The villagers who were sitting at the home of Liu's fifth son and two families from the same clan as Liu's family gathered around to watch who came to express their condolences in the evening. Some of them returned, and some joined the crowd under the eaves or on the ground.
Grandma Zhouman and her aunt were sitting in the kitchen of Liu Wu's house with several elderly people. When they knew that Xiao Lele came to Liu Wu's house, they also ran to the corridor to watch. Because Liu Wu's family was a white family, they did not go to kiss Xiao Lele.
It smelled good, and then went back to the kitchen to sit down.
The girl from the Le family sat down at Master Lei's table. The villagers who were close to her came over to chat with the girl from the Le family. Then, for no apparent reason, their hearts brightened up and they felt extremely comfortable.
Village Chief Zhou waited for Xiao Lele to pay homage to Liu Wu, and then went to inspect various banquet places and kitchens to see how many villagers came and estimate whether the snacks bought by Liu Wu's daughter and nieces were enough.
When Liu Wu's family had finished dinner, the villagers also set off to Liu Wu's house one after another. When Liu Wu's family fired cannons and had fun, they thought it was time for mourning, so they all quickened their pace.
During the time when Le Xiao Loli entered Liu Wu's main hall to worship, several groups of villagers came in a hurry. After Xiao Loli took a seat on the floor, groups of villagers and children also poured into Liu Wu's house to set up the banquet.
The family of a villager named Liu.
The floor and corridor in front of Liu Wu's house soon became crowded with people, many of whom were children, ranging from babbling to elementary school children.
As for the children in junior high school, they lived on campus and had not yet had their holidays, so naturally they did not come to Liu Wu's house.
If school is on holiday, children from Plum Village and neighboring villages or rural streets will come, and there must be at least seven or eight tables for children alone.
Village Chief Zhou walked around twice and had a pretty good idea of what was going on. He saw that the time was already half past eight, and then communicated with the salute team and the gong and drum team.
Soon, the salute team set off firecrackers and fired a salute.
The gong and drum troupe also played music.
The women of the Liu family mourned.
The Liu family, the Zhang family, the Chen family, and the Zhou family are the backbone of Meizijing Village and have a large number of people. Liu Wu himself has two sons and two daughters, and he also has brothers and sisters.
Liu Wu's daughter and daughter-in-law were the main mourners. In addition, his nieces and nephews' wives within three servers, Liu Wu's sisters, cousins, nieces, etc. were also present to cry with him.
When she was mourning, Mrs. Liu Wu was also accompanied by her sisters-in-law to the main room, where she sat and shed tears.
Liu Wu's two daughters cried first, each for a while, then the Liu family's daughters-in-law continued to cry, and then Liu Wu's sisters and nieces took turns crying.
The mourners cried individually and then collectively.
The in-laws of Liu Wu's family and several middle-aged and elderly women in the surrounding area waited for the mourners to stop crying, so they went to try to persuade the mourning wives to have a way out.
The mourning crowd also disembarked along the slope.
The Liu family typically mourns with thunder and no rain. The mourning process is like a formality. Yan Shao and Liu Shao noticed something strange. Seeing that the villagers were very calm, they just saw the gourd and didn't ask a hundred thousand reasons.
Crying in mourning can also be divided into real crying and fake crying. The villagers also know the reason why the mourning mourners only howl but not shed many tears, and they all understand it tacitly.
The mourners were persuaded to stop, and the gongs and drums team also stopped playing mourning music.
If you take some rest, you can almost sing funeral songs.
Cheng Wu, who was in charge of beating the funeral drum, took paper money and burned it next to the drum, then set up the horizontal drum and beat the big drum.
The gong and drum troupe also played.
The dutiful son and grandson of the Liu family entered the hall, burned paper in front of the coffin, kowtowed to the group that was beating the funeral drums and singing the funeral songs, and then kowtowed to the gongs and drums group and the guests.
The filial son and grandson kowtowed, and after a sad song, Cheng Wu beat the long drum again, and the villagers who were in charge of singing began to sing.
Songs were sung over there, and the mourners gathered around the coffin again to mourn.
The villagers sang a song, and a professional singer came on stage.
The first singer was quite generous and sang quite decently. The second singer was also generous, but the third singer was not generous and sang and cursed people.
The singer scolded Liu Wu first, calling him stingy.
Liu Wu was indeed a famous stingy person during his lifetime.
Stinginess refers to stinginess in character, which refers to the amount of energy, and stinginess in material terms, which refers to being stingy with money.
Liu Wu has both. He is not big-minded. Not only will he care about trivial matters, but he will also be angry for days or fall out with others whenever someone says something wrong about him.
In terms of money, he is even more picky, not only with the outside world, but also with his own children and fellow tribesmen. When his children go to school, he will not give even a dime more than the money necessary to buy pens and ink.
None of his nieces and nephews had a penny from him when they were young.
They are even more stingy with others. For example, in the first month of the year, if someone brings a baby to visit the family, the host usually has to give a red envelope. In the past, it was usually ten or twenty yuan.
