Chapter 140: One More Tomb in This World, One Less Kind Old Man (Two in One Chapter)
Tough guys always say, kneel to the sky and kneel to the parents, and the others don't kneel.
In fact, Guo Qu felt that he should add a sentence to kneel to his relatives who he felt were worth kneeling, of course, this was for him.
Sometimes Guo Qu felt that if he was placed in ancient times, he would be a typical foolish and filial person, but he also thinks so now.
Foolish filial piety is foolish filial piety, in the world, who is not paranoid?
Who isn't very paranoid about something?
Knock knock.
After three rings, Guo went to finish swallowing, and felt that his head hurt a little, but this was all as it should be.
Again, people are selfish, and moving naturally comes from what others give to them.
Although his grandmother didn't bring him anything substantial, he did feel the affection.
When the girl saw her brother like this, she did the same, and immediately knelt down, and then looked at her grandmother who was wearing a shroud, her face covered with paper money, and her body was embroidered with ancient characters.
Grandma lay motionless, and the girl was a little scared, "Grandma, grandma, we came to see you." ”
The girl's crisp voice sounded in the old hall, but the grandmother's voice of "good girl, good grandson get up" will never sound again.
"Woo~!" The girl looked back at Guo Qu and saw the tears on Guo Qu's face, and the tears that she was about to snatch her eyes flowed down in an instant.
This was the second time the girl cried, and the interval between the two was less than five minutes.
"It's worth it. ”
An old man in the hall muttered, perhaps in the eyes of the old people, when they went, someone shed tears for them, and wept for them, which was the best reward for them.
Guo went to be pulled up by his uncle, and the girl was pulled up by his aunt, and the two were pulled to the side room to sit, and the side room was full of people.
The people around are a little unfamiliar, but some are familiar, so, most of them are from this village.
The customs of each place are different, so there are also great differences in red and white ceremonies.
Someone has passed away here, and usually someone from every household will come to help, so it's normal that there are a lot of people here.
Guo Qu's grandfather walked in at some point, quietly resting his head on the corner of the square table, his pupils dilated, many people knew what he was thinking, but they didn't know what he was thinking.
"Your grandmother is amazing. ”
Guo went to look at his grandfather, he knew that he still had a follow-up, and what his grandfather needed most at this time was to listen, not comfort.
"I was sixteen that year, and your grandmother was twenty-one, and she married me, and I married her. ”
This Guo Qu still knows, his grandfather was raised by his parents in the same village when he was a child, he was a big family, and he had no children, so the family conditions were not bad before liberation, and in order to have offspring, his family found his grandmother when his grandfather was sixteen years old.
"On the night of the wedding, I went to fish in the ditch, and your grandmother didn't find me at night, so she was in a hurry and looked for me at night. ”
"Later, I often went to Xiaohegou to fish, and your grandmother cooked every day, so she went to Xiaohegou to call me. ”
"At that time, I didn't understand anything, I just played everywhere all day, and when I was tired of playing, I would go home for dinner, and your grandmother would wash my feet, which should be my happiest days. ”
This story sounds a little unbearable, but with a touch of sadness, Guo Qu can't help but emerge with the scene of his grandfather fishing.
"Later, I had your uncle, then your second uncle, and finally your mother. Your mother looks very similar to your grandmother, and the whole family loves her. ”
"Xiaojing is also like your grandmother, I thought I saw your mother when she was young. ”
"Later, when I was in my thirties, I had already established the country, and my family's land was confiscated (many places in Guizhou Province were liberated late, and the land was nationalized even later, and there were things like criticism and fighting in the middle), it was the most difficult day, your grandmother and I dug tree roots and wild vegetables in the mountains every day, but we didn't let a few children suffer too much. ”
"Later, you were born, we are old, old, and it is not much use, a few years ago, I saw you and Xiaojing working so hard, and your grandmother and I can't help it, poor, I can't help anything. ”
"Your grandmother cries every once in a while, and when I ask her why she is crying, she doesn't say, I know, she feels sorry for her daughter and grandchildren. ”
As he spoke, and as he spoke, the old man fell asleep. When I am old, I don't go through it, and I get tired without sleeping for two days.
Guo Qu's uncle then said, "When your grandmother went, no one knew, and she didn't get up until dawn the next day, so your aunt went to call her, and then ......."
