Chapter 182: A Radish and a Pit
The elders of the family, if the husband and wife have passed away one after another, will generally find a single cemetery for the first deceased, and after the other one also goes west in the future, they will find a joint burial place and merge the husband and wife into the burial.
Generally speaking, if this is the case, seven or eight strong laborers, to say the least, it will take half a day to do it, if you want to be like the Bai family, you have to move eight places at a time, not to mention, you have to go into the mountains for burial, if you want to finish things in one day, you have to have a team of about forty or fifty people.
Shen Luzhu carefully calculated, this job is good, if it goes well, not only will they be able to earn a fortune, but in the future, this name will be regarded as a start in these ten miles and eight villages, but for the funeral team that has just been built now, it is really a little difficult.
"Then the Bai family said when they plan to break ground? I wonder if it's too late to recruit people now?"
Chu Yi stretched out his hand and pulled his wife who was standing aside to sit down, hugged her and comforted: "Ah Zhu is not in a hurry, the Bai family must be fully prepared before the groundbreaking, and it is not on the agenda for a while, Old Man Du promised to help us introduce us tomorrow, and it is not too late to wait until we meet the principal of the Bai family."
Shen Luzhu's originally somewhat restless mood was instantly calmed down by Chu Yi, just wanted to lean on Chu Yi's arms to be coquettish, he felt a cold back, turned around and looked, the fat son climbed behind her at some point, and at the moment he was struggling to tilt his little head and gnaw on his aunt's clothes!
Chu Yi saw that his wife, who was originally leaning on him, suddenly turned around and looked behind him, and unconsciously looked behind him, looking at the fat son who was gnawing with relish, and the wife who was trying to save his clothes, his face was full of helplessness and amusement, and he hurriedly reached out and pinched Zhengzheng's little nose, and the Zhengzheng child who was forced to be unable to breathe really let go of his mouth, and just looked at his father with a confused face, and was hugged by the man.
Shen Luzhu picked up the handkerchief on the side and wiped his wet clothes, and after finding that it didn't have much effect, he could only helplessly tap his fat son's forehead, get up and go back to the room to change his clothes.
Old Man Du really delivered a message to the young couple of the Chu family in the middle of the afternoon of the next day, saying that the principal of the Bai family asked them to talk in detail at Old Man Du's house the next day.
Early the next morning, Chu Yi had breakfast, settled his wife and children, and sent Chu Li to the school by the way, and then went to Mr. Du's house in Beizhuang Village alone.
Chu Yi not only met the eldest grandson of the Bai family in the hall of the Du family, but also met the feng shui gentleman invited by the Bai family, and the three parties talked in the Du family for nearly two hours before finally finalizing all the details about the Bai family's tomb.
Chu Yi followed Old Man Du and sent the Bai family away, then turned around and bowed to Old Man Du beside him to express his gratitude.
Old Man Du waved his hand: "I'm also for my own apprentices, don't mess up."
Saying this, Old Man Du's little apprentice had already helped to lead Chu Yi's oxcart out, Chu Yi didn't say much, nodded again and thanked him, and left the courtyard of the Du family with the oxcart.
At this time, the hall of the Chu family's old house had already set up the meal, just waiting for Chu Yi to come back, and the family was so affectionate and affectionate, fortunately, after a while, Chu Yi drove the ox cart into his yard, and at the dinner table, Uncle Chu asked about talking to the Bai family today.
"How is Ayi, did the conversation go well at the Du family?"
Chu Yi nodded and said, "It's very smooth, we have already negotiated with the Bai family, and this time the work of moving his family's grave will be handed over to us to do."
Shen Luzhu hurriedly asked, "Is that going to be a hurry to recruit workers?"
"It is true that we still need to recruit some more male workers to succeed, but it doesn't take too much, the Bai family invited Mr. to watch the day, and it was set to break ground on May 22, and said that because the eight people who moved the grave were the ancestors of the three generations of the Bai family, it was necessary to move in three days according to the generation, after digging the new cemetery, it should be enough to recruit about ten more people."
Shen Luzhu nodded: "These ten people, let's just recruit temporary, after all, the situation after that is not good at the moment, if there are more people than jobs for a while in the future, it will be a little unfair to those who will not be assigned to anyone at that time."
Chu Yi also had this intention: "Ah Zhu is right, this time it's better to only recruit some temporary."
In terms of doing business and dealing with people, Uncle Chu never worried about what would go wrong with the two juniors, so he just listened quietly and gave some advice from time to time: "Since you just want to find a temporary one, I think it's better to ask the people in the funeral team to see if there are relatives in their family who want to do it, let's save some trouble and be a favor."
In the afternoon, Chu Yi drove the ox cart to find a few people from the funeral team, and told them that in late May, there was a big job of moving the grave, and a few of them could not do it, so they could all ask if there were any relatives and neighbors who wanted to do a small job, and they still needed to find ten more people, as long as the physical strength was good.
