Wang Defa died in such close contact for the first time in most of his life. There is no kind of openness to traffic that has lost his father, and there is more of a sense of helplessness. The air in the room, against the backdrop of the late night, seemed to freeze, but unfortunately the woman's breath could no longer be heard.

The three children still slept next to the woman, sleeping soundly, and for them, it seemed that nothing had changed, and for this family, it was already unknown in the future.

Wang Defa had tears in his eyes, and stood by the kang for more than half an hour, and for more than half an hour, his mind was like playing a movie of a woman's life, as long as the picture moved, the tears couldn't stop flowing.

She suffered a lot, and when the last breath wandered away, she was quiet and calm. In the face of a woman's death, Wang Defa always wanted to use all his strength to catch her, in a short period of time, he fantasized that he had a special function to bring people back from the dead, he didn't believe that women would leave him, he even felt that all this was his own dream, he didn't believe, he didn't believe that all this was true. Until, he touched the woman's cheek, which was already getting cold.

A person's life, in fact, is just a simple generation, just like a trip without return, as long as you are on the road, you will always enjoy the scenery, of course, the scenery will sometimes come to an abrupt end, and life will of course not exist.

Wang Defa is really grateful to the woman for the life that has ended, for his own company, for the dedication to this family, he is not an excellent person, accompanying women in this half of his life, when he was an accountant, let women enjoy Qingfu; When you have to give birth to a son, let the woman be angry; When you are in prison, you let women suffer a lot of ups and downs.

All these things that Wang Defa can think of with women flashed in his mind, it turned out that when a person's life is over, in other people's minds, life is so short.

Wang Defa walked to the phone he installed years ago and found the phone number given by Li Qiyang.

"Jingle bell!"

Li Qiyang's phone thought about it five times, but he didn't answer it, Wang Defa on the other end of the phone waited blankly, he forgot that no one answered for a long time, and he should hang up the phone.

It wasn't until the sixth bell rang that Li Qiyang woke up.

It's the middle of the night, who's calling? Rubbing his hazy eyes, which had already fallen asleep, Li Qiyang seemed to know what was going on.

"Hey, brother-in-law, what's wrong?" Li Qiyang picked up the microphone and asked.

Wang Defa on the other end of the phone choked up.

"Your sister, it's gone."

"I see!" After Li Qiyang finished saying these four words, hung up the phone, put on his clothes and went to the yard to shake the tricycle. In the middle of the night in winter, the sound of the tricycle "bouncing" resounded throughout the village, and Li Qiyang saw that his daughter-in-law had been woken up, so he told him what happened.

"You watch the doll and the old lady at home, and I'll send it to my sister."

"Go ahead and drive slower in the middle of the night."

After Li Qiyang arrived at his sister, Wang Defa had been completely defeated and didn't know what to do.

Li Qiyang looked at her sister who didn't even move her body on the kang, and cried out all of a sudden, the three children next to her, the first to wake up was Wang Chenglong, she saw her uncle crying on her mother's body, and she understood at once.

"Mom, Mom, wake up, wake up!" The child's heart-rending cry is even more worrying.

Wang Defa saw that Li Qiyang had come, sat at the coffee table, and began to vent his emotions thoroughly, he was also very painful, the child lost his mother, he lost his woman, a complete home, and now it is completely impossible to put it together.

"Brother-in-law!" Li Qiyang's name is Wang Defa.

"Brother-in-law, take the children to his grandmother's house, let's pack up and send my sister, the people are gone, and they will be buried in peace!" After Li Qiyang's mood stabilized, he said.

Wang Defa wiped away his tears and took the three children to his mother's room behind, and when she entered the house, the old lady was already sitting firmly on the kang.

"Mother, I'll put the children on your kang and let them sleep in your place."

"Are you gone?" The old mother, who rarely spoke, suddenly spoke.

"Gone."

"Oh."

"It's good, it's not painful, it's good all the way!" The old lady said.

This is the most talked by the old lady since Wang De was released from prison.

