“…… The dock wall was destroyed, the family temple was not protected, the clansmen were in trouble, the Zheng family was humiliated, it was difficult to excuse the blame, and the guilt was unbearable, and there was only one death...... He claimed to be faceless in the face of his underground fathers and brothers, did not bury his ancestors, buried his bones at the northern foot of Songshan Mountain, looked at Xingyang in the west, and looked at Xinzheng City in the east...... In his life, he is sparse and thin, does not entangle the corpse, does not place the dead weapon, and is buried in regular clothes, without gold and jade ornaments......"

This is the suicide note left by Zheng Han.

Killed himself.

Zheng Han, a scholar, would end his life in such a tragic way, and he died nine times out of forty.

Shocked everyone.

For Zheng Sui, it is tantamount to a big mountain above his head, which collapsed in an instant.

Mourning, half a day's work, all the white flags were hung in the house, and the fierce door Baili was set up outside the second gate.

After the small funeral, Zheng Han was placed on the bed under the south window of the main bed, Zheng Sui knelt in front of the bed in a coarse linen mourning dress, tears fell down, never stopped, tears blurred, looking at Aya lying on the bed on her back, closed her eyes, peaceful as if she was asleep, she didn't want to believe it, and she couldn't believe it, but the wound on the side of her neck, deep and long, hideous and dazzling.

After that, it was moved to the mourning hall, and in the afternoon of the same day, Xingyang received an obituary that the Zheng clan, regardless of their relatives, had come over.

There is an endless stream of people who come and go to mourn, and there are countless old in-laws.

The funeral was handed over to Qiao Zhubo and Jiao Zhubo, Zheng Jing took Erlang Zheng Lun Liulang Zheng Hong and his son Ah Yi to cry and mourn, and thanked the relatives and friends who came to pay tribute in front of the spirit.

Due to the hot weather, he was buried three days later. The coffin ceremony was held, and Zheng Han was moved into the wooden coffin, and the person was in Jinyang's San Lang Zheng Xu. After receiving the news, Zhishi hurried up and caught up with the funeral within three days.

The qiē came too suddenly, there was no preparation at all, and the funeral utensils were all improvised patchwork, and because they were outside. The Zheng family had just experienced great difficulties, and Zheng Han left a suicide note and asked for a thin burial. Therefore, the funeral was very simple, even the pine coffin was provided by the Ruan family, and the ice placed on the mourning hall. It was also provided by the Ruan family.

Zheng Han passed away. Ruan Yao came to Zheng's house and cried, and after he went back, he drank heavily and was so drunk that he couldn't wake up.

When the world values filial piety, when parents are mourned, no matter how far or near, they will come.

At present, Dayan and Da Chu are in the stage of peace talks, Wulang Zheng Wei and Shilang Zheng Jun took Eleven Niang, and only came to Chen Liu after Wuqi. With them, there were also Twenty-One Lang Jun and Jin Lang Jielang.

"Shi Niang. Rest for a while and drink some porridge. Xin Yi walked in with the food box, and saw Zheng Sui lying on the desk at a glance, describing the witheredness, the bruises on the forehead, lightened a lot, that day, Zheng Sui first heard the bad news, when he ran out, he fell down, crawled on the ground, his forehead hit the threshold, and immediately swollen a big bag, three days ago, Zheng Sui has been following Da Lang and Erlang to keep watch in front of the hall, kneeling for three days and three nights, and no water has entered.

The whole person suddenly stood upright, and the color was haggard.

Zheng Sui put down the pen in his hand, and his voice was hoarse, "What about Ah Yi, how is Ah Yi?"

Ah Yi is the grandson, like them, are all dressed and decrepit, wearing coarse linen mourning clothes without sewing edges, although he is only six years old, but every time he cries and mourns, mourning is like an adult, so that the relatives and friends who came to mourn are greatly praised, but in the end he is young, he can't support it on the third day, he fainted in the mourning hall, and after waking up, his aunt Zhuge fed Ah Yi to drink ginger soup, Ah Yi was unwilling to drink, his hands and feet were weak, and he still let people carry him to the mourning hall.

