It turned out that the earthenworker, who was seventy-two years old this year, had long since ceased to do his old job, and now retired to his home, and lived in the family at the head of the village. （）

Everyone looked in the direction pointed out by the villagers, and found that the house of that family was far away from the neighbor's house, as if deliberately separated from such a long distance, Hu Sandou said: "The villagers are taboo to live close to the earthworkers, for fear of being stained with evil spirits, so the places where the earthworkers generally live are relatively remote." “

Hu Sandou went to slap the door, this shot, good guy, a lot of dust, this door is dirty enough, Hu Sandou has no flesh on his face, his eyes are the most eye-catching, and the ash is all in his eyes, he immediately turned around, walked to the side and blinked, Tang Sancheng stepped forward and shouted: "Is anyone there?" “

There was a sound of footsteps coming from inside, it sounded like this person was walking quite powerfully, the door opened, and the person inside was dressed in black, but his hair was gray, his face was beardless, and his eyes were a little cloudy, as soon as he opened his mouth, it was an authentic local dialect, Tang Sancheng hurriedly asked Hu Sandou for help.

Hu Sandou turned around and saw the old man, he was also surprised, although the old man in the south looked younger than the old man in the north, but the old man in his seventies was too tough, Hu Sandou talked quickly with the old man in dialect, at the beginning, the old man had no expression, and in the back, the expression was a little surprised, with some excitement, and finally, the door was completely opened, allowing everyone to go in and talk. （）

The inside of the house was unexpectedly tidy, and they blamed the dusty door, which made them think that it was a sloppy environment inside, and when they entered, they found that it was neat and clean, and the simple furniture was also placed very neatly, Hu Sandou explained that although the profession of soil workers is somewhat special, the income is very high, especially for handling some zongzi, and the income will be doubled, so they are not worried about eating and drinking, and they are not poor as everyone thinks.

It turns out that the old man is Dai, a native of the local, since the age of sixteen has been engaged in earthwork, according to his own words, this life has dealt with countless zombies, the most thrilling one is that the zombie suddenly began to move around, Dai Lao said that he almost died in the hands of the zombie, after escaping death, his reputation has also grown, more and more people asked him to work, until he became a famous local worker in ten miles and eight towns, all said that he did a neat job, good reputation, but over the years, older, money has earned enough, I was no longer willing to deal with dead bodies and carrion, and I listened to the persuasion of my children and completely retreated. （）

The old people probably have a common problem, when talking to people, they will talk about the past, and when they talk about the past, they will be out of control, although a few people are anxious, but they patiently listen to Dai Lao talk about what happened before, but the work of this soil worker has been touched thoroughly.

Finally looked back on the past, this is the main topic, everyone put forward to take a look at the golden urn, Dai Lao seemed a little embarrassed, but can not stand everyone's persuasion, take everyone to the grave of the Republic of China, those villagers saw Dai Lao suddenly standing in front of the grave of the female corpse, are a little shocked, immediately avoided far away, dare not approach.

"Dai Lao, who are you?" Hu Sandou didn't know what Dai Lao meant.

"I don't have a golden urn in my house anymore." Dai Lao said: "After I stopped doing this business, my children didn't want me to put the tools at home, so I gave it away, this golden urn was originally provided by the master's family, and I don't have it here, you want to see, you can dig it up and see the gold urn inside." （）“

"Is that appropriate?" Tang Sancheng felt that it was not good to come here to dig graves in broad daylight.

Unexpectedly, Dai Lao didn't mind at all: "This is piled up in the back, there is nothing in it, everyone knows it, besides, I am here, you can help me bury it after reading it." “

In order to avoid suspicion among the villagers, Hu Sandou was asked to borrow a shovel and come over, without using his own tools, everyone worked hard and opened the tomb, and the golden urn was immediately revealed, and no one jumped down, just stood on the side and watched it......

Hearing the name before, everyone had an illusion that the urn was golden, so when they saw the hidden urn inside, they were faintly disappointed, and understood that Dai Lao happily agreed to let them open the grave to see the urn, and even the villagers did not stop it, and what was placed inside was a pottery urn!

This urn has many uses, since ancient times, there are used as wine vessels, to use water containers, but the general shape is small mouth and big belly, there is an idiom called please enter the urn, also use an urn, put people into the urn and then put it on the fire, torture, human beings for the urn is really omnipotent.

"It's not." Lei Zi was the most stunned: "It's not about the golden urn, but what about the gold?" “

Even Hu Sandou laughed at this time, and Hu Sandou said: "Gold, naturally, is in the urn, and the bones in this urn are called gold!" “

It turned out to be such a thing, Lei Zi was a little reluctant to accept this reality, Hu Sandou said: "It turns out that you misunderstood, blame me, some customs in the north and south are different, in fact, like their earthwork, the work they do can also be called the second burial, I told me before, for zongzi, to deal with it specially, but there is usually no rigid corpse, from ancient times to the present, it is also necessary to implement a second burial, after the death of a person, first use buried soil, weathering, erection of trees, flooding, hole and other ways to deal with the body. Wait for the skin and flesh to rot, then open the coffin, pick up the bones, wash and dry, put them into special pottery urns and other containers, choose a day to place or bury deeply, that is, re-bury, with such a pottery urn, but because the times have changed, over the years in this place, only zombies will use this method, and the second burial is becoming less and less. “

Lei Zi asked again: "Then why do you call it a golden urn?" What's the point of saying this? “

This Hu Sandou didn't know, and asked Dai Lao for advice, it turned out that in the old days, some places would put the deceased coffin into the soil for three years, ask the witch to chant the scriptures, and the children washed and dried the bones of the ancestors, and put them into a special tile urn with a height of two feet and a diameter of about one foot and five inches, called the "Golden Altar", and then stored the Golden Altar in the dry mountain rock; In some places, there was a custom of cremation, but the bones were extinguished before they were incinerated, and then the bones were washed and put into the "golden altar" for burial, and the current golden urn can be said to be transformed from the golden altar.

Tang Sancheng felt that perhaps the relatives of the deceased felt that the bones of the family were very precious, more precious than gold, and that the wood would rot, the corpse would rot, and the bones could be preserved for a longer time, so the jar containing the bones was called the Golden Altar, and it was passed down from generation to generation and became a golden urn.

This golden urn is just an ordinary porcelain jar, what does it have to do with the golden armor? Bai Yi is still most concerned about what the golden armor is, if the bones are the so-called "gold", just from the literal understanding, the armor can be the clothes to wear, is it? Bai Yi thought about it left and right, but he felt that it was wrong, as if something was blocking his train of thought......

Look at the golden urn in this tomb, it is not big, it belongs to the small type, the women in the past are relatively petite, and the bones are also very small, such a large urn is enough to hold it......

Bai Yi was distracted and squeezed Tang Sancheng next to him, Tang Sancheng's feet slipped and fell directly, which made Dai Lao's complexion change immediately! What a word roared in your mouth!

Besides, as soon as Tang Sancheng fell, he happened to fall next to the golden urn, his hand was on the golden urn, and immediately bounced out again: "How offended, how offended!" “

The golden urn shook suddenly, Tang Sancheng stared at his hand, he didn't move, and then looked up, Hu Sandou was shouting loudly: "Come up, hurry up!" “

(Education 123 Literature Network)