The rainy nights of early autumn always seem particularly quiet, and the bleakness outside makes people feel palpitations, and the sound of rain is sometimes loud and sometimes small, and it has been raining non-stop. In the middle of the night, Wu Pingshun was thinking about the burial of Mrs. Ma, and couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, half-lying and smoking, when he suddenly heard a rapid and creepy "bang, bang, bang" knock on the door outside, opened the door and looked at it, and was taken aback, "Xiaoyun, Sun Ran, in the middle of the night, do you have anything urgent to come over in the rain and step on the mud?" ”

Xiaoyun cried and said, "Dad, I can't live this day, Xiaofu is too bullying, and he will beat me to death when he comes to my house at night." ”

Wu Pingshun sighed in his heart, and hurriedly said, "Come to the house quickly and slowly explain what is going on." ”

Xiaoyun and Sun Ran came to the hall and sat down, Xiaojun Niang and Xiaojun heard Xiaoyun's voice, and hurriedly got up and asked what was going on.

Wu Xiaofu had a big quarrel with his father in front of many people at his sister-in-law Erni's house, and wanted to prevent his father from inviting Mrs. Ma to choose a cemetery, but he didn't expect it to anger Wu Pingshun's strange temper and ignore him at all. Xiaofu was helpless, and returned home angrily under the persuasion of everyone, and fell asleep all afternoon in anger.

In the evening, many people in the village already knew that Mrs. Ma was going to be buried in the south of the village, and privately discussed and spread this breaking news, when Qiao Na passed by the entrance of the village with a large bag of wheat straw for feeding livestock, she saw several women chatting with great interest, and when she heard the details, she hurried back home with a cold face, and saw that Wu Xiaofu was still sleeping, so she was angry, and picked up the broom and whipped it at him, and kept scolding in her mouth, "You waste, you know that you are sulking at home, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep to death you, I don't have any ability at all, your old man who should have died a long time ago, I don't know who poured ecstasy on him, which nerve was broken, and he didn't have a long brain, so he vaguely promised Wu Lian that the dead girl would bury people in the north of a large piece of land in the south of the village. ”

Wu Xiaofu shuddered when he heard this, got up from the bed, widened his eyes and asked, "What are you talking about, where is Old Lady Ma buried?" ”

Qiao Na raised her voice and scolded and shouted, "The north end of the largest piece of land in the south of the village, your father is really old and confused, I don't know how to think about my children and grandchildren, I turn my elbow outward, I must not die well, what a good piece of land for them to bury the grave, when I see it, he lost his breath and threw it away." I don't discuss with the children, I make my own decisions, and I can do whatever I want. I can tell you, if the old man is not buried in that land in the future, maybe some rabbit grandson will snatch it, we may not be able to get it, and you must not regret it when the time comes. ”

Wu Xiaofu felt that the severity of the problem involved his own direct interests, and suddenly gave birth to branches, and suddenly felt lost and helpless, and gritted his teeth with hatred. The secret path must not give up just now, and must not let the old man's temperament come to him, and he must try his best to stop the old man, and resolutely cannot let the sister-in-law bury people in a large piece of land.

In fact, Wu Xiaofu resolutely prevented burying people in that express delivery with his own ideas, and he had been calculating that piece of land for many years. The third Xiaosen will not worry about eating and drinking at work in the county, and the fourth Xiaojun is in high school, it is difficult to say what will happen in the future, even if the fourth child is at home, it is a big deal that the three of them will be divided equally in the future.

Seeing that the old man and the old lady are getting older and older, the land can't be guarded for a few days, and it is not okay not to give it to himself, the second child or even the fourth child when the time comes, and no one outside dares to go to the field to plant crops, which is a sure thing sooner or later. Among the more than ten acres of land, the most convenient to cultivate and can grow good crops is the land in the south of the village, and that land must be obtained no matter what. The most convincing and high-sounding reason for getting your hands on it is that you must use that land as a cemetery, and bury your father and mother in that land in the future, as the eldest son, and it will naturally belong to you in the future. Even if anyone raises objections, there is a saying that they can not be pushed down when they can get it on the table, "There are many people in the family, and there will be many people who will go there in the future, and if it is handed over to any of the other brothers, it will be difficult for anyone to guarantee that they will not be allowed to enter at that time. I am the eldest of the family, and I can't say anything, even if I say it to relatives, neighbors and friends, I can't break the rules that have been passed down from generation to generation. ”

The old man's temper is well-known from far and near, once he has determined something, no one can change it, and the more he fights against him, the worse it will be. Over the years, I have hated myself so much that I will definitely not work when I go directly to him, and I will forcibly block the coffin and prevent him from entering the ground, and the matter will definitely get bigger and bigger, and in the end it will not only be useless, but also make myself disgraced and let others look down on him. What should be done, and who should persuade him to put pressure on him to change his mind? After thinking about it, I thought of my eldest sister Wu Xiaoyun, and thought that Xiaoyun was easy to persuade in front of the old man, but after thinking about it, Xiaoyun's temper was also more eccentric, and the quarrel between brothers and sisters was very stiff, and she had a deep grudge with her for many years, like breaking off the relationship, there was no contact, would she listen to her own persuasion of the old man.

Wu Xiaofu thought about it before and after, was in a dilemma, and couldn't make up his mind, so he said to Qiao Na, "After thinking about it, I can't find someone who can speak and work hard in front of the old man, relatively speaking, it may be better to only be effective, I'm afraid she won't pay attention to me, it's not easy to do." ”

Qiao Na said excitedly, "When is the time, you are still looking forward and backward, scruples about this and that, you don't use your brain to think about it, on the surface, it is not for ourselves, it is for the good of a large family, the second child is a turtle with a shrunken head and never shows up, the third child is a fool and doesn't ask anything, the fourth and the old man are out of one nostril, you don't come forward, the old man's ten acres of land are not all harmed by him, I see how you can get it, even if it is a dead horse, you have to be a live horse doctor, even if you have to go to her head, you have to go to her to talk about it." ”

Wu Xiaofu didn't even eat dinner, so he came to Wu Xiaoyun's house in the rain in a hurry.

Wu Xiaoyun, her husband Sun Ran, her mother-in-law and two children were having dinner, and when they saw Wu Xiaofu, who had not stepped into the door for many years, his solemn face suddenly came to visit, and he didn't know what was going on. Before a few people could react and speak, Wu Xiaofu looked nervous and said with an ugly expression, "You guys are eating, let's eat first." ”

Sun Ran stood up at a loss and said uneasily, "Big brother is here, is there something wrong, let's sit down and eat some food." ”