It wasn't until three days later that he was willing to eat some gruel, two meals a day, and he refused to eat more, and this morning he fainted in the mourning hall.

Xin Yi put the food box on the opposite table, and stepped forward to help Zheng Sui over, "Xiaolang has woken up and gone to the mourning hall." ”

"He is a filial child. Zheng Sui sighed in a low voice, he was a precocious child, when A-Niang died, the fifth brother was only six years old, and I heard my grandmother say that the fifth brother kept filial piety for A-Niang, and every qiē came according to the etiquette system, not bad.

Zheng Sui lowered his head, looking at the porridge in the food box was very thick, and couldn't help but change his face, "What's the matter?"

There are strict requirements for taking the diet of decay, no food within three days, porridge within 100 days, and one overflow of corn in the morning and dusk, compared with the gruel of the previous days, this amount is definitely exceeded.

"Today, the Lord of Wulang issued an order in the mourning hall, saying that the destruction of barren rites will be extinguished, and the extinction of sex is unfilial, since it has passed the first seven, in order to take care of the body of the dà family, it is not allowed to eat gruel anymore, and later, Zhuge Niangzi specially called Da Lang and Da Niangzi over, saying that it was for the body of A Yi Xiaolang, and he could no longer drink gruel. ”

Barrenness refers to the excessive grief during the mourning period, so that the body of the person who guards filial piety is thin and weak.

Zhuge Niangzi refers to the aunt Zhuge clan, and Da Lang and Da Niangzi refer to Zheng Jing and Li clan.

When the world values filial piety, the ritual of mourning and filial piety is respected by the world.

After listening to Xin Yi's words, Zheng Sui only ate a small half bowl of porridge and refused to eat it again.

Washed his hands by the morning breeze, and went to the front of the mourning hall, the mourning music of the ascension hall sounded, and it was time to cry in the morning and evening, Erniang and the second brother-in-law Li Rong, Sanniang and the third brother-in-law Wang Huan, all personally rushed to Chen Liu's mourning, in addition to the fifth brother and the fourth brother are still on the road, the four brothers and sisters-in-law are there, the third sister-in-law Zhang returned to Xingyang for the first time, because he took the three-year-old Xiao Erlang Zheng Xun on the road, than the third brother Zheng Xu, arrived four days later.

Ice bricks were placed in the mourning hall, and the chill was soaking.

The night is approaching, the bright light provoked by the bamboo pole in front of the hall, drifting in the air with the wind, the mourning music sounds, the celebrant sings beside him, the scene is solemn and painful, the portrait hanging in front of the coffin, the face is smiling, the eyebrows and eyes are full of kindness, this painting is still a few days ago, Zheng Sui painted.

However, the sound is still there, and the Si people have passed away.

Looking at the portrait, Zheng Sui's tears couldn't help but flow out, eight or nine days later, his throat was hoarse, he couldn't cry anymore, he lost his strength, and the whole person lay on the coffin of the pine tree.

When I woke up again, I was lying on the bed in my room, and the light was very dim with a little oil lamp in the room.

"Hee-hee, you're awake. ”

"Sister," Zheng Sui sat up, only to feel that her head was a little dizzy, not very clear, she was obviously in the mourning hall, when did she come back, glanced at Siniang next to her, and lifted the coarse linen quilt on her body, "Why is Sister here?"

"I'm guarding you here, and you fainted in the mourning hall earlier, and we were startled. ”

Fainted.

No wonder she felt uncomfortable on her head, Zheng Sui reached out to support her head.

Seeing this, Siniang Zheng couldn't help asking, "What's wrong, your head is uncomfortable?"

Zheng Sui shook his head, "No, it's probably because I just woke up." Looking up, I saw Xin Yi and Chenfeng standing at the end of the bed, the night was dark outside, and the mourning music in the front yard had stopped, "What time is it now?"

I only heard the morning breeze reply: "It's just past Haizheng." ”

I didn't expect her to be asleep for so long.

