Chapter 34: Funeral
"Xiaoshan, you have time to go back and see your grandmother." Wu Lixing sighed: "Her body is getting worse and worse:" I have to go back with your mother every weekend, and she doesn't know anyone a lot now." ”
Hearing this, Wu Shan's head buzzed and he almost fell.
When I was a child, this Wushan grew up under the care of my grandmother.
One thing after another came out of my head.
Was it three or four? The memory is not very clear.
The old man took Xiao Wushan's hand back to the countryside, where was it? It's over there at Wangu Temple, right? It was the old man's maiden home.
It seems to be the death of her grandmother and her mother, and the old man takes the child to the grave.
Wangu Temple is located in the mountainous area of the second district, and it is the poorest place in Wu County, and there is no one.
The road over there formed a shadow in Xiao Wushan's heart.
Now that I think about it, my legs are still weak.
In fact, when I was in the Mountain Brigade and the Dragon Force, I had traveled a lot more dangerous roads.
I went to my grandmother's mother's grave, got off at Ningchanggou, and walked directly on the mountain road.
Memory, the mountain road is so far and far, and I can't go to the end.
When I was about to arrive, there were still family members there, and there was the sound of dogs barking inside.
"Xiaoshan, let's go ahead." Grandma Tai touched Xiao Wushan's head and said kindly.
"No, grandma, you are an adult, you should go ahead." He rubbed his neck in place.
The old man still smiled: "But, you are a man." ”
That's right, I'm a man, Xiao Wushan was so excited, he straightened up his small chest and walked in front.
Oh my god, what kind of dog is that? Like a calf, standing there majestic.
Xiao Wushan's legs. I was so scared that I was trembling.
No one asks about the poor in the downtown area, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains.
Well, that's not quite true. The owner of that family is a distant nephew of Grandma.
Hearing the barking of the dog, her niece and daughter-in-law walked out of the house and saw the old man and said very affectionately, "Auntie is back!" ”
The relationship between this family and Grandma Tai may be out of five suits.
But because the old man married in the city, the living conditions were better than theirs, and he came to the city from time to time to visit during the New Year's holidays.
According to her seniority, she should call her grandmother aunt. It's just that in Wu County, adults follow the children's call.
"Come back, give my mother and they will burn paper and go to the grave." Grandma Tai didn't seem to be angry, and she was smiling at all times.
"This is Xiuyuan's son Xiaoshan, right?" She stretched out her hand and touched Xiao Wushan's head: "If you ask him to attract wealth, he won't bite you." ”
"Fortune!" Wu Shan screamed boldly. Sure enough, the mountain dog wagged its tail and came to him. East sniffing. West Smell.
"Grandma, can you touch it?" Xiao Wushan raised his little face and asked curiously.
"Yes!" As she spoke, the housewife called out for fortune and demonstrated.
"Fortune!" Wu Shan closed his eyes and felt that he had arrived at his side. The little hand touched it gently.
When he opened his eyes suddenly, he seemed to be looking at himself and smiling.
"Fortune! Fortune! Xiao Wushan was so happy that he screamed.
Grandma has no culture.
But China itself is an agrarian society, with rural people making up the vast majority.
That's them. From generation to generation, we have passed on the torch of Chinese civilization.
She didn't know how to tell the truth, but she kept demonstrating, and sometimes she led by example.
That incident, Wushan has always kept in mind. Because the old man taught himself what it means to be brave and what it means to be a man.
After the exam, he didn't look at the results, and Wushan returned to Hong Kong Island.
Grandma is really not good.
Her eye sockets were sunken, and doctors said she was sometimes unconscious and sometimes awake.
The white hair on his head was like dry thatch, and there was no luster at all.
I don't know why, children are afraid to go into the rooms of the elderly, especially the sick.
The Jin Chun and Jin Ling brothers and sisters in the family, leading Jianjun and Zhenghua Zhengfang, took a sneak glance at the door, and quickly retracted their heads.
Only Wu Congxuan, who didn't know anything, took his father's big hand and went inside.
"Little sir, the old man is just around the end of the year and the beginning of the year." After Zhang Yingxue finished checking, she said to Wushan cryptically.
