Chapter 139
If it is changed on weekdays, you can set up a temporary shed in the yard, at this time the yard is full of water, and it is raining, it is really inconvenient to build a shed, several Taoist priests have to carry the magic weapons one by one to kneel and sit in the hall, Hu Yingtian brothers knelt around the hall house, and finally the hall can not be squeezed, and the rest of the people will kneel to the next room, or the eaves.
Fox Dayou's family was naturally squeezed under the eaves. The eaves were narrow, and the rain drifted with the wind, and from time to time it fluttered on people's bodies, and after a while, the clothes on the backs of several people were soaked. Fortunately, it's summer, so even if your clothes get wet, you won't feel cold. It was only after the Taoist priest had recited the "Mantra of Death" and "Mantra of Great Compassion" several times that everyone got up.
Next, the Taoist priest will complete the recitation alone, and there is no need for children and grandchildren to kneel in front of the mourning hall. What Hu Yingtian and the others should prepare is the next cemetery, burial and so on.
Naturally, it is not the turn of Fox Dayou and Wei Sanniang to intervene. At this time, the clothes on the backs of Fox Dayou, Wei Sanniang and others were completely soaked. Fox Xiaomei and Fox Lixiang later wore robes, but they were better than Wei Sanniang.
Wei Sanniang found Chen to explain the situation and took the three sisters and brothers of Hu Xiaomei home to change their clothes, and after a few people went home, Hu Dayou also came back. At this time, it was close to noon, Thirteen had already cooked the meal in the morning, several people hurriedly ate the meal, Thirteen cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks alone, and Hu Dayou and Wei Sanniang took the three sisters and brothers of Fox Xiaomei to Hu Yingtian's house.
In the afternoon, the Taoist priest chanted the scriptures, and the people who went to mourn came one after another, and the rain poured down for seven days, and did seven days of rituals, and on the afternoon of the first day of the burial, all the relatives of the Hu family rushed over, including the people of the Hu family. Shen Shi Taoist priest wears Taoist robes.
Fox Mingzhao. Hu Yingtian Chen and others are filial sons, filial piety grandchildren and filial piety daughters-in-law, and they are dressed in "chopping", that is, filial piety clothes made of white burlap. Hu Mingzhao is a filial son and wears a filial piety hat on his head. Also tie the hemp braid into a hemp braid around the waist. Filial piety clothes and pants were made as early as the death of the deceased. At the same time, the white cloth should be sewn on the upper of the shoe, which is called "hรกi", which is the filial piety shoe. After putting on filial piety clothes. Make a bed for the deceased and light the kang paper.
The time of burial was already calculated by the Taoist priest. It's Shen Shizhong. The Taoist priest opened the way, Hu Mingzhao held the tablet behind, and the Hu Yingtian brothers followed closely behind, and then a group of relatives. The fox family is in the middle of the crowd. The people in the fox village can help. The rest of the people stood on the side of the road, quietly sending off the old lady fox.
The funeral procession went around Hujia Village and finally walked to the ancestral grave of Hujia. Because the ancestral tomb of the fox family is on a small hillside, it has rained for several months, and the hillside road is slippery and difficult to walk.
By the time the old lady fox is buried, it has already passed the middle of the unitary time.
The old lady fox was buried, it was okay, and Hu Dayou and Wei Sanniang took the three of them home with Hu Xiaomei.
As soon as the old lady fox left, the fox family suddenly quieted down for a while. And God's rain is still continuous, the fields, the fields are full of water, the roads are muddy, the rivers are turbulent, if it were not for the rain that has stopped coming and going, I am afraid that the river would have filled the fields and washed into the farms.
The Governor of the River inspected the flood situation throughout the southwest, strengthened and heightened the Grand Canals, and took effective measures to divert and drain the canals outside the cities.
Only in the villages, the method of drainage and diversion has little effect. In most places, the crops in the fields have died, and the people are worried about food and clothing!
Fortunately, Hu Xiaomei was prescient and not only stored a lot of dried sweet potatoes, but also fried beans. You don't have to worry about eating for the time being, but you have to look for food for the winter.
Some families are already running short of food, and all of a sudden there are more people buying food at the market.
Fox Dayou also tried to buy grain, and the original grain of four copper plates and one pound has now turned to ten copper plates and one pound. Fox Dayou barely bought some, but it is conceivable that when the winter comes, the price of food will rise wildly.
The rain that has been falling for more than two months has caused the river to overflow, and although the crops have been destroyed and the villages have not been flooded, the roads in the villages have been flooded everywhere, and the yards of every house have been swept away by water all day long, and occasionally the rain will flood into the houses. There were no casualties, but they have seriously affected the normal life of the people.
There are family difficulties, and when the house is simple and rains heavily, the house will leak everywhere, and pots and buckets are placed everywhere in the house to collect rainwater.
What's more, the rain on the eaves dripped onto the bed, wetting a large piece of bedding, and the bed moved several positions, but still couldn't find a place to put it.
For a while, people were panicked and complained!
There are more than one or two households in Hujia Village where the family has such a situation, and Hu Xiaomei's family has four rooms, the fox fence and the house where Thirteen lived were repaired later, and the remaining three-story house was repaired by Hu Xiaomei's grandfather when he was alive.
