But he said that Ye Zi's father had terminal cancer, and the hospital no longer saw it, so he was recuperating at home. This rectal cancer is different from other cancers, and the smell alone makes people unbearable. The patient's feces were so far away that even the dog did not come to him.

It is often said that young couples come together in old age. But Ye Zi's mother is good-hearted, she thinks the old man is dirty, and she doesn't want to sleep in front of her. As a result, Gen'er slept in front of his father every night, serving a handful of and urine.

The old man was skinny in the end, but his belly was bulging, and he lay on the kang for half a year before he passed away.

According to the customs of the persimmon bay area, it is buried. It is generally when people are still alive, and most of them are fifty years old, and they are ready to live in coffins and "old clothes" (old clothes are the name of the persimmon Bay area, that is, longevity clothes). The old rule is that the son is in charge of the coffin, and the daughter is in charge of the longevity clothes.

The shrouds are all Chinese-style. Generally, when people just breathe or are about to die, they have to wear old clothes first. This old clothes are also exquisite, generally when the limbs are not stiff, you have to quickly put on at least two pieces of cotton inside and outside.

After putting on the old clothes, he trimmed his face, cut his hair, shaved his beard, wiped his face, hands and feet with a wet towel, and laid the person flat on the kang.

Then there is the "burial". First, in the middle of the front of the hall against the wall, two sturdy benches were placed vertically in parallel, and the coffin was swept clean and carried to the horizontal shelf. Lay out the longevity mattress in the coffin, put the longevity pillow or something.

The person is slowly lifted from the kang, gently put it into the coffin, tie the feet and cuffs with hemp rope, cover the quilt, tidy up the clothes, and cover the coffin lid, but leave a wider seam, so that the late person can see the old man for the last time.

This burial is naturally a mourning hall. Immediately in front of the coffin, a single table is placed on which the statue and the temporary paper-tied spiritual table, incense burner, wax table and offerings are placed. Place a large casserole in front of the table to burn paper during mourning.

Then put a large, high porcelain jar with earrings tied with hemp rope under the coffin, which is called a rice jar here, which is used to hold the offered meals or something. When it is time for the funeral, the rice jar will be put into the tomb along with the coffin.

Then, spread thick wheat straw on the ground on the left and right sides of the coffin, so that the filial men and women who wear linen and wear filial piety can sit on the ground and keep watch.

There are at least two tasks for the wake: one is to burn incense, light wax and burn paper to welcome the mourners, and the other is to take care of the remains in the coffin that has not yet closed the lid to protect it from rats, cats, and so on.

After the things in this house are busy, they have to "hang paper flags" and "light ash heaps" outside the courtyard. Hanging paper flags, is to take out a thick stack of large cotton paper, cut it and shake it, then shake out a big paper flag, grab the end of the hand with a hemp rope, hang on the door.

To light the ash pile, you can pile up some broken wheat husks on the side outside the door, sprinkle a little dust, and light it, as if it is not a small smoke. The purpose may be to mourn and ward off evil spirits, as soon as you enter the alley to mourn, you can see the large paper banner hanging on the door of the main house and the small smoke outside the courtyard from afar.

As for the schedule of this burial, it is generally three days to close the coffin, and the seventh or ninth day or the auspicious day of the zodiac is the funeral.

Ye Zi is the only daughter of the Wu family and the only daughter-in-law of the Liang family. Guiwa has no home to return, the Liang family's mother-in-law is also dead, and the dog baby, Xing'er and Ergou are all studying. During her father's serious illness and funeral, Ye Zi not only had to do her filial piety as a daughter, but also had to fulfill the courtesies of her deceased mother-in-law, so you can imagine the busy situation.

The death of her father made Ye Zi very sad, and she always blamed herself for being busy and doing too little filial piety to her father. Just in order not to affect the dog's pre-exam review, Ye Zi did not call his son to come back to attend the funeral.

The days go by quickly. Before I knew it, it was almost the end of June, and it was already quite hot, so Ye Zi wiped the mat at home with boiling water, dried it and rolled it up, and dried the bedding and pillow that the dog brought back from school.

On July 6, my son was going to the county college entrance examination, and the leaves didn't get up before dawn, so he wrapped leek dumplings, and the family ate them early.

Wrap a thin quilt and pillow in plastic sheeting, and tie it to the bicycle newspaper rack along with an umbrella and mat. Clothes, towels, and porcelain basins are hung on the bicycle faucet. The dog baby carried a schoolbag and a panacea of gold, and rode a bicycle to the county seat.

The county has arranged an empty classroom for the candidates to live in temporary accommodation, and the big guy opened the bunk on the ground and made do with it. As for eating, it is naturally prepared by the candidates themselves. The teacher repeatedly told him to buy buns and side dishes to be safest, and to cover his stomach at night.

In this way, I looked at the examination room in the afternoon of the same day, and after the test on the seventh, eighth, and ninth days, the dog baby returned to Yunling and went to work in the field with her mother.

At the west end of the village in Yunling, that is, at the entrance of the village, there is a small square, and on the west side of the square is a wall with the name of the village written on it. Behind the wall, to the west, is a deep trench, which can also be said to be a ravine. To the south and north along the wall, there are two main roads out of the village. To the east from Terubi, there is a street into the village, and paulownia trees are planted on both sides of the street.