As for Liu Wu, unless his brothers and sisters bring their children to visit, he will only give a red envelope worth three or two yuan. To the little ones brought by relatives outside the third server, he will not even give red envelopes.
When entertaining guests in the first month of the year, no matter whether the family has money or not, every family has several kinds of candies, melon seeds and peanuts, etc., and Liu Wu's family only has one candy and one peanut for the first month of the year.
Sugar is the cheapest to buy. Peanuts are usually half-shrunk or poor-looking defective products selected from home-grown peanuts. The better ones are naturally sold.
Liu Wu is a well-known picker in Meizijing Village. The little cubs visited his house once when they went from house to house in the first month of the year, and they will never go there again.
The singer of the funeral song scolded Liu Wu for being stingy, but everyone in the village thought it was normal.
The singer only scolded Liu Wu, but not his children. His children also suffered from their father's stinginess, although they were inevitably influenced by their father to be more strict about money and not as generous as other Liu family members.
At least it has nothing to do with being stingy.
The singer sang in the local dialect. Yan Shao and Liu Shao could not understand the local dialect, but they were clever and asked a middle-aged woman sitting at the next table.
The middle-aged woman was fascinated by the two handsome guys calling each other "big sister", and happily helped translate.
Yan Shao and Liu Shao know what the singer is singing, and his eyes are shining behind his sunglasses. Oh my, the singer is very good, and the songs he composes are both rhyming and smooth!
Singers are fearless and can scold Liu Wu if they want.
Liu Wu's children had no choice but to kowtow.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The singer sang for more than an hour and took a break.
Village Chief Zhou took his errand boys and carried bags of snacks to the door of Liu Wu's house. He stood on the floor and announced to the visitors which of his daughters and sons-in-law was the gift.
Before distributing snacks, the salute team carried several boxes of fireworks and placed them on the roadside to set off the fireworks.
After the fireworks were set off, the errand workers carried large and small bags of snacks into the main room of Liu Wu's family. They first offered one to Liu Wushang, and then started distributing snacks from the main room.
The children were particularly happy and took out their food bags early to wait.
The person distributing snacks starts from the main room of the host's house, from the inside to the outside, from near to far, and distributes the food in order to the guests at each table, regardless of their priority.
The children brought their own food bags, and some villagers also brought their own bags, while some did not.
The first round of snacks was from the family of Liu's fifth eldest son and daughter, including a pack of instant noodles, spicy strips, round cakes, two kinds of candies and cigarettes.
The first group of errand boys to help distribute snacks were Zhang Poluo, Chen Dalian, Cheng Youde and several young and middle-aged people from the Liu family.
Zhang Poluo walked to the front and said nothing as he handed out snacks to Master Lei's table. When it was his turn to hand out snacks to Xiao Lele, he rubbed Xiao Lele's head.
"Uncle Zhang, if you touch my head again, I won't grow taller. I won't give you a share in making chicken feet with pickled peppers next time." Le Yun was brutally touched on the head and screamed while holding her head.
"Oh, let me know when Xiao Lele makes chicken feet with pickled peppers, and I will be a fireman for you." Zhang Poluo touched the little boy's head, satisfied, and continued to distribute snacks.
"I'll go too. I'll be an errand boy for Xiao Lele. Xiao Lele thinks I'm just a brick, moving it wherever it's needed." Cheng Youde and Chen Dalian also volunteered.
"You keep touching my head and I won't grow taller now. I won't tell you that my family will kill pigs and make braised pork and chicken feet with pickled peppers the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, if you don't tell me, don't tell me. We don't even know that your family kills pigs and braises chicken feet the day after tomorrow."
Cheng Youde and Chen Dalian also rubbed little Lele’s little head. Little Lele was still the naughty little kid!
After Brother Chao and his friends, the elders of the Chao family, Mrs. Wang and the medical madmen from the Military General Hospital, even the elders of Meicun Village also like to kill by touching their heads.
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Zhang Poluo and the others wanted to distribute snacks, but they didn't have time to stop and carried big bags into the crowd to distribute snacks.
There were not many kinds of snacks, and the errand runners were fast. After giving out snacks to the guests in Liu Wu's main hall and outside the house, they carried the bags to other venues where seats were set up to continue giving out snacks.
Village Chief Zhou waited for the first round of snacks to be distributed, and then led the second wave of errand boys to carry snack bags to the door of Liu Wu's main hall.
The salute team moved away the fireworks boxes and set off fireworks and salutes.
The second wave of errand boys also carried bags into Liu Wutang's house after the salute was fired. They also offered an offering in front of Liu Wutang's coffin and then distributed snacks to the guests.
The second round of snacks was a gift from Liu Wuer's daughter's house. There was also a pack of instant noodles, a pack of spicy strips, cakes, candies, and cigarettes.
The Liu sisters discussed and bought the same type of snacks, only the brands were different.
