Chapter 102: The end of the world wept and came back to sacrifice the souls of the dead

The widow's funeral proceeded in an orderly manner.

The village party secretary came back as a soldier, although his knowledge was not great, but his organizational ability was very strong, and he acted according to the wishes of Zhu Eunchen, and handled the widow's funeral in a grand and orderly manner, that is, flamboyant and cautious, and carried out it in a grand and orderly manner.

In the evening, Zhu Eunchen called the branch secretary, the village chief, the five fathers and the elders of the Zhu family to come to the gentleman's hall to discuss matters, and sat in a room of people. The branch secretary first reported what he had done today, and listened to the branch secretary say: "Because today is the first day, it was a little chaotic at the beginning, but it was orderly in the afternoon. Everything that should be done today has basically been done, don't look at our rural people usually casual, really to the things are not ambiguous, arranged out of the things are done well, this morning filial piety paper wax incense cannon first bought, in the afternoon meat dishes and chopsticks are all in place, the chef has a big stove in the kitchen, tonight has not begun to serve food. Before the soldiers and horses move the grain and grass, the kitchen will be easy to do. Starting tomorrow, three meals a day, according to the customs of our country, those who come are guests, and those who help are relatives. But anyone who comes to mourn filial piety in the past few days, regardless of distant relatives or neighbors, has a mouthful, goes to eat when he catches up with the meal, and does the work when he catches up, and no one can be slippery and lazy. I won't talk about it today, today at noon, I see that the filial son of our clan has not arrived, when I burned the noon paper, I didn't hear the cry, which is which, there is no atmosphere of mourning, speaking of which, my sister-in-law is also a wise person, compassion for the heart, our people of the same clan are not less of her grace, usually filial piety is not exhausted, let's not say it first, people die for the greatest, this little filial piety to send her old man on the last journey must be fulfilled. Starting tomorrow, filial sons will not be allowed to go home, and all filial sons of the same clan will have a ceasefire in their homes. Eating here is not only the rule of our country, but also to fulfill the last bit of filial piety. I won't talk about it today, but from tomorrow. All of you here are the elders of each family, and you will go back and inform you when the meeting is over. There is no telling each other here, it is that the students do not have to go to school these days, and they will make up the class after the incident. Speaking of this, the branch secretary glanced at Zhu Eunchen and said: "The filial piety clothes will be distributed this afternoon, and I will organize the women in the village to do it in a hurry, although you are a staff member." But the mother is pressing, you also have to be full of filial piety according to the customs of our countryside, but there is one thing that needs to win your opinion, that is, how to make Ermao's filial piety? After that, he looked at Zhu Eunchen with inquiring eyes.

Zhu Eunchen pondered for a moment after hearing this, raised his head and said: "Brother Ermao has been following my mother for several years, although it is a master-apprentice relationship, but I don't think there is any difference with the mother-son relationship, I mean with my filial piety, do you like it?" ”

"No." An elder of the same clan immediately voiced his objections. "I don't think so, although he is like a mother and son with your mother, but after all, he still hasn't officially recognized him as a son, and he is still an outsider. Besides. He and your mother are masters and apprentices, this is known to everyone, now that your mother is gone, let him do the same filial piety as you, isn't this to tell everyone to let him succeed? That's not going to work. He is a stranger after all, and when your mother is in the ground, he will have to leave our village. It's not a matter for a foreigner who doesn't have relatives or old age to live in our village. The person who spoke was Eunuch Zhu's uncle, and he said that the room suddenly became quiet. Everyone secretly looked at Zhu Eunchen, and when he spoke, he was silent for a while, and suddenly someone spoke, and everyone looked at the sound in unison, and the uncle of the same clan who was sitting inside spoke, "That's it, let me tell you if you listen to it, filial piety clothes can't be issued according to the standards of eunuchs, but you can be issued according to the standards of uncles and brothers of the same clan, and filial piety clothes are also issued according to the standards of eunuchs, uncles and brothers, and filial piety is also followed by the eunuchs' uncles and brothers. ”

The uncle of the same clan is also the fifth father of Zhu Eunchen, he said that, and the house was quiet again. At this time, Zhu Eunchen looked around and didn't speak, stood up, looked around, bowed down and said, "This matter is settled." ”

Everyone stopped arguing when they saw that the eunuch had spoken, and everyone began to nod their heads in approval.

