According to custom, after sending the coil, the deceased should be sent to the ground for peace.

Wang Ying woke up and it was already noon, the food was delivered, Yue'e happened to go into the back room and called her to get up and eat, and when she saw her sister moving, she hurriedly walked to her, bent down and said to Wang Ying: "Wake up, get up and eat something." ”

Xiao Wang had just set up the food when he heard a voice in the back room, and said to the back room, "Sister-in-law, the leader said that the canteen will not deliver food here from tomorrow." ”

Originally, Wang Ying was embarrassed to be in the cafeteria, but Wang Ying walked out with her sister's arm, "Xiao Wang, I've been bothering you these days." ”

When Xiao Wang walked away, Ruimin muttered angrily, "I won't send a few meals just now, my brother's life is not as good as how many meals they have?" ”

Wang Ying frowned lightly when he heard this, and glanced at Ruimin dissatisfiedly, Wang Ying knew in his heart that Captain Ren had taken good care of them in the past few days, and the team just didn't send a meal, and they couldn't say anything.

It is now the twenty-second day of the lunar month, after the funeral of the eldest brother, Rui Cheng wants to go back to his hometown, the eldest brother's urn is placed on the table, and some offerings are placed on it, Rui Cheng glanced up, picked up a steamed bun and took a bite, "Sister-in-law." Rui Cheng chewed on the steamed bun, "I'll go home tomorrow if I don't have anything to do, do you plan to bury the ashes of the eldest brother in the ancestral grave, or buy a cemetery here and place it." ”

Before Wang Ying could speak, Sun Xiufang had already shouted, "Of course your eldest brother has returned to his hometown, what's the matter with him being buried outside alone." ”

"Sister-in-law." Ruicheng continued to look at Wang Ying.

When Shi Dayong was alive, he and Yingzi looked forward to returning to their hometown when they were old, according to his attachment to his hometown, he didn't want to sleep outside, and besides, there was an ancestral grave in his hometown, and it was reasonable to be buried in the ancestral grave after death.

Wang Ying stared at the photos on the urn, Shi Dayong still looked at the people in the house with a smile, and for a moment, she said faintly: "Your eldest brother talks about going back to his hometown every day, and if he has nothing to do, he will tell me how good his hometown is, and he also said that he will go back to his hometown when he retires, he wants to go back so much, you can take him back." ”

"Hmm." Rui Cheng nodded, "I think so too, then I'll take my eldest brother with me when I go back to my hometown tomorrow." ”

"Okay, you can take him back first, when I raise the children and start a family, when I am old, I will go to my hometown to accompany him."

The next day, Wang Ying hugged Shi Dayong's urn and whispered to Shi Dayong, "Dayong, you go back to your hometown with Ruicheng first, the four children in the family are too young, I can't get out, and when I am free, I will take the children back to my hometown to see you, you bless the children in the spirit of heaven to be safe and healthy." ”

Ruicheng has packed up, Wang Ying has no intention of leaving, the trains are a little, miss this class, and that one will go in the afternoon, he can't help but be a little anxious, "Sister-in-law, it's not early, you give me the urn." ”

"Oh." Wang Ying reluctantly found a piece of red cloth and wrapped Shi Dayong's urn, and then solemnly handed it over to Ruicheng, she had red circles in her eyes, and said in a choked voice: "Second brother, I will hand it over to you your eldest brother, don't forget to tell your eldest brother when you pass by a place, otherwise I am afraid that he will lose his soul on the road." ”

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, I understand all this." Rui Cheng opened the bag and carefully put the urn in the bag, this bag is the best bag in the family, it turns out that Shi Dayong carries it wherever he goes, and the house is full of Dayong's breath, but what makes people feel heartbroken is that that person can no longer touch or see.

