"Grandpa, we're good to be, Brother Cheng Gang and I helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks in the hall to the kitchen, wash and put them away." Li Chengqiang looked like he was begging for praise, and he was in a hurry to eat in the morning, and he didn't have time to clean up the dishes and chopsticks in the hall.

"You're doing well, you haven't practiced writing today! Let's go, grandpa will take you to write. Li Tingyuan took Li Yangqing and the two brothers to the sandy place where they often practiced calligraphy in the courtyard, preparing to teach everyone the new ten words.

"Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, gentleness, kindness, courtesy, thrift, and letting." Li Tingyuan read and wrote, and wrote these words neatly on the sand, so that everyone could read and write against each other, and a few little babies could only read obediently with their heads shaken their heads.

"Benevolence: benevolence, everyone is virtuous. Virtue is conscience, conscience is the principle of heaven, and it is the will of oneself and others. Therefore, the word benevolence, from the two people get along, because people can not be separated from the group and exist alone, the concept of others stands, and the personality of people is revealed, so as to be graceful and harmonious, to establish oneself, to give full play to the arms of the old and the young, and what they do not want. Don't do to others, things are for people, not for yourself, for compassion, generous and gentle, benevolent. Righteousness:....... Li Tingyuan explained the meaning of these words in detail to a few little babies around him, everyone listened carefully to the old man's explanation, and after knowing the words and understanding their meaning, they squatted on the sand and practiced.

After a few people finished reading and practicing calligraphy, they followed Li Qiu's in the courtyard to string up the vegetarian skewers needed for tomorrow's stall, and half an hour later, I heard a knock on the door, it turned out that Li Sun and Li Yangming came back from the stall.

"Second sister-in-law, third brother, you are back, come into the house and rest, we have already stringed tomorrow's strings." Li Yangqing stepped forward to help the two of them remove the back baskets on their bodies.

"Daddy, today's business is not bad, I estimate that I have earned more than 500 yuan, how is the arrangement of my sister-in-law's family? also took pity on those two babies, and now they are orphans without fathers and mothers. Li Sun handed over the money bag to Li Qiu, and heard about it in the morning, because he had been setting up a stall in the town, and he didn't know what the follow-up would be.

"Things have been arranged, the landlord Wang has lost eight taels of silver, the eldest and the second go to the town to buy funeral supplies, coffins and things to buy banquets, I may not come back tonight, tomorrow's stall will have to work hard for you and Yang Ming, the stall has just begun, and it is necessary to stabilize the source of customers, and the stall cannot be stopped at will." Old Man Li told the two of them about the situation in Wenjia Village today and the arrangements for tomorrow's stall manpower.

Li Sun nodded and responded to Old Man Li's arrangement, "Don't worry!" Dad, you should all go to Wenjia Village tomorrow to help! ”

"Bang bang bang...... Bang bang bang ....... Li Sun heard the sound and went to open the courtyard door, it turned out that Li Zhuang had sent meat.

"Sister Xiangcui, I'm bringing you meat." Li Zhuang carried the meat and pork ribs and handed them to Li Qiu's hands.

"Thank you, Brother Li Zhuang, I'll get you the money later." Li Qiu carried the meat into the kitchen and put it away, took the silver money given by Li Wenshi and handed it to Li Zhuang, and Li Zhuang left after thanking him.

Li Sun then went into the kitchen to cut and wash the fresh meat that had just been delivered, and put it away, and after a while, Li Sun brought the cleaned meat to the hall, and the room began to be skewered together, and Li Wenshi was cooking vegetable dumplings on the side.

"Mother, I see that there are not many vegetables I bought last time, I am going to dig some more vegetables grown by ourselves in the field, I have made an appointment with Aunt Lan, we still have to buy vegetables at her house, this year we have few types of vegetables, and in the spring of next year, we will also grow some other varieties of vegetables ourselves, and we don't have to buy them in the future."

