Chapter 34: A sudden funeral

It was an old lady from the countryside who grabbed Liu Yi. Thin, with fluffy gray hair, dry lips, a pair of bloodshot old eyes, and an anxious look on his face: "Your grandfather has entered the rescue room!" ”

Liu Yi ran to the rescue room without even saying hello to Chen Weizheng. Chen Weizheng didn't want to say goodbye without saying goodbye, Liu Yi gave him a good impression, he wanted to stay and see if he could help her with something. On the other hand, the old lady on the side felt a little cold about Chen Weizheng, and wanted to come over to say something to Chen Weizheng, but she didn't know what to say, so she had to look at Chen Weizheng blankly.

After a while, Liu Yi walked out, walked up to her grandmother, didn't speak, and cried directly. When the grandmother saw her crying, she was even more confused, using her thin body to build her granddaughter, who was a head taller than herself, crying, while saying something in the local vernacular, the local dialect Chen Weizheng would listen to it, and knew that it was the grandma who was comforting her granddaughter. After all, birth, old age, sickness and death, the old man can see through much more.

Chen Weizheng looked at the two ancestors and grandchildren who only knew how to cry bitterly, and couldn't help but step forward and said to Liu Yi: "Liu Yi, don't cry, what's the situation?" ”

Liu Yi raised his head and looked at it, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Chen Weizheng had not left yet, and it was a comfort to have a familiar person by his side at this time, even if it was a person who had just met for a short time. What's more, the other party already has a concerned expression.

wiped a handful of tears and walked in front of Chen Weizheng, although he still had a crying voice, he expressed it very clearly: "The rescue has come to an end, the central health center has used up all the means it should have, and he is on a ventilator, and the attending physician thinks it will be tonight." ”

Although he was mentally prepared, when he heard about life and death, Chen Weizheng's heart still "chuckled". He said, "Then do you want to notify other people to come and see?" ”

"Hmm." Liu Yi said: "My younger brother is at my cousin's house, so I called my cousin. You help me make a call to Ruan Lei, she is here, and I am not afraid of anything. ”

Chen Weizheng didn't have Ruan Lei's number, so he had no choice but to call Chen Weigang.

When Liu Yi's cousin stopped in front of the hospital building on a motorcycle and a little boy, Chen Weigang and Ruan Lei's taxi also arrived. A few motorcycles came one after another, and everyone gathered around Grandma Liu Yi, with anxious and concerned looks on their faces, these are all people close to the Liu family.

Ruan Lei is by Liu Yi's side, indeed, Ruan Lei really has the talent of a leader, with her, Liu Yi seems to have a backbone.

The Chen brothers smoked cigarettes on the side. Uncle Liu Yitang knew Chen Weigang and came over to say hello. He was also surprised that Chen Weigang would appear here. Because he was just a flat-headed commoner, it was difficult to chat with the leaders, so he specially called the secretary of the Liu Village branch with the highest administrative status in the clan and asked him to be responsible for accompanying Chen Dami. The party secretary of Liu Village is Liu Yi's uncle, and he has already come out of five suits. According to the usual situation, he would not come to Liu Yi's house, and when he received a call from Uncle Liu Yitang, he was not very happy, and he didn't want to come because of the trouble, but he didn't come because of the bad face of the same village. When he came to the hospital, he wanted to pretend to deal with it and hurry back to bet on Uncle Six, when he knew that his full-time job was to accompany Chen Weigang, he was so happy that he grabbed Uncle Liu Yi and called him brother, and he was closer than his own brother.

Due to the arrival of Chen Dami, the entire work level of the hospital has risen by a large level, and the director rushed over after getting the news, opened the administrative duty room, and invited the Chen brothers to sit down. lit mosquito coils, poured hot tea, and put on a white coat to directly lead the rescue work.

The paramedics were busy, and the others were staring at each other and couldn't help. Ruan Lei was very calm and had the demeanor of a general, and told Uncle Liu Yitang to ask him to go back immediately to organize people to set up a scaffolding and prepare a simple bed in the shed. If the situation is not right, immediately return to the village, and make sure that the old man dies in the village. Arrange for Chen Weigang to come forward and ask the dean to send an ambulance and escort medical personnel to send the old man back to Laoliujia Village. The job of arranging Chen Weizheng is to take Liu Yi's younger brother well.

Chen Weizheng found that she was really a talent, with a natural quality, calm and rigorous. I want to introduce her to Ou Jie more and more and become the daughter-in-law of the head of the Guolian Group.

When passing by the observation room, Chen Weizheng glanced at the old man, his vital signs were already very weak, and he estimated that the ventilator, even if he used a hand pressure pump, could still be used to return home.

Chen Weizheng took Liu Yi's younger brother to the administrative duty room, a boy about ten years old who fits all the characteristics of a rural boy, with short hair and a black face, a somewhat short T-shirt and shorts, and mud-yellow old plastic sandals. The facial features look very much like my sister, with clear contours, but it looks a little exaggerated on the thin little face, if you can gain two points, you must be a handsome young man.

Because of the nervousness, the child shivered a little and asked him if he was cold, and he said no. When I asked him if he had dinner, he said no, and was about to eat when his sister's call came. Chen Weizheng took out a bucket of noodles from the space, soaked it, smelled the pungent aroma of fast food noodles, and the little boy's throat kept moving.

