From afar, the villagers made way for them, and the village chief and a few elders greeted him. They saluted the wizard and said, "The wizard is here, please come into the village!"
The so-called Wu Tao is actually a young man in his early twenties, a wizard wearing black clothes, hemp shoes, and holding a wooden staff.
With an expressionless face, he walked into the green bamboo lining all the way under the polite welcome of the village chief and others, and in awe and alienation from the people in the village.
The so-called li refers to LV li.
It is surrounded by inner walls and is a place where hundreds of families live together!
However, the customs in this world are primitive, and there are many wild beasts and dangers.
Regardless of whether it is urban or rural, people live together in groups and build inner walls to protect themselves from danger.
Qingzhuli is famous for making bamboo utensils. Almost every household has exquisite skills in making bamboo utensils, and the conditions are pretty good.
Not only is the inner wall neatly built, it is made of rammed loess and is more than seven feet high. The top of the wall is also covered with tiles to prevent rain.
The roads in the middle are even more tidy, and every household has a courtyard half as tall as a person. You can see bamboo piles in the courtyard, or half-finished bamboo baskets, bamboo tubes, bamboo baskets and other objects.
The same was true for the family he was led to!
Tao Xiaowu's eyes flashed and he thought to himself: "This company should be quite rich this time, so the charges can be higher this time!"
With this thought, I was welcomed into a house.
The women and children of the family also came out to welcome him, wearing linen mourning clothes. Apparently someone in the family had passed away.
And Tao Xiaowu is here for this!
To put it bluntly, what Tao Xiaowu wants to do now is to transcend the dead. In the world before he traveled, it was done by monks and Taoists.
And in the world he is traveling through now, it is wizards like him who do it!
Of course, Tao Xiaowu is a fake wizard.
He is incarnate, but in this world, people are organized into households, and household registration management is very strict.
Tao Xiaowu had no identity and was expelled by officials. He was beaten by the villagers and wandered around.
In the end, relying on some experiences before traveling and some understanding of this world, I began to pretend to be a wizard and deceive.
In short, no matter what, now that Tao Xiaowu has an identity, he will not continue to wander outside and starve.
As he recalled these things, his face did not reveal anything, looking indifferent and expressionless.
He knew that the villagers were most susceptible to this trick.
If he behaves lively and cheerful, people will doubt whether he is a wizard and whether he has real abilities!
The body was lying on the door panel of the courtyard, already dressed in new clothes.
Although they were still in linen clothes, they were willing to put new clothes on the dead, which shows that this family was quite generous and wealthy!
Focus on being rich and generous...
In such a world with extremely low productivity, silk cannot be worn without cotton.
Ordinary people can only wear sackcloth at most!
And even a set of tattered linen clothes takes three years to make new, three to make old, and another three to mend.
Do you think that’s all? You’re naive.
In the end, I had to make it smaller and wear it for children.
If it's really worn out, it can be made into socks, diapers, or even rags.
In short, if you are willing to give a dead person a new set of linen clothes, your family conditions are indeed pretty good!
Thinking like this, Tao Xiaowu was already calculating how much money he should ask this company for!
Although he had such a philistine idea in his mind, Tao Xiaowu asked: "Are you ready for longevity materials?"
"We are already making preparations. Carpenter Zhang is working hard at home!" the family member replied respectfully.
Tao Xiaowu sighed in his heart. In this era, there were no professional coffin shops. They were all made by carpenters!
Otherwise, if it is like later generations, Mr. Yin Yang like him and the coffin shop and the incense shop should work closely together upstream and downstream.
Although there is regret in my heart, I don't show it.
When the chief saw him there, he gave him a money bag filled with copper coins. He handed it to Tao Xiaowu and said with a smile: "I'm inviting the great witch to come this time. I came here to ask the great witch to help me write the underworld contract!"
Tao Xiaowu weighed the money bag and estimated that there should be hundreds of coins in it. A smile appeared on his face: "Prepare pens, ink, water, etc.!"
His charges are cheap, more than half the price of those indigenous wizards.
Many ordinary poor people like to come to him to do business.
After all, this kind of nagging thing is often just a comfort to the hearts of living people. No one knows whether it is of any use.
But the green copper coins spent can be seen clearly!
For example, this time, if you hire other wizards, it will cost you at least three hundred dollars, and even as high as five hundred dollars.
Tao Xiaowu only charged more than 100 yuan, which was really a low price.
Moreover, Tao Xiaowu works very hard and looks better than others when performing the dance, which usually makes his master very satisfied.
As for whether what Tao Xiaowu did is useful...it's still the same sentence I just said.
Funerals are for the living, but no one can tell whether they are of any use to the dead!
The leader there shouted, he was the leader of a mile, equivalent to the village chief in later generations.
Weddings, funerals, etc. for the common people in the village all need the help of the village chief to organize and manage, and he has already been very experienced in these matters.
All necessary things were prepared for Tao Xiaowu. He washed Tao Xiaowu's face and hands with water, and then took out wooden boards, pens, ink and other items.
Tao Xiaowu started to dance like a master and pretended to do it.
At a quick glance, the dancing master seemed to be having a cramp or having an epileptic fit.
But as Tao Xiaowu danced for a while, the wind actually started to rise in the surrounding yard, and a whirring whirlwind blew around him.
The whole courtyard seemed to have suddenly become cold and cold inside and outside.
Outside the courtyard wall, the people watching the excitement seemed to have sensed the strange wind, and they all shut up and even dragged their children home.
Even Tao Xiaowu himself was a little creepy!
As for whether these things are useful?
Even Tao Xiaowu himself couldn't explain clearly.
Anyway, Tao Xiaowu took the brush and started writing on the wooden board.
This so-called wizard and the later Feng Shui Master and Yin Yang Master may be said to be peers, but in fact they do quite different things!
The most important thing that the colleagues in the past life did was to transcend, so that the deceased would not linger in the world, go to the underworld early and be reincarnated, and be reincarnated into a wealthy family in the next life.
According to Tao Xiaowu's discovery, there seems to be no concept of reincarnation in this world.
Therefore, the most important thing that these great witches do is actually to write the underworld contract.
The so-called "underworld deed" is just a general term, including two things, one is the land notice, and the other is the land purchase certificate.
Things like a notice of declaration are equivalent to customs clearance documents in the underworld, or letters of introduction.
It is written for the underworld. It contains the name of the deceased, place of birth, date of death, cause of death, etc. At most, it should add a few sentences about being a kind person and never committing crimes.
This is like a letter of introduction that must mention that the person being introduced is of good character!