When Bei Hai stepped out of the car, he was shocked by the crowd at the entrance of the church.

The farewell party for the body was held at the church of St. John, the nearest to the old man's house, and Behai had already set out from the old man's house at seven o'clock in the morning.

I thought I had arrived early, but when I arrived at the door of the church, I realized that I had not come early.

St. John's Church is a small church, the whole church is about a few hundred square meters, in fact, it is a stone church building in the shape of a long house, and it does not look luxurious on the outside, similar to many small churches in the countryside.

But now the entrance of the church, including the path leading to the church, is full of cars, when Bei Hai got out of the car, he turned his head at random and glanced at it, and saw that some people drove away, and some people just got out of the car like himself, and after a glance, Bei Hai guessed which people were leaving and which people had just arrived. Quite simply, there is a bouquet of flowers in the hands of those who have just arrived, and there is no shadow of flowers in the hands of those who leave.

Bei Hai tidied up his suit, took out a bouquet of flowers from the back seat of the car, and walked along the flow of people towards the door of the church.

Regardless of whether you know each other or not, there is always a sense of warmth in small towns that cannot be compared to big cities, that is, as long as everyone meets your eyes, you can always get a smile response from each other, Bei Hai is also like this, some people nod to themselves, and they also nod to others.

Entering from the door of the church, I saw the coffin of the old man in the innermost part of the church at a glance, and then saw that the coffin was surrounded by flowers, and bunches gathered together, directly making the coffin of the old man densely packed around.

Quietly lined up, and as the line slowly moved forward, it took about ten minutes for Bei Hai to 'walk' to the front of the old man's coffin.

This is the first time that Bei Hai has participated in the funeral of Westerners, and although he has seen it on TV before, it is not as direct as coming to the scene.

Old George's coffin is the kind of two-open, and Bei Hai doesn't know what the professional terminology is, to put it bluntly, the coffin lid is divided into two. Each section can be opened independently. Now the lid of the old man's coffin is only half open, and the old man is lying in the coffin as if he is asleep, and the white fabric of the coffin interior makes the old man look more peaceful and serene.

Bei Hai stretched out his hand and gently supported the side of the coffin, and put a wood carving with Fijian colors in his hand on the left side of the old guy's body. Except for the body shape, which may be a little out of the eyes of the old man, the others are to the taste of the old guy.

Obviously, it was not only Bei Hai who knew about Old George, because there were three bottles of whiskey in the coffin before Bei Hai's square wood carving, and each of the old men had a red wine in each hand. Although the old man is not able to hug the beauty on one side, but holding the red wine is also a good choice, Bei Hai thinks that the old man should be very satisfied.

"Good funeral!" Bei Hai held the coffin and looked at the old man's remains, and was silent for almost a minute before he said, and after looking at it twice, he asked the people behind him to come forward, and Bei Hai put down the flowers in his hand beside him.

After paying homage to the remains, Bei Hai was greeted by the funeral host to the front row and sat down, and the first row should be sitting close to the old man. But the old man doesn't seem to have any relatives, no son, and his parents can't be there at his age, as for what nephews and nieces may have, but Bei Hai has never heard the old man mention it.

Thinking of this, Bei Hai couldn't help but turn his head back, and in this turn, Bei Hai really saw that there were two or three groups of people sitting in the back row, who were different from others.

The women in these groups all seemed to be very sad when they were hurt, and the adult men seemed to be a little calmer, but the teenage children around them were not sad at all, although they were dressed in black clothes and black pants, but their faces looked a little impatient.

Glancing at the groups. Bei Hai lowered his head to Old George's housekeeper next to him and asked, "Who is the person who came with the whole family over there?" ”。

"Old George's nephew and nephew," the butler glanced at and said directly, "I used to have very little contact, but now they all pop up one by one."

"Oh!" Bei Hai didn't say much, and after a straight sigh, he turned his attention to the old man. From Bei Hai's seat, you can see the small half of the old man's face and gray beard.

Just as Bei Hai was deep in thought, he suddenly heard the butler beside him say something.

"Why is she here!".

Following the old butler's gaze, Bei Hai saw a man about thirty years old, dressed in ordinary clothes, looking a bit like a homeless man carrying half a bottle of cheap wine in his hand. As he walked, he poured it into his mouth, and just staggered towards the coffin.

Without anyone else introducing Bei Hai, I guessed that it was eight or nine and ten, the illegitimate son of old George! Because this man and old George lying in the coffin can be said to be almost poured out of the same mold.

Bei Hai stood up, because he saw the unkindness in this person's eyes and wanted to stop it, but as soon as he stood up, he was stopped by the housekeeper. While holding Bei Hai, he also shook his head gently at Bei Hai.

