29. Funeral

This morning in Happy Village was woken up by Sun Xiaoxiao's scream.

The neighbors hurried over to see what was going on, in fact, everyone knew what was going on as soon as they heard the crying as soon as they entered the courtyard.

The neighbors who came over all went to Secretary Qi's house, and they all knew that there were only two mothers in this house, and only three neighbor aunts entered the house, pulled Sun Xiaoxiao up from his mother's body, and quickly changed his clothes, Sun Xiaoxiao was still crying on the side, crying was the only thing he could do, he didn't want to leave his mother, he would always protect his mother, lying there cold, and he wouldn't get up again.

Qi Ziqiang suddenly opened his eyes, breathing rapidly, it was still dark outside.

"Mom. Mom, did you hear that? There is a cry! Qi Ziqiang pushed Teacher Wang, who was still asleep.

"No, you're shocked, come and call you, good, you can't be scared by touching your hair, and you'll be scared by touching your ears for a while." Teacher Wang touched Qi Ziqiang's head in a daze, and Teacher Wang touched the entire Qi Ziqiang's head with both hands, and fell asleep again after hugging Qi Ziqiang's head.

"Dad, Dad, did you hear that?" Qi Ziqiang began to call Qi Laosi.

"No, nothing." Qi Laosi turned over.

Qi Ziqiang freed his head from Teacher Wang's hands.

Teacher Wang struggled to hug Qi Ziqiang's head tightly and pressed it to his chest.

Qi Ziqiang habitually reached out and touched Teacher Wang's chest, thinking that it was wrong, he wanted to get up.

Qi Ziqiang scratched the itch of Teacher Wang, and Teacher Wang pushed away the black-hearted cotton, the quilt in the morning of winter is the destination, and it was really annoying to die if I didn't let me sleep in the morning.

Qi Ziqiang listened carefully, and it seemed that there was nothing left.

I got up and took out my clothes from under the quilt on the kang, they were still warm, put on my clothes, wrapped them in a cotton jacket and went out.

Outside the gate, the figures walked towards Sun Xiaoxiao's house in the dim morning.

Qi Ziqiang ran outside the gate and saw that Secretary Qi was coming to his house, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle, why did you come so early?" ”

"Qiangzi, hurry up and call your dad to get up, Sun Yi's daughter-in-law is gone, hurry up and heat up the car, you will have to use it later."

Qi Ziqiang stood there in a daze, turned around and ran into the house, shouting, "Dad, Mom." Get up. ”

"You calf, why don't you let people sleep in the morning, what are you doing, you see me get up in a while." There was a roar from Qi Laosi in the room, and Teacher Wang also muttered to clean up Qi Ziqiang.

"Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao, her mother is gone, Mom, is she dead?" When the two people in the house heard this, they hurriedly got dressed, and Qi Laosi said disheveledly, "You can't talk nonsense, what are you talking nonsense, are you dreaming?" ”

Qi Laosi didn't know if it was true or not, but he still got up, if it was fake, Qi Ziqiang would inevitably be beaten up.

"My uncle just came and asked me to tell you to get up and warm up the car."

"Dad, Dad, can it really not." Qi Ziqiang stared at Qi Laosi with big eyes.

"This can still be fake, go into the house, hurry." Qi Laosi got dressed and went out, but Teacher Wang dragged Qi Ziqiang for fear that she would run to Sun's house to cause trouble, so he didn't let her go out.

Qi Ziqiang broke away from Mr. Wang's hand and went out without his hat.

Teacher Wang usually doesn't attend such occasions, he is too timid, and he is still a little scared to sit there with his clothes on, he originally wanted Qi Ziqiang to be strong, but this guy ran too fast.

Scared, Mr. Wang ran to his mother's house.

As soon as Qi Ziqiang arrived at Sun's house, he saw Sun Xiaoxiao being held in the arms of a neighbor's aunt, crying hoarsely.

Several neighbors in the house also wiped their tears together.

"Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao I'm here." Qi Ziqiang stood beside Sun Xiaoxiao, looking at her with his head down, Qi Ziqiang wanted to turn around and run away, she really couldn't see other people's tears, but she still stood there, Sun Xiaoxiao threw herself into Qi Ziqiang's arms, and whimpered and said, "Qiangzi, I have no mother." The voice was very small, but it shook Qi Ziqiang's chest, Qi Ziqiang thought to himself, how can there be no mother, everyone has a mother, how can it be, people will really die? Dead and gone? Qi Ziqiang hugged Sun Xiaoxiao and did not let go. The adults in the house were busy, and the funeral was a big deal, but they didn't dare to let Sun Xiaoxiao interfere.

"Oh, this Yurong, why haven't your eyes been closed yet?" The neighbor's aunt takes care of the two of them on weekdays, and she can't close her eyes when she sees people dying, so she asks the person next to her.

"Is Secretary Qi here, ask Mr. Yin Yang when he is coming, hurry up and take a look." While he was talking here, Secretary Qi came in, and when he saw Qi Ziqiang here, he said, "Qiangzi, you go and inform Fang Hong over there, don't force him to come here, you have to tell him, I'm busy here, I won't go." ”

Qi Ziqiang patted Sun Xiaoxiao, she was going out, a bunch of things had to be solved here, and she couldn't keep crying.

"Okay, uncle, what else do you have to say here?" Qi Ziqiang looked at Secretary Qi with a sad face.

"Your dad went to pick up people, everyone here is almost here, Xiaoxiao, do you have money at home, you didn't borrow money for the funeral, you want to send your mother to the village here to see if I can get some, do you still have anything at home?" Secretary Qi asked in a low voice.

"Sort of, just sold grain." As he spoke, he took out some money from the cabinet, and bought coal during this time, plus the usual expenses, and the rest was less than five hundred yuan.

Secretary Qi looked at the money and sighed. didn't have time to sigh, Zhang Luo hurriedly put up the mourning hall with people who could use it.

Tianmeng Meng was bright, and Fang Hong was dragged up from the bed by Qi Ziqiang.

"Uncle, Xiao Xiao's mother is gone." Qi Ziqiang's eyes were a little sloppy, with some panic.

It was the first time Fang Hong saw Qi Ziqiang who was so uncalm, Xiao Xiao's girl's mother he had long known that her life would not be long, he had never said anything, he didn't expect it to be so fast.

"Qiangzi, don't panic, I know, you go back, it's inconvenient for me to come forward in this matter, I have a special life, I can't attend the funeral, if there is anything that can use me, you can come and inform me." Fang Hong patted Qi Ziqiang's head, thinking that Qiangzi's heart had become soft.

"Ah, I forgot, uncle, don't go out for the past two days." Qi Ziqiang suddenly realized that Fang Hong's life was studied every day on weekdays, and he actually forgot everything.

"Uncle, lend me the car to drive." After Qi Ziqiang finished speaking, he picked up the key and went out.

Qi Ziqiang drove the car and pulled Li Ming and Sun Xiaohu, and they returned to Sun Xiaoxiao's house. Secretary Qi saw that Qi Ziqiang drove the car over, and arranged to "Qiangzi, your father is going to pull the coffin, you go and pull Mr. Yin and Yang to see the place, how does Mr. arrange for you to listen." ”

"Dalong, Baiyue, just follow Qiangzi alone, leave some people, move the table or something." Secretary Qi didn't say anything polite to these children, when the children were older, whoever had a big or small affair would come to help do some work, which was also a human relationship.

Secretary Qi contacted Sun Yi and his eldest brother, this daughter-in-law is gone, and I haven't seen this scumbag come back, Sun Shu is rushing here, Sun Yi doesn't know when he will be able to come back.

Qi Ziqiang pulled Mr. Yin Yang around the tomb of the Sun family, and Mr. Yin and Yang didn't say anything, shook his head and sighed.

