Don't howl, why don't you go and hire a few barmen to help dress and collect the funeral, this is important! Du Huaibing saw that she could only cry like a fool, and hurriedly reminded.

Wei came to his senses, wiped his tears with his sleeve, got up and went out.

Du Huaibing put the forty taels of silver and the title deed scattered on the bed in a clay pot, wrapped them in blue coarse cloth again, turned his head and said to Du Mei: "I will be busy for a while, I am afraid that there will be many people, so I will put the things in the box for the time being, and you will take care of the key, if you use the money, we will open the box together to get it." ”

Du Mei got up as he said, locked the things, and carefully stored the keys in his purse.

"How can this work, Dad said yes...... The ...... of the equal division" Zhou's voice became smaller and smaller, and she became more and more unconfident, she didn't expect Du Shicheng, who was still in good spirits just now, to say that it was gone in a blink of an eye.

"You stinky! My dad was pissed off by you, I'm going to have a dog's day with you, and I'm waiting for me to write a letter of resignation! Dajin was so angry that he kicked Zhou's heart, turned around and threw himself in front of the bed and cried.

Caught off guard, where could Zhou's stand Dajin's heartwarming feet so strongly, she fell to the ground, and the pain was so painful that she felt that her heart, liver and five organs were displaced, she was used to it on weekdays, this time she had such a big disaster, she was scared to death for a while, and she didn't have the strength to get up from the ground, so she simply slept on the ground and cried, but she didn't know whether to cry her father or cry herself.

There was a miserable wail in the house, Du Sanjin woke up like a dream, he watched a room of people coming in and out in a daze, and then realized that his father was gone.

"Daddy!" Du Sanjin woke up, suddenly felt heartbroken, and rushed forward.

Du Shicheng was so angry with his two daughters-in-law that he vomited blood and died, and the funeral was very complicated and cumbersome, but the two rooms of the Du family were more useless than the other.

Sanjin originally only could study, accustomed to ignoring family affairs, at this time suffered from the double blow of his daughter-in-law's betrayal and his father's death, and he was in a mess all day long, and now he basically can't do anything except cry in front of the spirit.

Although Dajin is the eldest son, he is an elm pimple who does not open his mind, he has no rules to do things, and he can't come up with ideas for everything, so he always has to ask Du Huaibing, which makes the people who help him run a lot of wronged ways, and then everyone doesn't ask him, and asks Du Huaibing to be the master.

Du Shicheng let go, and when he was in grief, Wei's heart was distressed, and he curled up on the bed every day, as if there was a ghost in their room.

The old woman in the village came to accompany her more during the day, talked to her, and explained a thing or two, she was still better, but at night, her pain intensified, she was afraid of the noise of the vigil outside, and she was afraid of the silence in the house, she always felt that Du Shicheng did not go, only sat silently on the beam, looking at her with pity, so that she was even more afraid, occasionally the lights exploded, and she was also frightened into the quilt and shivered.

Zhou's self-beating was kicked down by Dajin, and her chest was bruised, and she didn't know if her ribs were broken, she was reluctant to spend money, so she only lay down at home to raise, and now she was angry with her father-in-law, and offended Du Mei again, Zhong Yu would never show her.

Xie Shi was released from the ancestral hall because of Du Shicheng's death, but after a night's work, people with a discerning eye could see that Xie was wrong, she was a more enchanting and bright person, and now she doesn't comb her face or wash her face all day long, and she is still wearing a skirt on the day of the full moon, and the oil stains from the food leakage are stained on the placket, and I don't know how to change it, the village began to rumor that she was crazy, but some people said that she was afraid of being sunk, so she pretended to be crazy.

Du Huaibing is so busy every day that his feet don't touch the ground, the big house and the three rooms are all not on the top, he has to be cheeky to find Du Mei, it is said that the second gold is no longer there, Du Mei also generously gave up the pension silver two, and now there are uncles and third uncles here, no matter how she says her grandfather's funeral, she can't take care of it.

"Meizi, the dead are the greatest, you have also seen your uncle and third uncle, one family can't do things, and the other family is either crazy or stupid, I really can't manage this mess alone, you can help anyway." Du Huaibing stepped on the creaking snow and entered the courtyard of the second room.

"Master, it's not that I don't help, Grandpa has a lot of children and grandchildren, and I want a girl to jump up and down in it, and I will inevitably be laughed at by the villagers. Du Mei came to help Xu do needlework, juniper grew fast, clothes should be made early, she threaded needles and threads, her fingers flew, and soon sewed the placket.

"Hey, your grandpa has lived in a face all his life, and now people are dying like lights going out, and if the funeral is not done well, it will make people laugh, besides, you are a widow, you are the most powerful person in Dujiagou, you have more face than a man, you give your grandpa to run around, he knows underground, and he will feel gratified." Du Huaibing knew that Du Mei hated the bad habits of patriarchy in the countryside, but what should I do, since ancient times, how can it be changed overnight!

"Meizi, since the patriarch has come to call you, you should go and help one or two, your father...... You are the eldest daughter, and you deserve to replace it. Xu Shi got the relics of the second gold, and the tears did not stop for half a moment, and when he mentioned it, he cried again.

"Erjin's family, you also mourn, crying like this, I'm afraid you're going to cry your eyes, Juniper is still young." Du Huaibing turned his head to look at Xu, who was dressed in plain clothes, and comforted.

"I know." Xu Shi pressed his eyes with a handkerchief, and tears soon soaked the cotton cloth.

