Chapter 85 Grave Relocation (12)

The string of firecrackers finished setting off "quietly" under our gaze, and all of us breathed a sigh of relief. The matter of moving the tomb requires every step to be in place without making any mistakes.

"Dig!" Qing Xuanzi shouted at the Eight Immortals. After hearing this, the Eight Immortals held up their hoes and pointed them at the grave, then dug in. That guy, Fatty Guo, had only dug a few times with his hoe and was already sweating profusely. From time to time, he looked at me like this

After a few glances, those innocent eyes seemed to say, "Brother Ninth, I can't dig anymore."

I simply ignored his look. If this guy doesn't do some manual labor, his body will only grow more fleshy. I ignored him and knelt on the grave with my father, kowtowing to the Eight Immortals every seven minutes. This meant

Thanks to them for moving our ancestors to a new home. Why is it every seven minutes? Because seven has the same pronunciation as "grave digging" in our area.

Grandpa's grave was buried very shallow, and the soil was relatively loose. It took about 40 minutes to reveal a model of the coffin lid. Because it was quite old, the coffin lid was rotten and had some white maggots squirming on it. It looked like

A bit disgusting.

Seeing this, Qing Xuanzi shouted in a long voice, "Show the coffin, stop the hoeing, the filial son and filial grandson stand up and thank you!"

My father and I stood up. We knelt for a long time and our feet were a little numb. I took out nine red envelopes from my pocket and gave one to each of the Eight Immortals, and another to Qingxuanzi. His red envelopes were better than those of the Eight Immortals.

It is customary to be thicker.

According to my idea, the real hard laborers are the Eight Immortals, and the red envelopes should be more. But Qingxuanzi is a technical job, and ordinary people can't do it. Sometimes it's like this. It's always easier for skilled workers than coolies, and they get more money.

There are many, which shows that learning a technology is very important.

After I handed out the red envelopes, my father gave each of the Eight Immortals and Qingxuanzi a pack of ten-yuan white sand. It is worth mentioning that the smoke from the grave-clearing ceremony is better than the smoke from other times. Our family moved the grave this time.

, all we bought were five yuan worth of white sand. When we were raising the grave, the old scholar asked us to buy a good cigarette, saying that he wanted my grandfather to see how much his descendants value the grave.

After giving out red envelopes and cigarettes, we said our thanks to the Eight Immortals and Qing Xuanzi, burned some yellow paper next to grandpa’s grave, and prepared to lift the coffin.

Qing Xuanzi took a look at us, then stopped and said, "The ground-breaking ceremony has been completed. The coffin will not be taken out until noon. Let's have lunch first, carry the new coffin here by the way, and then pick up the 'dragon body'."

(Dragon body is a jargon term, but it is actually corpse bones)

"Do you have any idea?" I put my hope in Lang Gao. This kind of work of arranging banquets is really not done by humans. It has to be comprehensive. If you are not careful, you will offend people. When the time comes, not only the host family will be blamed, but also those who

People who come to have a banquet will also blame you, so it is not that easy to be a famous guest.

"No, the Eight Immortals must sit on the main bench. This point is not negotiable. Let's find another way!" I rejected Lang Gao's idea. I am an Eight Immortal myself, and I understand the importance of that position to the Eight Immortals.

"Why?" I asked him doubtfully.

This problem is really difficult to deal with. The meal in the morning was just for the Eight Immortals and a group of people. It was considered a meal among friends. The meal at noon is a formal meal and needs to be done according to etiquette. Otherwise, it is easy to offend others and cause some trouble.

thing.

"Your relatives and helpers are sitting on the ground, and some people from your village are also sitting on the ground. The banquet has names on it, so there should be no confusion." Lang Gao said.

After hearing this, I finally understood what was going on, and I felt like I had gained more knowledge. However, there was some disagreement between the Taoist priest and us Eight Immortals, so I didn't feel like asking further, so I led a group of people back home.

I asked him why, and he said: "Logically speaking, there is nothing wrong with the Eight Immortals sitting in the hall. However, Qingxuanzi is famous and he is the Yin and Yang man who moved the tomb. It is inappropriate for him to sit in the table."

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"Does our family have a seat?" I asked.

Although it was just a meal, there were so many things involved, so I asked him, "How are the other banquets arranged?"

Some people say that when you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives, but when you are poor in the city, no one cares about you. This is a bit wrong for our family. Our family is poor, but seven or eight relatives came to move the grave this time and gave some gifts for a banquet.

, of course, this is also inseparable from the father's daily behavior.

"You are the leader of the Eight Immortals, can you give up your position to Taoist Qingxuanzi?" Lang Gao said cautiously.

"Originally, a table was arranged for your family. Your father said that no relatives were coming. I counted the number of people and arranged five tables. But now seven or eight relatives have come and just occupied that seat. You, your father and that

Miss Qiao, I'm afraid you have to eat standing up!" Lang Gao looked around in the main room and explained.

If you do it according to etiquette, you will definitely offend Taoist Qingxuanzi. From now on, this beam will be taken over. Although Qingxuanzi has a good relationship with his father, once the arrangements at the banquet go wrong, he will immediately fall out. They are all in the same profession, everyone knows it.

This principle.

Originally, we thought of letting Qingxuanzi sit at the same table as our family, but now we don’t even have a seat at the table. Now, it’s really difficult. It would be unreasonable to let Qingxuanzi squeeze into the chairman’s table.

Qing Xuanzi's temper will not change either.

We had just returned home, and Lang Gao had already asked the chef to prepare the banquet. After counting, there were five tables, one of which was placed in the main room, and the other four were placed on a flat ground in front of the main room.

"When the earth is broken at 12:45, the evil spirit on the tomb can be washed away by the Yang energy at noon. Now the evil spirit has dispersed, leaving only the dragon body." Qing Xuanzi explained: "If we pick the dragon body now, the Yang energy at noon will burn it.

Dragon body is not good for future generations."

After Lang Gao saw me, he pulled me aside and said with some embarrassment: "Chen Baxian, it's hard to arrange this banquet!"

"The only way is to let the old scholar, you and your family accompany Qing Xuanzi and find a place to eat. You can borrow tables and stools from other people's houses. I'm afraid there won't be much food, but with the old scholar, an old man who is nearly a hundred years old, to accompany you

, Qing Xuanzi should have no objection." Lang Gao thought for a while and said.

I thought about it for a while and felt that this was reasonable. It was just that I had wronged the old scholar. However, the old scholar usually did not stick to these things. It shouldn't be a big problem if we discussed it with him. We could just give him some compensation afterwards.

"Okay, let's do it!" I nodded to Lang Gao, and he turned around and left, presumably to arrange a banquet.

I lit a cigarette and walked slowly towards the main room. I met some relatives and said hello to them. As soon as I approached the main room, I saw the Eight Immortals and Qing Xuanzi standing at the door. No one entered the main room. When they saw

After I arrived, I was obviously stunned and my face looked a little unnatural.
Chapter completed!