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After Qin's father died, Qin Yufan informed all his relatives and friends of the news of his father's death. Then, with the help of relatives and friends, she began to talk about her father's funeral.

As Qin's father's funeral is approaching. The relatives of Qin Yufan's family rushed to Qin's house one after another.

It was the morning before Qin's father's funeral. After ten o'clock in the morning, all the relatives of the Qin family began to rush to the Qin family one after another.

Qin Yufan's family has many relatives, and her family's relatives are mainly concentrated in Qin's father's hometown and Qin's mother's maiden family.

Qin's father has only two immediate families in City A. One was his eldest sister and her children's home, and the other was his second sister and her children's home.

Qin's father's parents had three daughters and one son in their lifetime. Qin's father has two older sisters and one younger sister. His sister died of an early illness before his parents led them to flee here. His eldest sister-in-law also died a few years ago. Early this morning, his two sisters and their children rushed to Qin's house to mourn him.

Due to the relatively long distance, Qin's father's relatives in Henan's hometown only came with a few representatives from each family. They also rushed to Qin's house in advance by train the day before Qin's father's funeral, and came to the funeral for Qin's father.

Father Qin's father had a large number of brothers and sisters. Except for one of his siblings, who married in Qinghai Province, the rest lived in their hometown in Henan.

Qin's father was the second oldest of his many siblings. He has a brother and a sister, a second brother and a second sister. All but his fourth brother and his wife, as well as his sister in Qinghai Province, are still alive. Due to the tight time and the long distance, the families of these cousins of Qin's father, each of whom had several representatives, came to attend his funeral.

Qin's father is a very important friend in his life. He and his cousins, though thousands of miles apart, have not lost touch. Whenever there is a festival and encounters a "big event", they still come and go with each other. His relatives in his hometown, except for his eldest uncle and aunt who were unable to attend his eldest uncle's funeral for some reason due to "turmoil" (Qin's father was imprisoned in the cowshed at the time, and Qin's mother was not long after giving birth to Qin Yufan) and their family, he attended their funerals for some reason.

Just seven or eight years ago, after his third uncle died, he and his wife led Qin Yufan's two sisters to the funeral. Because of this, after his death, his cousins and relatives also rushed here from their hometown in Henan to mourn him.

Qin's father's uncle's family was also a large family, and their family also lived in a village not too far from his hometown. Qin's grandfather was a small local rich man at the time, and his family married several concubines, and his mother was the child of one of his grandfather's aunts. He has two half-brothers and a half-sister on his mother. There is a brother of the same parents. Of his mother's many siblings, all but one of her half-sisters-in-law and sister-in-law are still alive. Therefore, after Qin's father died, several representatives from his uncle's family and his aunt's family each came, and they rushed here to attend his funeral.

Among all the relatives who came to the Qin family today, especially the relatives of Qin's mother's family were the most numerous.

Qin's mother's family lives in a rural village only a dozen kilometers away from City A. Her mother's family can be regarded as a "big family" in their village. The clan members are very large, accounting for more than 70 percent of their village.

Mother Qin has many brothers and sisters. She had two older sisters and a brother, and a brother and two younger sisters. Cousin siblings are even more numerous. Among her many relatives, except for her second sister's family and a cousin's family, who were out of town, and who failed to arrive at her house, the rest rushed here.

Qin Yufan's grandfather was trapped by hunger due to living conditions in the early sixties of the last century, during the "national difficulty" period, and accidentally ate some poisonous wild vegetables and contracted "skin ematoma". Soon after, he passed away prematurely. Since then, her grandmother has been alone and painstakingly pulling their siblings to adulthood.

Early this morning, Qin Yuji's grandmother, with the support of one of her granddaughters, also rushed here from the countryside more than ten kilometers away. Don't look at this old woman who is 83 years old, and her teeth have already fallen out. But she is not deaf or blind. Sometimes you don't need to be supported when you walk, and your body can be strong!

Qin Yufan treats her grandmothers, not to mention how filial she is! Whenever she encounters her grandmother's birthday or the New Year's holidays, she will take her grandmother to live in her house for some time. When the two Qin Yufan sisters were young, whenever they had summer vacations or winter vacations, the two sisters spent most of their time at her grandmother's house. Her aunts and uncles also treated their two nieces from the city differently. The sisters receive special "preferential treatment" every day in their home. Several of her cousins are also very "loving" to the two sisters. If anything happens, let the two sisters first. The two sisters have been in their home as casually as if they were in and out of their own home since they were children.