Subsequently, Li Qiyang and Wang Defa carried the woman to the wheat straw laid on the ground, the house had been lit with candles, and it was still in the New Year, the weather was cold, and I was not afraid that the woman would not be able to lie on the straw mat.

Slowly, Wang Defa also calmed down from his grief, and methodically followed the proper procedures to handle the woman's funeral.

The first rooster crow in the morning pierced the night sky that had been slow to brighten. Relatives and friends in the vicinity have learned the news of the woman's death, and they have come to see her off, and there are more people who help.

After everything was ready, Wang Defa went to find the second child and wanted him to give him a date.

"Brother, mourning, for my sister-in-law, it is better to be relieved like this than to be tortured." The second child comforted Wang Defa.

"Yes, watching her get more and more painful day by day, I thought the same thing, but when she really left, I really didn't know what to do. You show your sister-in-law a place, those plots of land in my house, you see which one is okay, choose one. The sooner the better, let her leave this painful world as soon as possible. ”

"Brother, the few pieces of land in your house have already been planted with apple trees, the feng shui is good, if you want to dig up, you may have to dig up a few trees."

"Second child, dig it, dig it, people die greatly, you can see the matter of this grave, can you find someone to dig it for me, don't worry, brother won't let you dig in vain, how much is it, I will give you how much money."

"You will see this outside, since I have promised you, I will definitely do it for my sister-in-law, I will try to dig a few fewer trees for you, and raise money, you just don't look down on my little brother!" The second child directly rejected Wang Defa's withdrawal of money.

"Days, today is sixteen, the day after tomorrow can be, the day after tomorrow morning, the grave can also be dug up, a day's time, the family should be prepared can also be prepared, what do you think?"

"If it can be done the day after tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow, no problem, thank you, second child! If you have time in the past two days, come back to your home to see what I have prepared inappropriately, and tell me. When your sister-in-law leaves, she will also leave with all the courtesy. ”

"Okay, brother, I'll go over and help you after I've packed up what should be prepared here."

After coming out of the second child's house, Wang Defa staggered all the way home. Usually, when encountering red and white ceremonies in the team, women are invited to go up and take a hand, but now, the busy figure in the yard, there are her good sisters in the past, and there are also neighbors, but she can no longer see her sharp figure, a person's life, it's so simple, it's so short, it's gone.

On the morning of the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the people who saw off Wang Defa's woman Li Yueping had already arrived in the courtyard, and Wang Defa stood at the front of the line with three children, dressed in linen and filial piety. Wang Chenglong and Wang Laidi already know what death is, and they cry immaturely but they are pitiful.

said that the time to set off had come, a desolate suona sound, as if all the sorrows of all the people were hooked out, and then, the mourning music sounded, and the very penetrating suona seemed to be using life to compose a lifetime of music for another lost life. The mighty team moved.

The life that a woman hoped for before her death, Wang Defa bought it all for her, a beautiful yard of paper paste, and a small garden in the center of the yard, which Li Yueping had always wanted Wang Defa to build a small garden in the yard before her death, and she wanted to plant beautiful flowers and plants; A big TV, a bicycle, and a fashionable washing machine, as long as there is, Wang Defa bought them all for her, and the most important thing is that two papier-mâché boys and girls are guarding the side of the yard in a proper manner. Further back in the procession was the coffin carried by the young man, the vermilion coffin, which contrasted sharply with the white of a piece of linen and filial piety.

The suona sound blew all the way, Wang Defa cried all the way, Wang Chenglong and Wang Laidi also cried all the way, Wang Guisheng, didn't cry, just didn't speak all the way, and couldn't speak, from time to time he looked back at the coffin everyone was carrying, as if he was expecting something, but every time he turned his head in disappointment and followed Wang Defa to continue walking.

In his apple orchard, the second child had already dug the grave with someone, and was waiting for the funeral procession to come.

After arriving at the place, the second child became the coordinator of the scene, and all the sacrifices were placed next to the grave according to the second child's request.

