The roar of the two made the peaceful village no longer peaceful, the barking of dogs in each house and courtyard came and went, and the lights began to turn on in those dark houses one after another, only two bold middle-aged couples came out and questioned him loudly with oil lamps.

"What's it called in the middle of the night, and you don't let people sleep?"

The middle-aged man had a black face and stared angrily with eyes as big as a cow.

Although this person's attitude was not friendly to them, it was better than those things that could not be seen or touched, and the two ran to the courtyard of the house without regard to it, begging for shelter.

The middle-aged woman looked at Song Wushuang vigilantly and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"Eldest sister, we came here in the city to find friends, and we accidentally saw Yizhuang, and we were scared for a while, so I screamed and disturbed everyone, I'm really sorry."

The eldest sister was puzzled, "What's so terrible about Yizhuang?" She thought of something, and said with a smile, "Are you afraid of those coffins in the courtyard, seeing the coffins to make a fortune, but what a meaning, why are you afraid of being like this?" ”

Song Wushuang was still trembling, "Isn't there still a corpse parked there, we are timid, so we are naturally very afraid." ”

The middle-aged man was dismissive, "You people in the city are so strange, who would put the corpse in Yizhuang." ”

Song Wushuang looked confused in the clouds.

The eldest sister explained, "Yes, our Yizhuang is an ancestral hall, and the whole village comes here to worship their ancestors, and the incense is very prosperous." It is also a place for the whole village to support orphans and the elderly in the clan. Occasionally, gentlemen would come and open a school there to provide a literacy place for poor children. The eldest sister was puzzled, "Why do you people in the city think that it is a place to park corpses?" ”

Only then did Song Wushuang understand that he had been deceived by film and television dramas again, and it turned out that Yizhuang was not a parking corpse, but a charity.

Song Wushuang looked at the little brother, she is a modern person who doesn't understand this, why doesn't the little brother of the Republic of China know this? It hurt her to scream so heartbreakingly that her voice was hoarse!

The little brother saw Song Wushuang's accusatory expression, and he was very innocent, "There is also a Yizhuang in our village, but there have never been so many coffins." ”

The eldest sister smiled, "Actually, we don't have so many coffins in Yizhuang. In the past, the poor could not afford to be buried, in order to let them leave with dignity, the clan would pool money to buy a few coffins to prepare, but our village is deep in the mountains, every family is poor, and young people go to the city to survive. Sometimes, it takes two or three years to barely scrape together a coffin money. But there are many old people in the village, which causes many old people to bury themselves in the soil with mats. Some time ago, someone in the village was developed, and they bought twenty coffins at once, and not only did everyone in the village have coffins, but there were also a lot left. The eldest sister also looked at the man next to her with a smile, "I see, when he and I go, this coffin will be enough." ”

"Yes, there are a few respected old people in the village who are supported in Yizhuang, and they are relieved to see these coffins." The big brother with a meaty face also smiled.

Song Wushuang followed the words of the two of them and asked, "This is really a good deed." I don't know, who is this suddenly developed great good man? ”

The middle-aged man said happily, "It's the beautiful girl of the old Wang family at the head of the village......" Before he finished speaking, the eldest sister stopped him, "It's late at night, it's cold, you go into the house and sit down, I'll make you some hot tea to warm your body." She smiled and pulled Song Wushuang and pushed the two of them into the house.

Song Wushuang and the little brother pushed but couldn't help each other's kindness, so they had to enter the house.

The two of them walked into the room, the room was dim, but the two of them still saw two brown-red coffins placed in the middle of the room, Song Wushuang smiled reluctantly, "Big brother and sister, isn't the coffin you prepared for yourself a little early?" ”

The eldest brother shook his head, "It's not for us, it's for my father and my mother." ”

At this time, the eldest sister struck a match, lit the candle in the house, with the dancing candle flame, she finally saw the furnishings in the house, on the top of the two coffins, there was a big white paper wreath, and the word "lay" was written in the middle of the wreath. And at the feet of the two of them was a copper basin with only ashes left, and in front of the copper basin, there were two plates of fruit and pastries.

