Chapter 2308 (2 updates

People say, "If you know how to cry in mourning, you will cry until all the guests are heartbroken. If you don't know how to cry in mourning, you will only hear howling.") Crying in mourning is also an art. If you know how to cry, you will know how to cry. It can make thousands of people feel sad. If you don’t cry, you just cry in vain.

With the development of the times, due to the living environment of people in big cities and the narrow houses, it is impossible to hold funerals at home. They are sent to funeral parlors, some even hold a farewell ceremony for relatives, and some even skip the farewell ceremony and are directly cremated.

Funerals in big cities have no sense of ceremony and do not reflect the reverence for life and death. Feeling.

Most of the elderly in rural areas do not like to go to cities, especially places where they have been buried. If they do not have to go to the city, the elderly will definitely not go to the big city. They pay attention to the burial ceremony. An, but also pays more attention to "the main room of the old house".

The "main sleep" of the end of life does not refer to the bedroom, but refers to the main room of the old house, that is, the main room.

The main room and the main room There are differences in the living rooms now. The living room in modern buildings can be on one side or on the central axis of the house. The main room must be on the central axis of a house and is the frontmost part, that is, the main door must be opened on the central axis. That big house.

In the old tradition, when a person dies, the coffin must be placed in the main room. According to the sitting direction of the house, men are on the left and women are on the right. The male coffin is placed on the left and the female coffin is on the right. If It is a house facing north and south, meaning that men are in the east and women are in the west.

In the traditional consciousness of the elderly, if a person dies in his own home and can stop in the main room, he will die in good condition, just like the rural custom of dying outside. If a person cannot be transported home to be put down, then it is not called the end of life.

Therefore, what the elderly in rural areas look forward to most is to die at home, so that they can take care of posthumous affairs at home. If the elderly at home die, If an elderly person is seriously ill and may not survive, the family will transport the elderly person home as soon as possible.

If the elderly person is transported home to die, knowing that there is no hope of rescuing him, his relatives will not say that his children are unfilial. Others won't say anything. After all, the customs are there. Everyone wants to close their eyes at home. They hope to have descendants to mourn for them at the end of their lives. They don't want to be a lonely ghost who died outside.

It is a traditional custom to stay in the main hall, and it is also a traditional custom to hold a wake and cry in mourning.

When an old man in the countryside passes away, if the children in the family do not cry in mourning, they will definitely be stabbed in the spine and cast aside, even if they cannot cry. You have to howl for a while.

Therefore, when some old people are unkind and treat their children badly, and their children are heartbroken and cannot cry anymore, they have no choice but to use chili water or cool oil or large amounts of cold water. Applying garlic paste around the eyes stimulates the spring glands and makes the eyes shed tears.

Of course, if an old man who is unkind and unkind and makes his children cold-hearted dies, his children will not be able to cry, and so will the eyes of the people. Sharp, noThey will be harsh on them. After all, tradition says that fathers are kind and sons are filial. If parents are not kind, how can they make their children willing to be filial?

Aunt Lejia died young, and even her brother has never seen her. Now that she can go home and stay, it is the greatest respect that Yueqing and the Lejia girls have for her. If the Lejia family has no When people cry in mourning, no one in the village will poke their backs.

However, everyone did not expect that the Lejia girl cried, and she cried truly.

When other people cry in mourning, some are real and some are fake. Only a few people feel sad from the heart. Not only do they cry heartbrokenly, but they also make onlookers feel the same.

When the girl from the Le family cried in mourning, she burst into tears. She expressed her love and curses at the same time. Every word she said in her cry was so clear that people could hear her clearly.

She held the coffin there and cried bitterly. When she cried so sadly, everyone who heard it felt sad and shed tears and sighed sadly. When she cursed, the crowd was outraged. When it was said that a grandma lost her daughter, it was like a mother bird losing its young. She wailed day and night, and her cries were like a cuckoo crying for blood, and her voice was like tears. Grandma Zhou, Grandma Zhou Man, and other villagers of the older generation felt the most sympathetic feelings and also cried into tears.

The women of the older generation were familiar with Chen Hongying, but now things have changed, their hearts are sad, and their tears are uncontrollable.

When some middle-aged women hear sadness, they think of their parents or children, and they also express their feelings and cry with them.

Not to mention the elderly women in Plum Village, most of the men in Plum Village were also heartbroken. When Lehong Chen Hongying lost her daughter, she almost went crazy. In just a few days, she lost shape and lost shape. It was shocking to see.

Zhou Qiufeng cried while trying to persuade her elders, and Sister-in-law Zhao and others also tried to persuade them with tears in their eyes.

When the girl from the Le family cried and complained that her relatives from her uncle's house had come back to see her aunt off, Chen Xin and Chen Jie and his wife threw themselves in front of the coffin and called "cousin", shouting that they were suffering. My cousin told me the truth about how my uncle’s relatives had not been seen for a long time, and cried that they had lost contact with their relatives in their hometown because they had gone to other places and were obstructed by villains. I didn’t know the pain that my aunt, cousin, and cousin had suffered.

