Shi Dayong was chatting with his brothers when he saw his mother rushing out and sitting barefoot at the door: "Dayong, look at your father!" As soon as she finished speaking, tears gushed out, and she couldn't help but cry: "Old man, old man, can't you leave me behind!" ”

When Shi Dayong saw his mother like this, he immediately felt a sigh in his heart, stood up suddenly, pulled his legs and ran into the house. When the other younger brothers saw it, they all stood up one after another and followed behind Shi Dayong.

Shi Youtian lay there silently, his face was like gold paper, his eyes were closed, his lips were open, but his chest no longer rose and fell.

"Dad-" Shi Dayong shouted heartbreakingly, and slammed into front of the bed, he couldn't believe that his father could still talk and laugh during dinner, why did he leave so quickly!

He first probed his father's snort, and then felt his father's pulse, and the slightest fluctuation made him finally believe in the fact that his father was gone, and he fell on his father and cried loudly: "Daddy-"

The brothers came over one after another, and for a while the bed was tightly encircled, and Rui Quan cried and beat his chest: "Dad, why did you just come back and leave, my father——。 ”

He Xiaoxia found shoes and helped her mother-in-law put them on, and the two of them cried together.

Ruiqiang couldn't squeeze in at all on the periphery, so he looked at it, turned around and ran home to report to his father.

Shi Gengtian's old couple is old, they get up early in the morning, wake up before dawn, sleep time is not enough, they must take a nap at noon, come back from their brother's house, the old couple lie on the bed, sighing: "Child." Shi Gengtian turned over and faced his wife: "I don't know how many days you can last like this?" It's all sinful to look at! You don't know, in my heart... I feel bad. Shi Gengtian thumped his chest several times and sighed heavily: "Alas... It's not easy for my brother. ”

"Dad." Zhou Ronghua comforted: "Don't be too uncomfortable, a person has a person's fate, who can live for a long time, God cares about it, it's useless for us to be uncomfortable, sleep, wake up and go over to accompany his second uncle, I see his second uncle like this, just let him live ......, alas, don't say unlucky words, sleep." ”

The old couple chattered for a while, and finally fell asleep, and they were sleeping deeply, when they heard the sound of the door, which scared Shi Gengtian, and before the person was completely awake, Ruiqiang's big voice came: "Dad!" Mother! Fast! Hurry up, my second uncle is dead! ”

Who died? Second uncle? Dick? You're going to die?! Shi Gengtian was in a hurry, turned over and got out of bed, pulled his shoes and walked out, walked a few steps, and then turned back to wake up Zhou Ronghua: "it, get up quickly, the second child is dead!" ”

Rui Qiang took three steps and made two steps to his father's house, just happened to meet his father, he grabbed his father's arm and walked out: "Dad, my second uncle is dead, you hurry up!" ”

Rui Qiang dragged him in a hurry, dragged his father to a stumbling position, Shi Gengtian Ding couldn't look down on his son's panicked recklessness, he slapped the back of his son's hand, and shouted calmly: "Don't pull me, I'll go with your mother, you go to your eldest brother's house and call your eldest brother." ”

"Oh, oh." Ruiqiang threw away his father's arm and ran to call his eldest brother again in a panic.

Zhou Ronghua bent down to lift her shoes while walking, she held Shi Gengtian's arm, lifted her shoes, looked down and saw that her wife's shoes were still scattered on her feet, she squatted down, helped Shi Gengtian lift her shoes, stood up, and held his wife's arm: "Dad, don't worry, don't worry, let's go." ”

Shi Gengtian thought that his son was in a panic, but in fact, he was also flustered at this time, and his arms trembled uncontrollably on his wife's hands.

The old couple ran to Shi Youtian's house with each other, stumbling along the way, if it weren't for Zhou Ronghua helping him, he almost fell down several times. It was still a long way from his brother's house, and the earth-shattering cry had already been heard.

