Tomorrow is not only "May Seven", but also the day of the funeral, the day before the funeral is the day of the end of the hanging, and does not receive hanging guests, the family "stays", not only to send the deceased to the last ride, but also to make the most preparations for tomorrow's funeral.

However, this does not accept hanging guests, referring to foreign guests, and does not include close relatives of the clan. In addition to the filial piety of the four rooms, each head of the Shen family sent his children and nephews over to "stay with him".

The movement of female dependents is restricted, and there are few people who come to "stay overnight", only at dusk, only a few people come to the door, in addition to Guo's, there are Xie and Shen Pingniang. Speaking of which, these three people and the Sun family are not related to each other, but they are all "righteous clothes" that are added to the body and served.

Guo's is a mother and son, Xie is a husband and wife, and only Shen Pingniang is alone. Guo cherished her character, and couldn't help but persuade: "Filial piety is there, you will go home later, you don't have to stay here, although you are a clansman, but you are a young woman in the end, and it is easy to stay outside." ”

Ping Niang said with red eyes: "If there is no help from my uncle, and there is no niece today, I will only keep this night, but it is my niece's own heart." Auntie, don't worry about your niece, my father-in-law also came over tonight, but his face was tender, and when he sent his niece over, he saw that there were many people in the car outside, so he was embarrassed to come over, saying that he would come in when it was dark. ”

Songjiang Mansion bad habits, marrying a wife and heavy dowry. If you give birth to a daughter and don't prepare a good dowry, you won't be able to talk about a good family at all. For this reason, many baby girls were drowned.

In the third room of the Shen family, where Ping Niang is located, the children are not good at reading, but are engaged in economic affairs, and they are the most wealthy. Even if Pingniang's father is a concubine, he is not a family that will lack the dowry of the eldest daughter. But there is a stepmother and a stepfather, after Ping Niang's biological mother died, Tang Erniang, who filled the house, was young and beautiful, and gave birth to a son, not only greedy for the dowry left by Ping Niang's biological mother, but also saved Ping Niang's share, and was not afraid of losing face, leaving Ping Niang to eighteen or nine, and the most Lu used a concubine to take Ping Niang, the eldest daughter of the Yuan Yan, and exchanged relatives with the same Hanmen Xiucai family.

Because the daughter-in-law's family was poor and there was no dowry, Tang Erniang did not give Ping Niang a dowry. Still Sun couldn't look at it, and he had some affection with Ping Niang's biological mother, and helped to buy half of the dowry, so he didn't let Ping Niang go out naked.

Similar to this kind of helping the poor and relieving the crisis, I don't know how much the Sun family has done after marrying into the Shen family, and there are only a few people in front of me who may be thinking of Sun's kindness.

The world is hot and cold, nothing more than that.

"Companionship" is also known as "sitting at night", but it is not just filial piety and knows how to keep the spirit. It has a fixed form and content, usually there is a scripture and a library, the scripture refers to the "water and land dojo", and the library refers to the delivery ceremony.

This "water and land dojo" is different from the usual, it is the "water and land ** meeting" specifications, the monks are limited to three masters, one hundred and forty-seven monks, it can be seen that it is magnificent. Shen Pingniang's husband just mentioned that there are many people outside the door, because of the ** meeting. It's just that the onlookers are not hangers, but neighbors who come to see the lively old and young.

When the dojo is complete, it is the sending of the saint - the delivery ceremony.

At this time, the courtyard in front of the mourning hall has been filled with half of the courtyard of all kinds of paper work, including pavilions and pavilions and other large buildings, red, white, black and yellow four horses, each riding a red robe "Cao Guan", "Cao Guan" carrying a paperwork jacket, which is the yellow money, tin ingots and other things put in by the mourners.

