Taking the corpse-suppressing plaque, I tied one end of the red string to my belt. My uncle said, "From now on, you are all members of the earthwork industry. Our Yu family is a well-known family in the earthwork industry, so you must not bring disgrace to the Yu family when you are out there. Otherwise, don't blame me for saying it upfront. I will definitely kick you out. Our industry is not a business, but a family livelihood. So don't talk about advanced corporate management systems. The means by which Longhua Village restrains you is family law, and it is an extremely feudal and ancient family system. Do you understand?"

"Understood." We said in unison.

"Okay, I hope you can make a career in this industry. The top earthworks are called underground dragons. There are only a few of them left in the world, and our family has three of them. Yu Zhen, I let you in under great pressure. Please don't let me lose face."

"Uncle, don't worry, I..."

“Don’t make promises about the future right now. For humans, nothing is certain in the future except death.”

"Yes, I remember."

“You must learn professional skills well and don’t rush into things.”

"Uncle, don't worry, we will definitely learn skills well." Chu Sen said, patting his chest.

"Well, tonight you will need to do an extremely important skills training. I hope you can work hard and pass it."

"No matter how hard or difficult it is, we will stick to it to the end." I shouted a slogan with high spirits.

"Uncle, what skills are we training here? Is it powerful?" Chu Sen asked.

"This is fundamental. If you can't pass this, then in the future you will only be able to do peripheral work in this industry, such as running sales, purchasing goods, etc."

"Then I won't do it. Since I finally got into this industry just to learn skills, I can do business anywhere." Chu Sen said.

"Yes, so you must pass this training."

"Uncle, can you tell me what methods you will use?" I said.

"It's simple, just eat." The uncle said briefly and turned away.

"Eating? What kind of training is this? Do earthworkers have to eat more than ordinary people?" Chu Sen asked in confusion.

"It's not impossible. Working in this field inevitably requires going into deep mountains and forests, where you often don't have enough food to eat, so it's necessary to store more fat," I said.

"This is very interesting. There is even a way to train people's appetite." We chatted as we walked towards the residence.

After returning, I continued to read books and learn the theoretical knowledge of Feng Shui. We have now started to look at pictures and find the corresponding four directions of "Xuanwu, Suzaku, Qinglong, and Baihu" according to the terrain in the pictures. This is the most basic knowledge for determining the Yin and Yang houses.

When you are serious, time flies. Before you know it, it is dinner time and the bell for gathering for dinner rang in the village.

Except for the elderly people of the grandfather generation, everyone else in Longhua Village goes to the canteen to eat, and three meals a day are served on time.

When I walked out the door, I saw my uncle standing at the door with two lunch boxes in his hands. I said, "Uncle, let's go to the cafeteria for training and eating."

"Since we're training, we can't eat in the cafeteria."

"Then where are we going?" Chu Sen asked.

"Come with me." The uncle said as he walked forward to the public toilet built in the village.

I understood what was going on and my face turned green. Chu Sen's expression was not much better than mine. He looked at his uncle in astonishment.

The uncle handed us two boxes of lunch and said, "Go to the toilet and finish the two boxes of lunch."

"Uncle, what kind of skill are you training by eating in the toilet? This is too disgusting, right?" I said with a frown.

"You're absolutely right. You have to eat in a disgusting environment," said the uncle.

"Why? I don't think it's a skill?" I knew I had to follow my uncle's instructions, but who in their right mind would want to eat in the bathroom? So I resisted in vain.

Of course, my uncle would not "take back his decision" because of my words. He said, "I'll give you ten minutes to finish this meal, otherwise you will go to work for Wu Jinbao tomorrow." Chu Sen picked up the lunch box and went into the toilet without saying a word. I had no choice but to carry the lunch box into the toilet with him.

The purpose of building public toilets in Longhua Village is to make compost. The vegetables and grains in the village are self-sufficient and all they use are natural fertilizers, so the public toilets are dry toilets. You can imagine the scene inside, especially when I stood in it with my lunch box, looking at the sewage and straw paper on the ground, I almost vomited before I even started eating.

Chu Sen frowned and didn't open the lunch box for a long time. Then he heard his uncle say outside: "There are still five minutes. If you can't stand it, you don't have to eat. Just change your job."

Chu Sen opened the lunch box and started eating in the toilet which was filled with a foul smell.

I opened my mouth and vomited, but I also knew there was no way out. After vomiting, I gritted my teeth and opened the lunch box lid to eat. I almost vomited several times during the process, but I forced myself to hold it back.

This was probably the most difficult meal I have ever swallowed. The aroma of the food mixed with the stench of feces kept appearing in my dreams and became an unforgettable nightmare .

If you really have the courage, it will take less than two minutes to finish this lunch, because it is impossible to savor the taste. You can only stuff all the food into your stomach as quickly as possible like a duck. Then I rushed out of the toilet as fast as I could. I felt dizzy and almost fell to my knees. My stomach felt like it was churning, but I tried my best to hold back from vomiting.

The uncle looked at us calmly, not knowing what he was thinking. After about two or three minutes, he said, "Is it disgusting?"

I nodded reluctantly, not daring to move too much, for fear that any big movement would cause the food in my stomach to spit out.

The uncle waved his hand and said, "Go and vomit."

When we heard this, we were like men about to be sentenced to death who heard a pardon. We ran all the way to a big tree and started spewing nonsense.

This time he almost vomited out his bile. In the end, he vomited until he even had no gastric juice left. He dry-retched for a long time before he finally walked out exhausted, holding onto a big tree, and tremblingly walked to his uncle.

He sat cross-legged on the ground and said, "Sit down. I think it's too hard for you two to stand."

I practically fell to the ground, and so did Chu Sen. After we sat down, a faint smile crossed my uncle's extremely serious face. He said, "The reason for this method is that during the exhumation process, you're likely to encounter a rotting corpse . This sight is difficult for most people to accept. At the very least, it can ruin their appetite, making them unable to eat for days or even months. In severe cases, it can even cause psychological trauma ."

"Eating in the toilet is vulgar, but it does test a person's mental endurance. If you can eat in a dry toilet like this, it proves that you have a strong mental endurance, which will be beneficial to your future career."

I see. I breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then this nausea wasn't in vain."

"This sin will not be in vain for you. There will be a reward."

When we heard there were "prizes," we immediately perked up and sat up straight. Uncle took out two dark brown rectangular cloth bags from his pocket and placed them in front of us, saying, "These are essential tools for earthworkers. You must keep them well. Only with these can you prove that you are real earthworkers in charge of grave repair."

"Really? Let me see what's in it." I opened the cloth bag and saw several secret compartments in the small bag, which contained silver needles for probing the ground, a pangolin nail, a Bagua plate, a silver comb, a little cinnabar, and an oval object similar to green jade.

I knew the functions of most of the items inside, but I had no idea what the silver comb and the oval-shaped object were for. I singled them out and asked my uncle about them. He said, "The silver comb is for combing your hair after you enter or exit the tomb. The head is made of human essence and blood, but it's particularly susceptible to contamination from sinister energy. Combing your hair with a silver comb can expel the sinister energy."

"And this oval stone is called Night Eye. Once you enter the ancient tomb, you absolutely cannot use heat sources of light, only cold light. Night Eye is a type of luminous stone. If you place it in the sun for one day, it can produce a year's worth of light. Although it's not noticeable in areas with strong sunlight, in the dark underground palace, the Night Eye's effect is very obvious, illuminating an area of at least two meters in front of you."