When the funeral procession went out of the West City Gate, the sun was still shining, but after a while, the sky was covered with clouds. When we arrived at the blessed land, a light rain began to fall.

The autumn wind and autumn rain made the atmosphere of the funeral more and more heavy, not only the filial piety added more sentimentality, but also the relatives and friends who came to the funeral, thinking of the kindness and benevolence of the patriarch, they couldn't help crying in the rain, and the eldest and second masters of the clan who were filial sons cried in front of the patriarch's grave.

It was Shen Jue, who was dumbfounded, kneeling in the middle of filial piety, but did not cry with everyone.

But looking at his muddy appearance, others only think that he is sad and ruthless, and no one will find fault with whether he is crying or unfilial.

By the time the patriarch was buried in the earth, it was already twilight, and it was too late to return to the city, so the relatives and friends who came to the funeral needed to be placed outside the city for one night.

The eldest master of the sect was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to speak, and it was all arranged by Shen Ji and the Shen brothers

Although the master of Wufang Hong looked a little tired, he was not as tired as the master of Zongfang. When Guo saw it, he let go of his heart, and told his husband that he wanted to take Shen Rui and Shen Jue to the Wufang Sacrifice Village for resettlement.

Master Hong naturally had no opinion, so he said, "That's just right." There are many people in the sect room, and the Zhuangzi who went to our house is also quiet. ”

As he was talking, Shen came over.

It turned out that although the sect house had asked someone to clean the sacrificial village to settle the funeral relatives and friends, but I didn't expect that the number of people who sent the funeral today was more than half of the expected number.

Among the nine rooms of the Shen family, there are rich and poor, even if each house is sacrificial to the field, but the number is different, there are only the sect rooms, three rooms and five rooms outside the city, and there is no sacrificial village at the head of the other houses.

If you want to settle relatives and friends, you can only place people in the three-room and five-room sacrificial houses.

Master Hongda naturally responded: "Just call someone over, and ask someone to clean a few more rooms." Fortunately, it is only early autumn, and the house is packed up and can be occupied. Speaking of this, I remembered Guo's words and said: "Brother Rui and Brother Jue are also settled here, there are many guests on your side, and there is a disagreement with them in the third room."

Shen Dao: "Well, just follow my uncle's orders, but it's troublesome for my uncle and aunt......"

Master Hongda waved his hand and said, "It's not two surnames, don't be outsiders." You went to count the number of people, and then sent someone to tell Brother Qi that it was. ”

Shen thanked him again and went back to Zongfangyang's house.

The blessed land of each house is connected, and the various sacrificial villages are naturally not far apart. Seeing that there was nothing to do, Master Hong and Guo took Shen Rui, Shen Jue, and Shen Quan and returned to the sacrificial village first, leaving Shen Qi here to answer.

After a while, Shen sent someone to look for Shen Qi.

It turned out that the relatives and friends who sent the funeral had already been distributed, and the relatives and in-laws of the funeral were all distributed, among which the older ones stayed in the Zongfang Sacrifice Village, and the younger ones of the in-laws and friends went to the Sanfang Sacrifice Village, and the younger ones in the clan went to the Wufang Sacrifice Village.

This arrangement is made in order not to be rude, and secondly, to reduce the trouble of the third and fifth rooms.

After all, it is the same sacrificial village, and the meals in the house on the side of the sect have already been arranged, while the third and fifth rooms are temporarily borrowed, and the houses and meals must be prepared in a hurry, which may not be complete. There is also a senior old lady in the third room, and the old man in the fifth room is not in good health, so it is not easy to be alarmed, and the juniors do not need them to socialize in the past, and they can be placed at will.

Shen Qi asked the number of people, and personally went to pick up the brothers and nephews of the Yu clan, and everyone went to the sacrificial village together.

At this time, Shen Rui and Shen Jue had already finished dressing, changed into Yu Jing's clothes, and were sitting in the main house of the sacrifice village, forced by Guo to drink ginger tea to ward off the cold.

Master Hong sat on the top, and he didn't like the taste of ginger soup the most, but when Guo looked at it, he could only make a bitter face and sip ginger tea one by one.

Shen Quan was not idle, so he took the little servant to check the temporarily cleaned up house.

