004 Carry the coffin
It was almost ten o'clock after I burned the paper with Erfei, and this product seemed to be really scared, and I wanted to send him home alive or dead, and I was really helpless by his grinding, so I had to send him to his door.
"Erfei, don't forget your words today, otherwise, I won't care about you next time!" Watching Er Fei walk towards the house, I spoke.
Er Fei listened to my words, made a grimace at me and said, "Don't worry, Gao Tian, I will definitely carry a case of beer to you tomorrow night!" ”
After Er Fei finished speaking, he quickly ran towards the house, for fear that he would come back a few more.
After I saw Er Fei enter the house, I shook my head helplessly and walked towards my house.
As soon as I entered the house, I saw that my grandfather had already returned, and when he saw me coming back, he asked, "Xiaotian, did you go to burn paper with Hong Wei?" ”
When I heard my grandfather's words, I was a little unhappy and said, "Didn't you just come back?" Grandpa, if you have such a thing in the future, can you find someone else? ”
After listening to my words, my grandfather's eyes widened, and he said angrily: "You little rabbit cub, you can go if you want to go, where did you come from such nonsense." And tomorrow Linna's grandmother will be funeral, you go and help them carry the coffin to the ground! ”
After listening to my grandfather's words, I replied directly: "Don't go!" ”
Just as I was saying no, a feather duster was already pointing at me, "Are you going or not going?" ”
I looked at the feather duster in my grandfather's hand, swallowed my saliva, and said helplessly: "Can't I go!" ”
"That's right, you have to let me take the feather duster, you promise, and yes, pay attention when you go to carry the coffin tomorrow."
Before Grandpa could finish speaking, I asked urgently, "What does Grandpa pay attention to?" ”
My grandfather gave me a blank look and said slowly, "First, when you just lift the pole of the coffin, you have to lift it upwards vigorously, so that the body inside will lean to the opposite side!" Second, when carrying the coffin, no matter how heavy it is, you don't say it, otherwise, it will become more and more heavy, the so-called dead and sinking, this is the truth, and there is, if you are pressed by the bar and can't stand it, just kick it hard in the corner of the coffin you are carrying, and it will be good, do you remember? Seeing that I was dumbfounded, Grandpa tapped me with a feather duster and asked.
I came back to my senses, looked at my serious grandfather, and teased: "Grandpa, you are so cunning!" ”
"What is cunning, this is called experience, you know?"
I shook my head very painfully and said, "I don't understand! "Although I said this, I have already memorized what my grandfather said.
Grandpa used the feather duster in his hand to hit me lightly twice, and said angrily: "If you don't understand, go to sleep!" ”
I didn't know why I slept so soundly until the next morning, when my grandfather had a broom in his hand, that I had to get up.
When my grandfather saw me get up, he put the broom in his hand on the ground and said, "Hurry up and wash your face, let's go to Lin Na's house for dinner!" ”
I listened to my grandfather's words and said reluctantly, "Grandpa, can I eat at home?" I really don't want to drink tofu soup! ”
We have a custom here that whenever someone dies, there must be tofu soup for breakfast!
Seeing that I had washed my face and had no intention of leaving, my grandfather glanced at me, walked outside the house, and said at the same time: "I haven't cooked today, and there is no food at home, so if you want to eat, make it yourself!" ”
After listening to my grandfather's words, I completely surrendered and quickly followed my grandfather towards Lin Na's house.
When Linna's grandmother was alive, her interpersonal relationships were very good, and many people on the road were walking towards his house!
"Uncle Gao, morning!"
"Xiao Wang, morning."
"Uncle Gao."
Along the way, as long as I saw my grandfather, they would come forward to say hello, the original four or five minutes away, along the way stop and stop, actually walked for more than ten minutes.
With a bitter face, I drank a bowl of tasteless tofu soup, with a helpless look on my face, looking at a tall and average-looking young man next to me, who kept scooping tofu for myself in the basin, and said with a big head: "Dali, you love tofu soup so much?" ”
The man called Dali, hearing my words, put down the spoon in his hand, sat down, and said a little tiredly: "I don't want to eat either, but I'm so fucking hungry!" I don't know that kid steals melons from my melon field every day, I watched it all night yesterday and didn't catch it! ”
As soon as I heard Dali's words, I suddenly became interested and said: "Dali, you prepare a few dishes at night, I will ask Erfei to buy a box of beer, and go to your melon shack to help you catch the melon thief, how about it?" ”
"I can make the dishes, but it seems a bit unrealistic for you to ask Erfei to buy beer!"
I smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't divulge it!" ”
Looking at my mysterious appearance, he shrugged his shoulders vigorously, "Then you can come to my melon shack at night and find me!" ”
I still wanted to speak, but my grandfather, an old man, pulled me towards the mourning shed.
As soon as I entered the funeral booth, I saw that the coffin had begun to be closed, and large nails more than a foot long were being driven into the coffin one after another.
