Relatives are important relatives, and salutes are placed at the forefront. The loudspeaker team is familiar with her, and they play vigorously with the rhythm of her salute. A set of big gifts took more than half an hour, and there was no mistake.

With her in town, there are several families below that have gone wrong. Everyone spread the word, and everyone knew that there was a widow in Hantun who could do it better than men.

When her brother and daughter-in-law heard about it, she pouted and said, "She looks like a man, not a man or a woman, like a mule." ”

When everyone thought about it, they really let her brother and sister-in-law say it. She worked in the fields all day long, exposed to the wind and sun, and her skin was thick and dark, no different from a man. So, the nickname "Mule" was pressed on her head.

She has a good temper, anyone shouts it, and said with a smile: "There are a lot of pieces of meat, everyone just wants to have fun, and even I almost forgot that I am still a woman." ”

Slowly, the days went on, and he bought a mule and a mule cart, and kept forty acres of land. The twelfth son married a daughter-in-law, and like her, she was a woman of five years and three coarse.

As a result, she was liberated, and her family had a lot of land, and she was classified as a wealthy middle peasant. Han Yuchen's parents and the daughters-in-law married by the three sons in front of them couldn't get up with their mother-in-law, so they separated from each other and separated their land, and as a result, the whole family became poor peasants.

Everyone in the village knew the situation, and they didn't take it seriously, that is, she was a concubine and couldn't come up for the rest of her life.

Everyone likes her sister-in-law, she does everything neatly, she is bold, she cleans her face and changes her old clothes to the elderly at the funeral, she is generally looking for her, and it is also her job to pick up and send off guests.

In recent years, as she got older, she became known as the "old mule". The second grandmother was in a special situation, so she didn't call her.

Han Deku admits death, he has to kill a pig and give her mother a big deal. The deacons advised him, "You have few relatives, and you can't kill pigs, just go to the market and cut some meat." ”

"Gao Gaosan" also wants to kill pigs: "My grandmother fed two heads herself, and she had to kill her to make a big offering." ”

The funeral offering has a saying: ten bowls of square meat, five catties per side, ten bowls of roosters, and ten bowls of fish. The pork belly in the middle of the square meat can't fit in the bowl, it's all on the mouth of the bowl, and you really can't get out without killing a pig.

Such a large offering was only afforded by the large households before liberation. After liberation, especially after the period of hunger, I have never heard of a large offering.

Now the good offering is ten bowls of meat, each bowl is less than a catty, there is a saying that "the meat is not more than a catty".

Generally, it is a flower offering on the table, and it is also ten bowls. Two bowls of meat, one bowl of chicken, one fish, one bowl of crispy pork, one bowl of fried noodles and balls, and the rest are served with seasonal vegetables.

Even then, there are many families who cannot afford to make offerings, and those who give two dollars to the deacon will use the offerings of the Lord's house once.

Everyone listened to what the two of them said, and they didn't stop it. Everyone said: "The second grandmother is called bitter first and then sweet, and she is also beautiful when she leaves, and our village has to be in our village for decades, and I haven't seen a big offering." ”

Some people privately discussed: "I really don't know how the second grandmother left, the family quietly changed their own clothes, this is a peace of mind." ”

Not to mention that the eyes of the masses are bright, and the paper can't keep the fire, the truth will be revealed sooner or later.

Now that the weather is cold, the old man is also considered to have a long life, and everyone discussed, let it go for three days, and go to the funeral the day after tomorrow. Get ready today, hang filial piety tomorrow.

Although the state calls for simple funerals, people still follow the habit of putting three days, and there are long three days and short three days.

The long three days are the time from the death to the funeral at home for three days, and the short three days are three and a half days.

Generally, when a person over the age of 50 dies, it will be extended for three days. For the elderly who are over half a hundred years old, the age of fifty has become the standard for the elderly.

Dog days, summer and autumn farming seasons, or the death of people under the age of fifty, are shortened by three days.

In a small village like Hantun, there are red and white things in the village, and basically the whole village goes into battle, and they all support the dispatch of deacons.

The deacon uniformly arranged for people to send letters to relatives, and Han Deku's family had few relatives, and few of them came. Two daughters, two granddaughters, two cousins, and the daughter-in-law's maiden family, just these seven relatives. The two daughters should be offered, and the other relatives carried a basket of buns.

Because it is a big deal, you have to be filial piety according to the rules. The "little old mother" opened her mother-in-law's cabinet, took out a few pieces of white coarse cloth inside, and gave them to the "old mule."

"Her old man even prepared filial piety, and told me several times, I have to fulfill her wishes. ”

The old mule said, "You don't need much cloth, you can take two pieces first, your family has few relatives, and there are few close disciples (blood relatives within five generations)." As he spoke, he started to tear up filial piety.

The man is a filial piety hat, and the other party's white coarse cloth is sewn on his head with three horns. A woman's filial piety code is a strip of white cloth two feet long and half a foot wide, folded in half and tied on her head.

Within five suits, the younger generations are wearing filial piety, and relatives are torn up. Children, nephews, and grandchildren also had to wear white shoes, and for the first month, when they didn't have time to do so, they put a layer of white coarse cloth over the shoes they were wearing.

After everything was arranged, Han Deku took out a hundred yuan and handed it to the deacon, so that they could use it to take care of the funeral first.

The "old mule" came over, handed them filial piety, changed into wrapped white shoes, and listened to the deacon in the future. This also has a saying: filial piety hat pressure head, listen to everything, and you should not be your own home.

A mourning shed was erected in the courtyard, and the mourning hall in the hall was arranged, and the filial son was in place. The woman is on the right side of the hall, and the son is on the left side of the hall. The other men knelt on the left and right of the mourning tent, and those who came to mourn their filial piety had to cry with them.

The people of this village pay tribute today, the men perform a simple nine prostrations in the mourning shed, and the women go into the mourning hall to burn paper money.

The filial piety of the villagers is carried out according to the family, and the woman takes a piece of fire paper (straw paper). The deacon's first shouted the way of hanging filial piety, and then shouted the process of hanging filial piety.

The people of my uncle's grandfather's family first mourned their filial piety: "Han Yulin and his children and grandchildren mourned the old lady, saluted, kowtowed, incense, and toasted——。 Hearing the deacon's shout, the filial son inside and outside the house began to cry loudly.

After the salute, the deacon shouted loudly: "After the worship is over, the filial son is thankful." ”

Han Deku's father and son came out of the mourning hall, the deacon hugged him, and knelt down to kowtow to the filial piety, regardless of generation, and knelt when he saw someone. There is also a saying: The head of a filial son is worthless, and he kneels when he sees someone.

Han Deku's sister came quickly, and she cried when she entered the village. When the "old mule" heard it, he went out to lead her and entered the mourning hall, and the son-in-law stayed outside to hang his filial piety.

The daughter lay on the right side of the mourning hall and cried bitterly, and the "old mule" persuaded her. stopped and asked about her mother's death, and the second grandmother explained to them according to a unified caliber.

Both daughters said: "She has been a good old man (neat) all her life, and she is also neat when she leaves, so it's okay, at least she didn't suffer." It's that Shem's people are uncomfortable, and we don't do our best as daughters, even if we let me serve for a few days. And he began to cry again.