Mountain Village Chicken Tycoon

Chapter 538 The road to demolition is not smooth
Seeing that Cui San had something to say, Zhao Qingshan immediately struck while the iron was hot and arranged for construction workers to level the grave of Cui San's parents.

Cui San's parents had been buried more than ten years ago, and the coffin was almost rotten. When the grave was opened and the bluestone slabs were lifted, a rotten smell rose into the sky.

The coffin inside the cemetery had rotted into debris, and because the sealing stone slab above was not tight, the rain washed the soil into the cemetery, covering most of the cemetery.

Cui San struggled a lot to find the place to put the urn, and after crying for a while, he went home with his parents' ashes.

Then the construction workers backfilled the grave well with soil, and the grave of Cui San's parents was considered complete.

Grave relocation is a major event. As the saying goes, "If you are poor, don't change your family, and if you are rich, don't move your grave." Everyone has always been very cautious about moving graves.

Of course, these are old almanacs. For a long time, no matter whether it is a rural area or a city, they don't pay much attention to these things.

And the customs will change slowly.

If we follow the old customs, the moving of the grave must depend on the day, choose the time, open the coffin, then wake up the spirit, hold the blood and soil, etc., which is quite troublesome.

But this custom, even in the same place, is very different between those who are particular about it and those who are not.

Zhao Qingshan's big project firstly carried out the work of cutting trees, leveling graves, filling pits and clearing gravel, etc. As for the work of cutting trees, filling pits and clearing gravel, everyone didn't care much about it. What I care about is the work of leveling the grave.

The tombs of the ancestors will be flattened. If they cannot be flattened, they will be flattened. The next step is to find a new place and a new home for the ancestors. This is called moving the tombs.

Usually, people don’t relocate graves casually. There are two main situations for voluntary relocation of graves. One is to find a place with good geomantic omen, and the other is to relocate the graves of parents who are not together.

At first, the east slope was moved to the west slope, but later the vacant land of the whole village was occupied, and there was no place to put the tombs, so many villages built urn houses, which were watched by special people, and were specially used for urns.

In 2007, Zhangzhuang, Chengzipo, Lujiazhuang and other villages in Laigang County all had urn houses.

There is a cemetery in Laigang County. It is at the foot of Qishan Mountain. Fengshui is very good. Many revolutionary martyrs are also buried here, and there are special personnel to guard it. Many employees of Luzhong Iron and Steel Plant will choose to be buried here in Qishan after they die. In the cemetery, however, the local people in Laigang County rarely have such plans.

After all, a piece of cemetery, a space as big as a palm, would cost 500 yuan if the coffin was too big to fit in, and the old thinking of ordinary people could not accept it.

Rural people are still used to putting ashes in coffins and burying them in the family forest. In this case, there is actually no difference between cremation and non-cremation of the corpse, and the tomb is still the same size.

The local custom in Laigang County is to visit the graves of parents on death days, cold food, and birthdays of filial sons. During the Spring Festival and Ghost Festival, ancestors are invited to their homes and placed on memorial tablets for sacrifice.

In the customs of Laigang County, during the Spring Festival and the Hungry Ghost Festival, most of them write the ranking of the clans of the five generations, and some only write the rankings of the clans of the three generations.

As for the five generations of clan relatives, it is to write about the five generations of ancestors of Tai Gaozu, Gao Zu, great grandfather, grandfather and father; for the three generations of clan relatives, only the three generations of ancestors of great grandfather, grandfather and father are written.

In fact, even if it is written on the tablet of Tai Gaozu, if you ask him where is the tomb of your Tai Gaozu, it will be difficult for him to tell one, two, three.

After many years of turmoil and fleeing famine, in 2007, it was considered good to ask a man in his 60s if he could tell where his grandfather’s tomb was. As for the great-grandfather, almost no one knew.

Zhao Qingshan wanted to relocate a total of 320 households, and the total number of tombs of the heads of these households was calculated to be 120. Then Zhao Qingshan immediately arranged for someone to find the Qishan Cemetery Management Committee and let them expand If a sufficient number of cemeteries come out, the price of a cemetery is 1000.Just buying the cemetery cost Zhao Qingshan more than [-] million.

Just like housing prices, in 2007, the price of cemeteries, especially in small counties and places like Laigang County, was still very low.

Not long after that, the price of cemeteries in Laigang County also gradually increased. By 2016, the price had generally increased to 8000 yuan.

This level is basically the same as the local housing prices.

Of course, there are also expensive ones. The most luxurious cemetery in Laigang County also has 10,000+ cemeteries.

It is indeed quite troublesome to relocate and resettle the tombs of various families.

Fortunately, the common people are also afraid of trouble. If they are like Cui San, they will have to cry a lot after digging up the tomb.In most cases, everyone happily took the compensation money, and before digging the cave, they all went to the tombs of their parents and grandparents to burn some paper, and said a few words in their mouths, saying that they were going to move for the elderly, and let them clean up. After a moment, I hid aside and watched the excavator start working.

It is not uncommon for those who lie down in the tomb to dig the ashes of their ancestors. Besides, it has been a long time. If the tomb is not sealed tightly, it is not uncommon to rush into the soil.

To be particular, dig the tomb, jump into the well of the parents' grave, hold a handful of soil with a white cloth, and then treat it as the ashes of the ancestors.

Those who are not particular about it will not go into the graveyard to toss about. The next step is to put a photo of their parents in the urn.

After Zhao Qingshan finished dealing with Cui San's matter, he left Zhangbaqiu Village and headed towards Tongxiangyu Village.

The two tributaries of the Mowen River, one originates from Fenghuangling Village, and the other originates from Tongxiangyu Village. Zhao Qingshan arranged for Liu Wendong to build Yanhe Road along the entire Mowen River upstream and downstream, along the road he built. The river road went east all the way, and after ten minutes, it came to Tongxiangyu Village.

At the head of the village, the village director of Tongxiangyu Village, Zhao Dong, who was only 32 years old, was walking back and forth anxiously.

Zhao Qingshan got off the car, Zhao Dong saw it at a glance, hurriedly took two steps, and greeted him.

"Mr. Zhao, hey, why did Cheng Houzi, a difficult ghost, come out of our village?"

"What? Old Zhao, you didn't complete that kid's work?" Liu Wendong jumped out of the car and shouted loudly.

"Hey, forget it, that bastard almost beat me up!"

Zhao Qingshan frowned, thinking what kind of guy is this?

(End of this chapter)