Hanzhang looked at the chrysanthemum-like smiling face of the old woman in front of him, full of old expectations, and unconsciously raised his hand to take the bowl. I just feel warm in my heart!

When she looked up and looked at the busy and talking people around her, she felt that they were so simple and simple. My mind also became simpler.

Yijia Village is not very far from Yutang Village, and it is also a village where only a dozen adults are left behind, but the terrain is different from Yutang Village on the hillside.

The terrain of this village is flat, and the houses are longitudinally distributed on both sides by a village road in the middle, elongated into a strip of about a mile. The village road in the middle extends only about half a mile away, and it is directly connected to the main road outside. The deceased's house is located in the middle of the village.

Hanzhang held a funeral wreath and carried firecrackers to the entrance of the village with the flow of people, and saw a funeral team playing mourning music to pick up the mourners one by one. The whole ceremony was lively and compact.

I heard that according to the old rules, it should be based on the intimate relationship with the deceased, and the mourners each invited the corresponding honor guard band to send them to the door of the main house, but now that the countryside is sparsely populated and the old system has withered, it can only be used to make up for it.

Soon, Hanzhang was taken into the main house by the honor team one by one, and someone who helped the master's family immediately received the wreath firecrackers, the firecrackers were immediately lit, and the wreaths were put in the place where the spirit stopped.

On the one hand, some people loudly announced the names of the mourners, their relationship with the deceased, and the mourners' deep condolences.

Anyway, the villagers of the nearby ten miles and eight villages have been passed down from generation to generation, and how can they be ranked with each other as relatives who can't be beaten.

Hanzhang was stunned for a moment when he heard that he was called the deceased's aunt, and he really couldn't help but feel a little mourning for the deceased, and felt that mourning the deceased himself also had a little responsibility!

At this time, the dam in front of the He family, which was not very big, was full of people, and everyone was talking to each other in the sound of mourning music and the arrangement of the old man's head ceremony, and the most discussed was the reason for the deceased's suicide, and the praise of Yang Liu, who took the initiative to handle the funeral of the deceased.

It turned out that Yang Liu was the step-son-in-law of the deceased, and he married the deceased after he married his widowed mother-in-law after he started a family with his wife. In essence, he has no definite relationship with the deceased.

And the deceased was only better than his sister He during his lifetime, and he was not treated well in the village, and his step-son-in-law Yang Liu was always harsh, and he did not have a good face.

However, after receiving the information, Yang Liu stood up and took on this responsibility and solved the big problem in the hearts of the villagers here.

Since someone took the lead, the funeral was also organized among the villagers.

And the reason for the deceased's suicide is also very simple, but his ability to earn money is not as good as his wife's, and the family is really poor, and there has been no spiritual examination for several years.

I heard that on weekdays, I have saved to the point that when I go to the village to do errands, I am reluctant to pay even a few spiritual dollars for the carriage, and would rather walk with my feet for an hour.

Coincidentally, the policy has been good recently, and when the township issued a notice that the spiritual examination could be carried out for free, the deceased was naturally happy, but the result of the spiritual examination made him unbearable.

It turned out that he had already had spiritual energy in his body, and it had reached a very serious point in the past few years, and if he was willing to spend money to raise it carefully, he still had some days to live.

But the family was already poor, and as soon as the test results came out, the deceased was frightened and had other plans:

First, he felt that his illness was hopeless, and he didn't want to drag down his family.

Second, he loved his five-year-old son and wanted to leave the only economic resources in the family for his son to use as auxiliary cultivation resources after he went to school.

Therefore, just after the first day of the Lunar New Year, he hurriedly urged his wife to go out to work to earn money. After his wife left, he took the initiative to contact his son-in-law's family, and gave a little explanation of everything after his death, and especially explained not to be extravagant and wasteful.

At first, Yang Liu and his family only thought that he was depressed because of his illness, so he said these words, but he did such a stupid thing in the blink of an eye!

Therefore, in one paragraph, the villagers near and far also sighed, saying, 'Although He Tian is not a human being and is not likable, others are not bad'.

Hanzhang came to meet the busy old Detou, and then sat in a corner, listening to the gossip of the villagers until the banquet began.

On the way, some villagers asked about her, but before she could answer, an insider next to her turned the Yu family upside down, which not only saved her a lot of effort, but also let her know more about Lao Detou.

During the meal, the villagers who knew her situation took the initiative to take care of her, for fear that she would be blown by the wind and knocked on the steps, as if they wanted to feed her as a baby......

After the dinner, the funeral really begins, first, the non-stop mourning music renders the scene hot; second, the strict funeral system gives the scene a sense of solemnity; third, the old head of the head of the old man is in good order, and everyone knows what they have done and what they should do.

With such a degree of popularity, the mournful and condensed atmosphere that the funeral should have is vividly interpreted.

Hanzhang looked at the children and neighbors who had no relationship with the deceased, and kowtowed respectfully to the mourning hall over and over again, expressing his sincere remembrance of the deceased, and couldn't help but feel inexplicable sadness in his heart.

In her daze, the most solemn rings of the ritual system had passed, and Lao Detou, as the presiding officer of the ceremony, still had many things to do, and Meng Chun's night had already thickened.

When Hanzhang was sitting on the bench and feeling cold, the deceased's wife, who had only rushed back from the city in the afternoon, came up and said:

"Hanzhang, it's cold this night, you come with me to the house over there to take refuge!"

Someone next to him also reacted immediately, saying: "We have forgotten to take care of this weak body, you should quickly avoid Chen Niangzi." ”

"It's time to avoid it, but don't freeze!"

"It seems to be on fire over there, so let's go along!"

......

Hanzhang got up in the midst of everyone's gossip, turned two bays with Chen Niangzi, and came to a hidden door.

She saw Mrs. Chen push open the door, and there was indeed a prosperous brazier inside, overflowing with heat. Around the brazier sat several old men and women who were dead and withered.

I only heard Mrs. Chen say to the inside: "Grandpa and aunts, I will let Hanzhang bake the fire with you!"

Inside, they hurriedly promised to "come in, come in", and several old people had already moved out of their seats.

After Chen Niangzi pushed Hanzhang into the house, she greeted everyone, "She still has something to do", then exited the house, closed the door with her backhand, and left.

Several old people in the room responded to the "you should go and get busy...... while someone came to hold Hanzhang's hand and asked her to take a seat.

After Hanzhang sat down, an old man pointed at her and asked the others:

"Where does this girl belong to?"

"Just now Mrs. Chen said that her name is Hanzhang, it should be the old Detou's family!"

"Isn't it the old girl who is old and virtuous?"

"It's her, it's her, I thought I went there when her father and mother got married, but I didn't expect it to be so big in a blink of an eye!"