It is also through this custom that I will ask Uncle Lin my own questions when I hear the lamentation.

"Yes! We'll be here tonight, and we'll be out tomorrow afternoon!"

Uncle Lin took two puffs of cloud smoke, revealing an intoxicated expression, then opened his mouth and spit out a bunch of smoke, then sucked the smoke back and spit it out again. Many people don't understand why others smoke the way they do, because they don't know that this is one of the characteristics exclusive to the smoker level. It's like drinking wine, some people will only drink it all at once, but those who can drink it usually take a sip in their mouths, but they don't swallow it, and what people taste is other artistic conceptions mixed with that taste. People who are not at that level really can't comprehend this artistic conception.

"Oh!" When I answered, I stopped talking, because my cousin's house was close at hand.

To say that this day is worthy of being a visitor, this uncle's house is full of people inside and out, many of them have faces that I am familiar with, but there are also many people I don't know.

Naturally, the people I know, people naturally know me, after all, everyone is from the village, watching me grow up, how can I not know it.

"Hah! Shugui is back!"

Most of the people I met along the way greeted me like this, and I responded to this with a smile and a smile. Men, I'll give out a cigarette, women, we can't help it. Everyone is from the village, and they shouted at me when they came back, as if they were celebrating a festival. I'm a little embarrassed.

There's no way, the main thing is that we're a little more generous. Two or three packs of ten-yuan cigarettes were distributed, so that the big guys who got the cigarettes were very happy. You may think it's precious, but it's only thirty dollars, as far as that's concerned. If you know that I fight back and forth in GL City, and it is normal to spend a hundred or ten yuan, I don't know if everyone will scold me for being a loser.

Soon, the sensation caused by the villagers immediately attracted the attention of the house. After all, this chaotic noise has almost overshadowed the lamentation, and the cousins who killed them thought that there was a dispute. After all, this kind of thing still happens often in the village, although everyone is from the same village, but occasional quarrels are impossible to avoid. It's like two husbands and wives, no matter how much love they have, there will be times when they quarrel.

A middle-aged man in a white filial piety suit squeezed through the crowd and shouted loudly: "What's going on, what's going on?"

Seeing this person appear in front of me through the crowd, my eyes almost burst into tears. Who is the person who comes, don't sell it!

"Daddy!" Yes, this man is none other than my father. My father is in charge of the village, so he is very popular, and basically everything in the village will be my father's figure.

No, some people are heckling.

"Lao Liu! Your tree is expensive and rich! You see, as soon as he made a move, he was a pack of cigarettes for ten dollars!"

Hearing this, my father immediately glared at me: "Stinky boy, as soon as you come back, you will make such a big move for me!" But anyone could see that there was a happy smile on his father's face. Because he knows that his precious son is really promising. Otherwise, how did the hundreds of thousands of deposits and the sale now come to be good smoke

"Hey, hey!" Seeing this, I couldn't refute anything, so I had to respond with a smirk, because I knew that my father couldn't do anything about me. Sure enough, my father closed his mouth and prepared to pull me into my cousin's house.

As a result, I asked my father to wait, only to see me open the black bag I was carrying, then took out two cigarettes from the inside, handed them to him, and said softly, "Dad! It's yours! There are also two bottles of good wine in this bag, both of which were specially bought for you! My mother is very thrifty, and if she buys something for her, I will definitely be nagged, so I'll give her money later. ”

I just want to deliberately show off in front of the villagers, not to show off my wealth, but simply to let my father grow a long face in front of the villagers, so that they know that our old Liu family is also rich, and it is not for others to bully if they want. It's not that I'm vindictive, but I can only blame my father for secretly telling me on the phone that many people in the village secretly make fun of me for being almost twenty-four years old, and I haven't even seen a girlfriend and brought it back. After all, at my age, in the countryside, many children could run all over the field to catch loaches. For this reason, my mother also left many tears alone. So, I did this just to give my parents a breath of air.

"Wow! It's all good cigarettes and good wine! I guess it's at least a few hundred dollars!"

No, as I took out the things, the villagers inhaled and said with envy. They were right, one bottle of wine would cost me one hundred and fifty dollars, and two bottles would cost me three hundred. Two fifteen-yuan cigarettes cost me almost three hundred, because I bought them at the wholesale department, so they gave me a little cheaper, but it also cost five hundred and fifty yuan. This is the amount that many rural families can save in a month at that time.

"Alas! You!" How could my father not understand my intentions! He shook his head at me, and then led me directly to my cousin's house.