The Chen brothers are not very good at crying, but their daughters-in-law can. The girls from Xiangnan Province are very eloquent and can speak well. They are also girls from ethnic minorities. The customs of funerals and weddings are similar to those in Jiudao.

Le Ya’s uncle’s family members started to cry, and Zhou Qiufeng went over to persuade her. They cried while trying to persuade her, and then everyone cried together about their cousin/sister’s misfortune, and scolded the villain for causing trouble and harming others.

There was crying for a while, and the women from the Zhou family also went over to cry with her.

Others hurriedly tried to persuade them, seeing that the mournful cries over there had formed a resonance and would not stop for a while. Cheng Wu pushed his arms through his arms and beat the drums so densely that the sound was as loud as raindrops.

When the sound of the drum subsided, Zhang Laosan began to sing.

Zhang Laosan’s first song was a plea for family affection in an elegant tone, saying that he was deeply nurturing by his parents. He originally wanted to grow up and succeed in order to repay his parents’ kindness, but luck did not change. , encountered a villain at a young age, lost his soul in a foreign land, and has had white hair and black hair ever since. The parents longed for their children in their dreams, the children missed their relatives together in the underworld, the parents cried heartbroken for their daughters, and the children shed tears for their parents.

Zhang Laosan sang in the local dialect, with rhyme and rhythm, which made the listeners cry and the listeners sad.

The singer sang, and Sister-in-law Zhao and others helped the old people such as Lejia girl and Grandma Zhou to sit aside, and brought wet towels to wipe their faces.

Leshan wiped her sister’s tears with her little hands, and there were two tears in her eyes.

When Zhang Laosan sang to an emotional point, Grandma Zhou, Grandma Zhou Man, Aunt Pa, Grandma Zhang San and others burst into tears again, and they combined one or two sentences together while crying.

Zhou Qiufeng, Zhou Wei, Sister-in-law Zhao and others tried to persuade the old man, but they cried again and again.

Grandpa Zhang San’s first song almost made all the women present cry. Le Yun felt moved in her heart, hugged her brother and went over, kowtowed three times, and then gave the drummer and the Several masters kowtowed to the masters and gave a big salute to the singer sitting on the floor.

The Chen family has been kowtowing to their cousins ​​for four years, and they followed their example, kowtowing to the teacher’s team and the singers.

The Zhou brothers and sisters, Chen Xiaozhu and Chen Xiaohe also went to kowtow to express their thanks.

It’s not strange to be polite to many people, especially when doing white things. No matter what the matter is, kowtow is the right thing to do. If you do something wrong and make the other party unhappy, kowtow a few times to ensure that the other party is guaranteed. The anger is gone;

If you want to show your gratitude, you don’t have to say much, just kowtow, people will understand.

Le Yun, who was born and raised in Plum Village, understands the mystery, so she doesn’t say anything and just kowtows!

She kowtows willingly, without hesitation, hard and sincerely, and every time she kowtows to the end, her forehead touches the ground.

No one inside or outside the hall was unmoved.

The girl from the Le family has a noble status and is a wealthy person that ordinary people can't dream of. She still abides by the customs and rules of her hometown when she returns to her hometown. She kowtows without any ambiguity and kowtows truly. A real ringer.

With her sincerity, who can sing without heart?

The singer was flattered, moved and politely helped the Le family sisters and a group of little cubs up one by one, telling them not to be polite.

The singer said there was no need to be polite, but Le Yun was not careless at all. She went around in a circle and kowtowed to everyone, hugging her younger brother and sitting with a group of followers while Grandpa Zhang San finished singing. A song, I hugged my brother and sang to him againA head.

Zhang Laosan sang the first song, followed by the second one, expressing her sorrow in the tone of Lejia’s grandma. Although it was not as touching as Zhang Laosan’s song, it was still sad to hear.

Le Yun hugged her younger brother and went to kowtow again. The Chen family has been meticulous for four years. When her cousin/cousin kowtowed, they kowtowed.

The people in the hall sang four songs. To sing, the village's big drum paused, a team of teachers played music, and the singers began to sing.

No matter who is singing, after every song, Le Yun holds her brother and kowtows to thank her. Whenever someone offers incense to her aunt, she gives a thank you gift.

Each singer sang a song. It was almost eleven o'clock. Village Chief Zhou set off a string of firecrackers and announced that the mourning was suspended. The person in charge of the hall carried out dozens of large knitted woven fabrics from the warehouse. bag and distribute snacks to those sitting with you.

Children are willing to wait just for snacks.

The host gave out snacks, and the children were the happiest. They all found a place to sit and prepared bags with snacks. They were truly prepared.

Classmate Le invited the handsome man Lan San to go shopping in the county town. The amount of snacks collected was considerable. She originally expected that if she didn’t finish the snacks in the evening, she would pack the rest and give one to each family of the people who helped with the work. snack.

