Chapter 377 Money should be spent wisely【Please subscribe】
Zhao Mingyang walked into the mourning hall. There was a rented coffin refrigerator placed in the middle of the main hall, and the body was placed in it. This was to show the relatives the last side of the deceased and then take it to the crematorium a few days later.
The custom in Gu Man's family is to keep the body at home for two days. After two days, it will be taken to the crematorium after relatives have seen it, and then buried.
Zhao Mingyang had no interest in seeing this old man, and Gu Man probably didn't have any interest in seeing him either.
There were two rows of people kneeling on the straw mats on both sides of the coffin, all the deceased old man's juniors.
This old man has no descendants. I heard from Gu Man that he was an old bachelor. During his lifetime, he worked as a gatekeeper at the primary school in the town.
The funeral affairs of Grandpa Gu Man were arranged by the descendants of the old man’s brothers. Among those kneeling there to watch the funeral was Gu Man’s father.
Of course, these descendants did not help in vain. The money the old man collected for nothing was shared equally by each family, including the homestead.
Gu Man's grandfather has three brothers and two sisters. Gu Man's grandfather is the eldest brother, Gu Man's father and two brothers. The third grandfather's family has six children, four sons and two daughters.
Gu Man's father only has a daughter, and Gu Man's second uncle also has a daughter. Both of them work in companies, so both families are only children.
Grandpa Gu Mansan's family has many descendants and has always been in the town.
The people kneeling on both sides of the room were all the descendants of Grandpa Gu Mansan's family. There were quite a lot of them, ranging in sizes.
This time, their family was able to take away a lot of money from the funeral. Many of the money was paid by relatives and friends who came to attend the funeral.
Some are gifts from the older generation, such as Gu Man and his grandfathers, and some are from relatives.
Descendants of Grandpa Gu Man's cousins also came, and together with some outsiders, there were ten tables of people.
It is said that there are so few people in this town. Gu Man's grandfather is going to do something big for Gu Man's second grandfather this time. In fact, no one in the family wants to do it. After all, it is a bit shameful to die.
Gu Man and Zhao Mingyang knelt down and kowtowed in front of the freezer coffin. The deceased was the oldest, so it was okay to kowtow, but someone next to them suddenly reminded: "How many times do you have to shout, call me grandpa, grandpa!"
Zhao Mingyang~ You are so funny.
Gu Man gave Zhao Mingyang an apologetic look, and Zhao Mingyang had no choice but to shout: "Master~ah~master~ah" Anyway, that's what he meant, and then he and Gu Man stood up.
An embarrassing scene occurred. Zhao Mingyang saw the old man in the refrigerator. The top was made of glass, and he could see the body lying inside. Everyone kneeling on both sides lowered their heads, as if they were ashamed.
Zhao Mingyang took a look and realized that it was true that the old man was lying there with an indescribably weird expression on his face, an expression of enjoyment, and then... even though he was wearing a shroud, he was still very strong.
Gu Man glanced at it and walked out quickly, Damn! He really made future generations the laughing stock of others. Fortunately, the person who died was not his own grandfather, and he didn't know what his grandfather thought, and he still wanted to take care of it.
This is really embarrassing. It's better to take it away to the crematorium and burn it and bury it directly.
Gu Man's father stood up and walked out of the mourning hall. This was the first time he saw Zhao Mingyang. The two men suddenly fell into embarrassment. Gu Man's father didn't know how to say the first words to Zhao Mingyang.
"Hello, uncle, my condolences." Zhao Mingyang took the lead to break the embarrassment.
"Well, have you eaten? If not, go to Grandpa Nini's house to eat and ask Nini to take you there." Gu Man's father said.
When Zhao Mingyang heard this, he understood that Gu Man's nickname was Nini.
"I'm not hungry yet, you can go about your business." Zhao Mingyang ended the awkward chat.
Gu Man was really satisfied with Zhao Mingyang's performance, he could handle various scenes and people with ease.
Zhao Mingyang looked at the people in the courtyard who were busy. This season belongs to early autumn. It is a bit cold in the morning and evening and hot at noon, but it is still relatively hot when walking around.
The temperature is in the 20s, which is the most comfortable season.
Zhao Mingyang and Gu Man said, "You go and do your work first. Leave me alone. I'll just take a walk by myself."
"Okay, you can take a stroll, I have to kneel down and bow in various ways. We have too many rules." Gu Man left after saying that.