Tonight is the second brother and the third brother to wake the spirit, because there is no family temple to stop the spirit, Aya to stay at home for 7749 days, then, out of the funeral into the north foot of Songshan Mountain, the cemetery has been selected, the eldest brother and the fifth uncle personally went to see, at the top of the Phoenix Mountain at the northern foot of Songshan Mountain, the terrain is extremely high, the vision is very broad, and please Mr. Feng Shui to see, two days ago, the cemetery has begun to break ground.

It is precisely because of the long period of suspension at home that after the first seven days, they are divided into two shifts, the eldest brother Zheng Jing and the sixth brother Zheng Hong, the second brother Zheng Lun and the third brother Zheng Xu, who take turns to keep vigil.

"Sister, I'm fine, you go back and rest first. ”

"It's okay, sister-in-law has been worried about you, and I have to go and tell sister-in-law. ”

As soon as Zheng Fan's voice fell, he saw Zheng Sui who was about to get up, before he stood up straight, he planted the whole person down, Zheng Fan hurriedly reached out to support Zheng Sui, and Xin Yi rushed up to help, so as not to let Zheng Sui fall, "It's all like this, you still say that you are fine, you just lie down, rest well, and don't have to go anywhere." As he spoke, regardless of Zheng Sui's struggle, he and Xin Yi helped Zheng Sui to lie on the bed and covered it with burlap.

It's just that Zheng Sui couldn't be at peace, took Zheng Fan's hand, and asked, "Sister, where does Ah Yi sleep tonight?" These days, several brothers have lived in a simple shack built temporarily outside, and they have not returned to the inner courtyard to live, and Ah Yi also lives with the eldest brother, but when the doctor gave Ah Yi a look at his illness this morning, he said that Ah Yi was weak and could no longer stay outside to get cold.

"Don't worry, at night, my aunt hugged Ah Yi over. ”

As soon as she heard this, Zheng Sui relieved her heart slightly, Ah Yi was still a child, she originally planned that no matter whether the eldest brother agreed or not, she had to hug Ah Yi to her tonight.

"Sister, as I said last time, how many stone carvers have been found by my brother-in-law?"

"More than 100 people have been found. ”

More than a hundred.

Zheng Sui secretly thought in his heart: In the Zheng family's trilogy, there were some skilled craftsmen, plus borrowing from the Ruan family's Han family, there were about 500 people, and in a month's time, the stone carvings in the tomb should be able to be completed in time.

I heard Siniang Zheng Fan hesitantly asking: "Xixi, do you want to talk to the eldest brother about this matter first?"

"Brother I'm afraid I already know. ”

"Brother knows?" Siniang Zheng Fan didn't believe it, in Aya's last words, he asked for a thin burial, Zheng Sui wanted to get a stone wall relief in the tomb, and the eldest brother should not agree.

I only listened to Zheng Sui's explanation: "If you don't know, in a few days, it will be impossible for my brother-in-law's 5,000 parts to go north, and it will be impossible for Zheng Hong to transfer 20,000 parts to Songshan." ”

The family trilogy, the eldest brother is in Xingyang, and the right to transfer must be in the hands of the eldest brother, not to mention the transfer to Songshan to quarry, in addition, there are also five thousand trilogies of the Zong family is not a small number, and now General Wei Chi, who is stationed in Xinzheng City, has also come to mourn a few days ago, and the elder brother must have reported this matter to General Wei Chi.

The 5,000 parts will transport the stone to the north, Zheng Sui remembered that there was a kind of quartzite in Nanyang Dushan, which had a very good gloss, so he specially explained to the fourth brother-in-law, Zongjun.

Aya has a last word, to be buried thinly, not to be decorated with gold and jade.

She and her brother couldn't disobey the order and use gold and jade as a burial, so they had to decorate the tomb wall with stone carvings and carve the "Ascension Map" on the stone wall, hoping to lead Aye Shun lì to ascend to heaven and reunite with A-Niang in heaven as soon as possible.

"Let my brother-in-law come over tomorrow, and I will give him the manuscript of the Ascension Map. ”

The manuscript of "Ascension Map" she drew is almost finished. (To be continued......)