Chapter 447: Coffins That Bring Prosperity (2/2)
After getting hold of the guns, the old man invited the late He told Hans, ”I think we shouldn't go Look, if we spend o ho with that? You want to go fishi+ng at Lake Powell, right? You can do that tomorrow”
After he heard their discussion, the old ht The three ht Please join us”
Li Du asked, ”What's the celebration like?”
Hans thought about it ”I think it's like a party for the Hopi It's quite grand and it's usually held to welco”
If that were the case, then Li Du wanted to stay He'd never experienced a Hopi celebration before, and thought it e
They followed the old e It was the security chief's house and looked quite stylish on the inside There wereknives, shotguns, bows and arrows, and there was acondition
Other than the weapons, there was a big, long wooden box in the middle of the house There were some weapons carved on the surface of the box, such as wooden knives, wooden swords, and wooden guns
Li Du asked curiously, ”What is this? Is this a weapon box? It looks beautiful The weapons are engraved onto the box, right?”
Hans looked at the box and put his hand on his forehead He groaned in displeasure, ”Sht, et about this?”
”What's wrong?” Li Du asked ”Acting crazy again?”
The old hed, ”This is not a weapons box You won't be able to guess what this is”
”This is a coffin you prepared for yourself!” Hans exclaimed
Li Du was shocked when he heard this For this was not so up!
However the old ht, this is a coffin I prepared for myself I didn't expect that you know about this”
Hans said, ”I've watched a documentary called 'Home' The director, Yann Arthus and his team visited your tribe before The documentary showed a lot about your culture One of the cultural practices they covered is called 'coffin culture'”
”Home” was a docu process took 18 months The tea locations It was very impressive
After he heard this, the old man reminisced, ”Yann Arthus-Bertrand, I still reuy Yes, he caave us a DVD of the documentary”
Hans whispered to Li Du, ”I've overlooked it But you can't blame me Who can remember all the contents of a documentary fil about?”
”The most unique cultural aspect of the Hopi: the coffin culture! We should trade our guns for the coffins Their coffins are very valuable We can make a lot of money if we sell their coffins! ”
Li Du was shocked ”You're creative, do you want to start a casket company?”
”Fck you I only want to resell the coffins Anyway, let's play it by ear later If we have any valuable things left, let's trade them for coffins!”
”Are they really valuable?”
”One coffin costs asped, ”These are coffins that bring prosperity!”
They were really valuable America was different than China in that they still bury the dead in the ground A ould be held in a church after a person died, and then the coffin would be buried in the burial plot
The interesting part was that burial plots were like pieces of property to Aht a burial plot, they could let their faht and sold burial plots as if it were a real estate business—they even had property agents for burial plots
Under these circumstances, the coffin business was very lucrative—just like any other furniture business