Porridge and side dishes [farming]

Chapter 101 A Late Funeral

Er Gouzi touched the box, as if he was facing a relative who had been separated for a long time.

"Without me, my mother can have enough food. She won't be hungry and can find more food. Without me, she can live better."

Li Ji said more than once that children will inherit incense, and people need children.I also talked about children from others, as if children are the meaning of life.

Perhaps because of the different environment in which he grew up, Li Ji had completely different ideas from them.

Too many people can't even eat enough for themselves, why should they raise a child to suffer together?

Li Ji couldn't think of an answer for a while, so he opened the curtains to look at the scenery outside the window, and he arrived after a long time: "Many things are meaningless, and you really let nature take its course. For your whole life, what is left after death is a handful of soil , Just a few bones. When a person dies with nothing in his hand, what can he leave in the world? A child should be one of them. A child grows up with the dead, and then it is passed on to future generations. Then the trace of this person in the world will always be there. But that’s not the only meaning of a person’s life.”

Li Ji touched the little guy on the shoulder who kept making small movements, and said: "It's like now. I think the meaning of my life lies in you. The meaning of your life also lies in me. We don't need to think about what will be left after death We are together when we are alive, and we are buried together when we die. Whether we are reincarnated in the future or live underground, we have never been separated, and that is enough. It doesn’t matter if children are not children.”

This is Li Ji's heartfelt words.Ergouzi's thinking is different from that of normal people, and the emphasis is different.After hearing this, I just felt better, and said:

"Then can I think this way. I was left by my mother in this world. She left me, and then I met you. I was left by my mother. I was born to meet you.

Li Ji didn't quite understand this kind of statement, half-understood.Li Ji could only roughly understand what [-] Gouzi meant, so he clicked on the picture lightly, and he agreed.

Then Er Gouzi smiled and said: "Then I won't think about it anymore. As long as I can see you and be with you, then I don't care what happens in a year."

It's a simple cause and effect relationship.Everyone on this line is Er Gouzi and Li Ji's matchmaker.

Li Yan gave birth to Er Gouzi, and the villagers excluded their mother and daughter.Li Yan was afraid that Er Gouzi would be bullied, so she only let Er Gouzi play in the mountains.Ergouzi was lost for 13 years, and Li Yan was dead when he came back.It is a burden for the villagers to avoid being a second dog. Li Ji adopted him and the two lived together.

Everything went smoothly as if it had come naturally.

"Good boy." Li Ji reached out to pat Er Gouzi on the shoulder, but he touched the little squirrel, so he patted the little squirrel's head.

Immediately, both Songsong and Taotao jumped off their shoulders and jumped out along the window. Li Ji looked back, but was stopped by Er Gouzi: "Don't look back."

It is said that turning around at this time will attract bad luck, so Er Gouzi is more rigorous than Li Ji.Er Gouzi is not afraid of bad luck, he is not afraid of anything, only he is afraid of something bad happening to Li Ji.

Li Ji stopped his movements, paused and said, "They must have gone home."

"You can't leave one of the little tails. The three of them always stay together." Er Gouzi understood what the two little guys were thinking.Comforting Li Ji, he said, "We will be able to go back soon."

"Yeah." Songsong Taotao went home, which made Li Ji, who couldn't go home for the time being, somewhat concerned.But thinking about going back soon, it's not that uncomfortable.

The journey was not far, and he soon entered the county, and went round and round into the county grandpa's mansion.

Li Ji was taken aback when he got out of the car, because he was welcoming his wife home, and it was Li Yan who opened the front door and let Li Yan in.At the main entrance, white lanterns were hung high and covered with white silk.Looking at it from a distance, you can tell that this is a funeral.

If it is said that Li Yan died in the county magistrate's mansion, the funeral should be done as it should be, even if he just died and was brought in from outside, as long as he can bear the name of his wife, the funeral will be done.But Li Yan had died outside for 15 years, and now it was only the bones that were brought back. The county magistrate's mansion has been arranged to give Li Yan a serious official funeral.