The land where Wang Defa lived was not close to the team, and the coffin must not be settled halfway, and the four young men were tired of carrying it. The second child separated the two benches that had been prepared a long time ago.

"Come, lads, be careful, put the coffin on the two benches, and put it down first."

After everything was ready, the second child walked up to Wang Defa and said, "Brother, then let's start!" ”

"Bury it!" Wang Defa replied very directly.

The second child led by example and jumped into the grave first, where the four gravediggers who were his partner commanded everyone to prepare for the coffin at any time.

This grave pit is not simply to dig a vertical pit, but after the vertical pit is dug, dig a horizontal pit in parallel, and the second child jumps down, that is, after the coffin falls, and then when the coffin is suspended, it is pushed into the horizontal pit. Of course, he couldn't complete this operation by waiting for a meeting, and after the coffin fell, the gravediggers above would also go down and push the coffin together.

"Brothers above, come down two, push the coffin together!" The second child shouted in the grave, and as soon as the words fell, the two of them jumped down.

The three of them put the coffin in place and climbed up after a while. The relatives and friends around have already prepared shovels, and as soon as the people below come up, they will fill the grave.

"Bury it." The second said sadly.

The soil around the grave was pushed into the grave by the shovels that everyone used to do so one after another. The soil of the first shovel fell, and the sound of suona and firecrackers echoed in unison, echoing in the open field, as if the sorrow of everyone kneeling on the ground was taken to a distant place and sent to the woman who had returned to the west.

Wang Defa couldn't stand the woman who had been with him for most of his life, so he was buried in the loess, everyone buried it with a shovel, he screamed and used his hand to plan, and the second child pulled Wang Defa over and over again, but Wang Defa broke free and pounced again.

After all, it's a two-handed planing, how can you catch up with the speed of a shovel. After a while, a small mound of dirt was up. This small mound is the final destination of Wang Defa's woman Li Yueping, people live for a lifetime, after all, they can't resist the pile of loess buried themselves, a few years later, the new mound becomes the old mound, hundreds of years later, the wind and sand omit this bulging bulge, thousands of years later, everything is gone, return to another reincarnation.

The funeral goods prepared for the women were burning in the raging fire, and the beautiful boy and girl, starting from the soles of their feet, had been wiped out in the blink of an eye.

This is the last of sorrow that a woman can leave to the living. Suona, firecrackers, wailing, crying endlessly, this is probably the most bleak carnival in the world, and everyone who lives understands its meaning in their hearts.

Everything is over, all the procedures of the funeral are over, and the woman officially lets her life come to an end. Wang Defa's sadness can no longer be expressed in words, the family he left behind, three children and an old mother, has to live a good life.

A few days after burying the woman, Wang Defa has been asking God for an answer in his heart, why he always suffers retribution, even though he has done a lot of things that everyone can't agree with, but he has only one purpose, for the good of this family.

Wang Defa got himself drunk every day, and when it was dark at night, he carried an ever-bright lamp and went crookedly to the woman's grave to lay tea. Confide the resentment and helplessness in his heart to the woman on the grave, and then stagger back.

Even if he was drunk, even if he staggered, he never let him extinguish the everlasting lamp in his hand. The lamp is a street lamp that guides women home.

It is customary in the town that after a person dies, his relatives should carry an ever-bright lamp to the new grave every day to lay tea on the new grave, for as little as 7749 days and as much as 9981 days, so that their relatives will not become homeless and lonely ghosts in the open fields.

These seven seven forty-nine days or nine hundred and eighty-one days are not only the memory of the dead, but also to allow the living to quietly think about the next life. The grief of losing a loved one needs to be precipitated by these times, and whether it can be reinvigorated also requires these times to think.

Li Yueping's death is the turning point of Wang Defa's life, he has thought about it for a long time, and he doesn't know how to face his next life.

Three children, one of them is a fool, and there is an elderly mother, Wang Defa lived the second half of his life, he lived it for himself, and if he passed, he couldn't get by, if he didn't understand, he couldn't live, and that would be it for the rest of his life.

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