"The second family is right, there are vegetables in our field, but there are fewer varieties, and there must be more other vegetables next year, you can take the money to buy vegetables! In the future, I will also let Aunt Lan send it fixedly, and I won't have to spend money to buy it next year. Li Sun put down the work in his hand, and after Li Wenshi entered the house and took the money out, he went to the door with the basket.

After the skewers were skewered, Li Qiu and Li Yangqing went to the kitchen to make dinner together, Li Yangqing is now proficient in using flint and steel to make fire, the fire can be controlled at will, whether it is big or small, a veritable fire girl.

An hour later, the mother and daughter took the meal to the hall to set it up, tonight's dinner table was a little silent, everyone was not in a high mood and hastily ended the dinner, with a variety of moods, packed up and went back to their respective rooms to sleep, tomorrow part of the people will get up early to set up a stall, part of the people will go to Wenjia Village to mourn and help arrange the funeral!

"Giggle......." The sound of the rooster crowing in the grass shed at home woke up everyone in their sleep, everyone got up one after another, Li Wenshi brought some eggs, food to prepare and give to the two brothers and sisters in Wenshan, the father and mother are gone, don't make the child hungry and sick.

After locking the courtyard door, the family went to the entrance of the village together this morning, and saw two wooden boats parked at the entrance of the village from a distance.

"Dad, I miss you so much! You didn't come back yesterday. Li Chenggang ran quickly to Li Yangwu and threw himself into Li Yangwu's arms, Li Chengqiang then also threw himself into Li Yangwu's arms, after a moment of filial piety to his father and son, Li Yangwu let go of his sons, and after greeting the rest of the Li family, he looked at his daughter-in-law.

"Child, I have to work hard for you for a few days, I'll help you carry things to the ship, pay attention to safety!" Li Yangwu walked to Li Sun's to help carry the basket and put it on the boat, and after the Li family said goodbye to each other, they sat on the two boats and were about to set off in different directions.

"Brother Jiang, Brother Dahe, I'm sorry for you." Li Tingyuan greeted the owners of the two wooden boats, and took the Li family to get on the boat of Wendahe, and Wendahe left the shore and sailed towards Wenjia Village opposite.

"Dad, we have bought things yesterday, the two coffins cost five taels of silver, the funeral supplies cost one or two silver, the ingredients and wine used in the banquet cost four taels of silver, yesterday I gave the Dahe brothers one or two silver, eight taels of silver was used up, and the three taels of silver given by my father were also patched in, today the Li people of Wenjia Village want to go to Wenshan's house to mourn, and invite the villagers to eat the banquet, and they still need to find someone to help."

"You have arranged it well, when the time passes, ask the village chief of Wenjia Village to find some people to help, carry the coffin, cook, these must be arranged one by one, if the money is not enough, let's stick it first!" The two fathers and sons discussed the rest of the matter on the boat.

After getting off the boat, Li Qiu took out six yuan and gave it to Wen Dahe, but Wen Dahe insisted on not wanting it, saying that the distance was short, and he had collected the money yesterday.

"Then thank you Brother Dahe, and I will invite Brother Dahe to Wenshan's house to help and have a meal later."

"That's for sure, I'll definitely go." When the Li family went ashore, they rushed to Wenshan's house.

"Daddy, you're all here, the coffin and funeral supplies were shipped back last night, and Yang De and I helped my brother and sister-in-law put on their birthday clothes and put the two of them in the coffin." Li Wen's voice was a little hoarse, probably crying for a long time.

"Boss, second, Wenshan, you go with me to the village chief, and ask the village chief to inform the village people to come to Wenshan's house at noon for dinner and condolences."

"Thank you, Grandpa Li, for your family's help." Wen Shan thanked the old men Li and took them to the head of Wenjia Village.

"You are Wen Man's mother-in-law! Today, I'm here to discuss the aftermath of Mr. and Mrs. Wenyuan! Wen Changshou, the village chief of Wenjia Village, who was about sixty years old, had a few strands of white hair, a beard, a little hunchbacked, and a gray short-cut coat and black cloth shoes, but his spirit was shining.