Shen Rui had already been reminded by Shen Li, Shen Jin and others, and knew that as a filial son, he wanted to preside over this delivery ceremony. Therefore, when the water and land dojo was completed, he, Shen Jin and Shen Quan, followed the guidance of the housekeeper and knelt in a fixed position. Shen Rui is in front, Shen Jin is in the back left, and Shen Quan is in the back right. Not wanting to wait for Shen Quan to kneel, Shen Li also came out of the crowd and knelt on Shen Quan's right hand.

Shen Rui knelt in the front row, unable to see what was behind his head, but Shen Quan and Shen Jin were startled. Shen Jin was still calm, and Shen Quan was so shocked that he almost jumped up.

Shen Quanyuan wanted to ask, "Brother of the Six Clans, why is this", but then thought that the Sun family was Shen Li'en's relative, so it was not too much. It's just that he knelt on Shen Li's head and whispered, "Why don't you replace my brother with the brother of the six clans?" ”

Shen Li shook his head and said, "No, it's just right now." ”

Shen Rui heard the movement behind him, glanced back, and didn't say much. This position is not a casual kneeling, if Shen Quandai Fu Niang occupies the position of an unmarried daughter, then the next one is the nephew, Shen Li said that it is just right now, it is for this reason.

Seeing this, the onlookers couldn't help whispering, Shen Rui and Shen Jin are still filial sons, this Shen Li and Shen Quancan have come to this point, so will they have to carry a "crying stick" tomorrow?

Shen Li is the champion master, the clansmen are afraid and dare not criticize, and the young Shen Quan is inevitable. This whispered: "Quan Guan'er has been with me until now, Aunt Hong is a real person. The whisper: "The vigil is all kept, and it is not wrong to be afraid of mourning." Not to mention the deed girl, even the daughter. Good people have good rewards. ”

"It won't be for Aunt Yuan's dowry, right?" Others say sour things.

"Mo Hu Yan! Who doesn't know the character of the five-room old lady, where has he taken advantage of others. An old man scolded.

The person who spoke in front of him still muttered, as if he was not convinced. The old man said: "This move is just to protect Rui Ge'er, and the blessed little lady guards filial piety for Aunt Hong, and the contract between the two families cannot be broken." If Brother Rui has any grievances, he will come out to speak up and down in the fifth room, and it is more justifiable to have the little lady Fu in front of him, after all, he is the brother of the little lady of the blessing. ”

Although there are many clansmen talking about Shen Quan, everyone's eyes mostly fall on Shen Li. Many people slandered the old lady in the fifth room as an old fox in their hearts, and arranged for their grandson to follow the funeral with the vigil, looking at Shen Rui's kindness, but he also used Shen Rui to catch up with the champion.

Shen Rui knelt in front of the three ** masters, couldn't hear the whispers behind him, and focused on the sparse text recited by the ** masters. He is no stranger to the funeral process in ancient times, but it is mostly on paper, and now he has experienced it himself, and he has found that it is complicated.

**The teacher reads the deceased's birth years and years of the deceased, followed by a number of debts that should be repaid, a number of recitations, and the most important thing is that the debts have been paid off, the scriptures have been read, and the sins and karma are completely eliminated. Then the ** division put Shuwen into the blanket on the back of "Cao Guan", and it took an hour and a half for this ceremony.

Shen Rui's knees, which had already kneeled, were numb, he took the torch from the hand of the ** master, and got up to light the paper that had been piled up. These are wooden frame paper paste, when encountered, the "hulala" fire is extremely strong, the sound of "crackling" is endless, and the tongue of fire is overflowing. Everyone took a few steps back, and saw the figures of the pavilions and horses turning to ashes in the flames, and this "delivery ceremony" was over.

Next, the resignation.

It was still Shen Rui who was the leader, kneeling in front of the spirit to worship and drink, and Shen Jin followed, and relatives waited to worship in turn according to the distance of the relationship.

Zhang Laoan still didn't show up, but no one cared about her at this time. After everyone finished worshipping, it was to fill the jar, Shen Rui held the jar in both hands, knelt on the right side of the offering table in front of the spirit, and all the filial piety and filial relatives used new chopsticks to fill the jar with sacrificial dishes.