"Sir, what's wrong, what's wrong?" Qi Ziqiang asked.

"If the dead don't close their eyes, they must have a grudge in their hearts, it's not appropriate to bury them, it's nothing if people die of illness, they can bury it, bury it on her mother-in-law's side." Mr. Yin and Yang didn't want to cause trouble, and he couldn't deal with it, the compromise was to bury it in the cemetery of the Sun family according to the rules, he looked at the deceased, and as soon as he entered the yard, he felt a lot of resentment, and he had to do something.

"How can you close your eyes?" Qi Ziqiang has more or less dabbling in the theory of yin and yang, and he doesn't know much about red and white things, and what he says in the book is not the same as folk customs, one place and one custom, she doesn't dare to mix blindly in this matter.

"When a person dies, he can't let go of it. Come back, that's it. The gentleman told Qi Ziqiang to go back, and Qi Ziqiang obediently pulled the person back.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, he heard Sun Yi's noise, and Qi Baiyue and a few boys, Sun Xiaoxiao protected him, and looked at Sun Yi with cold eyes.

Sun Xiaoxiao's uncle, Sun Shu, stopped Sun Yi from making trouble, and the yard was in chaos.

It is also the Sun family's own business to help the neighbors, Sun Yi can only listen to him when he comes back, who would have thought that when he asked him if he wanted money to send his daughter-in-law, he kept shouting that he wanted to sell the house with a house license.

Sun Xiaoxiao's grandmother's house is far from being reached, Sun Yi thought that no one from his father-in-law's family would come and quickly take down the house, and he also knew that he didn't take care of it, if someone else's family came after a while, this house photo would not come down.

"Sir, let's go in first." Qi Ziqiang led Mr. Yin Yang into the courtyard and went straight to the mourning hall.

When Sun Yi saw Qi Ziqiang coming, he snorted, flicked his sleeves and ran to the side in a daze, not daring to shout again.

"Sir, everything here has been picked up according to what you said, and the pressure money has been released, what else is there?"

"These eyes and mouth have to be closed, what about her daughter, are there still parents? Let the upper and the front be chattering. The gentleman said. If the dead person does not close his eyes, it means that he can't let go of it before his life, and he is resentful, and it will affect the feng shui of the family in the future, so he should be closed.

"Hey, I'll arrange it." Secretary Qi sent Qi Ziqiang to follow Mr. Yin Yang, went to find Sun Xiaoxiao by himself, and asked the child to go to his mother to talk about it to see if he could close his eyes.

"Qiangzi, I'm Uncle Xiaoxiao, see if you can go to the town and pull Uncle Xiaoxiao and them over." Sun Shu saw that his younger brother was actually afraid of a child, and he was quite faceless, so he came over to ask someone.

"Okay, uncle, a few of them, I can pull five or six people in this car." Qi Ziqiang asked.

"Seven or eight."

"Then the uncle will find someone he knows to go with me, and I'll go find a car again."

"I'll go with you." Sun Shu said.

Master Wu was dragged to be a strong man, and he went to the town to pull people together.

Sun Xiaoxiao's grandmother's house is quite far away, she hasn't been to her daughter's house for a few years, and she can't afford the travel expenses.

When Qi Ziqiang saw Sun Xiaoxiao's grandmother's family, he sighed, he was really poor.

The blind grandmother was lying on her son's back with tears in her eyes, Sun Xiaoxiao's uncle looked like he could be fifty or sixty years old, but in fact he was not yet forty years old, his teeth began to fall out, the clothes on his body were patches, and the second uncle was not much better, the clothes on his body were obviously thin, and he was so cold that his nose was dry, and his uncle's eyebrows were delicate, but he was a lame man, and he hadn't married a daughter-in-law in his thirties, and he was limping with him, Sun Xiaoxiao's aunt was dressed as thick as Sun Xiaoxiao's grandmother, and she couldn't see clearly when she lowered her head.