During this period of time, it was heavy rain and wind, and the roof tiles had already been displaced.
The house where Fox Xiaomei and Fox Lixiang slept was the worst, with varying degrees of rain leakage in most parts of the house. There was simply no suitable place for the bed.
In the end, Fox Xiaomei and Fox Lixiang had no choice but to move to Wei Sanniang's house. Although Wei Sanniang and Fox Dayou's room is leaky, it is not as bad as the one between the two sisters, and the bed is safe and sound.
Naturally, the fox is only with thirteen, and the fox fence is squeezed by two people.
A few days ago, when the rain stopped a little, the bridge between Hujia Village and Weijia Village could barely cross people, at this time the bridge deck has been completely flooded, and even the bridge body is not sure where it is, and those who are bold no longer dare to cross the bridge at will.
Wei Sanniang was worried about Kong and Wei Dahe, so she invited the nearest Uncle Liu across the river to invite Kong to come over, and after the two of them asked for warmth across the river for a while, Wei Sanniang went home with confidence.
When Hu Dayou was making dried sweet potatoes, Wei Sanniang reported a letter to Kong's, plus the savings of Kong's and Wei Dahe's lives on weekdays, there was still some food stored at home, and some dry food was stored, so that there would not be a famine in the second half of the year.
Coming all the way from the river, there is no one on the road, every household is closed, Wei Sanniang rolls up her trousers high, the sewage accumulated on the village road can not reach the ankles, the vegetable fields in the farmland are deeper than the paddy fields when planting seedlings, and the road from the low terrain walks, only the sound of rushing water is heard.
Wei Sanniang pulled the coat on her body, looked up at the sky, and a dark cloud was lifted in the center of the gray sky, revealing a clear sky, and the looming sunlight shone through.
The rain has stopped!
Wei Sanniang untied the hemp rope, took off the coat on her body and held it in her hand, it was really inconvenient to put on this thing at all.
Just then, there was a commotion ahead.
Wei Sanniang heard the sound and left, in the middle of the road ahead, Xianglan was wearing a cyan coarse cloth dress, with a belt around her waist, a single braid on her head, and a red peony on the side of her head.
In the rear, Nguyen Thi is probing his brain.
Look at the posture, it should be a quarrel, and Xianglan and the Zhou family have nothing to do with each other on weekdays, and I don't know what Xianglan and Mrs. Zhou are arguing about. This flood has not passed, and these people also have leisure to quarrel?
When they got closer, Wei Sanniang could hear what the two were talking about.
โโฆโฆ This road is not your family's, could it be that the repair in front of your house is your Zhou family's? I like to stand and scold wherever I want, can you control it! "Pandan is arrogant and speaks without mercy.
"I don't care where you are, you can't stand at the door of my house and scold you." Old Lady Zhou was so angry that her face turned blue.
Behind him, Old Man Zhou stood aside with a cane, looking like he didn't care about himself.
"Who said I was ashamed to scold San?" Xianglan raised her chin, arrogant, and said coldly: "What I scolded is your family." โ
"You ......" Old Lady Zhou choked angrily, turned her head and glared at the old man Zhou who didn't speak, and said angrily: "In vain, you are still a master, and people will not say a word after scolding your ancestors." โ
Xianglan sneered: "Do you think that there are too many people? In the past, it was okay to look at your age, if you don't have a face, are you afraid that others won't give you face? โ
"Whoever you say is shameless, you are shameless." Old lady Zhou was so angry that her mouth trembled, she was honest all her life, but when the loess was buried in her neck, she was scolded and shameless, she couldn't swallow this sentence, pointed at Xianglan, and said tremblingly: "I think talent is a shameless person, look at you all day long dressed up in fancy clothes, walking around with your buttocks, you are a grandmother, are you ashamed ......"
Xianglan's face turned red, her mouth moved and moved, and she endured it in her heart, seeing that there were more and more people around her, most of them flashed ridicule on their faces, and a wave of anger in her chest rushed up, staring at the old man Zhou, and scolded the one who covered her face: "Who you say is shameless, you are shameless, your family is shameless, the old ones are not serious, and the small ones are not in shape...... What do you say, I'm shameless, you ask that old thing, who is shameless, a lot of age wants to take advantage of others, and I don't look at my own virtue, old and immortal things......"
Xianglan's words were like a bomb, which suddenly caused a commotion, and the people around them immediately talked about it, looking at Mrs. Zhou's head and pointing, and looking at Mrs. Zhou, who was also a different color.
Who doesn't know that Old Man Zhou was the most lustful when he was young, and he used to find a lot of good friends outside, and in those years, Old Lady Zhou always quarreled with him for these things.
Now this week, the old man is a lot older, and he still dares to do such a shameless thing, and he is still to the people of the same village.
Xianglan looked at the old lady Zhou with a blank face, and continued with disdain: "Fortunately, he met the old lady, if he meets other little girls, he may be taken advantage of by this old immortal." Then she shouted to the crowd of women, "...... You have to be careful when you go out, don't believe people by pretending to be like a dog, and you don't know who to cry when you suffer a loss! (To be continued......)
PS: It's impossible to type with a child, only to come back and check again.