"Come on! Carry the coffin!"

Lei Zi found the "dragon tendons" and "dragon bones" used to carry the coffin, tied a knot in front and back, and tied it to the coffin.

One by one, one by one, we carried the big red coffin up to the mountain temple and placed it on the open space in front of the temple.

This big red coffin is not particularly heavy. Ordinary people may not be able to lift it. However, Leizi and I have practiced it, so our strength is naturally greater than that of ordinary people, so we can barely move it. But we can't move it far. Anyway, we are only about ten meters in from the entrance of the temple, so there is still no big problem with this distance.

I originally ate mutton soup and drank soju, but now with this force, sweat immediately popped out. Beads of sweat the size of beans appeared on my forehead. On this winter night, I rolled down against my cheeks.

I went into the inner room and found a large black cloth covering the surface of the big red coffin. I wrapped the coffin tightly, like putting on a black coat on the coffin.

Lao Huang and the others arrive tomorrow afternoon and will not leave tomorrow night as soon as possible, so this coffin must be placed in the mountain temple during the day. The coffin cannot be seen directly, especially this evil big red coffin, which cannot be seen. If you are not careful, it will be affected by evil spirits. If an accident occurs before you go out, it will be even more troublesome. It is better to be more careful.

After wrapping the coffin, I sprinkled a circle of lime powder around the coffin to prevent insects and ants from getting close.

Because the coffin itself is wood, and it is dug out from the ground and has a smell of earth, it is easy to attract insects and ants. In order to protect the integrity of the coffin, some lime powder is usually sprinkled around to form a protective circle, so that the insects and ants will not get close.

Of course, this is an act of being responsible to customers. Some laymen pretend to be experts or some people with low professional qualities will not care about these things.

I even heard Lei Zi say that those coffin carryrs with low professional qualities never respect the deceased, and even helped people carry the coffin. When a brand new coffin arrived at the destination, it turned into an old coffin, which was worn everywhere, and there was a hole in the bottom of the coffin. The deceased's hands were exposed, making the family furious.

After doing all this, Leizi and I went back to the house to sleep.

Lei Zi was wide and fat, and soon fell asleep and started snoring next door.

But I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. I always kept in mind the big red coffin. This big red coffin was like a sharp thorn, piercing my heart. I wanted to pull it but couldn't pull it off, which was particularly uncomfortable.

At this moment, I miss Chen Xiucai more and more. If Chen Xiucai was in charge of the command, I believe he would make the most correct decision. Chen Xiucai said that he could take over this business, so we would take over it. He said that he could not take over it, and believed that Lei Zi would not dare to disobey his teacher's order. Now that Chen Xiucai has left, everything depends on us, and it is inevitable that there will be differences.

When we woke up the next day, we did not open the temple gate. Because there were coffins parked in the yard, I didn’t want to release people in. There were a few pilgrims in the morning, and I found an excuse to send them away.

At that time, in our mountain village, we had not yet made every household call. The phone was still a rare thing for us. There was probably only one landline phone in each village. Usually, we would go to the village committee to hang up the phone if there was anything. Of course, we would have to pay for it, and the phone bill was not cheap!

Leizi went to the village committee and hung up the phone number for Lao Huang and asked him to bring four brothers to Shuipu Village, and there was a big job to do.

When Lao Huang heard that there was a big job, he was very happy and immediately arranged for people to set off to Shuipu Village.

I arranged some wine and food, and set up a table in the mountain temple. I still did a good job of doing this.

Almost evening, Lao Huang arrived with four brothers carrying coffin and introduced his names one by one. Most people in the countryside like to call them nicknames, so I didn't remember the names of the four brothers, but instead remembered their nicknames.

A middle-aged man in his forties was short and thin, but his arms were full of muscles. In the team, he was only a little younger than Lao Huang, so everyone called him second brother.

There was also a thirty-year-old man who was dressed very ragged, with several patches on his pants and a pair of bad rubber shoes, without socks, and his thumb was exposed outside the ripped holes of the shoes. However, his eyes were bright and he was cleaned up, so everyone called him a "match stick".

I heard from Old Huang that Matchstick's family was too poor, so at such an age, he never asked for a wife. The family still lived in the same kind of unfinished house made of yellow mud. His father and mother left, leaving him alone to live a difficult life with one acre of three parts of the land. When he was employed, he would come out to work as a coffin carryr and earn some money to subsidize his life.

Match stick to my wine and said with a smile: "They all say that they can eat meat with Master Jiu. As long as Master Jiu doesn't dislike him, I will call me if I have a job in the future. I also want to earn some money with Master Jiu and strive to get a wife before I'm forty!"

Everyone laughed, but their smiles were bitter. This was not a funny thing, it was a sad thing.

I was not a big family at first, and I was born with suffering. After hearing what Match Stick said, I immediately nodded without hesitation and agreed: "Don't worry, as long as I have a sip of wine, I will definitely eat one piece of meat, brothers!"

Looking back, I whispered to Leizi: "This trip will add an additional price for your brothers, each of them will be 800!"

