I have been locked up in the village for several months, and I don't know how to get through this day every morning, and I don't even play with the big yellow dog raised by Uncle Zhou. So when I heard the quarrel, I didn't even think about why I was arguing at the funeral, but thought that there was finally another excitement to watch.

It's a bit morbid, I must admit it, but I can't help it, after a sudden change of life, it is inevitable that people will be very uncomfortable, and this discomfort will cause me to start to miss my past life like crazy, and even some bad habits that I knew were shortcomings before will burst out mercilessly at this moment.

When I approached the mourning hall, I found that most of the people were gathered around to watch the excitement, and only a few people were fighting. Uncle Zhou was one of the people who watched the excitement, and the two sides of the quarrel were Old Man Wang's third daughter and eldest son.

There is a saying among the Chinese that the ugliness of the family should not be publicized. So the family quarrels and fights, most of the time behind closed doors. But at the moment, he was arguing in front of so many outsiders, and his words were extremely ugly, plus it was at his father's funeral, which was very undeserved in any case. So I pulled Uncle Zhou's sleeve and asked him what happened.

Uncle Zhou said that the boss accused the third child, since he got married, he ignored the family, and he didn't often go home to see it when he was so close, and now that her father died, she suddenly appeared, and she looked like her filial child. The eldest said over and over again, the third child felt that she was a daughter, and after she got married, she naturally focused on her husband's family, and after she arrived in the city, she also worked in the factory with the help of her husband's family, and often sent money to her home, but she was too busy at work, and she had to take care of her husband and children, so she really didn't have much time to come back to take care of her old father.

I whispered to Uncle Zhou, these two people are quite reasonable, the eldest and the second are sons, are they both staying in the village? Uncle Zhou said yes, this old king has married two women in his life, and the eldest is the child born to the original match, and he is much older. The eldest died when he was about ten years old, and Lao Wang married a widow from a neighboring village, and the widow did not have a child when she married, and she was pregnant with the second child the next year, and the eldest and the second were twelve years old, and the second and third were three years apart.

Uncle Zhou said, our village is small and poor, if a man does not study, if he is not a soldier, it will be difficult to get out of this village, let alone how much he has a chance. So when the eldest became an adult, he married a wife and had children, and built a new house next to his father's old house, just to not go far and take care of his father nearby. This old adult also married a girl from the village, but he didn't live with his father, but rebuilt a house on the old foundation of his daughter-in-law's house on the back mountain, but it was not far away, and he often came to see his father, but this third child, because it was a daughter, Lao Wang and his two brothers loved her very much since she was a child, and her two sons never went to school, but this daughter was sent to study.

Uncle Zhou said that at that time, people in the village said that he was in the countryside, and his daughters were raised for others, what kind of school did you let her go to, she could cook and laundry, and she could know money and settle accounts, wouldn't it? But Lao Wang didn't listen, and insisted on sending the third child to study. The third child is also competitive and smart, and he was admitted to the girls' middle school in the city, and he went to the city to study since he was in middle school. Living in the city is different from our countryside, where you have to spend money everywhere, and before you are liberated, these young boys and girls will follow to engage in some progressive activities, for this matter, Lao Wang is very worried about his daughter's loss, so he let his daughter go back to the countryside for two years.

I glanced at the eldest and the third who were arguing, although there was a second child in the middle of the fight, but the situation was still quite hot, the eldest was about fifty years old, and his mouth was obviously at a loss, while the third was getting more and more noisy. So I asked Uncle Zhou, didn't you say that the brothers and sisters have a good relationship? I don't think it's very good. Uncle Zhou said, what do you know, after the liberation, the third child proposed to go back to continue to complete his studies, and then go home after high school, at that time Lao Wang was already quite old, and the heavier farm work was basically not done, but fortunately, the boss was still waiting nearby, so the boss helped his father farm to earn money, and part of the money earned was given to his sister as tuition. So in this matter, the boss still understands the importance of culture.

I said according to what you said, the boss can be regarded as loving his sister very much, but did the relationship deteriorate later? You see, it's arguing like a class enemy right now. Uncle Zhou said, didn't it just go wrong later? After the third child went to the city to study again, he didn't come back for many years, and the people in the village asked about Lao Wang, and he couldn't say it clearly, until one day the eldest was drunk at home, so he said about it, saying that his sister had no conscience, and the family was not against her going to live in the city, but she often went home to take a look, and wasn't it hundreds of miles away, and it was so difficult to go home once? And after my sister finished school, she fell in love with an intellectual in the city, and even got married and had children without telling her family, if it wasn't for the year she came home with her children, the family didn't know that she had already formed a family.

