Chapter 21: The Funeral

Yao Yuzhi didn't plan to wake up Bai Zehui, she was going to warm up the goat milk sent by Wang Wen's first, and when Bai Zehui woke up naturally, she fed the goat milk to Bai Zehui to drink.

However, Bai Zehui woke up when she whispered to Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang to get up for dinner, and Yao Yu saw it, so he took her to the dining room.

The family sat around and ate a fragrant dinner while it was hot before the night fell, and Bai Zehui, who had been held in the arms of Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qin, drank the first milk in her life.

Although it is not human/milk but goat's milk, Bai Zehui still drinks with a satisfied face.

In her previous life, she liked to drink milk and goat's milk, but after she became a baby in this world, she couldn't drink a single sip, so she kept worrying about whether she would be malnourished, lack calcium, and finally become a short man.

The Ji family and the Wang family sent a lot of food, Yao Yu knew that they couldn't eat it all in one meal, so Deng Qin's family put the remaining chicken stewed mushrooms, rice, soup dumplings, and goat's milk all into her own dishes, and then she took the initiative to send the cleaned tableware back to the Ji family and the Wang family.

When the Ji family and the Wang family saw Deng Qin's family, they knew that they had finished dinner, so the two families immediately sent people over to help them clean up the yard and room.

The people from the Ji family are Brother Ji, Second Brother Ji, Sister-in-law Ji, Second Sister-in-law Ji and Ji Shuying, and the people from the Wang family are Wang Wen and the two little maids of the Wang family.

They brought not only brooms, rags and other items for cleaning, but also condiments such as oil lamps, firewood, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

After greeting each other, Brother Ji and Second Brother Ji began to help Deng Xibin clean up the yard, and also did some heavy work such as fetching water, while the ladies helped Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qin's clean the room and take care of the children.

It was not until it was completely dark that the Yao family's old residence was finally completely cleaned up by everyone.

Early the next morning, Deng Xibin went to the town with Deng Qin's only remaining more than 100 taels of silver - he was going to buy coffins, paper money, wreaths and other funeral supplies, and Deng Qin's was going to buy cloth, rice and noodles, oily meat, seasonings and other daily necessities.

Also going with them was the eldest brother of the Ji family, who was specially sent by the father of the Ji family to help Yao Yuzhi and others.

Last night, Yao Yuzhi had already decided to stop at home for three days, and then build a tomb for Ren Zixian.

As for the matters during the filial piety period, considering that the three children in the family are all growing up, and they have been displaced and frightened with them before, Yao Yuzhi decided not to be completely vegetarian during the filial piety period, and as for the rest, they are naturally all in accordance with the current funeral customs.

In addition, Yao Yuzhi also asked Brother Ji to help invite the monks of Guangji Temple on Guanyin Mountain to do things for Ren Zixian.

Because the money was not available, she asked Deng Qin's family to go to the town to be a golden hairpin that she brought out.

On October 28, the 35th year of Jingping, Yao Yuzhi set up a mourning hall for Ren Zixian at home, and all the people in the village who had dealings with their family or had received the favor of their family came to mourn Ren Zixian.

As Ren Zixian's widow, Yao Yuzhi has always taken Ren Hanjun and Ren Hantang to guard the mourning hall.

Because Bai Zehui was still young, Yao Yuzhi and Deng Qin were afraid that she would be frightened by the crying, so during the suspension of the spirit, Yao Yuzhi entrusted her to the care of Wang Wen and Ji Shuying, two little girls.

Although Wang Wen and Ji Shuying are not very old, they are both very stable and careful, and the two have been staying in the Wang family with Bai Zehui since they were entrusted by Yao Yuzhi.

Bai Zehui had the heart to give her adoptive father, whom she had never met, a ride, but no matter how she cried, Yao Yuzhi, Deng Qin, Wang Wen and Ji Shuying never thought of taking her home to wake the spirit.

Bai Zehui, who can't speak, can't express his true thoughts, and can only babble to express his dissatisfaction, has a good experience of being misunderstood but can't even get angry.

On the first day of November, three days after the death of the spirit, the young adults in the village helped carry the coffin with only two Ren Zixian's old clothes on the mountain behind Liangzhi Village.

Ren Zixian's grandfather and Yao Yuzhi's parents were buried on a hillside backed by mountains and rivers in the mountains behind Liangzhi Village, and Yao Yuzhi planned to build Ren Zixian's tomb under Ren Zixian's grandfather's grave.

Yao Yuzhi and Ren Hanjun, who was already sensible, all cried so much that their hearts and intestines were broken, and the mother and daughter were held in the arms of sister-in-law Ji and sister-in-law Ji respectively.

The ignorant Ren Hantang hadn't realized what such a scene meant, but the cries of his mother and sister made his small heart swell with a strong sadness and panic.

He shouted "mother" for a while, shouted "sister" for a while, and asked "where is daddy" for a while, his black eyes were full of uneasiness and panic, and the people in the village couldn't help but look away from that pitiful appearance.

Bai Zehui, who was lying in Wang Wen's arms, also cried and swollen her eyes, but unlike Yao Yuzhi and others who were sad because of the loss of Ren Zixian, she cried mainly because she felt sorry for Yao Yuzhi, Ren Hanjun and Ren Hanyue.

The day after the coffin was buried, Deng Xibin went up the mountain with a long knife and a bow and arrow.

If they don't want to continue to make a living by pawning jewelry, then they must find an income to maintain the family's food, clothing and housing.

Deng Xibin had already asked Deng Qin's last night, and Deng Qin's told him that whether it was Yao Yuzhi's father, Yao Shizhi, or Ren Zixian and Yao Yuzhi, a young couple, they did not buy land on Qushan Island back then," ...... The wild things that the old lady and the old man brought back were enough for us to live. Besides, no one in the family knows how to farm. ”

When Deng Xibin heard this, he immediately decided to go up the mountain to hunt himself.

Deng Qin's decision was very much in agreement with her husband's decision - she no longer wanted to take Yao Yuzhi's jewelry, those were all given to Yao Yuzhi by Ren Zixian, and each one had extremely important commemorative significance for Yao Yuzhi.

So, from the second day of November, Deng Xibin started the crazy hunting mode.

After three days of going out early and returning late for three days, Deng Xibin transported a wild boar, nine hares, and six pheasants to the town for sale on the fifth day of the first day of November.

Also going with him were Brother Ji and Second Brother Ji, who went to sell fish.

Qushan Island is surrounded by the sea and there are not many mountains, so the islanders basically make a living from fishing, and the hunters may not be able to produce one in several villages, so the wild meat in the mountains is still very popular in Qushan Town.

In less than an hour, one wild boar, nine hares, and six pheasants that Deng Xibin took out for sale were bought by wealthy merchants and landlords in Qushan Town.