Chapter 4 Funeral Banquet
Outside from the corridor, steps to the front lawn are full of people, Wu Fen glanced at the black crowd, as if the Wu family rushed to half of the people, this will be the time of the sun, everyone is wearing straw hats, a towel on their shoulders, holding a disposable cup in their hands, which is filled with well water, wiping sweat and pouring water to their mouths. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wu Fen knew that the clansmen of her family were eating funeral banquets in their own halls, and the others were all on the sixth sister-in-law's side, and the three aunts, uncles, and cousins were also there. Bypassing the crowd, I saw my mother wearing a black dress, a pair of gray suit pants underneath, the pants were men's, it should have been worn by my father before, a little long, two trouser legs slightly curled, standing on the middle steps, carrying a bucket of water in her hand.
Hurriedly walked over, took the water, walked a few steps, and placed it next to the stool in front of it, where a lot of disposable cups were placed. When I turned around, I saw that Cheng Xiaolan had just come down the steps, and she was stopped by someone.
"Sister-in-law, are you okay. The sun is sunny enough today, you might as well sit down" The voice sounded like a broken box, it was Cheng Changli, the eldest daughter-in-law of the village chief Wu Chongde.
Cheng Xiaolan hurriedly grabbed the other party's hand, she had never been at ease in her heart these days. Yesterday, the little brother-in-law had been accompanying him in the crematorium, and after Lao Wu's ashes were burned, he helped send them to Wujiachong, and it was already 7 o'clock in the evening when he arrived here. Liao Heng was afraid that the old father and mother at home would be worried, so he rushed more than ten miles to Huichunqiao's mother's house to pick up people.
This will see Cheng Changli from her mother's same village, Cheng Xiaolan didn't make a sound, just hugged the other party's arm as a support.
Cheng Changli looked at the person opposite with a dull face, and lost her usual interest in arguing with her. Alas, they are all poor people.
When she was a girl at home, Cheng Xiaolan looked at a person who was very smart, educated and capable, and at that time, the people in the entire shelter village did not praise Dr. Cheng for giving birth to a good girl. She remembered that she had always hated that her skin was whiter than herself, and she usually spit on the market to sell radishes together, but she was found out afterwards and asked Cheng Xiaolan to carry the black pot.
In the past, I envied people who married a worker and ate public grain. In the past few years, his two sons have been working outside, and after saving money, he rebuilt the house with a three-story building, although it has not been renovated, it is much better than Cheng Xiaolan, who has become a widow. Thinking about it like this, my heart became much more balanced, and I hurriedly held Cheng Xiaolan with both hands.
Wu Fen watched Aunt Cheng pouting for a while and raising her eyebrows for a while, and knew that she was looking down on her mother, so she said angrily, "Aunt Cheng, I just saw Xiao Wu picking up bones next to the stove, you can go over and take a look." ”
"What, this little five, usually he is too tightly detained by the teacher at school, and he goes to the house to uncover the tiles as soon as he gets home." Cheng Changli immediately pushed Cheng Xiaolan's hand away, turned around and took a sun hat and rushed to the stove house.
"Mom, you don't talk to Aunt Cheng in the future, you are too honest, you are bullied by your grandmother and aunt, and every time you let Aunt Cheng open her eyes and say nonsense, you will spread the word to your grandmother's house, and in the end it will be yours." Wu Fen held her mother's hand and helped her to the wooden stake next to her.
"Mom knows, Mom just misses your grandfather and grandmother, your grandfather and your uncle will be on the way." Cheng Xiaolan heard her daughter's blame and hurriedly explained.
Wu Fen also wanted to persuade her mother, but she heard a voice interject. "Niece and daughter-in-law, you are tired, Wu Changyi, that young man I grew up watching him grow up, he is flexible and listens to his family, after you got married, it was really hard. When this happens, you are still young, and you want to open up, remember that you still have children. "It is Wu Chongren, the eldest uncle in the village, who is 81 years old this year, and his body looks good, but his cloudy eyes are full of helplessness.
"Yes, sister-in-law, you can mourn. Fortunately, Brother Wu is a person with a formal unit, and although the benefits of the sulfur and zinc mine are not as good as before, they should still give you a little pension, but it may be more cost-effective to pay it in a lump sum than to pay it monthly, I don't know if my sister-in-law has understood. Wu Minghua, who was coming to fetch water to drink, came over, and he was not in a hurry to fetch water, so he took the conversation.
"Minghua, please help Xiaolan with this pension, after all, you belong to the same unit." The uncle turned around and patted Minghua on the shoulder and admonished.
"I don't know very well, the last time I heard Liu Shuiqin say that when her old Chen died, it was a one-time pension." Cheng Xiaolan looked at the two people who cared about her opposite, and her heart warmed. This morning, Huang Fengying sent Wu Hua to ask about the pension, saying that she wanted to help keep it, and also took an IOU from Lao Wu, which was written to be 2,000 yuan, which was a favor when she arranged for Wu Hua's husband Xia Guoyi to go to work in the coal mine. At that time, looking at Wu Hua's face of forcing debts, I felt a chill, and Lao Wu left, and this person turned his face when he said that he would turn his face.
Wu Fen didn't know what her mother was thinking, but when she saw the crowd going to the sixth sister-in-law's house, and the people of her clan also walked into the hall, she went over to help her uncle's hand. "Uncle, you and Uncle Minghua should go over for dinner, I'll go to the stove house with my mother."
"Oh, okay, then my uncle will go first." Wu Chongren wanted to say something, looking at Wu Fen's clear eyes, this baby was transparent, so he followed Wu Minghua, who came to help him, to the hall with confidence.
Wu Fen watched them walk away, and called Cheng Xiaolan, who was still pondering, to go to the stove house together. In the stove house, Zhang Guohua and several aunts who were invited to make the funeral banquet were busy serving food, and Wu Fen and Cheng Xiaolan hurriedly went over to help.
The people in the hall here sat on the funeral seat, and after the village chief Wu Chongde waited for everyone to sit down, he stood up: "Listen to me, wait for the feast, Wu Chonghuai, Wu Chongyuan, Liu Si'er, and Liu Liuzi carried the urn, and when they arrived on the mountainside, let Fen Yanzi hold the urn, and they must kneel to Wu Changyi's grave on the east mountain in three steps." This was originally Wu Changyi's son Wu Qingyuan holding the urn, but everyone knows that Yuan'er is only a few months old, so everyone understands. Others come by the old rules. Okay, now let's start eating. ”
As soon as Wu Chongde finished speaking, Liu Liuzi on the table next to him shook his chopsticks and touched a bowl of home-cooked tofu in front of him, thinking about how much money he could make from this job. He wanted to snatch the foundation of Wu Changyi's house, he didn't dare to think about it before, but now that he has the idea that Wu Hua said, plus Xia Guoyi's stupid guy wants to transfer out the rice noodle factory at a low price, it shouldn't be a problem.
The four tables in the hall and the two tables in the corridor picked up chopsticks to eat, occasionally bowing their heads to speak, and there were 9 dishes on the funeral table, all of which were usually home-cooked dishes in the countryside.
After the outsiders slowly dispersed, Wu Fen rushed over from the stove house, looked for it in his pocket for a while, soaked the rebirth charm in boiling water and sprinkled it on the surface of the urn, and read: "You have come from everywhere, go to where you go, walk through the flowers on the other side of the Yellow Spring, and experience a life of wealth and prosperity." Holding the urn, he followed Wu Chongde and them to the village road.
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