Chapter 2310 Forgave Him

When it was nearly seven o’clock, the people in the kitchen prepared breakfast and set the table. Village Chief Zhou set off a string of thousands of firecrackers to urge those who wanted to come to eat to come quickly. .

Those from neighboring villages who wanted to have breakfast at Lejia arrived early. People who had not arrived from Meicun heard the sound of firecrackers and hurried to sit at Lejia.

There were fewer customers in the morning than last night, with a total of fifty-four tables.

Breakfast is relatively simple, just six dishes.

After dinner, all the tent tables and benches were removed from the floor in front of Lejia and on the side of the house, the place was cleaned, and benches were set up on the village road.

Afterwards, prepare to move the coffin out for binding.

There are a series of ceremonies before binding the coffin and the funeral. The filial sons kneel in front of the coffin, the masters play music, and Master Lei assumes the responsibility of presiding over the ceremony.

As Le Yun’s eldest daughter and her aunt’s only biological niece, she held a memorial tablet for her aunt and Leshan held a soul-guiding flag. The two siblings knelt at the front and followed Master Lei’s instructions. To act, when asked to bow, worship, to kneel, to kneel, to rise, to rise, to kowtow, to kowtow, to offer incense, to offer toasts, to shout out the souls of the deceased.

The coffin has been tied up, covered with a green cover made of cypress trees, and stands a crane made of paper.

That crane is called the "Yin Yang Bird", also called the soul-protecting bird.

In fact, a long time ago, what stood on the coffin was not a crane, but a rooster.

The rooster crows early, which is a bird that welcomes the sun. When the rooster crows, the night is ushered in light. The ancients believed that the rooster is a pure Yang bird that has the ability to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, so it can be used for funerals of the deceased. At that time, a paper rooster was placed on the coffin to drive away the negative energy of the deceased and lead the soul of the deceased to the underworld safely.

The rooster on the coffin leads the deceased from the Yang world to the underworld, and is called the Yin-Yang bird.

Due to the different skills of the people who tie the rooster, the tie is not necessarily very lifelike, and gradually it turns into a bird shape, and then it evolves into a crane shape.

The preparations were done and the sun emerged from the top of the mountain.

Before the funeral, there is a ceremony for relatives and friends to say goodbye to the deceased. A table is set up in front of the coffin with offerings, and relatives and friends take turns toasting to the deceased and saying goodbye.

The toast is first made by close relatives, then relatives or friends.

The farewell toasting ceremony is over and preparations are for the funeral.

After moving the altar table, Le Yun went to throw down the basin, and then knelt down on the road in front of the coffin while holding the memorial tablet.

The pallbearers are in place.

There are also particular requirements for coffin bearers. First of all, they must be married men, and they must also beIt is required that the horoscopes do not conflict with the deceased, and that the character must be good. If the person has bad moral character or has no moral integrity, if he suddenly stops working or curses while carrying the coffin, it is a bad omen.

Liu Lu, Zhang Poluo, several young people from the Zhou, Liu, and Zhang families, as well as two of Yang Dayantong’s sons were responsible for carrying the coffin. They helped in the kitchen and carried the coffin. It can be said that Go wherever you need.

Brother Zhou is incompatible with each other, and the Zhou family has a large family. Because Village Chief Zhou and Lehong are sworn brothers, they are Leya's adopted brothers and are very close, so they cannot carry the coffin.

Chen Big Face, along with Chen Kang, is considered a relative of Chen Hongying’s natal family and cannot carry the coffin.

Lan San is still single, so he has not been arranged to carry the coffin.

Before opening the coffin, Le Yun knelt three times and kowtowed nine times. Then Master Lei shouted "Sheng", and the coffin bearers lifted the coffin. When they heard the shouting "Step by step, step by step, rise higher", they took steps to carry the coffin. Walk.

Le Dad, Chen Xin and Chen Jie were walking backwards holding the coffin in front of the coffin head. Yi Laoyanlao, Chen Kang, Zhou Ge, Chen Dalian and Lan San were walking on both sides, also holding the coffin. The coffin is placed on the crossbar on the shoulders of the coffin bearers or on the shoulders of the coffin bearers.

