Wang Fulin's funeral of his father-in-law

Wang Fulin's funeral of his father-in-law

After Lin Lu returned to the provincial capital, Chun Tao, the long-retired vice chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, called him and asked him if he was interested in visiting South Africa. He was very happy to hear this, and since he had the opportunity to visit abroad again, he certainly would not miss it, and immediately promised to go with him. Chun Tao told him he could take his wife. He said to his wife that Aimei was of course very happy, and the last time he visited Europe, Aimei wanted to follow, but unfortunately she was not qualified enough, not a writer and artist were not allowed to participate. Since she is allowed to bring her family this time, she will have to go abroad to take a look and see, and she will not marry a writer herself. However, this trip abroad, like the past trip to Europe, requires the visitor to have a deposit in the bank as collateral, otherwise it will not be approved. The husband and wife quickly went to the bank to apply for a fixed deposit of 50,000 yuan, and when going abroad, they needed to provide the time deposit certificate and the house book and account. The date for the visit to South Africa is set to depart from Beijing on October 1, so some relevant formalities must be completed in advance.

Aimee and her husband had just completed the formalities for the two of them to visit South Africa, and a shocking bad news came from her hometown, and her father Hao Renyuan died suddenly. The bad news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day that made her fall to the ground and cry bitterly.

Lin Lu lifted up his wife and persuaded: "The old man's sudden return to heaven is his fate, don't be too sad, hurry up and prepare to go back to send the old man on the last journey!" ”

Aimee receives a call from Joon-soo and learns of her father's sudden death. Junxiu wants to take Lin Lu's car back to worship the old man. Suga Yuteng has just started working as a buyer for his brother Sugatayama's hotel, getting up every day to buy meat and vegetables at the market, and today he is too busy to leave, and it will take a day or two to find someone to replace him before he can leave. Junxiu had to take Lin Lu's car to return to his hometown in advance to run for funerals.

Hao Feiyun was not on the highway that day, he took his wife to Tieshan City the day before, after receiving a call from his brother Hao Kuan, he was as anxious as ants on a hot pot, so it was easy to find Ji Qiaofang who was walking on the street, and then drove back, driving the car along the way. On the way home, Ji Qiaofang called Junxiu and relayed the news of the old man's death. She didn't call Aimee or Lin Lu directly.

Lin Lu walked to the middle of the road with Aimei and Junxiu and received a call from Hao Feiyun, asking where they had gone, and Yin Yang said that he was going to be buried in advance. Lin Lu told his brother-in-law that he would not be able to go back until an hour later, and asked them to wait. However, when they came back to see that Hao Renyuan's body had been buried, they had to let Hao Feiyun push open the coffin lid to look at the old man who had closed his eyes.

Hao Renyuan's sudden death felt a little incredible, and halfway down that day, he was lying on the kang watching TV, and his wife Lan Hongqin was smoking on the kangtou. The two were talking while watching TV, and it had just been raining heavily outside, and someone outside the west wall suddenly said to another person, "Your family's land is flooded." Lan Hongqin asked her husband Hao Renyuan while smoking: "Whose land is flooded?" Hao Renyuan got up from the kang and said, "I went out to have a look, it wouldn't be the ground of Feiyun that was flooded, right?" Lan Hongqin said, "Feiyun's relatives are in charge of those places where Lin Lu's relatives are in charge!" Don't worry about it, don't go. Hao Renyuan did not listen to his wife's words, went out to the ground to pick up a shovel and ran to the courtyard, running to see that the rain did not flood the crops, but there was a lot of water in the field. He used a shovel to dig the weir, trying to put the water in the ground into the open space, and at the moment when he looked down to dig the soil, a sharp pain in his chest suddenly fell into the water beach next to the weir, and his head fell into the water half an inch deep and could not move.

Yue Qing had always been in charge of Hao Feiyun's land, and he was in charge of everything from planting to harvesting, as long as he obeyed Hao Feiyun's arrangement. After the rain had fallen, he carried a shovel out to release water, and when he came to the ground to take a look, he found his relative Hao Renyuan lying in the ground next to him, crawling face down in the water. He quickly ran over to help him up and looked at it, Hao Renyuan had already lost his breath. He threw away the shovel and carried Hao Renyuan on his back to the village. I met several people halfway down the road and they asked what was going on. Yue Qing replied, "I don't know, I didn't know when I found out." ”

Hao Kuan heard this and immediately ran out of the courtyard to help Yue Qing carry the old stepfather into the courtyard, which called Hao Feiyun.

