There are three major events in life: birth, marriage, and death. Happy events such as the birth of a child can be said to be careless, but weddings and funerals are the most important and most likely to offend people.
Because she had to do some errands at home and had a lot of things to do later, Le Yun didn't waste any time. She took her brother upstairs and changed her brother into a crow-green windbreaker with a straw rope tied around his waist. She also changed into black clothes.
Tie a straw rope.
I also prepared a red envelope and put it in a backpack with double shoulder straps.
After packing everything, I took my younger brother and set off with Grandpa Zhou Man.
Lan San is a full-time driver.
Mr. Lei lives in the direction of Liuzhen, which is adjacent to Jiudao. Most of the roads are urban and rural highways. The Bentley has a high chassis and has no problem driving.
The village where Mr. Lei lives still has a natural road, and four-wheeled cars can travel there.
The Bentley drove on a natural road with some potholes and drove about one thousand meters into a small village with a population of only about 200 people. The village was very green and had many trees.
Village Chief Zhou showed the way, and the car stopped in a relatively wide area. Lan San was waiting in the car.
Village Chief Zhou took the Le family siblings along a foot-wide road, bypassing several houses, and arrived at Master Lei's house.
Mr. Lei's house is a two-story small building, very grand. There are two camphor trees in front of the house, a walled yard and a gold-painted gate. There is also a big yellow dog sleeping in front of the house.
The big yellow dog barked when it saw strangers. It barked and wagged its tail at the Le family siblings.
As soon as the dog barked, the owner came out of the house. Mr. Lei was in his fifties, wearing a leather jacket and a dog-skin hat. His mother-in-law was a fat woman, wearing a thin woolen coat with flowers.
Master Lei recognized Village Chief Zhou, greeted him with a smile, and asked people to come in and sit down.
Village Chief Zhou agreed, entered the yard, and walked less than four meters to the entrance of the main room of the small building.
Walking in front of Mr. Lei and his wife, Le Yun knelt down and kowtowed first.
When Leshan saw her sister kneeling down, she also knelt down with a plop, kneeling on the cement floor in front of Lei's house, and kowtowed to the bottom.
When a family has to hold a funeral, a filial son and a filial grandson must kowtow when he invites his master, but a non-filial son and filial grandson do not need to kowtow when he invites others.
Master Lei is a well-known master from far and wide. He has also been to Jiudao and met the Lejia girl.
He recognized the Le family girl. He had seen the Le family sister and brother with straw ropes tied around their waists before, so he did not say hello. When the Le family sister and brother kowtowed according to local custom, he and his wife quickly helped the Le family sister and brother up.
"Get up, it's hard for you siblings to have such filial piety. The Le family girl built a school, donated books, and donated equipment to the hospital to save people. Her merits are immeasurable."
Master Lei helped the Le family sister and brother up, and his expression changed. He was very grateful. One of his grandsons is in kindergarten and will go to elementary school in the second half of the year. He has enjoyed the blessing of a one-stop donation from the Le family girls from kindergarten to junior high school. Also, because the kindergarten has books
With computers and musical instruments, the little grandson who used to be naughty and noisy became very interested in musical instruments and became much more sensible.
The girl from the Le family has been so kind to the whole town. If it weren't for the fact that she came to the Lei family as a filial son and grandson, he would have gone out to entertain distinguished guests from afar, and he would not have dared to accept her great gift.
"Master Lei, you're welcome. I only did what I thought I should do." Le Yun stood up, took out the red envelope and handed it over: "My aunt passed away unfortunately early in her life. I want to take my aunt's remains back to her hometown tomorrow to let her
For peace of mind, the Le family would like to invite Master Lei and other masters to go to the Le family tomorrow morning to do the water and land dojo."
"Aunt Le's family suffered misfortune, which made people cry. Miss Le and Xiao Leshan express their condolences and accept the change." Master Lei accepted the red envelope and agreed: "Don't worry, we will take over this matter.
There is no need to invite people from one family to another. Village Chief Zhou mentioned it to me before, and I also told my companions that if you come, I will invite a team of us. We will go there tomorrow morning and I promise not to miss you.
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The Le family has something to do and needs to prepare in advance. There are a lot of trivial things, so you siblings should go back and arrange them first."
"Okay, I'll take the little ones back right now, and I'll leave the rest to Master Lei." Village Chief Zhou was polite and gave Master Lei a pack of cigarettes.
"Don't worry, I, Lao Lei, keep what I say." Master Lei took the cigarette readily and sent the three of them off without leaving anyone to sit.
After he sent the people out of the yard, he stayed and waited for Village Chief Zhou and the Le family siblings to turn around the road, then turned back to the yard and went into the house to open the red envelope.
Miss Le's red envelope was very thick, containing three thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars.
Masters have rules for what they do. One person in the water and land dojo is one thousand six hundred, and a general funeral is eight hundred. The price is clearly marked, so no one can deceive anyone.
If the host is generous, he will give the masters cigarettes, meat, wine, etc. after the funeral.
The number of people in the master's team is usually one to play the drum, one to play the gong, one to play the trumpet, and one to play the cymbal, also called the Four Vajras or the Four Arhats.
The cymbal is a Taoist instrument, similar to a round straw hat. There is a small ring on the protruding round head. When using it, the small ring is usually placed on the thumb or index finger, supported by the other four fingers, and one hand is held in each hand.
The cymbals collide with each other to produce sound.
Hitting cymbals means "joking and irresponsible" in the proverbs of some places. In folk funeral teams, hitting cymbals is very particular and there are many rules. If not done correctly, it will produce unpleasant and harsh sounds.
, If you don’t learn well and don’t become a teacher, you can’t be a teacher either.