The branch secretary was quick to speak, and then the eunuch's words said: "Okay, okay, don't talk about this matter, it's decided." It's been a day, and he has not gotten filial piety until now, and I will send it later, and this matter is decided. Eunuch, sit down, I still have something to say, that is, how can you receive people from the city? Also, how to determine the burial date? What is the composition of the funeral committee? ”

Zhu Eunchen sat down and heard this, he didn't know how to answer for a while, although the official is not small, but after all, he is a person who has never experienced this kind of thing, and he is very handy at work, but he is really a little speechless when he wants to answer these little things about folk customs. After hesitating for a while, Zhu Eunchen looked up at the branch secretary and then glanced at the fifth father, and said: "You should discuss these things with my fifth father, he is an old cadre, and he knows how to deal with the affairs of the field, so he is responsible for receiving people from the city, and you are responsible for the overall situation, I really don't understand these things." ”

"Okay, as long as you speak, you don't have to worry about it, you just have to be filial. Mr. Etiquette will be here tomorrow, and he will teach you how to be filial. The official can't help himself, and the matter can't help it. It's a big deal, and some things really can't help you. ”

"I agree with what you say, but I still have something to say." Zhu Eunchen looked at the branch secretary and said: "My mother has worked hard all her life, and it is not easy to pull me to raise me as an adult, and now that she is gone, it is common sense that she should be beautiful, and she will be grandly sent off to the last part of the road, but I am in the organization, and I can't help myself!" Try not to be too public, that is, to handle the funeral decently, but not to affect the image of the organization. ”

"This is not right, why can't it be done pompously, grand, our Zhu family has not produced a big official for hundreds of years, and now you have supported our Zhu family's court, and this matter can't be done shabby." An elder of the same clan shouted.

"Yes, what are you afraid of, what are you afraid of, this is also a major event that glorifies our Zhu family's court, it must be done well, and the pomp and circumstance will be done, so that everyone within a radius of a hundred miles will know that our Zhu family has become a big official." The elders of the same clan shouted at me word by word.

"Then you have to pay attention to the impact, and I have to pay more attention to the impact as a person."

"Okay, let's not talk about it," the eunuch's fifth father spoke. "If you want to say that you are prepared for danger in peace, you have to think about glory and disgrace, and you have to think twice about everything, which is right, let alone your identity. But I also learned that filial piety is the scripture of heaven. The righteousness of the land, the journey of the people. What are parents raising children for, in order for their children to get ahead, and after death, they will be solemnly buried by their children and be honored by everyone, not to mention that your mother is not ordinary? She pulled you up alone and endured so much suffering, and now the big burial is understandable. Well, that's it. But no one who comes from the city will eat or drink, and he will come and go. But all around the square garden. Whether it is a distant relative or a close neighbor, the visitor is a guest, all reception, noon running water banquet, four dishes and one soup, buns can be eaten casually. Eat whatever you want to eat, don't be angry if you can't catch up with the meal, anyway, our Zhu family doesn't do that desperate thing, let people poke the backbone of our Zhu family afterwards. After that, he looked at Zhu Eunchen. Wait for the eunuch to speak.