Lin Lu and his wife and sister-in-law knelt in front of the spirit to burn incense paper for the old man. Amy and Joon-soo howled for a while. After ordering the paper, Lin Lu walked over to Hao Feiyun and said, "Feiyun, it was your piece of land that killed the old man!" I told you long ago that the yard does not build a house. You don't believe it, just pushed up the foundation and sent the old man to the western sky. Do I see if you believe it now or not? ”

Hao Feiyun seems to have no reason to refute Lin Lu, after all, the old man has gone, gone more strangely, perhaps it is really related to the yard building, just pushed a house foundation in the yard, before he had time to build a house, the old man had an accident and left.

Liu Zhu and Hao Feiyun grew up together and were the best friends, and he and Hao Feiyun sat at the gate. He also said that it was indeed unlucky to build a house in the courtyard.

The children met that night and decided on the scale of Hao Renyuan's funeral. Hao Began calling relatives and friends to attend his father's burial ceremony five days later. From this day on, the children and grandchildren began to observe the spirit.

Lin Lu is a writer responsible for writing a eulogy for his father-in-law. There were two eulogies that needed to be written by him, one was that the leader of Willow Town expressed his deep condolences to Hao Renyuan, who had been the secretary of the branch for many years, on behalf of the town government, and the other was prepared for his grandson Hao Meng, who expressed his deepest condolences to his grandfather on behalf of the Hao family up and down. There is also a memorial article written by the current brigade branch secretary himself, which is ready to be read at the memorial service. In order to write these two sacrifice texts, Lin Lu deliberately went to find Qu Shanqing. When Qu Shanqing was the secretary of the brigade branch in his early years, Hao Renyuan was a pacesetter in the agricultural science competition, and later he was promoted to deputy branch secretary of the brigade, and after Qu Shanqing was selected to serve as vice president of The Willow Town Commune, Hao Renyuan was promoted to branch secretary and worked until retirement. The person who knows Hao Renyuan's performance best should be Qu Shanqing.

Qu Shanqing has been living in the village since his retirement, and now he has built a small courtyard west of Hao Renyuan, where the old couple lives, and when the farmer is busy, the husband and wife ride a three-wheeled electric vehicle to Sha Artemisia Torun to run his family's contracted land. He was two years younger than Hao Renyuan and was now eighty years old, but he had nothing major wrong with him except for diabetes, and his physical condition was very good. He provided Lin Lu with the fact that Hao Renyuan had been elected as a pacesetter in the Hechuan County Agricultural Science Competition, that he had also been elected as a delegate to the National People's Congress, and that he had seen all the experiences of the great leader Chairman Mao.

Lin Lu asked some things that he did not know carefully, and then wrote a memorial article for his father-in-law that he thought had weight, which would be read out by Hao Meng. Because he did not participate in some trivial matters in writing the sacrifice text, Hao Feiyun also complained that he did not do specific things, which made Lin Lu feel very sad.

Hao Feiyun took his two aunts and brothers to the Hao family cemetery to bury his parents in the past two days, not in the open, but in the dark. Hao Renyuan had three wives, one of whom was Zhao Xianghong, the biological mother of Aimei, Feiyun and Aizhen, who died of postpartum madness in her early years; the other was Ma Mingyue, who was angry with her husband after giving birth to Junxiu and died of poisoning; the third wife, Lan Hongqin, was now in the key, but Lan Hongqin had an agreement before marriage that she would not be buried with Hao Renyuan after death, but would be reunited with her ex-husband. Therefore, Hao Feiyun only buried two mothers and fathers. His two sisters-in-law, Qi Weiguo, were small contract foremen who took some workers to build houses for others to do muddy water work in the summer, and learned to circle burials for a living. Hao Feiyun asked Qi Weiguo to take two apprentices to the funeral of his parents and provided a sketch. Qi Weiguo dug a three-person tomb down in front of Hao Feiyun's grandparents' tomb according to the sketch, four feet deep, surrounded by bricks and then inlaid with tiles, and paved with granite below, which was particularly luxurious. The tombs of the two wives are close to the husband, separated by only a wall in the middle, the eldest wife is above, the second wife is below, leaving two holes in the middle of the wall, and after burial, the husband and the two wives are connected with a red head rope.

Lin Lu went to the cemetery to take a look, and also understood the custom of a man and two women buried together, the Yang had been husband and wife, and when they went to the hades, they were still husband and wife. Hao Renyuan's second wife's first husband was not ready to be buried with her in the future, so he had to enter the Hao family cemetery to sleep with Hao Renyuan.