"Good village chief Wen, contemptible Li Tingyuan of Lijia Village, we are indeed Wen Man's mother-in-law's family, find the village chief for your help, you need to ask the village people to help handle the funeral of Wen Yuan and his wife, prepare some banquets at noon and invite the village people to Wen Yuan's house to have a drink, please trouble the village chief to arrange some manpower, there is work."

After listening to Li Tingyuan's appeal, Village Chief Wen instructed in a clear manner: "Brother Li, you are polite, I have also heard about the affairs of Wen Yuan's family, I will arrange the manpower, Wen Da, you go and inform the village people to go to Wenshan's house at noon to eat and drink and condole, and then find a few people to go to the village people's house with the two brothers of the Li family to borrow some tables, chairs and benches, Wen Er, you go to find eight people to be responsible for carrying the coffin to the burial, the child's mother, you and your two daughters-in-law go to the village to find a few women's families, and go to Wen Yuan's house to help cook, I will now follow Brother Li to Wen Yuan's house to take care of it, Do these things as soon as possible, lest you miss the hour. ”

"Don't worry! Father. Wen Da and Wen Er assured, and the two of them took the eldest and second of the Li family to the village to do errands.

"Okay, I'll take my daughters-in-law and find a few more women to help me." The old woman who spoke was Grandma Wen Hui, the wife of Village Chief Wen.

"Okay, then the old woman, you should hurry up! Hurry up. Wen Changshou did not forget to advise.

"Don't worry! Let's go" The old man took his two daughters-in-law and prepared to go to Aunt Chun's house in the village to find a few women to help, Aunt Chun's family has many daughters, and four daughters plus Aunt Chun are enough.

Li Tingyuan took the village chief Wen back to Wenshan's house, Wenshan took Wenshui to thank the village chief, and after a while, Grandma Hui took her two daughters-in-law and Aunt Chun to Wenshan's house with her four daughters, and the women of the Li family and several women in Wenjia Village greeted each other under Wen Man's introduction.

"Aunts, sisters and sisters, please come to help, my mother and I will take you into the kitchen to work on the table." Li Wenshi took Li Qiu, Li Wenqiu, and Li Yangqing into the kitchen to work for today's banquet.

"I'm going to drag it out and arrange a buddy for you." Li Qiu said to the woman in the kitchen.

"Where, where, my sister is polite, you are a relative of the master's family, and it should be so." Grandma Hui replied.

"Okay, thank you, today I am going to hold ten tables of banquets, make two meat dishes and five vegetarian dishes, namely stewed chicken, steamed radish pork, boiled leeks, cranberry soup, cold courgette, stewed red beans, boiled mustard greens and huo leaves, plus corn porridge, Aunt Chun's mother and daughter are responsible for cleaning and cutting vegetables, Aunt Hui's mother-in-law and I are responsible for cooking corn porridge, Wenqiu and Yangqing are responsible for burning the fire and miscellaneous when they are young, everyone thinks this arrangement is good?" After listening to Li Qiu's arrangement, a group of women in the kitchen had no objections, and they acted separately according to the arrangement.

"Sister Man, we have borrowed the dishes, chopsticks, tables and chairs back." Wen Wang and Li Yangde carried the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen.

"Okay, set up the tables, chairs, and benches! Put the dishes and chopsticks here. Li Wenshi pointed to a corner of the kitchen and asked the two of them to put the back basket away.

After two hours, it was already noon, and people from the village came to Wen Yuan's house one after another, Wen Shan and Wen Qiu knelt in the hall and bowed to thank everyone who came to offer incense and condolences.

Village Chief Wen, Wen Da, and Wen Er took Li Yangwu to greet the guests, and Li Qiu looked outside from the kitchen, and saw that the people on the table outside were almost full, and the meal had been prepared, and it was time to start the banquet.