Chapter 269: Madness
The father of the second lady was also a little awkward in his heart: "We are all this age, the child is in youth, who knows what will change after many years? We are all people of the same race, and we can all bear to let Xiao'e be a lonely ghost outside? I don't even have a home? Aren't we all so cruel?"
Someone came out and persuaded: "I said, gentlemen, don't be too dead-eyed, didn't the old patriarch say that he died, and he can still enter our cemetery if he has the opportunity in the future." Don't argue about anything for a while, and the deceased will be laid to rest. ”
The father of the second lady was also speechless for a while, and his son was also dumb-eyed and stiff at this time, and he couldn't care about it at all. The father of the second lady couldn't help but feel a chill when he looked at everyone, but he didn't expect that people couldn't have a place to take advantage of when they died. That's how cruel the reality is.
If the clan can't be offended, then simply find a graveyard as soon as possible, there was quite a lot of desolate land at that time, and it was not as indiscriminately developed as it is now. There is no benefit in developing a meal, and the world of concrete structures is everywhere, and there is no chance of farming. Only to watch the desolation drag on year after year.
You can choose a burial ground anywhere, as long as you like. The father of the second lady pondered and pondered, and it was better to bury Xiao'e on the north slope of the south river in the south of the village, where the grave was also far away from home. If Feng Shui is also considered a good land, of course, these are also the conclusions of the Feng Shui knowledge that Ann knows about.
Because at that time, there was no such thing as looking at feng shui and fortune telling.
The father of the second lady led the grave diggers to the north bank of the river in the south of the village and chose a place, and began to dig the grave there. At that time, there was not so much water in the south river of the village, only less than half a channel of river water, and when the water was at most, it was only half a channel of river water. So I never thought about the fact that the river would fill the tank and flood the grave.
At noon, the person who went to the county seat to buy a coffin also came back, and the person who bought the coffin told the father of the second lady in detail; when he went to the county seat, he first found Su Jinlong, and Su Jinlong was quite surprised when he heard it, and he couldn't help but feel deeply guilty. was also the one he built the bridge at the beginning, and he really hoped that they could get married as soon as possible and achieve a happy marriage. Those who know but fall to the ground, the sky does not open their eyes! Good people do not have a good life.
Thinking that Su Jinlong and Xiao'e's family are also relatives, it is not calm when such a thing happens. Later, when it came to the coffin, Su Jinlong said that I haven't done that business anymore for so many years, and I don't care much about the market. When it comes to the idea of a staff officer, there is nothing that can be done, but it is really unbearable to let the child really have a cement coffin.
If you want to use a wooden coffin, I still have a pair in the shed at home, and the coffin was picked up and not sold. To say that the workmanship is still fine, but the materials are inferior, and some scar holes are not blocked. Generally, it is blocked with putty and then it is gone, and it is not blocked, and others cannot give it a price. It didn't sell well, so it was shelved.
In this way, Xiao'e is not an outsider, her death is also a shame for me, I can't help the child anymore, give her this remaining coffin. I don't want a penny, but it's also my heart for my children. It's just that the coffin material is not very strong, and there are some tree scars and holes on the board. Go back and plug it with something.
It's good for everyone to hear it, anyway, it's a wooden coffin, and whatever people say, they have to leave Su Jinlong some money, after all, there is a cost for people to make coffins. It's a bit too bad to give people at all, but Su Jinlong said that he didn't want anything, and took a few big rivets from the hardware counter to make it easy to use back.
The person who came had no choice but to buy a box of "Battle" from the tobacco and alcohol counter of the supply and marketing cooperative, and gave it to him to express his gratitude. In the future, it will be his business to express how the father of the second lady will be reasonable.
The father of the second lady heard the ins and outs of the visitor, and he was also very grateful to Su Jinlong. Anyway, people are doing their best for themselves, as the saying goes, people are doing things, and success is in heaven, and the son doesn't have that blessing, so he can't complain about others. Only by admitting one's own life is not good.
When the coffin was brought to the yard, everyone came to see that it was indeed a good pine wood, and it was coated with tung oil and not painted. It's just that the board used for the coffin gang has a few scar holes. Someone suggested what to use to block it, but after looking for a long time, there was no suitable thing, and there was no way for someone to find a pamphlet to spread the word. Tear off a few sheets, roll them into balls, stuff them into the hole, and you're done.
I got some ink mixed with some water, and the coffin was smeared, and the ink and tung oil were not very sticky. Someone advised the two girls to take another look, otherwise they wouldn't be able to see the coffin nailed. People dragged the two girls to the coffin to take one last look, but the two girls looked straight at each other with a pair of eyes, and muttered to themselves: "Xiao'e is asleep, don't disturb her!"
Everyone was stunned when they saw that the two girls were stunned, and it didn't make sense to look at it anyway, so let him go. Maybe he'll get better in the long run.
At noon, the funeral drums and gongs and cymbals in the village sounded, and the people in the village were summoned to come out to carry the coffin. Xiao'e Niang cried and fainted several times, so she had to arrange for women to guard her. The two girls didn't cry or make trouble, and sat in the house in a daze, and they were afraid that there would be any accidents.