"Maybe your grandmother knew she was going, but she didn't say it, she didn't tell anyone, maybe she didn't want us to worry. ”
"The reason why she knew she was going was because she had slept next to her a few days ago. ”
Wisdom is Guo Qu's cousin, his uncle's daughter.
It's really amazing, but this kind of thing exists, and most of the old people who die naturally know when they will go, and they go peacefully.
Maybe it's a few days before I die, I feel different, or maybe I feel that I'm exhausted, and others don't know about it, and they can't know it.
It is said that on the seventh day after death, the soul will come out of the underworld, return home, take another look at the family, and at the same time clean up the footprints left in the sun.
Therefore, the funeral is generally seven days later, and only those who die in summer and autumn will choose to be buried early due to the weather.
Shoufang has been selected, and the rituals have begun to be put up, and the general practice is before the burial, and most of the places that believe in Maoshan Sect are Taoist priests, but there are also places that are not.
The lower ninth rate - the Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism family, even if it is a practical thing, it is mixed with the things of the three families, which seems a bit nondescript.
But these are all customs, and the elderly and middle-aged people believe in these things, and they can't change them.
As for young people, in fact, many of them don't believe in ghosts and gods, but if they don't believe in it, they do it, maybe it's for peace of mind.
Of course, it can also be said to be a blessing, wishing a loved one a good afterlife.
It has nothing to do with faith, and if there is anything to impose on it, it is to believe in all that is good.
The white cloth was handed out to everyone in the afternoon, and this is a filial piety, which is something that must be worn by relatives who are younger than the deceased, or who are younger than the deceased.
Men don't know how to tie it, so they tie it like a samurai who wants to apologize for their own crimes, and women will get a lot of it, wrapping it up like a certain special white hat, but with a tail, and the white tail is held up to the waist.
This filial piety is also exquisite, the longer the filial piety, the closer it is to the deceased, so Guo Go and Xiaojing's filial piety are the second longest among all.
The first is the children of Guo Qu's grandmother, as well as his godson and goddaughter.
The girl's filial piety is wrapped thickly, this is Guo Qu's mother's masterpiece, because it is too long, otherwise the bag will drag on the ground and affect walking.
The girl went to the hall many times in the afternoon, and watched her grandmother lying on the wooden board on the right side of the hall, and then her mouth was curled, and she couldn't help shedding tears, and she tried several times to uncover the paper money covering her grandmother's face, but she didn't dare to open it.
So she was very aggrieved, and when she returned to the square table where Guo was sitting, she always looked pitiful.
"What's wrong?"
"I want to see my grandmother. ”
Guo went to look at the girl, he was a little unbearable, because everyone said that children can't look at the face of the deceased, and they will have nightmares.
So he tried not to let the girl see it, because when the coffin was lifted, all the relatives would see it, and it would be okay to see it at that time.
"Girl, I'll see it in a few days. ”
"Woo~" The girl never used words to refute Guo Qu's words, but she had her own way, that is, crying.
This should be a kind of dependency.
"Okay, okay, brother will take you to see it. ”
The moment the paper money was revealed, to be honest, Guo Qu was also a little afraid, but when he thought that this was his grandmother, the awe of the deceased was much dissipated.
"Woo~, grandma, grandma ignores me. ”
Guo Quqiang didn't cry, he touched the girl's head, comforting silently.
"Ya...... Whew~" As soon as he spoke, he felt that he couldn't help but want to cry, Guo Qu exhaled heavily, suppressed the tears in his eyes, and felt that he was much better, so he said, "The girl doesn't cry, look at grandma, grandma used to hurt girls." ”
The girl wiped her tears with her hands, and then looked at her grandmother, who was no longer afraid, because she was already filled with grief.
"Grandma had water on her face. ”
The girl's timid voice sounded, Guo went to take a closer look, and then saw that his grandmother really had water on her face.
"Girl, go get some toilet paper and wipe it for grandma. ”
After wiping it up, Guo Qu put the paper money on his grandmother's face again, which is also a custom, but Guo Qu didn't know what it meant.
"It's going to rain. ”
It is only before it rains that the house will look damp and there will be condensation on my grandmother's face.
"It's time for rain. ”
Guo went to murmur, in his impression, every time he knew that someone had died and went up the mountain to be buried, it would rain on this day, as if he was infected by the grief of the deceased.
