100 rules of the ancestors

"Bang bang", "Is Mr. Lu at home?" ”

When Lu Fangjun was eating his boiled noodles in the house, there was a knock on the door, "Who?" Lu Fangjun put down his rice bowl and went to open the door, as soon as the door opened, a middle-aged man appeared in front of Lu Fangjun's eyes, this person Lu Fangjun had never seen before. You are? ”

As soon as the man saw Lu Fangjun open the door, he knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Fangjun without saying anything, and behind the man, a smaller figure also knelt there and kowtowed, "Xiaoying, what are you doing here?" Hurry up. Lu Fangjun helped the two people up, only to see that both of them had hemp ropes tied to their heads, and Lu Fangjun immediately understood what was happening.

"Come on, please come in, sit inside." Lu Fangjun hurriedly asked the middle-aged man and Xiao Yingzi to go back to the house.

"Hello Teacher Lu, I'm Xiaoying's uncle, I'm here to send her to school, Guo Dong can't come for the past two days, so please help take care of the child, please." This middle-aged man is Zhang Jun who came to send Xiaoyingzi to school.

"Come in, drink your saliva, and let's go." Lu Fangjun still wanted to keep it.

"Nope." Zhang Jun said as he untied the hemp rope on Xiao Yingzi's head, "I still have filial piety on me, it's inconvenient, let's change the day." Zhang Jun didn't wait for Lu Fangjun to speak, and left in a hurry.

"Come on, Xiaoying come in first, are you hungry? I'll give you a bowl of noodles. Lu Fangjun looked at Xiao Yingzi and asked, Xiao Yingzi shook her head.

Lu Fangjun sighed, not knowing how to comfort this child.

Zhao Village.

Zhao Guodong has already prepared everything, now the weather is too hot, the body can't be stored for too long, otherwise there will be a smell coming out, Zhao Guodong discussed with Zhang Dabao what to do.

"Uncle Zhang, what should I do with Aunt Mei's future? It's been two days, and it's been ...... in two days. Zhao Guodong didn't know what to say.

"I'm also worried, I asked the boys in the village to go and make a coffin, and when the coffin comes back, first put the old lady in peace, let's talk, anyway, this head seven always has to pass." Zhang Dabao couldn't do anything for a while, the corpse would definitely rot and smell if it was stored for too long in such a hot weather.

"That's the way it is." Zhao Guodong knelt there, watching the age spots on Aunt Mei's face getting bigger and bigger, and some of them had begun to shed some yellow pus.

The next day, the coffin has been laid, and Aunt Mei has been settled, and now it is the place to choose the cremation, which was originally planned to be in this courtyard, but because there are all houses around, I am afraid that something will happen, there is no way, Zhang Dabao can only find a piece of land at the small dirt slope at the entrance of the village.

"Let's go, Guodong will look at the place, and then when it is the first seven, the old lady will rest there." Zhang Dabao said.

"Uncle Zhang, just look at it, my mother can rest assured that you can do something." Zhao Guodong can't see his personality at all now, Zhang Dabao said distressedly.

"Guodong, you go to sleep, I will guard this everlasting lamp for you."

"I am a filial son, and it is my business to keep the lantern for a long time, and I can't let others replace me."

"However, it's not a way for you to stay up like this."

"It's okay, Uncle Zhang, I can hold it." Zhang Dabao saw Zhao Guodong trying to squeeze out a smile, but Zhao Guodong's face had already become stiff.

"Village chief? Chief! Is the village chief here? "There was a lot of people in the yard.

"What's the matter with you?" Zhang Dabao looked at these people with a somewhat menacing appearance, and sighed in his heart, could it be that he couldn't fulfill his old sister's wish if he wanted to?

"Village Chief, what are you going to do with that pile of firewood at the entrance of the village?" The villagers asked.

"Aunt Mei went, and according to Aunt Mei's words when she left, she wanted to be cremated." Zhang Dabao said.

"No, resolutely not."

"yes, it just doesn't."

"Isn't that a broken rule?"

"This still doesn't let the people of our Zhao Village live?"

The villagers below coaxed one after another, but they didn't agree to let Aunt Mei be cremated.

"Village Chief, we all know that you have a good relationship with Aunt Mei, and it is uncomfortable to see Aunt Mei go, but we have also received so much help from the old lady, and we have also suffered, but this is uncomfortable, and the rules of the ancestors cannot be broken. Entering the earth for peace, entering the earth for peace, it must be in the ground, the soul can be regarded as settled, like you make a fuss, where does the soul settle? Wandering around? If we want to make trouble, can't our Zhao Village be peaceful? The villagers below elected a representative to speak.

"That's it, that's it."

"Know the rules."