"It's good, thank you, I'll deal with it." Wu Shan let out a long breath: "Mr. Zhang, Mr. Qi wants to go back to the government to work, I don't know if there is anyone on your side?" ”
"Huh? It's true? I just wanted to go. Zhang Yingxue was pleasantly surprised, she really wanted to go to the mainland.
"Okay, you go and talk to the company yourself, I guess no one will fight with you." Wu Shan was in a state of confusion at this time, and hurriedly nodded at Zhang Yingxue.
"Xiaoshan," Grandma Tai could still recognize, "I want to go back to my hometown." ”
"It's so good, grandma." Wu Shan turned his head, inexplicably sour.
As he spoke, he pulled his son: "Cong Ying, call grandmother!" ”
"Great grandmother!" The little guy is now inseparable from his father, for fear that as soon as he lets go, his father will disappear.
"From the beginning of the year, I will be like your father in the future, and become a man who stands up to the sky!" As he spoke, the old man stretched out his hand full of green tendons and touched the little one's head.
Cong Ying glanced at his father with some fear, saw his encouraging eyes, and leaned his head forward obediently.
Not daring to let Grandma Tai take a plane, Ruan Xiu and Wu Shan took the old man to the Han River in a soft sleeper, and then took a boat along the Yangtze River and returned home.
The hometown is being taken care of by my uncle's family, and it is not dilapidated.
and Wu Lixing and them on the phone, and the two of them were here to accompany the old man for the New Year.
For the reunion dinner of three people, Ruan Xiu made a big table of dishes.
The old man's interest was very high, and he ate two bowls of rice, and he didn't miss any dishes.
After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Grandma Tai was like a child, with the support of Wushan, to set off fireworks in the yard.
The fireworks were brilliant, and the old man clapped his hands like a child.
"Ruan Debiao, Ruan Qingcheng, why are you here?" Grandma suddenly screamed.
"Your grandfather and grandfather's name." Ruan Xiu said in Wushan's ear.
Wushan was horrified, looking behind him, there was nothing.
"I'm not going with you, Xiuxiu and Xiaoshan are good to me." Grandma is struggling.
Wu Shan felt creepy, as if something was crawling on his back, and hurriedly helped his grandmother to the house. Let her sit down on a chair covered with a thick quilt.
Grandma Tai's face suddenly became better, and her face was full of red.
She smiled and looked at her granddaughter and great-grandson in front of her: "They're coming to pick me up, I'm leaving." ”
Grandma's hands gradually became stiff, and the smile on her face looked a little oozing.
Ruan Xiu cried "wow", and Wushan's tears continued to roll down her cheeks.
Although the old Wu family is no longer in Wu County, not to mention Wu Lixing, the current first secretary of the Southern Guangdong Special Economic Zone, that is, Yanhuang's enterprises are blooming all over the entire Yixian area, and about 70% of the front-line workers in the whole region are Yanhuang.
There was an endless stream of people who came to mourn.
Yang Yun didn't know when Lu Dao was. Transferred somewhere.
Now the secretary of the county party committee of Wu County is still a member of the old Wu family, called Wu Lizhong.
This person Wushan is not familiar, Ruan Xiuyuan should know him, and he kept discussing with him.
Just had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner. Four fires were lit in the courtyard.
The entire courtyard is covered with a canvas. It's still very warm inside.
Mother and Wushan. With a filial piety scarf wrapped around his head, he felt that he had nothing to do.
No matter what the two of them want to do, someone rushes to do it.
Why is a human corpse so sinking?
When Wushan picked up Grandma Tai and put it in the coffin.
weighs only seventy or eighty pounds of body, and he exerted his strength to feed. to be able to move.
The people next to him saw it, and put the old man in the coffin.
Ruan Xiuyuan's eyes were red and he kept sobbing. She gave her grandmother the last bath. Put on brand new longevity clothes and shoes.
Grandma Tai just lay quietly inside, her eyes tight.
On his face, he still has a smile that has been inherent for a lifetime.
A peach branch was stuffed into his hand, and at the end, a tortilla was tied with a rope.
Listening to these people, it is called beating the dog.
It is said that when a person dies, his soul goes to the underworld.
There are dogs in the underworld, and only when the dog-beating poop on the rope is constantly thrown out, it will not devour the soul of the deceased. And because the peach branch wards off evil spirits, the dog will not come to the soul.
Her face was covered with a piece of straw paper.
Subsequently, several strong men with axes and nails nailed the coffin to death.