Due to sufficient preparation, even if there are nearly a thousand people, each snack is enough. Some snacks with slightly smaller portions will be distributed in smaller quantities per person, such as a kind of wife cake. If there are few people, one person can get two or three. If there are many people, one can be divided into one.

Chili strips, hot dogs, and Lux ​​bars that children love to eat are all available.

When the children got their favorite spicy strips, eight out of ten would tear off the seal and gnaw on one immediately. The ones that were so spicy they still couldn't put it down and ate them with gusto.

The handyman Lan San is like a brick. He carries it wherever it is needed. He also helps distribute snacks. He originally didn’t understand why he had to purchase so many snacks until the men and women who didn’t come to Lejia to eat after the meal. Old and young people also came, and at first glance they were all covered in black heads, and I had to sigh with emotion at the foresight of the little Loli.

Also because Lan San and Mr. Li cleared out the ready-to-eat snack stocks in two supermarkets, and also swept out the stocks of several store assistants. The amount of snacks was amazing, and it took two hours to get the snacks. .

There are many types and quantities of snacks. Everyone got a big bag of food, four bottles/box of bottled milk and small bottled milk, two cans of eight-treasure porridge, and four packs of instant noodles. , bags of plums, ready-to-eat dried fish, etc., as well as hot dogs, the bags are heavy on the hand.

After the snacks were distributed, the children who had gone to Lejia to play were exhausted from their excitement and went home in groups.

Most childrenParents and children are together. When the cubs are going home, the adults will naturally go home too.

So, waves of men, women, old and young, each holding a snack bag, left Lejia one after another, and the crowd dispersed like a tide.

Villagers from several neighboring villages further away also left in groups.

Before they went home, they sent a representative to talk to Village Chief Zhou, saying that they would have to come later to see Leya up the mountain tomorrow, or that they might not be able to see Leya off if something happened tomorrow.

It means that if you don’t come to Lejia for breakfast tomorrow/or you won’t come tomorrow, don’t include them, otherwise the kitchen person will include them when making the budget and make extra food. There are many tables for breakfast/lunch, which is both tiring and expensive.

Village Chief Zhou wrote down the villages one by one that would not come to Lejia for dinner tomorrow morning.

Representatives from the township hospital and school also said goodbye to Village Chief Zhou when the villagers had dispersed. They also specifically said that due to work reasons, they probably would not be able to send Leya up the mountain tomorrow. apologize.

Village Chief Zhou thanked him and made a memo.

As the villagers dispersed, there were only a limited number of people staying at Lejia to stay up late. Tables were set up in the kitchen for midnight dinner. When the diners sat down, there were a total of twenty-eight tables. Some of them were Because they had to sell livestock, they waited for Liu Lu and others to go to their house to kill the pigs, and also stayed to eat.

The guests who had eaten in the middle of the night, the women helped clear the tables. There were young and middle-aged people from several houses who knew that Brother Zhou, Liu Lu and others were going to kill pigs and buy chickens and geese. Those who had cars would drive them. Or come and help.

Village Chief Zhou noted down the names of people who were willing to help. People who are willing to help are kind-hearted people, and the host cannot neglect them. After finishing the work, they must give a thank-you gift.

The people who went shopping in the starry night set off. The women washed the dishes and sorted out the uneaten dishes. When they were done, some people went home to relax for a while, and some stayed to have fun. Family members hold a wake.

Generally speaking, teachers don’t stay up late, but the teachers who came to Lejia didn’t even go to rest. They all stayed with their master’s family to keep vigil.

There were many singers accompanying the host’s family at the vigil, and five tables were seated. After eating and resting for nearly an hour, Cheng Wu beat the drum, and the singers started singing filial songs. Nightclub.

They will take over the rest of the night, which means they will sing songs in the middle of the night to prevent the mourning hall from being left alone.

Leshan was still growing, so it was not advisable to stay up late. Leyun tapped her brother's sleeping point, hugged her brother, and took her cousins ​​to kowtow to the singers, and then kowtow to the singers. The younger brother asked Mr. Yi to take him to the south third floor to sleep.

The four little brothers of the Chen family, including Chen Xiaozhu, Chen Xiaohe, Zhou Tianhong, Zhou Tianlan, and Cao Qingyue, also refused to go to bed and followed them the whole time.

Cao Bingyue was still a child, and Le Yun also clicked on her sleeping spot, and Cao Qingyue sent her to sleep at Grandma Zhou's house. Grandma Cao, Grandma Zhang San and other elderly people were all staying at Le's house to stay up all night.

Yi Laoyan naturally didn’t go to bed and was chatting with his masters in the main room of the North Tower of Lejia.

Le Yun went to the temporary large kitchen in the backyard and the kitchen in the south building and took a look. She took the tools and dismantled the window of the refrigerator room in the north building facing the backyard. She climbed into the refrigerator room and moved thirty boxes of ingredients. Put it in the south building kitchen for later use.

She was moving things. Zhou Qiufeng and her cousins ​​​​were packing some things in the warehouse. Le’s father and cousins ​​were guarding the mourning hall. Which singer sang a song, and the three of them went Kowtow in thanks.