Because they were newly married and died, and the family of the two girls is not large, there are not many people with filial piety, and the team is very simple, and the elders in the village arrange to send them to the cemetery.
The coffin was mounted on an ox cart, and the black bullock was so big that the young man could not hold it when he ran so vigorously. The village relies on it to do all the work in the fields. Farming and pulling carts can do everything, and everyone can't take care of it. The ox cart walked slowly down the road surrounded by the crowd, and suddenly the ox cart stopped walking.
It was the stubborn old man who drove the car, and the stubborn old man saw that Niu Mo was not leaving, and his stubbornness also came up. With a short willow stick, he slapped the cow's buttocks, but the cow just wouldn't leave, and everyone didn't understand what was going on, so they all looked at the elders in the courtyard in a daze. I hope he has an idea, it's not a way to keep consuming like this.
The elder is an old man in his sixties, and he has seen a lot of things to see that this situation is clearly something strange at work, and now it is far from the cemetery, and it is impossible for people to carry the coffin in the past, although the material of the coffin is a little worse, but it is still dead. In particular, people here have a habit of putting down the coffin once it is carried to the cemetery, and if the ghost of the dead is placed there, it will remain there.
So it is easy to dare to carry the coffin to the grave, at that time the owner of the wooden coffin was also for the coffin to sell, and many coffin bases were sandwiched with pine planks to increase the weight of the real wooden coffin. The sandwich is filled with sand, which is to aggravate. And then there is sand in the middle of the coffin lid, which is thick and strong at first glance, and it is quite heavy when you weigh it. In fact, it's just a sandwich.
Real materials are very rare on the market, unless they are custom-made. But for the second girl, it is unrealistic and far away.
With the goods that these people present eat bran all day long, they carried Xiao'e to the slope of the river south of the village for burial, and they had to vomit blood from the tiredness of several people. In this way, I thought that a third-level wind would blow him up the tree.
When the old patriarch saw that this was strange, he hurriedly beckoned everyone to stop leaving. Point a paper and pray, whether it is the gods and ghosts on that road, they are willing to ask for a way, as the saying goes, the dead are great, don't be difficult for the dead to leave a way for him to come out, let the dead go into the ground for peace. Everyone knelt on the ground in unison, with the sincerity of lighting paper and burning incense.
When the old patriarch saw that it was almost over, he ordered the men to get up and hurry, and sure enough, the ox did not stop, but went forward as usual. Someone asked the old patriarch what was going on, and he said that he couldn't figure out what was going on, but he just felt that the cow might have seen something dirty that shouldn't have been seen. It's just that we can't see it with the naked eye, and it shouldn't be too difficult for us to say good things and pray because we are outnumbered.
The ox cart continued on until the cemetery buried Xiao'e.
Although it didn't go well, Xiao'e's funeral didn't have any major setbacks, and after coming back, people talked about Xiao'e for a while. After a long time, I forgot that it was a special era, and it was not allowed to spread that kind of thing at all. But what happened next was a big surprise.
After Xiao'e's funeral, the symptoms of the two girls' irritation did not seem to improve, but became more severe. Tea and rice don't think about muttering every day with dead eyes, sometimes talking nonsense, sometimes grabbing something and covering it in his mouth. This kid has symptoms of madness and stupidity, and this is not an ordinary irritation.
The father of the second lady thought to himself, if he loses his daughter-in-law, he will lose his son now, isn't this a blood mold that can't be poured? No, whatever you say, you have to hurry up and show your son a good look, now the second lady doesn't recognize people! If it drags on for a long time, I don't know where it will go?
The father of the second lady went to find the second half immortal and told him about the symptoms of the illness, and the second half immortal always thought that it was a false disease, including Xiao'e's death was unimaginable. Persuade the father of the second lady to hurry up and get the county medical psychiatric department to take a look, don't make a mistake because of the village doctor. Even so, he didn't dare to delay any longer, so he asked someone to help get the two girls to the ox cart and go to the hospital to see a doctor.
When I arrived at the hospital, the doctor learned about the cause, checked it again, and said, let him be hospitalized, this needs to be observed and treated, at least a week. When the father of the second lady heard that he was going to be hospitalized, he had no choice but to listen to the doctor's arrangement. He can't take care of his son with all his might, and hopes that he will recover as soon as possible.
The father of the second lady ran back and forth on a bicycle, taking care of the family and going to the hospital to take care of his son, and he lost weight in a few days. That day, I met the old village chief on the street, and the old village chief persuaded the father of the second lady: "Since the matter is out, don't be too nervous, let's take it step by step." Surely my son's illness will be cured. If you have any requirements, you can say that we will do what can be done in the village. Now that the old people in the village are calculating me behind their backs, I can't say that I won't do it that day, and I can say what I need now. ”
"Old village chief, you said that the hairy boy in the village, Lin Xiangyi, right? I don't believe that he can become a jing! I have long seen that he is not a thing, and I want to climb to the stage to become the village chief, and the eldest grandmother is still a little bit worse than the grandmother. ”
The rumors about Xiangyi becoming the village chief have not been a day or two, but this is the first time that it has come out of the mouth of the old village chief. Although the father of the second lady said so, he felt that the matter was already very serious.