"Don't stop it? He drank a little too much! Bei Hai didn't sit down, but bent down and asked the butler softly.

The butler said softly: "Old George has documents left, if Flo shows up at the funeral, then don't stop him." Anything! ”。 After speaking, the housekeeper deliberately aggravated everything.

Hearing what old George had to say, Bei Hai sat down. In Bei Hai's consciousness, there is a family relationship between father and son, and he can only be regarded as an outsider no matter what he says.

However, Bei Hai was very strange, neither old George nor anyone else had mentioned to him that there was such a character, and his mind turned around thinking that his eyes naturally fell on the person who came in.

Bei Hai's side seemed to be more worried, Flo stood in front of old George's coffin about a meter away, and stood slowly, just bowed like a wangle, and poured a sip of wine when he got up. Flo raised his hand and gently wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and then lay on the edge of the coffin, looking up at the old guy in the coffin and just motionless.

All the people holding the flowers looked at the people holding the coffin and were a little surprised, it can be seen that many people don't know the existence of this person like Bei Hai, and everyone's eyes are not blind, this person's appearance is the same as knowing what is going on without DNA testing. So everyone stopped, and everyone looked at the person holding the coffin, and some of them were worried about whether this person would do something out of the ordinary with the body of old George.

I watched it for about five or six minutes, during which time there was no sound in the whole church, and I could not even hear a needle on the ground.

Flo looked up at the Christ statue in front of him, sniffed twice, wiped his arm on his face twice, and reached into his pocket. After touching it for a while, Bei Hai saw what he wanted to take, a bottle cap!

Flo screwed the cap onto the bottle he had drunk more than half of, and then gently placed the bottle in the space next to Old George's right ear, then bent down and leaned over and kissed the old man on the side of the cheek. Whispering a few words in the old man's ear, Flo staggered away again.

Then, in the eyes of the audience, old George's lawyer stood up, lightly buttoned up, and stood in the passage by the wall, and watched Flo out of the church, and then stepped along.

With this episode, Bei Hai couldn't help but look at the few families sitting in the back row of him, it can be said that the expressions on the faces of these families are much more than just now, the sadness on the women's faces is gone, and the eyes of the old ones are wide, and the men's faces are even more exciting, although they want to show their composure one by one, but Bei Hai still looks at the waves in their hearts through their eyes.

When the farewell ceremony began, the pastor stood aside and said a few words, and then some people spoke, talking about the life of George Sr. or the impression that everyone had made of him.

There are praises and comments, and the few who spoke did not only say good things because Old George's coffin was next to him, he loved to drink and chase young and beautiful little girls were taken out by these people to make fun of a few words, but what everyone said the most was what good things Old George did and what changes he brought to the people around him.

The whole formal farewell ceremony was a little more than thirty minutes, and the last forty minutes were over, and Bei Hai and several young people carried the old man's coffin to the cemetery, which was not far from the church, and it was less than five minutes' walk from the church. It's not a matter for six guys to carry a coffin, of course, the coffin of a foreigner is much lighter than the domestic coffin, and the six people in the country are estimated to be really enough.

The burial ceremony was even simpler, and after the priest said a few words, everyone took turns to pick up the shovel next to him and shovel the soil and cover the coffin covered with fresh fish, and each person quickly completed the whole ceremony with a spade.

Bei Hai followed the housekeeper, and when he arrived at the car, he just wanted to speak when he heard the lawyer come over and say to him: "Mr. Bei, please go back to the house with me."

Seeing that Bei Hai was very surprised, the lawyer explained: "When we went to the safe of the bank to pick up the will this morning, the will can only be read by you in the presence of the will, and you are the supervisor of the execution of the will."

When Bei Hai heard that there was still this stubble, he didn't say much and nodded directly and got in the car!

Waiting for Bei Hai to arrive at Old George's house, it didn't take long to sit down and he heard that the surroundings were starting to be lively, and more than a dozen old and young people were shouting outside the door.

Wonderful! After listening to it for a few minutes, Bei Hai felt that he was seeing it today, and a group of people outside the door were waiting to hear Old George's will. Needless to say, everyone's heart hopes that their uncle and uncle can leave them a wealth that they have never had the opportunity to see in their lives, and even some of them directly shouted the slogan of giving something.

Bei Hai has always thought that when Europeans and Americans divide their property, they have a will, which is always better than that of Chinese people, but now it seems that they really underestimate the magic of money, and some people can't even care about shame, not to mention their face, and they are ready to stage a human satire directly in front of the door of old George. (To be continued......)