There were two rows of servants in mourning clothes standing at the door. Although they were not crying bitterly, they were mourning.

Just looking at it like this, Li Ji felt warm in his heart.His eyes were wet, and he didn't know what other people were thinking. At this moment, just looking at her like this, Li Ji felt that Li Yan's life was worthwhile.

The Taoist told Er Gouzi, shouted twice, and told Li Yan that he was home.

Er Gouzi held a box of soil, walked up the steps, and looked at the scenery in the yard. The sound at that moment was heard far away.

"Mom, I'm home."

The servants knelt down one after another, and some cried out.

They all knew that they didn't know Li Yan at all, and crying like this was just a way for servants to express their loyalty to their master.But no one will pursue these at this moment.

It's a good thing for someone to cry when someone is gone, at least it means they care.

The butler was dressed in hemp and led the group directly to the mourning hall set up in the courtyard.

The county magistrate was standing in the mourning hall at this time, the incense table and offerings were all ready, and two servants were kneeling in front of a large iron basin, burning paper.

Everyone is ready, just waiting for the hostess to be in place.

The county magistrate saw Er Gouzi coming over with the box in his arms, and his eyes fell on it. Deep in his eyes, there was an indescribable sadness.

"I'm back." The magistrate's eyes were red, and his voice was a little hoarse, "Bring your mother back."

Put the soil on the altar and offer it, and then put the coffin containing Li Yan's bones in the mourning hall.

The servant who burned the paper kowtowed.The county magistrate asked Er Gouzi to kneel on the futon and burned a few more pieces of paper for Li Yan.

The county magistrate couldn't take his eyes off the small coffin, his heart was overwhelmed, but his face was a little numb.

Li Ji went over and said in a low voice: "Let me kowtow to Madam."

According to seniority, Li Ji and Li Yan are of the same generation, burning paper is acceptable but kowtowing is not.But Li Ji and Er Gouzi are a couple, so they can call Li Yan a mother.

The magistrate nodded.Now that the relationship between the two has been acquiesced, of course this kind of thing will not be rejected.

Li Ji knelt beside Er Gouzi, burning paper with Er Gouzi.The county magistrate and Li Yan are husband and wife, so there is no need for a big gift.

The magistrate of the county lit three incense sticks and put them in the incense burner.

Then he walked to the side of the coffin, stroked the coffin, looked at it for a while, and then leaned over the coffin, only feeling his shoulders twitch, it is not difficult to guess the ups and downs of his emotions at this time.

The husband and wife who have been separated for 20 years are finally reunited at this moment.It's a pity, it's already an eternity between heaven and man.

This is a very formal funeral for Li Yan, and no one outside has followed suit.But there is a big white lantern hanging at the gate, and anyone passing by can tell that it is a funeral.

The news of the big family spread quickly, and it didn't take much thinking to understand that the protagonist was Li Yan.

Soon some clever people came to the door, sending some gifts and funerals.Wreaths are valuable, and they show filial piety.

The county magistrate accepted them all.Only 20 taels of silver will be charged, and any excess will be returned.Although it is not easy to refund money for things like funerals, the county magistrate ordered his servants to make excuses and send back the extra money when he turned around.For example, gifts for old people's birthdays and happy events at home.

The magistrate didn't entertain anyone who came, but stayed in the mourning hall with Li Yan.It was not until evening that there were fewer people.

Burned the paper and kowtowed.He also didn't let Li Ji Er Gouzi go to entertain the guests. If he wanted to accompany Li Yan, he would stay in the mourning hall. If he couldn't stay, he would stay in his yard.

People have been gone for so many years, and their memories are blurred. It is unrealistic to say how much their backs are.The county magistrate will not use filial piety to suppress the two, they can do as they please.

Li Ji and Er Gouzi burned the paper for a while, during which time the ashes were cleared twice.Li Ji stood up after waiting for the ashes on the censer to pile up.

"Let Master and Madam be alone for a while, they haven't seen each other for 20 years." Li Ji said to Er Gouzi.