Lei Zi smiled at me, drank a drink with me, and said thank you for me for your brothers.

Looking at the poor brothers in front of me, I suddenly understood what Lei Zi felt, and I also understood why he insisted on taking risks and taking on this business. If everyone has food to eat, everyone has clothes to wear, and everyone can eat mutton soup around the stove, who would be willing to do this dead business? Everything is because of life, life is too hard!

I sighed and thought maybe Leizi made the right decision!

In addition to my second brother and Matchstick, there are two younger brothers, one in his twenties and the other in his fifteen or sixteen years old, even younger than Leizi and me.

The twenties are called sweet potato. They said that because his head looks like sweet potato, they got such a nickname. Sweet potato looks very honest and usually doesn't speak, but just smiles at us and looks happy.

The youngest coffin carryr, everyone called him Xiaofei. Xiaofei had a good grades, but his family could not afford the tuition. His father worked on the construction site and was paralyzed in bed after he was injured and lost his pillar. In desperation, Xiaofei had to drop out of school. While taking care of his bedbed father, he worked everywhere to earn money, and carried the burden of a family with his tender shoulders.

In the winter, Xiaofei was wearing a thin dress, and his shoulders were red and swollen, and they were all worn out.

Xiaofei found that I was looking at his shoulders and quickly said to me: "Master Jiu, I'm fine. I just raised the coffin a few days ago, and my shoulders were worn out. But you don't have to doubt my ability, I promise to complete the task!"

I nodded, knowing that Xiaofei was worried and afraid that I would change people temporarily. I said to him: "There is medicinal wine in the wing room. You can take it with you before departure. If the wound on the road hurts, apply it a little, and it will work very well!"

Xiaofei was very moved and thanked me repeatedly.

Looking at the poor brothers at the table, I suddenly felt that the burden on my shoulders was actually quite heavy. I secretly swear in my heart that I must use my own abilities to lead these brothers and brothers out of poverty and gradually live a good life.

By the end of the banquet, it was already dark.

Leizi stood up and placed five red envelopes on the table.

Lei Zi's eyes slowly swept over Lao Huang and the others' faces: "Eight hundred yuan per pack is your reward this time!"

"Eight hundred yuan?" Lao Huang and the others widened their eyes in disbelief. They should know that their red envelopes are only a few dozen yuan, and the higher rewards are only more than one hundred yuan. The remuneration for this trip is as high as eight hundred yuan. Everyone was stunned. They looked at the red envelopes on the table and were stunned and did not dare to reach out to get them.

Lei Zi said with a solemn expression: "This time is a big job, and high pay will inevitably be accompanied by high risks. You must be mentally prepared!"

Lao Huang said: "Leizi, Master Jiu, just talk about it, what kind of life is it?"

Lei Zi raised his chin at me, and I walked to the front of the coffin, ripped off the black cloth wrapped around the coffin, revealing the strange and charming big red coffin inside.

Old Huang exclaimed softly: "Big Red Coffin?!"

Seeing this big red coffin, the faces of the coffin carryrs all changed. They knew very well what the big red coffin meant.

Old Huang murmured, "It's really a big job!"

Lei Zi held the table with both hands and sprayed wine foam in his mouth: "Our task is to send this big red coffin to Youshui Wharf safely! You have also seen it. This is a big red coffin. I know that the big red coffin is the most taboo thing for our coffin holders. However, when this business came to my door, I still didn't refuse because I wanted everyone to have a comforting New Year! Anyway, I have already said it very clearly, life and death are in the sky. If you are willing to take this order, take your own red envelope. If you don't want it, I won't force it. You can think about it yourself!"

The atmosphere in the yard was a bit solemn. The five coffin holders were silent. Their eyes were wandering back and forth between the big red coffin and the red envelopes on the table. Their expressions flashed on their faces and were undecided. They must have been having a fierce ideological struggle in their hearts.

Doing or not doing it will become a difficult choice at this time.

"It's getting late, have you all figured it out?" Lei Zi asked.

Lao Huang gritted his teeth and was the first to reach out and grab the red envelope. He smiled calmly: "I, Lao Huang, have been carrying the coffin for most of my life, and have never carried a big red coffin. Haha, it is rare to have such an opportunity, so I must try it!"

Lao Huang is the most experienced coffin carryer here. Naturally, no one else would refuse Lao Huang as the leader.

Matchstick also grabbed a red envelope and stuffed it into his pocket: "No matter what coffin he is, I only ask for a wife!"

The second brother glanced at me, then looked at Leizi again, and picked up the red envelope in front of him, "Leizi, Master Jiu, I believe you!"

Sweet potato smiled and picked up the red envelope without saying a word.

Xiaofei was the last one to pick up the red envelope, looking very excited and happy: "It's true that you can make so much money when you go out for the first time!"

I took a deep breath and said seriously: "There may be an accident this time, everyone should think about it!"

"We have taken all the red envelopes, and we have considered it very clearly!" said Lao Huang.
Chapter completed!