A maidservant came in and said, "Master, wife, the second brother is back, and he has brought back the young masters of the various houses in the clan, and I want to ask the master and wife for peace......"

When Master Hong heard this, he couldn't wait to put down the ginger tea in his hand and said, "Call in."

The maid went down in response, and then the door curtain opened, and Shen Qi came in first, and behind him was a group of "hulala" guests pouring in.

The originally spacious room immediately seemed a little crowded.

Shen Rui had already pulled Shen Jue to his feet and glanced at it, there were thirty or forty people, ranging in age from ten to thirty years old, all dressed in pigmented clothes, and there were many familiar faces among them.

Everyone stepped forward to salute one after another, and they were called differently, divided into several kinds, "Uncle Hong, Aunt Hong", "Uncle Hong, Uncle Hong", "Uncle Hong, Uncle Hong".

Although the visitors were guests, they were all juniors in the clan, and the two of them did not need to be deliberately entertained, so they only said a few words, and then ordered Shen Qi to take them to the front yard for placement.

Shen Jue's expression was dazed, showing that it was not the time to catch up with others, but Shen Rui was not good at closing the door. In addition to the classmates in the family studies back then, Shen Qin, Shen Bao, and Shen Jia also had friendships. A few days ago, I was staying in the sect's room, and everyone was immersed in mourning, and even if they did, it was not the time to talk.

Right now, everyone is coming, but they can't help but say hello.

Shen Rui said to Shen Jue: "I got up early this morning, why don't you go and rest first, and I'll go and see Second Brother Qin?" ”

Shen Jue really didn't have the heart to entertain the clan brothers, so he nodded and said, "It's really lacking...... Second brother Qin and their side, the second brother confessed on my behalf, and the brother will talk another day. ”

Guo Shi was paying attention to the movements of the two brothers, and when he heard the words, he said: "The house is all prepared, originally it was one room for your brothers, but now I am afraid that it will not be enough, you deal with it for one night, and the two brothers are crowded." ”

There are only three courtyards on this side of the village, and there are servants who watch the village, and there are not many houses that can be cleaned up and lived. People like Shen Rui and Shen Jue are already considered to be in a good room, looking at the number of people who came over today, it is impossible to say that except for Shen Hong and his wife, everyone else will be crowded.

Shen Rui said: "It's just that my aunt is cheap." ”

Shen Jue said: "Although my nephew is tired, he wants to sleep immediately, but he still has to ask his aunt for snacks first......

It's not that he's hungry, but he knows that he won't eat and go to rest, and Guo will send someone to wake him up later. If you don't eat anything, the elders will talk about it again, and Shen Rui will also be worried.

Guo said: "It just so happens that your uncle and aunt are also hungry, and they are about to ask someone to eat, so Brother Jue will accompany us to use it...... Brother Rui, let's go, help your second brother and third brother entertain the brothers. ”

Shen Rui went down in response.

After all, it rained for a long time today, and the autumn rain was bleak, and Guo had already ordered the kitchen to boil mutton soup and prepare somen noodles. I didn't know who came to borrow it before, so I prepared it twice, those who had clothes could be entertained with plain noodles, and those who did not have clothes could be treated with mutton soup.

The toppings were all prepared in advance, and Guo Shi ordered to go down, and after a while, the maid came in with a food box. In total, there are three bowls of somen noodles and four dishes of cold salad.

Although the two of them are not convinced, the relationship between Master Hong and Master Hong is there, and because of Shen Jue, there is no meat at all.

Although Shen Jue had no appetite, he ate a bowl of noodles in a big gulp.

Master Hong and Guo glanced at each other, and they couldn't bear it, so they ordered someone to take Shen Jue down to rest.

"Poor Brother Jue, is his identity different...... Even if it's a relative over there, it's not easy to go on a blind date, but it......'s embarrassing," said Master Hongda, sighing.

Guo Shi also sighed: "Don't say anything else, sister-in-law Hai really regrets it this time...... In the end, it was the person who fell from his body, he knew today, why bother in the first place? ”

"Brother Hai really feels sorry for his youngest son, and he was willing to succeed for the sake of Brother Jue's future. If you really want to talk about this, Brother Hai's actions can be considered reliable, and I think that Brother Rui's cousin is much more appropriate than Brother Ji's brother. Brother Jue can count on Brother Rui, but he may not be able to count on Brother Machine," said Master Hongda.

