Joy and mourning are not tears.

The old man walked fairy, and the room was full of people crying, but they all held back their tears and did not allow them to flow down. According to the customs of the older generation, it is the old man who has worked hard all his life, and when he is sent to heaven to enjoy happiness, he should be happy, how can he still cry!

The old grandfather's parents died early, and Ah Maogong, as the only personal disciple, was in a position that was closer than his parents and children in the older generation, and stood up to take the lead in presiding over the funeral.

Mourning, burning down the head paper, small collection, mourning, setting up a mourning hall......

The sound of firecrackers that Han Jiujiu heard for a long time is a way for neighbors to report their funerals, so as to inform the neighbors that "it should be a big deal", and it also has the meaning of expelling the ghosts who come to hunt ghosts, and it is also to inform everyone that it is already possible to come to mourn - of course, the farther ones have already been notified by letter and phone in advance.

Han Jiujiu and Qiao Shi changed into plain clothes, and were ready to mourn the open-minded and wise old man, because they didn't bear the name of "Han Jiumei", the two of them didn't even need to simply wrap a white cloth around their arms, and carried two catties of white rice, even if it was a gift.

"Don't be nervous, this is a joy and mourning, just go happily." Han Jiujiu looked at Qiao Shi a little uncomfortable, estimating that he had rarely participated in similar occasions, so he couldn't help but step forward to straighten his collar for him, and smiled and comforted.

"Hmm......"

Qiao Shi nodded, his body was still a little tense, because the jade man was on the side, the slender white jade hand tidied up the collar from time to time, because of the height ratio, Han Jiujiu still had to cushion his feet to be coordinated, he stood upright, completely forgetting the thoughtfulness and etiquette of bending over and hanging his head, just because the two hands holding the waist of the beauty were warm and smooth, and a faint fragrance penetrated into the heart of the tip of the nose, faint and curling, which made people want to stop.

"Poof!"

Looking at his stupid appearance, Han Jiujiu's long-held evil smile finally couldn't help but break out, poked his bulging chest, leaned lightly on it, and jokingly said, "What are you looking at!" ”

Qiao Shi hugged the person with his hands as if he was treating a treasure, as if even his muscles like iron were a little softer, and he said seriously: "Look at my wife." ”

Han Jiujiu hammered him: "Nonsense, I'm not married yet!" ”

Qiao Shi: "Then let's get married!" ”

“…… All right! Han Jiujiu was eerily silent for a while, and simply agreed neatly, nestled in Qiao Shi's arms, breathing in the hot man's breath, his eyes purring: "Then let's hurry up and earn enough merit!" How about helping me test the medicine at night~~~~"

Qiao Shi was stunned, then grabbed her thin shoulders that were as warm as nephrite, and said half-seriously and half-helplessly: "You still decided to wade into the muddy waters of the army?" You know, how big that cause and effect is! ”

"I know, Brother Joe." Han Jiujiu smiled, touched his face like a solid stone, his eyes were far away, and said: "The cause and effect are great, the resistance is great, and even the danger is great, I wade in, I don't know how many people's interests will be involved, and I can't even take out a word of righteousness for the country and the people to make a signboard, I also have my own selfishness, what I value is the benefit after the great danger - the merit of improving human physical fitness." ”

"From the battalion to the army, from the army to the people, to spread the whole country and even the whole world...... Brother Qiao, there are endless risks, but the opportunities are also infinite - at least, you don't have to wait until your hair is gray to save enough money to marry a wife! ”

At the end, he laughed slightly, but looking at Qiao Shi's calm expression, he knew that he had listened!

He struck while the iron was hot: "The gods are the defenders of the rules, so the way of God conforms to the way of heaven, but the development of the way of heaven is nothing more than the continuous evolution of the existence between heaven and earth until it tends to be consummated, so as long as the thing itself does not produce great turmoil, so as to threaten the progress of the normal order of the world, what do we do?" ”

Qiao Shi frowned: "God...... Don't interfere too much with the replacement of the world...... this is the legendary convention.

Han Jiujiu disagreed: "In ancient times, Wei Zhengmeng beheaded the Dragon King of the Jing River, Bao Zheng judged the underworld at night and the sun during the day, and Chenghuang borrowed the wisdom of the eight directions...... It can be seen that Shinto has never left the world, even if those legends are true or false, but for me, the gods also need to enter the red dust to cultivate, since ancient times, the mountains and forests have never stopped, how can the grace and skills left behind be counted, how can we call it an exception? ”

"Besides-" She found a red book out of nowhere, and said with a smile: "You forget, in fact, I also have an identity in the world, what about the national distinguished doctor, referred to as the national doctor, enjoying the treatment of academicians, your rank is not as high as mine!" ”

She put the red book that he had personally sent into his hand, put it in his hand, put her hands behind her back with a smile, looked up at him and said: "As a Chinese doctor with ideals and morals, I should work hard to improve the physical fitness of the people, isn't it what I should do!" ”

Well, it's a familiar phrase, and it seems like it's used in every meeting......

Qiao Shi looked at the red certificate in his hand, and then looked at Han Jiujiu, who looked like "I have thought about everything", twitched the corners of his mouth, and muttered weakly: "Yes, everything has been thought of, it is much more convenient to change your identity and get married......"

After all, marrying a female academician is still very different from marrying a land god!

"Can you think of anything else but get married!" Han Jiujiu had an expression of "I didn't expect you to be such a Brother Qiao", and complained with grief and indignation.

"......" Qiao Shi looked at her with a resentful expression, like a big golden retriever who had been let down.

