The black shadow is none other than Wu Xiaofu.

Wu Xiaofu was worried that the dog and cat would smell the smell of meat, so he ran in through the crack in the aisle door in the middle of the night to steal food, and was even more worried that someone was secretly making a mistake, and sneaked in to poison and drug people when they were sleepy, and while several brothers and sisters were asleep, he quietly slipped out of the house, and took a quilt on the rope in the courtyard to sleep in the aisle.

In the dead of night, although the lights in the courtyard are on, they are small fifteen-watt bulbs, and they are already very dim when they reach the aisle.

Wu Xiaoyun woke up from his sleep and went to the toilet, and saw a person lying in the aisle, remembering that his mother was lying in it to watch the dog, and subconsciously mistakenly thought that his mother was lying in it, and his head was completely stunned, and he turned his head and ran back, but the more he wanted to run, the more he felt that his legs were heavy, and he couldn't start, but thought that his mother was pulling her behind, and he was even more afraid.

Wu Xiaofu was also woken up by Wu Xiaoyun's shouting, he didn't know what was going on, he saw that the light in his father's room was on, and there were several people inside, so he got up to see what was going on, raised his eyes and saw his father standing in the courtyard, and stepped forward and asked, "Dad, what's wrong, why haven't you slept?" ”

Wu Pingshun saw that it was Wu Xiaofu, and immediately became angry, and said angrily, "What's the matter, you scared Xiaoyun!" I thought that your mother was going to arrest her, and I got into my heart, and I didn't listen to anyone, so you go and explain it to her! ”

After saying that, he turned around and went back to his room.

Seeing the false alarm, everyone returned to the hall to continue the vigil.

However, the shadow of this incident was deeply rooted in Wu Xiaoyun's heart, and he couldn't pull it out for many years, sometimes he was sober-minded, sometimes stubborn to the end, and it didn't get better until Wu Pingshun passed away. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

At noon the next day, next to the coffin of the military lady.

On the first day of Xiaojunniang's death, although several brothers and sisters made a lot of noise, under the guidance of Wu Xiaoliang, Wu Xiaoxiao, Wu Yongxiang and Fat Boy and others who took the burial of the old man as the dominant idea, the brothers and sisters temporarily put aside the past and got together.

This is the most complete reunion of brothers and sisters in more than ten years, and it is also the most painful and sad one.

Wu Xiaomei said very melancholy, "Our mother is suddenly gone, it's nothing if we all have a family, the most uncomfortable and difficult thing is our father, how will he live in the future!" ”

Wu Xiaoyun said depressedly, "Our father has never even cooked since he was a child, and no one has the time to cook for him three times a day. ”

Wu Xiaosen said, "This situation is not our family, if there are more, others can get by, our father can still get by, can't cook and try to do it slowly, there will always be a day when you can do it." ”

Wu Xiaofu said lightly, "Let our father take turns to eat at each house, his temper will definitely not be willing, others will definitely not be able to count on it, he can only rely on himself." What worries me the most is that he is not in very good health, and when it comes to the busy season, he can't eat or sleep well and get tired, and in the end he still makes trouble for a few of us, and the land can't be planted so much. ”

Wu Xiaocao said loudly, "I told him a long time ago that the land can't be planted so much, what are you trying to do all day long, can't so many people feed him an old man." If you want me to say, he will directly divide the land into four families, and he will plant two acres if he wants to, and he will give him four acres if he doesn't want to plant them. ”

Wu Xiaofu said, "If he is not allowed to farm now, he must feel uncomfortable, he is a person who can't be idle, and when others are busy in the busy season, he will not be able to stand it." I don't think it's as good as this, isn't it a total of ten acres of land, the third and fourth work outside all the year round, and will not come back to plant, let our father plant four acres first, and the second child and I will plant three mothers each, and wait for our father to plant or can't plant, and then talk about it. ”