Er Gouzi nodded.The two kowtowed three times, stood up and helped each other out of the mourning hall.

Back in the yard, a servant gave me snacks to satisfy my hunger.There is a funeral at home, and the whole family must eat three meals a day together.At this time, the magistrate of the county was with Li Yan, and Li Ji and Er Gouzi couldn't cook alone, so they could only eat some snacks.

It's already afternoon, and if you say you're hungry, the two of you are really hungry.Li Ji took a sip of tea, felt better, and then said: "This is a good thing. Mother, she has been alone on the mountain for so long, and now they are reunited as husband and wife, and they have returned home."

Er Gouzi nodded, remembering the plan with the magistrate.

"How long will it take for Mother to be buried in the soil again? I will leave with a fake one in two days, is that true?"

"Your father came to arrange this." Li Jidao, "She can't be buried with great fanfare, and can't be known by outsiders. But it can't be simple either. I'm afraid it can only be buried at night. We will all go home at that time. When we find out, It will also take us to kowtow to the new grave afterwards."

Er Gouzi nodded, indicating that he understood.Pick up a piece of snack and feed it to Li Ji's lips: "Eat it, you're hungry."

Li Ji put the snacks in his mouth, ate them and said, "It's not that I haven't been hungry. Let's go to the mourning hall later and let your father rest for a while. They are husband and wife, but they still need their bodies. This offering is still You have to take turns, otherwise your body will be overwhelmed. My words may not be effective, you have to tell your father about this."

Er Gouzi nodded, indicating that he had written it down.The two ate some snacks to cushion their stomachs, and a servant thoughtfully brought up a bowl of white fungus and lotus seed soup.After the two had eaten, they didn't feel hungry anymore, so they went to the mourning hall to replace the county magistrate.

At this time, the county magistrate was standing beside Li Yan's coffin, with one hand touching the top of the coffin, his eyes were red, no more tears could be seen.There was no expression on his face, but his eyes could not leave the coffin for a moment.

Li Ji looked sad, and pulled Er Gouzi over: "It's already afternoon, you should take a rest. I know you and Madam are deeply in love with each other, but Madam must be reluctant to let you be like this. Eat something and rest. People They’ve all come back, and there’s still plenty of time after this.”

Li Ji touched Er Gouzi with his arm, and Er Gouzi followed suit and said, "Take a rest."

Li Ji was right, Er Gouzi spoke more than Li Ji.

The magistrate turned his head to look at Er Gouzi, as if looking for something on Er Gouzi's face.

"Actually, your eyebrows and eyes don't look like your mother at all. But standing there, I can be sure that you are our child. I don't know where you look like, but I feel so much like your mother. Maybe this is flesh and blood Close relatives." The magistrate's voice was very soft, a little out of breath.

Er Gouzi doesn't know how to beat around the bush, and shook his head, "I don't understand what you're saying. But I know, you and my mother have me together. Xiao Ji said that a child is one of the meanings of life. I am you stayed. Right?"

The magistrate nodded.Looking at this meticulously prepared mourning hall, I couldn't help but feel sad and said: "I heard from my servants. Li Yan didn't even have a coffin with a thin mouth, but was buried with a straw mat. When it was dug up, the straw mat was already rotten. "

Er Gouzi didn't know what this meant, because he grew up in the mountains and had no sense of dignity after death.Most of the dead animals in the mountains will be quickly eaten by other predators.If you encounter someone who eats bones, it is called dead bones.

When I was growing up, I almost never saw human beings, and all I faced were fierce beasts that were life-and-death.So Ergouzi can't understand why people have to prepare so many things in such a big way after death.People are gone, no matter how grandiosely send them away, people can’t enjoy them, can they?

"From your tone, my mother seems very pitiful. I don't think so. The person is gone, only the bones are left. In fact, she doesn't know anything. If it's gone, it's gone. Lying in the mud and turning into bones. I I think, for my mother, it is better than standing up and living. You don’t have to worry about not getting enough to eat, and you don’t have to worry about people you don’t like coming over.”