(This is a fact, the author has this feeling, in the past 20 years, sent away many old people in the village, all of them rained in the morning of the mountain, the author can only blame God in the end, was moved.) )
Six days have passed, and it has been seven days since Guo Qu's grandmother died, and Guo Qu has been in the old wooden house for the past few days, and rarely goes out, mainly because he has been in a daze, and he always feels that something is missing.
Perhaps this is the answer to the saying: only when you lose, you know how to cherish.
He felt that he was still not good enough, ignoring the two old people in his mother's family, so he blamed himself a little.
Grandma went up the mountain.
The coffin was carried to the selected cemetery, and the coffin was pried open a crack, this is the grinding of the soul, Guo went to know.
Grinding the soul is to open the coffin, let the remaining soul of the deceased come out, and then look at the relatives, this is the last meeting.
The coffin grinded open a crack, and the relatives of the deceased immediately knelt on the ground, Guo Qu's eldest uncle and second uncle were the first to cry, and then the grief began to spread, and the crying overshadowed the other noises in an instant.
The rooster was taken out, the comb was broken, and a few more hairs were pulled and stained with rooster blood and smeared on the coffin.
Guo Qu's uncle took a hoe, symbolically picked up a handful of soil and put it next to the coffin, and then the helpers began to get busy.
The sound of firecrackers shook the sky, moving stones and digging soil, and dozens of people were busy in an orderly manner.
It's just that it took half an hour, and there was one less kind old man in the world, one less old man who cared about his children and grandchildren, and a new grave.
The grief flowed backwards, and the relatives of the deceased knelt with their backs to the grave, carrying their clothes behind their backs, while Mr. Yin Yang began to say something that he did not understand very well, and from time to time he sprinkled a handful of new rice, which sprinkled from the sky like a fairy scattered flowers, and then fell to the ground, in the clothes that everyone was carrying.
"The new grave has been erected, and the lonely soul can't enter!
"!!"
The kneeling men stood up one after another, and then put the rice directly in their mouths and ate it.
This rice symbolizes the blessing of the deceased to the living.
The sound of firecrackers was incessant, and the relatives of the deceased were all sobbing and walking home.
It can be seen how good it is for Guo to go to his grandmother.
In fact, to see whether a person is good in the eyes of the public, just look at whether all the relatives of this person will cry after the death of this person.
The last banquet of the white affair began, however, most of them lost their appetite, and those who could eat at this time were probably ignorant children and passers-by who were still courteous.
After another day at his grandfather's house, Guo Qu was afraid that his grandfather would not be able to think about it, or that he would not be too sad, so he tried to take his grandfather to live in the city for a few days.
His grandfather didn't agree, he said he couldn't go, he said that the old woman had just moved to a new house, and she would be afraid.
He's gone, and she doesn't even have a dreamer at night.
The family couldn't hold back their tears.
The old man began to blame himself again, saying that he didn't open which pot to mention, which aroused everyone's sadness.
This cannot be said to be the true idea of every Chinese person, because different ethnic groups have different customs, but what is important here is to enter the soil for peace.
The deceased are at ease, and the living are at ease.
Isn't it true that people live in the world just to have peace of mind?
All the family members got into the car, and Guo's grandfather and other relatives came to see each other off, and by the way, they brought the leftover meat dishes from this white incident.
Two cars were driving on the country road, and from time to time there was the sound of small pebbles being crushed by the wheels and flying up, and then crashing into another stone.
The car drove very slowly and steadily, completely opposite to when it came.
When I returned to my home in the city, it was already noon, and Guo's mother had red and swollen eyes and asked her family if she wanted to eat, but no one wanted to eat.
The old man didn't want to eat it, he had already eaten it at Guo Qu's grandfather's house before, and the old man's digestion was not good.
The girl was stunned, Guo Qu guessed that she was still immersed in the grief of her grandmother's death, and she was even more afraid that because she saw her grandmother's bloodless face, she would have nightmares.
So he couldn't help but blame himself, but he didn't regret it, because if he didn't give the girl the last time to see his grandmother at this time, she would definitely blame him in the future, so he didn't regret it.
It's just a little distressing, the girl will cry every day these days, so her eyes will inevitably be swollen.
I can't go to school these days, and some things need time to forget, so Guo is going to prepare to take the girl back to the countryside to play in the next few days, so that she can relax, otherwise, if she goes on like this, she will get sick sooner or later.
(PS: I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I worked overtime until two o'clock in the morning yesterday, I went to work early this morning, and I got off work at about nine o'clock in the evening. The two-in-one chapter is sent. )
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