The Sweet Little Fulang

When Zhang Zhengzi was buried last time, the commotion started after the coffin was buried in the ground. This time, old Zhang’s body was still in such a mess. Within a quarter of an hour, everyone in Qingxi Village knew about Li Wanyun’s insane murder. , and even spread in other villages.

No matter how fierce and pungent women and Shuang'er are on weekdays, when they are in a hurry, they just wanton abuse. There is no way out, no matter how aggressive an ordinary person is, how can he have the courage.

In the room, Li Wanyun, who covered her face and cried, had trembling hands, her legs and feet were soft, her chest heaved violently, as if her heart was shaking non-stop.

She was a weak woman, never did such a murderous thing, she was useless, she just sat on the ground and cried, but those uncles and aunts all stared and grinned, jumping and calling for her to give money, She was in a trance and saw the evil spirit who wanted to eat her again, with a green face and fangs, and a big black mouth that could swallow her whole, chewing off the skin and bones, leaving no residue.

"Wanyun, Wanyun." Quan Ziniang was stroking her back to give her comfort, screaming loudly, trying to call her soul back, to be crazy like this is not to lose her soul.

Quan Ziniang's thin back was trembling, and even her hands were trembling, really trembling like sifting chaff.

"Hurry up and burn some paper." Seeing Wei Lanxiang coming in, Quan Ziniang said quickly.

Wei Lanxiang glanced at Li Wanyun who had been sobbing and crying for a long time, nodded her head and went out to get the yellow paper.

The two of them also asked Aunt Miao and others to call their names, burned paper and called out, after a lot of tossing, Li Wanyun finally raised her head, her red and swollen eyes became a bit brighter, and she was no longer insane.

It's not that she didn't hear the voices of these aunts and grandmas just now, but she was full of sorrow and sadness, and when she fell into it and cried, she couldn't hear anything.

"Drink warm slowly." Wei Lanxiang poured a bowl of warm water and handed it to her.

Li Wanyun's hands were still shaking, she took a breath after drinking a bowl of water, and stopped crying.

"Your second uncle's family is outside to help greet you. If you want to sleep, you can sleep for a while." Quan Ziniang saw that she was really pitiful, and she couldn't go out to treat guests like this.

In addition, the old Zhang family gave birth to a son and a daughter, and the child was weak. Even the villagers did not know where the daughter was sold, and it was impossible to come to mourn the funeral. Those relatives of the Zhang family were also chopped off. At most, they are relatives of Lao Zhang's natal family and Li Wanyun's natal family.

Li Wanyun just nodded and couldn't even utter a word. When Wei Lanxiang wanted to help her to bed, she waved her hands and shook her head. Seeing this, Wei Lanxiang had no choice but to give up, and closed the door after going out with Quan Ziniang, leaving her alone to rest .

In the yard, as soon as Wei Lanxiang came out, he saw Lu Gu stepping through the door.

"Mother." Lu Gu walked over after seeing Wei Lanxiang.

"Why did you come here?" Wei Lanxiang pulled him by the wrist and dragged him into the kitchen, and said in a low voice: "There is a dead person here, it's not clean, it's a serious collision, didn't you and your sister-in-law stay at home? "

Hearing this, Lu Gu was a little apprehensive, but he still asked in a low voice, "Mother, how is Wan Yun?"

"It's all right now, let's rest in the room." Wei Lanxiang said, seeing a bunch of wilted wild vegetables in the bamboo basket.

From tonight there will be a vegetarian feast, it's just the beginning of spring, and there is no good green vegetables to eat, so we can only add wild vegetables to make a table noodle, otherwise there will be too few, right now it is chaotic, only Li Wanyun is left in the Zhang family However, Zhang Musheng's family still needs to entertain guests, so only helpers like them can dig.

"Well, before it's dark, you and your mother will go out to dig some wild vegetables and come back. She is pitiful and has no one to help her. Let's take it as a good deed." Wei Lanxiang took the bamboo basket and came out. Talk to Quan Ziniang, and the two of them went out.

After the rain, wild vegetables were everywhere in the fields on the hillside, and the wheat field was far away. Lu Gu followed Wei Lanxiang and dug a basket full by the river, at least enough to eat tonight.

After the relatives of the Zhang family were scared away, they didn't dare to come over at night, so they finally stayed quiet all night.

