Chapter 133: The Funeral Procession
I couldn't ask anything more, so I had to say goodbye to the two uncles and go back to rest.
When I returned to the room, I found that everyone was a little silent, and they didn't ask each other about the situation in the illusion, thinking that they didn't want their privacy to be exposed, especially Luohan.
This night everyone slept a little restless, just experienced those illusions, our mood is difficult to completely calm down, especially me, and quietly shed some tears, this illusion makes me miss the child very much, just hope to get on the road as soon as possible tomorrow morning, complete the task and return to the family.
The next day, in addition to filling all our cars with gasoline, Yang Gu Liu and Nguyen Dung Thanh also filled the gasoline barrels we brought, and prepared several large baskets of fruits for us to eat on the road, because the first night of casual conversation I mentioned that I like Vietnamese G7 coffee, and they actually gave me a cardboard box with at least five big bags in it, which is really embarrassing.
In addition, they also prepared some snacks such as Vietnamese sugar, banana slices, dried mangoes, pineapples, etc., "We don't have any good things here, these things are relatively high in calories, and it's always right to carry them." Yang Guliu said.
"Fresh fruits should be eaten first, those dried fruits and vegetables are easy to preserve, so save them for later." Ruan Yongsheng reminded with kindness in broken Chinese.
"This production date is actually this year?" I grabbed a pack and stumbled upon it and couldn't help but be surprised.
"These are the latest products produced this year, how can you give guests expired food?" "There are factories specializing in the production of dried fruits and vegetables on this street, and we are idle, although there is no trade now, but it is better to make them and keep them for the winter." ”
"You guys are amazing! The social revival of mankind is expected! What a business. "I admire from the bottom of my heart, and personally, I am very supportive of this act of planning ahead, just as I did when I suggested the reopening of the canneries on Long Star Island.
"I hope we can go back to the peaceful days of the past, you have worked hard!" The two uncles of Yang Ruan sent us out of the base, and everyone said goodbye.
Although we were collectively tricked by the two uncles, we didn't have any trouble with them, and from another point of view, they acted cautiously and did not easily believe in our origin and purpose, which is also normal behavior.
And this incident also made us feel more conscious, and then when we go to a new place in the future, we can't be so gullible, in case this estuary base wants to harm people, we will be wiped out.
Starting from the estuary, we studied the map, if you go to Xishuangbanna first, go to the southeast, go to the southeast from 326 National Highway on Jishi Expressway, exit on Huiyuan Road at Jishi Expressway, pass through Xishan Road, get on 323 National Highway, enter Yuyuan Expressway, go down to 213 National Highway to find Chaxiang Road, then go to 213 National Highway or take Dongshan Road, go to Sixiao Expressway, then take 213 National Highway or Jimeng Road, go to 214 National Highway, enter Xuanwei Avenue, and you will arrive at Xishuangbanna.
It's a complicated route! And the distance is not close, more than 700 kilometers.
And the estuary goes further to Lijiang, more than 900 kilometers, and will pass through Kunming.
"Let's go to Xishuangbanna first, it's a little closer to 200 kilometers." Thunderstorm's big thick fingers swiped across the map and sighed, "It's far enough." ”
"If it goes well, you can run it in one day, it depends on the road conditions, this route is not exactly high-speed, look, you have to take a lot of national highways and villages. Most of the national highways are not closed, depending on our luck, I hope we don't encounter too many corpses. Zhu Hong put away the map and slapped the board directly, "Hurry up and go." ”
According to the map index, we soon got on the Jishi Expressway, relying on the lack of abandoned cars, we drove all the way.
It's not that we didn't encounter the corpses, but before they outflanked us, we slipped away quickly, and speed is now the biggest win!
After driving for about eight hours, we drove on Dongshan Road, which has many villages on both sides, and the road is not clean, and there are zombies from time to time.
We can crash zombies into the air, but when a team of living people suddenly appears in front of us, we can only slow down and slow down behind them.
It was a team of people wearing linen and wearing filial piety carrying the big red coffin out of the funeral, paper money was flying all over the sky, and the filial sons and grandsons were crying miserably, so that we were embarrassed to go over and discuss whether we could go first.
"Alas, at their speed, I don't think we can get to the place when it's dark." The thunderstorm slowly caused the car to slip away, and it was so anxious that its butt was about to catch fire.
"It's really strange, although the south pays attention to funerals, but in the last three years, this is the first time we have seen such a grand funeral ceremony." The old aunt was also surprised.
"Respect customs, you must respect customs!" Thunderstorm has been deflated since he ate in the swallow hole, and he has learned to be obedient thoroughly.
In line with the idea of respecting the customs of the locals, our three cars followed patiently behind the funeral procession, neither going down to negotiate, nor honking a horn to be disrespectful.