"What's wrong? Want to rebel? I'm not dead yet. Zhang Dabao's anger was forced by these people, "Look at you guys, what do you want to do with so many people?" Isn't it just that Zhao Guodong wants to fulfill the old lady's last wish, what's the big deal? Returning the soul, the ghost has been brought out, all these years, which of you has seen a ghost, ah? Stand up for me and show me what a ghost looks like. "The villagers are buzzing underground.

"Village chief, what you said is not right, the rules of the ancestors are changed when they are said? If there were no such rules, would our Zhao Village be where it is today? It's not that the family has been ruined by a small drought in three years and a big drought in five years, and today, I can't let the old lady be cremated, I must be buried, or pulled out, as long as we are out of the boundary of Zhao Village, we have nothing to say. ”

"Yes, yes, we have no opinion."

"Uncles, uncles, brothers-in-law." Zhao Guodong's legs were stiff on his knees, and he stood up only with Zhang Jun's support, "I beg everyone, this is my mother's last wish when she leaves, I beg everyone, can you do it?" "Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and no one speaks.

"I'm begging the big guys, I'm kowtowing to you." Zhao Guodong shook off Zhang Jun and knelt in front of everyone, "I'll kowtow to you, I'll kowtow to you." ”

"Guodong, we also know your filial piety, and we also know that Aunt Mei has suffered for so many years, but this is the rule left by the ancestors for thousands of years, and it is the foundation of blessing Zhao Village, you also think about it for us." Villagers said. "As long as you say that it is a burial, our big guys are absolutely unambiguous, and it is okay to work and contribute, but this cremation is violating the rules left by the ancestors, and once this rule is broken, Zhao Village will be destroyed."

Zhao Guodong was still kowtowing vigorously there, and Zhang Dabao poked the crutches to the ground one by one, "You are all elm heads, and you all look quite young, not as good as me as a bad old man." ”

"Uncle Zhang, you are the one who has half a foot in the palace of the king of Hades, you must be indifferent, we are different, we still have to support our family, and the family is eating with this."

This sentence made Zhang Dabao's beard almost cocked, "Guodong, you don't ask for them, we won't wait for the first seven, I'll let your aunt go on the road today, I'll see who dares to stop you." Zhang Dabao stood in front of the crowd with a crutch, "Which of you dares to stop me?" ”

"Dad." Zhang Jun pulled behind Zhang Dabao.

"What's wrong? Do you even want to stop me? Zhang Dabao turned around and said. Zhang Jun pointed to the middle of the crowd, Zhang Dabao saw that the villagers were all tied with ropes around their waists, and they were all tied together, as long as Zhang Dabao led people to the past, this group of people would definitely not be hard with Zhang Dabao, after all, Zhang Dabao was old and still the village chief.

But Zhao Guodong is different, Zhao Guodong said bluntly, if you insist on cremating Aunt Mei's body, then these people will go with you, and they will surround Aunt Mei, they will not make trouble with you, they will not quarrel with you, it depends on whether you dare to start a fire.

"Let's go, mother, let's go." Zhao Guodong was on crutches in one hand, holding a few of Aunt Mei's clothes in the other, and limped out, and the people passing by hurriedly made way for Zhao Guodong, I don't know what happened to the road, everyone wanted to cry.

"Let's go, mother, let's go." Zhao Guodong chanted these words along the way, limping to the small dirt slope at the entrance of the village, and the people in the village also followed Zhao Guodong to the small dirt slope and came to the bottom of the big tree, "Mother, I remember when you were a child, you told our brothers that this is the best place in the whole village." ”

Zhao Guodong threw the crutches in his hand, and the whole person fell to the ground, "Don't help me." Zhao Guodong said very calmly, but he couldn't be refused.

Zhao Guodong pulled on the ground with his hands, while talking about the interesting stories that Aunt Mei had with them when she was a child, "At the beginning, you brought our brothers to this place to play, I was naughty and liked to climb trees, but I accidentally hung on the branches, and my pants were hung up with a big gap, hehe, I was scared at that time." ”

"I was scared and grabbed in the air, and I didn't dare to look at the ground, I just turned around in the air, I don't know how long it took to say that it didn't take long, it seems, not for long, I can't remember, you don't know where you got the ladder from the road, hugged me down, and then beat me on the ass, I didn't even take off my pants, and my pants were torn into several pieces by the branches, I still remember when you were beating and crying and saying, let you be disobedient, make you naughty."

"Hehe, how good we were at that time." Zhao Guodong couldn't shed tears anymore, but these words made everyone present shed tears.

Zhao Guodong's hands were bleeding, so he didn't let anyone help, "I don't want your help, you all go, all go, my mother doesn't want to see you." ”

"Iniquity, iniquity." Zhang Dabao looked at the grave pit that Zhao Guodong picked out with his hands, and he didn't know what to say.

"Mother, you will live here in the future, this place is the best in the whole village."