She instantly understood that his father and mother were lying in the coffin at this time. This is the real coffin with the corpse. She secretly called her life miserable, why did she come to the funeral person's house.

The eldest sister still said with a smile, "Don't be afraid, the two old people are happy and mourning, and they are dying, so let's go into the house to rest." ”

Suddenly, I don't know where I heard the sound of "clang", this voice was faint, but it was extremely cautious in the quiet room.

Song Wushuang looked at the little brother, and the little brother's face turned white.

For they all seemed to think, how could this sound come from a coffin?

Looking at the eldest sister again, she was also startled, but she comforted them calmly. "It's okay, it's a cat, we have two cats at home, I don't know where to hide in this corner, they must have made a noise just now." As she spoke, the eldest sister shouted, "Flower Skin! ”

With a meow, a big black cat sprang out of the corner, staring at eyes like light bulbs, and suddenly pounced on the eldest sister's side.

The eldest sister squatted down and teased the cat, and the cat also rubbed on her body, "Look, it's a cute kitten, don't be afraid." ”

Then, the eldest sister led the two of them into the back room, where there was a pile of gold and silver ingots tied with paper. Under the candle flame, these ingots shimmered.

The middle-aged eldest brother ignored them anymore and sat alone on a small stool and continued to fold the gold ingots.

The eldest sister went to the kitchen to boil water, and occasionally she could hear the crackling sound of charcoal fire.

The two were cramped for a while, and Song Wushuang had no choice but to squat on the ground and ask the eldest brother, "Big brother, I don't know if you have seen a car coming to the village today, and there are two men in it." ”

The eldest brother paused, changed a handful of silver paper, quickly stacked the silver ingots, and muttered in his mouth, "Our village is so poor, I haven't seen a car for many years, and there are no outsiders in the ghost places in the poor countryside." It's just the two of you, and you still come in the middle of the night, so that people can't sleep peacefully. ”

There was a complaining meaning in this remark, and Song Wushuang was a little sorry, "I'm sorry, it's really disturbing to affect your rest." ”

"Don't listen to my master, he is stupid and can't speak." The eldest sister came in with a teapot, "You didn't disturb our rest, we are also going to mourn at dawn, and in another morning the sky will be bright, and we can't sleep anymore, we still have to prepare paper money and ingots." ”

She enthusiastically asked the two of them to sit at the table, and said while pouring tea, "There is no good tea in the countryside, this is last year's old wheat, I fried it with charcoal, and this thing is very fragrant when it bubbles in water." ”

Sure enough, as soon as the boiling water is boiled, the aroma of barley rushes to the nose, like a pot of freshly steamed rice, fragrant and sweet.

"Drink some wheat tea and warm up."

The little brother was about to drink it while holding the teacup, but Song Wushuang shot a look, "Put it down." ”

The little brother looked dazed and hesitantly put down the teacup.

Song Wushuang complained to him, "I found that you are becoming less and less interested in me." ”

"Huh? Manager Song...... I didn't. "The little brother is extremely aggrieved.

She said righteously, "I am your leader, and the leader hasn't drunk yet, how can you drink first?" ”

The little brother hung his head and didn't dare to raise his eyes to look at her, drinking tea is big and big, and small is small, why does she care extra at this time? It's hard that his performance today is too timid, which makes Song Wushuang dissatisfied?

She felt that she hadn't learned enough lessons, and continued, "If you hadn't made a fuss today, would I have been able to lose face in front of my eldest brother and sister-in-law?" ”

"I'm sorry Manager Song, it's me who is wrong, I didn't think it through." The little brother hurriedly handed the teacup to her and asked her to use it first, but she didn't plan to let him go, "It's so hot, how can I drink it?" She pointed outside, "You go out, make herbal tea for me, blow the tea carefully, when it is cold, and when to serve me to drink tea." ”

The little brother was angry, "I'm afraid ......"

