Early the next morning, the lieutenant brought a few young men to come, and after eating a breakfast of almost all tofu at Gao's house, he began to prepare for the procedure of carrying the coffin up the mountain. The Gao family is just a girl, and there are no relatives in the near family, and no one in the distance is willing to push out their own son to do such a filial thing for a woman. What's more, Gao Lao is not dead yet, what if he marries another one and has a few more in the future...... So no one else except Man Qing came to take this errand.

According to the theory, this daughter's family did what a man's family should do, which means that she stands up for herself as a man's door, and she can only recruit her son-in-law to enter the door in the future...... But thinking about the ghost of the Gao family, it is better to marry far away...... So everyone didn't go into detail about what Manqing meant and what his future plans were.

There are many unruly things in the Gao family, and everyone can't use vulgar etiquette to investigate such a lonely girl's family.

As for what Man Qing thinks, it's very simple, let her mother go into the ground first, and the other soldiers will cover the water. As for those rules, hmph, wait and see, she Gao Manqing will show everyone one by one!

She even took it upon herself to choose Chai's grave on a piece of land not far from her house, right opposite her yard. You must know that the Gao family is an ancestral grave, and it is still a very good piece of land!

Who cares about the ancestral grave of the Gao family, let that old man go to live in the future! Man Qing thought fiercely in her heart, but when she chose the land, she told a few uncles very firmly that she had already chosen the cemetery, and her family had no opinion.

As soon as those men heard that her family also agreed---who else in her family, wouldn't they just be Gao Lao's picking? Since Gao Lao had agreed, what else was there to say -- that Gao Lao was not a human being, and Aunt Chai had worked hard for him for more than ten years, and in the end she was not even qualified to enter the ancestral grave...... Ay!

After everyone saw the excitement, the crowd slowly went to the ground. Among them, Manqing cried to death, and others looked at it with compassion, and at most the soft-hearted girls and women wiped their tears, and then what should they do. Late spring and early summer are good seasons for sowing.

On the road leading to the town, several people also came on horseback. It was none other than Zhang Zhangye, a wild man who had just returned to the town from the river overseer, and a few of his helpers.

The reason why the ancestors of the Gao family fell in love with this place at the beginning was very related to a large river nearby, the Tong River. The Tong River is an important tributary of the Changhe River, but it is only a short distance from its source, so it is clear, and it will not be so big that it will flood the nearby farms, nor will it be too small for a boat to cross. In addition, if there is a river, canals can be opened for farming, and water can also be diverted for aquaculture...... It's a good place around here. There is a distance from the small ferry port of the Tong River to the town, and the road in the middle passes through Dagaozhuang and passes next to Xiaogaozhuang.

In the past two years, this road has been very busy, because the current county magistrate is a good driller. He had long heard that tung oil was produced in this vicinity, especially in the area along the Tong River, and the quality of tung oil could be used as tribute, but the yield was not high. So he organized some people and horses, and thought of making the Tong forest by the Tong River more productive. The order went down, and the Tong forest on the edge of the Tong River became lively.

Zhang Ye is the head snake in this vicinity, and after some activities, he contracted most of the work by the river. He is a hard-working person, and when he saw that there were many people coming and going, he simply took out of his own pocket and repaired this road. A few leaders in the town looked at it, hey, this person is not bad, he knows that he shares the worries of the officials, so he is contracted to do more work.

It is said that this savage Zhang is also a legend in this neighborhood. He has been an orphan since he was a child, grew up eating hundreds of family meals, and finally survived. When he was a young beggar and a thug as a young man, when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, an old carpenter in the town saw that he was pitiful and hired him as an apprentice. He studied carpentry for more than a year, but he couldn't settle down, so he went to make iron for another year, and later heard that he had also built walls...... Later, after saving some money, I got a place to live in the town, recruited jobs from east to west, north and south, and slowly and slowly, somehow became a contract foreman. Now he is only in his twenties, not only does he have his own house in the town, but he also has a good relationship with the officials and lords above, and he has several people under him, so he can be regarded as a figure in this neighborhood.

People like Zhang Ye and Liu Datou all fled here more than 20 years ago. Nearly 20 years ago, there was a severe drought in several southern states, and there were countless people in the vicinity, local, out-of-town, and I don't know where they came from -- after that time, there were many orphans and lonely graves in the vicinity. Everyone only knew that Zhang Yeniang's surname was Zhang, and later Zhang's family starved to death, and everyone relieved the child to survive, and there was no name. Later, Zhang Ye's growth made this name not wrong: before he was a beggar and a gangster, he was still unsettled with the help of the old carpenter, a carpenter for a while, a blacksmith for a while, and later he tried his best to form a gang to do some middleman things - the old man taught the children to say this: Be a man, you have to do a line of respect, but you can't be like that savage Zhang!

Now it's okay, the wild man didn't do anything, and went to the paulownia tree by the river to build a road!

But everyone is still not so optimistic, just secretly looking, waiting to see what happens next.

-- Don't look at it secretly, that wild man Zhang Zhen looks like a wild man, tall ox and big horse, round shoulders and thick waist, thick hair, and even more lush and messy beard on his face! But his eyes are also cold, and a casual glare can frighten a person to death--I heard that one year a little daughter-in-law suddenly saw him on the road in the evening, and she was stunned and fainted......

At this moment, the wild man Zhang Zheng led a few people to the town. He repaired and managed the paulownia garden by the river, ate and lived in the grass hut by the river, and did not go home for several days, so he was very tired. Even so, when they saw a mourning procession, they stopped at a distance and waited for the group to pass.

Before he could ask, a man named Hu Cai next to him sighed, "This lady of the Gao family has finally breathed! Hey, it's not bad to be able to last so long!"

He only worked with Savage Zhang this year, so he really wanted to show it. At this time, seeing that his words did not attract the attention of others, he said in a slightly louder voice: "I don't know if Gao Lao picked up the funeral or not-hey, their family is actually the banner raised by that little girl, tsk--the Gao family is really, let a little girl do this, isn't it ruining her way to marry in the future......? !

In this team, Hu Cai usually talks the most, and someone usually talks a lot, and no one cares about it. In addition, everyone was tired and dirty at this time, and they wanted to go home to rest, so no one paid attention to him. Just when Hu Cai was a little embarrassed because no one answered, he suddenly heard the boss who had never spoken much speak, "Well, it's not easy. ”

Hu Cai's little embarrassment immediately ran out of the clouds, and immediately echoed: "But no, boss, you don't know, that Gao Lao is so stingy with his mother-in-law that he can starve to death of a mouse! His mother-in-law works in the fields every day, and she doesn't even dress as a beggar! She is also thin and dry, balabala-"

Zhang Ye didn't speak, but quietly looked at the figure in the crowd not far away who was crying to death with a banner behind the thin coffin. Thin, his body is quite soft - he is crying so much that his upper body is almost lying on the ground, and he can still stagger forward under his feet......

What's pitiful, she at least has a mother to cry about. Like him, he only knows that his mother's grave is in a mass grave, and he doesn't know which one it is.

Despite the reluctance, the funeral procession slowly winded across the road and went to the ground. Hu Cai was still chattering about the deeds of Gao Lao, and Zhang Ye's deep voice interrupted him, "Let's go! Go home and rest for a day, and meet at the east gate of the town at the beginning of tomorrow!