The young couple discussed it and felt that this idea seemed feasible, but for some of the funeral customs in the village, they were still not familiar with the older elders, so they took advantage of the next day's breakfast to talk to Uncle Chu.

"Organize a funeral team? If there is a funeral in the village, they are all looking for their relatives or neighbors to help, can anyone really ask us to go?"

Shen Luzhu explained his thoughts: "Third uncle, I really don't know much about the funeral customs in the village, and I also heard that there is a saying that you can't ask people for help in vain, so I moved my mind, thinking that if I look for people to help me everywhere, not to mention favors, this money will also cost a lot, not to mention the time, if there is this kind of person who can help solve things by just negotiating a good price, I think there should be a deal coming to the door."

Chu Yi also said: "Third uncle, what Ah Zhu said has a certain truth, just like this time when Zhao Cheng's family was looking for someone to help, it didn't seem to be very smooth, I didn't ask about the specific reasons, it is estimated that some people don't want to help this kind of help."

Third Uncle Chu nodded: "Indeed, although it is said that there are red and white things, everyone in this village has to have a few times, but white things are not like red things, the big guys are all rushing to the door to be happy, if they don't have a very close relationship with white things, most of them are unlucky, and they are not willing to mix more." As the old saying goes, you can't wear filial piety within a hundred days, and your closest relatives are still like this, let alone others.

The old man of the Zhao family can be better at the end of his life, if he encounters the kind of person who dies at a young age, some people are not even willing to let you come to the door, which is why you can't find someone to help in vain, and give this copper plate to show the apology of the master's family, and ask people to cut some meat and make pot wine after they go back, and eat a big meal of meat is considered to be flushing."

After hearing this, Shen Luzhu felt that the third uncle's statement just confirmed his thoughts: "So, is it still possible for us to form a funeral team if we want to form a funeral team?"

Third Uncle Chu never questioned whether the young couple could establish this so-called funeral team on their own, but he just had some side concerns in his heart: "It shouldn't be difficult to organize a funeral team, no matter how rich the place is, there are people who can't live that life, as long as they are willing to pay, they will always be able to find someone, that is...... How do we know who is going to have a white affair, we can't tell them from door to door, or if we hear about it, we just bring someone to the door, right?"

Uncle Chu's concerns Shen Luzhu really haven't thought about it, and it seems that it is indeed a little difficult to do after thinking about it, can he really go door-to-door to tell people: My family has formed a funeral team, if your family is dead, ask us to build a funeral shed and dig a cemetery, there are discounts!

It's like cursing someone for something going wrong in someone's house, if you hear that it seems even more outrageous to come to the door directly, and the family is sad, and they happily come to the door to ask for money? I'm afraid that before the business is completed, I will be beaten to death first!

Shen Luzhu nodded: "Third Uncle is reasonable, we really have to think of a way that can not only be acceptable, but also spread the word about our organization of a funeral team."

Chu Yi comforted his wife and said, "It's okay, Ah Zhu is so smart, he can always think of it."

Third Uncle Chu also said: "Yes, yes, it's a good idea, you can do it first, if it doesn't work, we won't have anything, isn't there still a paper money shop."

Chu Li, who had been listening to his brother and sister-in-law and third uncle for a long time, swallowed the last mouthful of porridge in his mouth, and then said, "Sister-in-law just takes care of Zhengzheng at home, if there is any work to do, you can tell me."

"Sister-in-law, and me."

"Cheng, then thank you Ah Li and Xiuxiu!"

After the idea was supported by his family, Shen Luzhu was not in a hurry to implement it immediately, he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and it was right to take his time step by step, Uncle Chu was right, the paper money shop was their foundation, and the upcoming Qingming Festival was equally important.

On the eve of the Qingming Festival, the paper money shop was as busy as in previous years, Zhengzheng was still young, and he couldn't take it to the shop now, Shen Luzhu was able to take him to stay in the house, and most of the time Chu Yi and Xiuxiu were busy in the front shop, and Uncle Chu was taking care of the paper ingot workshop in the backyard.

On this day, while Zhengzheng was sleeping soundly, Shen Luzhu planned to go to the shop and backyard to send some food and tea to Uncle Chu and Chu Yi

It's been three months, and when I'm awake on weekdays, I always twist around to observe, but except for the time when I turned over with the claw power of the raccoon flower, I never succeeded, and Shen Luzhu put him in the special shaker made by Chu Yi again, but he was not afraid that he would fall when he suddenly woke up.

After helping out in the shop for a while, and being pulled by the aunt who came to buy paper money and chatting for a long time, Shen Luzhu got up and went back to the yard, and just tiptoed open the door of the house, he saw that Zhengzheng who was shaking the bed suddenly moved twice, and before Shen Luzhu could react, the raccoon flower, who was lying on the kang cabinet and pretending to sleep, jumped down first.

Then there was a scene that surprised Shen Luzhu again, Xu is to see too much of the scene where Chu Yi and Shen Luzhu nudge the shaker to coax Zhengzheng on weekdays, and the raccoon flower directly did the same, lifted the entire upper body, stood on the kang with two hind feet, and then pounced forward with the two front paws and accurately pushed on the fence of the shaker.