Close relatives and friends do not carry the coffin, but support it.

Chen Kang held the coffin for his niece because he loved his nephew. Mr. Yi held the coffin for Leya because his little disciple was Leya’s nephew, and Mr. Yan held the coffin for Leya. The coffin is because the young heads of the Hua family and the Le family are close friends.

A funeral in the countryside is called a funeral. During the funeral, cannons and gongs and drums are sounded. Someone scatters paper money to guide the way. Children carry wreaths in front, and filial sons kneel and worship all the way up the mountain.

People from several villages far away from where we had eaten last night also came before and after binding the coffin. People in some villages did not know that Lejia was organizing funerals for Leya before. When they knew about it, they also heard about it. The news arrived.

Those who came after hearing the news also went to receive a gift.

The person in charge of the gift money calculated the statistics and found that there were twenty-three new tables. Village Chief Zhou was shocked when he heard that. He quickly notified the kitchen and arranged for people to rent tables, stools and bowls. Chopstick items.

Sister-in-law Zhao, Sister-in-law Liu and others sent Leya out of the village and hurried back to Leya’s home to start work, killing chickens and ducks, processing the offal of pigs and sheep, etc. They were very busy.

There were too few good people in Xiao Le Yun. Le Yun felt sorry for her brother and told Mr. Li in advance that she would ask Mr. Li to help her carry her brother away when the funeral was held.

Mr. Li did not go to hold the coffin. He waited until after the funeral and when the funeral procession passed the Zhou family, he immediately picked up the little junior brother and walked and knelt down on his behalf.

To see the deceased off, you can send them a short distance or up the mountain.

Those who saw off Leya, some elderly people or people with family affairs, saw her off and then turned around at the foot of the mountain. Some people saw her off.Arrive at the burial place.

Towards the end of March, Le’s father chose an auspicious day to dig a hole for the place Xiaomian had chosen for her aunt to live in. The surrounding areas of the big hole were shoveled smooth.

When the coffin went up the mountain, the filial sons also took off their mourning clothes and straw ropes.

The coffin bearers rested for a while, then removed the crossbars carrying the coffin, burned paper in the pit, killed the big rooster, and then several people pulled the ropes to move the coffin into the pit.

Before the burial, there is another ceremony: the loved ones enter the coffin and call the deceased several times to say their final farewells.

Because the girl from the Le family was the heir to the Le family and was also the younger generation of Le Ya, she took the soil dug out with the first hoe when digging the pit, placed it on the coffin, and shouted three times first, Then leave again.

The close relatives bid farewell to the deceased, cover the earth and build the tomb.

When building a tomb, you cannot build it all at once. You have to leave one step until you have lunch, then go up the mountain to build the tomb in the afternoon and add soil to the tomb.

There were many people helping to cover the earth, and a grave was soon piled up. The top of the grave was not sealed, and everyone went down the mountain and returned to Lejia.

The coffin bearers and Brother Zhou, Chen Dalian, returned to Le’s house and went to work in the kitchen.

Le Yun returned home, took her clothes, and took her younger brother to Grandma Zhou’s house to wash him first, then massage his legs, apply medicine, and carry his younger brother on his back with a sling.

I took the medicine again and waited in the main room. When my cousin, the Zhou family’s Yazai, the Cao family’s sisters, Chen Xiaozhu and Xiaohe each went to wash themselves and came back, I gave them medicine and massage for a while. , rubbing the red, swollen or bruised areas where they kneeled to activate the blood.

Village Chief Zhou waited for the little boy to finish his work, then went to find her and told her about the increase in customers.

"I have guessed it a long time ago." Le Yun is not surprised at all. Because the shutdown time is short, people in many places still don't know. If the shutdown lasts for another day or two, people further away or in the county After hearing the news, some people will definitely come to express their condolences. At that time, there will be at least 200 tables.

"..." Village Chief Zhou's expression was quite...complex, and he didn't know how to describe his mood at all.

