What I saw and heard after death (the ninth, tenth and eleventh days)

Today is the ninth day after my death, and it is also the day of my burial, which Mr. Feng Shui favored early in the morning. The specific time is set at 1: in the morning.

it's time, and my red coffin is still parked there, motionless.

it's not that everyone has forgotten the time, nor that there are not enough people carrying coffins, just because it's raining outside.

We have a local custom that coffins should not touch water during funeral, which is harmful to future generations.

At the moment, the second child is standing at the door of the house. He is the commander-in-chief of the whole funeral. He has been looking at the sky for a while, and the rain has no intention of stopping.

forced funeral, he really can't make up his mind.

the boss is even more anxious, asking the second child what to do.

The two brothers walked into the house together. Mr. Feng Shui was sitting on the kang, drinking water.

"It's time, sir. What should we do?"

"It doesn't stop raining, so we can't move the coffin. I think it's auspicious from 12 noon to 2 noon."

I want to say something else, but I can't stop.

The dead have no physical fetters. My six roots are one, so I am very well informed. I know exactly what others are thinking.

I know what the second child wants to say. He wants to ask Mr. Feng Shui, "What should I do if it doesn't stop raining at two o'clock in the afternoon? We can't change the date!" He didn't ask, because he felt that the Heavenly Palace couldn't wait so patiently, and he didn't believe it would rain for four hours.

the second child told the kitchen to fire at once, and everyone had lunch early. As soon as the rain stopped, they acted immediately.

when relatives, friends and helpers waiting for the funeral outside the courtyard heard that the time had changed, they spread out to take shelter from the rain and waited for dinner.

At the moment, the third child is in the East Room, listening to nothing outside the window, sitting on the bench, copying Hokkekyo.

My daughter is sitting on the edge of the kang, watching my third child copy scriptures. Seeing that no one had come, she whispered to the third child,

"Third brother, it keeps raining, and it is obvious that our mother doesn't want to be buried here, and even God is crying."

Lao San looked up at his daughter and continued to copy his classics.

after lunch, it rained harder than before, and everyone was sad.

In the village, it's basically the villagers who come to help with the white work, running errands and cooking. Now it's autumn harvest season, and I've been dead for eight days, so my blind date's farm work will be idle for eight days. If I don't harvest, I think they are going to collapse.

In addition, besides the second child, there are many colleagues in government agencies. Everyone has a lot of things on hand, thinking that life can return to normal tomorrow after being buried smoothly today. If you want to delay it, because of the face of the second child, everyone can't leave ahead of time, and you have to bite the bullet and continue to hold on.

in a word, everyone is on the verge of collapse, hoping that the rain will stop quickly.

The rain has stopped, so bury me as a dead man, so that the life of the living can go on.

"Sir, it seems that the rain may not stop today."

"We have to find a way to prevent the coffin from being caught in the rain."

Mr. Feng Shui finished staring at the second child. In fact, he thought that he had an appointment with another client to visit the cemetery tomorrow. Today, there must be a result here. Throw this problem to the second child. He is not capable. Let him find a way.

"On my command, prepare to lift the coffin ~"

With the loud sound of the steward, four boys on each side of the coffin, their faces flushed, lifted the coffin. As soon as the coffin came out of the hall, it was sent directly to a huge golden box, which was perfectly connected and didn't get caught in half a drop of rain.

This huge box is like a dragon's wheel. Except that it has no wheels, there are 32 people carrying it in the middle. At the front, the eldest brother, the second child and the third brother are carrying a thick rope on their shoulders, and they are trying to pull the coffin forward. At the end, they are followed by a mighty farewell team composed of relatives.

This farewell party will walk through the village to the burial ground in the rain. Firecrackers roared in the rain, and the team stopped and stopped. When they stopped, they knelt down and kowtowed, then got up and moved on. The original white mourning clothes had already become filthy.

Except for the three brothers, everyone else in the team is carrying umbrellas. His uncle couldn't stand it anymore. He called several people to hold up umbrellas for the three brothers, but the second and third said no.

"Hold on, don't catch a cold or catch a cold. It won't do if you stay up for so long."

"Uncle, don't worry, we three brothers will see my mother off for the last time, and the usual unfinished filial piety is all in this rain."

His uncle wiped his face and couldn't tell whether it was nose, tears or rain.

There are quite a few folks holding umbrellas to watch.

"My poor second sister-in-law, who has never had a good life, has grown up and made great achievements, but she got such a disease and left."

This is his aunt Xiantao, with red eyes under the umbrella.