However, early the next morning, Li Wanyun approached Lin Shouyi, who was in charge, and said that he would be buried today.

The sun is getting late now, and the helping women and husbands are all in the yard. Hearing what she said, they couldn't help but look over.

"This..." Lin Shouyi hesitated. They all stay here for three days before being buried. Old Mrs. Zhang just died yesterday, not yet the hour.

"Uncle Shouyi, it's not that I insist on buying a coffin with the last money in my hand today. There are only rice bags left, and there are not many noodle jars. I can't even set up a three-day white banquet."

Li Wanyun wiped away her tears, glanced at Wei Lanxiang and the others, and cried again: "I know that people in our village are nice, and would like to lend me things, but I even sold the land, and from now on I can only earn money by sewing. Lend it to me, when will I be able to return it? Isn’t this telling others to drink the northwest wind?”

What she said was indeed reasonable. The Zhang family couldn't afford to pay their debts like this. Her conscience alone made Lin Shouyi a little impressed. Who knew that a woman who could not read a single word would have such insight.

"But the grave hasn't been dug yet," Lin Shouyi said. Usually, it takes two or three days to dig a grave. In the countryside, they can't afford to hire someone to build a grave and dig a tomb. He stayed on the south slope all the time to dig graves.

What's more, there are poor families who can't even afford a coffin. On the day of death, the broken mat is rolled up and buried in the soil, and it's over. They don't even have a vegetarian feast.

Li Wanyun lowered her head to think for a while, then raised her head and said: "It doesn't matter, my mother lived a long life, and I don't want to say that she died of an injury, just treat it as a happy funeral, so that I can have a good pregnancy in the next life, so that I won't cause trouble Bad fetus, like this, Uncle Shouyi, call more grave diggers to go to Nanpo, I will kill two chickens and set two tables of meat for them, and I will spare them trouble."

If you want to invite those men to dig the grave in one go, you have to give them better food, so that people are willing to come. Digging a grave is hard work.

If everyone in the village hadn't been watching, Lin Shouyi, the steward, would have come over. Anyone who saw it would know that the three-day vegetarian feast must be followed, otherwise, after yesterday's incident, she would not even wrap a broken mat with Mrs. Zhang. superior.

It is said that weddings and funerals, if the elderly live a long life, they can be called weddings and funerals, and they can eat meat and serve wine like weddings. Of course, there are few such banquets in their countryside, and most of them are vegetarian banquets.

Lin Shouyi thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Success, I will do as you say."

Li Wanyun wiped away the tears on her face, she stayed up all night last night, and thought about these arguments all night, the old woman is dead, why should she set up a feast for three days for the group of rotten beasts from the Zhang family to eat? It's all money, it's money for her to save her life in the future, and she doesn't want to spend more than a copper coin. In such a situation, her brain is forced to come alive.

She thought, why not bury it today, the world will be at peace as soon as the dead ghost enters the earth, as for reincarnation, she gritted her teeth secretly, but after all, she couldn't think of any cruel words to relieve her anger.

She went to the backyard to catch two chickens without the help of others. The past few days were too busy, the backyard was not swept, the poultry and duck feces in the pen were all over the floor, and there was a pile of dung covered with soil beside the wall. Generally, after the accumulation is too much, it is picked to fertilize the ground.

Seeing that she really brought the chicken over, the helping aunt and grandma hurriedly boiled water for cooking.

When I heard that the stewed chicken was served to the grave diggers, a woman came to see it, pretending to help with a vegetarian feast, but when she saw that the chicken was really killed and bled, she hurried home and called her own man to go up the mountain with a shovel. You can come to eat meat dishes at noon.

Shen Xuanqing didn't lack for this piece of meat, but after Lin Shouyi called him, he still carried the shovel and went to the south slope with Shen Yaoqing. As he walked, he thought, this Li Wanyun's brains are not bad, everyone is dead, and he treated her badly before he was alive. Well, why waste three days of money on banquets.

On the other side, when Zhang Sizi heard that he was going to be buried today, he tried to force Li Wanyun to put up a water table, but he was in vain, so he rushed over together with Zhang Gui and Zhang Hongye.

"A talent is going to be buried as soon as he dies, and he doesn't even abide by the rules of stopping the spirit. What do you say! Li, you are unfilial!" Zhang Sizi finally found a reason to suppress Li Wanyun, and yelled as soon as he entered the door.