It has been more than forty years since Leya passed away, and nearly a hundred tables could be gathered for a temporary funeral. If little Lele gets married or has children in the future, I don’t know how many people there will be.

He felt that he had to train a successor quickly, otherwise he would not be able to bear it. When there is a successor, when Xiao Lele gets married or has a child, a young person will be the conductor and supervisor. He only enjoys peace and happiness, how wonderful it is!

Due to the temporary arrival of new guests, many things needed to be reorganized, and lunch was also postponed until half past twelve.

　When all the guests were seated, even though some people from several villages had not come because they were far away, there were still a dozen more tables than last night, totaling 105 and a half tables at noon.

When having a banquet with wine, the host will give the gift in return to the guests when they pay the gift. After lunch, the host does not have to give back the gift one by one. Guests who have something to do will leave first, and those who have nothing to do eat slowly. a little.

We had lunch at three o’clock.

The singers and teachers went home separately after dinner. Leyun sent the singers a gift, and gave each of them a pack of cigarettes. Then she sent the teachers a red envelope, and a red envelope was included. Thank-you gifts including meat, towels, tobacco and alcohol.

The red envelopes given when going to invite people are the appearance fees of the masters, which are divided equally among the teams. The red envelopes given when they leave are the thank-you gifts given by the hosts.

The person responsible for building the tomb went up the mountain to do the rest of the work, and relatives and friends also went up the mountain again to add a handful of soil to the new tomb.

After the tomb is built, the host family gives a gift and a red envelope to everyone present, and then goes down the mountain.

Zhang Ke also followed him to the mountain. When he was about to enter the mountain when he came down, he was going to go directly back to his home.

Le Yun stopped him and asked him to go to Le’s house for dinner.

"I won't go." Zhang Ke shook his head. He was already very grateful to the Le family for letting him make atonement for his surrogate mother.

"If you don't want to go, that's okay." Le Yun didn't force it, and she didn't care that others were listening. She calmly stated her decision: "I forgive you. It turns out that your mother harmed me. Auntie, I am so cruel that I want your mother to have no children or grandchildren.

Grandpa Zhang has never done anything unconscionable, and you yourself have never done any serious evil. I know you have sincerely repented, and I forgive you. If I want to settle a score with your mother, it will only be against her. I will not curse your mother to cut off her children and grandchildren.

In the future, if a suitable woman finds someone to live with, you don’t have to worry about my revenge. My family and yours The grievances have been wiped out. From now on, there will be no grudges or grudges, and there will be no kinship. Everyone can just live their own lives."

Everyone who accompanied them up the mountain looked at the Le family's little cub in shock. Yazai, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, she, Zai Zai Zai, who had planned to make Grandma Zhang die off her children?

Zhang Ke also changed his expression and his eyes widened in horror.

"I have always repaid kindness and revenge. The Zhang family harmed my aunt. It is impossible for me not to avenge my aunt. My aunt died early and had no children. The person who harmed my aunt is What qualifications do you have to enjoy the blessing of children and grandchildren?"

Le Yun did not bother to hide her vengeful heart to protect her family: "My aunt was killed and she had no children. The person who killed my aunt has no chance to enjoy children and grandchildren. For future generations, I will curse those people every important day to cut off their descendants.

My curses have always been very effective, look at how the Huang family will die now.It's far away, Chen Wu, if his son and grandson don't repent, they are not far away from being extinct. "

Zhang Ke was frightened when he heard this. He was so frightened that he even broke out in cold sweat. He suppressed the shivers and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you! I regretted it and reflected on it. I will also try to dissuade my sister and nephews and let them behave accordingly. "

Le Yun nodded: "Well, I will never curse your mother to have no children again. I keep my word, and you can feel free to find a mother-in-law to have children. ”

　“Okay. "Zhang Ke responded and walked onto another road. After walking for more than ten meters, he turned around and saw that the Le family and the group of people were walking away, so he dared to wipe his sweat.

His heart also fell to the ground, Lejia Yazai forgave him, and finally no longer had to bear the debt of conscience.