Shi Ke's four sisters and brothers followed their mother to send Ruicheng out and sent them to the main road outside the family hospital, Shi Ke beckoned to Ruimin, "Second uncle, goodbye." After speaking, his eyes fell on the bag in Ruicheng's hand, "Goodbye, Dad." ”

An An heard her sister say goodbye to her father, and she also shouted, "Goodbye, Dad." ”

A goodbye to his father instantly made Wang Ying's tears welled up in his eyes again, and he hoped that Dayong was really just going out and had a chance to see him again.

Ruicheng held his bag in his arms all the way, and every time he arrived at a station, he had to say, "Big brother, Shi Ruiyong, *** has arrived." ”

The day Rui Cheng and Rui Min left, Rui Fu came back after dark, and now it is the end of the year, every household is cleaning, there are many things cleaned out, business is good, Rui Fu has not been willing to go home early, and he has now expanded his business, not only simply picking up rags, he also collects rags, there is a rotten row car in the scrap collection station, he told people that he borrowed this car every day to go out to collect scrap, and all the scrap collected was sold to this acquisition station, and then paid five yuan a month for the rental fee of the row car.

Although he spends five yuan more a month, he earns more, and it is more decent than when he picked up rags, and the most important thing is to save a lot of things, he goes to the scrap yard every day to pull the ground and discharge the car, and then sends it back at night, and there is no need to pull it home, so now several brothers in the family don't know what he is busy with every day.

With today's harvest in his pocket, Ruifu took advantage of the night to hum a little song and went home, he now feels like a rich man, and he has money in his pocket every day, and what makes him happiest is that this money does not need to be handed over at all, it is all his own.

If you have money in your pocket, your waist will be strong, and when you go home and talk to your brothers, you don't feel proud in your voice, and before you open the courtyard door, Ruifu feels that the atmosphere at home is not right, it is the time to drink soup, shouldn't the brothers squat in the yard with a big bowl of pickles and eat while eating?

Although the family is poor, but at this time is also the warmest time, such as the light of beans, in the furnace hole under the stove, the embers of firewood are still flickering brightly and dimly, the yard is wafting with the smell of firewood and food, the only child in the family Xiaolan is the most cheerful, chattering for a while.

What's wrong today, the atmosphere is so gloomy, Xiaolan obediently leaned on He Xiaoxia's arms to eat, Rui Sheng and Rui Quanquan put a big bowl in front of them, drooping their heads for a long time without taking a sip.

Ruifu washed his hands when he entered the door, did a day's work, his hands were dirty, he washed and ate well, "Fifth and sixth sons, what's wrong?" Playing cards and losing again. He giggled and teased the two brothers, didn't see Ruicheng's figure, and asked casually, "What about our second brother?" ”

The third brother finally came back, Ruiquan wiped his tears and shouted, "Third brother, why did you come back, our eldest brother died, and the second and fourth brothers went to HB to help the eldest brother deal with the funeral." ”

"What!" Ruifu accidentally knocked over the basin, half of the basin of cold water was poured on his right foot, Ruifu "pedaled" two steps, lifted Ruiquan up, stared at his eyes and asked urgently, "What did you just say?" Who died? ”

"Third brother, our eldest brother is dead, and the telegram from today says that there was a car accident." Ruiquan pointed to a piece of paper pressed with a small stone on the dining table and showed it to Ruifu, "That's the telegram, you can read it yourself." ”

Ruifu threw Ruiquan to the side, muttering, "Impossible, how can the eldest brother die." As he spoke, he took out the note and walked under the lamp, a few simple words, Ruifu read it for a long time, he was afraid that he was wrong, and read it several times in a row, so he was unwilling to yell at his younger brother, "There is such a big thing, why didn't anyone tell me!" ”

Rui Quan sniffed aggrievedly, "Third brother, day by day, we can't see your figure, we don't know where you are, how can we tell you!" ”

Ruifu was angry, he also knew that this was the case, and he just wanted to find an outlet to vent.

