In the winter of 2006, Shu Zhiqiang's father died. The old man was sick in bed, tossing and lying paralyzed for half a year, his family did not pay for the treatment, his family did not come forward to take care of him, and his family did not go back to see him off when he was dying. It wasn't until after the death of the person that the corpse was spread on the door panel, and the Shu family's in-laws came to the Xie family to report the funeral and send a fortune message, and his family followed the palace magpie, and the Xie family brothers and sisters went to visit the death and mourn.

His family was mixed in the crowd of the Xie family, and the encounter was just like the ancient poem described, the young left home and the eldest returned, the hometown accent did not change and the sideburns declined, and the children did not know each other, and asked where the guests came from with a smile. The villagers light kerosene lamps for lighting, chop wood and cook rice, carry water to make tea, buy and sell all on their shoulders and carry camels, and children have to go to school to live in the primary school under the mountain 30 miles away. The conditions are harsh, the economy is backward, the young and middle-aged people either go out with their families to work, or move to the city, or move down the mountain, the big houses of more than 100 households in the past are now only a dozen poor families stationed in the same place, people are gone, the villages are withered, the houses are empty, the houses are dilapidated, and the ruins are abrupt.

The vegetation in the mountains is luxuriant, the bamboo trees are towering, the people retreat into the forest, the surrounding valley is almost primeval forest, wild boars can be seen in the crops during the day, squirrels are flying between the trees, wolves can be heard howling at the intersection at night, and weasels are biting and fighting in front of and behind the house. In the middle of the night, the wild creatures howled strangely, not only the adults were frightened, but the children were even more frightened, and the children were noisy and crying, and they wanted to go back to "home" and "their own" home. Parents were born, grandmother brought, grandfather has not seen each other for a few years, almost no feelings can be connected, they grew up in the Xie family, they have long regarded the Xie family as their own home, and have regarded Xie Hejia as their hometown, Kuzhuao is a strange place, and the Shu family is a stranger.

During the entire funeral, his family didn't even see a drop of tears shed from beginning to end.

As the saying goes, accumulating grain to prevent hunger, raising children to prevent old age, and providing for the elderly are the first class of filial piety. "The Book of Rites" says: Life cannot be a big thing, but death can be a big thing. Death refers specifically to the ritual procedures, etiquette norms, and taboos of gods and ghosts. Filial sons and grandsons, filial daughters-in-law and filial daughters, when they wear linen and filial piety, support the coffin and cry bitterly, tears flow, and they can't do it all day.

The third uncle of the Shu family came to Xie's house to report the funeral: Zhiqiang, your father is gone!

Shu Zhiqiang said: Where did you go? Did you go to Zhihao's house?

The third uncle said: Your father is gone!

Shu Zhiqiang said: How did you go? Take the train or take the plane?

The third uncle said: Your father is dead, you are in the west, you are a child without a father!

Shu Zhiqiang said: Dead?

The third uncle said: It's dead, it's hard, it's out of gas!

Shu Zhiqiang said: Really dead?

The third uncle said: The feet are stretched, the legs are kicked, and they are stiff!

According to the rules, reporting the funeral, the most taboo is to say "dead" directly, and can only vaguely say "gone", or "gone", or "gone". When others heard the news of their parents' deaths, the sky was falling, and they immediately fainted, but Shu Zhiqiang was casual, smiling, and asked again and again, making the third uncle so angry that he couldn't say anything.

When the third uncle met people, he said that Shu Zhi was strong and disrespectful, unfilial, and the number one unscrupulous. When he was sure that his father was dead, he didn't cry, there was not the slightest sadness on his face, let alone grabbing the ground with his head, stomping his hair and feet, crying all the way, running back, stroking the corpse and wailing, sleepless, eating or drinking.

Even if a man bleeds and does not shed tears, but he has not yet reached the sad place, but the funeral of his parents, even if he is happy and mourning, is a white matter, and the children must pretend to be sad if they are not sad, howl and rub their eyes, cover up the mouth of the world, and if they don't want to cry, they must apply chili oil, spicy tears, and deceive the eyes of the world. But Shu Zhiqiang was rude and unrestrained, his mood was unaffected, calm and indifferent, and Shu Chang was all written on his face. When he greeted the guests at the gate, he said with a smile: The little widow goes to the grave, no matter how much she cries, she won't survive!

The parents are mourning, and the son is paying out of his pocket, and he is doing a lot of work, which is to repay his kindness with filial piety. The daughter-in-law lost her voice and wept, cried and wiped her tears, cried and cried, cried bitterly, and cried filial piety, which is filial piety. Xie Jiayan is especially so, guarding the spirit for three dynasties, moving a chair to sit next to the coffin, either bowing her head and whispering to her sisters, or taking a quiet sleep in the middle of the noise.

