after Zhang Shuai's daughter-in-law gave birth to a child at the beginning of the year, the family's living expenses were all on Zhang Shuai's shoulders. So at this time, when Zhang Hao heard Zhang Shuai say this, he knew that there must be a story behind Zhang Wu's madness, so he hurriedly pulled Zhang Shuai to the west of the village to find a place to sit down, handed Zhang Shuai a cigarette and said, "What is the matter with the coffin?" You say be specific...."
Zhang Shuai estimated that he had been depressed for a long time, lit a cigarette and took a big puff, just one puff of the whole cigarette wiped out one-third, and then spit out a puff of smoke and said: "This incident happened two months ago, that is, before the Qingming Festival, and you also know that most of the coffin shop business is also engaged in helping people change graves and graves for coffins (grave for grave is to change coffins for dead people, that is, if there is a place to build a house or build a road, but there are some graves in this place, Then these graves will be moved to other places, which is equivalent to buying a new piece of land for the dead to build a house, and changing the grave for the coffin is only to change the coffin without changing the tomb, after some people die, his descendants are developed, and some descendants will change a better coffin for the deceased, and then bury it in the original place, the popular explanation is equivalent to rebuilding a house for the dead in the original place, only changing the house without changing the land. On our side, the cost of digging and burying such a grave is at least 1,000 yuan, which is actually a job that can be completed by four or five people in an hour, which is a relatively quick job in rural areas. Therefore, some coffin shops will take this work with them when they come to buy coffins, and then find a few people to open a hundred yuan each, and the rest of the money will be their own). There was such a person in my brother's shop that day, the man surnamed Wang, dressed very loosely, and looked like a business owner. My brother has been in this business for several years, and what a thief he is! After seeing the man's clothes, a coffin asked for 6,000 yuan, do you know the mouse? The coffin cost less than a thousand yuan, which surprised me even more at the time! Who knew that Boss Wang's eyelids didn't blink, so he said no, to be better, and then my brother led Boss Wang to the backyard, about half an hour later, my brother and Boss Wang walked out with laughter, I knew that the business was negotiated, after Boss Wang left, my brother told me that a coffin he asked for 18,000, the last 15,000 done, plus the grave for the coffin is almost 20,000, at that time I was shocked to hear my brother say this! I can't close my mouth, because others don't know what my brother's coffin in the backyard looks like, so it can be said that there is no difference between it and the front, and my brother earns more than 10,000 yuan in this single business, more than 10,000 yuan....."
Zhang Shuai paused here when he said this, maybe he was too emotional! He didn't feel the smoke burning in his hand, Zhang Hao only knew that the dead man's business came with money, but he didn't expect such a huge profit, handed Zhang Shuai a cigarette and said, "Your brother is really dark enough!" In other words, others probably wouldn't dare to ask for so much, but does this have anything to do with your brother's madness? “
Zhang Shuai lit a cigarette and took a puff and said: "Yes, because my brother went crazy because he took over this business, you listen to me and tell you slowly, didn't my brother take over the business of changing the grave and changing the coffin!" On the day of Qingming, my brother took me and the other three people in the village to take the coffin to the place designated by Boss Wang, when I arrived at that place, Boss Wang was already waiting there with an old man of fifty or sixty years old, that place was the ancestral grave of Boss Wang's village, the people in their village were all buried there, and all the tombstones and graves were seen at a glance, after the person pointed to the grave, my brother used a shade cloth to block the sun and then commanded a few of us to start digging, and it took a while to dig it out, maybe the family was poorer before, The dead man's coffin is not just a thin box, Boss Wang was very excited when he saw the box, said that it was his grandmother, kneeling on the ground and began to kowtow, three bows and nine knocks before letting us open the coffin, it is strange to say, Boss Wang said that his grandmother has been buried in the ground for more than 100 years, it stands to reason that the coffin should have been rotten a long time ago, not to mention just a thin wooden box, but this wooden box looks very intact, at that time we just wanted to bury it quickly and check out, only thought that it was because the material of the wooden box was good so it did not rot, After the coffin was opened, several of us were startled, because the white bones inside were not complete, only the head and limbs, and the part of the torso was gone, which was not the strangest, the strange thing was that there was a snake lying on the torso, the snake was white, and the old man saw the snake, and quickly asked Boss Wang to kneel down, saying that this is a feng shui treasure, this snake is his grandmother, Boss Wang's business can be so big, it is also related to this snake, and this snake must be buried again. Boss Wang seemed to listen to the man's words, and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the white snake, and then asked my brother to find a way to put the snake into the new coffin. My brother listened to this person's words, so he found a red slip and prepared to put the snake and Boss Wang's grandmother's bones together, who knew that the snake was just picked up with a stick and ran away before the snake was put on the list, which made several of us panic and caught it for a while, and then we picked up the white bones in the coffin, and there were several rings and earrings and other jewelry in it, Boss Wang said that it may have been brought by my grandmother before, so we were all buried in the coffin. After that, the work was relatively smooth, the grave was sealed again, Boss Wang paid the money and my brother took us back, my brother was very happy, he kept laughing on the way back, we didn't care at the time, I just thought he was making money and happy, after returning home, my brother invited a few of us to have a meal, and one gave us two hundred yuan. I thought this was the end of the matter, but my brother has changed since that day......"