Ruifu squatted on the ground, hugged his head and began to cry, "Big brother-you said you were going to build a house a few days ago, why did you say that it would be gone-"

In the next two days, I don't know what happened to the eldest brother, the three brothers didn't have the heart to go out, and sighed at home every day, two days later, Ruifu couldn't stay, he was idle at home every day, he was cranky, it was better to go out and do some work, and when he got busy, he could forget his troubles, and on the morning of the third day, Ruifu wrapped his coat and went to the city again.

As soon as Rui Cheng entered the house, Rui Quan saw it at a glance, jumped over with a "whoosh", and couldn't wait to ask, "Second brother, how is it?" What's going on with Big Brother? ”

He Xiaoxia was washing clothes, and hurriedly shook the water stains on her hands to greet her, "Dad, you're back." ”

"Ugh." Ruicheng kept his head down and walked into the house.

Rui Sheng and a few people followed behind Rui Cheng, "Second brother, you are talking, you are in a hurry." ”

Rui Cheng put the bag in his hand on the table, opened the zipper, and said in a heavy tone, "I brought my eldest brother back." ”

Brought back? Everyone was puzzled, they all stared at Ruicheng, at this time, the hometown, just heard about the cremation, but the implementation was not in place, but whenever someone in the village left, they still supported the coffin.

"Second brother, what do you mean?" Ruisheng asked.

Rui Cheng took out a small boxy box wrapped in red cloth, and he unwrapped the red cloth on the outside, revealing the urn inside.

A small box of jujube red, I don't know what material it is, there are some patterns carved on it, Ruisheng brothers and He Xiaoxia looked at the box and then looked at Ruicheng.

"They practiced cremation over there, and the eldest brother was cremated, this is our eldest brother's urn, which contains the ashes of the eldest brother."

"What? That's all we have for big brother? Ruiquan didn't dare to imagine that such a tall big brother could fit such a small box.

"Cremation, everything is burned to ashes, but there is only such a little bone residue left." Ruisheng imagined the scene of the burning of his eldest brother's body in his mind, and he couldn't help but shudder.

"Big brother-" Rui Quan stroked the urn and shed tears, he is the youngest child in the family, the eldest brother loves him the most, when the eldest brother is not a soldier, he takes him everywhere, it can be said that he has the deepest relationship with the eldest brother among the elder brothers.

Several people cried around the urn for a while, and Rui Sheng asked with tears in his eyes: "Second brother, when are we going to bury the eldest brother in the ancestral grave?" ”

To tell the truth, although Rui Cheng brought Shi Dayong back, he didn't expect when Shi Dayong would be buried in the ancestral grave, the main reason was that the funeral cost money, and he was reluctant to take out the money he earned.

Rui Cheng touched his nose and said, "Bury what, let's put it first." ”

"Put?" Rui Quan didn't understand, the eldest brother died and was not buried in the ancestral grave, what does it mean to put it away?

Rui Cheng made an excuse, "The eldest brother's children are not present, let's wait until his children are present." ”

"Oh." Ruiquan asked, "Where to put it?" ”

That's right, for the Chinese New Year, you can't put an urn in the house at home, Rui Cheng thought for a long time and said, "Let you two sleep in the room." ”

Ruisheng was immediately reluctant, if the eldest brother was alive, he would definitely be welcome to stay in the same room with him, but the eldest brother was already dead, and the urn was put in the house, and it was scary to get up in the middle of the night, "Second brother, no, I'm afraid." ”

Rui Cheng twisted his eyebrows, "That's our eldest brother, what are you afraid of!" ”

"If you are not afraid, put your house." Ruisheng said busily.

Rui Cheng didn't want to put it in his own house, there were only a few rooms in the house, it was not suitable to put it anywhere, he remembered that when the kitchen was half a grass house, the grass house was dark and black, there was not even a window, and the most important thing was that there was only a stove and no chimney, and the fire was so smoky that people couldn't open their eyes, and He Xiaoxia didn't want to use the stove for cooking, it was all in the shed under the yard.

"Then put it in the kitchen." Ruicheng said.