Just when Zhu Eunchen hesitated, the village party secretary stood up and said, "Since I talked about the funeral expenses, I will talk about it here." Ha, it turns out that I plan to report back to the eunuchs after the meeting, and since I have talked about this topic, I will talk about it here. This afternoon, the village committee held an extraordinary meeting on the funeral of County Magistrate Zhu and Zhu Eunchen's mother, and full consideration was given to the matter at the meeting. Considering our village, it is not easy for our Zhu family to issue a seven-grade county order, this is a talent that our Zhu family has only come out of for hundreds of years, and our Zhu family is glorious. Considering the future prospects of the eunuchs, in order not to have a bad impact on the eunuchs' careers, the village committee decided that the funeral expenses will be paid by the village, the elders will pay a part, and the inner cabinet will be partly funded. Oh, let me say it again, it turns out that the village committee prepared the food of the people in the city when everyone was deliberating, you are like the people in the eunuch county who have traveled a hundred and ten miles, we can't drive people away when we catch up with the meal, there is also food in the city, and the standard of the meal is: in the morning, in the evening, the big pot of rice, and the bun can be eaten casually. At noon, considering that the amount of food we rural people generally have a large amount of food, coupled with the fact that the people who have helped these days have a lot of physical work, and they are afraid that they will not be able to eat enough if there are fewer dishes, everyone finally unanimously decided to have six dishes, three meat and three vegetarian soup, two boxes of cigarettes, and one bottle of wine. On the day of the funeral, according to our local standards, the meal was full. In accordance with the principle that the visitor is the guest, and the guest has a meal, the flowing water banquet allows the guests to eat and drink well. Do you like it? ”

"Middle, middle, it's good to do this, so that you can take care of the impact on the eunuchs, and not lose the face of our Zhucun people. Okay, that's it. "Some of the gentlemen were the first to speak.

Zhu Eunchen nodded after hearing this.

And when the matter was settled, the people who were the counsellors dispersed, and went to their own business. When everyone was leaving, the eunuch's fifth father also stood up and prepared to leave, and the eunuch stepped forward to grab his fifth father and said, "Don't be in a hurry to leave, let's go to the mourning hall to have a look." ”

When I arrived at the mourning hall, the eunuch's family was burning paper money with their female dependents, and there was a cry in front of the mourning hall, and it was desolate.

Entering the house, Ermao was still kneeling on the ground and holding the coffin and crying. Zhu Eunchen stepped forward and grabbed Ermao's arm to signal him to stand up, Ermao looked up and saw that Eunchen was coming, stopped crying, wiped a handful of tears and stood up.

The eunuch pulled Ermao aside and said, "Brother Ermao, people can't be resurrected after death, and everyone will leave this day." You don't have to blame yourself too much, I know very well what kind of illness my mother has, and I also want to thank you for your dedication to waiting for my mother to finish the last journey, this great kindness and virtue I Zhu Eunchen remember in my heart and will never forget. After saying that, he patted Ermao's shoulder, and said, "Brother Ermao, I will repay you for your losses in the past few years." Before Zhu Eunchen finished speaking, Ermao cried like a girl again. Zhu Eunchen looked at Ermao's sad appearance and patted him on the shoulder again, and said: "Brother Ermao, don't cry, if you are a man, you have to look like a man, cry like this all the time, wait for the burial of your mother, you don't cry your body badly, the mourning is smooth, and filial piety always exists, not only in these few days." ”

"Uh-huh." Ermao nodded vigorously, wiped his eyes, and put away his tears.

Zhu Eunchen's fifth father stepped forward, looked at Ermao and said: "Just now the clan relatives discussed your filial piety, thinking that it is more appropriate for you to perform filial piety with the eunuch uncles and brothers, as for what filial piety clothes you wear, you don't care too much, you can wear whatever filial piety clothes the clan sends you, and follow the eunuchs and uncles and brothers to practice filial piety, remember." ”

"Uh-huh." Ermao nodded vigorously again.

is saying that someone sent Ermao's filial piety clothes over, the second brother has been crying hammers for a day, and he still wears regular clothes, so he will get filial piety clothes, and then he took filial piety clothes, looked at it, lowered his head and went to the side to wear filial piety clothes.