On the edge of the small square, some new private shops have opened in the past two years. In the northwest corner of the small square, there is a north-facing south-facing outlet store, the size of a five-room house. People come and go here, some buy things, some set up stalls to sell vegetables, some enter the village, and some go out of the village.

Because of the terrain, it is sheltered from the wind and sun in winter, and can be cool in summer.

No, the summer harvest has long ended, and Xiaoqiu has also planted, so I occasionally go to the field to see, hoeing and hoeing grass, there is no important work, and a few villagers are sitting here and chatting this day.

"Oh, the young ones don't want to farm anymore. "Ah, yes. After graduating from school, those who can be admitted to university go to university, and those who fail the exam are not willing to grow crops in the village, and they all want to earn money easily. "Ah, the young ones are tired and dirty. ”

"These are all trivial things, the key is that you can't make money. "Ah, who's to say it isn't. "Diversify your business, learn your craft, walk your craft, and do a small business." ”

"Then there is no need to say, when you go out, you will have a head, who will plant this land?" "You farm the land, who will farm the land?" "Uh? hehe, dare you not farm the land?" "Haha, you also farm." Well, it means that only those who have no ability can farm. "No, those who have some ability have gone out. ”

"People go out to earn a lot of money, you can only earn a few dollars by farming. "Ah, now the cost is too big, and the baby's family wants to be here and abroad, and they have to pay for it. "You can't make a lot of money from farming all year round, just." ”

"Oh, no. This is again fertilizer, and it is also a pesticide. If you're in a hurry, you have to call someone to help. "Hehe, young people are tired like this. "It's not a matter of being tired, you can't feed yourself if you farm." "Ah, yes. ”

"In the past, we still picked up dung, but now no one wants this grass and miscellaneous fertilizer, and you have poured it into the ditch in vain. "Ah, the manure and manure are so tired outside, and the people's fertilizer is much lighter and cleaner." ”

"Gee, that's a waste. "Waste? Just don't waste your time, if you have that work, you might as well earn a few more dollars." "Dare to make manure and carry manure is not profitable?" "Then, the same work, the amount of money earned is different." ”

"Ah, yes, it's tiring. "Don't you dare to get dirty. "Hehe, no, now you have to use your brain, you have to settle accounts for everything, and you can do whatever it wants." "Needless to say, no one is silly. ”

"The young ones are all gone, and there are only old people left in the village, can this wife and old man plant that land well?" "Dare not be young?" "You love to lift the bar." I'm talking about most of them being elderly, otherwise, there are a few young daughters-in-law, who are not milk babies, what kind of work can they do? ”

"Hehe, I dare to raise the bar, I just want to hear you say a few more words. "Ah, that's it, talk about it, it's happy. ”

"Hey, you say that this public family dares to take care of it?" "Who cares? The land is divided, and each is in charge of his own." "I don't want to farm, what can I eat in the future?" If you don't have enough food, will you dare to import it?" "That is, I heard that the imported food is cheaper. "Ah, I don't know. ”

"What else are you talking about, now this baby's family is looking for a daughter-in-law and looking for a mother-in-law. "Needless to say, society has changed. "I used to look for the honest one. "Honestly can't make money. "Hehe, now it's all about finding someone who can make money. "In the past, I had to look for someone who had a lot of families, and I wanted to take care of it. "Hehe, nowadays people say that having more relatives is a drag. ”

"Hehe, I also said that relatives, now this daughter-in-law doesn't even want her in-laws. "Young Dutu enjoys himself, so why don't you care if your in-laws are not in-laws." ”

"Hey, how many of them will be admitted in our village this year?" "I heard that I got two of them. "Which two?" "One is the daughter of the Liwa family, and the other is the baby of the Tianwa family." "Oh. ”

"Didn't you say that Ye Zijiawa studied well, did she dare to pass the exam?" "Ah, the exam is a mile, and the variables are too big." "I heard that there was a difference of two points. "Don't you dare to be two points off?" "Not half a point, Sensei said two points." ”

"In the end, the people in the county are good, and the town is always a little worse. "That's for sure, a class in the county can be admitted to a dozen, and a class in this town can be admitted to a few. ”

"Hey, you said, over the years, people have not made the right composition, but there are a lot of exams. "Oh, think about it. "What's the matter, they're all teachers. "Dare a teacher to teach the same." The master led the way into the door, and the cultivation was in the individual. "Ah, it's still in the baby's house. ”

"It's probably something to do with genes. "Haha, do you still know that gene?" "Hey, we don't understand, dare to listen to others." It is not the same as raising chickens, the good ones grow fast and lay eggs frequently, and the native chickens are not as good as the chickens. "Haha. ”

"You said, if we dare to be good, we didn't get in? This thing is this, a baby is the same. "Yes, you're right. "It's all about this. ”

As he spoke, he felt a cool breeze coming, seeing that the dark clouds in the sky gradually gathered, and rolled southward, and the sound of thunder was heard from time to time in the distance, a heavy rain was coming, in fact, it was time for dinner, everyone quickly got up and went back.

This night, it was quite cool, and the villagers had a good night's sleep.