A look at her flew over again, and the little brother was so frightened that he quickly swallowed it back.

"Let you go, and you go." Song Wushuang glared at him, not allowing him to refute. "By the way, I reminded you of the things you brought before we came, don't lose them for me, otherwise, I will fire you when I go back."

The little brother wanted to talk back, but finally endured and went outside with the tea bowl.

The eldest sister couldn't bear it, "The little brother is still young, I'm afraid I can't see the coffin, I'll go and accompany him." ”

Song Wushuang grabbed the eldest sister, "You, chat with me, let's stack gold ingots with the eldest brother together." She pointed outside, "I don't want to see him now, and I'm angry when I see him." ”

The eldest sister was embarrassed and pressed back into the chair by Song Wushuang, "He has to do things for me with my salary, and I can't do this little thing, so I'll quit him when I go back to the city." Besides, I want to train his courage so you don't have to worry about him. ”

Song Wushuang followed the example of the eldest brother, holding a piece of gold paper and folding it back and forth, he asked the eldest sister with a smile, "We chatted just now, listen to the meaning of your words, our Xia Sanxiang is a clan village, what is the surname in the village?" ”

"Ninety percent of the village is surnamed Chen."

"I see, I thought the surname was Xia." She continued to chat with a smile, "Is there any other surname?" ”

The eldest sister thought for a while, "There are two families surnamed Zhang, two families surnamed Chen, and one family surnamed Wang." ”

"Since it's a clan village, how did these foreign surnames come to Xia Sanxiang?"

"There was a famine more than ten years ago, and these people fled here. Although our village is remote, it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and as long as you work hard, you can still eat. At that time, the patriarch also felt that the children in the village could not marry close relatives, and if a few people with foreign surnames came here, it would be a good thing for several surnames to marry, so he took them in. ”

"The patriarch is really well-informed, and my teacher said that most of the offspring born from intermarriage and blood origin are not high, and they are even born with disabilities." Song Wushuang looked at the folded gold ingots in his hand, nodded with satisfaction, threw them away, and threw the ingots into the stacked pile.

The eldest sister was surprised, "So there is such a thing?" ”

"That's right." She picked up a piece of gold paper and folded it back and forth, "The old Wang family at the head of our village, that eldest daughter is very beautiful." ”

"Yes, it's good to be born, I heard that I worked in the city for a while, got the favor of nobles, and made a lot of money back. This girl really gave the old Wang family face. The eldest sister said with a smile on her face. How do you know about Lao Wang's family? ”

At this time, the little brother came back with a tea bowl, he looked at Song Wushuang and nodded, and said respectfully, "Manager Song, the tea is already cold." ”

Song Wushuang took the tea and handed it to the eldest sister with a smile, "Eldest sister, you have worked hard, you drink first." ”

"No, no, I don't like to drink cold, I like to drink hot."

"Then I'll pour you a hot cup of tea." As she spoke, she poured a cup of hot tea with a kettle and served it with both hands.

The eldest sister reluctantly took the tea bowl, but she didn't drink it for a long time.

"Eldest sister, why don't you drink it?"

"That big girl, I'm not thirsty, let's drink it, you have been frozen all night, you should drink something hot, don't drink it cold, your stomach hurts." The eldest sister said a lot of reasons far-fetchedly, and finally pushed the tea bowl in front of Song Wushuang.

Song Wushuang sneered, "I'm afraid the eldest sister won't dare to drink it, it's difficult, what good things are added to this tea?" She picked up the bowl and slammed it on the ground.

Since she had torn her face, the eldest sister no longer hid it, her eyes suddenly became sharp, she suddenly turned around, pulled out a long knife from under the table, and stabbed at Song Wushuang.