, Jinxiu shook her head: "I said, I won't ask for these things, you can bring them back to Xiaoxi, these should have been prepared for her by Grandma Fu." ”

Seeing that she didn't mean to take it at all, the uncle had to withdraw his hand: "Okay, I'll take it back first and see what Xiaoxi's father means." Then let's go first, tomorrow morning, you can come early, the funeral time is five o'clock in the morning, don't miss the time. ”

After sending those people away, Gu Nianhua said: "If you don't want to go, don't force it." ”

Jinxiu shook her head: "Forget it, just let me not regret it in the future." ”

At three o'clock in the morning the next day, Jinxiu got up.

I put on the clothes I had been wearing for the past few days, and tied my hair back with a rubber band.

The face was not washed, and the teeth were not brushed.

Not only today, since the day Mrs. Fu passed away, she has not washed her face, brushed her teeth and changed her clothes.

According to the rules of S Province, until the death of a loved one, until the burial, relatives are not allowed to bathe and change clothes, or even wash their hands and comb their hair.

Splendid has been doing this for the past few days.

That's all she can do for Mrs. Fu.

Gu Nianhua was about to knock on the door to tell Jinxiu to get up, but Jinxiu opened the door.

"Got it?"

Jinxiu nodded.

"Then let's go. ”

The two went out and walked towards Fu's house with flashlights.

When it was time for the Fu family, it was still early. The people in charge of carrying the spirit have not yet come, and only the sound of mourning music is played quietly on the tape recorder in the mourning hall, and Fu Chenxi and Fu Changsheng are guarding by the coffin.

"Sister. Fu Chenxi heard the footsteps, looked up and saw Jinxiu, and immediately got up and ran over.

Xu had been kneeling for a long time, which made her steps stagger.

Jinxiu hurriedly helped her: "Slow down." ”

Fu Chenxi buried her head in Jinxiu's arms and whimpered quietly.

In the past few days, she has made her voice hoarse.

Jinxiu touched her hair and said, "Good, don't cry, grandma will be sad to see you sad like this." Let's go, I'll go and put incense on my grandmother. ”

Fu Chenxi wiped her tears, walked to Mrs. Fu's coffin with Jinxiu, and then knelt down upright.

Jinxiu grabbed a handful of paper money from the pile of paper money next to him, threw it into the pot where the paper money was burned, then took the incense from Fu Chenxi's hand, lit it on the ever-bright lamp, knelt respectfully in front of the statue of Mrs. Fu, kowtowed three times, and then inserted the incense into the basin containing sacrificial rice in front of the statue.

Gu Nianhua also followed Jinxiu and made the same salute.

Generally, relatives and friends mourn, except for the deceased's peers or elders, the juniors in the five suits are to kneel.

Fu Changsheng was relieved to see such luggage as Jinxiu.

It's a pity that Jinxiu didn't even give him a look.

It wasn't until about half-past four that the people in charge of carrying the spirit came.

The relatives of the Fu family and the people from Mrs. Fu's mother's family also came.

The old man who presided over the funeral said in a deep voice: "Relatives see the deceased for the last time. ”

Fu Changsheng took Fu Chenxi and the uncle to the coffin together, and the old man motioned to a young man next to him to remove the coffin lid into a palm-wide slit.

Fu Chenxi glanced inside, and cried desperately: "Grandma, grandma." ”

Fu Changsheng couldn't help but cry.

Two young girls came up next to her, Xu was the descendants of the Fu family, and pulled Fu Chenxi to the side.

The old man waved at the young man and motioned for him to close the lid of the coffin.

"Wait a minute. The uncle suddenly stopped, causing everyone to look this way. My uncle walked up to Jinxiu in a few steps and said, "Go and meet, in the future, yin and yang will be separated, and we will never see each other." ”

Jinxiu felt a pain in her heart, nodded, walked to the coffin, and looked inside.

Old Madam Fu's appearance was very peaceful, if she didn't look at the somewhat blue and black complexion, she would be like she was asleep.

Jinxiu felt uncomfortable in her heart, and tears kept rolling in her eyes.

The other juniors of the Fu family felt very curious, and they all looked at Jinxiu.

"Who is this person, why haven't you seen her before? Is it a relative of our family?"

"I've never seen her before, and I haven't seen her here in the past two days. ”

The uncles of the Fu family who knew about it coughed twice at the juniors, glared at them again, and the people fell silent.

After seeing the last meeting, Jinxiu walked out of the mourning hall with Gu Nianhua and waited outside.

The person in charge of carrying the coffin went into the mourning hall with a stick and rope, fixed the coffin, and tied a rooster to the coffin.

After about ten minutes, the old man shouted in a deep voice: "The hour is coming, and the funeral will be held." ”

The old man walked in front and sprinkled paper money into the sky to lead the way, followed by Fu Changsheng holding the tablet of Mrs. Fu, followed by Fu Chenxi holding the portrait of Mrs. Fu, and then followed by a few juniors carrying flags and other things.

Then Mrs. Fu's coffin was carried out by eight soul bearers.

Jinxiu and Gu Nianhua followed behind the crowd, looking at the coffin in front of the team from a distance.

The people who came to the funeral were all relatives within the five suits. Therefore, the two unfamiliar faces of Jinxiu and Gu Nianhua are particularly attention-grabbing.

"Well, who are you? Why have I never seen you?"

The two didn't speak, and the man was about to ask again, when the person carrying the coffin in front of him stopped to adjust, and the old man shouted: "Kneel!"

All the juniors fell to their knees.

With that heavy voice: "Bye!"

All the juniors kowtowed three times to the coffin.

When the adjustment was done, everyone continued to stand up and follow towards the cemetery.

The person who asked just now wanted to come over and ask, but seeing Jinxiu's expressionless face, he felt very bored, pursed his lips, and quickly caught up with the others.

I walked and bowed all the way, and when I arrived at the cemetery, it was already dawn.

Mrs. Fu's grave is in the cemetery of the Fu family outside the county seat.

According to Mrs. Fu's last wishes, the place where she was buried was far away from Mr. Fu's tomb, one in the east and the other in the west.

The Fu family has ancestral teachings, and all the Fu family members, after they pass away, must all be buried in the ancestral grave. So after the death of Mr. Fu that year, the body was sent back to Fuping County and was not buried in the S Province Cemetery.

The burial process was very long, and some juniors waited for Mrs. Fu's coffin to enter the burial chamber before leaving.

A few even beckoned Jinxiu to go with them.

Jinxiu still ignored them, standing in the distance, looking at the cemetery, Fu Changsheng stood on the coffin, took the hoe and dug three hoes of mud from the ground to the coffin.

Then the person in charge of the grave began to fill the grave with earth.

Fu Chenxi rushed towards the coffin like crazy, and shouted bitterly: "Grandma, grandma......"

Several elders hurriedly pulled her back.

Fu Chenxi was small and weak, she was standing on the side, crying so much that she fainted, and the elders hurriedly pinched her to wake her up, and continued to cry after waking up.

Jinxiu stood aside, watching the dirt gradually cover the coffin completely, and then quickly piled out a grave bag, and couldn't help but burst into tears.