On the night of Xiaohua's father's condolences, I probably fell asleep because of my father's homecoming. No matter how scared I am, it seems that I am very quiet in my heart at the moment. I don't know when I started to show timidity, and now I have forgotten all about it.

And it was on this night when I was asleep that there was a commotion in the courtyard next door, and even the door was always open in my small room. The mourners sat in the house playing cards and chatting, and I fell asleep soundly in this environment.

It turns out that children are sleepy, not to mention not having as many thoughts as adults, so they will naturally rest because of the regularity of the biological clock. It is said that a lot of strange things happened in the village that night, and of course I only heard about it later.

The next morning, I was woken up by the gong and drum guys, mainly because someone was talking about the old pit in my room. The muttering kept in my ears, accompanied by the cries of Xiaohua's relatives, so I had to get up.

At this time, my mother must be busy, and she definitely doesn't have time to take care of me, but she usually cares less about me. If it were a normal day, I would get up and go to eat a hot meal myself, but today I want to be lazy.

I was going to school that day, but because it was not easy to hold a banquet in the township at that time, there would always be some meat and good dishes. Not to mention that children are greedy, even adults who rarely see meat in the township for a week will drool at this time.

The teacher and the adults in the family will be tolerant, because everyone is like that. For example, because my father worked in a factory, and my grandfather used to be from the Food Bureau, how could the family have one meal of meat a week.

And like many ordinary families, they are really reluctant to eat a meal of meat for a month. The people of our village often appreciate the person of Niu Ye when they eat meat. Because of him, the people in the village live better than the surrounding villages.

For such a big event like the township, carnivorous fish cannot be avoided. No matter how shabby a family is, as long as there is such a big event, at least two bowls of meat before and after, a good fish, and a fried chicken with rice. As for the rest of the dishes, it depends on the state of the family.

The labor force in the township will come to help at the funeral, and the purpose is naturally to have a good meal. As for the children, some of them were just getting enough to eat. When I see this table full of oil and water, I usually take a lazy meal to eat.

Even now, I don't feel that there is anything wrong with this kind of skipping class. Thinking of the pot full of meat and fish food prepared by the chef, the children's saliva has already flowed all over the ground, where can they care about the sadness and fatigue of the adults.

I skipped class no more than one palm in the whole elementary school, and although the reasons were different each time, I was in the teacher's impression that I was a very good student. I skipped class as a matter of course that day, and when I heard the heart-rending cries outside, I still got dressed by myself and got up quickly.

During the funeral, children could not get close, the sound of firecrackers exploding, the cries of adults, the roaring arrangements of the funeral party, and the excited performances of various mourning teams. At this time, I usually rub in front of a few friends and look at them one by one and are extremely excited.

Qiu'er and her sister Dong'er didn't go to school that day, and to my surprise, Xiao An didn't go either. The partner in the compound is Hui Jiang, and his sister Hui Yu. Because when I saw them, I also saw their father, my other teacher, Dafeng.

Standing by their side, I felt a lot more at ease. It's just the pit that those people talked about just playing cards in the room, and I didn't even pay much attention to it. Because what they said was very vague, although they heard a few words, they were not so scared in their hearts.

In Xiangchu Township, when holding white ceremonies, gifts from relatives and neighbors will be put out.

If something like some cloth is used, it will be hung directly with a bamboo pole, like a flag, and people will hold it like a flag, and follow the funeral procession. I wonder if this comes from ancient dependence, or at least it's an imitation!

And then there are some wreaths of all kinds, interspersed in these flags, and it seems that it is the best. At that time, it was not allowed to take the banner of the clan and call some dragon and lion dance teams to cheer up, after all, it had just come from that complicated era.

Children are very excited about firecrackers, both a little scared, and thinking about how to get them, a few firecrackers that have not been set off. They are often preoccupied with the adventure of staring at each string of firecrackers, and rush over to grab them as soon as the fire is extinguished.

At that time, my physical strength was relatively poor, and I often couldn't even grab Qiu'er, so I could only watch my friends grab it. And something happened that morning, so that the child completely turned off the fire and did not dare to grab the firecracker.

It turned out that just before the funeral, a long firecracker was set off and placed next to the big grapefruit tree in front of my house. Who knows who poured a lot of water at the foot of the tree, and when the firecracker was about a quarter of the way long, it actually went out of smoke.

At that time, Huijiang was next to the grapefruit tree, staring closely at the firecrackers, and rushed up after the smoke was slightly extinguished. He got carried away and grabbed the unlit firecracker, and before he had time to rejoice, he immediately urged sadly.

The firecracker continued to sound and exploded in Huijiang's little hand. Hui Jiang didn't cry, he was frightened and looked at his bloody hands. Then I was blocked by everyone's figures, because the adults on the side of Huijiang's accident were also frightened.