These words are purely to make the magistrate cry.It was Er Gouzi's calm tone that made the magistrate the most unbearable.

"You are suffering."

Er Gouzi took out a piece of pastry from his cuff and put it in the hands of the county magistrate: "You will have strength when you are full. This is what my mother told me. My mother has already returned home, so you don't have to guard like this."

Li Ji didn't even know when Er Gouzi hid a piece of pastry in his cuff.The magistrate of the county was pinching the dim sum in his hand, and he could feel Er Gouzi's body temperature.

This is the first time that Er Gouzi took the initiative to care about him.Although I got something from Er Gouzi before, it was all through Li Ji.Li Ji asked Er Gouzi to do it.

This snack is worthless, but Er Gouzi's change of attitude towards the magistrate is extremely precious.

The county magistrate himself couldn't explain what he felt in his heart, but he just looked at Er Gouzi's face and felt extremely at ease.

The magistrate nodded repeatedly, walked out of the mourning hall with the snacks handed over by Er Gouzi, and went back to his room to rest for a while.

Recently, Er Gouzi's performance has become more and more unexpected to Li Ji.Li Ji thought he couldn't say such words, but Er Gouzi could speak clearly, even the magistrate was convinced.

The two burned the paper for a while, but they didn't know it kept burning. After a while, it seemed that it was almost done, and some servants would come to help them up, and let the servants in the mansion burn the paper instead.

When the burnt paper reaches the ground, it is the money in the hands of the deceased.It is said that after death, the soul is hooked to the underground hall of Hades.

Among them, great benevolent people will be able to go to heaven to become immortals if their merits and virtues are perfect, and those who commit heinous crimes will be sent to hell to serve their sentences.

Those who are neither high nor low will continue to reincarnate.However, this reincarnation is not a direct reincarnation after death, it also depends on merit and timing.You have to line up to reincarnate.Some rows last hundreds or thousands of years. During this period, they live in the underground underworld.

The place there is the same as the mortal world, what is in the mortal world, what is in the underworld.However, all the silver spent in the underworld was burnt on the ground.Things made of burnt paper are real when they get there.What golden boy and jade girl, what paper cow paper horse, are all wealth in the underworld.

It is precisely because of such legends that when big families hold funerals, they burn as much as they can, so that the family members can still be rich when they go underground.

It was dark.The butler came over and asked the two to go to the dining room for dinner.This is a funeral for Li Yan, and the food is mainly vegetarian.However, there is no reduction in food availability. It is still a large table of dishes. You can’t eat much after this meal, and the rest will be rewarded to the servants. If the servants don’t eat, they will feed the animals raised in other courtyards. Livestock, in short, will not be wasted.

After the meal is over, there is no rush to get off the table.The magistrate said something about going home again.

"I've heard about what happened to you today. Your old man is indeed a headache. But because of his seniority, none of you can do anything about him. Today's matter was dismissed by a fictional bully. From now on, as long as you If Er Gouzi is in the village, he will inevitably be tricked by someone with a heart."

Li Ji too agrees with this point of view.He nodded and said: "Not only the old man, but also those who have a heart in the side are enough to cause headaches. I can rely on my seniority to get rid of people who are cheap on the surface. Except for God's accident. But if someone turns around , I can't refuse too much. It's like if someone asks me to send his girl to Ergouzi's house as a concubine, I can refuse. But if someone asks the girl to come to my house to help, I can't push it out Yes. If you meet a father like Li Shuisheng back then, and teach the girl some nonsense, it will not be enough to cause trouble."

The biggest advantage of this is marriage.This is a long-term interest hub.Although Li Yan has become a decent wife, but she is dead, and there is not much benefit she can bring to the clan.The best way to maximize the benefits is to have a new marital connection.

Because I don't know who Er Gouzi's father is, and where he is, he can't give Er Gouzi his father, because Er Gouzi is the best piece of fat.