After the force of the shaker began to shake slightly, Zhengzheng, who was lying inside, also seemed to be appeased, and fell asleep again, and the raccoon flower, who had just done a "big thing", jumped back to the kang cabinet and continued to sleep, hiding his merit and fame.

After the Qingming Festival, the Chu family shop closed its doors as usual to rest, and was idle again, and the small couple formed a funeral team, which was once again put on the agenda.

In the days that followed, the little couple asked almost all the relatives of the family, one was to understand the local funeral customs more thoroughly, and the other was to guess from the attitude of these elders to the funeral team, roughly guessing how much the people in the village accepted this matter, as long as more than half of the people were not very resistant, and they could not accept anything, then their plan to form a funeral team, the resistance to the implementation would be smaller.

At the end of April, Zhengzheng, who has been almost four months at this time, finally learned to turn over by himself, as if he had found something interesting, as long as he was awake, he would turn over on the kang, and therefore became more inseparable from people, fortunately, the paper money shop is not busy at the moment, even if there are really no adults around him occasionally, the raccoon flower will also stay by the side of Zhengzheng, whenever he wants to get close to the edge of the kang, the raccoon flower will use his own head, to arch the Zhengzheng back, and Zhengzheng is not angry, like a calm little old man, this road is not passable, Then another one is.

After the preliminary investigation was completed, the new plan of the young couple finally started at the end of April. The first person to find it was from the elders in the family, and Du Lao, a famous suona player in the village next to him.

It is said that this Du Lao was in the early years of the troupe, and later when he got older, he returned to the countryside to retire, and lived in Beizhuang Village, which is separated by two villages from the mountain village.

Old Man Du stroked his gray beard and said, "Are you saying that your family wants to form a funeral team that specializes in doing white work for people, and then wants to cooperate with the old man and me.

Chu Yi nodded and asked respectfully, "That's it, I don't know what you think, Old Du?"

"I'm not the only one around here who can play suona, why did you just find me, it's not as simple as just asking us to play suona, right?"

Shen Luzhu smiled: "Blowing suona is only one of them, this is the second, if you want to help other people's families in the future, can you mention our family's funeral team......

Without waiting for Shen Luzhu to finish speaking, Old Man Du waved his hand and interrupted Shen Luzhu's words: "After doing it for a long time, it turns out that you yourself are not accurate, this is because you are afraid that there will be no business to do at that time, you want me to introduce you to work, and I have no benefit at all, so you want to ask me to help you do your best, you female doll abacus is loud!"

"Elder Du listened to me finish speaking, how could this matter not be good for you? As you just said, you are not the only one in this neighborhood who can play suona, we are in two villages, if we can communicate with each other as I said, then it will be the business of one village into two or even four villages

How can the business of the son not be good for you?"

Chu Yi said, "When you introduce us, we also introduce you, it's mutual."

"You two say it nicely, but I think you just want to use my name so that everyone knows what kind of funeral team you have done, and I don't mean to make a living by helping people send white things, and now even if you don't need your help to introduce you, there are a lot of people who come to me for help all day long, so why bother!"

Chu Yi asked rhetorically, "You may not care about these copper plates that you get for funerals, but you have accepted so many apprentices, they should be really interested in this profession and admire your craftsmanship when they came to learn the craft, but who doesn't want to make some money from it after learning the craft?"

They finally settled down to find the old man Du who was separated by two villages, first, there is a band on the Tudu family, not to mention, there are many people who can play suona, they don't have to look for people everywhere, and secondly, they do think that this Du Lao's name is more resounding, but I didn't expect this Du Lao to be a little arrogant.

"The reason why we gave up others and came all the way to find you is because we fancy your prestige and many apprentices, if we can cooperate with you, it would be the best, but if not, this funeral team is not impossible to organize, just do some side work, but it has no impact."

Shen Luzhu's words were half-truths and half-truths, and she generously told the other party what the other party was, but if it didn't work, they could also go to others, there was no reason to hang themselves on a tree, but for this somewhat proud old man Du, it didn't matter if he said it so clearly, and he actually showed an attitude that he couldn't get, maybe it was the most useful.

Only then did Old Man Du seriously ponder the proposal of the young couple: "Let me think about this matter again."

"That's nature."

Afraid that the little couple would think that they were relieved, which meant that they agreed, Old Man Du hurriedly added: "Even if I can cooperate, I will never be able to tell you everywhere, so I will stop your careful thinking."

Seeing that the fish was hooked, Shen Luzhu smiled, knowing that the other party couldn't put it down, and didn't want to admit that she was making money by doing nothing, but she didn't care, if she really cooperated in the future, it would be someone else's business for Du Lao, and it would become his own, how could he really stay out of it.

"Don't worry, we'll be able to handle this ourselves."

"You're a female doll, but your tone is not small!"

"(Note: You can't wear heavy (chong, two sounds) filial piety within 100 days, which means that a person who has passed away within 100 days, if someone in the family dies, if it is not a close relative, he can not wear linen and wear filial piety, and some regional customs believe that if a person wears filial piety twice in 100 days, he will be haunted with bad luck;

PS: Reading the text is only a pleasure, feudal superstition is not credible! ）」