After returning from sweeping the tomb, Wei Xuan was in a relaxed mood, and it was also the Spring Festival, so the two of them wandered around the mountains and fields with gorgeous flowers, folded wicker, and one of them braided a wreath and carried it on each other's heads.

Chu Jiaoniang smiled happily, she was not very comfortable, and suddenly said: "Wei Lang, can you also teach me to read poetry?" ”

Wei Xuan saw that she was beautiful, and the meaning of habitual favor overflowed in his eyes, and he also had some self-evident smiles, I am afraid that he had heard Jiang Yu recite poems before.

"Okay, what poem do you want to read?"

"It's all right, as long as Wei Lang teaches it."

Chu Jianniang was indeed as he guessed, and was influenced by the little sister. But it is also purely because of this good situation, and poetry is enough to help the fun.

"Okay, then listen up."

Chu Jianniang nodded.

Wei Xuan shook his head and said, "When the swallow comes, the pear blossom is behind Qingming." Three or four points of green moss on the pond, one or two yellow orioles at the bottom of the leaves. The day is long and the fly is light. Halfway through speaking, Wei Xuan suddenly hugged her waist and pinched her chin, before he read again: "Qiaoxiao is the female companion of the eastern neighbor, and you will meet in the mulberry picking path." It is suspected that last night's spring dream was good, and Yuan is winning today's fighting grass. Laughter is born from both faces. ”

Chu Jianniang flickered and blinked: "What do you mean?" ”

"Lady, it's not cute to pretend to be stupid."

Chu Jianniang laughed heartlessly.

The two walked for a long time, returned home at noon, and arrived at the door of the house, only to hear someone crying in the distance, it was to sweep the tomb and worship the ancestors in the Qingming Festival, causing grief and wailing, after listening carefully, it was the voice of the Li family Wu.

Old man Wei looked at the other side of the ravine for a long time, and his face was heavy and indispensable.

"Dad, what's wrong with you?" Chu Jianniang went up and asked.

The old man sighed and walked to the house with a cane, "Old man Li came back from going to the grave this morning, and the people were gone, alas! The world is impermanent! ”

Chu Jianniang was stunned and didn't say anything, his eldest child died less than a month, so he went to another person? At first, I looked at how harmonious the family was, and this was down, and the world was really impermanent.

Liu snorted: "Old man Li can see it, he has been sick for so long, and he is only leaving now, it can be regarded as a pity for God, and he has been left for some more time, there is nothing to sigh about, and it is a relief to leave!" ”

Liu's words make sense, but the tone that comes out makes people feel too frivolous and disagree.

Just as he was about to speak, Jiang Yu jumped out of nowhere, and dangled a wreath of willow branches in his hand in front of Wei Xuan, "Brother Xuan, do you think I look good at weaving a garland?" As he spoke, he put it on his head and spun it around in a big circle.

Liu Shi looked at it, his face darkened.

Chu Jiaoniang coughed lightly, looked down at the garland she had brought back in her hand, and guessed something: this little sister must have followed their butts and looked at them for a while.

Wei Xuan didn't lose his brother's politeness, and smiled gently, "It's good-looking." Put these three together and it looks better. ”

As he spoke, he took the garland in Chu Jianniang's hand, and gave it to Jiang Yu along with what he had in his hand.

Jiang Yu pretended not to hear the meaning of the words, and looked happy, like a girl who had won a reward and took the garland, "Thank you, Brother Xuan!" I'll take it back to my room and set it up. ”

Old man Wei sighed, just shook his head, and had nothing to say.

……

The Li family invited someone to report the funeral that day, and as soon as the eldest girl and the second girl came back, they cried hoarsely, and they didn't have the heart to scold the Wu family anymore. said to the two girls that their families were ruined.

After three days of vigil, there will be a mourning. There are no men in the Li family, and it is the husband of the eldest and second girls who send filial piety. The two of them, the village was busy dotting, and every household knocked on the door to ask someone to carry the coffin, but the Wei family was not invited.

Liu's was nothing, Old Man Wei was in a hurry, sat on the side of the hall, and stomped his crutches vigorously.

"What do you mean by this? Curse me that there is no one in the Wei family? Our two families are so close, but skip my Wei family, and call me the Wei family with a heart, isn't it okay! ”

Liu Shi can barely sit up now, leaning on a chair next to him, and said lightly: "People didn't invite you, are you still leaning over now?" ”

What do you mean by that? Can this custom be avoided? Is it possible to touch taboos? My son is fine, and he has become a relative, and his life is prosperous, so he can be called such a curse! ”

"Then you have to make them willing to come and invite them!" Liu followed suit.

Liu's family is not uncommon to care about this, purely because his son is not surnamed Wei, and he has not yet started a family, and the person who carries the coffin has become a relative, what does it have to do with her? Looking at Wu's face again, she felt uncomfortable, even if she really came to invite, she was still reluctant to go.

Old man Wei gasped several times in anger, shook his index finger, and pointed at Liu, "If it weren't for the between you and the Wu family, people would skip our house!" As for cursing our family openly! ”

Hearing that the voice was wrong, Liu Shi tilted his eyes to the side and turned his eyes straight over: "Listen to what you mean, dare to love or I'm wrong!" ”

"Is there anything wrong with it, you didn't count it yourself?"

Liu Shi smiled angrily, "Okay, Wei Songnian! You're still turning your elbow out, aren't you? If she hadn't scolded me in front of the street, I would have been more serious! I'm going to her house to play tricks! She doesn't invite our family now, that's because she spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and people outside say she's good? Look what kind of virtue this is! In one breath, he raised his voice high.

