Although Yan Yuxiang and Yan Yuming have turned against each other, this does not stop Yan Yuxiang from caring about his mother, and he went to Dongzi's grandmother's house early the next morning, this time Yan Xiuping accompanied him.

Because in Yan Yuxiang's view, the old man may not be available at any time, and Yan Xiuping, as a daughter-in-law, must be present, in these matters, although Yan Xiuping is unwilling, she must also obey her husband's arrangement.

Grandma Fuyuko left in the afternoon of the next day.

Yan Yuxiang lay at the head of the bed, recalling his mother's difficult life, he couldn't help crying.

Indeed, as a son, what he did was not very satisfying, and in this crying, it contained more of his guilt, of course, this is just our speculation, because Yan Yuxiang has never talked about it.

When the old man in the family died, according to the custom of the Yan family, it was necessary to ask an onmyoji to measure the day of the burial, and then find an elder in the family to come out to preside over the funeral.

But this is the crux of the matter again, and now that their family is in such a mess, no elder is willing to stand up and preside over for them.

According to the custom, after the death of Grandma Dongzi, Yan Yuxiang needs to go to every household in the family to kowtow and inform them that his mother is old, and then the peers or elders of the family will come to the door to discuss this matter together.

Yan Yuxiang was not hindered by Yan Yuming in doing these things, in fact, the two of them were busy with their own work and never managed each other.

Yan Xiuping also followed her husband's advice, just don't know about the existence of this matter, don't worry about them anymore, at least not now, but Yan Yuxiang also promised his wife that he would wait for Grandma Dongzi to be buried, and then talk about the matter between him and Yan Yuming.

Yan Xiuping is not a fuel-efficient lamp in this matter, this time she is determined to meet Yan Yuming!

Not long after Yan Yuxiang kowtowed, except for those in the city or the provincial capital, because the road was too far to return, the rest of the people had arrived.

After everyone arrived, they went to Grandma Fuyuko's bedside to cry first, and as for whether it was useful or not, it was really hard to say.

Yan Yuxiang pulled his wife aside and said, "You call the children and ask them all to come back." ”

Yan Xiuping asked, "Do you want Dongzi to fight too?" At this time, Dongzi was already studying in the No. 1 Middle School in the city.

Yan Yuxiang said: "Of course! This is his own grandmother, and he can't come back!"

Yan Xiuping resignedly agreed.

She called the three girls first, at this time the eldest daughter Chun'er was already married, married to an honest family in Linshi, although the two had a slight gap in age, but fortunately, people were diligent, Yan Yuxiang did not ask for a bride price, but also spent money to arrange a serious job for Dongzi's eldest brother-in-law in the coal mine, and the two of them had a good life.

As for Xia'er, she also plans to get married at the end of this year, Qiu'er is still early, but after all, her diploma is higher than that of her two sisters, and she can mix in society, so the husband and wife are not particularly worried.

After Yan Xiuping made these three calls, she thought about whether to call Dongzi too, but in the final analysis, this matter was far less important in her heart than Yan Yuxiang's view, she felt that although Dongzi was her grandmother's eldest grandson, but in her impression the two people didn't seem to have much affection, this was actually Yan Xiuping's wishful thinking, she looked back at Yan Yuxiang, who was busy, and slowly put the phone back in her pocket.

Seeing her husband coming, she said by the way, "I've already beaten it." ”

Yan Yuxiang said: "What do the children say?"

Yan Xiuping said: "The three girls said that they would come back tomorrow, and Dongzi was too nervous about her studies to ask for leave. ……”

Yan Yuxiang scolded: "This stinky boy, he raised him for nothing!" After saying this, he didn't care about Yan Xiuping and walked away.

Next door to the house where Grandma Dongzi is lying (called the mourning room in Yanxiang Village), a large family is discussing the aftermath inside, the first thing is to elect a person in charge from among the elders to preside over the overall situation, according to the local name, the elected elder is called the chief manager, and now the people in the house are shouting for the election of the chief manager.

Of course, Yan Yuxiang knew what they were doing, but he was just here to do his filial piety, and he didn't want to care about that, and he also knew that once he got involved, Yan Yuming would definitely come forward to stop it, and it would be difficult to end up with trouble and be ugly! After all, this is a family matter, and it is better for outsiders to know less, but what he doesn't know is that Yan Yuming hasn't thought about it so much.

