Chapter 2309 (3 updates

Taking advantage of the lack of people at night, she moved the ingredients for tomorrow’s noon to the south building. Leyun reinstalled the windows, closed them, and returned to the mourning hall to keep watch. Every time the singer sings a song, he kowtows.

The singer is treated very well at Lejia. Each table has a pack of cigarettes to smoke, and there are also fruits, drinks, and dried fruits. If you don’t sing, We drink tea and crack melon seeds from time to time, and eat fruits and drinks when we are thirsty.

Everyone is very kind and does not compete or take credit. Everyone sings one by one. If you want to take a break, just Let others sing first.

The other people who stay up late with the master are also treated well. The Le family has set up a table next to it, filled with fruits and nuts, hot tea, and cigarettes. Anyone can eat what they want. Go get it, and every other hour, there will be an errand boy carrying a candy tray to deliver candies to people.

The singer sang until four in the morning, Le Yun held a big saucer with red envelopes, Scatter red envelopes.

Red envelopes do not matter the amount of money. They just represent the host’s gratitude and are more symbolic. Generally, a pack of cigarettes costs five or six yuan, or ten or twenty yuan. Okay.

If you have a lot of money, you can pack more, depending on the owner’s wishes.

In order not to set an example of Jiudao giving red envelopes to compare, Leyun also followed the old rules The red envelope is 36 yuan per red envelope, neither too much nor too little.

The singer himself does not go to the host’s red envelope, he doesn’t care about the number of red envelopes, he only cares about whether there are any. , Yes, it means that the host family observes etiquette and respects the singer. There is no red envelope, which means that the host family despises singing. If a relative in his family passes away next time, they will have to kowtow before they can sing. If they don't go, they will not come again. < br />
The Lejia girl holds a tray with red envelopes, goes to where the singer is sitting, kowtows to a person and hands over the red envelope.

The Lejia respects the singer, and the singer Also respecting the master, the Lejia girls came to kowtow and stood up. They helped the Lejia girls up first and then took a red envelope from the tray.

The singers got red envelopes, and the masters who played the music also received red envelopes. A red envelope has the same meaning. If the masters don’t stay up late to play music for the singers, the red envelope will naturally not belong to them.

The host is kind, and the singers are also very energetic. , no one is cheating, singing loudly without squeezing their voice, either praising the master, praising the deceased and wishing her early bliss, or scolding the guys who harmed others, no one is using guns and sticks to criticize musicians.

The host is not kind, and the singer will also sing and curse others. Even if he scolds the host or relatives and friends, the host will have to suffer.

There are many examples like this. It is also common in Jiudao Township.

The Le family always operates according to the old rules., the Lejia girl kowtowed so many times, and the singer's heart was bright. How could he not try his best, let alone be incompetent.

If anyone dares to scold his host with a gun and a stick, other people will not scold him to death on the spot. Behind his back, he will be included in the list of unscrupulous people and will not go with him in the future to avoid being punished. People poke the spine and ruin the reputation of the singer.

2023 is a leap second month, that is, there are two Februarys in the lunar calendar. The beginning of April in the new calendar is the middle of leap second, which is equivalent to the middle of March in the lunar calendar.

In this season, the dawn is getting earlier and earlier, and Jiudao gets bright at about six o'clock.

At dawn, we have to do a dojo.

The dojo in the morning is relatively simple. It is to move the big drum placed in the middle hall out of the house, send it to a certain place and throw it on the roadside. In rural areas, it is also called "inverted drum". If the drum is not inverted, it represents the village. People have been dying recently, so that step is necessary.

When it was just five o'clock, Le Yun held a saucer containing things purchased according to the rules of Hongcun and presented it to Grandpa Cheng Wu.

The people in charge of playing funeral drums in rural areas are experienced old people. They know the meaning of something when they see it. When the little boy came with a saucer, Cheng Wu knew that he could play the drums.

When a singer finished his song, he beat the heavy drum repeatedly, and Zhang Laosan sang an upside-down drum song three times over and over again. Liu Lu’s father picked up the big drum and walked out.

The singers stopped singing. Everyone washed their faces, smoked, chatted and cracked melon seeds.

Le Yunle’s father, Zhou Qiufeng, and the Chen family brothers followed behind the drummers. They kowtowed if they needed to. The four little brothers of the Chen family, Chen Xiaozhu, Xiaohe, and the children of the Zhou family avoided them. Follow and do the dojo.

The masters played music.

The big drum was sent to the roadside in the west, and the dojo was completed according to the steps, and then returned to the Lejia hall.

After finishing the dojo, it was already half past five, and Zhou Qiufeng went to carry Leshan downstairs.

Le Yun took her elders and cousins ​​to the warehouse, took out bags containing things, and gave each of the singers and teachers a bag. The bag contained snacks, cigarettes and a A red envelope, a towel, and a piece of soap.

That gift was a gift for their hard work of singing all night, and it was also a thank you gift for the singer. The host family did not need to give another thank you gift after that, and the masters and masters also gave it to the deceased when they returned from the funeral. There is a thank you gift.

The singers and teachers had a bag of snacks before, and they got a big bag of stuff, and they had no place to put it.

Le Yun wrote each person’s name on tape and pasted it on their belongings, and asked them to put their belongings in her bedroom on the first floor and pick them up when they left at noon.

　After finishing that, it was dawn.

At the break of dawn, which is also the auspicious time for the deceased to be laid to rest, Zhou Cun and Cheng Wu, their old partners, moved away the wreaths, opened the coffin lid, and moved the coffin to the center of the hall for the enclosing ceremony. .

The teachers took turns playing music.