"Grandma!" Ruan Xiuyuan cried and fainted.
Wu Shan was expressionless, and his head was empty.
He just knelt firmly at the end of his grandmother's coffin, watching the everlasting lamp flicker.
In my ears, there are some people around the coal fire, where they sing filial piety songs.
"No one answers, I'll pick it up, hehe, I'll ask Master Ge to take a break."
The song of filial piety has an inherent sad tone, and the master of the song over there is still continuing to sing the classic passage of the song of filial piety: "Da Lang replaced the Song Wang's shirt, and Erlang died with a short knife." Saburo was trampled like mud by a chaotic horse, and Shiro's corpse fell in the north. Gorou is afraid of death as a monk, and Rokuro guards Waqiao Pass. Only I, Qilang'er, died miserably, and seventy-two arrows killed him. ”
At this point, it's time for the next one.
This singing segment is She Taijun crying in front of the palace about the whereabouts of the seven generals of the Yang Sect, and Wushan also learned it in his previous life.
Who would have thought that one day, he would hear it at his family's funeral.
There was no big deal, and no gift money was accepted from anyone.
Grandma's tomb is on the hillside behind the Ruan family's house not far from the county seat.
Grandma Tai slept there for a long time, with a small stream flowing day and night, and a pine forest behind her.
In other words, opposite Grandma's grave, about five kilometers away from here, there is a duangong. Duan Gong is the name given to Taoist priests by the locals.
On the morning of the same day, the old man had just been buried, and this Duangong named Zhang Bingning suddenly felt frightened.
Puzzled, he pushed open the door, and a burst of light came to his face.
"Taishang Laojun is as anxious as ordered!" With a loud shout, he took out the mahogany sword from under the shrine in the hall, biting the tip of his tongue and spraying it on the sword. I felt a pain in my heart.
"Bai Quan, what's going on on the other side?" Zhang Bingning shouted vigorously to his son in the back room.
"Oh, I said that Director Wu's wife and grandmother were buried."
He closed his eyes, placed his thumb on the second joint of his index finger, and silently recited the mantra.
"No, this old lady won't have an heir, how can she?" Zhang Bingning was shocked: "Baiquan, move quickly." The graveyard on the opposite side has a real dragon. ”
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly disappeared, and he roared loudly: "Hurry, I have been damned, my eyes are blind, and it will be too late if I don't move." ”
The family saw that Zhang Bingning's eyes suddenly only had frightening white eyes, and hurriedly called their neighbors to move.
When some Xiaodong Xiaoxi was at home, they only heard a bang, the house all fell down, and a deep sinkhole appeared in front of everyone.
At the same time, the tomb on the opposite side suddenly disappeared, and a bottomless pond appeared in the original place.
It is said that one day, a local master passed by the grave of his great-grandfather in Wushan, and was suddenly pushed down by a force and sat on the ground.
He got up and bowed three times to the tomb, and looked carefully.
The feng shui of the cemetery is the direction of the meridian mountain, and the dragon from the back mountain is majestic and tall, just like an immortal meditating.
The place of its tomb is the main dragon variant and the dragon and tiger surround the hall and end the cave, which is really a treasure of feng shui of vigorous energy, which can promote blessing and nobility to future generations. The ancestral home and ancestral tomb are all sitting in the south and facing north, the congenital feng shui is dry and the water is prosperous, and the terrain is low in the direction of the earth branch, Hai, Zi, Chou and Yin, and the congenital feng shui is prosperous.
Seeing this terrain, his scalp tingled and asked the locals, "Has the mountain hereever been broken?" ”
"yes!" An old man with a white beard told him: "At that time, the commune burned lime and set off cannons, and the bombardment was broken. Later, in order to facilitate the travel of the people on both sides, we built a cement bridge here. ”
At this time, Wu Lixing had already taken a back seat in Beijing. The old people in Wu County still habitually call him Director Wu.
After listening, the earth master was silent.
After the others dispersed, he took out a peachwood sword and muttered words in his mouth. I found a big rock, and without blinking my eyes, I smashed my leg alive.
The apprentice was shocked: "Master, what are you doing?" ”
"I hope Li Dai Tao stiff can be fooled." The earth master's face was full of cold sweat, but he still smiled: "Look at the heavens, otherwise I won't live for three days." (To be continued......)