It is said that during a funeral, the master who plays the cymbal will know whether the owner's family is going well, whether the family is safe, and whether the animals are prosperous as soon as he plays the cymbal.
Master Lei's magical weapon is a copper cymbal. He looked at the red envelope, went to get his own magical weapon, burned a handful of paper in front of the ancestor's tablet in the middle hall, took the cymbal and started playing, and then started the hexagram.
His mother-in-law looked at the divination, one yin and one yang, which was very good. The money on the paper was all white, which was also a good omen.
Master Lei made a divination, put the magic weapon in a cloth bag, and hung it on the left side of the ancestral altar in the middle hall. He then called his companions on his mobile phone and told them to go to work at Lejia in Meicun tomorrow.
His companions readily agreed and made an appointment on the departure time and where to meet.
Village Chief Zhou took the little boy out of Lei's house, returned directly to the parking place, got in the car and returned to the village.
Handsome Lan returned to Plum Village along the same route, but the car was still in the garage.
Village Chief Zhou went to Lejia again and caught the little boy to discuss some details of the funeral. The kitchen was set in the backyard of the south building of Lejia because the coffin was to be placed in the living room on the first floor of the north building, and the coffin was for men on the left and women on the right, so the coffin was just right.
In the food room and kitchen area, you will not be able to use the kitchen starting tomorrow afternoon.
The door to the food room is also blocked and cannot be used at that time. Some ingredients must be moved to the kitchen of the south building for storage in advance. The kitchen can be built in the backyard of the south building, and it is also convenient to access the ingredients.
The living rooms on the second floor of the south and north buildings have been set up for banquets, and about ten tables are expected to be set up at Grandma Zhou’s house.
The old man and the young man discussed and planned the funeral arrangements. Village Chief Zhou made a list of things to borrow, who needed to be invited, who would cook, who would carry the coffin, and who would be the errand boys responsible for serving food and wine.
Who washes dishes etc.
Grandpa Zhou Man was making a list, calculating what items to purchase. Le Yun also made a list to Handsome Lan, and asked him and Mr. Li to fly a helicopter to the county town to purchase, and asked Mr. Yi Laoyan to help tidy up the living room on the second floor.<
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Lan San received the mission and happily flew the helicopter. He took Mr. Li to the county, parked the plane in a public square, and then went to the supermarket to purchase. The two of them swept up all the milk and bagged candy in the two supermarkets.
Biscuits and other foods.
Veteran Yi Laoyan moved all the furniture in the living room on the second floor of the North and South Buildings to the guest room for storage. He also put away some calligraphy and paintings, leaving a few for decoration.
It wouldn’t be too late to tidy up the living room on the first floor until noon tomorrow.
Le Yun first moved the large bookcase and other large items from the living room on the second floor of the north building, and then went downstairs to carry the ingredients with Dad Le and Aunt Feng to the kitchen of the south building. After only a dozen trips, her uncle and aunt also arrived.
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Chen Kang and Zhou Wei knew that Xiao Lele buried Le Ya during the Qingming Festival, so they also returned to their hometown early. They set off yesterday evening and took the high-speed train to Yishi, and then transferred to Jiudao.
The old couple brought only simple luggage. When they arrived at Lejia, they saw that their nephew's family was busy. When they heard that a big event was going to be held, their eyes became red and they kept saying that it should be done.
The couple took a break and then went to help.
Leshan couldn't help, so he went to study on the third floor of the south building by himself so as not to get in the way.
It took the old and young men more than two hours to sort out their belongings, and then they had time to talk. Before they had rested for an hour, the handsome guy Lan San came back, and he was busy again.
The items that handsome guy Lan brought back were temporarily placed in the warehouse. Most of the grain in the warehouse was removed, and there was enough space to store the items.
After moving the items, it was almost evening.
Le Yun waited until it was getting dark and took her younger brother to kowtow at the homes of the neighbors who were expected to invite help.
Rural people will hire a supervisor when organizing a funeral, and hand over the money for the funeral to the supervisor. Then they don't have to worry about trivial matters and just kowtow.
When asking for help at a funeral, you must send someone to kowtow, whether it is a relative, a relative, friend or neighbor who can help. Anyway, people will not come if you don’t kowtow. As long as someone kowtows, they will be invited.
Unless people really have something they have to do and can't get away, they will help no matter how busy they are.
Le Yun took her younger brother, starting from Grandma Zhou's house, then to Zhang Poluo's house and the three houses around Zhang's house, kowtowing one by one, then detouring to Chen Dalian's house, Chen Dalu's house, and then to Aunt Pa's house.
Zhou Qi and several families named Zhou.
Then he went around to the houses of Liu Lu and Liu Lu's cousins, then to Cheng Youde's house, and ran in a circle around the village.
Brother Zhou had not yet stopped working when the Le family brothers came to ask for help. When he returned home, he heard from his old mother that Xiao Lele had brought Leshan to the house to kowtow and said that he wanted to hold a funeral for her aunt and asked the couple to help them without even changing their clothes.
Passed Lejia.
I went to Le's house to find my sister and brother-in-law and asked them when things would be done and what they needed him to do. After asking him clearly, he went back to his home to change clothes and eat.
In the Zhou family, the Liu family, the Zhang family, and other families, some of the principals were not at home, and the elderly or women were at home. They kowtowed to the elder sister of the Le family, and when the principals came back, they also made it clear that the Le family had invited people to help.
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The middle-aged people from each family did not refuse. After dinner, they went to Le's house to see Village Chief Zhou to report and pick up their errands.
Chen Kang was filled with emotion that the neighbors were so enthusiastic. This was all thanks to Xiao Lele. She was friendly to her neighbors, so she sows good and reaps good.
This chapter has been completed!