I said that this is what the third child is doing wrong, you said that even if it is inconvenient for people to come back often, she is a person who has gone to school, just take some time to write a letter to the family, this marriage is a happy event, why hide it from the family? Uncle Zhou squinted his eyes and frowned and said to me, child, you are still young, there are some things you may not understand, once a person lives a good life, where do you remember your parents' family, you are right, marriage is a happy event, but you let your husband's family know that your mother's family is from the eighth generation of poor peasants, can this still be regarded as a happy event?

I stopped talking, and in those days, even though most people were poor, they still had to think about the right people. Uncle Zhou continued, this old atmosphere is nothing else, or my sister feels that her mother's family is ashamed, and she didn't even notify her of getting married. I nodded, that's reasonable, then what kind of trouble is this going on today, I think this old three years old is not too young, and that little thing should have passed for many years, why is it that the old thing in this mourning hall is it mentioned again today? Uncle Zhou shook his head and said, That's not it, everyone was deliberately not mentioning this matter, as long as no one lit the fire, they would be confused. But the third child came back to the funeral this time, and brought his own child with him, it is said, don't look at this child is ten years old, but it is the first time to go back to his mother's mother's house, the first time to see his two uncles, and his grandfather who has never seen a living person.

Uncle Zhou went on to say that the eldest had an opinion on the third child's approach, and although the second child also had an opinion, after all, he was born by a parent, and it was not easy to be a person if he was caught in the middle, so he could not say it. But today, the third child is at the age of naughty mischief, wandering around the mourning hall and knocking down the wreath tied by the boss, and without paying attention, it fell to the edge of the brazier, and the fire burned out.

I turned my head to look inside the mourning hall, on the edge of the iron basin used to burn paper money, there was a large pile of burned ashes, and there were two bamboo poles in the middle. Uncle Zhou told me that in our place, the wreath will only be burned at the grave after the deceased is buried and sealed, and this person has just died less than a day, and the wreath of the eldest son will be burned by making trouble, which is a very unlucky thing.

I asked Uncle Zhou why he was unlucky, is that the rules here are like this? Uncle Zhou said yes, each place has its own rules, although it is much the same, but this kind of in our village, it is the same as cursing people to die, do you think this boss can not be angry? So I scolded the child, and then the third child stopped doing it, no, it was like that.

In my opinion, in fact, it is not a big deal, customs are customs, and what is auspicious or unlucky is all a matter for the living. So the boss and the third just kept having a problem with each other, and the boss found a reason to play it out on the topic. Uncle Zhou sighed and said, this person who has settled in the city is different from our countrymen, we have dead people here, who is not lively and lively for three days and two nights, he is an unknown person before his death, and the last stop in this life, he has to be beautiful and beautiful. But this third man, he didn't agree to ask the master to do the dojo, saying that it was feudal superstition and ignorance, no, you see that this old man Wang was very popular during his lifetime, but now he is dead, and he is even more deserted.

I snorted and said, she said in a sentence or two that this was feudal superstition, and she knew a ball. According to what Uncle Zhou said, the third child should have arrived in the village before Old Man Wang died, and was helping to prepare for the future, otherwise if she only came today, she would not have been able to stop the eldest and second child from asking the Taoist priest to do something.

The boss is yelling, the second is pulling, the third is chattering, the children are crying, and most of the people around are watching, this is actually the reality, maybe I bumped into it today, in a place I can't see or don't know, such similar things, isn't it happening every day.

According to what Master taught me, after a person dies, it is not necessary to do things, and it is supported by the Dharma, just so that the soul of the deceased can walk with more peace of mind. Many people come from poor families, and they don't necessarily have to do things, and their homes don't have to be haunted or other unpeaceful things. It's just because of professional habits that I can almost judge that at this moment, in a corner that we can't see with the naked eye, Old Man Wang's new dead soul must be watching his children and grandchildren mess around so much in front of their own spirits.

If this continues, Old Man Wang will not feel at ease. I thought to myself.