These people, early this morning, all rushed to Qin's house early.

After 12 noon, Qin Yufan's relatives and friends basically arrived at Qin's house on time.

After seeing that all the relatives and friends of the Qin family had basically arrived, with the host's order, Qin's father's funeral slowly began.

After the funeral began, the female relatives of the Qin family first cleaned the cemetery for Qin's father under the leadership of the band, and then the male relatives of the Qin family invited back the ancestral spiritual seat of the Qin family under the leadership of the band.

After the "spirit" was over, they began to pay homage to Qin's father's spiritual seat, and then began to bring the gifts of their relatives back to Qin's father's spirit in order. That night, the courtyard of the Qin family was even more lively. Watching the lively crowds almost the entire alleyway is crowded.

In the alley not far from the gate of the Qin family, dozens of cars are neatly parked in the shape of "one". These cars are blocking the already narrow lanes. Only a small passage was left for pedestrians. Next to these cars, a dozen little urchins are playing with the cars and laughing beside them.

Due to the narrow lanes, the Qin family originally planned to show movies in the lanes, but they were forced to move to the street outside the lanes. At this time, the streets were already crowded with people watching movies. They've blocked the whole street. When all the passing cars got here, they had to turn around again and take a detour.

After passing through the crowded streets and entering the laneway, he came to the gate of Qin Yufan's house. I saw that in the center of the gate of the Qin family, there was a paper flower cut out of hemp paper. On the walls on either side of the gate are a black and white couplet. The upper part of the elegiac couplet reads: Go first before the ambition is prepared, and the lower couplet reads: The children and grandchildren who hate the children and grandchildren are full of tears. The banner reads: Forever.

On both sides of the gate, less than a meter away from the gate, hang two "dragon lanterns" made of cloth. Inside the dragon lantern is a string of colorful lanterns, which are shining one after another.

On the left and right sides of the gate of the Qin family, dozens of wreaths of different sizes were placed on each side. At the top of the list is a large wreath. It is a wreath collectively laid by Qin's father's unit during his lifetime. Behind the large wreath lay dozens of wreaths that were slightly smaller than it. They are wreaths laid by Liu Jianguo, the general manager of Qin Yufan's unit, and several other leaders. Behind these wreaths are also wreaths offered by the two sisters Qin Yufan and Chen Yongfu. On the right side of the gate are some wreaths laid by relatives of the Qin family and relatives of Qin's father in his hometown in Henan.

In addition, behind these wreaths are also wreaths presented by some of Qin's father's former friends and friends, as well as some wreaths offered by relatives of the Qin family.

On either side of these wreaths hangs a note made of white paper, on which are written simple couplets and the names and units of the dedicators. Around these wreaths, there were several crowds of people watching the excitement. One by one, they were judging the wreaths.

After entering the gate of the Qin family, I saw a lively scene. I saw that the entire Qin family's courtyard was full of people watching the excitement. In the center of the crowd, there were more than a dozen entertainers. One by one, they were shaking their heads and tearing their voices and singing "sit in the stall". Among them, there are not only the Qin dialect that we Shaanxi people love to listen to, but also the Henan Henan opera that Henan people like to listen to.

These crowds of people watching the excitement almost filled the entire courtyard of the Qin family. Some of them, because they couldn't see the play inside, stood on chairs and tables and watched the play.

After passing through the lively crowd, I came to the door of the upper room of the Qin family, and on the right side of the door of the upper room of the Qin family, there was the place where the mourning hall of Qin's father was parked.

In the innermost part of Qin's father's mourning hall, Qin's father's coffin was parked, and a quilt was placed on top of the coffin. On the lid of the coffin, near the front of the coffin, there is an oil lamp. The faint flame on the oil lamp was swaying gently in the breeze.

The two ends of the coffin were covered with wheat straw, and on the wheat straw, Qin Yufan and Qin Yunan sisters were wearing heavy filial piety, and one knelt on the wheat straw to guard the "spirit" for their father. There were also several women kneeling beside the two of them, and they were also crying Father Qin. The whole mourning shed was full of weeping.

At the funeral scene of Qin's father. All the filial men and daughters of the Qin family gathered in front of Qin's father's spirit and cried loudly.