The snow fell for three days and three nights, and it was unusually cold every day, and our honeycomb coal and firewood were burned out, and it was very cold when we slept on the kang at night.

On the day that Bai Qi left, the Hades King drove to the human world and did not take anyone with him, which was an unexpected thing.

Only I know that he did not come to take away people's souls, but to seek her.

I also left from the day I left, I have been sick at home, the whole family is taking care of me, I have a severe cold, Chinese medicine and Western medicine together, only to get better.

Nianbai didn't sleep with me at night, because she was a snake person, and the colder the weather, the more sleepy she became.

I had to sleep in the living room every day, looking at the four walls of my house, and worrying about what to eat for this meal every day on a snowy day.

The snow is too big to go out, grandpa can't go up the mountain to chop firewood to sell, grandma can't go to the field to grow vegetables, the whole family eats lard fried rice every day, and I because there are no dead people in the village these days, plus the night is very quiet these days, there are no ghosts haunting me, so I didn't go up the mountain to get up the coffin and be reburied.

I looked at the bowl of lard fried rice in my hand, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "Grandma, you said that we are poor in Xiatangguan Village, because our country's compensation money is distributed and used on our family, why is it even used by our family?" The Xu family has been around for generations, why is it so poor? ”

Grandma sighed, and pulled out a red cloth from under the black-and-white television, with a family tree and an old portrait in it.

The genealogy says that our Xu family was promoted a hundred years ago, and the emperor rewarded a lot of things, and that person was called Xu Wenwei.

Xu Wenwei sold all the things he was rewarded, and then used them to do a small business, which was still very big, and became a wealthy businessman as soon as he became a man, because he was a man from the Xu family, his child resigned as soon as he was born, went to sweep the Lei Feng Tower, and cut off all relations with the family.

"That rich merchant must be very rich! Could it be that our ancestors spent money indiscriminately? I now mortgage this old house and take over Uncle Ge's business, how can it get worse and worse, and it has been ...... for several days. ”

I changed the coffin for free, and no one came to find me, are we still afraid of Nianbai? In the past few days, I have been staring at her, staring very closely, this child is also well-behaved, and eats hares and bamboo rats in the back mountains every day.

Grandpa, I found some shabby clothes that my dad wore before his death, threw them into the fire, and added some heat.

Holding tongs, adding a little straw, and wiping a match, the room gradually warmed up.

We gathered around, stretched out our hands to bake the fire, and rubbed our knees.

"You cherish your current life, if you take over Uncle Ge's funeral, don't complain, change the coffin, even if it's free, the villagers will give some money or food, it's not easy for every family, people's hearts are kind, you have to remember, do this business, don't borrow joy for funerals."

I know what it means to hold a funeral and not to borrow joy, that is, I would rather borrow my own house for someone else's funeral than borrow my own home to do a happy event for others.

In our village, there has always been this custom, the funeral is to let others do their filial piety, this is necessary to help, and are relatives who pass away naturally have to be willing, you don't borrow words will be said by others to be unfilial, accumulate virtue and longevity, you can take away the bad luck at home.

It's not okay to do happy events, the reason is to borrow your own house to celebrate the event, the newcomer is always going to enter the cave house, and if you do things for men and women, everyone will be a little disgusted, and take away the wealth and joy of the family.

Therefore, they are not willing to lend a house to others to make a new house.

When Nianbai and I came back to live, the tree cave room was vacant, so my grandfather reminded me here.

"I know, but what does this have to do with our family being so poor? Bai Qi's ancestors are gone, why does the snow keep falling? ”

Grandma sighed and pulled the portrait out of the family tree.

It is painted on rice paper, which has been yellowed and is particularly thin, so when you open it, you must be careful, it will not be good to tear it.

"On the seventh day of the first month, grandpa, I can't help you with anything, because since I was born, my dad has told me the same thing, cherish my current life, the two people on this portrait, my dad is your grandfather, and it is a group portrait of Xu Xian and Uncle Ge's ancestors."

How can it be!

It's too old and ugly!

Although my dad is a fool, his facial features are the same as those carved, the genes are so good, how can the ancestors be so ugly, and if he goes to the Leifeng Tower with this appearance, it is estimated that he will be blasted out by the white ancestors.

Grandma looked at me with a questioning look on her face and poked my head with her index finger, "You are laughing, what your grandfather said is true, it is the portrait of the ancestors of Xu Xian and Third Uncle Ge, and they have laid a good relationship thousands of years ago." Otherwise, why did Uncle Ge and his son sell the coffin and goods to you so happily, and at the same time, the house was also given to you! ”

Yes, although the tree cave is a tree cave house decorated with a hole, it is very big inside, the size of a courtyard house.

Moreover, the location of the ground is also good, a mountain between the two villages, halfway up the mountain, the feng shui is good, and you don't need to look at the weather forecast to know if it will rain today.

There is rain on the top of the mountain under the clouds, and the mountains are sunny above the clouds.

The lighting is good and the air is fresh, which is very suitable for red and white ceremonies.

So that's why, when Uncle Ge was still alive, their family's coffin business was very good.

"Then Xu Wenwei's ancestors, didn't he treasure something for future generations?"

"He's gone to the Thunder Sweeping Tower, what do you expect to leave for us? Also, I heard your grandfather say that the Xu family's business had been good at that time, because they were newly married at that time, and after marrying your grandmother, they lent the house to people for funerals. ”

Yes!

My whole sky is falling.

This kind of thing, dare to agree to borrow it?

I saw that the genealogy recorded that after Xu Wenwei swept the Leifeng Pagoda for a year, he died on the street unexpectedly, and when he died, he had already put on a longevity coat, but he was holding a wedding card in his hand, and his face was hideous.

Xu Wenwei's wife, the day after the house was lent out, there were people coming in and out every night, and for this reason, it was also marked with the name of water-based poplar, and the villagers at that time did not know that my grandmother was pregnant and about to give birth, how could she find a wild man.

People don't go out of the door, and they don't step out of the second door.

"Why is there no follow-up? Grandpa, this family tree can't be scribbled! ”

"It's all dead, why can't it be scribbled! So cherish the current life, don't always complain about the poverty of the family, since you want to be a man and don't want to marry the king of Hades, hurry up and send the unjust soul away, I estimate that the group of resentful ghosts in the past few days have not pestered you, because the obsession of Bai Qi has not dissipated. ”

Obsession?

I think her obsession should be to protect me, otherwise why would it snow heavily for three days in a row and refuse to leave.

However, how can I tell my grandparents that my hosta is ...... broken?