A cadre of relatives has already finished the first meal, and this person is busy with cleaning up the table.

It is said that the first meal on the day of death, or even the meal before the funeral, is not eaten with big fish and meat, but the most traditional pork vermicelli and Chinese cabbage in the north. Generally, the people who come are also members of the deceased's local family, which is commonly known as the head of the family and the family.

After everyone finished eating, after the market closed, the woman stayed in the house, accompanied the deceased's family to talk with relatives, and also expressed her sadness by the way, while the man, especially the man between the ages of seventeen and eighteen to forty or fifty, would stay and keep watch in the mourning shed.

Jiang Yao was at the request of his mother Shao Xiaoling to follow his uncle's father and sister-in-law's three people to wake the spirit.

The mourning shed was placed squarely on the side of the street of Grandpa Shao Qingren's house, leaning against the wall on one side, trying to make way for passing vehicles. On the outer door of the mourning shed, a huge couplet is hung on both sides: good conduct and virtue are in the eternal future, and the high wind and bright festival will last forever. It is even more unreachable to hang a couplet: Driving the Crane Moxi Tour.

Shao Qingren has traveled to the north and south over the years, making a wide range of friends, although he lives in the village, the friendship remains the same, and the door of the spiritual shed is full of wreaths, paper cars, paper houses, couplets, and coiled cars......

Coiled car ...... Jiang Yao looked at this spiritual shed, full of paper-paste objects, and couldn't help but stand upside down in this cool night, especially when he saw the boy and girl, the paper man driving the coiled car in his mind could no longer linger.

In front of the coffin at the main entrance, there was a sensible junior young man, who kept lighting the foreign money tickets (banknotes) with candles on the table and threw them into the brazier.

"Yaozi, sit in it with a pair." The sister-in-law is in his early forties, and he is a short and honest man.

"No, I'll just be with my dad."

"Your dad has to go back later, come here."

"Yaozi, come here, my uncle doesn't see you anymore, come and play poker with my uncle for a while." It was Shao Xiaoling's son of the big father's family who spoke, Shao Tiejun. Although this person is also short and strong, he can't compare to a farmer like his brother-in-law, after all, the supermarket business run by Shao Tiejun is very good, and even the goods of Jiang Yao's family are issued by Shao Tiejun.

"No, I don't have any money." Jiang Yao stretched out his hand to excuse himself, he has not been close to the rich since he was a child, even if he is his uncle, he does not have much good feelings.

"Hey, little cub, isn't Uncle Han, come and take the three hundred yuan, and buy whatever you want." Shao Tiejun took out a stack of red tickets from his trouser pocket, counted out three and handed them to Jiang Yao.

"I don't want it." Jiang Yao stretched out his hand to hug Shao Tiejun.

Shao Tiejun, who usually calls for wind and rain in the village, has never seen such an embarrassing time, in the swaying lights, his face is extremely clear, and even his Mediterranean-like hair begins to flutter angrily.

"Yaozi, Uncle is rare for you to give you money, take it." Jiang Guangming walked in and took the three hundred yuan from Shao Tiejun back to Jiang Yao.

"Thank you, uncle." Jiang Yao forced out a smile.

"Good boy, there will be a future success." Shao Tiejun's round face, which was flushed, suddenly leaked, and he was even more stiff than Jiang Yao, so that he rubbed Jiang Yao's head without smiling and said.

"Dad, the second grandma is still coming over?" Jiang Yao diverged from a blunt conversation with Shao Tiejun.

"No, it should be soon, I heard your uncle talk about the city, if it's too late, stay and come over tomorrow."

"The book that my grandfather left me, you and my mother kept it?" Jiang Yao looked at the noisy people in the mourning hall again, lowered his voice and said.

"No, your mother and I have been busy, wherever you have time to take care of you, your aunt is taking care of you."

……

Stayed up until more than eleven o'clock, late at night, Jiang Guangming walked out of the spirit shed and went back to the house to sleep, and the rest of the people slept soundly, playing cards, and most of them still got together to talk and laugh.

