This doctor is not short of money

Chapter 403

I have been busy all morning in a daze, and I don't know what I have been busy with. Anyway, under the command of my sister-in-law, I don't have a moment of free time.

After finally landing on the sofa, Du Ping walked in with incense sticks, paper money and offerings, "Don't sit down, go to the grave first, and you won't be able to go up when the mountain patrollers come."

Du Heng had no choice but to get up, and when he entered the room, he slipped out Du Yiti, who was pretending to be reading a book. Even though the little nephew showed a very reluctant look, Du Heng still didn't let him go.

When helping to pack things into bags, Du Heng said casually, "Brother, didn't the town say that burning paper is not allowed this year, can we go?"

Du Ping curled his lips in disdain, "If you manage the sky and the earth, you can still manage to burn paper for your ancestors? We are going to celebrate the New Year. Could it be that the ancestors underground don't celebrate the New Year?"

Du Ping carefully put the joss stick into the plastic bag, then picked it up lightly, and walked out of the room first.Behind him, Du Heng stuffed all the sacrifices and paper money into Du Yi's hands, and then he took great strides to catch up with Du Ping.

"It's windy in the past few days during the Chinese New Year, and we have closed the mountains for more than 20 years to cultivate forests. In addition, a lot of land has been left uncultivated in the past few years, and the fields are full of withered and yellow weeds. If it accidentally catches fire, it will be a big deal."

"It's just that you have a lot of things to do. You have been to the grave for several lifetimes, and you haven't seen that one point the mountain." Du Ping looked angrily, "I think the person who made the policy must have a brain problem. Everyone The ancestors of my family burned paper and lived on the mountain all their lives, do you see who burned the mountain?"

Du Heng turned his head and waved to Du Yi who was carrying the bag behind him, telling him to speed up his pace, and he also walked two steps quickly to Du Ping's side, "Isn't this just in case, in case one of them accidentally lights up, what will happen? But it's too serious."

Du Ping squinted at Du Heng, "You leaders don't have to go to the grave without ancestors, but we ordinary people can't, we have to recognize our father and mother, we have to know where we come from, where we are going in the end, and we have to let our children We know this.

Also, if you don't want to go, just shut up and go home, and stop beeping in my ear. "

Du Yi, who was behind him, heard Du Heng being scolded, and ran to the front quickly with two bags, and then made a grimace at Du Heng.

Du Heng raised his hand to fight, but Du Yi quickly ran two steps and ran to the front of the two brothers.

After leaving the entrance of the village, just after turning a big bend, I saw a large black barrel standing on the side of the road. When I walked in, I saw that it was full of traces of smoke and fire.

Du Ping pointed at the vat and said mockingly, "Did you see that on October [-]st, people will not be allowed to go to the grave, and they will be burned in this vat. I don't know whose ancestors will be burned in the end."

When the two brothers passed by, Du Heng glanced at it, and there were still traces of burning inside, but he didn't say anything, he was afraid of being scolded again.

Parents and grandparents are in the same cemetery, the grave is not far away, it is in the field of their own home, and it takes 3 minutes to walk to the place.

Although the elder brother is still planting the land, it has not been abandoned, but the weeds grow extraordinarily lush on the side of the cemetery. The withered and yellow weeds not only cover the cemetery, but some taller weeds have even surpassed four grave mounds. .

Du Ping put down the incense candle in his hand, muttered something, and began to clear the weeds on the grave with his hands.As the wind kept blowing, Du Heng vaguely heard words like "Xiaoheng...married...promising".

Du Heng also started tidying the weeds, but his mood may be different from that of his elder brother.

He had never seen his grandparents before, and he was still young when his parents left, at the age of half understanding, and in the days since then, the care of his elder brother and sister-in-law did not make him feel that there was no difference when he was away from his parents. Same.

Although the family was a little poor at that time, the eldest brother and sister-in-law were the sky that blocked all the wind and rain for him.

The two brothers cleaned up the weeds silently, and Du Yi placed sacrifices and joss sticks behind them. When Du Ping and Du Heng cleaned up the weeds, the stone table at the grave was already full of things.

Burning paper money is the last step in the memorial ceremony. As the paper money is burned, the mood will always darken at a certain moment. When watching the burnt ashes blowing in the wind, Du Heng can't help but think , Is this because the parents have come to withdraw money, and are they also planning to celebrate the New Year.

"Snapped"

Du Yi's hand was scalded by the scurrying flames, and the thick stack of paper money in his hand was thrown into the fire, suppressing the jumping flames, and a puff of blue smoke came out.

Du Ping found a relatively long wooden stick, and scattered the piles of paper money so that they could be fully burned. At the same time, he also pushed the paper money outside, which was only half burnt, back into the fire.

But such a move made Du Yi full of doubts.

Rubbing the place that was burned just now, he asked Du Heng in a low voice, "Uncle, why do you burn all these paper money, can you leave half of it?"

The smoke from the burning paper was very heavy, and the wind blowing from time to time always rolled the smoke towards Du Heng's body. Du Heng was so uncomfortable from the smoke that he stood up and took two steps back.