Yan Yuxiang said in his heart: I will pay the funeral expenses if you ask me, and I will do whatever I want, but if you want me to get involved in your, he feels powerless and unintentional.

At this time, I heard someone open the curtain and shouted: "Oh, Yuxiang, I said I can't find you, what are you doing with that! Just let the juniors do it, you hurry in and discuss the affairs of the chief manager." ”

Yan Yuxiang turned his head and saw that it was an elder of his clan, this person was a generation older than Dongzi's grandmother according to his generation, so Yan Yuxiang called him grandfather. It's just that this person is old and doesn't walk around the village often, so not many people know about it.

I only heard Yan Yuxiang reply: "Master, you just need to discuss with Yuming and them, I just have to contribute!"

The man said: "How can it be done, no one can leave you Yan Yuxiang without this matter!" said him, grabbed his arm and walked home.

Yan Yuxiang was also embarrassed to refuse, and followed the man to the house.

When everyone saw that Yan Yuxiang had come in, they all stood up, some people had come a few days ago, knowing that there was a discord between him and Yan Yuming, and they were waiting to see a good show. But some people are new to the city and don't know that these things have happened to them before, so they still try to match.

Yan Yuxiang said: "This is for my mother's funeral, I just have to be a filial son, you discuss it, how much money is needed, you come up with a budget, I'll get it!"

The man who dragged back Yan Yuxiang said: "This is natural, that's your mother, you can't let anyone out, but you can't let you go out alone, I think, it's best if your three sons are divided equally!"

Another elder in the family, who is also an old man who lives in the county all the year round, said: "Hey, you still don't know my brother! How much money has he saved in his life, and he still needs his son to make up for him?"

The man used his hand to move Grandpa Dongzi lying on the kang as he spoke, Grandpa Dongzi couldn't hear what everyone was saying, and when others moved him, he would only smile.

Yan Yuxiang said: "My dad is still here, the old man's money can't be moved, besides, it's all forty or fifty people, if you still spend the old man's money on this matter, it's a bit too much." ”

Everyone gave a thumbs up and said, "It's still Yuxiang sensible!"

Then, someone pointed to the person who pushed the door and called Yan Yuxiang at the beginning, and said, "Uncle, I think, you are the most suitable person to be the chief manager, no one has as high prestige as you!"

The man smiled and said: "Hey, it stands to reason that this is our own funeral, to put it mildly, no matter who you point to it, you can't shirk it, but I can't do it lately, so it's better to let you young people go through the experience, otherwise we will all be gone, and any of you will send me!"

After saying this, everyone looks at me, I look at you, and they don't want to come out to be the chief manager, but everyone's heart is extremely eager for others to say to themselves: "Why don't you come and be the boss?"

Yan Yuxiang saw that everyone didn't speak, and thought that there was no way to go on like this, so he said: "Master, I think you should be the one, right? My mother has to bother you about this." None of our juniors dared to do this. ”

The man was very happy when he saw Yan Yuxiang asking him to be by name, but he groaned and didn't speak.

I only heard someone stand up at this time and said, "I don't agree!" Everyone saw that it was not someone else who spoke, but Yan Yuming.

I only heard Yan Yuming say: "Master, don't think I'm targeting you, I just don't agree with what you said, if you promise me, I'll let you be the boss." ”

The man felt that Yan Yuming, as a junior, had no respect for himself at all, and said angrily: "This chief manager is not easy to be, I am not appropriate, we are here for your father's sake to come back for the funeral, if you have any opinions, just say it, we can accept it, we are here, if we can't accept it, we will leave, to put it bluntly, this is not my family's business!"