But the palace magpie cried heartbroken, whether it was crying and wiping tears, crying and crying, or crying and keeping filial piety songs, not only no one applauded, no one praised, and no one gave a "good" "positive" evaluation.

Relatives and friends of the Shu family said that she was crying for her own life through another mourning hall, and the Shu family said that she was an old man who occupied the son of another person to raise herself, and some people ridiculed: Oh, my Shu family's child, you Xie family feeds you, and in the end it is not for my Shu family to feed in vain. Yo ho, your Xie family has no children and grandchildren, and you are using the son of my Shu family to support the door? Ouch, your Xie family is empty, and you borrow my Shu family's grandson to top the door?

Sun Yue'e patted Yuan Qiuhua on the shoulder: Listen! The Shu family shook their mouths and grinded their teeth. The Venerable Master messed up, others talked nonsense, and the subordinates made substitutions, all of which were "good" things done by the old witch!

The Shu family, relatives and friends, gathered to discuss Xie Jiayan, saying that she did not work hard, was not diligent and sensible, and was not diligent and thrifty, could not find a good family, married to the poor, and could not endure hardship, could not be offended, every three or five times to the in-laws to cause trouble, gave birth to an idiot and a stupid cub, and could not stand the anger of three words, crying and crying for three days and two times to go to her mother's house for help, asking her parents to stand up for her, asking her brother to help her settle down, specializing in bullying her mother-in-law's family.

My aunt said, my aunt said, the woman is not sensible, the mother is confused, the cub is not emotional, a big foolish seed of a vine, a broken crockpot burned in a kiln, none of the eight brothers and sisters are smart and knowledgeable. In the end, Xie Jiayan lived in her mother's house for a long time, and she didn't want to go back to her mother-in-law's house to worship the old man. Alas, this kind of goblin in the family, if you don't go back, so as not to teach the daughter surnamed Shu badly, bring the daughter-in-law of the clan, and ruin the village style!

The wife accosted, the aunt answered, and counted with her fingers, how Xie Jiayan was not filial, how disobedient, and made her own opinions, no respect for the elders, no big or small, no up or down, everything was reversed, selfish, and ungrateful. Hmph, as long as the mother's family ignores the husband's family, the clan style is not right and virtuous, the old is not respected, the old is not respected, the in-laws are served, the family style is bad and the education is young, marrying the wrong family, and harming three generations. Learn from the same, there is a kind of likeness, the mother and daughter are the same, it is really crooked on the upper beam and crooked on the lower beam.

Mother-in-law and aunt, three relatives and six relatives concluded, sue the son and grandson, remember not to marry this kind of mother-raised, no father's teaching, never marry such a rival with four virtues and seven evils, parents are bullied by her, not to mention, spend tens of thousands of dollars to marry a daughter-in-law, and finally even her son and grandson were abducted and run away by her, not to mention that they are old and helpless, and they have left their personal wealth empty!

Yuan Qiuhua sat with them, not missing a word, and was so ashamed of this mother and daughter that her face was red, as if she was ugly and ugly, embarrassed, embarrassed, and didn't dare to look up to see people.

Shu Zhiqiang's father was unable to farm due to illness before his death, had no food and clothing, was poor and sick, and lived a difficult life. The eldest son, Shu Zhiqiang, lives in the Xie family, and has never cared about his lack of money and food, lack of food and clothing, and has never asked him if he is sick or not, lack of medical treatment and medicine.

The second son Shu Zhihao's family went out to work, although he sent some money back from time to time, but there were also times when he was short of money, his relatives could not help him outside, the old man had no money to buy vegetables, picked pumpkin flowers to fill his stomach, picked Teng leaves to eat, wild vegetables for half a year, no money to buy rice, picked up ears of rice, picked up zero potatoes, dug kudzu, wild grain for half a year, no money to buy medicine, and fell to the corner of the crutches to pick up waste products to sell, buy some pain tablets to swallow.

The villagers saw it in their eyes, shook their heads and sighed, took pity on their hearts, and stretched out their hands to help, the clansmen inevitably gave help to the elderly, sent rice and vegetables, gave clothes and firewood, and even the clothes collected by the old people were donated by the clansmen, and even the expenses for the funeral of the old people were raised by the clansmen. The old man has no daughter, and the son is equal to being born for nothing, and the treatment of being taken care of is no different from that of the widow and orphan in the clan.