The next day at the funeral, in the evening, the fourth son-in-law of the deceased, Suga Yuteng, and his brother SugaTayama rushed back from the provincial capital, and when the two brothers worshiped Hao Renyuan in front of the spirit, all the filial sons accompanied them. The third daughter of the Hao family has died, and the third son-in-law, Yiqing, did not come to pay for the funeral of his father-in-law, but let Suga Yuteng bring a gift.

On the night of "Calling the Night", a large tent had been set up in the open space next to the road in front of the compound, ready to receive all the guests when sitting at night. The two groups of drummers all arrived at night just after dark, or the two groups of people and horses when Lin Xiong was buried, but the time passed and changed the way of operation, they no longer sat on the ground, but drove to the car. The Hao family could not stop the car in the courtyard, so they chose the best position outside the courtyard to open the car car and stand in the middle of the car to perform. After the performance, I chatted or rested in the car, which was much more fashionable than playing a stall in the past, and the money was also a donkey rolling over. "Calling the Night" was about to begin, and Dai Dong Li Wang arranged for the filial sons to start lighting paper. Hao Feiyun and his wife, Hao Kuan and his wife, Lin Lu and his wife, Xiao Wu and his wife, and Suga Yuteng and his wife all knelt in front of the spirit to burn incense for the old man, and their sons and daughters were saying: "Look for money!" The son-in-law is saying: Uncle is looking for money! The daughter-in-law said: Daddy is looking for money! Different salutations can mean exactly the same. After they finished burning paper, it was the turn of grandchildren to burn paper, and some people said that Grandpa was looking for money! It is also said that Grandpa is looking for money! After the direct descendants are finished, it is the turn of the children of the uncles and aunts to start paying homage to the incense and burning the paper. When they were finished, relatives farther away burned paper, and then friends and neighbors also came forward to collectively incense and burn paper. Then the night line was called to leave, the grandson Hao Meng walked in front with the spirit card, Hao Feiyun Hao Kuan and his wife and Lin Lu Xiao Wu Suga Yuteng and his wife lined up in the back, and the female relatives cried as they walked, and came to the south highway. Two classes of drummers followed the filial pieties and blew and beat into the air, followed by the lively villagers.

The Yin and Yang gentlemen chose a place at the intersection of the South Highway to light a fire, and told the night team to come and turn left and right around the fire cage, and then the filial pieties knelt around the fire cage. After Yin Yang descended the town, the eldest son, Hao Feiyun, knelt in front of the fire cage and personally lit the paper money, and the other filial sons called in unison to the deceased to find money. Then the filial sons got up and circled around the fire three times, and the night was over. When I went back, I didn't pay attention to it, and everyone scattered back to the village. There is a water basin in front of the Hao family, a kitchen knife on the water basin, and a biscuit, and a pile of fires next to it, and the filial pieties who participate in the night must sharpen their knives to scare the undead not to come back, eat a bite of biscuits and then jump over the fire cage to enter the courtyard.

Lin Lu knew that these were all the dramas made by Mr. Yin and Yang for people to watch, and all the activities and arrangements were Mr. Yin and Yang's reasons and words for finding money. During the Cultural Revolution, there was no yin and yang to bury people, and there was not a single dead person returning to the yang. Lin Lu always remembered that during the Cultural Revolution, Hu Tongzhu, the captain of Gushu Village, acted as Mr. Yin and Yang, no matter who died, he would go to help bury people, and in the past ten years, he had buried many dead people, and none of them had returned to Yang. After the reform and opening up, Mr. Yin and Yang began to take up his post again, everyone used Mr. Yin and Yang, no one dared to violate this rural custom, and Mr. Yin and Yang's work was active again.

After sitting down at night that night, the relatives began to record the ceremonial accounts, and Hao Feiyun and the brothers and sisters negotiated that everyone would work together to bury the old man, and how much money would be spent would be shared equally. Hao Feiyun decided to let Lin Lu be the bookkeeper, and Lin Lu had to take the position. He made a gift book out of white linen paper and bought a black and thick pen to keep the account. With the development of the times, the ceremony has become quite simple and convenient, there is no need to sit down and arrange seats as in the past, from large to small, from near to far, from more to less one by one, and now only in the order of ceremony, more and less no one compares. Relatives began to remember the ceremony, some with a thousand, some with five hundred, and some with three hundred, all according to the number of gifts they usually walked down. Lin Luji's family collects a sum of money, and then writes down the next one. Hao Feiyun's colleagues and friends are more numerous, most of them are gifted with five hundred yuan, and some people with special relations have taken a thousand yuan.

