The village chief of Zhoutian Village is a kind-hearted man, nicknamed Old Brazier. He has done a lot of good things for the villagers.
This year, Zhoutian Village was incorporated into the city, and the government banned burials. The old rules that have been in place since ancient times are about to change, and the villagers are very resistant. There is nothing wrong with cremation after death, as fire brings wealth! But they cannot live without coffins. , Coffin – power and wealth. When the old man ascends to heaven, he wants to bless his descendants with both power and wealth. How can he do without a coffin?
In order to comply with government decrees and take the villagers' feelings into consideration, Lao Huoben came up with a stopgap solution. He paid for a public coffin with his own money. Whenever someone died, they could sleep in the coffin and hold a memorial service according to the old rules.
There are two big surnames in Zhoutian Village, Zhou and Tian. On this day, Grandma Tian, the oldest member of the Tian family, passed away. The public coffin stored in the abandoned water pump room was to be put into use again.
The next morning, Lao Huoben came to help, accompanying Grandma Tian's son Tian Datou to clean the coffin. The two of them came to the pump room with brushes and rags, but saw the door was open. , and hurriedly pushed open the door to see that the coffin lid was also opened and opened on the side. Tian Datou hurried over, looked inside the coffin, and let out a strange cry, trembling and pointing at the coffin, shouting: There is someone in the coffin!"
Before the shouting ended, a man suddenly stood up from behind the coffin, frightening Tian Datou so much that he almost fell over. The man stretched his back and yawned: "What are you yelling about? That's my father!" It turned out to be a descendant of the Zhou family. Chow Tai Fook.
It took Tian Datou a long time to come back to his senses: "Your father? When did your father pass away?"
Zhou Dafu mumbled something vaguely, and Lao Huobener could not help but become suspicious. He went to the coffin and took a closer look. Zhou Dafu's father's chest was still rising and falling slightly. Lao Huobener was furious: "Asshole! You let a living person Sleeping in a coffin!" Zhou Dafu said nonchalantly: "It just breathes more than a living person!"
Zhou Dafu's father fell ill a few days ago and was sent to the hospital for rescue, but the rescue was ineffective and he was already in a dying state. His family wanted him to sleep in a coffin, so they took him back from the hospital overnight. When he got home, he heard that Grandma Tian had passed away. If she waited until the coffin was buried and the funeral was over, her father would have died at home. Chow Tai Fook thought of a solution and decided to put his father in the coffin first.
Zhou Dafu's trick was too mean, and Tian Datou and Zhou Dafu got angry and started arguing. When the two of them got angry, they started to curse each other, and when they got angry, they started to fight. This matter was of great importance, and Lao Huoben'er's words were no longer effective. One couldn't pull it open, and the other couldn't push it open. The two guys got closer and closer, and their two hands clenched into four fists.
Suddenly, there was a "gulp" sound from the coffin, and the three people were stunned. Tian Datou shouted "The corpse has come back to life" and tried to run away. Lao Huoben grabbed him and said, "Fool! How can your living person Pretend to be dead? This is a flash of life!"
As expected, the old fire pot was well-informed. Zhou Dafu's father was just having a moment of enlightenment. He saw himself lying in the coffin and heard the noise outside for the coffin. He then used his last bit of strength to hit the coffin. I touched my father's mouth and nose and found that he was already dead. I cried and said, "Look, he is dead now, right?"
Tian Datou yelled, "It's okay even if there's no breath. Even among the dead, there has to be a first-come-first-served rule!" Zhou Dafu also yelled, "It has to be okay. Whoever gets into the coffin first is the first-served!" The two men quarreled and were about to fight again.
The noise in the pump house alarmed the villagers. The news spread, and Grandma Tian's body was brought in. Relatives from both sides rushed to the scene, and the dispute over the coffin intensified. The young men picked up sticks and bricks, and the women quarreled and added fuel to the fire. The scene was tense and a family fight was about to break out.
Lao Huoben was so angry that he yelled, "Are you all crazy? If you kill two more people, you won't even have a coffin to sleep in!" Seeing this, the two families calmed down.
Lao Huoben scratched his head and came up with a temporary solution: "The two families will carry the old man back first, and the village representatives will discuss and decide how to use the coffin!"
The two families carried the elderly back to wait for the outcome of the discussion, but the village representatives also had different opinions. Some said that first come first served, and Grandma Tian died first; some said that ancestors were the most important, and that Grandpa Zhou's coffin should be placed first. After a long discussion, The ball was kicked back: The coffin was made with the money of Lao Huoben, and he has the final say on who uses it first.
Old Huoben returned home angrily . Tian Datou came with two bottles of wine, put down the wine and said, "It's up to you to decide who dies first. Anyway, my mother died first!" Zhou Dafu also came, put down two bottles of wine and said: "It's up to you who goes first and who goes second, but you can't let my father die!"
After all, the old man is the wisest. He thought of a temporary solution: "I heard that the funeral home rents fiberglass coffins. Those coffins are much more beautiful than wooden ones. Whoever rents one, I'll pay for it." Unexpectedly, the two people objected in unison: coffins have been made of wood since ancient times. Even the word "coffin" has the character "木" on the radical. What is fiberglass!
Lao Huobener never dreamed that the public coffin he had spent so much money on would become a hot potato. He secretly made up his mind: If the two families refused to give in, he would sleep in the coffin tomorrow and see if they could still do it. How to grab!
Before the old brazier was put into the coffin, a fire suddenly broke out in the pump room in the middle of the night. When the villagers came with basins and buckets, the fire had burned out and they could not get close to it. Fortunately, there were no houses nearby, so the fire would not spread. The son quickly asked the villagers to retreat and just let it burn, but in the chaos, someone called the police, and when the fire brigade and the police station arrived, the coffin in the house had already turned into charcoal.
The police station chief heard about the dispute between the two families over the coffin and began to investigate the cause of the fire. After an on-site investigation, several empty wine bottles were found in the pump room, and it was obvious that white wine was used to help the fire. As for this kind of wine, the villagers also believed that only these two families had the motive of arson, and the motive was simple: since the other party was unwilling to give in, they might as well burn it. No one would be able to use it if they couldn't use it!
With the bottle and the motive, suspicion naturally focused on Zhou Dafu and Tian Datou, but no matter how the director tried, the two refused to admit it. The director decided to take the two suspects back to the police station for investigation, and the relatives of the two families were immediately furious. The temple was destroyed. Who would send the old man to heaven now that his son was gone? The two families cried and made a scene. The director got angry and took out his cell phone to request reinforcements.
Seeing that the matter was about to get out of hand, Lao Huoben yelled, "Don't investigate, I set the fire!"
Everyone was stunned, and the scene suddenly fell silent. Lao Huoben pointed to the wine bottle found at the scene and said, "This is the wine that Chow Tai Fook and Tian Datou gave me. I just used it to start the fire. I made the coffin and I will burn it. What should I do?" I'll take the punishment!"
The director was both angry and amused: "How should we punish you? You deliberately set the fire and are suspected of endangering public safety. According to the law, you should be investigated. You should stop being the village director. Come with us to the police station to wait for processing!"
Old Huoben said goodbye to the villagers: "Think about it, everyone. Our ancestors have been buried in coffins since they died. According to this superstition, the whole world is full of high-ranking officials and wealthy people! What's the point of burning coffins to bring wealth? Look! I lost my job, my fortune, and almost caused a death! Now I want to ask you, do you want me to make a new coffin? "
Zhou Dafu and Tian Datou looked at each other and shouted in unison: "No, no!"