Chapter 22: Choosing a Haunted House
This trip was not easy, old man Li held a large compass, walking around on the barren slope to choose a good direction. After picking the direction, compare the distant and close objects in all directions to see if there is anything in opposition, if there is a way to avoid it, if you can't avoid it, you can only retest and then choose.
The people who followed were all connoisseurs, there were six men, each carrying his usual props and a few farm tools, and the bald head also came, and he also had a small compass in his hand, and all the way he was looking around at something, looking all the way.
I followed Old Man Li and helped him carry my old shoes and a large bowl of rice, and whenever the old man fixed a point in a certain direction, he used the tip of his shoe to grind a mark on the mud floor, and after me, I quickly grabbed a small handful of rice and sprinkled it on the mark, leaving a mark.
I chose seven or eight places in a row, and I sprinkled more than thirty places, and used up three bowls of rice to determine the position.
After that, the people dug the soil, spread out the place, nailed the wooden strips on the ground in the front and back directions, pulled the line, and then circled two circles with a radius of more than one meter wide around the wooden strips, and sprinkled a circle of lime powder on the circle line as a mark.
After that, there was nothing for me to do.
They dug in the circle for a while, shoveled out a flat ground, and then at the end of the wooden strip, they chiseled a round hole slightly larger than a basketball with a vertical wall and more than two feet deep, and after removing the mud from the hole, they put it into an empty crock pot and tried it.
After trying the depth and width and narrowness, then trimming, and then putting the crock pot, it was repeated nearly ten times before the crock pot was stuffed into the mud hole intact, and the gap between the cave wall and the crock pot was so fine that a finger could not be inserted.
It is said that the hole where the gold pot is placed can only be repaired just right, the hole is too big to replenish the mud, it is a waste hole, the hole is small and cannot be put down. And the crock pot of the test hole was the same size as the gold pot, and the bottom was slightly thinner, and it was a straight barrel of open cans, more than two feet high. The crock pot is just right when it is placed at the mouth of the tank and is leveled to the ground.
Then use the paper money one by one into the cave to burn, this is the money to buy land from the prefectural government, burned a large stack of paper money that is one inch thick, the soil around the cave wall has been burned dry and burned hard, revealing the smell of mud, only to buy a shady house, you can choose the day to put the gold pot for burial.
This is a sunny slope, open in front, flanked by guards, and is a good mansion.
We tossed and turned for three or four hours, until they left and they were not in a hurry to bury, perhaps choosing another auspicious time. But the work of choosing the yin house has been done, it is a matter, the rest of the funeral is the private affair of the main family, it has nothing to do with the moshi, it has nothing to do with the ghosts and gods, the road has been paved, the house has been selected to buy, and the main family only needs to move the gold into the house.
It was dusk when we went downhill, and we had a sumptuous dinner at the Lord's house, and everyone talked and laughed and drank, and talked about the recent interesting things, and the guests and hosts were happy.
No one drank during the dinner, and they all said they were going to drive home by themselves.
Listening to their chat, I knew that those men were also the identity of the Moshi, but they were different from Old Man Li, they were mainly engaged in the big business of eliminating evil and changing feng shui, Old Man Li had done everything, and his generations were also high, but now he was only willing to do small rituals to summon souls and send funerals, and no longer took on big jobs.
Everyone had great respect for Old Man Li, and I was also favored, and the Lord's family also gave me a bag after the incident, which contained money. Old Man Li smiled and said, "Chenghuan, this is your lost work fee, collect it well!" ”
With The consent of Old Man Li, I knew that he had his own opinion, so I did not postpone it, but accepted this package of money by hand.
I rubbed my fingers secretly, and found that there were several large ones, and I couldn't guess whether it was ten yuan or fifty yuan. In short, I am very happy, the first time I work I have money to take, and it is very easy.
Being taken seriously, I began to worry about my identity during the banquet, and I never met a delicious dish like before.