"Xiaoyi, what are you doing here!" This roar was like thunder, and it startled me, who was eating candy in my dream, and then my forehead ached, and my head hit the top of the small pavilion directly.

I touched my scalp, and suddenly puffed up a big bag, blushed and pointed to the copper bell and said, "Come and see this, will it ring ......", I also added a clever sentence: "Uncle Cha, it wasn't Hetu who told me, don't blame him." ”

Cha Wenbin didn't say anything, just helped me rub the big bag on top of my head, and pressed it for a long time before he put me aside and sighed: "If only he had your talent." ”

took out the wine and meat, lit incense and candles, two pairs of dishes and chopsticks, and Cha Wenbin sat under the small pavilion and drank with the copper bell. At this moment I noticed that the brass bell was not ringing, but it was hanging quietly.

It was dark, Cha Wenbin took the dishes and chopsticks and carried me down the mountain, and when I walked to the chestnut forest, the copper bell behind me made a crisp and pleasant ding sound again, this time I looked up at the branches above my head, and even the leaves did not move, and now there is no wind......

I don't know if Hetu was beaten after I went back, at least I did. After looking for my grandmother who couldn't find me for a day, my family was in a hurry, and when Cha Wenbin sent me back, I knew that I was going to be finished today.

The next morning, I slept in a daze on the cool bed, I heard three firecrackers, this kind of bed made of bamboo in addition to the squeak, the biggest problem is that it is easy to catch the meat, but it is very cool to sleep in summer, also called the cool bed.

I was so startled, I had a sharp pain on my buttocks after I turned over, I knew that I was clamped again, and when I was about to pretend to be pitiful and call for help, my grandmother ran in and shouted: "Get up quickly, the cousin and grandfather on the other side have passed away, and your father and your mother will have to come in a while." ”

I don't know what my cousin and grandfather are, and I know a lot of relatives on my grandmother's side, but I don't know many of them. Anyway, this kind of thing is for children to watch the excitement, and I am no exception, and I followed the big guys to see the excitement, and when I arrived, the body of the cousin and grandfather was still lying on the plank, wet.

This cousin and grandfather were drunkards, addicted to alcohol, and when he was young, he had a conflict with someone because of drinking, and was stabbed blind in one eye with a stick, and later married a mute wife. gave birth to a pair of children, because the adults in the family are in this condition, so the children did not read, and dropped out of school very early to help the family work.

This cousin is my grandmother's cousin, because the people in the family are all crooked melons and cracked dates, so this funeral mainly depends on my grandmother's side to help Zhang Luo.

What happened was a bit strange and a little comic. This was because his cousin and grandfather were addicted to alcohol during dinner, so he sent his youngest son to the store to get some liquor and came back, and gave his youngest son two yuan. The place where the wine is played, is my uncle's house, my uncle's house is open a commissary at that time, there is a cheapest wine in the store called "bad fragrance", in fact, it is the scraps of the wine, two yuan a catty, the taste is not good, but it tastes spicy and enjoyable.

When his youngest son arrived at the commissary, he was greedy, and spent five cents to buy a popsicle, and hid five cents to use it another day, so he only bought half a pound of wine.

I can't pay this half a pound of wine back, but this kid is smart, so he went to the river and poured another half a bottle of water, which became a pound of wine.

Although his drunkard father had a bad eye, he was a first-class wine taster, and after only taking a sip, he felt that there was something wrong with the wine, and he naturally did not think that his son was cheating, so he grabbed the wine bottle and prepared to go to my uncle's commissary for trouble.

Pity his dumb wife followed behind and tried to tell his husband that she saw moss in the wine, but the lord's eyes were really bad, and he couldn't understand the dumb wife's intentions, so he rushed to the store angrily to ask for an explanation.

Because there were other people in the commissary at that time, several people confronted each other, and soon the matter came to light, and the cousin and grandfather were angry and wanted to go home to clean up their son, and when they left, they didn't forget to re-hit a pound of wine, and the wine money was still on credit.

When he walked back, this master was angry, and he happened to meet a bachelor in the village who also went to drink, and the two greeted each other as they met.

"Second Master Hai, where are you drinking?" My cousin's grandfather's name is Hai Erye.

