Mrs. Lu died, and the two rooms of the big house worked together to organize the funeral.

Lu Fuzeng and Lu Si were responsible for receiving relatives and friends who came to mourn, while Lu Shouzeng, Lu Zhong and Lu Yong were mainly responsible for liaising and procuring.

The funeral feast was organized by the women of the two rooms.

Mrs. Lu sat in front of the stove and lit the fire, and Mrs. Lu was washing sauerkraut on the side, although both of them had an old face, but there was no quarrel like never before. Yulan and Wang Dongmei skillfully cut vegetables and meat, and Xiao Bing's daughter-in-law, Xiao Yi, and Xiao Ding were responsible for picking vegetables, washing vegetables, and cleaning some cups, plates, and bowls.

The weather is cold, washing and shabu-shabu, the women's hands are frozen like carrots, and the little fat hands of Jiluo will have chilblains in winter, and they all feel sorry for her, so they don't let her get cold water, just help run errands.

Everyone was busy, but there was no shadow of Lu Si's daughter-in-law.

Mrs. Lu looked around and asked Bingyu's daughter-in-law, "Where is your mother?" ”

Bingyu's daughter-in-law said lightly: "My great-grandmother passed away, she was too sad and lay on the kang." ”

Mrs. Lu scolded: "Lazy! ”

He said to Ji Luo again: "Xiao Ji, go, call your mother out, who won't grieve when the old lady dies?" Will she pretend? If everyone lies on the kang like her, will the funeral be held? ”

Ji Luo ran out for a while and came back, for a reason: "Uncle and grandmother, my mother cried softly, and she couldn't stand it." ”

Mrs. Lu was washing sauerkraut, her hands were frozen crimson, and when she saw her embarrassed little appearance, she angrily dropped the sauerkraut in her hand and raised her eyebrows, "Can't get up?" ”

Jiluo nodded.

Mrs. Lu scolded: "Phew! I have to clean up this laziness! With that, he took a water scoop. Scoop a scoop of stinky sauerkraut water out.

No one persuaded her, she didn't see it, and soon, Mrs. Lu came back angrily, and the water scoop in her hand was empty.

"Alright, there's nothing wrong with it!" Mrs. Lu put down the scoop and continued to wash the sauerkraut.

After a while, Lu Si's daughter-in-law came over with a black face, even if she changed her clothes, there was still a rancid sauerkraut smell in her hair.

Lu Si's daughter-in-law yelled at Mrs. Lu: "Why are you splashing me? Then he cried aggrievedly: "When my grandmother died, was it wrong for me to be sad and sad as a granddaughter-in-law?" I was bullied like this by you..."

Mrs. Lu glanced at her. "Why? Bah! Nor do they weigh their own pounds. Let me tell you, don't think that no one will be able to take care of you when the old lady dies, your mother-in-law doesn't care, my aunt will take care of it! I don't just have to manage. I'm going to go around talking. I'm going to ask the people in the village to judge me. Look at my aunt, right? ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law stared at Mrs. Lu with red eyes, her teeth grinding and grunting, and her fists were even more bruised. rushed forward and kicked over the sauerkraut basket in front of Mrs. Lu, knocked down the bucket for washing vegetables, and shouted as if she was crazy: "Crazy woman! Crazy! I'll let you take care of it! I'll let you talk everywhere! You're so capable, why don't you die! ”

The more Lu Si's daughter-in-law scolded, the more disagreeable she became, Mrs. Lu's face turned dark, she got up and grabbed her hair and pulled it down, and Lu Xiaoyi also hurried up to help.

Yes, it's help, not persuasion.

Of course, helping is also a skillful help, neither let Lu Si's daughter-in-law hurt Lu Si's daughter-in-law, nor let Lu Si's daughter-in-law hurt Lu Si's daughter-in-law, just let her suffer a little bit.