Don't say it's a girl to be Er Gouzi's concubine, it's a good thing to be a girl in the same room.Just like Zhao Ruyue back then, after she had a relationship with her master, she would serve as an aunt when she returned to the village.

It cannot be said that Li Ji thinks too badly of the villagers, it can only be said that it is the environment.Marrying one's own cousins ​​is a good thing to get closer, even a matter of course.What's more, it's just a concubine's room, and it doesn't occupy the wife's position, it's just a little effort.

But for ordinary people, being able to be close to a rich family is a good thing for the ancestral grave to smoke.If you refuse, you will be disregarding family affection, or even not knowing what is good or bad.

"This is easy. I only talk about the rules of big families. You can't take concubines before you marry a wife. Otherwise, even if you are given a title, the wife will be dismissed casually, and the husband can only nod. This is not my nonsense, originally There is such a rule. The first wife did not take a concubine before, which is a respect for the first wife. Taking a concubine must be discussed by the husband and wife. If the wife does not want to, although it will be offended, it is also the right of the wife. This has not been approved by the wife. The concubine's room that I took in was not justified, so I threw it away and there was nothing to reason about."

Extending such words can involve Li Yan.It can be said that Li Yan was abducted by the "bully" senior bully when he got married, and sent Li Yan back to the village after his wife got married.

It's just that the county magistrate can't say enough, Li Ji can think of it.

Li Ji nodded, and after being called out by the magistrate, he had several ways to deal with it in his mind.

Looking at Er Gouzi, I was thinking about the things that I would encounter in the future, and I was a little eager to try.

After eating, the county magistrate drove the two of them back to the yard to sleep.

The county magistrate decided to sit down, and Li Ji would be sent back tomorrow with great fanfare. The news in the village was different from that outside.All the big families in the county knew that if Er Gouzi went to the funeral, it would be difficult for Li Ji to stay in the mansion, so he had to be sent back.

The village didn't know anything about the county grandpa's mansion, so what Li Ji said when he went back.At that time, it is only necessary to say that the "bully" is afraid that the enemy will find Er Gouzi, so he will first keep Er Gouzi in the village.When the enemies are cleaned up in the future, or the "bully" has gone, then pick up Er Gouzi back.

The two scenes on both sides are not too difficult, but they are both very important.Whether life will be better after this depends on whether the opera can be convincing.

Go back to your own yard, because of the funeral, you can't wash up.Li Ji just washed his hands, and then lay on the bed with Er Gouzi to sleep.

At this time, Li Ji still wanted to persuade Er Gouzi.

"I'll go home first, you're only two days later than me. You stay here and get along with your father these two days. After these two days, we can both be together at home all the time. I know You are reluctant, but we have to overcome this hurdle. We want to be together, and your father can't leave it behind. It's okay for us to be separated for a day or two as a family."

While speaking, Li Ji was still touching Er Gouzi's shoulder to comfort him.

The two haven't been separated for such a long time, of course Er Gouzi doesn't want to.But Er Gouzi knew that this was the best way to solve the problem.

Er Gouzi kept silent, which actually meant acquiescing.He knew it was necessary to separate the two ends, and he couldn't refuse.His silence was just to express his dissatisfaction with the separation.

Li Ji comforted: "When I get home, I will support you in everything. If you want to go up the mountain, I won't stop you. If you want to be full, I will allow you to hug and eat a few meals. You want beef and mutton? Just kill. Having said that, we don't need to save anything now. Your father spoils you, and you will definitely have everything in the future."

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Chirp.

Uncle Si will be home tomorrow.

finally home

There won't be any superlative things in the village

In all fairness none of them can fight

In front of the fourth uncle, he is scum

So what's the plot behind it?

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emmmmmmm~

Have you forgotten that there is still war at the border?

Have you forgotten that the county magistrate is so talented?

Yes I almost forgot.

But I'm here to assure you.

No matter what kind of divine plot is behind it.They will never leave the fields and the stables again.

When did they close the door and live their own lives~

Meme Chirp