014 mourning

"Thank you." Zhao Guodong only has heartfelt thanks.

"Speak up if you need anything." The older man said.

"Actually, I really want to ask you for some help." Zhao Guodong is also polite, he really needs someone to help now, "The situation of our two families is not very good, and now there is no strong labor, except for the old man and the child, I am left with a cripple, and I can't do anything." We are talking about entering the soil for peace, so fellow villagers, help let my eldest brother and sister-in-law enter the ground for peace. ”

"No problem, just leave this kind of thing to us, have you chosen the cemetery?" The older asked.

"I've chosen, it's on that hillside at the entrance of the village, right there." Zhao Guodong pointed to the hillside at the entrance of the village, "There is a tree on it, just under the tree." ”

"Okay, we'll go now, and we'll be carrying the coffin in seven days." This man is also a simple person, just do what he says, beckoning a few people to go up to the grave with shovels.

"Thank you." Zhao Guodong bowed and thanked him.

In the house, Xiao Yingzi woke up crying, opened her eyes and found herself lying in the room, with the prepared meal still on the table, and a trace of the aroma of the meal wafted into Xiao Yingzi's nose.

"Xiao Yingzi, are you awake?" Zhao Guodong walked in at this time, picked up Xiao Yingzi, carefully washed Xiao Yingzi's face, and tied up her little braids, although Zhao Guodong was the first time to tie braids for a little girl, but Zhao Guodong used his best efforts and his most serious heart to make Xiao Yingzi her little braids.

then tidy up Xiao Yingzi's clothes, bring her to the dining table, and put the buttoned food in front of Xiao Yingzi.

"Xiao Yingzi, come and eat, I didn't eat much yesterday, let's eat some now, there are still a lot of things to do today." Zhao Guodong served the rice to Xiao Yingzi.

"Uncle Guodong, I don't want to eat it." There was a layer of mist on Xiao Yingzi's eyes.

"Nope." Zhao Guodong's unconscious tone was a little serious, which made Xiao Yingzi, who had always thought that Uncle Guodong was an amiable uncle, cry out in fright.

"I don't want to eat, I don't want to eat, I want mom and dad, I want mom and dad." Xiao Yingzi cried while hitting Zhao Guodong's chest with her little fist. Zhao Guodong also knew that his tone was too serious, and a second-grade child in primary school could know what Lu Dao was.

Zhao Guodong gently took Xiao Yingzi into his arms and gently patted Xiao Yingzi's convulsive back. "Xiao Yingzi, uncle is wrong, uncle will not be cruel to you in the future." ——

I am the dividing line - seven days have passed in a blink of an eye, since that day Zhao Guodong said Xiao Yingzi in a more serious tone, Xiao Yingzi suddenly became silent, no matter what Zhao Guodong said, she didn't speak, Zhao Guodong asked her to do whatever she wanted, let her eat, she went to eat, when there was nothing to do, Xiao Yingzi knelt in front of her parents, just in a daze.

Zhao Guodong looked at Xiao Yingzi in a white filial piety robe, didn't say anything, just was there in a daze, he was also very distressed, sometimes he couldn't wait to slap himself a few times, and blamed himself for being too impulsive that day, so that Xiao Yingzi became what she is now. More than once, Xiao Yingzi called her parents in her sleep, and when Zhao Guodong got up to see Xiao Yingzi, Xiao Yingzi's little face was full of tears.

"We're here, can we hit the road now?" Before noon, the old man came to Xiao Yingzi's house with seven or eight people.

"You're here, thank you." Zhao Guodong glanced at Xiao Yingzi, who was still kneeling there, "Can you wait for a while before you get on the road?" ”

"No, we have rules here, people in the past must be buried before noon, otherwise their souls will not be reincarnated." This is a rule that has been handed down for hundreds of years in Zhaojia Village, and it cannot be changed. Sometimes people are such strange animals, and it is easy to accept some new things, but some old rules, they will not waver for hundreds of years.

"Okay, I'll ask the kid." Zhao Guodong turned around and came to Xiao Yingzi, looked into Xiao Yingzi's eyes and said, "Xiao Yingzi, now we want to let your father and mother go to another world with peace of mind." ”

"No, I'm going to watch them here, I'm not going anywhere." Xiao Yingzi said.

"You ......." Zhao Guodong's temper was a little out of control again, but seeing Xiao Yingzi's eyes that were about to shed tears again, Zhao Guodong controlled his excited heart again, "Xiao Yingzi, do you want to make your parents happy, do you want your parents to live a good life." Zhao Guodong persuaded Xiao Yingzi softly.

"Yes." Xiao Yingzi's tears are about to fall immediately.

"Then let Mom and Dad go to another world with peace of mind, and you can't let Mom and Dad let the sun bask here, understand?"

"I carried them into the house, and the sun didn't shine." Xiao Yingzi's words made Zhao Guodong silent, children's world is always simpler than adults, and often their words make adults speechless.

"Xiao Yingzi, you have to be a good child, you can't let your parents see that you are not well-behaved in another world, otherwise they will cry, as soon as they cry, it will rain, and they will be unhappy when it rains, and when it rains, the uncles, uncles, grandparents, and grandparents in the village who love you will have no food to eat in the autumn, and then the uncles and aunts, grandparents will starve. Then they won't hurt you. Do you want mom and dad to cry? Would you like to see your aunts and uncles starving? ”

Xiao Yingzi said with a crying voice: "I don't want to." ”

"Okay, let these uncles, fathers, and parents take them to that world, okay?"

"Okay." Zhao Guodong picked up Xiao Yingzi and asked several fellows to put Xiao Yingzi's parents in a shroud and put them in the coffin, Zhao Guodong prepared two silver dollars for himself, and asked the villagers to stuff the silver dollars into the mouths of Xiao Yingzi and her parents, which is also an old rule in Zhaojia Village, people in the past must put some gold and silver and other things, commonly known as "pressing", saying that it can bring blessings to future generations. Zhao Guodong's family was not very wealthy, so Zhao Guodong had to find two silver dollars to make do.

"This is a mourning stick used on the road, and paper money."

"W-how is this appropriate?"

"If there's anything inappropriate, the villagers can't help you much, this is how much we can be regarded as helping, it's all from the villagers, you just take it."

"Xie Lu Xie, Xie Lu Xie." The two words that Zhao Guodong has said the most so far are these two words.

There is no mourning team, and there are no large number of mourners, only Zhao Guodong and Xiao Yingzi, there are seven or eight villagers who help, this is all the mourners.