Hao Feiyun's gang did not worship as if they were worshiping the brothers, and people such as Xiang Ling and Li Wang came to Hao's house in advance and took the initiative to help. Although Li Wang was Dai Dong, there was nothing specific to do after sitting at night, so he took Xiang Ling and their four friends to his mother's house in Haixi Village. His father, Li Qiang, fell ill and died after retiring from the deputy secretary of the branch, and his mother has been living in the village with her second son. Although Li Wang has been away from his hometown for many years, he often comes back to take care of his mother. Tonight Hao Feiyun did not have a better resting place on this side, so he took the brothers to Haixi Village, where he wanted to play mahjong with the brothers, and asked Lin Lu for some tobacco and alcohol before leaving.

The funeral came out at nine o'clock in the morning. The mourning ceremony before the funeral was presided over by the secretary of the party branch of the Xiaguang Brigade, who first asked Hao Renyuan's grandson Hao Meng to give a eulogy. Hao Meng opened the eulogy that Lin Lu had written for him and read: "Thunderbolts rise on a sunny day, and the earth falls with sorrow!" Dear elders, neighbors, relatives and friends: Today we mourn my most beloved grandfather with great sorrow, and first of all, on behalf of our whole family, I would like to express my most sincere respect to all the guests! Everyone came to my grandfather's memorial service in a busy time, which brought us great spiritual comfort. My grandfather was born in a poor family, and when he was a teenager, he herded cattle and horses for others, and suffered a lot of suffering in the world. After liberation, grandpa received the party's training and education, and when he was young, he has been serving as a village cadre, and under the leadership of his grandfather, he has built the highway beam production team into an advanced collective in the county. During the agricultural competition, Grandpa led the whole village to work hard day and night, transform all the saline and alkali land, work hard and fast, so that the grain output gradually increased from an average of less than 270 catties per mu to 810 catties per mu, and the production team soon became the pacesetter of the agricultural competition. The members' work share has increased from the initial three cents and five cents to more than one dollar. Grain production has tripled, the income of production teams has tripled, and the members of the company have lived a good and happy life. Grandpa, your old man's hard work was not in vain, you were rated as a pacesetter in the National Agricultural Science Competition, a national model worker, and once went to Tiananmen Square to be received by the great leader Chairman Mao. However, behind your continuous struggle and silent dedication, there is an unknown bitterness and heartache, and your six relatives have left you and become the pain of your life. But relatives can appreciate your bitterness and bitterness. You have been working for decades from the production captain to the brigade branch secretary, never asking about your own gains and losses, focusing on your work, working hard and complaining wholeheartedly for the party and serving the people. Your life is a glorious life, a great life! You are our model for our children and grandchildren, and we will surely advance along the path of your old man's life and win glory for you and the Hao family. Dear Grandpa, please rest in peace! ”

Relatives listened to tears, villagers burst into tears, and the entire memorial hall was full of sighs.

Then the village party secretary and the leaders of the commune delivered eulogies on behalf of the government at both levels, sincerely remembering the good sons of the party and the good public servants of the people, speaking sincerely and sincerely, and recounting Hao Renyuan's great achievements.

Before the spirit came out, the two sons Hao Feiyun and Hao Kuan knelt in front, Lin Lu and Xiao Wu and Suga Yuteng and other sisters knelt behind, and the filial pieties began to light paper. The drummers played with the filial pieties, and the two groups of drummers took the opportunity to show their skills and compete in their skills. More and more people were watching, and people from all over the village came to watch, filling the road outside Hao Renyuan's gate.

After the filial pieties took turns to light the paper, relatives and friends also came forward to pay tribute to the dead.

The funeral officially began, and Hao Feiyun quickly smashed the filial piety basin and carried the soul-inducing banner. Sun Tzu Hao Meng picked up the spirit card, and the father and son walked out of the courtyard, followed by all the filial pieties. Eight young men carried the coffins outside, the drummers blew, and the funeral procession marched in a long line to The West Shawo, walking majestically on the dirt roads of the countryside, with the sound of mourning and the sound of crying.

The funeral procession was followed by many people who went to the cemetery to watch the liveliness, and of course, there were also villagers who really wanted to send the elderly.

In the sand nest west of the village, there is a place of one acre or more that is the Hao family's cemetery.

