Tugang Village is big, poor and backward, and in terms of backwardness, it sits in the first place in the county. Most families in the village are struggling to make ends meet. Families who have half a year's food for half a year have. This is not the hardest family in life. There are also people, as soon as the winter is idle, the man pulls the stick out to beg for food, and one person saves three months' rations, in order to make the life of his wife and children better.

In history, there have also been several wealthy families in Tugang Village. Just by looking at the appearance of the house, you can understand that it is not far from ten. The house, the blue brick is one bedroom to the top, and it is one foot and five feet high. Such a resident is definitely not poor. The house was made of adobe and grass and mud, and the courtyard wall was used as a gate with tree branches, and such a dwelling was by no means a wealthy family. There are only a handful of households in the front, and there are many such households in the back. There is a man named Jiang Yuanben, who was once one of the wealthy families in the village.

This Jiang has inherited the "ancestral teachings", no matter what he does, he must be enough to do the same as his name. Enough is the bottom line, you can only make money, you can't lose it. In the whole village, he was the only one who married two daughters-in-law. Because it was old China, he had money and could be polygamous.

Although Jiang is rich and married two daughters-in-law, his descendants are not prosperous, perhaps when Guanyin sent his "son", he asked for the opinion of the "son", and those who were sent "son" were unwilling to go to this family as a "son". On this issue, Jiang is a big loss, although he is very rich, but there is no queen.

This ginger is enough to have a fat head and big ears, and those eyes have never looked directly at people and things. The pair of eyelids flickered from morning to night, as if everything was being calculated, and I was afraid that I would lose money if I didn't plan well.

People will be born, old age, sick and die, this is an irresistible natural law. The poor families in Tugang Village are old, and the funerals are relatively simple. People are still alive and it is difficult to have food and clothing, and when people die, why bother talking about style and waste. Some of the people who came to help ate a bite of coarse tea and light rice, and some of them went home to eat after helping. The family life is difficult, but they are all considerate and understanding of each other, and no one is to pick on them.

This Jiang is different from others, but he is often difficult to criticize. He blamed the owner and the western, saying that the food was too poor and should not be slow to treat relatives, friends and helpers; said that the family was too simple, and I was sorry for my ancestors.

The farmers of Tugang Village, no one cares about Jiang Yuanben's words. Standing and talking doesn't hurt my back, I don't have that economic condition, and I don't care about what people like Jiang Enoughben say are right or wrong. How can a person who often farms the land be afraid of mole crickets?

It is normal for poor people to die of hunger, disease. The rich man has food and drink, and he can't get the secret recipe of the longevity star, and he can't buy the summons of the king of Hades. Finally one day, Jiang Enough's father also returned to the west.

The Jiang family also has to hold a funeral. Jiang is bent on playing face in front of his neighbors and shaking his majesty, so as to give himself a long face. He didn't expect that there were very few people who came to help. Not to mention ostentatiousness and pomp, even the most basic manpower is not enough. He couldn't run before and after, he couldn't run left and right, and he was so busy that he was anxious. He hurriedly said to the people who took the initiative to help: "You go to the front and back neighbors, and say that I can eat the white-flour steamed buns here and drink the big bowl of meat and vegetables as you like." ”

When the person who came to help heard this, it was as if he had been slapped twice in the face. They immediately replied, "There is no need to go to anyone else, and we have to take our leave now." We can't help you with your help......"

Jiang Enough hurriedly asked, "Why are you doing this?" ”

The person who came to help said: "Although this neighbor is poor and has a bad life, they all have their own character and dignity, and no one comes to your meal." You pile up steamed buns into mountains, you boil meat and vegetables into rivers, do you see if those steamed buns and meat dishes can help you do specific things? ”

This Jiang Enoughben hurriedly changed his words: "Okay, okay, no matter what method you use, the more people you can call for help, the better." ”

There is a saying that there are three rows of five rows of seven funerals in rural areas. Poor families are generally ranked third. Because there are not so many relatives and friends, and they live relatively close, three days from the death to the funeral are enough.

In order to show his style, Jiang Enough went around to report the funeral to his friends, and he chose to rank seventh.

When the manager saw this, he asked, "Do you let anyone eat or not?" ”

Jiang Enoughben said: "Eat, steamed bread and meat dishes, you must let people eat well." ”

The manager said, "The noodles and meat you prepared are far from enough." If you want to do things beautifully, from now on, move the stone mill in the backyard, people can change shifts to work, and livestock can change to ban pull mills, but this stone mill for grinding noodles cannot stop day and night. ”

"You bring in the master who slaughtered the pigs, and you have to kill two more pigs. It's hard to say whether it's enough or not, it depends on the situation of the guest. There are four more cauldrons in the backyard, two pots for steamed buns, and two pots for boiling meat and vegetables......"

The backyard of the Jiang family immediately became a handicraft workshop. The steward became the commander-in-chief.

"Boss, the white noodles of this steamed bun are gone."

"Tell the grinder, speed up."

"Boss, this pork is gone."

"Tell the master who killed the pig to be quick with his hands and feet."

"Boss, the bellows for this fire is broken."

"Looking for me about this, too? The bellows are broken and replaced with a good one. Whoever has a good one will borrow it first. ”

Jiang saw that bags of wheat were ground into flour, and bags of flour were steamed into steamed buns. However, the steamed buns on the dinner table are always not available. He also heard a guest from afar say: "This ginger is enough to really calculate, only serve food and not steamed buns, how can people eat this rice?" ”

It was only on the day of the funeral that Jiang realized some of the mysteries.

"Fellow villagers, I have done something wrong in the past, please forgive me, forgive me, raise your noble hand, let me go, and help me finish the funeral smoothly, I will kowtow to everyone."

Jiang Enough burst into tears at this time, kneeling down and kowtowing to the poor man he looked down on again and again.

Afterwards, Jiang Enough knew that he had lost his face in front of his relatives and friends for this funeral. Someone joked in his face. These poor fathers and villagers didn't throw the coffin on the street for you, didn't throw it halfway through, and they also gave you enough face. Learn something in the future, don't know how many bowls of dry rice you can eat.

Jiang Enough Ben never figured out that everything from beginning to end was in his own home, and he didn't leave his family's compound, how could these steamed buns disappear.

Don't look at these neighbors living in poverty, no one takes Jiang enough's steamed buns in their eyes. Since you don't give face to the poor, today, the poor will give you some face. Everyone is going to use this incident to sound the alarm bell for him: the poor also have their own dignity and their own personality.

Through the funeral, Jiang Enough also understood a truth: although the poor lack money and food, they do not lack wisdom. Although the poor are poor, they are not poor in backbone, and small favors cannot shake the will of the poor. The poor can live without their lives, but they cannot without their dignity.

The person who burned the fire and cooked said to the manager in front of Jiang Enoughben: "We sold too much strength this time, and the bellows for cooking alone have been used up several times, and we can't explain to others, it's too much of a loss...... This implication is to tell Jiang Enoughben that you can make a lot of money by holding a funeral.

The people who helped knew in their hearts that the bellows for cooking were old and bad, which caused the steamed buns to disappear.