I looked energetic, and suddenly felt someone pulling me, and when I looked back, I found that my grandfather was pulling me towards the coffin, and when I came to the coffin, my grandfather said to me, "Xiaotian, do you remember what I told you last night?" ”
I nodded, a little unconcerned: "Remember! ”
After listening to my absent-minded words, my grandfather patted me hard, and said a little angrily: "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you!" ”
My grandfather wanted to say something, but he was pulled by a man dressed in linen and filial piety and asked, "Uncle Gao, when will the coffin be lifted!" ”
Hearing the man's question, the grandfather said, "Lin Feng, get up the coffin immediately, Gao Tian, you go up to the front and raise your head!" ”
I reluctantly walked towards a pole with no one, and as soon as I came to the side of the coffin, I suddenly felt a chill in my body and looked towards the coffin. That's when I saw the coffin. The coffin is big at one end and small at the other, and it is painted with cranes and auspicious clouds, which is very realistic.
I was stunned, and my grandfather kicked me in the ass, "Stinky boy, what are you looking at?" Hurry up and carry the coffin! ”
I came back to my senses, looked around at the families of the deceased, looked at me, looked apologetic, and hurried to the pole in front of the coffin.
I just reached out to grab the bar, and suddenly remembered what my grandfather said last night, I held the bar in my hand tightly with both hands, waiting for my grandfather's shout!
Grandpa glanced at the four of us carrying the coffin, nodded, turned around, and shouted to the family members kneeling on the ground: "Get up the coffin!" ”
As soon as I heard my grandfather's words, I ignored the cries of the deceased's family, and with all my strength, I jerked the pole upwards and put it on my shoulder. At this moment, I vaguely heard the sound of the person in the coffin turning over.
"Gao Tian, why are you in a hurry?" Opposite me was a strong man named Qiwei, who asked with some dissatisfaction when he saw me raise the pole violently!
Seeing Qiwei's dissatisfied, I said lightly: "Young, energetic!" ”
"I'm here to see how energetic you are, there's still a long way to go! Hum! Qi Wei was angry at my words, and his eyes widened.
I just ignored him, Qiwei usually relies on his strong body to show off everywhere, I don't look down on this kind of person the most, and I usually don't care about him!
As the funeral procession progressed, I felt that the bar on my shoulders was not too heavy, and I walked forward in all directions.
But Qiwei, who was the same bar as me, was different, sweat on his face kept dripping, and he was panting.
I looked back and saw a man in a denim suit, walking in all directions like me, this man turned out to be my cousin Gao Wei, I didn't even notice him just now, he was the same as me, there was no trace of tiredness! Seeing me looking at him, Gao Wei nodded and smiled at me.
"I said, Lin Ming, don't you feel it, this coffin is particularly heavy today!" Qi Wei wiped the beads of sweat from his face with his sleeve and asked a thin black man behind him.
The man named Lin Ming was already sweating profusely, but he didn't make a sound, and when he heard Qiwei's question, his voice was a little hoarse: "Which coffin is light, but don't forget, there is a person inside!" ”
Qi Wei was choked by Lin Ming's words, and kept muttering to himself: "Evil door, why is today's coffin so heavy, shouldn't it be......"
As Qi Wei continued to mutter, I felt that the bar I was lifting was getting lighter and lighter, but Qi Wei was blushing from the pressure on his neck!
"Damn, I can't stand it, any of you will change me, I can't carry this coffin, if I do, I will be crushed to death!" Qi Wei wiped the beads of sweat from his face and said to the crowd of people who were buried together.
But the people around him knew Qiwei's character, and no one changed him, so I said sarcastically: "What's wrong Qiwei, it's only been a long time, you can't do it, look at your fat, it's really white!" ”
Hearing my sarcasm, Qi Wei gritted his teeth, stopped talking, and walked forward, after Qi Wei didn't speak, I actually felt the bar on my shoulder, which became heavier and heavier, and said secretly in my heart: "After bullying Qi Wei, you want to bully me again," I looked around, and kicked hard at the corner of the coffin while the team was dodging the car.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
I only kicked once, but there were two sounds, and when I looked back, I saw that my cousin, like me, was retracting his own kick in the coffin, and the two of us looked at each other and smiled, and nodded.
It may be that this kick is really in charge, and as the team progresses, the pole on my shoulder gets lighter and lighter, and in the end it is like not carrying a coffin.
But Qi Wei was bitter, the sweat beads on his face were dripping down as if he didn't want money, and at the same time he kept panting in his mouth, and my grandfather saw Qi Wei like this, so that a man in the team who was about the same size as Qi Wei took over his bar.
As soon as Qi Wei was replaced, the whole person seemed to collapse, sitting on the ground with his mouth wide open, panting, and I just wanted to laugh at him, but my grandfather glanced at him and closed his mouth.