"Mother, it's all my fault, if I put it away and don't give it to you, it's fine." Du Mei was sad, but she didn't dare to cry, otherwise her mother would be even worse.

"Mother don't cry, don't cry, let's have a good life, and your father is at ease in heaven." Xu finally put away his tears and sat aside with red and swollen eyes.

"Mother, I'm busy with my grandfather, don't do needlework today, I'll hurt my eyes carefully." Du Mei folded the half-sewn garment and placed it on the table.

"You go, it's not easy to walk on the road, be careful." Xu stood by the door and instructed.

Since then, Du Huaibing has Du Mei's help, things have been straightened out all of a sudden, and the piles and piles have been done in an orderly manner, the road is slippery in snowy days, and Du Shicheng is dead, so the scrapped manuscript has been given a vacation to Yixueli, and he also came to help do the work of income and expenditure accounting.

Du Zhongyuan is in Baiyun Villa, it is Zhong Yu who went back, asked the coachman to report the letter, he and Du Shicheng are not father and son but are better than father and son, the relationship is very deep, he got the news, handed over the affairs of the villa to Lin Ping, and hurried over.

His trousers, shoes and socks were all wet, and there were mud marks on his body, and it was difficult to walk on a snowy road, and it was not easy to walk on a horse, so he must have fallen. He lay down in front of Du Shicheng's spirit and wept bitterly, tired on the road, and too sad, he couldn't get up for a while.

Sanjin, who took filial piety, returned the gift with his son and nephew, and also cried tears, but asked Du Zhong to persuade him. Xie Shi held a swaddling baby in her arms, wrapped tightly, looking like a little baby, but it was actually Du Zao's small pillow, she collapsed next to the clay pot that burned paper money, smirking dumbfounded, and the paper money burned a bright flame, reflecting her face, bright and dark, distorted like a ghost.

It was the third day of the funeral, early in the morning, the sky suddenly cleared, the bright sun shone on the snow, very dazzling, after all, it was the winter moon, not the coldest season, the residual snow quickly turned into water, slippery and muddy, making the road more difficult.

The ancestral tomb of the Du family is in the middle of the mountain, the four barmen gritted their teeth and carried it, and it took half an hour to arrive, and the other four people had already dug the tomb, all under the arrangement of Du Huaibing, the ceremony was successfully completed, and Du Shicheng was considered to be in the ground.

This day is the most grand, except for Wei did not go up the mountain, Du Shicheng's descendants have to follow, Zhou raised it for two days, and helped Du Pile to climb up, Xie Shi was not so good, she refused to drop the swaddling clothes in her hand when she died, Sanjin was powerless to take care of her, Du Jie didn't care about her, so, she climbed up the mountain with the funeral people all the way, covered in mud.

Du Mei's family changed into plain clothes, Du Mei carried Juniper on her back, led Du Gui, and Du Ying and Du Tao supported Xu's family, kowtowed and threw money according to the rules, and the family also sent Du Shicheng on the last journey.

According to custom, the lunch after the funeral is more sumptuous, because Dajin is a long house, and the relatives and friends who mourn are gathered at his house to eat.

After lunch, Du Huaibing finally had a nap, and in the afternoon, he sat in his courtyard and asked his son Du Mingtang to invite a few old people in the clan to talk.

"Shicheng's nephew is gone today, he was sick, but he has been taken care of by Meizi, and it was not a matter of staying up for a few more days, but his two daughters-in-law were really not good, and they him off to death!" Du Huaibing said angrily.

"Shicheng is also a miserable fate, a daughter-in-law is debauched, and a daughter-in-law is rude, why did he bump into it!" An old man with white hair sighed.

"Such a daughter-in-law, our clan must not be tolerated, how to punish must be according to the rules!" The other old man said, twisting his little white beard.

"There are many brothers in the Dafang Zhou family, and most of them are unreasonable, if we come up with clan rules to punish them, we are afraid that we will come to make trouble!" An old man with a hunched back said with some concern.

"Our Dashun Dynasty has always ruled the world with filial piety, the Son of Heaven is still like this, she is a peasant woman angry to her father-in-law, and the family dares to come to protect and make trouble, I have to go to the yamen to sue!" When Du Huaibing heard this, he was furious.

"Zhou Shi is good to say, it must be difficult to escape the cane blame, but I look at Xie Shi seems to be crazy, this ......" a slightly chubby old man said with some concern.

"Who knows if you're really crazy or if you're pretending to be crazy? She not only angered the world, but also brought the countryside crookedly, what is the reputation of the daughter-in-law of our village in the future? Who would dare to marry a girl from Dujiagou! The white-bearded old man slapped the table angrily, and the tea cup on the table jumped with it.

"In this case, first lock these two people up in the ancestral hall, and open the ancestral hall on a certain day to punish them in public, so as to set an example! What else do you have to say no? Du Huaibing looked at the others.

"There's nothing left, that's it!" Several people responded in unison, and the matter was decided.

Du Huaibing found two strong laborers and two strong women in the village, and walked all the way to Dajin's house. Dajin was cleaning the yard, and when he saw Du Huaibing bringing someone to the door menacingly, he was stunned for a while.

"Take it away!" Du Huaibing didn't bother to explain to him, and with a wave of his hand, the two women entered the house to arrest Zhou.

Zhou was crooked on the bed at this time, thinking about how to go to Wei's place tomorrow to get back his share of the money, Leng Buding was broken in by two women, pulled her hair and dragged away, she immediately howled like a pig: "Dajin, Dajin, help!" ”