The people in the funeral team originally thought that after the last time the Fan family's work was over, they might have to stay for a while, but who would have thought that this time, the Chu family would find a bigger job, and they could also ask them to bring their own family members to earn an extra share, and they were immediately extremely glad that when they went to the Chu family to apply for a job, they didn't listen to the black-faced man's instigation and left with him.
Soon the funeral team of the Chu family recruited ten more people, all of whom were introduced by the previous nine people, Chu Yi went to the town again, purchased some new tools, and in a blink of an eye, it was May 22, and the Bai family agreed on the day of groundbreaking.
On this day, Chu Yi took the people who rushed to gather from home early, and set off together to the foot of the mountain where the new cemetery of the Bai family is located, and began to dig a new grave pit in the eight locations circled by Mr. Feng Shui invited by the Bai family.
Everyone packed up their tools, and saw that Mr. Feng Shui had retreated from everyone, made some arrangements around the new cemetery, and then went down the mountain together, and each went home to rest.
The second day was an early morning departure from the Chu family, but this time to the Bai family's ancestors were originally buried location, the feng shui Mr. first set up the table in front of the cemetery, and then put the offerings one by one, after the operation of burning incense and burning paper, the Bai family stood in front of the grave wearing linen and filial piety, and the funeral team followed the instructions, first set up an awning above two of the graves, and then began to excavate.
There are only two places to move the graves today, and compared to yesterday, it is not a little easier for everyone, the soil on the ground is shoveled out one after another, and in a short time the coffin's corroded wood is re-exposed to the air.
Because it has been buried for many years, the coffin has long been decomposed and deformed, and it is impossible to see the original appearance, but fortunately, the Bai family has already prepared eight new coffins to put next to them.
Everyone followed the approximate position of the coffin, and dug down more than half a person high around it, and then stopped swinging the shovel, and Mr. Feng Shui took the Bai family to pick up the bones scattered in the tomb, transfer them to a new coffin, and re-cover the coffin.
The funeral team used two thick hemp ropes to tie up the coffins, and lifted the two coffins from the ground with the help of a few thick wooden sticks.
After seeing the two coffins being carried out a certain distance, Mr. Feng Shui threw a large radish in each of the two old grave pits, and then signaled to the few people who were specially left behind to backfill the old grave pits.
The coffin was carried all the way to the mountain where the new grave was located, and according to the command of Mr. Feng Shui, and then buried the earth and erected a monument, today's relocation of the grave was completed, and the next two days were concocted in the same way, and finally after four days of hard work, the eight graves of the Bai family were smoothly moved.
The matter ended successfully, and the Bai family was naturally the happiest to settle all the wages in a single game, not to mention the extra reward.
The Bai family moved the grave, and there was such a big battle for four days in a row, of course, it was impossible not to attract the attention of the people in the village, and people's attention was to sigh that the Bai family was really developed, and also sighed that the Chu family was really a business material, and several families did business.
Thanks to the Bai family's grave relocation incident, if there is a funeral and grave relocation in the eight villages, when there is not enough manpower, the first thing that comes to mind is the Chu family's funeral team.
The Chu family is getting better and better day by day because of their business, and they have also expanded the funeral team, and now it is a team of fifteen people.
The new attempt of the Chu family was successful again, and others were only envious, at best, with some remorse, resenting that they had married Shen Luzhu at the beginning, and it was not themselves who married Chu Yi, but in the hearts of some people, the more they pondered, the more they didn't feel it, for example, Song Laosan, the black-faced man who was depressed for a while that day, couldn't instigate, and went directly from the Chu family.
If there is anyone in this village who is most looking forward to the Chu family's small couple's bad business, except for the long-standing grudge Uncle Chu's family, now it should be this Song Laosan, since he left the Chu family, he has been quietly paying attention to the movements here, and every day he is looking forward to hearing the news that the funeral team of the little couple has not been formed, and then he will definitely come to the door to mock the two people who don't know the height of the sky.
But who would have thought that this funeral team not only asked them to form a group, but it didn't take long for it to open, after hearing about the situation of the Fan family, Song Laosan also relieved himself, that the Fan family is a special situation, who is good at the funeral will find them, and when they are still chatting in the village, they put a lot of nonsense.
But now in such a situation, not to mention that Song Laosan was shocked, even the father and mother of the Song family and Song Laosan's wife couldn't sit still, and accused him of not playing muddy at the beginning, and the events of the day must have offended the Chu family, and now he wants to go to the funeral team of the Chu family to do work, I'm afraid that people will look down on him!
Speaking of this, Song Laosan was also aggrieved, the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't get over it, watching the Chu family and those funeral team people earn silver, he was so angry that he panicked every day, and he couldn't wait to go up directly and rob them of the money they earned.
Thinking of this, Song Laosan suddenly had an idea, who said that this business can only be done by the surnamed Chu, and the surnamed Chu has no vision and does not use him, he can't do this work by himself?