But he never thought that Lin Shouyi was here today. He said in a deep voice, "Fourth son, I called the person who dug the grave. Do you have any doubts?"

Zhang Sizi jumped up and down in the past few days and provoked the anger of the public. Everyone in the village scolded his wickedness behind his back, and he was also sneaky on weekdays. Lin Shouyi's father was Lin Zhongcai, and he must be the next village chief. When it caught fire, it didn't give Zhang Sizi a good look.

Who didn't know that Zhang Sizi came here for money and things, Lin Shouyi glanced at him, and then at Li Wanyun. Compared with this, a man couldn't even match the knowledge of a woman, and his heart became more and more disgusted.

They are all poor people with mud legs digging in the soil. It is not difficult to leave a way for a widow to live, so why bother to drive her to a dead end.

As soon as Lin Shouyi spoke, Zhang Sizi immediately became hoarse. After he went back yesterday, he thought about it for most of the night. Even if he couldn't get the money, he would have to extend the period of suspension and let Li Wanyun hold a banquet for ten and a half months.

It’s filial piety to make a big deal of it. If there are people in ten miles and eight villages who do it like this, anyone who mentions it will be a boast. If they are not filial, how can they spend so much money, so that their Zhang family’s money will not fall into the hands of outsiders.Unexpectedly, when he woke up, something happened, and he was going to be buried today. Once this person was buried, there would be no place for a mat.

This group of unscrupulous people came again, Li Wanyun looked at them with hatred in her heart, what a disgrace to be agitated, she was determined not to let these people get a copper coin.

Fortunately, Lin Shouyi was here today, and many women and husbands from the village came, so she didn't need to go crazy like yesterday.

No matter how much the relatives of the Zhang family struggled, the matter of Lin Shouyi's approval remained unchanged. Besides, those young and strong men had all gone to the south slope to dig graves, and the words of killing chickens and eating meat had already been released, and he could never take them back. , wouldn't that be a slap in the face of him, and he would be the head of the village in the future, so Zhang Gui, the fourth son, would be scolded.

When the banquet started at noon, a dozen or so men who came back from the south slope had dug the grave and waited to bury it after eating.

It was funny when sitting at the table, the two tables of meat were eaten by men who had given their strength, Zhang Sizi rushed over when he saw the stewed chicken nuggets, and wanted to take a stool and sit down.

Most of them were young men who went to dig graves, some were poor Li Wanyun who came to help, some did their best for this meat dish, and they all knew who was digging graves, but Zhang Sizi, who hadn't shown any strength, suddenly mixed in, what a vigorous man He could bear it, and immediately started yelling and cursing, and directly drove him to his seat.

More than a dozen men fought together, Zhang Sizi just wanted to scold someone, seeing the situation, he immediately shrank his head and slipped to the side.

The relatives of the Zhang family are really disgusting, even the seats of the villagers are squeezed out on purpose, thinking that this is their Zhang family's money, why should outsiders come to eat at a lower price, and several women and husbands quarreled with them, Li Wanyun She didn't come out for dinner, but she could still think of the faces of those "good relatives", but she really couldn't send her away. As long as today is over, people will be quiet once they are buried.

Farmers with relatively well-to-do families would invite suona after the old man died, but Li Wanyun didn't. As soon as the banquet was over, they carried the coffin up to the south slope in a deserted place.

The second room of the Shen family, Lu Gu and Shen Yan were pasting red paper on the windows of the house. Hearing the sound of the coffin being lifted outside, they couldn't help looking over. They found Shen Xuanqing's figure in the crowd, and walked past without seeing it for a few seconds.

He pasted the red paper on the place where the paste was smeared. Ji Qiuyue was pregnant, and two people in the Zhang family died in a row, so he had to block it.

The hens in the backyard clucked and clucked, more than once, and several of them were in a mess. Shen Yan heard it, and because she got it on her hand with the paste, she said, "Brother Guzi, why don't you go to the backyard to see, the rest I'll post this."

The winter is too cold and the hens rarely lay eggs. After the spring warms up, the eggs gradually come. Naturally, they are precious, and they have to collect them when they hear the sound. It would be a pity if they were confiscated and smashed in time.

"Okay." Lu Gu took the egg basket and walked to the backyard. It didn't matter at first glance, he thought it was an old hen laying eggs, but he never thought it was one of his little hens.