Chu Jianniang's hand to dry the clothes trembled.

It is said that the Wu family should not be that kind of person, and the two brothers-in-law of the Li family are not familiar with the Wei family, even if these two families have any grievances, they have nothing to do with the two of them, and they understand the customs and etiquette that should be discussed, why didn't they come over to invite? It's the same village, and it's so close, even if there is no one at home, you have to come and ask for it, even if you look for it, you have to find someone to carry the coffin for him.

But then again, if you don't want to go, if you want to say that something really happened, that's nothing, it's just a taboo and can't be committed. Wu's approach not only clearly cursed the Wei family, but also forced the Wei family to commit taboos. Don't blame Old Man Wei for being so angry.

When Chu Jianniang brought the clothes basin in, the two in-laws sat on one side, each angry, and no one paid attention to the other. I wanted to persuade a few words, but I didn't expect Wei Xuan to come back suddenly.

After the Qingming Festival, Wei Xuan went back to the private school to teach, and when he went, he explained to Chu Jianniang in private, saying that the county commander had some things to deal with at hand, and he had to stay in the county and come back in a month and a half. But I came back a little early today, and it was still noon.

"How do you ...... Coming back so early? Chu Jianniang asked.

"Aunt Wu met me that day and asked me to help carry the coffin and support the spirit when I came back from the funeral, and I will come back today." Wei Xuan said, while undressing, he took out a filial piety suit prepared in advance from the book and changed it on his body.

When Old Man Wei heard this, he stood up like an arrow leaning on a string, "Wu's really invited you?" ”

"Yes, I met on the road that day, and I said that I couldn't be busy, so I didn't come to the house to invite, and the filial piety clothes were also given that day, and I took them to the private school in a row, and I didn't talk to the family."

Hearing that it was invited, Old Man Wei's heart finally let go, and he nodded, "Okay, okay, it's better than not being invited, then you can go quickly." ”

Liu Shi listened, but felt that something was wrong, why did he invite Wei Xuan? The slap slammed into the table next to him and rushed straight into the air.

"What do you mean by not coming to the house? No matter how busy she is, how long can it take her to come all the way to ask the coffin to help the spirit, I don't think the Wu family wants to come to our house at all! Seeing that Da Lang is now a relative, he just took him out and invited him, which is obviously not taking the old Wei family in his eyes. But this hasn't been separated yet, why should you invite him to be a big man? My family Feng'er is not from your Wei family! ”

Wei Xuan hasn't left yet, and Liu's words really don't shy away from people. provoked him to look straight over, but thinking that the time was tight, it was inconvenient to compare the truth with her, so he put on filial piety clothes and went to the team carrying the coffin and supporting the spirit.

Old Man Wei also glanced at it, and snorted, "Aren't you disdainful?" Do you care? ”

"When did I say it's not uncommon? The Wu family is doing this, doesn't this make it clear that he intends to find our family? You haven't walked back and forth at the door, even if she sees me going wrong, she has to tell you anyway, right? Why do you say it to Dalang? It is clear that there is only one Wei Dalang in the eyes of others, and there is only him Wei Dalang. How can you Wei Songnian! ”

The Liu family will provoke, and forcibly separated Old Man Wei and Wei Xuan, and the son and father made a comparison. That's crooked.

However, what the Wu family did was also absolutely amazing, and he really didn't come to the Wei family to invite him, so he invited Wei Xuan alone, and this was the one he chose to respond to the Liu family. It can be imagined that these people are all calculating in their hearts.

Old man Wei didn't bother to pay attention to the old woman, so he went to the rocking chair on the side and squinted and took a nap.

Seeing him like this, Liu was so angry that he wanted to smash the cup and the bowl, but Chu Jianniang was beside him, but it was inconvenient to persuade him.

On the Li family's side, the coffin went out and went to the ancestral grave of the Li family in the back mountain. Many people in the village closed the door to avoid it, and only sent representatives of the family to the funeral.

The mountain road was slippery, every step was cautious, and the person carrying the coffin was even more careless, but the person who was in front of him did not slip a foot, seeing that the coffin was about to be pressed down on that side, no one expected that it was indeed Wei Xuan's head in the rear that was getting heavier and heavier, and he almost knelt on the ground.

A few people on the side saw that something was wrong, and instantly lifted the coffin up, and shouted together, and then lifted the coffin and sent it up. I sighed in my heart: Old man Li actually made a noise.

"It's just a coffin, right? See? Who's pressing? Someone in the back of the line asked.

Someone replied: "It seems to be Wei Dalang." ”

Chu Jianniang knew that someone had pressed the coffin, but she didn't know that it was Wei Xuan.

"Tsk, Wei Dalang is the first time to carry it?"

"Not really. The first time to lift, and the youngest. This yang fire is the heaviest, and he must not be crushed. ”

"Ugh." The questioner shook his head, "My family's mouth was also pressed once when the coffin was carried at the beginning, and the luck of the whole year after that was not good." ”

"I can't say anything, whether this fortune is good or not depends on the individual, after someone was pressed once, he pressed away the bad luck of a hundred years, who can I talk to?"

"Yes, I can't say exactly, it's better to burn more paper than to be practical."

The two women muttered a lot in front of them, and said that when Qingming was supposed to return to the soul, Old Man Li should not go to the grave on Qingming Day, which caused the people under him to see and miss him, so he summoned Old Man Li over, and talked a lot of nonsense.

Chu Jianniang didn't have time to listen to it, and she was worried about Wei Xuan.