Hao renyuan's father and brothers, in the early years from Shaanxi Province to the highway Liang family settled, of which the eldest has been unmarried, bare sticks for a lifetime, after his death brothers buried him in this sand nest, here has since become the Hao family's grave. Hao Renyuan's father is the second oldest. Hao Jiangong's father was the third oldest. The two of them died earlier, and they were buried side by side with the boss at the top of the cemetery. The three old brothers were all young when they died.

Hao Renyuan's tomb is very luxurious, and a screen was built in front of the burial, which was branded with a portrait of the deceased Hao Renyuan and his two wives, and the tombstone was engraved with the names of him and his two wives. The two deceased wives had emerged from the old grave in advance and were now buried with their husbands in a small coffin.

After the burial, the filial pieties knelt down and began to burn paper money in front of the tombstone, and the breeze blew the paper money up and flew in front of the filial piety, as if the undead were unwilling to leave. The drum music was accompanied by the sound of mourning, and a living life was lost.

The whole village attended Hao Renyuan's funeral, and was invited to the wine table in the big tent, plus relatives and friends sat at twenty tables. Two sons, two daughters-in-law, three daughters and three sons-in-law stood in a row on the rostrum to bow and thank everyone who came to pay the funeral for the old man, and took turns to toast everyone and express their heartfelt thanks.

Lin Lu was the eldest son-in-law of the Hao family, and those of his peers in the village called him brother-in-law, and they all wanted to drink from him, and he was not good enough to refuse, so he kept touching glasses with them, and he touched himself drunk after touching three or two.

After the burial of the old man, the children settled the account, and each of the six children needed to pay 3,300 yuan, that is to say, in addition to the 30,000 yuan of gifts from relatives and friends, another 20,000 yuan was spent, for a total of 50,000 yuan. It is rare for a rural funeral to be so luxurious.

After settling the account, Hao Feiyun began to arrange the life of his stepmother Lan Hongqin. Everyone knows that since the beginning of spring, Hao Feiyun has summoned Yue Qing and Li Xiu through Lin Lu to serve his father and stepmother, and now that his father has died, he wants to dismiss them. In order to achieve the purpose of smooth dismissal, he said on the spot that Yue Qing and Li Xiu were not. His sisters also put forward opinions and linked the old father's death to Yue Qing and his wife, and you said every word to me, as if hiring Yue Qing and yue Qing was the biggest sin.

Lin Lu couldn't listen anymore, he said, "At that time, you couldn't hire the right people, but I introduced two of my relatives to you with one more mouth." The male relative Yue Qing is a very honest person, the old father-in-law did not have him alone to carry the body back, from this point you should be grateful to the family. Now you don't want to use people can, isn't it a one-sentence thing? Why bother putting on people's heads? You used to hire people, and I was an intermediary, so how could you be so unsealed if you didn't look at the face of God and look at the face of The Buddha? I introduced people, even if you let people me, I won't let him do it, give them an account and let people leave, why bother to play tricks? ”

When the sisters saw lin lu angry, most of them did not dare to say anything more.

Hao Feiyun could only say, "Then until today, where are they going?" ”

Lin Lu said, "If you give people a salary, they will naturally leave." ”

Yue Qing and his wife returned to their own home in the western cabinet, waiting for Hao Feiyun to calculate their wages. However, Hao Feiyun's tens of millions of assets had been scattered, and he had reached the tragic end of Yin's eating and grain. Li Xiu kept calling Hao Feiyun to ask for wages. Hao Feiyun has no money to give, always pushes and pushes, and occasionally quarrels with Li Xiu on the phone, which is ridiculous to the extreme. A year later, Hao Feiyun paid all the people's wages.

The author Wang Fulin, born in 1951, has served as the deputy editor of "Literature and the World" of the Inner Mongolia Writers Association and the director of the novel group of "Grassland" magazine. In 1991, the novella "Conscience Building" made the headlines of "Chinese Writers" and won the "Soronga" Literary Award of the Autonomous Region. Nine novels, including "Desolate Soul", "Village Soul", "Love Obsession", "Mortal Dust", "Young Lü Bu in Wuyuan", "Meat Rope", "Lama Brother and Second Sister", etc., are published and distributed by the State Official Publishing House. In recent years, he has created million-word online novels "Women's Youth Years" and "Real Lü Bu" published online. The novel "The Life of a Native Writer" has just been completed.

Source of the picture text Author Wang Fulin China Writers Network