Hearing Du Yi's question, he reached out and touched the top of Du Yi's head, and relayed to Du Yi what Du Ping told him when he was a child, "Only when all the paper money is burnt can grandparents get it, and they can buy some. Eat and drink well, and have a good New Year down here.

If only half a ticket is burned, then what grandparents get is half a ticket. Do you think half a ticket can be spent? "

Du Yi seemed to understand, and nodded blankly. Looking at the paper dust blowing up in the wind, he had a new question, "Uncle, you said grandpa and grandma are down there, where is down there?"

Du Heng was stunned. He suddenly didn't know how to answer this question.

I thought about a lot of words, but I couldn't seem to express my meaning accurately.Saying the word ghost seems to be disrespectful to parents.

When Du Heng was in trouble, Du Yi asked again, "Uncle, since grandpa and grandma are down there, why do these ashes of paper fly into the sky?"

Du Heng was questioned again by Du Yi, a 7-year-old kid.

At this time, the wooden stick in Du Ping's hand picked up the burning paper money again, with a little force, and the ashes of the paper flying around.Coincidentally, a gust of wind blew over, and the burning paper money fell onto the nearby weeds.

In an instant, the dry and yellow weeds on the graveyard "grow" and quickly spread to the surroundings.

I don't know if the wind came just in time, or the wind was caused by the fire. I saw the wind carrying the fire, and the fire wrapped around the wind, and it started to burn more and more vigorously.

Du Heng didn't have time to think about his nephew's problem, so he hurried over and started stomping on the fire, hoping to stop the fire.

The eldest brother Du Ping was not in a hurry, he ran two steps and picked up a rotten shovel that was still in the ground. The fire was wiped out in the bud.

Du Ping took the shovel and glanced at the embarrassed Du Heng, looking very disgusted, "You are also a person who went to college, and you can step on fire, what do you think?"

Du Heng laughed dryly, and hurried to the side, stomped his feet, and patted the ashes on his body, "Aren't I in a hurry? Look at the hay hanging so long on the ground above our grave. If it catches fire, it will be burned again." When the wind blows like this, the grass on it will also fall.

Moreover, the above is wasteland, and the grass grows taller than me. If it catches on, it will not be extinguished. "

"You can't step on it if you are in a hurry, and you are standing in front of the wind. Before the fire reaches the ground above, you have to be burned first."

As long as Du Heng doesn't do farm work, he is a good brother in Du Ping's eyes, and he is someone who earns face for himself.But once Du Heng helped the family with some work, what would Du Ping think of it? Why was it not pleasing to the eye? Even Du Heng's posture with the shovel handle was very awkward in Du Ping's eyes.

After saying a few words to Du Heng, Du Ping took the shovel to the edge of the still burning fire, and then used the shovel to extinguish some paper money that rolled out.

Du Heng patted the grass ash on his body a few times. Looking at the burned and deformed trousers, he could only sigh helplessly. These trousers are useless.

His family's cemetery is at the foot of the mountain, and not far away is a big ditch that has been washed out by rain all year round. When Du Heng and the others lit firecrackers, the sound of firecrackers spread far away along the winding ditch bottom.

On the mountainside and at the top of the mountain, there are also firecrackers sounding from time to time. If you look along the sound of firecrackers, you can see the green smoke of the burning paper.

Slowly chewing a piece of sacrificial mutton in his mouth, Du Heng raised his head and looked at the surrounding mountains, seeing the sporadic smoke, watching the descendants busy kowtowing and firing cannons, not knowing that these dead people, Have you really received the thoughts of your loved ones?

There is a custom in Zhonghu, that things that are used for worship cannot be taken home.Either put them all on the graves to pay homage to, or share them with everyone.And when eating, everyone has to eat a little.

Du Heng and the others didn't bring much, just a few slices of meat and two fruits, one bite for each of the three of them, and it was over.

After checking the place where the paper was burned and confirming that there was no kindling left, Du Ping began to pack up the trash and prepare to go home.

Du Heng and Du Yi shared the last banana and prepared to leave.

But the moment he looked up, he saw thick smoke billowing from the mountainside opposite him.

"Brother, is that on fire?" Du Heng quickly stopped Du Ping.

Du Ping glanced back, then turned around and continued to walk forward indifferently, "That's the grave of Ma Yuanhai's family. Their family doesn't come to visit the grave on Qingming Festival and October [-]st. Every year when they go to the grave at this time, they will put the grave The grass on it was burned."

"Oh." Du Heng responded lightly, but his eyes still couldn't help looking to the opposite side.

However, as Du Ping said, the place where the fire started was the cemetery, and it did not spread to other places.

Just as he was about to turn around, he saw the raging flames in the cemetery, suddenly changed direction, and the flames rolled towards the side of the ground.

Du Heng was startled, before he could make a sound, the flames on the edge of the ground twitched, and there were wisps of green smoke rising from the weeds on the edge of the ground above.

(End of this chapter)