Backyard.

Yi Zhonghai was taking a few young men in the yard to build a funeral shed.

The eighth-level fitter did this, and he was really able to catch it, and a few wooden stakes were firmly rooted.

"Hand me the short one."

Yi Zhonghai stood on the stool and said vaguely, Chen Jingnian stepped forward and picked up a prescription and handed it over.

"Uncle Yi."

Chen Jingnian answered, stood next to him and asked, "Do you think there is anything I need to do?" ”

Yi Zhonghai breathed a sigh of relief, took the last nail from his mouth, and said, "Axe, your arm is injured." Just clear the clutter next to it, people come and go in the way. ”

"Cheng, I'll put it together and put it under the windows of each house."

Chen Jingnian put on his gloves and began to pour out the wooden stools, baskets, bricks and other miscellaneous items.

"Lao Yi, Lao Yi, I want to write a couplet, you let an aunt make some pulp."

The third master, Yan Bugui, ran over from the front yard and said tentatively.

"Cheng, you write it, I'll let my daughter-in-law get it."

Yi Zhonghai crossed a No. 4 iron wire in the upper right corner of the mourning shed and tightened it with pliers.

"Come on, I'm going, this wax paper has to go to Lao Jiang's house to ask for ......"

Yan Bugui walked away in a hurry, muttering everything that could be used to write the elegiac couplet, and even the brush had thought of the source.

"The third master is really picky, there is such a thing, I was embarrassed to ask the first uncle just now, if you write an elegiac couplet, can the pen be worth the money."

A young man from the East Cross Courtyard took a sip, causing the others to also crusade against Yan Bugui in unison.

"The last time I took care of the broom borrowed from our family, when I sent it back, the broom was stunned for a while, and within a few days, I saw Yan Bugui fishing with a fishing rod made of bamboo.

"It's the same at school, I heard my second girl say that there was a bench in the class that was broken, and Yan Bugui asked the students to bring nails, one person with two, and a class of forty or fifty people, so how many nails do you need, just repair a bench."

So he evaluates his job title every year, but he can't do it every year. At such an age, I can't even be a director at school, and I feel how great I am when I am the head of mathematics. ”

"That's it, seeing how old he is, he has become a third master, but how can he look like an uncle."

After a young man who was holding a stool for Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, he looked up and saw Yi Zhonghai looking at him, and hurriedly explained: "Uncle Yi, I didn't mean you, you are the real master in my mind." ”

"It's not okay to say that no one is okay, don't talk about other people's strengths and weaknesses behind other people's backs, live your own life, it's better than anything."

Yi Zhonghai jumped off the stool, clapped his hands, and asked people to bring the white cloth and hang it on the shed.

"Uncle Yi, I'll go fetch some water and dust the yard, and there will be so much ash in a while."

Chen Jingnian poured the dust in the pinch into a basket of soil with linen cloth at the bottom.

"Go ahead, wait a while when all the people are over, everyone will discuss and arrange the night duty for the past few days."

Yi Zhonghai picked up pliers and lifted a nail from a wooden square.

"Uncle Yi, I'm on the first day of the queue."

Chen Jingnian had just walked a few steps, and when he heard this, he stopped again, turned around and said, "I just came, unlike everyone who has been tired in the unit for a day, and they have been busy for so long when they come back." ”

"That's good, the axe is on duty tonight, who else wants to be on duty tonight?"

Yi Zhonghai shouted twice, and three young people answered.

Chen Jingnian carried two buckets of water and sprinkled the front and back yards.

Before dark, a willow coffin containing Jia Dongxu was sent back by a board car, and Jia Zhang and the stick terrier followed behind the board car.

When the coffin entered the courtyard, the courtyard exploded all of a sudden, and Jia Zhang's voice howled.

After placing the coffin in the mourning shed, Qin Huairu ran out of the back cover room with his stomach up, draped in linen cloth and pear blossoms. Stumbling into the mourning shed, he lay on the coffin and wailed.

The aunt and others who followed behind could only stand aside and persuade in a low voice, at this time, except for the family members, others could only stand aside and watch.

The stick stalk of linen and filial piety kneels in front of a clay basin, burning yellow paper.

Wait for the first aunt and the second aunt, the aunts and aunts in the courtyard, and help Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu who were crying and fainting.

Uncle Yi and Liu Haizhong, who are older in the world, walked around the mourning shed, and when they stood still in front of the mourning shed, someone called the stick terrier to kowtow to the elders who saluted.

The next batch is He Yuzhu, Xu Damao, Liu Guangtian and Chen Jingnian, who are the same generation as Jia Dongxu, bowed and saluted, and kowtowed.

People in the alley rushed over one after another, tossing and turning until midnight.

When the others dispersed, Chen Jingnian and five or six young men sat on the stool and chatted, and Yi Zhonghai sent a large pot of boiling water and a lot of melon seeds.

Then, Yi Zhonghai asked He Yushui to go to the deaf old lady's house in the back room, and asked Jia Zhang's family to make a list of his old family, and send someone to Dongyingzi, Jia's hometown, tomorrow to deliver the letter.

Regarding Jia Dongxu's funeral, under the control of the old man in the courtyard, everything was going on in an orderly manner.

These old people's lives have been in exile, wars, famines, and too many lives and deaths.

Chen Jingnian stayed for half the night, and when the sky was bright, the old people in the courtyard got up, went to the backyard, and sent them away for the night.

Chen Jingnian returned home and washed it, shaved his slow-growing beard with a lancet, and regained his little white face in an instant.

made a mouthful of rice, and after Li Xianwen got up, he went to the main room with cabbage soup and dumplings.

"Get out of the way."

Li Xianwen held the bowl, glanced at Chen Jingnian twice, and asked worriedly.

"It's okay, when I get to class, I'll find a place to squint for a while."

Chen Jingnian deliberately sped up the speed of eating, as if he was hungry.

"Now look, it's right not to go to the workshop, you! Wilt idea. ”

Li Xianwen sandwiched some pickles for Chen Jingnian and watched him finish it alive.

After Li Xianwen finished eating, Chen Jingnian cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and locked the doors of the main room and the east wing after Li Xianwen went out.

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Li Mancang walked around twice a little irritably, turned around and said: "How about Nannan, I'm not scared, if your aunt talked about this last night, I forgot about it, or I will take over and stay for a few days." ”

"I've heard about it, you were busy with Secretary Chang yesterday, and I sent my godmother to my godmother last night, which is good."

Chen Jingnian looked at Li Mancang's beard and didn't shave it, with a green beard on his face, and said with a smile.

"You are still reliable, I only went home in the middle of the night last night, and today I have to go to your hospital with Secretary Chang and Director Li, hey! This Jia Dongxu rests a lot, how good it is! ”

Li Mancang wiped his beard stubble, thought about it, took out a small box from the drawer, and said, "Pour some hot water for Uncle Six, you don't have to run a few places today!" ”

Chen Jingnian went to pick up a small half basin of water, and poured some hot water into the basin.

Li Mancang assembled the razor in the small box, put some soap bubbles on his face, and grinned and shaved his beard.

After Li Mancang finished shaving his beard, Chen Jingnian changed the water and returned to the screening group.