When I entered my cousin's house, the most conspicuous thing I saw at a glance was the black coffin on the two benches, because it was not yet time to go out, so the coffin lid was thrown aside.

Around the coffin, there was a group of women wearing the same white filial piety clothes as my father, crying and crying, and among them were the daughters-in-law or daughters of the second uncle's family. This is also one of our customs, which is that the dead must have someone to mourn for them. The people who mourn are usually women in their immediate family members, from the old to the young. Unless the old man is older than the deceased, they all have to cry, especially when they go out. Although I don't know how many of them are really crying, how many of them are still hot tears.

My mother, as a woman in the immediate family of the second uncle's family, naturally had to kneel on the straw mat spread on the ground around the coffin, crying for the second uncle.

"Alas! Isn't that a tree expensive!"

"Really! It seems to have gone out to get a lot of darkness, how much suffering has I suffered!"

These are my elders, and I should call them uncles in order of seniority, because he is the eldest in my father's generation in the whole family. Although we don't see each other much, we don't have that kind of hatred, and I still hope that you are doing well. So, for these relatives, I am quite satisfied. I was thinking about whether I could pull them in the future if it really happened.

Maybe I heard the uncles talking, or maybe I was pulled in by my father and caught their attention. A large group of crying women stopped, all looking at me with red eyes.

When my mother saw me, she smiled happily and got up and walked towards me.

Seeing this, I hurriedly trotted over, helped my mother up, hugged her and snuggled my head on my mother's shoulder: "Mom! The son is back! You've suffered all these years!"

Because my mother is only a little more than one and a half meters tall, she had to grab my shoulders, look around at me with her head up, and after a while, she frowned, showed a distressed expression, and said kindly: "What nonsense! Mom, I'm fine, where is the bitterness! It's you, black and thin, who have suffered a lot outside! If you can't do well outside, come back, Mom still has the ability to support you!"

Every wanderer who wanders outside has a bond in his heart. That's their parents. I still remember that when every wanderer goes out, the parents at home will tell their children to come back if they can't get along outside, at least they still have something to eat, and they can't go hungry. Don't they want their children to be productive? They are just worried about their children suffering outside, and that's it.

"Mom, I'm doing well outside! I didn't endure hardship! You see, I'm much stronger now than I used to be!" I deliberately gestured my muscles, but alas, it was winter, and under the thick clothes, it was impossible to see anything. "Mom! I bought my dad two good cigarettes and two good bottles of wine, but I didn't buy you anything! So, you can only give yourself the money, and buy what you need. Don't save anymore, my son has money now. ”

As I spoke, I took out seven thousand of the ten thousand dollars in cash I had taken out of the ATM and handed it directly to my mother. How can I say that I still owe Brother Xiao 2,000 yuan, leave 3,000 for myself, 2,000 for Brother Xiao, and the remaining 1,000 as travel expenses. And the thick stack of brand-new old man's heads really attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

"Oh my God! That's a lot of money! The villagers all said that the eldest brother invited someone to watch the days and was going to build a house, but I still didn't believe it. Now I'm finally convinced. ”

"Yes, I thought someone was deliberately making fun of my eldest brother in the village at the time!! I can't believe it's true! All of this is due to Shugui!"

"Nonsense, don't look at how generous Shugui is. Just now, the people in the village said that as soon as Shugui came back, he would give each person a pack of cigarettes for ten yuan. Now as soon as he makes a move, he gives his sister-in-law 7,000 yuan as pocket money. Gee! When will my son be able to do this!"

The conversation between my uncles made me proud all of a sudden. However, my mother looked at me reproachfully, and when I saw this, I had to lower my head and dare not face it.

"I'll keep this money for you! I'm not going to mess around, I'll ask your dad to deposit it in the bank when I'm free. I'll take it out when you marry your daughter-in-law." ”

After my mother collected the money, she led me to a pile of relatives and introduced me to elders I didn't know. Maybe everyone knows that I have a little money, so I'm quite polite to me. It's not like what everybody says, 'Do you have a girlfriend?'' Where do you work, how much do you get paid a month?' The little commotion caused by my return finally came to an end with a strip of white cloth tied around my waist. There is also a custom on our side that the family of the deceased will dress the deceased in linen and filial piety according to their generation. Specifically, the children will wear white scarves and white filial piety clothes. For grandchildren, a strip of white cloth is tied around the waist. For the great-grandchildren, it is a strip of red cloth. As for other relatives and friends, they all wrapped a strip of black cloth around their arms. Everyone also deduces the family of the deceased from this.

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