Although there is noise and hustle and bustle everywhere, Huijiang's mother also has a job, and she is not far from the relatives of Xiaohua's family. After hearing that Huijiang had an accident, he rushed over and cried. I didn't see how Huijiang was, but I set off with the slowly starting funeral procession.

The procession stretched for nearly a kilometer, and there were two people in front of him who opened the way to sprinkle paper money and glutinous rice, which was borrowing from the underworld. Xiaohua's elder brother Dahua held a portrait of his father, which was a portrait of a very young person, who looked no more than thirty years old, presumably taken by their father when he was young.

I glanced at it hurriedly, and didn't dare to look any more. Xiaohua was holding a banner, and the two brothers were barefoot. I looked at Xiaohua's blank eyes, and I felt a little sad.

The young people who set off firecrackers in the team used to be our children's favorite chase, but today I will not follow them, and the children on the side have also been warned by adults. And there are also a lot of cigarettes that are sent out, not only adults like it, but children are also vying for it.

Xiaohua's father's coffin was placed outside, and when I came out, I happened to meet the last closed face of my relatives. Xiaohua's mother cried and fainted a few times, and was already supported by several younger old people in the compound, and asked the younger generations to take a few quick looks, and then closed the coffin lid.

The carpenter stepped forward and applied the lime paint, and hammered the lid completely. At this time, before and after the bottom of the coffin, two leg-thick pine trunks were clamped, and the coffin was put on a rope. Within a few minutes, the poles had already been installed, and a red carpet had been laid on the coffin.

Someone shouted that there was no rooster, so someone went to a grandmother's house in the compound to borrow one, and watched them tie the big rooster's feet tightly to the coffin. The cow master of the funeral party shouted and prepared to raise the coffin.

On one side and in front of and behind were two laborers, four pairs of poles and eight people. In a long shout from the Gong Gong: "Go out!" The two men hurriedly kicked down the two wooden benches holding the coffin, and the eight big men lifted the coffin and walked out.

The crying and shouting shook the sky, the sound of firecrackers shook the sky, and the suona mourning music rang out in unison!

There is a custom in the township to carry a coffin and walk around the avenue, so naturally I will not follow it. What's more, Xiaohua's father was not buried in the main grave mountain of the family, but chose to be in the mountain behind the village, which seems a little strange, but I didn't have a chance to know the reason.

I came back around the gate of the compound to the left, because the makeshift kitchen was set up here. While looking at a variety of foods, I listened to the adults talk about something. And there are still people saying that our compound is an old pit.

Because just last night, something strange happened here, and because it was in a compound, it would naturally attract everyone's attention. These things and gossip, after these people talk and chat, will naturally spread wildly.

It is said that just before I got up, the old pit was not over, and some people were still talking about it in the alley. On that day, because of the condolences, light bulbs were hung in the alleys and doorways around the compound, and horse lanterns and candles were lit in some places.

Because there is a generator in the village, Xiaohua's family is this kind of big funeral, Niu Ye was also from this compound at the beginning, and he made an exception to let the village send electricity for one night, which was already a very face-saving thing at that time.

Regarding the matter of electricity, I thought about it at that time, and I also felt that Xiaohua's family should not have this face? However, I later found out the reason, it really has nothing to do with these people in Xiaohua's family, but it has a great relationship with his uncle who is far away.

Although there was an electric light this night, and a horse lamp was hung in the alley on the left, who knows, this old pair of pits will actually be bloodthirsty.

Originally, the villagers were very concerned about poultry, and Xiaohua's family was closed because of major events, and several hens and roosters were closed, and they didn't know how to kick open the chicken coop door. It's weird enough, and there's something even weirder.

That's these roosters and hens, I don't know what happened, they all ran into this alley, and all of them were smashed by the shiny iron head of the old pit.

The half-pit chicken blood is in the stone nest of the old pit, and the dead chickens in one place are placed on the edge of the pit, which is creepy to listen to. Not to mention that I am a child, even adults feel terrible.

The chicken coops in the township are made of bricks and then blocked by a wooden board at the door. Xiaohua's chicken coop is on the side of the utility room, and no one knows why the chickens ran out in the middle of the night. After all, last night until morning, the compound was mourning and exceeding.

What's even more terrifying is that we two children have to work the pedal of this old pair of pits, so that we can barely step on the front pair of pits. How did these chickens get smashed in the head by that pair of pit iron heads for no reason?

It can't be that they stuffed their heads into it themselves? How did the pair of pit heads get up? You know, adults are usually afraid that children will play and hit their hands and feet, so they put the pit head in the stone nest.

No one thought that this kind of thing would happen, and later the old man in the compound guessed that it might be that this old man was making a mistake in the pit, and it was said that he had broken people's legs back then.

The old pair of pits smashed people's legs, and the broken legs were actually picked up by people with a bowl of water, which is the legendary quenched aquatic muscle.