Chapter 45: The Funeral Banquet
Walking a few steps forward to the door, there were artillery shreds, small red fragments, and some small branches of artillery that had not exploded. There are a lot of boxy mahogany tables in the courtyard, but there are chickens, ducks, fish and meat on the table, and the dishes and chopsticks are also neatly arranged. It seems that there is a big banquet to be prepared.
But no one came to the feast.
In that way, it was as if a lot of dishes were prepared for the guests to eat, and maybe there were guests eating but we couldn't see them at all. After all, there was still the sound of dishes clattering on the table from time to time, but there was no one at the table at all.
A few uncles and aunts dressed as rural people surrounded an elderly man who was crying and grabbing the ground, and they were persuading: "Don't cry! Now that it's like this, crying is not a solution, so let's get up quickly and arrange Xiaobo's funeral. ”
The old man was a bloated aunt, and her eyes were as red as a peach, and the sockets were also red and bloodshot, and her eyes were triangular, which was quite scary.
Her hair was combed into a ball and tied behind her head, and her gray hair had already cried out a few locks in front of her head, and her hair was scattered like a meeting girl.
A few people around her seemed to care about her, and it didn't matter if they couldn't pull it up after pulling it a few times, let her sit on the ground, raise her hands up and down as if worshiping the Buddha, and cry to the sky: "Xiaobo, Xiaobo!" ”
A few people not only did not show a little sympathy, but there was a bit of banter on their faces.
I've seen it like that, it's my grandmother who used to be in the countryside when she saw someone else unlucky, her eyes were contemptuous, the corners of her mouth sank, and she gloated that she deserved it.
I wondered, why are they like this?
The old man didn't care if he cried like this, and he gloated and looked like he was watching a good show. People say that poor people must have something to hate, maybe this old lady with a ball-haired hair has done something that is hateful to God, right?
Just as I was about to ask someone, an old lady in a linen apron came out of it with a wooden basin, which contained some clear water and rice soup bleached with white oil, and it seemed that she had come out to pour rancid water.
"Let's let let!"
When it was too late, the old lady in the sackcloth apron came to me in three or two steps and glanced at me: "Which family's little name is Hanako, and the food is coming here." ”
Well, I'm wearing a robe now, and I look a little like Hanako.
Hurriedly gave up a position for the old lady to splash the rancid water, and when she saw that she was leaving, I grabbed her burlap apron: "Oops! Grandmother! Why is the family crying? Why is there no one to eat after the table is set? ”
The old lady looked at me with a pair of thief eyes: "Do you want to eat?" Come on, come on, come on. ”
After speaking, he pulled me to the nearest seat and pointed to the chicken, duck and fish on the big table: "You can eat these things as you like." Eat as much as you want! ”
I understood what the old lady meant.
No one came to eat this bowl of chopsticks and wine glasses, and it was obviously not for the living. In addition, the atmosphere here is so weird, and the old lady holding the head of the ball is crying again, and there is a problem.
Master said that this kind of mat is called a mulberry mat, which means mourning.
But why is there no funeral at the scene, and there is still red, and the red artillery paper is all over the ground, the brand of the artillery I have seen it before, it is called the earth spring thunder, which is released for joy during the New Year.
It's all funeral banquets, what does it mean that there is red on the scene?
In fact, it is very simple: this happy event is for the dead. That is, the dead have joy, and there is red in white, and in my opinion, it may be a secret marriage to a large extent. After all, only a secret marriage can meet this standard.
And because of this, no one came to eat the banquet in this courtyard.
Originally, the banquet was set up to make everyone happy, and everyone was willing to come. But who wants to come to this obscure thing? No wonder I just passed by a few nearby farmhouses whose doors were closed, and I wondered what time it was, because it stands to reason that the villagers would get up at dawn and sprinkle their hoes. Why are you still sleeping when the sun is drying your butt? It turned out that this was the case, and they all closed the door and pretended not to know about this family.
But because the funeral feast is standard for people to eat, so that the dead can share some heartache.
Ordinary people have parents, wives and children, and they are afraid that eating this kind of bad luck will bring disaster to their families. It is estimated that the old lady in the sackcloth apron saw that I was dressed like a little flower, and thought that I was a lonely person, so she wanted to take me to the banquet and distract the dead people of the family by the way.
After all, people with five disadvantages and three deficiencies, such as bachelors, monks, Taoists, connoisseurs, and people who are rich and wealthy, and so on, eat this kind of banquet and are not in the way.
It doesn't matter, I'm also a cultivator anyway, so if I can do a good deed, I can still have a full meal, so why not do it?
After all, from the time I was kidnapped by Zhuang Baishi at the Guzhen Inn, to the time I saw the human bone sword container for us to eat the human head eyeballs, I had vomited several times, I was dizzy with hunger, and I didn't even pick a wild fruit on the way.
