When he was in the Master's faith, he often said to me that a person's birth is his life, and the palm prints are luck, so he said that fate is destined. It's just that I was born an orphan, and I had no luck in life, and I escaped from the heavens, and I was fortunate and unlucky.

I don't know if there are any other people like me in other places, but until that moment, the only person I really saw was Jiang Xun.

He is the only color in my eyes, and we are the same kind of people.

The people of the Zhang family took turns guarding the coffin, and Jiang Xun said that he would prepare well with his friend Tang Jiao, and come back tomorrow to summon spirits. I was suspicious, the tape did not return to Shen Ji, and the person who came to me last night was no longer there. I changed into a wet suit, and as soon as I put on my coat, I heard a knock on the door, and when I opened the door, Ziwei had already welcomed someone in.

Liu Fu sat down on the chair, his buttocks were only a little stained with the surface of the chair, his head was wrapped in gauze, and he was trembling like chaff. When he saw me, he glanced under his nose and stood up suddenly, and he had something to say, but he was ashamed to speak.

"What do you have to say?"

Liu Fu opened his mouth, held a sentence in his throat, exhaled a long breath of turbidity, and asked me with a sigh: "Can Zhang Qianran's coffin still be buried?" ”

I said, "Don't worry, since we are in this business, we will definitely give her family a satisfactory result if something happens, otherwise, it will be our own signboard that we remember." We will do our best in this matter, and there will be no more accidents. ”

Liu Fu was worried, and said with a stiff face: "I have been carrying coffins in Dongyan Town for many years, and I have never encountered such a thing as a crack in the middle of the coffin lid. I screamed that the stone was broken, and I went back to scare my two dolls a lot, and pulled me not to go out, if it weren't for the poor family, who would want to deal with the dead all the time, for a long time, even a little blessing was sucked away, you see what kind of life my family is living! ”

I was silent, and after Liu Fu finished speaking, he realized that he had broken his promise, and touched the back of his head with an embarrassed face. When the hands were on the head, they looked even darker and chapped compared to the white gauze, the palms of the fingers were full of calluses, and the nails were filled with mud stains that could not be washed off, all traces of hard work.

I waited patiently for him to cut the topic to the point, and said a few idle words, until he turned back to the right path, and said, "I want to take my son to the city in a few days to see the disease, and the doctor said that he would do a test, and it would be good if he had a knife to cut the tumor inside." My old woman left early, and the two of them were miserable, and his father couldn't bear it, so what he could give him was to let him live a few more days. I've been raising money all these days, and I've saved tens of thousands of dollars in debt. Dr. Sun of our town hospital said that he has people he knows in the big hospital, and there is a lack of blood and marrow in that place, if I am willing, I can give a lot at one time. ”

"I'm not young anymore, I'm just thinking, if I toss, in case I can't stand it one day, those two little cubs and his uncle will give me food, and who will give me my own way back." Liu Fu wiped his face, "I came here today to beg you, can you help me make a coffin, I have a few pieces of wood there, you don't need the whole material, just put together a pair, you see...... Done? ”

He looked cautious, seeing that my eyes were evasive, I sighed secretly, asked Ziwei to pour him a cup of tea, and asked, "Do you know what the ingredients are at home?" What has been done before? ”

"It's all scraps that other people don't need to make furniture, and I moved it back from somewhere else, a little willow." Liu Fu's tone paused, "There is still a little peach wood." ”

"Peach?" I was stunned for a moment. Not to mention, Shen Ji has never made a peach coffin in a hundred years.

Willow wood belongs to yin, peach wood belongs to yang, how to put these two together to make a coffin? If a corpse is nailed inside, like a living person soaked in ice water and burned with a blazing fire, how can it taste so good?

"You have been a coffin bearer for so many years, and you have a good relationship with my master, and I should respect you even more as an elder." I said, "It's better to do this, I also have some leftover wood here, and I put it away, not some precious wood, a few pieces of fir wood, if you don't dislike it, I'll help you make this coffin." It's not a whole material, the master rules, and the cost is free. ”

"How dare this!" Liu Fu was anxious, "Let's use my materials, how can you let you work hard in vain and give things in vain, the old gentleman helped our family a lot when he was there, but I can't stand it anymore." ”

Zi didn't know that I was not good at dealing with such words, so I brought the tea over and let him drink it, and slowly persuaded him, and after talking for a long time, Liu Fucai gradually showed wavering, nodded, and agreed reluctantly. He looked absent-minded, and fell on the threshold before leaving the door.

When Liu Fu left, I went to the portrait tablet of Master Zu and inserted a stick of incense to apologize for the lie just now.

"Can we lend him some money?" Ziwei stood by the door, and when he saw me walking over and getting out of the way, his face was sad and unbearable, and he looked at me with anticipation.

I shook my head, the light in his eyes suddenly dimmed, and after a few seconds, I whispered, "I spent the winter in his house, and without anyone here, I wouldn't have survived the day I met you, Master." Everyone in Dongyan Town is my parents. ”

"I understand." I rubbed his hair, "But we make yin money, and we don't borrow it for his good." There are many people in this place who have a hard time, and our ability is limited, so we just want to let those who have suffered die well, and the days they live can only be obtained by themselves, and no one can interfere. ”

Ziwei nodded, I closed the door, and said, "Come and sit down, and I'll see if you're hurt today." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ziwei blushed and shook his head again and again, "No need, it's not hurt." ”

I held the ointment in my hand, looked at him for a while, understood the meaning, and chuckled: "I know, our son has not grown up, and he is ashamed, so I won't let the master touch it." ”

"I didn't." Ziwei's face blushed even more, and his voice was as thin as a mosquito: "Master can touch it." ”

"Okay, the medicine is for you, touch it and apply it yourself." I shoved the ointment into his hand, the child was older, the body was private, he was a few years younger than me, but there was a difference between male and female.

Ziwei hummed, I turned my back to him and carefully wiped the tart whip with a towel, and the whole piece was disassembled into a circular plate, and the pattern of each broken section was connected, which was the shape of the yin and yang gossip.

"Master." Ziwei said in a muffled voice, "Do you really agree to Jiang Xun's conditions?" ”

I looked at the yin and yang in front of me and didn't answer.

Ziwei asked again: "Will you be like Shigong, leave me alone and never come back?" ”

I put away the tart whip and said in a deep voice, "Do you remember that I told you that my master once told me that I exist to protect. ”

Ziwei was stunned for a moment, and I said, "Sixteen years." Perhaps, it's time. ”