"Daddy—"

"Old man—"

Sun Xiufang was still sitting on the ground and crying, He Xiaoxia couldn't pull it up several times, there was no way, she had to hug Chunmiao and accompany her mother-in-law to shed tears, Chunmiao had never seen this scene, and she was so frightened that she howled in her throat.

Sun Xiufang saw the eldest brother and his family hurriedly walking in, and hurriedly climbed two steps forward: "Big brother, sister-in-law, brave father... Yong's dad is not good! ”

"Brother and sister, don't panic, I'll take a look." Shi Gengtian hurriedly bent down and helped Sun Xiufang: "Brother and sister, get up quickly, it's cold on the ground." ”

Sun Xiufang had no strength at all, and almost became a puddle of mud, Shi Youtian helped him twice and didn't help him up, he motioned to Zhou Ronghua to take care of his brother and daughter-in-law, and hurriedly walked into the house.

"Big brother, our uncle is here." Ruimin saw Shi Gengtian, and hurriedly flashed to the side to make way for the uncle.

Dayong was still lying on his father is body and crying, Shi Gengtian patted Dayong on the shoulder: "Dayong, get up, let me see." ”

Shi Dayong wiped his tears and straightened up: "Uncle, my father ...... him"

Shi Gengtian stroked his brother's face, and was choked up and speechless for a while: "Second, second, why don't you say go away, I'll just get some sleep, I said I'll come to you again when you wake up, why don't you wait for me for a while, brother-"

The old man cried for a while, but suddenly found that his brother was still wearing the same one that came back, and he didn't change his brother's clothes at all, he was anxious, and asked Shi Dayong dissatisfied: "Why haven't you changed your father's old clothes yet, wait a while, people can't wear them when they are hard, why, do you still want your father to leave without new clothes?" ”

Pretending to be old clothes? Although Shi Dayong knew about this, he hadn't experienced it himself, so he didn't remember to change his father's clothes at all, and he didn't know if his father had pretended old clothes, so he hurriedly said: "I'll ask my mother." ”

Sun Xiufang got better under Zhou Ronghua's persuasion, and several women sat on the small bench and wept sadly.

"Mother, where is my father's old clothes?" Shi Dayong stood at the door and asked loudly.

"Old clothes?" To be honest, Sun Xiufang had already forgotten about this matter in the back of her mind, and she didn't prepare it in advance at all, Dayong asked her, she was also a little anxious, and stood up abruptly: "Dayong, I forgot to prepare it for your father, what can I do?" ”

"What else can I do, go buy it! This is a big deal, let's go, I'll lead you. Zhou Ronghua said as he took Sun Xiufang's hand and was about to go out.

"Auntie, I'll buy it, you just accompany my mother." Shi Dayong walked out quickly: "Auntie, tell me where to buy it." ”

"It's not far away, we have it in the town, Dayong, you have to hurry, I don't know when your father left, if you wait for a while, your father will be hard, and this dress will not be able to be worn."

The town is not far from the village, and it usually takes about ten minutes to walk fast, but fortunately Dayong came back by car, he found an open place to turn the car around, and it only took ten minutes to buy something in the town and come back.

He took his clothes into the house, and the brothers had already cleaned his father briefly under the command of Shi Gengtian, and a simple bed was built with a corn stalk in the middle of the hall.

It's not that Shi Dayong can't hold his father by himself, it's mainly because there is a saying in his hometown that when the family is gone, when he moves, the eldest son and eldest grandson are responsible for holding his head.

Shi Youtian lay down on the wall with his feet towards the door, and Shi Gengtian found a piece of paper to cover his brother's face temporarily, and then carefully arranged the follow-up matters for his nephews.

Although the person is dead, but the soul has a perception, the soul of the person at this time is extremely sensitive, and every time he touches it, he will gradually understand that he has passed away, and at that time he can be regarded as a real person, so when the funeral in his hometown is generally suspended, he will generally stop for three to seven days.