Wu Xiaoqi bowed his head and said, "I think what Xiaoxiao said is reasonable, whose land is given to whom, and the four families will give him flowers to eat." ”

Wu Xiaosen said simply, "I'm so busy all day and night that I don't have time to come back to farm, and half of the eldest and second family in the family are not biased." ”

Wu Xiaojun has always been worried about Wu Xiaofu, I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in the gourd, the fox's tail is finally exposed, at present, his mind is still on the ground, and he wants to take advantage of this time to pay attention to the ground, even if the land is not at this time, Yiqiē will not be able to discuss these until his mother has passed a hundred days and his father agrees. Now that the coffin has not yet been ordained, discussing the division of the family property before the bones are cold, it is too eager to achieve it, which is chilling.

Thinking of this, Tengdi stood up and said angrily, "My land is only planted by our father, and as for him not being able to plant it, I will dispose of it again." ”

After speaking, he didn't even look at everyone, and came directly to Wu Pingshun's side.

Wu Xiaojun said angrily, "What kind of people are they, they don't think about how you will live in the future, and they don't leave their profession in three sentences, and they actually pull up the graveyard at this time." ”

Wu Pingshun asked lightly, "What did they say?" ”

"They said—"

Wu Xiaoyun suddenly walked in crying, slapped Wu Xiaojun and said, "Xiaojun, the third child will come back in the future and someone will take care of the food, what should you do!" ”

Wu Xiaojun understood the meaning of Wu Xiaoyun's words, his own land did not allow the eldest and second to go, he had no place to go when he came back from Pingxi, they didn't care about their own food, the eldest sister thought about this matter too much, and came to send her own come, and said disapprerovingly, "Don't say that there is no place to go, even if there is a place to go, I may not be in the mood to go, eldest sister, you don't have to worry about this kind of thing." It's a big deal that when the time comes, I will bring food, or go to the county town to buy food, and I won't be hungry. ”

"You said it simply, relatives and neighbors don't laugh at you when they know about it, don't say that you are too poisonous and can't be a person, no one pays attention to you when you go home from afar, and you can't find food."

"Hehehe, whether it's too poisonous to say I'm too poisonous, it's okay to be a person, it depends on who says, the more people who are not worthy of my respect say more, the happier I am, and the people who are worthy of my respect say half a sentence about me, and I will be uncomfortable for half a month. I'm this kind of person, whoever wants to say whatever he wants, his mouth is on other people's faces, and I can't interfere. ”

"You, just die hard, see what you do in the future!"

Wu Xiaoyun said and left in a huff.

Then, Wu Xiaomei came over and said hatefully, "You didn't look at Xiaofu's stinky face, saying that the two of them planted three acres first, and our father planted four acres, and then said that they couldn't plant it, and the purpose was not to divide the ten acres of land equally." Xiaojun, I understand what you mean, I left a back hand, mainly to see how they treat our father in the future, treat our father well, maybe there is room for negotiation, if it is still the same as before, there is no need to say anything, what do you want to deal with! The eldest sister is soft-hearted, and as soon as she says three nice words, she doesn't know the east, west, north and south. ”

"Second sister, you're right, that's what I think, but I won't do it like the third brother now, you know, the two of them in the family are not people who take the right path and talk about righteousness at all, if I don't look away, don't look at the third child and let them farm in the future, they won't admit to planting the third brother's land, and the third child is inevitably angry about this."

Wu Pingshun listened silently, feeling sour in his heart, and suddenly felt lonely and helpless, and said in a trembling voice, "You two go out, let me be quiet in my heart." ”

At more than five o'clock in the afternoon, more than 20 people from my uncle's family came to burn vegetarian paper, Wu Xiaoliang and Wu Yongxiang, Fat Boy and others introduced the preparations to Qiufeng and others, and they didn't say anything, and simply performed the following procedures and left.

After watching Qiu Feng and the others leave calmly, Wu Xiaoliang's heart suddenly became much more steady.