"Wow, it's really magnificent. Thirty or forty people carried it, and the county magistrate and county party secretary's mother died, but this battle is not enough. I am dead, and I can be so beautiful, even if I don't live in vain. "

this is his uncle Shuan Hu, and his mouth is full of envy.

out of the village, the team entered the crop field. Occasionally, there are some lime roads in the village, and this crop field outside the village is all dirt roads. It's even more muddy when it rains. It's hard to carry this huge box safely to the burial place for the sake of those young people who carried the coffin. A long simple awning has been set up here, from where the box landed to the tomb entrance.

It's dark inside the tomb, and there's the coffin of the eldest brother's second son's father inside.

my body is going to sleep here, and I feel a chill.

The mouth of the tomb is not big, and the adobe tomb below is very long, which is more than two meters above the ground. It is difficult to move this 1,-kilogram coffin below and put it in the tomb. First, two people with ropes tied to their bodies were slowly put into the pyramid-shaped mound and met below. A dozen people above tied the coffin and descended a little. When the coffin was about to descend to the pyramid-shaped mound, the following two men took a definite position and placed two thick round wooden rollers on the pyramid-shaped mound below the coffin. Without these two rollers, such a heavy coffin would sink into the ground as soon as it landed, and it would be impossible to push it into the tomb again.

Then two people came down and pushed behind. The original two people pulled in front, and the coffin finally entered the tomb. Set up the position, the people inside took the broom and swept out, and the footprints of the living can't be left in the folk custom grave.

Back to the tomb entrance, the people above threw down solid sacks, and the people below piled them up at the mouth of the tomb. These sacks played a role in preventing moisture. The mouth of the tomb was sealed, and the people below were pulled up, and the shovel began to shovel the soil below.

The daughter grabbed the third child's arm with one hand and wiped her tears with the other.

every shovel of dirt hits my daughter's heart and mine.

The pyramid-shaped mound was filled in, and a grave gradually appeared on the ground. Several young students moved to the tombstone, and Mr. Feng Shui measured the position and put it down. The bottom was rammed with earth.

I saw my name, the date of birth and death, and the name and date of birth and death of the eldest brother's father.

Next to it is the grave of the eldest brother and his grandparents.

I deeply remember his grandmother's sharp face after his father left. Their relatives in the Li family left us orphans and widowed mothers alone, lacking food and drinking. In addition, it was winter, and the north wind was whistling, and the night was haunted.

my eldest brother and I curled up in the room, and we didn't dare to move. I don't know how I got through the most difficult time. I thank those kind people in the village who helped me.

I cried with the eldest brother and the second brother about how their grandmother's family treated us at the beginning, but when the eldest brother and the second brother grew up, the Li family secretly found them, and the eldest brother and the second brother also recognized their grandmother and aunt.

I'm really angry. Why did you go at the beginning? The children are old and promising, and you came to pick up ready-made ones.

I stared at his grandmother's grave, but my real enemy was buried in a graveyard.

when I came to my senses, I saw a fire burning in my grave, and hundreds of wreath shelves crackled.

Everyone's expression is no longer dignified, and some people even smile imperceptibly in the dark. Finally buried, the burden of my heart can be unloaded.

I followed everyone back to the old house in the village. It was past nine o'clock in the evening. Before I entered the courtyard, I saw that everyone had washed their hands, stepped over the brazier, turned over the kitchen knife and looked in the mirror. Turning over the kitchen knife told me that people would never be able to do anything, so make a clean break. Looking in the mirror is to hope that I can't see myself in the mirror, which scares me to retreat and stop following everyone.

I want to tell everyone, don't worry, I don't have many days from forty-nine days, and the days of making a clean break are more than thousands of years.

the reason why I followed you back is that I can't bear to part with my children.

The boss was already a seven-or eight-year-old child when I remarried. Maybe he always complained about my remarriage. The third child and his daughter's father are certainly not as good to him as to their own children. After studying, the boss spent most of his time outside until he dropped out of high school. I don't care enough about him, and he has gradually become estranged from my mother. I am his closest person and his stranger. He feels that the new home is not his home, and the pain and loneliness in the process of growing up can only be experienced and tasted by himself.

The second child was five or six years old at that time. In order to avoid the tragedy of the boss from happening to the second child, I paid special attention to the study of the second child while taking care of the third child and my daughter, and prevented him from making friends with those bad children. When the second child was in high school, I once found some axes under the pillow in his room, knowing that he was close to some hooligans in the school. That day, a group of them were hiding in the second room for some reason. I rushed in with a broom and scolded him, driving away his friends. I cried and told him that it was not easy for us, and I hope he can get angry. The second child knew my good intentions, and since then, he has closed his heart and started to study hard, which is why he is so promising today. Compared with the boss, the second child's heart is closer to mine. He doesn't talk much, but I know he still loves this mother.