Shi Kotian gathered his nephews together and began to make arrangements. Dayong is the eldest in the family, and he asked Shi Dayong's opinion in advance: "Dayong." Shi Gengtian said: "Your father's longevity has not been bought, this has to be decided quickly, there must be a ready-made best, there is no ready-made trouble, I don't know how many days to hit the longevity, your father is not able to hang it like this." ”

"I'll buy it, uncle, don't worry, I won't find two of them, try to bring Shoucai back today."

Shi Gengtian nodded and proposed: "Dayong, it will cost a lot of money to send your father, you can discuss with your brothers how to apportion." ”

Shi Dayong interrupted the uncle's words: "Uncle, you don't need to share, I'll take as much as you spend." ”

Shi Gengtian originally thought that Ruicheng had already married a family, and there was a lot of grain in the autumn this year, and selling some of it could also help Dayong share it, since Dayong was willing to bear it himself, it was not good for him, the uncle, to say anything in front of his nephew.

"In that case, Dayong." Shi Gengtian continued to ask: "Do you still play a score for your father to tie a cow and horse sedan chair or something?" ”

"Zha, what is there, uncle, my father has not enjoyed any blessings in his life, I can't let my father go over there and continue to be poor, the house, the sedan chair, the maid and the servant's gold ingots, as long as there are we'll pierce them all again."

"Okay." Shi Gengtian turned to Ruicheng and a few: "Your eldest brother pays for it, and you brothers will run errands." ”

Rui Cheng hurriedly said: "Uncle, you arrange it." ”

"You brothers divide the work to see who goes to tell the news to the relatives, who goes shopping with your eldest brother, and who receives guests at home."

Rui Cheng brothers a few simple discussions, the moment each has its own responsibility, Rui Fu because of the city is more familiar, the moment volunteered with the eldest brother to buy things, Rui Quan is the youngest, he wants to accompany his father more, so he arranged for him and Rui Min to receive condolences at home to receive condolences guests, Rui Cheng and Rui Sheng are responsible for reporting to relatives and friends.

Shoucai shop, generally customized or processing with incoming materials, but there are also stores will put a few finished products there, to deal with people who are in a hurry to go and have no time to customize the longevity of the people, Ruifu led Shi Dayong, in the first store has found the right longevity, with the help of the boss, the longevity material is loaded into the car, and a bunch of wreaths and paper horses or something, full of a cart of things, the two brothers hurriedly went back.

The crying alarmed the neighbors, and gradually everyone in the village knew, and they couldn't believe that they had just said goodbye at noon, how could a good person say that he would leave? Everyone was still talking at noon.

The village is not big, the villagers are very good, they all shook their heads and sighed at the moment, poor Shi Youtian is not too young to return to the west, there is a must go back and forth, and those who have no contacts also spent a few cents to buy half a knife paper to send Shi Youtian on the last trip.

Ask why buy half a knife paper, and it is not expensive, even a knife of paper does not cost a dime, in fact, the custom is like this, if the husband and wife go away one, when the condolences are to buy half a knife paper, if the two people are gone, you can buy a knife of paper to send off.

The two Ruitao brothers also came, they teamed up with Rui Quan and others to carry Shoucai to the house with Shi Dayong, afraid that the coffin board would be hard, and he was afraid of his father, Shi Dayong found a quilt to spread at the bottom, and when carrying Shi Youtian, Shi Dayong obviously felt that his father had begun to appear stiff, Shi Dayong mourned in his heart, and tears couldn't stop falling.

Covering up the coffin board, lighting the lantern, putting on sackcloth, and wearing a filial piety hat, Shi Dayong cried fiercely again.

As the boss of the family, acting is a benchmark in the eyes of his brothers, Shi Dayong can't just cry and do nothing, after crying, he began to be busy, to invite cooks, build stoves, rent tables and chairs, buy, reception, tea, no matter how big or small, he is busy and has no time to be sad.

There is a custom in my hometown, people don't do much when they leave, but they will do it three years after they leave, commonly known as "three years". Three days later, the coffin was sealed, Shi Dayong carried the spirit flag, and the brothers carried the mourning staff to send their father to the ancestral grave together.