Chapter 14: Preparations
Lao Dao looked at the people in the courtyard. "I need twenty big roosters, the longer the rooster lives, the better, the bigger the rooster, the better, the bigger the comb, the better." After buying it, it will be delivered to my house early tomorrow morning. ”
"This thing is easy to do, I'll ask the eldest daughter-in-law to buy it."
"I still need six or seven bags of caustic soda, is there a place to get one?"
"It's also easy to do, my second child works in the paper mill in the city, and they need to use caustic soda when making paper, which is very much, so I asked him to get a few bags."
"I still need four or five strong male laborers, this is not easy to do, you better not look for outsiders, find a few trusted family members, although there will be no danger, but if this matter spreads, it may cause some trouble, so it is best not to find outsiders."
"It's not that hard. In addition to the eldest child, I also have four sons, plus I have a total of five people, all of whom are from a family of Zhuang families, who have been working hard since childhood, and they all have the strength to do something. ”
Lao Dao was immediately happy when he heard it, and in his opinion, the most difficult thing to do could not be solved so easily. The rest is easy to do.
Lao Dao also asked Lao Wangtou to prepare two shovels, two heads, two crowbars, more buckets, a few pairs of flat poles, a small cart, a few slender wooden sticks, and four thicker wooden stakes, one end of which should be cut into wedges, and then go to the construction company to borrow a thin iron box containing ten cubic meters of water.
Then give each person a pair of eyeglasses, masks and gloves, and a skewer of garlic made of whole garlic, one string per person. These are also easy to do, Wang Jili's family has a relative who works in a cement factory, and he has goggles, masks, gloves and so on. Not to mention garlic, farmers still have less garlic?
Lao Dao is coming to Wang Jili's birthday again, and he used the awl that pierced Chen Ziyang that day to take blood from Wang Jili's finger and released a lot of blood, and put the blood into a canned bottle and picked it up.
Lao Dao said to the old Wang Tou again: "I still need four women, now I have your wife, your eldest daughter-in-law, your youngest daughter (Chen Ziyang's second aunt), and now there is still one missing, you let your youngest daughter ask Widow Ma to see if she is willing to help, after all, her man's death is also related to this, if she doesn't agree, you can find another daughter-in-law, or that sentence, don't find outsiders."
You can just prepare these things, I'll do the other things, hurry up and prepare today, if there is anything missing, I can make up tomorrow, and I will be waiting here early tomorrow morning. After Lao Dao finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave, but was grabbed by Yang Jili's father. The old man stuffed two hundred yuan into Lao Dao's hand.
"Dao Chief, it costs money to buy things. I don't know if that's enough? You take it first. If it's not enough, I'll make it up for you later. Lao Dao was not polite, nodded, it does cost a lot of money to buy things, Lao Dao picked up the money, led Chen Ziyang to turn around and walked back.
Before leaving, Lao Dao also instructed Wang Jili's father to tell Chen Ziyang's second aunt not to tell Chen Ziyang's mother about this, otherwise the child may not be able to go the day after tomorrow, and then he will have to let this kid contribute.
As soon as Chen Ziyang heard that the Coke was broken, he was finally going to go into battle to subdue the demon, which made Chen Ziyang forget the miserable appearance of being haunted by ghosts when he ate something.
Wang Jili's father agreed, and he didn't care what role such a young child could play and whether there was any danger. It's all for his own son, and he can't take care of other people's sons now.
Lao Dao sent Chen Ziyang home first, telling him that he would not need him today, and let him go to his house early tomorrow morning to wait. Then Lao Dao took a car to the city, after all, this town is too small, and many things that need to be used are not sold, so they can only go to the city to buy.
Early the next morning, when Lao Dao came back from the city, Chen Ziyang was already waiting at the door of Lao Dao's house, Lao Dao bought a bunch of big bags of things, Chen Ziyang looked at it, basically some things that subjugated demons, cinnabar, yellow paper and the like, among the things that Lao Dao bought, one of the more strange things was a whole big pig's head and dozens of catties of fat pork, which made Chen Ziyang greedy, thinking that Lao Dao wanted to stew pig's head meat.