The third child and his daughter have been loved by their parents and cared for by their brothers since childhood. They were born and raised in happiness, and their father is an honest man, so the two children are naive, gentle and honest, ignorant of the world, and devoted to their studies. My third child and my daughter are very close to me since childhood. When I was a child, I would jump in my arms and act like a coquette. Even if I grew up and got married, I would still hug me when I got home and give me a big kiss on my face.

The normal behaviors between my third daughter and me, mother and daughter, are simply unimaginable for the eldest child and the second child. Maybe they have seen it in their eyes and tried to jump into my arms countless times, but the shadow of childhood can't go away. They can only live in that set condom.

eldest brother, second child and third daughter, they are my dearest children. The palms of my hands are covered with meat, and no matter where I am buried, it will make another pair of children sad. Now I'm buried in the grave of the eldest brother and the second brother, and I won't blame them, though I don't want to. The third child and daughter have got all the love when I was alive. Let my cold body satisfy the wish of the eldest child.

"Third son, you won't stay for two days. You spent more time with your uncle when you were a child, but I won't see you when I grow up."

"I can't stop, uncle. The company has been urging me. If I don't go back, I'll lose my job. Uncle, you should take care of yourself. "

"Of all my brothers and sisters, your mother loves me the most. When I was a child, she took me everywhere, and always left me a copy of anything delicious ..."

As he spoke, his uncle was in tears, and the third one held my younger brother's hand tightly.

"Third son, you promise your uncle that if he is gone, you must come back and see him off for the last time."

I really can't stand it. Let's go to the boss's room and the second room.

Knowing that Lao San will leave the day after tomorrow, his brothers discussed to find out what Lao San meant by that old house in the county.

They came to Lao San's house together, and his uncle had gone back, leaving only Lao San and Xiao Mei.

"Third son, our mother has been buried, and you have been back for so many days. The company is in a hurry, so it's time to go back to work. Third son, as you know, our mother spent a lot of money to see a doctor, and that old house ... "

" The old house is our mother's, and it's up to you, eldest brother and second brother. Find a buyer to sell it to supplement our mother's medical expenses ... "

Little sister took one look at the old one and then at the old one and the second one.

when the eldest brother and the second brother heard what the third one said, another stone fell to the ground.

"I discussed it with your eldest brother. You will leave the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, everyone will come to my place, call my old uncle, and work out the accounts together. There are other things that we can do together."

The next day, everyone gathered at the home of Laoer County.

First, the second daughter-in-law gave everyone the bill for handling my funeral affairs and the gift money received. The total cost was less than 2, yuan, and the gift money received went to their own.

the eldest brother and the second child will pay the big part, the third child will pay a small part, and the younger sister will pay 1 thousand.

The third child said to be like the boss and the second child, and the second child said that it is not easy for you to be outside, so just do what you just said.

Lao San thought to himself, in fact, you don't have to feel guilty. No matter where our mother is buried, she is the same mother, and the expenses for the three brothers should be the same. However, the eldest brother and the second brother insisted on that, and they agreed without saying anything. Big brother and second brother have a big head, and they and little sister have a small head. How do you feel like big brother and second brother paid money to buy out the ownership of mother on behalf of the Li family?

Then the second daughter-in-law gave me the medical expenses for seeing a doctor, including how much insurance has been reported at present, how much insurance has not been reported, and how much everyone has paid.

because the old house has not been sold, we calculated the general ledger according to how much the market price can sell, and we should be able to get an extra one or two hundred thousand in the end.

The second child suggested that the third child take the extra money, and how to use it was decided by the third child.

the second child said that when our mother left, she always hoped to get another one for the third child's father, and she didn't want the third child's father to be buried there alone.

This is really my idea. I know that I am a dying person who can't beat the eldest brother's second child, and my third child and daughter can't change anything. But the third child and his daughter's father can't be alone. I told the second child my idea, and the second child promised that if the third child agreed, he would help to find a suitable one for his father.

Lao San said on the spot that it was hard to accept that his father was buried with a stranger who was not his mother.

The second child says that it is up to the third child, who is still young. Maybe he will change his mind when he gets old.

under the witness of his uncle, all my affairs are in order.

"Little sister, third brother will leave tomorrow, and my parents are gone. You are the one I am most worried about."

"don't worry, third brother, I am so old that I will take care of myself. If you are outside, call back often. "

"Well, call me if you have any difficulties, or go to see Big Brother and Second Brother."

......

Lao San insisted that no one should send him, a backpack and a luggage case, and walked to the bus station.

My third year of high school started studying outside, and after graduation, I worked outside. I can't remember how many times I watched him drag a box, carry a backpack, walk out of the gate and disappear into the alley. Every time he leaves, I