The second wave of errand workers distributed snacks, and there was also a food bag for those who did not bring a food bag to hold snacks in.
The host gives out snack bags, which means there are plenty of snacks and the children are happiest.
A few minutes after the second group of errand boys who handed out the second round of snacks left Liu Wu's old house, the third group of errand boys came on the scene carrying bags of snacks.
The third round of snacks was a gift purchased jointly by the two nieces of the brother of Liu Wuyi's mother. Since they are a partnership, there are more types of snacks.
The fourth round of snacks was a gift from the niece of Liu Wu’s younger brother.
After that, the gifts from the nieces of Liu’s fifth cousins took turns.
After the gifts from Liu Wu's daughters and nieces, came the gifts from Liu Wu's nieces, and then the gifts from Liu Wu's granddaughters.
According to custom, when Liu Wu dies, his married daughter, niece, and niece must buy snacks and give them to the guests who are accompanying the old man on his last journey that night at Liu's house.
Married granddaughters must also have a snack, while younger nieces and nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews can buy it or not.
Liu Wu's nieces and nephews also joined together to buy a snack, and his grandchildren and nieces also joined together to buy a gift.
Sister Liu and her cousins were more numerous, so there were seventeen rounds of snacks in total.
There are not many types and quantities of snacks in each round, but there are seventeen gifts, so everyone gets a big bag of snacks.
After the last round of snacks were distributed, it was already past 12:30, which was the early morning of the 29th.
After the snacks were distributed, it was time to have a midnight meal.
The villagers had little affinity with Liu Wu. They did not stay up all night with Liu Wu's family for vigil, and most of them skipped midnight meals and took snacks home. Zhu Xiaozi mingled with the villagers and left quietly.
The children sat and waited until the snacks were distributed, their excitement dissipated, and they followed the adults home one after another.
As the crowds dispersed, a large amount of space became vacant under the eaves and on the floor of Liu Wu's house.
Leyun hasn't left yet, she is waiting for her father and Aunt Feng to finish their work before going home together.
The errand workers rearranged the tables, and the villagers who had their midnight meal also took the initiative to find a place to sit, trying to sit as compactly as possible.
Village Chief Zhou went around to find out how many tables there were for midnight dinner. He then went around the kitchen and sat down at Master Lei's table.
The errand boys deliver pots, bowls and other utensils, and the waiters serve the dishes.
The midnight meal is relatively simple, with a base soup, two stir-fries, a cold dish, and also wine and drinks.
Master Lei and his companions drank milk instead of drinking alcohol.
Leyun was not hungry, but Master Lei and others were enthusiastic, so she filled a small bowl of rice with her.
Young Master Yan and Young Master Liu were not polite. They ate and drank with their masters and got along well in their group.
The woman who acted as the translator for the two young masters also stayed for midnight dinner. Liu Shaochao would come and drink two bowls of milk with Master Lei and others before running to the next table to pay respect to the middle-aged elder sister and everyone at the same table.
The middle-aged woman and the villagers at the same table were flattered by the handsome young man's compliments without leaving any trace, and they warmly invited the handsome men to sit with Miss Le at home when they were free.
She Niu Liu Shao succeeded in gaining a wave of friendship from the local people.
The midnight meal doesn't last long and can be done within forty minutes.
After dinner, while the masters were resting, Le Yun slipped to the kitchen to find her father and Aunt Feng.
Zhang Poluo and others who were helping in the kitchen saw Little Lele coming over, and one by one they ran over and touched their heads. There was nothing they could do about it. Little Lele was holding a bunch of oversized hair, which made people unable to control themselves and wanted to poke them.
Her little head.
The brothers caught the little cotton-padded jacket and patted its head wildly. Lele's father hurriedly ran over to rescue his little cotton-padded jacket, protected it in his arms, and glared at the brothers: "You guys should stop it! If you keep bullying Lele's head like this, she will ignore you, and you guys will do it again."
You have to jump up and down in a hurry."
“Yueqing is stingy.”
"That's right, Xiao Lele didn't say anything, you're just being stingy!"
The few people who successfully reached Xiao Lele's head winked at Yueqing, but did not catch Xiao Lele's head anymore and went to work in a hurry.
Lele's father rubbed his little boy's head and coaxed him to be considerate: "Uncle Zhang, they always touch your head. When Lele made chicken feet with pickled peppers, he didn't tell them and made them drool."
"Yeah." Le Yun nodded, then stuck her head out to take a look. She didn't dare to leave her father's wings until no one came over, and told her father and Aunt Feng to call her in front of Liu Wu's house when they got home.
"Okay, Dad, remember, we have to pack up the leftovers and wash all the pots and dishes before going home." Dad Le agreed and told Guaiguai brand little cotton-padded jacket to leave quickly. The smell of oil smoke in the kitchen area was too strong.
Leyun didn't rely on the kitchen to cause trouble for others, but she was afraid of being caught and had her head touched, so she quickly left after talking about her business.
