My master is invincible

Chapter 9 Funerals

I didn't answer directly. I looked at the middle-aged man suspiciously and asked the question in my heart. He said that he believed in the old scholar.

Hearing this, I probably knew something in my heart. I am afraid that this middle-aged man could not afford to hire professionals due to financial constraints, so he hired amateurs to hold the funeral at a low price. The old scholar recommended me to him.

After figuring this out, I proceeded forthrightly, just trying to get an experience for nothing else. As long as there are no mistakes in the general life of this kind of old man, he will not make any strange things.

Next, we talked about the price with the middle-aged man, and for some reason, Pharaoh asked for [-] yuan, and the middle-aged man agreed without even thinking about it. He asked us to contract everything from encoffining to burial for the old man.

Lao Wang added: "Some necessary red envelopes have to be calculated separately." They are all rural people, and middle-aged men understand these rules, so let us not dislike the small red envelopes.

After negotiating the price, the middle-aged man stuffed each of us with a red envelope, a pack of Baisha cigarettes worth five yuan, and the red envelope contained 24 yuan. According to our customs, this 24 yuan is called full filial piety. 12 yuan is half filial piety, and the size of the red envelope is entirely the owner's wish. For some owners with good family backgrounds, the red envelope will be given at least [-] or more.

Although the red envelope was a bit smaller, Lao Wang and I were still in a very happy mood. After all, this was the first time our Eight Immortals accepted a funeral order, and the price was only 3000 yuan lower than those professionals.

Then the master invited us to have a meal at his house. After thirty days of drinking, Lao Wang and the master's drink were a bit high. Lao Wang said: "Lao Li, I don't understand. The funeral expenses of [-] are a bit too much." Low, but talk to those professionals about the price, it is possible to invite them, why do you want to contract to us Eight Immortals?"

The master took a sip of wine, was stunned for a moment, and said: "Old brother! I won't hide it from you. Before I invite you, I asked someone to live. The man said that the old man died at a bad time, and the time for mortuary at home was a bit long. .”

Lao Wang asked how long, his face changed, and he said, seven days.

"What?" Old Wang exclaimed, "Seven days? You didn't lie to me?"

He frowned and said, "I didn't believe it at first, but then I asked the old scholar to settle it, and he also said seven days."

I took a look at the master's house, and felt a little angry, but since I agreed, I definitely couldn't go back on my word, so I had no choice but to grab Lao Wang, who was about to lose his temper, and said: "The deceased's birth date, tell the time of death, and I will calculate it later!"

The so-called birth date, simply put, is eight characters. In fact, it is another way of saying the four pillars of the Zhouyi term. The four pillars refer to the time when a person is born, that is, the year, month, day, and hour. The words are matched to represent the year, month, day, and hour respectively (the ten heavenly stems are: A, B, C, D, E, Ji, G, Xin, Ren, and Gui; the twelve earthly branches are: Zi, Chou, Yin , Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai) such as Jiazi year, Bingshen month, Xinchou day, Renyin time, etc.), contains the basic state of the movement of celestial bodies when a person is born. There are two characters of pillars, and four pillars have a total of eight characters, so it is also called "eight characters". Then, according to the relationship of mutual generation and restraint of yin and yang and five elements of heavenly stems, earthly branches, Yihan, and five elements, we can speculate on human body, misfortune, misfortune, and fortune.

The master told me that the deceased's birthday was the seventh year of the Republic of China, on June [-]th, at five o'clock, and he died at noon.

At first glance, there is nothing wrong with the horoscope of the birth date. When I calculated it using the ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches, my face sank. , the 1918th is the Wuwu day. If I guessed the time correctly, it should be Wuwu, and the time of his death should be 11:[-] noon, not more than one minute and not more than one second. That kind of fate.

I was very unwilling to admit this, so I asked the master: "Did the old man die at eleven o'clock?" He said, I don't know, I didn't check the time, it was about eleven o'clock.

Old Wang was anxious and asked me if there was something wrong. I didn't answer him, put down the bowls and chopsticks in my hand, and asked him to wait here for me, and I went back to the village.

When I got back to the village, I dug out the funeral scriptures at home and read it. Yes, it was in line with the kind of fate mentioned above. Then I asked the old scholar to ask about the situation. The answer he gave me was also that kind of fate. Let me be sincere To do a good job in this funeral, there should be no problem in carefully selecting the Eight Immortals.

When I was about to go out, the old scholar called me and said: "Jiu Yazi, you must choose the tomb well, don't cut off the owner's family!" After finishing speaking, he sighed.

It's okay if he doesn't talk, but when he talks, I really want to beat up the old scholar, MD, once such a deadly funeral is taken over, the person who organizes the funeral will have a short lifespan of three years, as long as the etiquette is not thoughtful, it's easy Being missed by the deceased will bring bad luck to you in the future, MD, is there such a deceitful person, so many eight immortals are not deceitful, catch me to bully!
When I was about to go out, I was so angry that I had no place to vent my anger, so I kicked the door of the old scholar's house again. I don't know if it was broken or not, but I knew that the old scholar was roaring and cursing people behind me.

After knowing the fate of the deceased, I have no confidence in this funeral, let alone carrying the coffin. I really want to reject this funeral, but I can't find a suitable reason, let alone according to our customs, No one is willing to accept the second funeral. (Second funeral: one funeral for two groups.)
Thinking of this, I felt a little better. I found some tools for the funeral at home, and hurried to Li Village. Now that I have accepted the funeral, I must not let it happen. Let's ignore it for the time being.

When I came to Li Village, I said nothing with a sullen face, and asked Lao Wang to give me all the red envelopes and cigarettes from before. I didn’t tell him the reason. Although Lao Wang was a little surprised, he still gave me the red envelopes and cigarettes. Why do I, I said, I won’t harm him, and I will take care of it alone.

Afterwards, I asked the host to take me to the room of the deceased. The host nodded, with infinite sadness and sadness in his eyes. It was an indescribable look, cruel and realistic. Presumably, the host's feelings for the deceased should be very deep.

I anxiously followed behind the master's house, but Lao Wang was not afraid at all, and walked in swaggeringly. If I told him the fate of the deceased, I don't know if he would be the same.

The house where the deceased lived was not big, about ten or so square meters. Several stools were placed on the right, and a wooden bed was placed on the left, with a black mosquito net hanging on it. A seven or eight-year-old girl was kneeling beside the bed. burn something.

When the little girl saw us coming in, she looked up and continued with the work at hand. I took a closer look and saw that it wasn't yellow paper, but a test paper. The worst thing was that the little girl was burning and muttering: "Grandpa, you are getting old, and you need to use your brain more when you get to the underworld. Shuyan will burn some test papers for you to do. If you encounter something you don't understand, take my class teacher down and let her teach you how to do it."

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