I only heard Yan Yuming's "hehe" and said, "Master, don't worry, you should be the most suitable in my heart, but you have to promise me two things first." ”

The man didn't speak, obviously very angry at Yan Yuming's disrespect for himself, and when others saw this, they hurriedly came out to relieve the siege and said, "If you have any requirements, just say it." ”

Yan Yuming said: "This first thing, each of our three brothers has to get 20,000 yuan for the funeral expenses first, I don't care how much it spent, but if you can't spend it, you have to stay with my dad and can't pay it back." ”

This first one is really unacceptable, according to the rules of the Yan family, even if this matter is to make a big fuss, the budget will not exceed 20,000 yuan, and Yan Yuming's opening will cost 60,000 yuan, and this money cannot be refunded, and no one can accept it.

The bystanders shouted, and some people who watched the excitement said: "That's your brother's business, even the chief manager can't control it, you can do it according to the ceremony of how much money you give, and if you don't give money, the chief manager will have a way not to spend money." ”

Yan Yuming didn't pay attention to who was speaking, and only listened to him: "This second requirement is that I want to be a big one when I burn paper and kowtow, but according to what I just said, our brothers have already discussed it, and there doesn't seem to be a big boss in charge of anything." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar, they all knew that this Yan Yuming was a scoundrel at home, but they didn't expect that it had reached this level, according to the family rules, he was the eldest in the family, and everything was done by Yan Yufu first, and then Yan Yuxiang, so that it could be his turn. Now he's asking himself to be big!

Before the others could speak, Yan Yuxiang scolded: "Yuming, you're not messing around, aren't you when I and my eldest brother died!"

Yan Yuming looked at the eldest brother Yan Yufu next to him with a smile, and said, "We have all discussed, you ask the eldest brother!"

I saw that Yan Yufu's face was very embarrassed, and said: "Yuxiang, my mother hurt Yuming when she was alive, let him be the big one if it doesn't work this time, right?"

Yan Yuxiang scolded: "You are still the boss of this family, you can also do this bad thing about the rules of the ancestors." With that, he scolded and went out, he didn't want to stay in this dirty place, which made him very uncomfortable.

Yan Yuming watched him walk away and asked, "Master, my request is also finished, I think it's up to you, right?"

The man said: "I don't dare to take this errand when you say that, you can do whoever you want." With that, he turned around and went out.

At this time, everyone saw that Yan Yuming had collapsed this matter in a few words, and they all shook their heads, more than eighty percent of the people present were his elders, but they were listening to Yan Yuming's words like a junior. There is an indescribable unhappiness in my heart!

After Yan Yuxiang finished his own business, he sent his wife home and sat next to his mother wearing filial piety clothes.

At this time, Grandma Dongzi had already been moved to the ice coffin, and the Yin Yang who found it said that the day after tomorrow was set for the day after tomorrow, and the time was relatively rushed, so these things needed to be completed as soon as possible.

Dongzi's grandparents built a new grave for themselves at a very early age, and Yan Yuxiang's other uncles were all buried in the old grave, but Dongzi's grandmother felt that the place was a little crowded, and they could say that they were a little stretched when they arrived at Yuxiang's generation, so for the sake of the next generation, they moved out of their grave early.

Yan Yuxiang sat beside his mother, recalling all kinds of past events when he was a child: he was still young that year, let alone Yuming, and the Yan family ancestral hall at that time was still where Yan Yuxiang and their school were.

It is said that at that time, there was a small pond in the back mountain of the village, and the disobedient children in the village liked to swim in that place.

Yan Yuxiang recalled: After they got out of school that day, he returned home, and before he put down his schoolbag, his mother hurriedly told him to hurry to the back mountain to find Yu Ming, saying that Yu Ming was disobedient and went to the back mountain to play in the water!

As soon as Yu Xiang heard this, he put down his schoolbag and hurried to the back mountain, and when he arrived at the back mountain, he looked at the past from afar, and he could see Yu Ming and the tiger playing in the water together, the sky was really blue at that time, and the water was really clear, although Yu Xiang could also swim, but he was not here to play.

He shouted: "Yuming, tiger hurry home!"

The two heard Yu Xiang's voice from a distance, and knew that this brother had always been strict, so he didn't care about getting dressed, and ran up with his bare buttocks, the tiger ran faster, and Yan Yuxiang chased Yan Yuming first, only to see him take off his shoes, and take the soles of his shoes to shine on Yan Yuming's ass and pull it up.

Yan Yuxiang said in his heart: Maybe at that time, Yuming began to hate himself!