It's really the end of the world, how could they carry the coffin and occupy the road before? And now they seem to be used to this, knowing that there are three cars coming from behind, and no one is letting go, and no one even takes the three cars that suddenly appear seriously.
We cried out in our hearts, thinking that when the funeral procession got out of the way, we couldn't continue to hurry, we had to find a place to spend the night.
There were a lot of people in this team, there were seventy or eighty people, and some of the people walking behind looked back at us from time to time, with no expression on their faces, no curiosity, and no vigilance, probably thinking that they were numerous, and they were not afraid of outsiders.
Finally, at last, they came to a cemetery full of tombstones, and the group carried the coffin down to the ground, and stopped after not far away, and the people behind them were still crowded on the road blocking the road.
"Why don't these people move? Why is this? "The thunderstorm poked their heads out, but there were so many people blocking our view that we couldn't see their movements clearly.
"I guess I'm digging a grave, but I didn't expect it to be digging a pit now, and normal family members should choose an address to dig the grave first." He replied, but I didn't expect him to understand.
"Hey, I'll go down and discuss with him, let's talk about it, we'll be with them for more than half a day......" Thunderstorm jumped out of the car anxiously.
"Fellow! By the way! Can you make it easier for our car to drive over? We're in a hurry. "The thunderstorm was loud, and the group was not far away, and we could hear him very clearly in his voice.
There was an old man in the group, who was talking to a thunderstorm, and the old man was weak and quiet, and he didn't know what he was talking about.
Thunderstorm, on the other hand, listened attentively and nodded from time to time.
After a while, he ran back and got into the car, and said to us, "Our accommodation tonight has been settled, the old man said that the customs of their village, the people I met at the funeral are nobles, and I want to go back to have a meal with the villagers, and said that there is a spare room for us to live in." ”
I laughed, "How are you like Zhu Bajie in Journey to the West?" It's so easy to agree when you have a cheap advantage, is it a shame? ”
Thunderstorm gave me a blank look, "You think Zhu Bajie is stupid?" Wrong! He is the most refined, he won't miss any good things, Sun Wukong is a floating spirit, what do you think is his turn? It was his turn to be terrible. ”
"I didn't promise to come down to have a place to live and have a free meal, but to get to know their village, you see, there are seventy or eighty people who came out of the funeral alone, plus the other villages didn't come, the size is also a survivor base, isn't it? It's a base, so we're obligated to record it. What are we doing here? Thunderstorm said again.
He was right, and we discussed it a little and decided to wait and go back to their village with these people.
Those people were really digging a pit and falling into the coffin, tossing for a full hour before the work was finished, the grave bag was piled up, the tombstone was erected, and some fruit incense was placed, and the family cried again, and then Zhang Luo went back.
We've been following for so long that we've been turning the car around and still keeping pace at the pace at which people walk.
When we arrived at a small road, these villagers got off the road and walked into the path, their village was not far from the road, but we didn't notice when we came that this village was a living village.
The funeral family set up many long tables inside and outside their yard, on which there were some vegetarian dishes, those people invited us to the upper seat, enthusiastically let us eat and drink well, the old man who invited the thunderstorm was surnamed Niu Yushan, was the old neighbor of the family, he sat at a table with us, and the right was used as a companion.
Niu Laohan asked us where we came from, we said truthfully, at this time the banquet has been opened, Niu Laohan invited us to dinner, we paid attention, only ate the dishes that Niu Laohan tasted, Niu Laohan did not touch, we no one moved a chopstick.
This move is very chicken thief, but is Uncle Yang in the estuary honest or not? He also gave us a medicinal powder, so that we had to be on guard everywhere.
Through chatting with Niu Laohan, we learned that the woman who was buried today was the mistress of this family, the mother of the two young men, who died at the age of sixty-one.
The old man in this family died earlier than the old lady, and today they buried the old lady next to the old man's grave, so that the old couple can continue to be companions underground.
"Uncle Niu, who else is in your family?" Brother Fourteen asked gently, in fact, we also noticed that no one came to call him father or grandfather this old man.
"I, a lonely old man, my family is dead." Old Man Niu squinted his sip of wine and replied calmly.
"Oh, who will send you to the end of the year after that?" The fourteenth brother asked again, I was a little puzzled next to me, is it not appropriate to ask a very old man on such a topic?
"In our village, it doesn't matter if an old man who has no blood relatives dies, and the descendants in this village will send us to the end." There was some sadness in Niu Laohan's tone, but he was also very calm.
"That's fine. Come, Uncle Niu, you have another drink. The fourteenth brother poured wine for the old man Niu, and a smile appeared on the old man's face.
"Son, if my son lives, he will be about the same age as you." Niu Laohan looked at the fourteenth brother and said with emotion.
"How many people in this village survived? How do you deal with mutated zombies? "Brother Fourteen likes to ask us about this information, and it's right that he added it.
"Now there are still a hundred or so mouths, zombies, they are all settled." The old man replied.