The ninety-seven-year-old Xu Tou of the neighbor's house was pulled home before he could breathe, and he lay on his kang for less than an hour before he died, and a string of tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
What is the meaning of these tears? Whether it is the relief of finally going home, or the sadness of many years in the elderly apartment, no one knows.
There is a rule in the village, that is, no matter how old a person is, as long as he dies outside, he cannot pull into the tunzi, and the body must be parked in a small temple outside the village and other places, where the funeral will be made.
Xu's family received a call from the elderly apartment, saying that the old man was unconscious and seemed to be out of order. Neither of the sons wanted to take it back, and planned to let the old man die there. However, the head of the apartment saw their attitude and was a little angry, saying that he would die in the apartment with extra money. As a last resort, the seventy-one-year-old son led his grandson to take the old man home and died on the old man's dreamy kang.
The nearly centenarian, which is rare in the village, said that such an old age was a joy and mourning, and the Xu family's expression that was not half sad seemed to tell people that their family was indeed doing happy things.
Although the eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law have also reached the age of ancient rarity, they are physically tough and are the main force of the village song team. In front of people can speak the Tao, but sent so old father to a cheapest apartment that can not even see the sun, live for more than ten years, and even do not visit during the New Year's Festival.
There are more than ten grandchildren of the old man, some who open restaurants, some who are civil servants, some who do business, and some who are farmers, and the only one who visits the old man and buys him some food and drink is the granddaughter who is a farmer.
Old Xu Tou died, and the villagers could not help but feel sorry for him behind his back, and the children's filial piety and longevity were actually a kind of suffering.
But no one despised the old man's children and grandchildren for this. In the words of a villager: Everyone gives the living, not the dead.
Yes, even if the old man is alive, in the eyes of people, there is no value in communication, who will fight for his interests, and his children and grandchildren will be estranged? No matter what they say, it is their housework, and outsiders are not easy to mix.
Is it because the villagers are too "tolerant" of their filial piety, which leads to the children and grandchildren being able to forget their roots unscrupulously?
For some people, death is happiness and liberation, such as the old Xu tou who is close to a hundred years old.