Where is Lu Si's daughter-in-law the opponent of Lu Pozi, who has usually done farm work, coupled with a long-handed and long-footed Lu Xiaoyi imprisoning her, Lu Si's daughter-in-law is completely at a disadvantage.

Magnolia Wang Dongmei hurriedly came over to pull the person away, and Lu Pozi pulled Lu Si's daughter-in-law's hair fiercely before letting go.

Lu Si's daughter-in-law had her hair in a messy bun, pointed at Lu Xiaoyi and scolded: "Ghost eyes, what are you holding me for?" ”

Lu Xiaoyi shrugged, "I am kind enough to protect you, if you don't appreciate it, it's just me." ”

"Phew, where are you kind, it's clear that you are holding me and letting the crazy woman pull my hair."

Lu Xiaoyi said: "If I don't hold you, my grandmother won't be as simple as pulling your hair." ”

Mrs. Lu gritted her teeth, "Xiao Yi doesn't block it, I will tear your stinky mouth." ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law said that she couldn't be the second grandfather, and then scolded Jiluo and Bingyu's daughter-in-law, "Are you all stupid?" Seeing that I was beaten by the two of them, I didn't know how to come up to help. ”

Ji Luo said: "Mother, you don't have to say a word." ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law puffed her: "Phew! How did I forget, you have long separated from me, what is the use of giving birth to you and raising you? I knew that you were so unfilial, and I should have thrown you out of the door in the first place. Then he sneered at her: "Huh! In the past, there was an old lady who was pampered, and after a few days of comfortable life, now that the old lady has passed away, it depends on who you rely on! ”

Ji Luo was crying, tears were turning in his eyes, he gritted his teeth desperately to hold back his tears, but he didn't drop a drop, and said coldly: "It's not right, don't blame it!" ”

Bingyu's daughter-in-law pulled Jiluo to her side and said in a straight voice: "She will not rely on you if she relies on anyone." He said coldly: "Mother, your husband's face has been lost by you." ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law jumped to her feet angrily, pointed at Bingyu's daughter-in-law and scolded: "Bah, believe it or not, I let Bingyu leave you." ”

Bingyu's daughter-in-law smiled, "Great-grandmother's bones are not cold, you just ignored her legacy and started looking for trouble, right?" Do you want me to read it in front of all the guests? ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law's face turned red, then red turned purple, purple turned black, and finally she could only grit her teeth and clench her fists and endure it.

Next, Lu Si's daughter-in-law stood in the stove room in a daze, and did not leave without helping.

A big living person, standing in the middle of the stove room, really affects others to work, Lu Pozi seems to be deliberately working against her, in and out of the deliberately rubbing her, and scolded: "Good dogs don't get in the way!" ”

Lu Si's daughter-in-law scolded back: "The dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth!" ”

The rest of the people are busy with their own affairs, and no one has time to persuade them, and no one is in the mood to mediate them, and at this moment, it is important to prepare the funeral feast seriously.

There was a mournful sound of mourning music from the mourning hall in the front yard, presumably a full-time funeral band arrived.

In this bleak winter, a dark coffin is placed in the bleak house full of white flags, and in the solemn mourning hall, in the brazier in front of the coffin, the incinerated paper ashes are sometimes rolled up by the air current, like a gray and black withered butterfly doing its final dance.

The filial sons and grandsons knelt on the side and wept sadly. A poignant mourning music sounded, and those who came to mourn burst into tears when they saw this scene.

There are many people who come to mourn, in addition to the neighbors of the same village, there are Jia Wei's husband's family, Bingyu's daughter-in-law's mother's family, Mrs. Lu's distant relatives, and even students from other villages who are studying in the study house also came to mourn with their families. In the second room, there are Yulan's mother's family, Wang Dongmei's mother's family, Lu Lian's husband's family, Qi Shan and others.

