Hearing what the senior brother said, I nodded and didn't say a word, and followed the master towards the back mountain of the village. It seemed that Wei Dezhen didn't follow up because of something.
What puzzled me was that the brother seemed to be very familiar with the village, and led me through a few small roads, and then appeared in the back mountain.
After this, the mountain is not high, that is, it looks like a hillside, but the trees on the mountain are very dense, but because of the autumn season, there are yellow leaves everywhere, stepping on it loudly.
"Brother, what tree are we looking for?" I just asked the senior brother when I arrived at Houshan.
He glanced at me and said quietly: "Pine tree."
I was taken aback, and I stayed with my brother for a while. I know this pine tree. The wood is moderately hard, delicate, has a slight fragrance, and is strong in corrosion resistance. It is generally used to make furniture and pine trees to make coffins. But it rarely appears. Firstly, the hardness of the pine tree is not enough. Secondly, there is a saying that the tree is evergreen for a hundred years. It is not auspicious to be used to hit the coffin. After all, if the deceased sleeps in it, they have to follow the laws of nature and let the corpse slowly decay. If the corpse remains stiff and does not decay, it is not good for future generations.
At the moment, I told my brother this idea.
He looked up at me without saying a word. He stepped forward and walked over. I was anxious, so he hurried to catch up and asked again.
He still didn't speak, and looked around, as if he had noticed something. He moved his feet to the left and speeded up, and I immediately followed.
The brother stopped next to a pine tree, smiled slightly, turned his head and glanced at me, slowly said: "Ordinary coffins naturally cannot use pine as raw materials, which will affect the aura of the coffin itself, and will also cause the dead to flow into the coffin. It's uncomfortable, but the pine tree is the most suitable for the kind of coffin Wei Dezhen requested."
I was startled slightly, and hurriedly asked: "What kind of coffin is that kind of coffin?"
He smiled, shook his head and said nothing, and handed me the axe in his hand. He murmured a few words to the pine tree. This process took about a minute. After he finished all this, The senior brother looked at me and slowly said, "Chuanzi, today senior brother will teach you the first step, logging."
After listening to this, I immediately understood that he was planning to teach me some crafts, so he hummed.
The brother said: "Ordinary carpenters do not pay attention to logging, they do what they want, but we ghosts are different. We ghosts need to pay attention to time, location and avoid some evil spirits."
When I heard that there is so much attention to logging, I asked him why. He said: "The hour only needs to be avoided. The child year is in the noon, the ugly year is in the early days, and the Yin year is in Shen. These three hours are the big time for logging. Ji, once you cut wood during these few hours, you will be violent, and the wood you cut down will be a terrible thing, no matter what it is used for."
Speaking of this, the brother paused and told me about the average number of felled logs. The positive numbers of 1,355,79, and the negative numbers are the auspiciousness, and the negative numbers of 2,468,8 are the bad ones. The other is the stacking position of the felled timber. Avoid violating the evil yellow evil, the emperor's eight-seater evil, and the nine-day big evil. Once the evil is committed, the wood will become soft and the things created will not be durable. In severe cases, it will even attract ghosts and gods.
I hummed, and I remembered what the senior brother had said, and found that the senior brother pointed to the pine tree and slowly said: "Chuanzi, you must remember clearly. If you are looking for wood, remember not to look for trees that are more than a hundred years old. Most of the trees that are planted have spirituality. If they are cut down, it will be our ghost craftsman who will eventually get retribution. Therefore, we must find wood that is less than a hundred years old."
While talking, he took the axe from my hand, raised the axe and smashed it under the pine tree. When the axe went down, the whole pine tree shook a few times. The senior said: "Observe the age of the tree, no need to use annual rings. To check, you only need to check the degree of unevenness of the tree under the bark to know the age of the tree."
After saying this, the senior brother drew out his axe, reached out and touched the tree pole, and whispered: "This pine tree is unevenly convex, and its convexity is curved, indicating that this pine tree is twenty years old."
I don’t believe it. As a high school student, I usually check the age of the tree by relying on the growth rings, but the brother didn’t pay attention to my doubtful eyes. After a few axes, the pine tree was chopped down and the brother didn’t. Anxious, took a deep breath, and continued: "Remember, you must exhaust all your energy in the last step of logging. Only in this way can you completely cut the relationship between the tree and the ground. Otherwise, it will be easy for the yin to penetrate into the heart of the tree. This causes the trees to be wet all year round."
I hummed. Before I could speak, I heard a bang. The pine tree fell to the ground. I immediately ran over, crouched down and checked, and found that the annual ring of the pine tree was exactly 20 laps. I told my brother. The ages of the trees are exactly the same for twenty years.
This made my eyes move a little bit when I looked at the brother. However, the brother did not give me the opportunity to speak, and gave me the axe in his hand, and said quietly: "Go to the Southeast Jiazi position according to the method I taught you. A pine tree."
I was taken aback and asked in a puzzled manner, "Brother, how do you know that there is a pine tree in that location?"
He glanced at me, sat down on the tree pole, and smiled: "In this vast world, both humans and plants have their own characteristics, as large as every mountain and as small as every bush, it depends on the environment. And we only need to tell about some plants near them based on their growth characteristics and distance."
As he said, he paused, "Look at this pine tree. The branches and leaves of the pine tree are luxuriant, but there is no smell of shrubs and grass on the edge of the pine tree. This shows that there is a group of rocks nearby. According to the growth characteristics of pine trees, most There must be pine trees near the group of stones. Finally, look at the angle of the pine tree and the direction of the leaves. It is not difficult to judge that there is a pine tree in the southeast Jiazi."
After that, he stood up, raised his hand and patted my shoulder heavily, and said in a low voice: "Chuanzi, if you want to be a good ghostmaker, first you have to blend into nature and feel every move of nature. Put all the phenomena presented by nature as one's own use."
I nodded. To tell the truth, I always thought that the brother would only hit the coffin, and I always thought that the coffin was just a matter of putting together a few pieces of wood. However, what the brother said made me very cheerful and even looked towards Brother's eyes also changed.
Seeing that I was stunned, the senior frowned and said, "Why are you stunned, go!"
I came back to my senses and nodded quickly without daring to hesitate. I immediately ran towards the southeast Jiazi position. The facts are as my brother guessed. There is a pine tree in this position, which is one size bigger than the previous pine tree. I Following the appearance of the brother, I first made a stab at the pine tree, and then raised the axe to make a split. According to the degree of unevenness taught by the brother, I roughly checked the age of the tree. It was about 30 years old, but I was not sure about the exact age.
After estimating the age of the tree, I didn't hesitate. Tired up my sleeves, I raised my axe and shot the pine tree.
At the moment I just cut down the pine tree, a voice suddenly heard behind me, which shocked me. When I looked back, it was the brother who looked at me with a smile on his face. He didn't speak or know. Why, I suddenly felt that brother's smile was a little weird.
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