The old lady in the sackcloth apron saw that I was eating with relish, and she diligently helped me pass the food: "Eat slowly, eat slowly, eat as much as you want." ”
I unceremoniously took a chicken leg with a white cut chicken, and while eating, I listened to the old lady under the osmanthus tree still crying and grabbing the ground: "Woo woo woo." That ungrateful thing, we spent so much money to buy her back, and she still doesn't want to? If we hadn't bought her, would she have been able to live in such a good place without being bitten by insects? Woo woo, what have we done! ”
Crying and crying, the old lady glanced at me, and showed a hint of surprise, and her expression seemed to say: Finally someone has come to eat the funeral banquet.
I hurriedly stretched out a greasy hand and grabbed the old lady who turned around to walk away in the burlap apron, chewed chicken in her mouth, and asked vaguely, "What happened to their family?" ”
The old lady in this burlap apron is a catfish mouth, the corners of her mouth are downward, and her mouth is still closed when she is not speaking.
Mai said on her face that people who can't close their mouths when they don't usually speak can't hide things in their hearts. You're going to tell him a secret, and you'll have to know it all over the streets in a few days.
If you ask about something, you have to find someone like that.
Sure enough, when the old lady heard my question, she put the wooden basin on the stool next to her and sat down: "You want to know?" ”
I nodded as I bit the chicken.
The big head of the old lady in the sackcloth apron leaned closer, and she lowered her voice but couldn't suppress the disdain on her face: "She! Self-inflicted, deserved! ”
I guessed that I was right.
I glanced at the old lady who was still crying under the osmanthus tree, and saw that the bottom of her eyes was red, and the whites of her eyes were also red.
Mai said in her face that this is called a ferocious and evil eye.
People with this kind of eye appearance have a strong liver, an extremely rough and irritable personality, plus triangular eyes and a hooked nose, and a deep and calculating mind, she must have done something evil to make these people hate her so much.
The old lady in the sackcloth apron asked the old lady in the sackcloth apron, "What did she do?" ”
When the old lady in the sackcloth apron heard this, she unceremoniously spat on the ground, still lowering her voice: "Ahhhh The woman was a beast, and the son she raised was not a good thing, and I think it is only natural that she is dead now, and she thinks that her son is innocent, and in the eyes of the people of our village, it is very happy. ”
What's going on?
It turned out that this woman's name was Wang Cuiju, and she married here from a neighboring town. She has a strong personality and can manage her husband who has been doing business outside for many years.
She gave birth to two sons, both of whom took her own surname, one named Wang Youbo and the other Wang Youcai.
This Wang Youbo is the eldest son, and he is really as good as his name - big-chested and brainless.
Wang Cuiju accidentally ate a female pork when she was pregnant with him, and this female pork is usually inedible, and she may get epilepsy if she eats it. In addition, when she was pregnant, the toxins were absorbed by the fetus, giving birth to a half-stupid imbecile.
This imbecile is Wang Youbo.
Wang Cuiju is extremely doting on these two sons, and she will give them whatever she wants.
Fortunately, her youngest son Wang Youcai is still more competitive, and he did not destroy himself because of his doting and pampering, but felt that his mother loved me so much, and I must repay her twice, and I have been studying very hard.
But Wang Youbo was not so lucky.
Because he is an imbecile, he has not studied much, and has been helping Wang Cuiju do farm work in the countryside, and he has not married a daughter-in-law at the age of thirty-seven or eighteen. After all, who wants to marry a spitting fat man who is imbecile and will go crazy at any time and foam at the mouth and fall to the ground?
Maybe desire is human nature, Wang Youbo has low intelligence, and the sow is crazy and epilepsy, it can be said that he is half paralyzed, but he is still thinking about that matter.
It is precisely for this reason that Wang Youbo extended his claws to the children in the village.
Said he was an imbecile, and he picked out good-looking, young girls. The reason is very simple, good-looking can satisfy his animal desires, young girls are easy to control and coax, and things are not easy to expose.
He usually tricks little girls into coming to his house to watch discs, and then molests them for various reasons, and when he is done, he will give the victims a little favor, such as a pencil case watercolor pen or playing with a mobile phone.
As a result, his indecent behavior went unnoticed for ten years.
Later, when those little girls grew up, they noticed that something was wrong and told their parents, and a little girl in the village complained that Wang Youbo reached into her pants and touched her place.
Only then did those parents realize the seriousness of the situation and jointly sued Wang Youbo.
As soon as this incident came out, Wang Cuiju not only didn't feel the slightest guilt, but blocked the door of those victims every day and scolded, saying, your little sluts seduced my son, and now you dare to knock down a rake, you are really shameless, what happened to my son, and dared to take it out and say it everywhere! Wow! Go and sue you! I see that this matter has been poked out now, your daughter has become a, and no one will want it in the future!
Several parents thought about their daughter's reputation, and they felt that what she said was really reasonable, and they were about to withdraw the lawsuit.
But at this moment, there was another horrific incident on the court's side.