Chapter 666 Feng Family Funeral 4

1.

After Spring and Xu Dan came to Feng's house, they went directly to the bedroom.

In the bedroom, there were two female teachers who were sighing and sighing while comforting Feng Shu and Feng Changxi.

Because he was afraid that Xu Dan would not be able to cope with it alone, when he went back to call Xu Dan just in the spring, Feng Shu called two female teachers from the neighborhood through the courtyard wall.

In fact, if this kind of thing happens to the Feng family, everyone who can help will help, but they don't look at Feng Shu's face, but for the face of the deceased Liu Shuzhen, this busy neighbor will also help.

At this time, the taxi Feng Shu called to find arrived at the door, and the next task in the spring was to go to the county seat to pick up Feng Shu's son Feng Xiaofeng.

Feng Changxi was a little uneasy, and followed the spring out of the yard, and the old man repeatedly told the spring not to scare the child, and not to tell Feng Xiaofeng about Liu Shuzhen's death on the way, and wait for the child to go home. Spring listened and nodded again and again.

In the spring, he got into Lao Liu's taxi and rushed to the county seat at a gallop.

At this time, it was 8:05 p.m.

2.

After the spring left, the Feng family began to get busy.

Feng Shu found out the shroud, shoes and hats that he had bought for Liu Shuzhen in advance, which was the kind of old-fashioned shroud with red and purple embroidered lace sold in the shroud shop.

Because considering that Feng Shu's son Feng Xiaofeng was going to come back to meet Liu Shuzhen, Xu Dan proposed that in order not to scare the child, could Liu Shuzhen not wear this kind of red and green shroud, but instead wear homely clothes, and the shroud could wait until it was time to go to the crematorium to spark and put it on. Feng Changxi lowered his head and thought about it for a while, then nodded and agreed to Xu Dan's proposal.

To tell the truth, this kind of old-fashioned shroud, shoes and hats do look a little crazy, especially at night, the timid can really be scared and can't sleep, Feng Xiaofeng is just a teenager, this kind of terrifying memory should not be left in the child's mind.

So, Feng Shu rummaged through the cabinets and found a few new clothes, shoes and socks that Liu Shuzhen rarely wore or did not wear in the past, and Xu Dan and the two female teachers were busy changing clothes and shoes for Liu Shuzhen.

While Xu Dan and the others were changing Liu Shuzhen's clothes and hats in the bedroom, Feng Shu and Feng Changxi were quietly discussing what to do next in the hall.

According to the customs of the Toyama area, before a person is about to die, relatives should first put a shroud on the deceased person, and after the person has lost his breath, the family should cover the face of the deceased person with paper, silk or towel. It is said that the custom of masking the deceased began in the Spring and Autumn period. Silk, towel, white cloth or paper cover the face of the dead, the meaning is to let the dead rest in peace, second, the living cannot bear to look at the face of the dead, and third, some of the dead have a terrible face, and the living dare not look at it, so they cover their faces with objects. The funeral customs in the Hushan area are generally after bathing the corpse, changing clothes, and migrating to the shop, that is, the face of the deceased is covered with a foot square of dark paper, which is commonly known as water paper, that is, straw paper.

After putting on a shroud and a straw paper mask, the family next steps in making "inverted rice", which is to put half-cooked rice into a bowl, compact, take it out and form a bowl, and put it upside down on top of the mouth of the bowl, commonly known as "inverted rice".

After the sacrifice is completed, relatives also burn paper money according to the age of the deceased person (one piece per year), which is called burning "inverted head paper". According to the superstitious legends of the people in the Toyama area, there are many ghosts on the way to the underworld for the deceased, and burning the head paper is to pay for the soul of the relative. After the "inverted paper" is lit, the filial son and filial daughter have to cry loudly, and it is also the first time that the relatives have died and cried loudly.

Secondly, after the death of a person, the family should light the "everlasting lantern" on the head of the deceased, set up a mourning basin at the foot (in some places the mourning basin is also placed in front of the head of the deceased), and incinerate paper money in the mourning basin from time to time. It is believed that the deceased will spend money to go to the underworld, and that turning the paper foil into ashes is to send money to the deceased, and that the paper money must be burned in a tile mourning basin so that it will not be robbed by evil spirits. "Mourning basin" is also known as "sending old basin" in the Toyama area.

Feng Changxi and Feng Shu are discussing these old customs, since Liu Shuzhen didn't even wear a shroud, the two discussed other procedures that could be saved, and everything could be done step by step according to the funeral customs in the village after Liu Shuzhen's body spark and urn were sent back to Shimengouzi Village.

2.

After the taxi left Hushan Town and turned to the highway to the county seat, because it was driving at night and the traffic on the highway was large, the taxi speed was much slower, and the spring sitting in the passenger seat was anxious enough.

Lao Liu is an old driver and knows the danger of driving at night, so although Spring is constantly urging him, Lao Liu is not moved by Spring's words at all, and always controls the speed of the car at about 60 miles with a smiling face.

More than an hour later, the taxi pulled up at Yingzi Primary School in the southern suburbs of the county, where Feng Shu's son, Feng Xiaofeng, was in the fourth grade.

Yingzi Primary School, located in the southern suburbs of Huxian County, is a six-year private primary school, which is by far the best teaching conditions and the strongest teachers in Huxian County, a private primary school with semi-military management, with only more than 30 teachers and more than 200 students. Since it is a private school, the fees are naturally high, and it is a "noble school" in the eyes of the common people of Huxian County, and the students' room and board fees, tuition and miscellaneous fees add up to six or seven thousand yuan a year, and ordinary children cannot afford to study.

It stands to reason that Feng Xiaofeng should not be sent to Yingzi Primary School on the condition of the Feng family, but Feng Shu heard that the founder of this school was his high school classmate, for the sake of his son's growth and future, Feng Shu cheekily went to the county several times to get close to this classmate, and finally successfully sent his son Feng Xiaofeng to Yingzi Primary School with half the fee.

Feng Shu tightened his belt and sent his son to this expensive "aristocratic school", which had his own calculations.

Just think about it, the students of Yingzi Primary School are either rich or noble, and they all have prominent family backgrounds, and these students must be mixed in the Huxian land boundary when they grow up, Feng Shu thinks that doing this is equivalent to creating an opportunity for his son to become an official and noble, which is equivalent to paving the way for his son's personal development after the age of twenty.

In order to let his son no longer suffer like himself in the future, in order to let his son no longer look at the eyes of others in the future, and also for his son to be able to mix and eat in the Huxian territory in the future, as long as he can achieve this goal, Feng Shu thinks that it is worth it to smash the pot and sell iron.