I thought there would be seven or eight people, but it turned out to be just a few people, but a car would definitely not be able to pull it off, and they brought a lot of things, including a large bag of cotton.

When he arrived at Sun's house, before entering the hospital, Sun Xiaoxiao's grandmother's crying came in, and the old man couldn't control himself when he heard his granddaughter's voice, patted his eldest son's back with his hand, and cried hoarsely.

When Sun Yi heard that his father-in-law's house was coming, he couldn't sit still, Sun Shu came in and grabbed Sun Yi and didn't let him run. Sun Yi glared at Sun Shu and welcomed a few people into the hospital. Sun Xiaoxiao's eyes were like walnuts, and he was hugged into his arms by his grandmother and cried for a while.

When Mr. Yin Yang saw that this mother was coming, he hurriedly came over and said, hurriedly came over and said, this woman doesn't close his eyes.

One person on the left and one on the right said that this Sun Xiaoxiao and her mother just couldn't close her eyes.

Grandma asked my uncle to hurry over, but it can't be done if you can't close your eyes.

endured the grief and persuaded her daughter to go all the way, and the people next to her who said it in a trembling voice cried one after another, and the white-haired person sent the black-haired person, who could understand the pain in his heart.

Qi Ziqiang placed the person and asked Secretary Qi, "Uncle, is there anything else, Xiao Xiao can't cry like this anymore, he is crying badly, and he can't speak." ”

"You can rest for a while, I'll look for you if you have something, go into the house to warm up, and think about filling up your Uncle Fang's car fuel for a while, and I'll give you money." As soon as Secretary Qi finished speaking, he was called away again.

Master Wu looked at this family and couldn't bear it, and went back and took two thousand yuan for Qi Ziqiang to take first, and give it to Sun Xiaoxiao for a while.

Over there, Sun Xiaoxiao's mother just didn't close her eyes, her grandmother fainted from crying, and there was a rush again, Qi Ziqiang came out of the house and walked to Sun Xiaoxiao's mother, and said to Sun Xiaoxiao's mother, "You can go with confidence, Xiaoxiao, I will protect you, you can't touch it, you don't have to worry about anything." After saying that, his right hand touched the eyes of the deceased.

"Closed!" Sun Xiaoxiao's aunt looked at Qi Ziqiang in surprise, ran out and said to the eldest brother who was squatting at the base of the wall, "The eldest sister's eyes are closed. ”

Boss Zheng hurriedly came in to take a look, and it was really closed.

Qi Ziqiang felt uncomfortable, ran away in the car, ran to Fang Hong's house, and couldn't get up on the kang.

"If you don't want to go, don't go, it's all an adult's business, you can rest for a while." Fang Hong looked at Qi Ziqiang's aggrieved face, and felt distressed.

"Don't drop it, it'll be over in a while, uncle." Qi Ziqiang said in a low voice.

"What's the matter, you say." Fang Hong looked at Qi Ziqiang and stopped talking, and asked.

"Nothing." Lying there motionless.

"Uncle, you bought the Sun family's house." Qi Ziqiang said sullenly.

"Okay, don't be sad, Xiao Xiao is fine."

"Uncle, the house is mine."

"Tell my uncle about this."

Qi Ziqiang stayed for a while and left, and Master Wu found Fang Hong and said, "Qiangzi, this kid is very righteous. Who the hell is he? ”

"Do you know that curiosity kills cats?" Fang Hong fiddled with the jade in his hand and didn't look at Master Wu.

"Hehe, what's really curious about this, just ask."

"She's someone you can't touch, this kid is still young, and it's naturally amazing when she's older."

"Well, I know, it must be good for you to see you grow up with him like this, I don't know if he can still think of you after he finds a daughter-in-law." Master Wu joked.

"Are you stupid?" Fang Hong glared at Master Wu, then picked up his stone, squeezed it with Zhong Tian, and took a nap on the kang.

Master Wu thought to himself, how stupid am I?