Guo frowned and said: "Shen is rigid, the shelf is full of people, and there is no human touch, and Brother Jue's age is too different from him, how much affection can he have?" I don't know what to do in the future, Shen Ji is much worse than the grandfather and the uncle of the sect. When he was in the capital before, he went to Panhe's house by himself and didn't say anything, but also wanted to subdue Brother Ying and Brother Qi to listen to his orders, and when he saw Brother Ying and Brother Qi disobeying, he shook his face, what is this? Even when the master was in charge, he didn't think about surrendering this or that. is when it comes to the dignitaries of each room, the uncle of the second room and the brother of the ninth room have not spoken, how can it be his turn to come out and hold the bull's ear? ”

Master Hongda said: "I have been an official for a long time, and my interests are just distracted...... Fortunately, Brother Ying and the others are not of this temperament, otherwise I would rather my sons all return to their hometowns to be field keepers, rather than they flutter on the imperial examination.

The house where Shen Jue was placed is the east wing on this side, with a total of three rooms, and there are bedrooms at the north and south ends. The north one belongs to Shen Qi and Shen Quan's brothers, and the south one is for Shen Rui and Shen Jue.

After Shen Jue entered, he directly blew out the lights and lay on the bed with his clothes closed.

Shen Jue saw the worried eyes of Shen Hong and Shen Rui, but he was not as sad as they imagined.

Perhaps when he first got the funeral letter from the patriarch, Shen Jue was in pain, and he returned to Songjiang to guard the soul these days. Today, when the patriarch was buried in a beautiful manner, Shen Jue was already numb.

If the deceased has a spirit, he hopes that he will be well and not let the grandfather go uneasy.

One, two, three...... Now that the grandfather's funeral is over, how many days can he still stay in Songjiang?

Before he came back, Songjiang was the place where he was haunted by his dreams, and he couldn't wait to grow wings in his armpits and fly back to Songjiang; When he returned to Songjiang, he found that he was already a guest, this place was no longer his hometown, and the sect house was no longer his home......

In the living room of the front yard, after taking care of everyone and simply freshening up, Shen Qi had already asked someone to set the table.

In addition to the Wufang brothers and Shen Rui, there were a total of thirty-four juniors who came to stay overnight today, and everyone sat at four tables.

Shen Jin was also among them, but when it was time to eat, he didn't sit with Shen Rui.

Shen Rui's table was full of old acquaintances from his classmates in the family studies. Among the rest, the elder brother sat at a table, accompanied by Shen Qi; The one who was in the year of establishment sat at a table, accompanied by Shen Quan; The remaining teenage brothers and nephews of the big clan also sat at a table.

Because everyone and the patriarch have made five suits, there is no need to be taboo in diet.

The hot mutton soup, accompanied by snow-white rice cakes, and the side dishes are seasonal vegetables and small dishes in the vegetable garden in the countryside, which are prepared in a hurry, although they are not as fine as the food in the city, but everyone has run with them for a day for the funeral, and they are hungry and fierce, and there is a delicious food in front of them.

At the dinner table, everyone had no usual demeanor, ate quickly, but abided by the rule of "eating without speaking".

The soup bowl of the foot and a half, not to mention the full pot on each table, also added once, the fist-sized rice cake, the small amount of rice also ate two or three pieces, and the large amount of rice is more than five or six pieces.

Shen Qi was dumbfounded, although he was stingy with food, he was afraid that everyone would eat badly, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to dissuade him, and ordered someone to make strong tea for everyone to eat.

But it was too late to speak, and it was not one or two who were holding up.

Shen Qin is one of them.

He took the tea and complained to Shen Rui: "It's all Brother Bao's fault, I ate three rice cakes and was full, and he took the fourth one to ...... with me."

Shen Bao was listening, smiling and listening, and did not argue.

Shen Jia has always been kind, and said honestly: "Brother Qin stared at the rice cake just now, his eyes were blue, and if he didn't give it, he was going to rob it......"