Mr. Zhou also came, and when he helped to look at the cemetery, he cried so much that he was angry, and the frightened Lu Zhong hurriedly pinched others, and Mr. Zhou relieved himself. Waving his hand, he said, "It's okay, it's okay." I can't count my life, I can't die. ”

After all, it is Mrs. Lu's funeral, and if Mr. Zhou has another accident, the Lu family can't afford to be responsible. Wait for Mr. Zhou's mood to stabilize. Lu Zhong personally drove him back to Zhoujiatuo slowly.

Stopped for three days. Early in the morning of the fourth day, everyone in the village came to see off Mrs. Lu.

Lu Xiaoyi watched as shovels of loess were poured onto the coffin until the coffin was completely covered by the loess. Eventually, it becomes a round mound of earth.

An ordinary peasant woman is buried here after her life, accompanied only by a cold stone tablet.

The cold wind rises, the white paper flags are flying, the white paper money is floating, the deceased is gone, and the living have to continue to live.

The life of the Lu family has returned to its former calm.

Lu Xiaoyi was depressed, and Yu Liang couldn't be happy, so he sold some fragrant wax paper money and took Xiao Yi to worship his deceased father.

It will not be completely completed until the end of the 7749th day.

The days also entered the wax moon, the book house was suspended, and the dry food business was also closed.

On this day, Qi Feng came uninvited with four pig's trotters, and when he entered the hospital, he threw the pig's trotters to Lu Xiaoyi, "Daughter-in-law of the Yu family, let's eat a few dishes." ”

Lu Xiaoyi didn't like to take care of the pig's trotters the most, and the pig hair in the hoof shell and hooves was the most difficult to clean up, and he suddenly had a dark face and was unhappy, "What are you doing here?" ”

Qi Feng raised his eyebrows, "I mentioned the gift?" ”

"What are you doing here, I ask?"

Qi Feng snorted, "I won't tell you." Then he said to Yu Liang, "I'll stay with you for a few days." ”

Yu Liang and Xiao Yi were used to the world, and suddenly there was an extra Qi Feng, although they felt a little uncomfortable, they still readily agreed.

Qi Feng took the initiative to say: "Let's go, let's go into the house and talk about it." ”

Yu Liang asked, "Urgent?" ”

Qi Feng shook his head.

"Then you wait, I'll help my daughter-in-law clean up the pig's trotters first."

Look, why Yu Liang can marry a daughter-in-law, but Qi Feng is a single, this is the gap.

Lu Xiaoyi glanced at Qi Feng, "Learn a little!" ”

Qi Feng really followed the surplus grain to learn to clean up the pig's trotters, Lu Xiaoyi was speechless, he asked Qi Feng to learn the art of being considerate, not the method of cleaning up the pig's trotters, forget it, his brain is not open, and when he has a daughter-in-law, he will naturally understand.

Yu Liang and Qi Feng joined hands, and soon, a burnt smell of roasted pig hair came to the nostrils, causing the black tiger and the raccoon cat to croak again, and they meowed non-stop.

Qi Feng broke it, knocked off the yellowed hoof shell, and threw it to the black tiger and the raccoon cat.

Black Tiger, a stupid dog, has the strong digestion ability of a Chinese pastoral dog, rolls his tongue, scoops the hoof shell into his mouth, and chews it.

The tanuki cat was arrogant, sniffed the hoof shell, shook its head in disgust, stretched out its meat paws to flip the hoof shell, glanced at Qi Feng in disgust, and walked away.

Qi Feng smiled: "Yo, this cat is quite tugging." ”

Yu Liang reminded: "Don't mess with it, it scratches people." ”

Qi Feng was bitten by Little Gray Ash when he didn't listen to persuasion, but now he has learned to be smart, so he only stares at the tanuki cat from a distance and keeps enough distance from it.

Lu Xiaoyi went to the vegetable cellar to get some carrots, chopped four pig's trotters with a knife, and burned a whole large pot. I wanted to set aside half of it for dinner, but who would have thought that Qi Feng would be like the one that had just been released from the cell, and the action would be scary when eating meat.

