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The Kang family's house sits in the north and faces south, and although it doesn't look big from the outside, this three-entry house is exquisitely laid out, and it is well organized by Kang Yan's mother, Xia.

The yard next to the main house in the backyard is Kang Yan's house, three main rooms with an ear room, two wing rooms in the east and west, and the plane tree in the courtyard was planted by Kang Zhixun and his wife for her before Kang Yan moved to this yard. The sycamore is born, and the sun rises in the sun. Yongyong. It means that the phoenix does not inhabit the sycamore, so the sycamore is a symbol of auspiciousness, and people nowadays like to plant the sycamore in the yard for viewing.

Kang Yan still clearly remembers that the plane tree bloomed in the first year of planting, the lilac flowers hung in clusters on the branches, and the fragrance wafted in the courtyard when the breeze came, and her mother Xia Shi pulled her to stand under the tree, and said with a smile: "Yan'er is a blessed child." ”

Now the sycamore is still there, but her parents can no longer chat with her under the tree, Kang Yan stood in front of the window, the window edge was ajar, looking at the still brilliant sycamore open outside the window, and her heart was gloomy.

The door behind her creaked, Qingmei walked in lightly, Kang Yan gathered her mind and asked, "Is it all arranged over there in the mourning hall?" ”

"Well, the girl fainted, and the third master proposed to let the patriarch go to rest first, and then perform the succession ceremony tomorrow morning, Uncle Zhao sent the patriarch to rest, and the others changed their small gongfu clothes and guarded in the mourning hall, and the eldest lady insisted that the second young master be replaced first, and the third old lady stopped it on the grounds that his name was not right." Qingmei replied.

The mourning clothes of the girder are divided into five types, and the first class is called "chopping", which is the most important one among the five clothes. "榱" refers to the top worn over the chest in the mourning dress, and the lower garment is called the dress. The top and bottom of the chopping garment are made of the coarsest raw linen cloth, and the left and right sides of the garment and the bottom are sewn to expose the broken part to indicate that it is not decorated, so it is called chopping. All princes who are sons of heaven, ministers who are kings, men and unmarried daughters who are parents, daughters-in-law to parents-in-law, grandchildren to grandparents, wives to husbands, must be cut off.

The sub-heavy filial piety clothes are called "Qi Yu", which are made of coarse linen cloth of natural color. Since then, the following filial piety clothes can be trimmed where they are cut; The hem welt is smashed at the edge. Grandchildren and granddaughters wear filial piety clothes for their grandfathers and grandmothers;

The third class is "Dagong", which is made of cooked linen, and the material is slightly finer than that of "Qi Yu". For uncles, parents, cousins, unmarried cousins, married aunts and sisters, and married daughters for mothers, uncles, and brothers to wear this kind of "great merit" mourning clothes.

The fourth class is "small gong", which is made from thinner cooked linen. This type of mourning dress is worn for mourning from grandparents, cousins, brothers' wives, cousins, etc.

The lightest filial piety garment is "hemp", which is made of slightly thinner cooked cloth. This is used for all the filial piety worn for great-grandparents, clan uncles, clan brothers and sisters, etc.

With the material of the mourning clothes and the length of time to wear the mourning clothes, to reflect the difference between the respect and inferiority of the blood relationship, the difference between the relatives and the alienation, although Kang Zhixun and Uncle Kang and others are uncles and brothers, they are separated from each other, so everyone in the Kang family only needs to wear small gong clothes, but if Kang Erlang succeeds to Kang Zhixun's name, it is different, he must wear the same chopping as Kang Yan.

Kang Yan is the only daughter of Kang Zhixun and his wife, in the case of the death of Kang Zhixun and his wife, the succession must be attended by Kang Yan to be etiquette, Kang Da wife Liu is worried that the matter of the succession will change, and wants to take the opportunity to implement Kang Erlang's name, but unfortunately was stopped by the third master.

"Looking at this situation, the third old man and his wife should have action tonight." Qingmei speculated.

