Xie Shi's words did not mention Zhang Lao'an people in a word, but in comparison, it also pointed out that Zhang Lao'an's love is not really love. In addition, he also defended Shen Rui in front of everyone, after all, no matter how well-behaved he looks now, he still has a reputation for arrogance, and some people in the province have preconceived ideas.

Now that Shen Li is brought out, it proves that Shen Rui's character is flawless, and others must think about it if they want to pass on Shen Rui's stubborn name.

Shen Rui sighed in his heart, bowed to Xie and said: "Sixth sister-in-law, don't worry, Rui is not an ignorant child, the sixth brother regards me as a brother and sister, and I also respect the sixth brother as a father and brother." ”

However, the appearance of a nine-year-old child, full of immaturity, but he said that he was not a child, and he looked like a little adult, and everyone felt sad when they saw it.

Xie's eyes softened, although there was Sun Shi's kindness to Shen Li first, it was reasonable for them to treat Shen Rui well. But if he is willing to repay the favor, no one is willing to ask a creditor to press on his head. Otherwise, when will this retribution be the end? Shen Rui is only nine years old, and he will have a long life in the future.

Ascend Mien, fight Mi Qiu. If Shen Rui claims to be the son of his kindness, and then seeks for their husband and wife arbitrarily, how should he deal with it? The slightest mishandling is suspected of "ingratitude".

Xie is a woman, and he still takes care of his small family more. Even if she followed her husband's wishes and was quite concerned about Shen Rui's affairs, she was also a little worried. Now listening to Shen Rui's clear words, Xie Shi's heart has become more steady, and Shen Rui is a little more sincere.

The general judgment lady was originally coming for the Xie family, but finally waited for the Xie family to speak, and immediately smiled and flattered: "It is said that the eldest brother is like a father, and the eldest sister-in-law is like a mother." Xie Anren is so gentle and beautiful, Shen Zhuangyuan has turned into a finger twister even if he is a hundred steels, and he is afraid that he will lose his temper? With Shen Zhuangyuan and Anren to protect him, Little Brother Rui fell into the nest of blessings......"

Everyone was speechless.

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Approaching the second quarter of the first day (half past nine in the morning), everyone went out of the mourning hall to prepare for the funeral.

There are five major pieces of funeral, flags, brands, sticks, basins, and cans.

The jar is the sacrificial jar that was installed before the evacuation of the spirit last night, and it has been prepared, just waiting for the golden coffin to be placed in front of the coffin after entering the tomb, and buried deep in the ground with the deceased.

This jar is usually held by the wife of a filial son or the wife of a grandson, Shen Rui is nine years old, where to find a little daughter-in-law to hold the jar for Sun's family? There is Shen Rui in the partial, and this canned candidate can't be replaced by an outsider's female filial piety at will, otherwise the reputation of this "husband and wife" is relatively nothing?

The Shen family is a big family, and the soul banner of the lady in charge of the four rooms is a more gorgeous flag.

The golden hook dragon and phoenix on the banner pole "lead" a hexagonal shelf, the middle of the big flag, on the book "the late Zhiqingtang filial piety Shenmen Sun family soul guide flag", the left side of the book original life eight characters, the right side of the book is limited time. Hang a smile on the six corners of the surrounding area, also known as "six dust flags", take the meaning of Buddhism "six realms", a banner book "wish to see the Chinese Tibetan realm", two banner books "wish to listen to the sound of the house", three banner books "wish the nose to smell the precept incense", four banner books "wish the tongue to taste the taste of nectar", five banner books "wish to wear Futian clothes", six banner books "willing to give up for nothing".

The so-called "load-bearing" in the funeral, this "heavy" refers to the banner, and the work of this anti-banner child should undoubtedly fall on Shen Rui, the filial son.

The plaque is a spirit card, which is a paper spirit card enshrined in front of the coffin before the golden coffin is put into the ground, with Sun's name written on it, covered with black yarn, and usually the second son holds the card. The Sun family only has one parent, and this spirit card is held by Shen Jin, the eldest son of the concubine.

The stick is the "filial piety stick" and "crying and mourning stick", and this is what Shen Rui is holding in the mourning hall these days. But at the time of the funeral, the filial son has to resist the flag, and the male filial piety of the boy with less than three sons has to hold this stick. There are only two sons in the fourth room, although Shen Quan is mourning on behalf of his sister, but in the end, he belongs to the ranks of male filial piety, so he is the one who holds the stick.

Shen Li is not a rod for Sun's righteousness, and he doesn't need to hold a stick. But Shen Rui was young, and the ancestral tomb of the Shen family was outside the city, Shen Li was not at ease, and wanted to take care of it nearby, so he also stood beside Shen Rui and held a stick

The basin is commonly known as the "mourning basin", and the elegant name is "auspicious basin" and "yin and yang basin". This basin is the same as the banner, it is a symbol of inheritance, and only filial sons and grandsons have the right to drop the basin.

Wait until the master of ceremonies chants "Shen Ling", and the filial son and filial piety are in place.

Shen Rui knelt at the front, Shen Jin knelt behind Shen Rui with the spirit card, followed by Shen Quan and Shen Li, and the most rearly were the younger generations in the clan, and the female filial piety who had relatives knelt behind. The other Wufu clansmen who had made friends with the Shen family stood aside to watch the ceremony.

Originally, it was supposed to be the daughter-in-law of the female filial piety and the daughter-in-law of the bear-bearing grandchild who gave the Sun family a jar, but now it was hugged by Shen Juren and stood beside Shen Rui.