Shu Zhihao's family is so poor that he can't open the pot because of his big mouth, and he tries his best to take care of the bedridden elderly, and the clansmen are still considerate of him, and his filial piety is naturally there, but his hands are long and his sleeves are short, and he can't do anything about it! Shu Zhiqiang's family has bright clothes, white and fat, and at first glance, the living conditions are not low, and they basically have no worries about food and clothing. Besides, the younger brother was working in the coastal area, and when he learned that his father was seriously ill, the whole family rushed back from thousands of miles away, but he lived in a neighboring township in the county, and once upon a time he came back? If you don't support the elderly, you don't send him to the end, your parents gave birth to and raised him, and the reward you get is really not as good as picking eggs!

The monks who did the deeds were also unaccustomed to it, and they knocked on the wooden fish and sang a promise: If you don't filial your parents before you die, why do you have to do the child ritual after death? Kneel down and worship the dead for three days and nights, what kind of fake is it? Leave a rice bowl and a stick, and he will continue to do it in the future!

The clansmen applauded, laughed wildly, and cheered wildly. From the sideways glances of the family members, pointing and beating, complaining and hating, Shu Zhiqiang pretended not to see or hear, sat at the wine table with his head held high, eating and drinking, looking around, and the legs of Erlang who were raised were still shaking, more like guests than guests.

After being hit by a monk and drinking, he still doesn't have a long memory, maybe it's a fan of the authorities, a bystander is clear, or it may be, as long as Lao Tzu is willing, no one cares, which person doesn't say it before, which person doesn't say it later, there is gossip all day long, don't listen to nature, no matter how ugly the words are, they don't hurt the flesh and skin, no matter how ugly people speak, they don't hurt their bones, there is no need to pay attention to it, let it fend for itself. Only calculate the economic account, don't sing the Tao Te Ching, you can have whatever you want, Lao Tzu can do what he likes, the times are good, and he is happy, so he is indifferent, he rarely knows himself, and he will not blush.

Their abnormality, irregularity, unsociability, condemnation, contempt, and contempt in front of everyone's eyes made Yuan Qiuhua embarrassed and had a fever on his face. She occasionally looked up, but when she saw the gaze cast, there were not only questions and speculations, but also obvious resentment and contempt, as if she had been begged by her, and the benefits were obtained by her, and it seemed that because she was useless and derelict in her duties, her mother-in-law could not do without the care of her daughter. She was aggrieved in her heart, what is this?

As soon as his father carried him up the mountain, Shu Zhiqiang went to the ceremonial room to get all the gift money, and then fled back to Xie Hejia with a smoke.

The two families were in an uproar, filial piety and filial piety were all not seen, filial piety and filial piety were all gone, and the pension was not done, whether it was the father's living expenses, or the cost of treatment, or funeral expenses, when the son paid out of his pocket, no human hair could be bleached, and when he expected that there was money to make a handful, he took the opportunity to "black-hearted money". went home to send the funeral and sent his father on his last journey, I originally thought that he was doing his last bit of filial piety, but the gods and ghosts couldn't imagine that he was robbing while the fire was burning!

Dong Yong sold himself to bury his father, he was a filial son, relying on the clansmen to raise funds to bury his father, originally unfilial, and now he is taking away the gift money, it is done by beasts, not to mention the son of man, there is no doubt that he is no longer human! Not to mention that his father was cured, he did not pay a penny, nor did he say that his father's funeral expenses, he did not pay a penny, not to mention the funeral expenses of the family fundraising, he should be returned to the clan from the gift money, even if the clan is funded for free, there is no need to pay back, just say that the gift money should be divided equally with his younger brother, you can know what kind of unfilial person he is.

A person who has no affection for his family, no affection for his family, no nostalgia for his fellow villagers, and is so ruthless and unrighteous to his parents, brothers, and nephews, knows that he has no affection for other people's parents, brothers, sons and nephews, and what kind of affection and filial piety can he have?

Shu Zhiqiang eats, drinks, prostitutes, gambles, cheats, cheats, steals, beats the blind and scolds the dumb, knocks on the widow's door, raises his hair and sisters, and occupies the property of orphans.

But the palace magpie wants to believe in him, to love her, to protect him, I really don't know what this mother-in-law wants him? I can only say that she is good for whichever is good, she is willing to cut the flesh on her body, she is willing to lose her reputation and ruin her reputation, and she doesn't care if she betrays her relatives, if it is not good for her, it is the hatred of biting steel and piercing iron, the poison of knocking out the bone and sucking the marrow, and the evil of gouging out the heart and gouging out the eyes.