These words touched Lao Zhoutou's heart, and he sighed.
Boss Zhang asked, "How come there are no people?"
Old Zhou lowered his eyes and said, "We met bandits."
"Why didn't you go get the bones back?" Zhang Laoer asked: "If you don't return to your hometown while you are alive, you will always come back after you die, right?"
"It's in Liangzhou, and it happened three years ago. I can't get it back even if I look for it."
Boss Zhang glanced at the Taoist priests in the yard and said, "But it's useless to summon souls. Aren't these Taoist priests all liars? Instead of spending this money, you might as well keep it for living people."
Boss Zhang originally wanted to lay the groundwork a little longer, but now that he had finished talking, he asked directly, "Why did you invite so many people? I looked outside, what is this place in your village?"
Are you here both inside and outside?"
Lao Zhoutou said "hmm".
Mr. Zhang slapped his thigh and said: "You are confused, cousin, when did you become so unclear? Just invite a few people who are close to you and have a good relationship. Plus the relatives from outside, there will be seven or eight tables.
That’s pretty much it, why did you even invite those relatives who are crooked?”
Old Zhoutou snorted coldly in his heart, and said in a neither soft nor hard tone: "Aren't the people my cousin brought this time all relatives who can't be found even after turning around the corner?"
Boss Zhang's face darkened and he said seriously: "Those are all members of your cousin's aunt's family. For the two generations above, we all have the same ancestors. Without them, how could we have aunts? How could we have you without aunts?
?”
"I don't know them," Lao Zhoutou has never been thin-skinned, so he is not afraid to say, "If my cousin hadn't brought them here, I wouldn't have said hello to them when I saw them on the street."
Boss Zhang: ...We can’t continue talking today.
When Lao Zhou saw him choked, he snorted proudly.
That he treats a lot of guests?
Humph, how could he not know that he had many guests?
But what can he do?
Every household in Qili Village knows about Zhou Yin, and even every household is involved. This matter has been settled today. Should he invite this family, not that family, or neither family?
The old Zhou family wants to continue to live in Qili Village, so of course they have to invite everyone. When he dies, there will definitely not be such a pomp. When the time comes, Dalang invites several close family members, with about ten people.
The table is almost there.
In fact, he would rather invite the whole village once than Zhang's family.
They say they are close by blood, but in fact they don't have much affection.
Blood ties are also maintained through contact. How much love can there be without contact?
He and the Zhang family would hurt each other once they met. It would be better not to meet at all.
Lao Zhoutou took out the pipe, but did not smoke it.
Boss Zhang was silent for only a moment and then continued: "I'm not talking about your cousin. I know you made such a big show out of guilt, but the person is already dead. No matter how big you make it, he won't be able to see it. It's better to keep it."
Things for living people to use."
"I remember that my second cousin was very transparent on this point. When he was young, he would go to my house..."
"How young were you?" Lao Zhou interrupted angrily, "Cousin, I don't remember my second brother ever going to your house when he was young."
"Why haven't you been there? My aunt took him there," Zhang Laoer said: "Cousin, I have wanted to tell you for a long time. If you just want to compensate your cousin, it should be in a place where you can benefit. Now you
What's the point of inviting the whole village to dinner? What's their relationship with my cousin? In terms of blood relationship, my eldest brother and I are the closest people to my cousin. If you want to compensate him, you have to look at the living people first.
After taking care of it, my cousin Izumi Izumi will be unhappy, will he?"
Boss Zhang nodded in agreement.
Lao Zhou was so shocked that he almost dropped the cigarette pouch in his hand.
Man Bao on the side was also shocked and shouted: "So my uncle is not my biological uncle?"
Lao Zhou turned around and slapped Man Bao on the little head, shouting: "What nonsense are you talking about? He and I are biological brothers, how could we not be biologically related? Cousin, don't talk nonsense. It's best to be with you."
Someone close to me? Then who am I?”
"Then aren't you sorry for him? Apart from your family, aren't we the ones closest to your cousin?"
Lao Zhou said "I" and was speechless.
Zhang Laodaodao: "Cousin, don't blame me for speaking harshly. If you ask me, it was you who killed my second cousin. I don't know how sad my aunt is underneath."
"That's right," Zhang Laoer continued: "Back then, my aunt loved my little cousin the most. Before she died, she told you to take good care of your little cousin and take good care of us. But what about you..."
Zhang Laoer snorted and said: "When you have a daughter-in-law, you forget about your mother. As soon as my aunt left, you fell out with our family. That's okay. We are outsiders after all, so we can't argue with you."
, but Zhou Yin is your biological brother."
Mr. Zhang nodded repeatedly and said: "My aunt and uncle left half of his family property. They have worked hard all their lives and nothing else. They have to keep the money to marry my second cousin, right?"
"Even if you don't stay, you still have to raise someone well. My aunt married you a wife, shouldn't you raise her other son?" Zhang Laoer continued: "What about you, huh, marry
He married a femme fatale and actually sold my aunt’s youngest son.”
Lao Zhou twirled his tobacco with shaking hands and said with red eyes: "We don't want to sell our second brother..."
"That said, didn't you sell them in the end?" Zhang Laoer interrupted, "You have so many sons, why don't you just sell any of them? If not, you still have a daughter, so you can sell your daughter, because girls always
It's more valuable than a boy, but you couldn't bear to part with Zhou Xi, but sold your own brother, and Zhou Yin doesn't know why he hates you in his heart."
"That's right, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed away from home for so many years."
The village chief on the side couldn't stand listening anymore and stepped forward and said: "Don't talk nonsense. It was Uncle Yin who wanted to go out on his own back then. It's not like you don't know that the fields were so dry back then that you would probably starve to death if you didn't go out."
Many families in the village have people dying of hunger."
"Of course we know, because two people died in our family, but theirs didn't!" Zhang Laodao said: "Why didn't anyone in your family die? It wasn't because you sold Zhou Yin for food to survive. If you hadn't sold the people,
He will not leave his hometown and die outside."
Lao Zhou closed his mouth tightly and said nothing. Boss Zhang pressed forward step by step: "When he died, he might have hated you in his heart, so if you really think about it, we brothers are the closest people to Zhou Yin. You
Do you think that because you invited a Taoist priest for him and invited the whole village to hold a funeral ceremony for him, he will forgive you?"
"You can dream, you can be nicer to the people he cared about during his lifetime, and his resentment will be lighter."
Lao Zhou lowered his head and said nothing, but the village chief was very angry, but he was a generation younger, so some words were hard to say.