This kind of behavior is not surprising, there is a precedent for such a precedent, the husband holds the jar for the deceased wife, or the wife holds the jar for the deceased husband, and there is also the meaning of the orphaned and the widow and the couple. It's just that Shen Juren doesn't want to see his son-in-law first, and his face is drooping, and this act of hugging the jar is a little reluctant, and he can't see the deep love between husband and wife, which can't help but attract people's attention.

The elders of the clan next to him were anxious, eager to pull Shen Juren down. Where is this just a major event of the Sun family today, or a major event of the Shen family, this Shen Juren is too unclear. It's just that now is not the time to care about this, everyone's eyes are more or less on the filial son Shen Rui.

Seeing that everyone was kneeling and standing, the master of ceremonies handed the spirit flag to Shen Rui. Although the shaft is made of bamboo paper, it can be one zhang high, and for Shen Rui, who is not enough, the weight is not light. Shen Rui took it with both hands, but according to the rules, he could only use his right hand to beat the flag, so he used his shoulder as a fulcrum to stand up the flag.

There was already a reminder to inform the ringer outside the door, and the spirit flag in Shen Rui's hand was like a signal, and as soon as he took it, he heard a gong and drum sound outside the door, and the drummers and musicians took the guys into the courtyard, divided into two rows, stood on both sides of the filial piety, and played three funeral songs in a row.

Shen Rui listened carefully for a while, and only heard the middle one being "Crying Emperor". This piece was passed down to future generations, although the tone was slightly different from that of later generations, and there were still some shadows in it. As for the two mourning songs, they are completely unfamiliar.

"Woo woo yes", the song is like crying. Although the filial sons and filial relatives have not yet reached the time of "mourning", together with this mourning song, some onlookers have begun to cry when they remember the benefits of Sun's life.

Then, the cries were like contagion, one after the other. By the time the ringing was finished, the crowd was already crying. On the contrary, the filial piety relatives who knelt on the ground were more restrained because it was not time to mourn.

Although Shen Rui didn't raise his head, his body was burned by the eyes everywhere, and he knew how many people were staring at him. He put his head to his chest, wiped his eyes with his sleeve, and immediately burst into tears.

At this time, the funeral song has been called up, and the coffin "came out", which was lifted by the barmen and carried from the mourning hall to the outside of the gate. When it was time to mourn, all the filial piety members got up, retreated, and cried as they walked, howling and crying. Shen Rui had already burst into tears, his eyes were blurry, thinking of Guo's explanation in the morning, he didn't cry, but he also cried out loud.

The coffin was carried outside the gate, and the big pole was already ready with the deacons.

Shen Rui stayed up all night, and he "cried" these two times, and now the surroundings were in a mess, and he felt that his brain hurt. And because of the stimulation of the old ginger, not only the tears flowed, but the snot also joined in the fun, he wiped one handful after another with his sleeve, not to mention others, and choked himself nauseously. But this snot is like tears, and it can't be stopped as if the gate has been opened, and one hand is occupied by the pole.

This embarrassed appearance, he really didn't want others to see it. In the past two days, he knelt a lot, and his knees were sore, so he took the opportunity to weaken his knees, knelt down, and prostrate on the ground.

But it was unintentionally planted in the willows, and there was something else to gain.

In the eyes of others, this child just couldn't stop crying, and his trance-like body couldn't stand. After waking up for more than a month, although Shen Rui was not hungry, after all, he was like a vegetarian, and when the child was smoking a strip, he looked more and more thin, and he looked thin and small. He looks like this, even if Zhang Laoan jumps out now, pointing at his grandson and saying that he is "stubborn and unfilial", no one will believe it.

The barmen are in place, and the mourners are ready. The crying of the filial piety gradually stopped, and only Shen Rui's "woo" was left in the audience.

Seeing this, the master of ceremonies sighed, stepped forward and whispered: "Brother Rui, it's time to start the bar, don't delay the good time to send your mother." ”

Shen Rui lay on the ground and rubbed several handfuls before cleaning up the shiny things under his nose, and when he heard this, he stopped crying, raised his head, sniffed, and nodded.

The funeral basin is said to be a basin, but in fact it is just a deep-mouthed dish made of four inches and tiles, with a round hole the size of a copper coin in the middle, two or three minutes thick.

Because Shen Rui was kneeling in front of the coffin now, there was no need to move the place, he still knelt in the distance, put the banner aside first, and took the mourning basin with both hands.

Two feet in front of his knees, a new brick had already been placed. The rules of falling the basin, the father loses the left hand, the father loses the right hand, and the second time you don't fall. If it is not broken once, there will be a barman who will step on it with his foot.

Shen Rui slammed against the new brick on the ground, and with a "click", the mourning basin shattered in half and fell from the new brick to the ground.

The drums sounded, and the barmen started the bars.

Thirty-two barmen carried the coffin, and another thirty-two barmen accompanied him to change hands.

Behind all kinds of deacons, open road flags, banners, umbrellas, shadow pavilions, soul sedan chairs, interpretation, Tao, Zen incense flags, put out half a mile of road, and because Shen Juren is only a meritorious person, there is no official position, deacons are restricted, after all kinds of umbrellas, there are big white snow willows (three or four feet long bamboo tubes, inserted with thin bamboo strips wrapped in white paper spikes, so that they droop, called "snow willows") one hundred and twenty handfuls, in order to strengthen the deacons ranks and scenes.

As a result, the funeral deacon procession reached more than 300 people, and it was so vast that the front of Shen Ju's house was crowded.

The relatives and friends of the Shen family's funeral are almost the same. It wasn't until the barman who used a ruler to guide the funeral train came out of the street that the queue behind began to pull apart. There are also local people who watch the excitement, and they also follow the funeral procession, which is mighty and spreads out half the street.

When the funeral crew left the street, they began to stop and go......