After eating the noodle bucket, there was no water left in the bucket, Chen Weizheng asked him if he was full, he looked at the bucket and said that he was full. Chen Weizheng knew that he was not full, so he took out a small box of chocolate biscuits and a box of Huang Laoji, handed it to him and said, "Don't worry, eat slowly." The boy took the biscuits and drink and asked, "May I give them to my grandmother?" ”

Chen Weizheng's heart was shaken, this is a filial child, he lowered his head and said to the boy: "This is for you, you can eat, grandma has something else." ”

took out a big cake and a bottle of mineral water, walked up to Liu Yi, and said, "Let your grandma definitely eat this, I don't know when the next meal will be?" ”

Liu Yi immediately reacted that he didn't know what the next meal meant, quickly took the food, glanced at Chen Weizheng deeply, and approached his grandmother, who also swallowed the food in front of her stiffly because of her persuasion.

Ruan Lei gestured to Chen Weizheng, thinking that he had done a good job and deserved praise.

An hour later, Uncle Cousin called, the village was ready, and the village immediately rushed to the village as planned, and within twenty minutes of returning to the village, the old man passed away. The time was nine o'clock, and it was nine o'clock.

Chen Weizheng, Chen Weigang, and Ruan Lei also went to Lao Liujia Village.

The old lady had already fainted from crying, her granddaughter accompanied her grandmother, and she was crying to death, and the little boy had no master, but followed Chen Weizheng, who gave him a meal of noodles, like a shadow.

In Lao Liujia Village, Chen Weizheng knew for the first time why the countryside had to give birth to a son even after being fined and imprisoned! The old man died, and there was no son to wash his body and decorate his burial. No one arranges work, no one burns paper and lights incense, and no one even reports the funeral. Without a son, there is no backbone to control the work.

The most important thing is that no one pays! Ruan Lei is capable, she is always an inexperienced little girl. And once it comes to everything, there's nothing she can do.

Seeing this scene, Chen Weizheng couldn't hold back any longer. Let Chen Weigang call the village party secretary over, and at the same time call Liu Yi's cousin. Question: "Is there a special person * who usually does funerals in the village?" Is there any incense, candle, paper and lamp oil prepared in the clan or ancestral hall? Are there any people in the village who blow conch as dojos? Where do you usually let the team do it? ”

The village party secretary and uncle said: "There is no ancestral hall, because of the competition for status with the new Liujia Village, even the patriarch has not been elected. ”

Hearing this, Chen Weizheng* got up the phone and dialed Bai Shizhang: "Uncle Zhang, I'm bothering you so late, I want to ask you for a favor." ”

Bai Shizhang said: "You say Wei Zheng." ”

"I'm in Laoliujia Village, Longshan, and here's a friend's grandfather passed away, and I want you to save it." Chen Weizheng was not polite to him, and asked, "Do you have a funeral master there?" ”

"Yes."

"Can you let him bring a full set of clothes to help decorate the funeral, I'm afraid it's hard to get it after a long time."

"Twenty minutes the master arrives, who will you find in Lao Liujia Village?"

"Find me." Then continue to arrange the work: "Call someone to send incense, candles, paper and earthen cannons down, it's better to arrive quickly, now the cold fire is quiet." Then arrange for someone to send tents and wreaths down to decorate the mourning hall. Before midnight, the mourning hall was arranged, and the chanting was in place. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away, incense candle paper, earthen cannon and the funeral master will arrive together." Bai Shizhang said: "Arrange for me to come down too." After saying that, he hung up the phone.

After Chen Weizheng finished the phone call, he said to his cousin: "Uncle Cousin, please find a few more people, set up the pot next to it, prepare firewood, utensils, and water, and ask her directly for the cost." As he spoke, he pointed at Ruan Lei. took out his wallet from his body, took out 2,000 yuan and gave it to Ruan Lei, and said, "It's not enough to ask me again." ”

"Tonight's supper and tomorrow's breakfast is somen noodles. Noodles and oil, salt, monosodium glutamate, spices, Lao Gan Ma chili sauce and once surnamed Wanchopsticks Wait for me to bring it to you, you find someone to cook the noodles. The meal starts at half past eleven and stays open until one o'clock, and you can eat as you go. Tomorrow at noon and dinner tomorrow morning. Chen Weizheng said to his cousin again, and his cousin nodded: "I called Xiaoyi's aunt." ”

Then he turned to the branch secretary and said, "Secretary, tonight I think it's to deal with the past, and then I will do things properly tomorrow, do you think this will work?" ”

The secretary nodded like a chicken eating rice: "Okay, okay, this is good, very good!" ”

From the time Chen Weizheng started to call, the village party secretary, Chen Weigang, Ruan Lei and the little boy looked at him intently, Ruan Lei took the two thousand yuan, and before she could react to what the situation was, it was the cousin who woke up early: It doesn't matter who you are, it's easy to give money.

It wasn't until the funeral master finished decorating the funeral that Liu Yi and her grandmother came back to their senses. It was found that the two-meter-high incense had been lit, and the lantern had been placed at the bottom of the coffin. Ruan Lei and her aunt were cleaning up the kitchen facilities, her uncle and some people in the village were hanging tents to arrange the mourning hall, Chen Weigang and the branch secretary were receiving visitors at the entrance of the shed, Chen Weizheng and Bai Shizhang were arranging work at various posts to check the results, and Chen Weizheng was holding hands with his younger brother.

"Knock knock" three earth cannons, the funeral kicked off.

After two days and two nights of worship, the funeral was completed, the coffin was covered and put into the ground, and the song was dispersed.