Kang Yan nodded, "You tell Uncle Zhao that I have woken up, and ask him to arrange the matter of "suing the temple" early tomorrow morning," after thinking about it, he added: "When you tell the temple, arrange for the second young master to hold the tablet." and let Zhao's mother watch the movements of the female dependents. ”

"Sue the temple" is the custom of the funeral of Macheng Mansion, the folk believe that the soul of the deceased has no yang energy, can not coexist with people, since the deceased is out of breath to the filial son of the family to hold the tablet into the nearby temple nunnery, which means to arrange a shelter for the soul of the deceased, and then the day before the funeral, the family and relatives and friends should hold the tablet, play the soul-attracting flag, carry the lantern, blow the drum music to the nearby temple nunnery to watch the soul. After the conjuring of the spirit, the family called out for the deceased and cried all the way home. After the tablet is placed, the lid of the coffin with a diagonal lid is opened, and the eldest son of the deceased takes a bowl of clean water and wipes the deceased's face with a new cotton ball, commonly known as "opening the light". After the symbolic wiping, the water in the bowl is not poured, and the children and grandchildren, daughters and grandchildren share the drink, in order to show their filial piety to the deceased, everyone goes around the coffin in turn, pays homage to the deceased's remains, and then asks the carpenter to reseal the coffin, and marks the "silver bloom" to indicate that the coffin will not be opened again.

Tonight, the children and nephews of the Kang family should be guarded in the mourning hall together, which means the reunion of relatives on the last night, and they should bring incense candles, paper money and fruit boxes to worship in front of the spirit at three hours of the night, the child and the yin, which means "resignation".

When Kang Yan returned to the mourning hall, it happened to be the unitary time, and everyone went to incense and burned paper money to worship, whether it was true or false, everyone cried bitterly when the paper was burned, which finally made Kang Yan's heart feel more comfortable.

After the worship, Kang Dalang's wife Zhu and Erlang's wife Shi went to prepare tin foil and left first, they were going to take the tin foil back in a while, and the gold and silver ingots used for the burial needed to be folded by Kang Yan and their female relatives, and the rest of the people sat on the straw mats on the ground on both sides of the mourning bed.

Several old ladies of the Kang family and Kang Zhixun and his wife are of the same generation, no need to accompany the spirit, several old men took people to dig the cemetery together, Kang Shilang and his brothers have not yet married a wife, only Kang Yan and Kang Sanyang's wife Li and Kang Yan's cousin Kang Jia are here, Yang's temperament is dull, he doesn't like to talk, he is only silent in a daze, Kang Jia is the youngest daughter of Uncle Kang, there are only two girls in Kang Yan and Kang Jia in this generation, Kang Jia has just reached Ji this year, her face is beautiful, and she belongs to a typical small jasper type.

Kang Yan Kang Jia didn't have much time to get along, there was nothing to say between the two, not to mention that Kang Yan didn't want to speak, she didn't want to miss her parents at this moment, she had to fight with all her spirit when she got out of this mourning hall, this time she must not let the family business left by her parents be squandered, let alone let herself fall back to the mistakes of her previous life.

Kang Jia next to her looked at the silent Kang Yan, bit her lip tightly, remembered the words of her mother's mother, Liu, and asked her to take the initiative to comfort Kang Yan, get closer to her, and don't offend her before the second brother passes on to the second uncle.

Thinking that after the second brother succeeded, their family could soon move to this big mansion to live, and she could also wear silk and satin like Kang Yan, and there was a maid to wait, her heart couldn't be calm, and she forced the excitement in her heart, she wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and comforted Kang Yan softly: "Sister Yan, don't be too sad, the second uncle and aunt will be sad if they know that you are too sad........" The rest of the words came to an abrupt end in Kang Yan's cold and calm eyes.

What kind of eyes are that, her parents died at a young age, shouldn't she be heartbroken at this moment? How can it be so calm? Konka thought in confusion, but forgot the next words.

Kang Yan glanced at Kang Jia coldly, for Kang Jia, she only hated it in her heart, she remembered that after Kang Erlang passed in the previous life, Uncle Kang's family successively found various excuses to move into the house, Kang Erlang's wife Shi was not very happy, but she was soft and couldn't resist the majesty of her mother-in-law, so she could only let them live in.

She remembered that after Konka moved in, she was very picky about eating, wearing, and living, and she had to compare everything with her, and even asked for her clothes and jewelry, and her temperament became more and more arrogant, as if she was the real daughter, but Kang Yan was an orphan girl under the fence, and several times good people in Macheng Mansion came to propose marriage to Kang Yan, but Konka was hindered and stopped, and now I think that she will enter the Du family as a concubine, but I am afraid that Konka's credit is indispensable.

Thinking of this, Kang Yan's eyes couldn't help but get colder.