Zhao Mingyang glanced at the sky. The starry sky was so beautiful. The night sky in the countryside was very pure, without any neon lights.
Occasionally in the mourning hall, I heard someone entering the room and shouting and pretending to cry. There is a saying that goes like this: A daughter-in-law cries when her parents-in-law are hypocritical; a son-in-law cries when his father-in-law and mother-in-law are just old donkeys farting.
Not to mention Gu Man, the childless second grandfather, these people who come to pay homage are probably just going through the motions.
I asked someone where the nearest canteen was, and the person told Zhao Mingyang that it was nearby and it only took two or three minutes to walk.
Zhao Mingyang turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone. This is still a town, which is better. There is a light on the road, but there is no one in the alley. He is afraid of missing the light. Some roads will dig some small pits to drain the accumulated water.
I came to the canteen and took a look. It was a self-built house. The place was not small, and everything was sold, including Sprite and Thunderbolt. They were also sold mixed with fake cigarettes and fake wine, which had a very high hit rate.
It is difficult to deal with counterfeit goods purchased in shops in the town, because there is no other department except the police station. If you want the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to deal with it, you have to come from the county, and it may not be available in three to five days. Therefore, counterfeit goods are extremely rampant in rural markets.
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Zhao Mingyang gave the canteen owner a thousand yuan and asked him to deliver 20 boxes of purified water, five boxes of drinks with Sprite, Coke and black tea, and two boxes of Red Bull.
Then I bought two more boxes of biscuits. It was a small amount of money to do a big thing.
One thousand yuan can let Gu Man's family and the people who help with the wedding know who bought the water and the biscuits. It is also money spent wisely.
After a while, the canteen owner followed Zhao Mingyang on a tricycle to the house of Grandpa Gu Man.
Zhao Mingyang arranged to move water into the side bed in the mourning hall. A group of people looked at Zhao Mingyang's operation and praised him. Especially Gu Man's father felt that it was very honorable.
The owner of the canteen also asked the person in the mourning hall who Zhao Mingyang was. This was a big order that this canteen had not seen in several years. He bought so many drinks at once.
After Zhao Mingyang finished doing this, he drove to the town for a walk, looking at where breakfast was sold and where the restaurants were, and finally settled on a steamed bun shop.
I gave the store 200 yuan, meat buns for 5 yuan a basket, vegetable buns for 4 yuan, and rice porridge and soy milk for 1 yuan.
Zhao Mingyang ordered twenty steamed buns, half vegetarian and half meat, as well as twenty portions of rice porridge and soy milk. He also ordered some fried dumplings and tofu rolls, and the remaining twenty yuan was used for running errands.
The breakfast restaurant Zhao Mingyang found was about five minutes away by bicycle from Gu Man's second grandfather's house.
He gave the other party his address and also left the mobile phone number of Gu Man's father, so that he could contact them tomorrow to deliver the meal.
After everything was settled, Zhao Mingyang brought a bunch of food back for the people keeping watch.
All this made Gu Man very satisfied. Zhao Mingyang had cooked all the noodles well, and also took two pieces of Huazi from the car and gave them to Gu Man's father for them to smoke at night.
Everyone in Bai Shi knew that Gu Man had found a good man, and the mouths of a group of people were all blocked by Zhao Mingyang.
The actual cost was not large, much lower than inviting these people to a restaurant for a meal, and the effect was not as good. The wake was sleepy and hungry, but Zhao Mingyang solved their problems so that they could feel comfortable.
The obedient vigil.
Zhao Mingyang and Gu Man left after being busy until around ten o'clock in the evening. Tomorrow is when everyone will come, and after viewing the deceased, they will take them away for cremation.
Zhao Mingyang brought a bunch of food and Gu Man back to his grandfather's house, which was not far from his second grandfather's house and only a two- to three-minute walk away.
This house is obviously much better than Gu Man's second grandfather's house. It should have been rebuilt and looks like a courtyard. The yard is paved with stone slabs and there is a small garden.
There was an old man sitting in the hospital, smoking a cigarette, and the ground in front of him was covered with cigarette butts.
The old man raised his head and looked at Gu Man and Zhao Mingyang and said, "Nini is back. Do you smoke?"
The old man gestured to Zhao Mingyang with a pack of cigarettes. Zhao Mingyang quickly took out the money and handed one to him and said, "Grandpa smokes."
Gu Man did not dare to smoke at home. If someone saw her, her parents would beat her to death. If they really beat her, her family would not know about her smoking at all.