And with Jiang Yao, it was Shao Tiejun, his brother-in-law, and his uncle.

Jiang Yao will play a lot, but the uncle and brother-in-law will only fight the landlord. Seeing that three or four hours had passed, he was really not interested in playing, and his uncle, who was wide and fat, began to nap and fell asleep. It stands to reason that the eldest son, who should stay overnight, is really despised.

"Yaozi, uncle will tell you a ghost story." Shao Tiejun glanced at Shao Wujun, who was snoring like thunder, and sneered.

"Tell ghost stories, you are really at the right time, and you are not too panicked?" The sister-in-law snorted, and the evil lay on the cardboard.

"Let's talk about it, just to refresh my nerves, I still have to keep my grandfather for a night." Jiang Yao saw that there was no one in Shao Tiejun's eyes, and he made up his mind not to lose face again.

"In other words, the older generation, an old man is almost fifty years old, and he has not yet married a daughter-in-law, just because he is too poor, not only poor, but also a little lacking in heart. One day the old man got up early to go to the market to sell vegetables, the road happened to pass by the Buddhist temple on the edge of our village, at that time there were few people, the old man rode the car, and suddenly a snow-white cat popped out of the grass in front of him, the cat was bigger than usual, the cat opened his mouth and asked: 'Old man, what do you think I look like?' ’

The old man smiled, and his mouth full of big yellow teeth leaked: "You're a big cat, a big white cat." ’

As soon as these words came out, the big cat, which was originally full of expectations, let out a helpless sigh even more helplessly than a human when he heard this, and then burrowed back into the grass.

Later, the old man went home from selling vegetables, and the house was full of white cats, tossing back and forth, on the beams of the house, in the pots and pans, and in the kang hole, he blew away and came back, came back and bombed away, for three days, tortured the old man to death. ”

"Then this big cat is too ruthless." Jiang Yao didn't know what to do.

"This is begging for a seal, as long as the old man says that the white cat is like a human, the white cat can cultivate as an adult; Say that he is like an immortal, and he will be able to become an immortal; But he is like a cat, and hundreds of years of cultivation have been completely ruined. The sister-in-law said.

"No, not long after killing the old man, people found a pure white big cat in the iron pot of the old man's house, but the big cat has long been out of breath."

"Uncle, this story is not scary." Jiang Yao came up vigorously, but looked at the bald toad with a round face and laughed happily.

"Hey, look at the person with a stupid pinch, he can't grasp the opportunity, that cat fairy can ensure his wealth and glory for a lifetime, and even future generations can be obedient, but he has to go to death."

"Uncle, what do you mean by that?" Jiang Yao smiled unknowingly.

Shao Tiejun looked around the coffin, it was all four or five piles, sleeping, noisy and noisy, and no one paid attention to the conversation between the three of them.

"Hey, brother, no matter how superstitious you are, you can't finish talking, it's not good at night." The little brother-in-law looked at Shao Tiejun's mysterious expression and couldn't help but interrupt.

"Uncle, it's okay, you say."

"What kind of lucky people can meet this kind of great immortal, which is also a blessing for several lifetimes. When I was young, I also went out to buy goods, and there was a truck at that time? It was purely me who rode a big bicycle to pull the goods back from the county seat. Guess what I am, it was also on the edge of a temple that I met a big cat who was gray, oh no, cat fairy, at that time I said that she was like a person, and sure enough, I was lucky for the rest of my life. Shao Tiejun triumphantly reminisced about the past, as if it was true or false.

The little brother-in-law on the side did not answer again, but showed a more disdainful expression.

"Uncle is just a good fate, you should get rich." Jiang Yao immediately understood that this was a stinky display, but he had to follow him.

"I'll just say that Yaozi has a sweet mouth, isn't it sensible?" Shao Tiejun said, taking out two hundred yuan from his pocket and stuffing it into Jiang Yao's hand.

"Thank you, uncle." Jiang Yao happily took it and thanked him.