Chapter 51: Sitting at Night

Naturally, I didn't hear or see, after the worship, Lao Dai put a string of cannons, and the gong and drum makers in the house also beat up instantly, and after a while, I asked someone to bring down the sheep's head and pig's blood, and the pig and sheep sacrifice was completed.

Because of the slaughter of pigs, we ate pork at noon, and the rest of the marinated pork was reserved for the feast tomorrow night.

After eating, I called Father Yang to the side alone, while Li Muyang and Lao Dai went to the mourning hall to make soul-attracting flags and crane poles, I thought for a while, and said: "Uncle Yang, how is it in the well, I will go up the mountain after tomorrow night."

When Father Yang heard the word "go up the mountain", his heart suddenly chuckled, and after a while, he said: "Already, it has been dug up, and the lime is stirred next to it, alas."

I nodded and said, "Okay, did you dig according to the length and width I said?"

"Yes, we measured, yes." Father Yang nodded and said.

"Okay, then there's nothing to do today, just wait for tomorrow to sit all night."

Father Yang whispered hello, turned around and wiped his face and walked back, I turned my head to look at the scenery surrounded by trees and mountains in the village, and suddenly I had a feeling, and said: "It's still good in the village, the people are simple, the air is good, unlike the people in the city, the routine is too deep."

After saying that, I shook my head and walked back, the time was very fast, the day passed like this, and the next night, the band I had invited in my own name also arrived, and a group of villagers, and some relatives and friends who arrived late, wrote their names in the gift book, and gave money to the departed households, and sat down on the banquet seats that had already been set up with a bag of tobacco candy and white towels.

At six o'clock in the evening, the first table of the banquet began, originally the three of us wanted to wait for the second table or the last table, but the Yang family and these villagers who knew that we had to sit at the first table, no way we were not good to refuse, the Yang family still walked here very spacious, there were a lot of people who came to eat and mourn, a total of three tables were rotated, all the people were full, soon, some of the guests were carrying their own things and walked back, while the other part of the guests stayed here to chat, at seven o'clock in the evening, the band I invited began to perform, The first thing to take the lead is the band wearing a white turban and crying filial piety, and then there is a face-changing performance, magic, and a sketch.

Although this kind of occasion should not be so happy, but this is also to relieve the sadness of the living people, and also to send the dead all the way, otherwise how can there be a group of rich people in the city, invite the band to the grave to jump, right?

At nine o'clock in the evening, after the band performed, they began to pack up their things, so I said that the money of the gong and drum maker and the band is so easy to make, only an hour or two, and earn a few hundred yuan, and so the band people are packed up, after they are gone, it is the turn of our gong and drum craftsmen to appear, there were only four teams of gongs and drums, and one or two teams were invited under the late relatives and friends, and they came over while knocking, of course, the main gong and drum tonight is still the first team, Because they are sitting gongs and drums and the existence of several other gong and drum maker teams are different, because the sitting gong and drum will also follow up the mountain tomorrow, knocking while walking, of course, other gong and drum teams can also choose to follow up the mountain, but to give more money, anyway, it doesn't matter if the money is not money in the eyes of a young man, the important thing is that I am not short of money, you say not angry, hahahaha!

At twelve o'clock in the evening, because it was the death of the daughter of the Yang family, the ancestral sacrifice that was usually recited was not written, so this link was skipped directly, and there were still a few highlights waiting behind, at this time I was standing in the mourning hall, and Li Muyang and Lao Dai were standing opposite me, I cleared my throat, ready to learn the tone of those old gentlemen shouting before, and shouted: "The golden boy and jade girl send off"~.

The last word I dragged for a long time, now I understand how much the lung capacity is needed when those old gentlemen shout these, when I shouted this sentence, the gong and drum master who can play suona blew directly, only one suona sound scene, instantly became very quiet and sad, and when he blew for a while, I opened my mouth again: "One is life, but live, the third is the dead and the good family sits, all the relatives of the Yang family stand up, Uncle Yang, you walk in front of the photo of Evian, followed by the gongs and drums, Aunt Yang, you walk behind Uncle Yang, Holding the incense burner basin, and the one who followed behind Aunt Yang held the soul-attracting flag, and the others were divided according to the size of the generation."

The voice fell, almost 20 relatives and friends walked around for a while, before they lined up the line, the old way, everyone in the mourning hall sat outside, sitting on the hall gongs and drums in the front, the first holding a white candle, the second blowing suona, the third beating a small gong, the fourth is beating the drum, the three of us also found a place into the team, the gong and drum master who took the lead in holding the candle shouted directly: "Born for a living, just come and go, send the dead all the way"~!

After speaking, the sound of suona sounded, the heart of the person who played was very desolate, Yang Mu and some women cried, and the sound of suona was accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, we walked slowly, and only stopped after three circles around the coffin.

Then we held a salute, after all the relatives of the Yang family worshipped, the time also came to three o'clock in the morning, the night was late, all the guests who did not leave were still knocking melon seeds outside the courtyard, I turned my head to the relatives of the Yang family around and said: "Wait for four o'clock to close, age thirty-eight, forty-three, sixty-five, seventy-two, people who belong to the tiger, the dragon and the snake do not come."

Everyone nodded, and then I yawned and said, "Let's go, two buddies, sleep for a while, you two will have to work hard later."

"What's the hard work". Lao Dai asked.

"Tie the coffin and smoke the hall, what else can you do." I said.

Lao Dai nodded and said, "Okay, then go to sleep."

After saying that, the three of us went upstairs, and after an hour of dazed sleep, I got up, kicked Li Muyang and Lao Dai and said, "Quick, get up, the hour is coming."

Lao Dai and Li Muyang were kicked and screamed by me, they got up directly, got dressed and walked downstairs, there were 5 minutes before four o'clock, and the relatives of the Yang family saw us come down, and they also came over, I glanced upstairs and said: "Are there any children sleeping upstairs and downstairs, if there are any, take them out, otherwise they will be shocked when the coffin is opened and closed."

After hearing this, a woman walked directly upstairs and walked down with her sleeping child, I took a look at it and said, "It's okay, don't come over to see the age and physiognomy I just said, go outside and chat."

After speaking, four or five people walked out, I nodded at Lao Dai, and the two of them directly lifted the coffin lid to the bench next to it, Li Muyang took a stack of yellow paper and covered the face of Yang Yiyun's corpse, and then he said: "You have to look up from your feet, otherwise you will be afraid if you look directly at your face."

Although Li Muyang's kid has told him, there are still some people who look directly at their faces, and after a while, I took away the yellow paper and stuffed it next to Yang Yiyun's head, Yang's mother saw her daughter, and she cried directly on the edge of the coffin, and Yang's father also wiped his tears, unable to suppress his sentimentality.

After they read it for a while, our brothers cooperated to stuff three stacks of yellow paper on both sides of her head, I took a closer look, but suddenly found a problem, I frowned, and said: "Who gave Evian these shoes to wear."

I pointed to the shoes worn by Evian on the soles of her feet, and everyone looked at them suspiciously, and the two buddies were no exception.

"It must be those staff who are wearing it, I rely on it, I don't have any sense of responsibility at all, but fortunately I found it quickly, otherwise something would have happened." Li Muyang said.

I nodded and said, "It's useless to say so much, which of you two is going to change it."

Li Muyang and Lao Dai were stunned for a moment, looked at each other, and then pointed at me and shouted at me at the same time: "You"!!