When Chen Ziyang hadn't seen all the things that Lao Dao bought, Chen Ziyang's second uncle and second aunt pulled a few large chicken cages with a donkey, and more than 20 big roosters in the chicken cage were majestic and high-spirited, and the chicken tails and cockscombs were all good-looking.
Chen Ziyang smacked his lips and thought that the good-looking big roosters in the town are probably here, if these chickens are all dead, the chicks that hatch in the town in the future will have to grow ugly.
As soon as Chen Ziyang asked, he found out that the small restaurant for two people had also been temporarily closed in the past two days, and when the business was done, many people would have more strength.
The old way told them to put all the chickens in the chicken pen. The bungalow rented by Lao Dao has a chicken pen, but the chicken pen has been empty since Lao Dao rented the house. More than 20 big roosters crowded the small chicken pen to the brim. Lao Dao took out half a bag of glutinous rice from the house and poured it all into the chicken pen at once.
A flock of roosters fluttered their wings and scrambled to eat. This can make several other people frown in distress, especially Chen Ziyang's second aunt in distress. Lao Dao smiled and told them that he was going to wash the intestines of these chickens, and these rice may not be enough. The chicken's task today is to eat.
Chen Ziyang just wanted to go to the toilet, but was stopped by Lao Dao and asked him to pee in a canned bottle, saying that he wanted to use some boy urine. This frightened Chen Ziyang, and hurriedly asked Lao Dao: "Won't you also wash my intestines, tell me to drink water all the time today, won't my task today be to pee......"
Lao Dao said disdainfully: "If you don't learn and don't have skills, don't say that you are my apprentice when you go out, this boy's urine is only useful if you pour urine for the first time in the morning." The rest, no matter how much urine there is, is nothing more than water. ”
After filling the water trough in the chicken pen with water, Lao Dao, Chen Ziyang and Chen Ziyang's second aunt sat on a donkey upside down, and were pushed by Chen Ziyang's second uncle to Wang Jili's house.
Lao Dao looked at the things prepared by Lao Wang's family, which was very good, except for the caustic soda that was on the road and had not been transported, the others were complete, and after the Lao Dao inspection, they were all relatively qualified. The old king has five sons, except for Wang Jili, who is evil spirited, the remaining four have already come, and the one who did not come is transporting caustic soda on the road.
Lao Dao asked Wang Jili's father to stay and take care of Wang Jili, and all the others took axes, held four wooden stakes with one end sharpened into wedges, carried empty thin iron boxes, and ran to the blood spirit coffin.
This kind of large thin iron box is dedicated to the construction site, at that time the facilities of the town are not good, the water is not very convenient, how to build a house and build a building, get him three or two such iron boxes to fill water, used to mix cement, a large box can hold about ten cubic meters of water. This box looks very large, but it is not heavy at all, it is a box welded with five thin iron sheets, and the two sons of the old king carry it very easily.
After a while, the group came to the open space where the blood spirit coffin was located, Lao Dao measured the wind direction with a cloth strip, found a direction away from the upwind of the blood spirit coffin, and let them put down the iron box at the edge of the clearing, and Lao Dao used the method of measuring north and south with a watch last time to find the four directions of the southeast, northwest, and northwest where the blood spirit coffin was located.
At the end of the clearing in these four directions, the four stakes were nailed, and a few more nails were driven into the stakes. When the wooden stakes were nailed, they all walked around the perimeter of the clearing, and they didn't dare to approach the blood spirit coffin at all.
Lao Dao said to everyone: "You are all optimistic about the location of these four wooden stakes, keep them firmly in mind, and you must be able to find them with your eyes closed." Success or failure is up to them. ”
When everything was arranged, the old man said to them, "You don't have to do anything else today, carry water, fill that trough, and leave all the buckets here when it's full, and then you can rest well, and I will come to your house at three o'clock tomorrow morning to find you, and remember, neither man nor woman can drink alcohol or have sex today." Also, tomorrow everyone will have to wear red pants and red socks. After the caustic soda arrived, it was stored well, so as not to encounter water, and it was covered with a canvas and tied to a small trolley. ”
After Lao Dao finished speaking, he led Chen Ziyang home.