This expression makes people raise their hands and surrender every minute! Han Jiujiu immediately changed his mouth and nestled into his arms, and coaxed continuously: "Knot knot!" Immediately knotted! I stepped on the colorful auspicious clouds and took the eight sedan chairs to marry you! ”

Someone, who was originally rubbing the fragrance on the top of his hair with an aggrieved face, couldn't help but turn dark when he heard the words, and muttered: "Baby, don't you think something is wrong?" ”

"Hey...... You don't want to get married again?! ”

“…… Forget it, when I didn't say it! ”

“#￥%&*……？”

So Han Jiujiu was confused and dragged to the old grandfather's house at the end of the village, and said in the words of fighting: You are really capable, all the way from the funeral to the wedding, but you didn't do anything!

So the two of them were rolled off by a group of blind single dogs to get down to business-

Because of the old grandfather's business, the pedestrians in the village were in a hurry, and some of the men of each family had already gone to help in the middle of the night, and now the two of them followed a group of children, big and small, with the gifts of each family, and rushed to the noisy place at the end of the village.

“…… Han Jiujiu's house, two catties of rice. ”

"Qiao Shi, give a gift of fifty yuan ......"

Passing through the crowded courtyard, to the left of the old wooden door, the gentleman lying on the red lacquered table, handed over the white gifts, the old gentleman will write down the gifts of each family in wool on a large scroll made of white linen paper.

In those years, most of them sent some eggs, rice and noodles, and even soybeans and tofu, and the main thing was that each family would contribute to help with big things.

This is the so-called distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and the exchange of favors is far less □□ and ruthless than the red envelope economy in later generations.

Even the baskets and bags of rice noodles are carefully tied with white linen paper with the names of each family written on them, so that they can be retrieved afterwards and returned to the host family.

Qiao Shi did not take the gift that Han Jiujiu prepared for him, but took out fifty yuan himself, which was already a very heavy gift at that time, you must know that the salary of a private teacher at that time was only about 100 yuan a month! If it weren't for Qiao Shi's insistence on persuading Han Jiujiu by his side, and considering Qiao Shi's special identity, the old gentleman wouldn't have dared to accept this money at all!

It was almost as he watched people trembling and writing his name next to Han Jiujiu, so he hooked the corners of his lips with satisfaction, and let someone covering his face next to him pull him away and give up the position behind him.

"Really!" Han Jiujiu blushed and muttered, looked at the mourning hall set up in the courtyard, and said: "We can't do anything either, we will probably have to eat the banquet directly later, let's go and offer incense to the old grandfather first!" ”

Qiao Shi looked at the spiritual shed where the Dharma was halfway done, and on the left and right was a pair of old couplets with black characters on a white background: "You might as well say that you dream in a dream, and laugh at yourself and have become an outsider" The old grandfather wrote it in front of him, and ordered his children and grandchildren to hang in front of the Lingji.

There are statues and spiritual positions on the right position, enshrine five grains, steamed buns, fruits, cakes, liquor, cigarettes, flowers, etc., two ever-bright lamps swing with the wind in the spiritual position, the three pillars of fragrance on the clear yellow incense burner are faint and faint, once they are about to burn out, someone immediately continues the three pillars, so as not to cut off the incense.

A tile pot is placed on the ground in front of the funeral shed, the family burns paper money in it, relatives and friends also burn money to worship, when the funeral is out after three days, this pot is handed over to the eldest son or eldest grandson to break, this is the folk custom of holding the basin and breaking the tile.

"There is an eye under this clay pot, according to legend, this is because there is a king mother in the underworld, who wants to force the deceased to drink a bowl of ** soup, so that he is unconscious and cannot be overborn, and the bereaved family must prepare such a clay pot, which can make the ** soup leak, and break the clay pot to prevent the deceased from drinking by mistake......"

Han Jiujiu thought about Qiao Shi's introduction of various customs in the countryside as he walked, this kind of thing had long been extinct in Qiao Shi's class, but it made him listen to it with relish:

"This basin is also particular, the basin should be broken by the eldest son when the coffin is raised, the father dies with the left hand, the mother dies with the right hand, if the basin is not broken, do not fall the second time, the person who carries the bar is responsible for stepping on the smash and so on." Han Jiujiu said, and said: "The old grandfather does not have an eldest son, but the personal disciple is comparable to a parent, I don't know if this time it was a pot by a Mao gong." ”

Qiao Shi looked at the gray-haired old man wearing a strange robe on the side of the mourning hall, it was Ah Mao Gong who took over the mantle of the old grandfather, at this time he had just finished performing a set of requiem ritual dances, and sat cross-legged in front of the spirit and recited those inaudible scriptures.

"By the way," Qiao Shi asked, "Didn't you say that you brought back the soul and three spirits of the old grandfather, and now that the time has come, the soul of the old grandfather has been dispersed?" ”

"Well, it's not so fast, the soul returns to the underworld, the heavenly soul enters the family temple, the earth soul follows the bones, at least seven days to complete it gradually, the first seven souls, the last time to return home, and then they will be dispersed, the heavenly soul and the earth soul are easy to say, but there are often life souls who are unwilling to enter the underworld, so they gradually lose themselves in this world, so the earth like me always needs to light the soul-attracting lamp to give those lost ghosts a guide."

Han Jiujiu replied, took Qiao Shi to finish the incense, came to another place surrounded by a group of "workers", pointed to a grass platform in the middle of the field that was erected higher and higher like a pillar, and finally, like Sun Wukong's golden hoop stick, stood in the sky! So he smiled and said, "Guess, what is this for?" 166 Reading Network