It's night, there's nothing to say.

At eight o'clock, the mourning hall in the courtyard was soon set up, and all the busy workers in the village had arrived, and they were doing their own things according to the division of labor in advance.

Then, the iron cannon roared, the sound of mourning music, and the relatives of the families arrived one after another, burned the paper and released the whip, and entered the state of substantive procedure.

Some idle people in the front village and back shop came to see the excitement, and the small courtyard was full of people.

Seeing that it was almost half past ten, and other relatives from near and far had arrived, but there was still no trace of their uncle's family, Wu Yongxiang, Fat Boy and Wu Xiaoliang couldn't help but get anxious.

Wu Yongxiang called Wu Xiaoliang out of the filial piety courtyard, and said anxiously, "Xiaoliang, why haven't the people from Dongzhuang been here at this time!" You can't joke about Xinying, the old man must go to the cemetery before twelve o'clock! Dongzhuang people won't know this rule! What's more, your aunt's coffin is so heavy, you have to change people many times on the way, and time waits for no one! ”

Wu Xiaoliang thought for a while and said, "Yong Xiangye, I think this is the case, the guests who haven't eaten come back from the cemetery and start the meal again." As long as the people from Dongzhuang arrive, they will directly close their mouths and come out of the coffin. ”

Wu Yongxiang said embarrassedly, "There is no way, it can only be like this!" In any case, you can't miss the hour. ”

At this time, the fat boy ran over from outside nervously and shouted loudly into the filial piety courtyard, "Everyone in the filial piety courtyard, hurry up and come out to the village to pick up your mother's guests." Move fast! ”

When the mother's family comes to mourn, the filial son must go out to greet him, which is the immutable rule in the local area.

Dongzhuang people are indeed treacherous enough, ordinary people only stop when they go to the edge of the village, they are good, there is still a kilometer away from the village entrance to stop and wait to pick up, and they are tossing filial piety and the people in the village.

Although Wu Yongxiang and Wu Xiaoliang felt awkward and uncomfortable in their hearts, no one had to stipulate the distance and distance, let alone say anything, so they had to open the way in front of the iron cannon and suona, and took hundreds of people out of the village to greet them.

On this day, although it was not the hottest time in the afternoon, the sun was already scorching, and the weather was extremely hot.

Wu Xiaoliang, Wu Xiaofu, Wu Xiaocao and other seven brothers walked barefoot on the road between the villages, and they all felt that the soles of their feet were hot.

Wu Xiaoyun, Wu Xiaomei, Wan Fang, Da Cui and other more than 20 daughters, nieces and others were wearing thick cloth filial piety clothes, sweating and soaking wet before leaving the village.

One by one, they couldn't wait to walk in front of the Dongzhuang people in a few steps, knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times to welcome them home.

But this kind of thing is not in a hurry, the suona drummer who walked in the front stared at the scorching sun and staggered forward, although he was sweating and still blowing very hard, and the hoarse mourning music blew all the people into tears.

Wu Yongxiang was anxious, and urged the suona personnel to go faster many times, but it still took more than 20 minutes to get to the front of the Dongzhuang people.

Then, a large group of filial sons knelt on the cornfield on the side of the road, weeping bitterly and letting the Dongzhuang people pass in front of them before they could get up and go back.

The mourning procession of Dongzhuang people can be described as huge, with more than 200 people, and the crowd is almost at the entrance of the village.

When all the filial sons got up, Wu Yongxiang greeted him, "All the filial sons hurry up and hurry forward, and they must walk in front of the Dongzhuang people in front." ”

The reason why Wu Yongxiang said this was because of the rules, and secondly, Qiu Feng deliberately explained to him, otherwise he would be disrespectful to his mother's family and have opinions.

Wu Xiaoliang saw that he couldn't help it, turned around and beckoned a few brothers and said, "Don't be stunned, speed up and run to the front!" ”