Lu Xiaoyi said: "Hey, you haven't eaten meat for a long time." ”

Qi Feng complained, "Don't mention it, since Aunt Qing is pregnant, Uncle Zhang won't let her cook, and Aunt Qing's sister-in-law will do it, ouch, I really suspect that she has a trembling disease, and she seems to be trembling at any time, especially when she puts the seasoning, shake a spoonful of salt, and then shake another spoonful of salt, and the fried vegetables are salty and can't be eaten." ”

"Uncle Qi, what should they do?"

"Soak it in boiling water before eating, no matter how you say it, it's better than cooking by yourself."

Can it taste good after soaking in water? This is too improvised, Lu Xiaoyi bowed a tear of sympathy for Qi Shan and the others, and asked, "What about Aunt Qing?" She was pregnant with a baby and couldn't eat too salty. ”

"Uncle Zhang opened a small stove for her." After Qi Feng finished speaking, he thought for a moment, and said to Lu Xiaoyi: "Uncle Zhang, listen to you, next time you help me persuade him to let that aunt go back, I am worried that she will be frightened and lose her life in vain." ”

Although what Qi Feng said was exaggerated, it was not unreasonable, Lu Xiaoyi nodded in response, and asked Qi Feng again: "You won't come to our house just because the food is unpalatable, right?" ”

Yu Liang said with a smile: "There are only two things that can let him run away, one is to go back to his hometown, and the other is to do family affairs, let's say, which one?" ”

Qi Feng's eyes lit up, and he sandwiched a piece of pig's trotters to the remaining grain, "You still understand me." ”

Lu Xiaoyi remembered that Qi Shan said that he would find ten or eight matchmakers to kiss Qi Feng, couldn't it be that there were too many girls to scare Qi Feng away?

Qi Feng was familiar with Yu Liang and Xiaoyi, and he didn't hide it, and said with a wry smile: "Don't mention it, since you became married, my father was in a hurry, and when he returned to the city, he found several matchmakers to help me say goodbye, and the threshold of our family was broken by them." ”

Lu Xiaoyi said excitedly: "Is there a suitable one?" ”

Qi Feng smiled bitterly: "I am the same age as Liangzi, he is in the middle of the year, I am at the end of the year, look, now it is the end of the year, I am already twenty-one, I don't think it myself, but the matchmaker feels that the price is dropped, and all I introduced to me are some crooked melons and cracked dates, I don't bother to pick them, let Uncle Xu pick them." ”

Lu Xiaoyi was skeptical, "Crooked melons and cracked dates aren't enough, right?" ”

Yu Liang said: "It's just that I can't look at it, so I won't hide out." ”

Qi Feng waved his hand, "If you don't hide, you can't do it, my father is now a demon, as long as it's a woman, he has to go and investigate, he fell in love and let me go to see it, you say, what you like, can I take a fancy to it?" Ay! I was so afraid of him that I simply came out and hid from him. ”

Lu Xiaoyi said with a smile: "Brother Feng, do you think your father will not pick a daughter-in-law and choose a little daughter-in-law for himself to come back?" ”

Qi Feng's eyes narrowed, touched his chin and smacked it, and nodded, "This is very likely." ”

Yu Liang said seriously: "Uncle Qi is not what you think, if he wants to continue, it will be renewed." Don't look at how much he loves on weekdays, he still misses the deceased Aunt Qi in his heart. I have seen him holding Aunt Qi's tablet with a sad expression, and since then, I have firmly believed that Uncle Qi will not continue the string. ”

Qi Feng looked at Yu Liang stupidly, because what Yu Liang said was something he had never thought of, and the scene that Yu Liang said was something he had never seen before, he only knew that he was arguing with his father, he only knew that his father was always a big smile, and he thought that his father was such a person.

He had never really understood his father, and even his father's feelings for his mother were not seen thoroughly by an outsider, Qi Feng felt a strong sense of guilt and self-blame in his heart, and even the delicious braised pig's trotters became dull and tasteless. (To be continued.) )