jealous tail

I thought that I would accompany my old lady to sleep peacefully for the last time, as a way to see her end. As a result, the neurotic villagers heard about my arrival, and they all came to try the steps that they had prepared to omit.

Uncle Li whispered to me, saying that the corpse can’t be put away, everyone is busy now, and we have to do the rescue. After all, the old man died abnormally, and the village still pays attention to it. It happened that there was a funeral in the fourth commune, and the lama did not leave. , please come over and finish it.

Like a frightened child, I nodded with dull eyes. Uncle Li couldn't bear to pat me on the shoulder, and kept calling poor child. In fact, I just fell asleep, but I held back my yawning because I was afraid Shen shed some tears.

Uncle Li put me in sackcloth and a filial hat. The size was not suitable and I was old, so I shouldn't be wearing it. I couldn't wear it even if I wanted to.

I listened to the tick-tock sound of the suona in front of me on a sultry night, and pulled up the fallen clothes, like a young girl who had just married on the edge of the city.

There was a lot of noise behind me, some sincerely gave the dead man a ride, and some who didn’t like the TV came to join in the fun, most of them came to see me.

Look at how far the people who have been admitted to a good university and went to a big city have progressed. If you do well, use me as a reference to encourage your children to study hard. If you do not do well, use me as a reference to whip your children to do their best. Filial piety.

My head was dizzy, the trumpet was blowing in the front, and the mouth was ringing in the back. I was so annoyed that I wanted to put them all in a coffin to calm down.

Everyone wanted to see the reaction of the person involved, but unfortunately the person concerned closed his eyes and thought about the summary of the hotel work this weekend, so there would always be some people who didn't get anything to talk about and started to talk.

"Old Aunt Zhang has had a hard time in this life, let's have a better life in the next life."

"Yeah, my wife died early, and my son is like that, that kind of daughter-in-law...it's better not to have her grandson..." Someone interrupted her speech with a light cough. It's a pity, but I want to hear Hearing what happened to my grandson, if you want to praise me for my handsome hair, you should praise my skin.

The woman who was interrupted endured for two seconds, and couldn't help it anymore, as if she wanted to fight the injustice of the person in the coffin. I don't know if she was so kind and righteous, was she so sad that she couldn't eat when the person died.

"I haven't come back to see my grandma for several years. I know that the old man has inconvenient legs and feet, and he has coronary heart disease. I haven't seen him make a call. I will cry when I come back. I don't even shed a tear. I feel a little sad. Is it? I have never seen this kind of grandson."

The person pulling her beside her also fell silent, as if they were listening to my answer, even the voice of the lama chanting scriptures was quieter, and he would gossip even when he saw dead people every day.

I opened my tired eyes, didn't turn my head, and asked her in a low voice: "Are you so clear, are you sleeping on the same kang with my grandma every day?" Laughing loudly, like a bomb thrown into the water, it awakened a group of fish, those who couldn't help laughing and those who couldn't bear anger, there were all kinds of breaths, and I didn't know which wave to stand on.

"You, why are you so indifferent, and dare to talk to the adults, what am I wrong about?"

Seeing that there was going to be a storm, Uncle Li persuaded her to come down, and she shouted shamelessly, "He's not big or small. He went to college and put filial piety into the stomach of a dog."

I don't really want to argue, but she bullies the dog and I can't stand it.

"Is it big or small? The one lying in the coffin over there, when she got married, you were still snotting and peeing your pants, screaming before the coffin, who is not polite, after all, this is my family business, right? If you are bored, go back and watch the column of popularizing the law, don’t see justice for everyone.”

Although I was born here and grew up here, in the few years since I left home, I have been recognized as a foreigner in the village. Whether every family is used to watching it or not, when I say this, I slap everyone in the face of watching the excitement.

The chirping sound sounded again, not one ten thousandth as sweet as that bird. Uncle Li hurriedly persuaded me to say a few words less. The person who helped take care of my grandma, it’s fine if I don’t visit the house once I come back, and I have to talk back to the kind elders in front of the coffin.

Tired of explaining, what about music to Niu, I closed my eyes boredly, you can say whatever you want, just help me bury the person tomorrow, anyway, it will be different from now on, I don’t care if a villain curses me all day long.

The leader seemed mad and didn't get any benefit, so he went out cursing, followed by several women who were doing justice for the sky, and the bustle died down. After ten minutes, there were only a few strong men left, hugging each other. Mercy, who should not care about children, sent the lama out of the village.

My ears were finally clear. Someone was talking behind my back, so I blocked my ears so as not to hear the grasshoppers.

Someone tapped me on the shoulder. I thought it was Uncle Li, but when I opened my eyes, I found that it was the warm-hearted village director.

"Child, I don't care what good world you see outside, but the fallen leaves have to return to their roots. Don't you rely on this land in the future, and make bad words, have you thought about how to come back in the future?" I think it's funny, this level How did you become a director?

"Since the world outside is good, why should I come back?" He choked, his face already grim, "I thought that if you, a college student, can be admitted to a good school, you must understand the principles of your ancestors. Why are you so stubborn? change."

The uncle seemed to come to make me laugh, so I asked him: "What do you think I should do to look like a college student?"

"At least you should cry a few times before your grandma's death."

I sucked some saliva through my parched throat, "Uncle, I was born without tears, what can I do, I have cried in my heart, I am very sad, do you want to open my heart to see?" He gave me a white look , the whole face is wrinkled with thousands of rough skin, don't believe it.

"You were brought up by her to be able to be what you are today. It's fine if you don't care about your old feelings, and you still have such a posture. What's the use of her supporting you back then? Don't you feel indebted when you look at her coffin?" I wiped my hair, Show off your smiling eyes.

"I have only raised her for one year since I was a child. I have a meal of white water noodles a day for 345 days. I will give her a meal of 10350 yuan. The total is 5000 yuan. I paid her 8888 yuan by working part-time during the summer vacation of the college entrance examination, and paid off the rest in my freshman year. I paid all the bills and added [-] to her as a life allowance, do I owe her?" He couldn't bear it anymore, as if he had suffered all the humiliation, he straightened up and reprimanded me, "What can money measure? Your parents passed away early. Your grandma, an old man, has worked so hard to raise you up, and you don't know how to be grateful, but you bite back, I think you are really..." I didn't expect him to be so righteous, did he really walk on the road of a director with a heart of ice? ?I said for him: "You are really wolf-hearted, ashamed of loving the old man, right?" He slammed the door angrily and left, I turned around and knelt down, and shouted at him: "Uncle, is your surname Bao?"

The courtyard was finally clean. I sat cross-legged in front of the coffin, covered my chin and thought for a long time, laughing loudly.

After a lot of hard work, I looked through the coffin and asked the people who were about to rot inside.

"Old lady Zhang, I dare to ask you what kind of hard work you have suffered and what kind of bitterness you have suffered in these years."