Shen Jin is the penultimate place, Shen Rui is the penultimate one, clamping the last three chopsticks, sealing the most with an apple, and putting a baked cake on top. This baked cake is specially used for funeral, there are clouds and 10,000 characters around it, Shen Rui listened to the order, according to the pattern, the baked cake was bitten around. He can't eat the part he bites off, he can only spit it out, which is called "leaving food for future generations".

Put the bite of the baked cake at the mouth of the jar, cover it with red silk, and wrap it with a red thread to make a button.

After the jar was filled, the offering table was removed, and all the prayer flags and sacrificial banners on the mourning hall were taken off, and Shen Rui "swept the coffin", and the floating soil swept off the coffin was together with the "food for children and grandchildren" that Shen Rui had just gnawed, which was called "leaving children and grandchildren".

After these were done, the wooden nails on the coffin were to be completely sealed, and everyone immediately burst into tears. Shen Rui didn't have to be fake at all, he just wanted to say goodbye to his family in his previous life, and there was no time to see each other again, and tears fell.

Shen Juren stood aside, and his eyes were a little red.

If outsiders see this scene in front of them, they must feel strange, because among the mourning filial relatives, the closer to the front, the quieter the movement, and the louder the howling at the back.

Shen Quan howled twice at first, but later saw Shen Rui quietly crying like a spring, Shen Jin and Shen Li also cried silently, and his two voices looked fake, so he also stopped talking. However, it is also a loss of the lively crying of the people at the back, so this scene is too lonely.

After all the funeral ceremonies were completed, the mourning hall was empty, and only the coffin in the middle remained. There are a lot of small stools on the left and right, men on the left and women on the right, and everyone sits and waits for dawn.

There was a sound of beating the watch in the distance, it was already the third watch, and everyone was tired.

Shen Juren seemed to be too sad, and ordered the housekeeper to serve hot tea and vegetarian snacks to everyone, and got up to leave. Shen Li watched Shen Juren's back out of the mourning hall, got up and followed him.

It's late at night, but because of tonight's "companionship", white lanterns are hung everywhere, and there is no need to carry lanterns to light the way.

The two of them gathered more than ten steps away, Shen Juren was in a trance, and he didn't notice anyone behind him, and Shen Li didn't mean to catch up, only behind him.

Shen Rui happened to come out of the toilet at this time, and when he saw the two of them one after the other, he hesitated for a moment and followed. If it was Shen Juren alone, Shen Rui would not have much to do, but Shen Li followed behind. Out of intuition, Shen Rui felt that Shen Li must have been talking about his own business when he approached Shen Juren in private.

Tomorrow is the day of the funeral, no matter how Shen Li plans to arrange himself, he should also make a decision. It is unlikely that he will be filial to himself alone, after all, he is only a nine-year-old child, and it is a little unreasonable to take himself with him. Living in front of the tomb of Shen Li's mother, is that for Shen Li's mother to keep filial piety, or to keep filial piety for Sun's family?

The ancestral hall of the Shen family is in the county seat, some distance from the Shen family cemetery. The Shen family's family temple seems to be outside the city, but the so-called family temples are mostly made mistakes or childless widows.

Shen Juren did not go to the backyard, but went to the East Cross Courtyard, which is the Shen family's study, and he lived here since Sun's serious illness to the time when he was doing future affairs. The main house is a two-storey small building, there are three rooms up and down, it is the place where the four rooms are stored, and there are three side rooms on the left and right, which is the place where Shen Juren reads.

After Shen Juren entered the study, Shen Li did not go in with him, but paused at the gate of the courtyard, and Shen Rui behind him had to stop not far away.

Unexpectedly, Shen Li turned around and beckoned to Shen Rui, it turned out that he had already found someone behind him.

Shen Rui couldn't dodge, and was looked at by Shen Li, so he had to step forward. Shen Li made a silent gesture and listened to the movement in the courtyard......