The funeral went smoothly as scheduled. On the third day, the leaders of the city, county and township at all levels came, it was really busy, the door was like a city, the car just drove out at the end of the village, and two more cars drove in the village, the streets and alleys were full of cars, and it was the first time that there was such a grand funeral within a radius of 100 miles. Therefore, there are more people who come to see the excitement, people come from all directions in an endless stream, bustling, rushing to the village committee one after another, it is really a sea of people, facing each other with their backs, and the small village is crowded with water.

The drum music in the village is noisy, the golden drums are ringing in unison, and there are four big plays. It turned out that the village prepared two drum music, and the eunuch's grandmother's family sent two more, in order to support the scene for his grandson. The scene is extremely grand, in this hundred miles radius, there was no one in the first hundred years, and it is difficult to surpass it in the next hundred years.

On the day of the funeral, more people came, and those who got the gift list came, and those who did not get the gift list and knew the letter also came. This is called being poor in the downtown and no one asking, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains. Who doesn't want to get involved with the county magistrate, but everyone who has a little bit of contact with Zhu Eunchen's family has come, and those who can't stop with eight poles and don't usually move around have all rushed here, don't care how much gift money you get, this is to show everyone that I am a relative of Zhu Eunchen's Zhu county magistrate's family.

In addition, the eunuch mother has been telling fortunes for so many years, and there are many people who have received her favor, and now I heard that the old gentleman is gone, and he also rushed to give her a ride, and there are many people who come from hundreds of miles away, so the original plan in the village is disrupted. The original planned cook, the stove was simply not enough, and the anxious book branch was transferred, and the village chief personally led the team to the city to buy things, and the big cart and small cart were pulled home. There are three pots and stoves, one in the east of the village, one in the middle of the village, and one in the west of the village, with four cooks in each place, and the village alleys are full of tables, and there are not many people who help, and the village committee of the neighboring village rushed to reinforce and came with people, horses, carts, and water. There is no river that cannot be crossed, there is no mountain that cannot be crossed, and no matter how great the difficulty is, it will not be difficult to defeat the wisdom of the village.

When it was time to bury in the afternoon, there was a sea of people, and the village and outside the village were full of black and oppressive people, and the flow of people was surging, and the blocked roads were impassable.

The people sent by the city, county, and township governments can only sit there and watch the excitement, and they can't intervene at all, and only when it comes to the funeral can they stand in front of the loudspeaker to come in handy, and the funeral ceremony is held ceremoniously, and the city leaders highly praise the great achievements of the widow's life, and comprehensively evaluate the great merits of the widow's life. All those who attended the funeral had tears in their eyes after hearing this, and they were all proud of the widow's glorious life, and they were also proud of being a relative of the county magistrate's family.

The mother is more precious than the son, and the widow has not survived in vain in this life.

The funeral took place in a solemn and warm atmosphere.

By the time the funeral was over, it was already dark.

When the funeral crowd and the filial sons and grandsons had left, Ermao knelt alone in front of the widow's grave, and his tears had dried up.

Ermao looked at the newly added mound, and knew in his heart that the dignified and upright aunt had left, and she was buried under this mound, and she could no longer see her voice and smile. His mother, who gave birth to him, died when he was very young, and he doesn't remember what his mother looked like. This is the second mother in his life, this mother's appearance is clear in front of his eyes, but this mother has also left him, but the image of this mother has been deeply imprinted in his heart.

Thinking about Ermao, the water in his eyes came out again, flowing down his cheeks. Ermao didn't return to the village that night, and he stayed quietly by the tomb.

By dawn the next day, there was no longer Ermao in front of the grave, and Ermao was on his way to the city.

did not report licking the calf's grass heart,

Giving back is a strong mother's kindness.

The end of the world is full of tears,

Qingming came back to sacrifice the souls of the dead. (To be continued.) )