Because only the remains of Leya were left, it was originally not suitable for relatives to see them. Village chief Zhou and others knew in advance that Xiao Lele had made preparations in advance, and followed the rules to let the relatives of the Leya family see the remains of the deceased. .

Everyone opened the small coffin.

Le Yun made a head and face out of paper based on the black and white photos left by her aunt, and also put clothes on her aunt.

Village head Zhou Cheng Wu and others were the first to see Leya. When they saw the paper figurine in the coffin, they exclaimed: "Leya?!"

Looks like, too much. Got it!

Xiao Lele copied her Gu Leya’s face exactly the same. It was obviously made of paper, but it was as lifelike as a real person.

If they hadn’t known that Leya only had bones, they would have just assumed that Leya was sleeping in the coffin.

Le’s parents, Zhou Qiufeng and Chen Kang, swarmed up to the coffin and looked around. They saw a real-life cub lying in the small coffin, regardless of gender, howling and crying.

Chen Kang cried so hard that his heart broke. This is his nephew! He had never met his little nephew, and had no chance to call him "uncle". The uncle and nephew did not know each other before they were alive. When they met, they were separated by yin and yang, more than fifty years apart.

Her wife rushed over, and Zhou Wei also hurriedly stepped forward to help her while looking at her niece. When she saw her nephew's face that looked very similar to Xiao Lele, she couldn't help but feel sad. Come, cry loudly.

As soon as Chen Xin and Chen Jie and their respective wives took a look at their cousin, their parents burst into tears. They didn't care about their own grief and quickly supported their parents to prevent their elders' tears from falling into the coffin.

Ms. Li and Brother Zhou were also present and quickly pulled Yueqing Zhou Qiufeng away from the coffin. As for the consolation, it was superfluous and they did not persuade her.

Grandma Zhou, Grandma Zhou Man, Auntie Cao, Grandma Cao, Mrs. Wu, Mrs. Wu and Boss Wu also came forward to see Le Ya’s remains, and they all shed tears after seeing them.

After letting the relatives take a look, Village Chief Zhou and his old partners removed the small coffin and put it aside first. They placed plant ash, charcoal, and coins on the bottom of the large coffin, and spread a thin quilt on it. Then move the small coffin into the big coffin.

After that, the sun, moon, rooster, horse, etc. were pasted around the coffin. All the clothes and quilts that Leya wore when he was young were stuffed around the small coffin. Some clothes were placed in the coffin.

After completing that step, give Leya a small ball of rice dumplings in her hand and a small ball in each hand.Cut off the branches and stop the mouth.

To stop the mouth is to put half a copper coin or coin in the mouth of the deceased.

Stopping the mouth is not a local custom, but a custom passed down from ancient times. In ancient times, when a person from a wealthy family died, he had to stop the nine orifices, that is, for the mouth, eyes, nose, ears, mouth and lower body. Jade is clogged.

Poor people don’t have that much money, so when someone dies, they give something to put in their mouth.

If a copper coin is stuffed into the mouth of the deceased, it is said that the descendants will be mute or people with unclear speech, so the mouth is closed and only half a copper coin or coin is held in the mouth of the deceased.

After the silence, the coffin is sealed.

Before the coffin is sealed, relatives and friends take one last look at the deceased.

Le’s father, Zhou Qiufeng, was crying around the coffin. Le Yun was holding her younger brother and shedding tears. Le Shan was also in tears. Chen Kang was also in tears. Grandma Zhou and others persuaded Chen Kang to persuade Yue Qing. Advise the little boy.

After some persuasion, Cheng Wu and others covered Leya with quilts and then closed the lid of the small coffin.

As soon as the small coffin was closed, Dad Le burst into tears again.

Brother Zhou held Yueqing, and Grandma Zhouman also hugged Xiao Lele and Xiao Leshan to prevent them from rushing to the coffin, and asked Cheng Wu and others to quickly seal the coffin.

Cheng Wu and others lifted the coffin lid and pushed it from the feet of the coffin to the top of the head. Soon the coffin lid and the coffin body were closed, and then they took coffin nails and nailed them to the right hand of the deceased in the coffin. That side.

Initially, the coffin was not nailed, and relatives and friends would hammer it three times, and finally nail it to the end.

Le’s father Zhou Qiufeng and his two children were at the front of the queue, followed by Chen Kang’s family, Zhou Tianhong, Zhou Tianlan, Chen Dalian and Sister-in-law He with their children, and then the close neighbors lined up in a long queue. , go around the coffin in a clockwise direction to knock the nails.

When knocking the nails to seal the coffin, breathe into the small hammer first, then knock the nails, and call the deceased.

When relatives and friends had knocked the coffin nails, Cheng Wusan hammered down the coffin nails and drove them all the way to the bottom. Then he and his companions worked together to move the coffin to a place against the wall.

Relatives burned paper and cried.

Before the coffin is sealed, relatives crying for the deceased is called mourning. After the coffin is sealed, relatives crying again is called mourning.

Relatives and friends weep, and teachers and masters play mourning music.

After the relatives and friends started crying, the neighbors who were friendly with the Le family helped the relatives and friends of the Le family away and asked them to wash their faces.

After the coffin was sealed, most of the villagers who had stayed up all night went home first. Some sent back the snacks they got last night, and some went back to take care of the livestock or wash them.

The singer sang all night long,Brother Zhou, Chen Dalian and others were also busy all night long. They killed the pigs from the seller and processed them again. They also made braised pork, steamed pork, meatballs and so on.

We also killed the chickens and ducks for breakfast, steamed rice at four o'clock, and stewed meat at five o'clock.

During the burial, Brother Zhou and others who were close friends with the Le family took the time to look at the coffin for a while. After divining the coffin, they all took their places and were busy preparing breakfast.