"Hmm!"

The bachelor man is also a poor jingle character, he has no money in his pocket, and he is thinking about going to the commissary to get wine money on credit, and when he saw this bottle of wine, his eyes rolled and he said: "The pig I raised died of illness in the afternoon, and I found a few people to clean it up, and I got seventy or eighty catties of meat. ”

This second master is good, as soon as he heard that there was meat and whether he died of illness or slaughter, he immediately laughed and put the matter of cleaning up his son behind, and the two took each other's shoulders and went to the bachelor's house.

There were a total of four people sitting in the house, all of them were dilapidated households in the village, and they were idle and drunk. The four of them drank a lot of wine, ate meat in large chunks, bragged, sang songs, and a pound of liquor was not enjoyable. Second Master Hai wanted to save face, and after eating other people's meat, he became a good man, and went to give a full four catties on credit, and in the middle of the night, one by one, he staggered and prepared to go home with the remaining small half bottle of wine.

At that time, rice was cultivated in the countryside, and there were many mountainous areas in the northwest, and the rice fields were all east and west. In order to have a good harvest of rice, I dug ditches along both sides of the road, these canals are not deep, and I often touch some loach fish in them, and when I release the water, it will reach the children's knees.

That night, the sluice gates were closed, and the water in the canals was only up to the ankles of the people.

This second master Hai held a piece of pig's head meat in one hand and a wine bottle in the other, poured a sip of wine, nibbled on a mouthful of meat, and staggered back. He was already not good at looking, only one eye was left, and he drank too much in the middle of the night to see the road under his feet. After his staggered body stepped into the air, Hai Erye planted himself in the canal and never moved, perhaps because he drank too much, and used this somewhat cold canal as a cool bed, in short, he never got up again.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that the people who went to the fields to release water saw them, and when they pulled them up, their noses and mouths were full of mud, and there were still a lot of leeches crawling in their ears, and the people had begun to harden. When the corpse was carried home, this Second Master Hai was still holding the pig's head meat and wine bottle in his hands, and he really wanted to be a man who supported the dead rather than a starving ghost.

Hai Erye is the perfect representative of the proletariat, in addition to a black stove and two broken beds in the house, the only thing that can be worth a little money is that there are less than ten catties of rice in the tank. His family, let alone a white funeral, even invites someone to have a meal, and there is no table to put on the plate.

The mute wife and her two children cried together, and whoever went was in vain, and there was no way to communicate with others. Later, a few relatives discussed that everyone pooled some money for the funeral, and a few people paid for the funeral first, and when the end of the scene, they took the money first, and the insufficient part was considered a contribution.

The people in the village also know the situation of his family, two disabled people, and they are also well-known five-guarantee households in the town. So the owner took a table, and the west family borrowed some dishes and chopsticks, and this noodles were really set up after a busy morning.

At that time, there was a small dispute between several people in charge, if this second master Hai died in the middle of the night, then today is the next day, and tomorrow can be pulled to be buried, so that the body will be stopped at home for one less day, and the people who help will come for one less day, and the expenses will naturally be saved a lot. If the corpse dies in the middle of the night, then the corpse will have to stay at home for three days, and according to custom, most of the people in the village will eat and drink at the house for three days, and the expenses will be great.

According to the old bachelor, they were all drunk at that time, and no one knew when Second Master Hai left, maybe it was the first half of the night, maybe it was the second half of the night.

Although Second Master Hai has no status in the village, this white funeral should be simple, but according to custom, whoever dies must be placed for three days, if it is advanced or postponed, it is a great disrespect to the dead, and this is going to break the rules.

When there is a dispute, someone remembers whether to find someone to calculate it, who to find? That's naturally Cha Wenbin.

Cha Wenbin rarely went out at that time, and then his grandfather personally ran away, Cha Wenbin could not have said, and came with a set of things. Cha Wenbin also knew that this family was in difficulty, so he prepared all the incense candles and paper money by himself, and the only request he made was to take a bowl of upside down rice from Second Master Hai's house.

Then he set up a simple desk in the house, set up incense and candles, and offered tribute, and then he auctioned out twelve copper coins and formed a circle on the ground in front of the coffin