ghost craftsman

Chapter 9
Seeing this situation, I was a little dazed. I felt a cold air rushing from the soles of my feet to my forehead. The cold air eroded every cell in my body, and made me start to tie up my speech. I trembled and said: "Mr. ...brother, senior brother..., that board..."

Upon hearing this, the senior brother lowered his head and glanced at the wooden board. His brows were furrowed into a frown on his originally calm face. After a while, he smiled calmly, "It's nothing, it's just a normal reaction."

"How could it be a normal reaction." I breathed heavily and said hastily.

He glared at me and said, "Kids, don't worry so much, just stand there and don't move."

While speaking, he put down the plane in his hand, and walked towards the innermost part of the main room. There was an altar inside, on which were placed a pair of unlit red wax, an incense cup, and the incense sticks of each household in the village. Ancestral Spirit Card.

The brother walked over, first lit the candle, then took out three pillars of fragrance, put it upside down in the incense cup, and said plausibly, "The heavens and the earth are opened, the days are good and the days are good, the descendants of the emperor build high halls, and the evil gods abdicate , the evil god hides, at this time, the longevity will be established, and the generations will prosper."

When reading these words, the senior brother's voice was unusually loud and clear, every word was like thunder, and the speed of speech was also extremely fast.

After he finished reading these words, I don't know if it was my illusion or what happened. A cool breeze blew past me in the main room where there was no wind. There was a sound of dog barking in the village. The sound of the dog barking was so shrill that many villagers who barked came out.

"Senior Brother..." I bravely walked towards Senior Brother.

"What?" He glared at me.

I said, "Is there just now..."

Before I could finish speaking, his face darkened, "Don't talk nonsense, just quietly watch from the side, and if you speak again, I'll knock your teeth."

Well, I'm also drunk, what kind of broken senior brother, didn't you just ask more if you don't understand, I asked like this, and I was not allowed to speak. Many times, I wondered if the senior brother was neurotic.

However, then again, the brother still told me what happened later.

He said that generally, the coffin must be buried in the main room, because the ancestors take care of the coffin in the main room, and instead of opening the coffin in the main room, the portrait of the patriarch Lu Ban can only be hung there, saying that it can calm down some dirty things.

And what the brother encountered before was because the coffin was special. To put it bluntly, it was a taboo to break the coffin. The ancestors in the main room didn't want to care about it, which attracted some dirty things. A special incantation for workmanship, similar to but different from Taoist incantations.

According to what my senior brother said, this spell is called Gongshiliyu. If Chinese metaphysics is divided into five arts, mountain, medicine, fate, divination, and phase, then Gongshiliyu is the sixth art, which can be summarized into words, and this Gongshili language covers a wide range of subjects, including yin and yang and five elements, geomantic omen, cemetery and so on.

It is also the existence of the Gongshili language that distinguishes us ghost craftsmen from carpenters. To put it more simply, a carpenter who understands Gongshili language can be called a ghost craftsman.

Pulling away, get back to business.

I didn't dare to speak any more when I heard what my brother said, so I found a stool and prepared to sit down and watch my brother make a coffin. How did I know that my brother said, "Your brother is standing, and my brother is sitting. Do you think this makes sense?"

I really suspected that my brother was deliberately trying to make things difficult for me, but I dared not speak out, so I stood beside my brother, and found that he continued to tinker with the coffin board. What I couldn't understand was that the original coffin board had been dyed. It turned bloody, and I don't know when it turned back to the original white paper color.

I wanted to ask my brother, but I didn't dare to ask. Who would have thought that when my brother saw that I didn't ask, he glared at me and said in a low tone, "Chuanzi, what's the matter with you, the coffin board has changed color, why don't you ask?" Le, if you are like this, you can only be like me in this life, and you will be in the coffin for the rest of your life."

I... I... I'm really speechless.

I had no choice but to suppress the grievance in my heart, and asked timidly, "Brother, why did the color of the coffin board change back?"

It's okay if you don't ask, but when I asked, the brother's face suddenly sank, and he was about to find me again. Fortunately, Wei Dezhen happened to bring sugar water to me and the brother. , his face immediately became serious, and he said: "Brother, the discoloration of the coffin board is because the coffin violated a taboo, which caused the lonely ghosts around to come to the door. Don't look at how easily the brother solved it just now. In fact, senior brother sacrificed his Yang Shoule for several years!"

To be honest, I really believed it at the time.It wasn't until later that I finally realized that he didn't sacrifice his life, it was just a waste of energy. The reason why he said this was to tease Wei Dezhen and make Wei Dezhen feel indebted to him.

Knowing the truth, I really want to say four words to my senior brother, it's a pious one.

When Wei Dezhen heard what the senior brother said, originally two bowls of boiled water were for each person, but it turned out that the two bowls of boiled water were given to the senior brother to drink, and Wei Dezhen even said a long comforting word to the senior brother, which made my skin crawl straighten up.

For the next time, Wei Dezhen probably was worried about his senior brother, and stayed in the main room, saying that he was watching his senior brother breaking the coffin. In order to show his skills in front of Wei Dezhen, the senior brother broke the coffin at an extremely fast speed, which only took an afternoon. Suddenly, the outline of a coffin appeared.

What I can't understand is that the coffin made by my brother has only five sides. The whole coffin is cone-shaped. The front part is very large, and the back part is so thin that it is only as big as a bamboo tube. Only said four words, that kind of coffin.

In the evening of that day, the brother said that the coffin must be driven out within a day, which means that we have to work the night shift at night. Strictly speaking, the brother has to work the night shift, and I don’t know what the brother is thinking. It seems that he is very happy to work the night shift , just finished dinner, led me to the main room.

On the way, he said to me: "Chuanzi, remember that waiting will be the most important moment of making the coffin. You have to watch carefully. I will only teach this time. Whether you learn it or not is up to you."

I hummed, and followed my brother to the main room. At this time, the main room had already pulled a wire from the side room. At the end of the wire was a [-]-watt light bulb. bright.

As soon as I arrived at the door of the main room, my brother grabbed me and said in a low voice: "The situation at night is a bit special, you can just stand at the door, remember, no matter what happens in the main room, don't come in."

I asked him why, and he said, "Why do you ask so much, just watch it carefully and learn it with your heart."

(End of this chapter)