Outside the gate of Zhang Jingchao's house in Xiaozhuang Village, at this time there have been a lot of villagers who have gathered to help, waiting for the funeral procession to come back, at the door, in addition to the ten square tables placed on the house, there are also three cauldrons in the alley on the left side of the house, the blower is buzzing with the wind, the village master who helps to cook is holding a big shovel, stir-frying the meat and vegetables inside, and the fragrance is blowing with the wind.

In Heyin County, happy events to make a banquet, boiled vegetables and drink bean foam, this is all exquisite, of course, there are those rich big families, will also get a few tables when doing white things, invite relatives, friends and neighbors to eat white banquets, except for no fish and candy, other specifications are the same as the wedding banquet.

Before the feast, in addition to the people who came to pay filial piety and help, relatives and neighbors would write down the bills of favors on the white gift list, but this rule has not worked very well since everyone in Xiaozhuang Village fell into self-danger, almost everyone who came was just helping, and did not pay the etiquette, after all, now they are only the villagers of Xiaozhuang Village's own village, and there are no relatives and friends from other villages to come.

Therefore, the current Xiaozhuang Village, after reaching a consensus with some village cadres, conveyed the meaning to the four surnames and other households in the village, in addition to all the white things do not do the banquet, you can use six cold dishes, a hot stewed dish with white steamed buns as food.

It stands to reason that after the funeral procession comes back, the dishes will be ready, and then except for the descendants who have come over, everyone else can take their own bowls of rice, but the funeral procession of Zhang Jingchao's family has not returned, so that the villagers who are waiting for the meal to help the villagers become more and more anxious, and they are talking over there.

"Why haven't you come back, what's going on?"

"Is it that the Heavenly Master has not been optimistic about the acupoints!"

"Who knows, Jing Chao is not made into a zombie, maybe it is different from ordinary people to bury it!"

"It's already a little over, and the children are so hungry that they can't do it, why don't you start eating first?"

"How can it be done, it's not in accordance with the rules, let's talk about it when everyone comes back!"

"Who knows how long it will take!"

"That's not good, the descendants haven't come back, what's the meal!"

"It's coming, look, it's back!"

When a group of people were smelling the aroma of the food, sweeping the hot vegetable balls and meat pieces stewed in the pot from time to time, and talking enthusiastically about why the funeral procession had not returned, they saw a group of people walking towards this side at the corner of the alley in the distance.

Seeing that the funeral procession had returned, the village cook, who was boiling the big pot of stewed vegetables with the blower, immediately turned off the blower, and then some of the descendants of the Zhang family put the porcelain bowls they had pulled on the wooden boards, walked over and asked the master in charge of serving the vegetables with a big spoon to fill the porcelain bowls, and then put them on those tables.

A square table can seat eight people, and there are four benches that can sit for two people around it, and after the stew is served, someone brings out the foam box containing steamed buns, and the person who is assigned to the steamed buns presses a table of eight and puts them in a basin on the table, in addition to the stew, six cold dishes on the table are also served.

The cold dishes are all adjusted, there are cold cucumbers, cut pork ear roots, mixed preserved eggs, garlic meat foam, beef slices and spiced peanuts, three meat and three vegetables, this is nothing to rely on, it is all depending on the master's family, the grade of the rich is slightly better, and the money only needs to make up enough six dishes.

In fact, these cold dishes in Zhang Jingchao's house were all prepared in advance, and they were originally prepared to be buried tomorrow, but they didn't expect Zhang Jingchao's corpse to change in the middle, fortunately, there is Heyunfei, the heavenly master of Longhu Mountain, as long as it doesn't affect one day sooner or later, they are also happy to be busy early and leisure, after all, half of this month has passed, and I don't know which four unlucky ones will be next month, these have to be prepared in advance.

The people here in the family are waiting for the funeral procession to come back, basically waiting for the people to enter the ground, busy with the living people's food, the funeral is completed, so, seeing the funeral procession returning, these people in the family immediately got busy, waiting for the cauldron and tables, chairs and bowls to be sent to the rented villagers' homes, this matter is over.

After the hot stew is served, the fragrance wafts straight out with the wind, the husband and wife of each family in the village before, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will often have a quarrel, compete for a high and low, since so many strange things have happened in the village, all the people seem to want to open, can eat and drink contentment, there are few that are not content to jump up and down.

After Yu Ruibao came back with people, those who were waiting swept around, and they didn't see the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain and the good-looking girl in the crowd, but the young man who looked a little shy and eccentric followed Yu Ruibao's side, as well as the spiritual pet brought by the Heavenly Master, although they were also puzzled in the crowd, but no one asked.

"Chen Yang, why didn't my master come back, nothing will happen, right?" Along the way, Zhang Rujun and Chen Yang are also familiar with each other, of course, Zhang Rujun, who is chattering, thinks so, but Chen Yang is not good at and doesn't like to talk to him, so most of the time along the way is just Zhang Rujun asking, and Chen Yang answers.

"I don't know!" Chen Yang shook his head, he didn't worry about He Yunfei, but he was a little worried about Chen Kexin, but this concern and delicate feelings, he just hid it deep in his heart, and didn't dare to show it in front of others, to be honest, he was a little afraid of other people's ridicule, although Chen Kexin made him understand that other people's bad luck was not because of himself, but the things he experienced since childhood still made him far more sensitive than others.

"Okay, Zhang Rujun, stop chatting, Hetianshi and they will naturally come back when they should come back, you take Chen Yang over to eat, take care of him, I'll settle down with others!" Yu Ruibao shook his head after hearing Zhang Rujun's discussion with Chen Yang, directly interrupted Zhang Rujun's continued questioning, and waited for Zhang Rujun to nod, then said hello to Chen Yang, and beckoned those who carried the coffin behind him and some descendants of the Zhang family to come over for dinner.

In fact, these coffin bearers have made great efforts, so those tables also have their share, and Zhang Jingchao's age is there, and there are no descendants, and some of them are directly counted from Zhang Jingchao's parents' generation.

For He Yunfei and Chen Kexin, who had not yet returned, I didn't know what Yu Ruibao thought, and he didn't say anything, and Chen Yang, under Zhang Rujun's greeting, also walked over, played a bowl of dishes, took a steamed bun, found an empty table and sat down, and when he was about to eat, he saw the evil evil half-lying at the mouth of the alley, thought about it, asked Zhang Rujun again, and gave the evil one a copy.

Although some people complained about the evil spirit is dog and a bowl of dishes, they also saw the previous performance of the evil spirit, and they dared not speak out, so they could only let the evil break pick up the vegetables and meat in the stew and eat it, speaking of which, the quality of the stewed vegetables in Zhang Jingchao's house is still quite high, there are red and white balls in it, and there are stewed pork ribs and chicken nuggets.

Chen Yang watched Po Xie staring at himself for a long time, before he lowered his head and ate, some wanted to laugh, under Zhang Rujun's greeting, he also lowered his head and ate, just eating and eating, he couldn't help but think of the life at home, perhaps, people are like this, they will never be satisfied, they will only keep asking for the gift of life.

I don't know why, Chen Yang feels that since he came out with Chen Kexin, he can no longer be the same person he used to be, and what will happen to those who once looked down on him, let alone want to know.