Ordinary people's rice bowl

Chapter 601 A Strange Funeral
When Tian Cheng's motorcycle was still a mile away from the entrance of Li Ji Village, he noticed the curling smoke wafting around Li Ji Village.

Liji Village is about ten miles away from Xiaowangzhuang Village, which corresponds to the saying in rural areas that "ten miles are different". People here eat two meals a day. , I have to finish my lunch at around four o'clock in the afternoon, and I don't have dinner at all. If I'm hungry, I can have some snacks.No one knows when and how this custom was spread. According to the statistics of those who are interested, there are more than [-] villages with this custom, which is almost the size of two townships.

Tian Cheng loudly said to Lian Ying who was hugging his waist tightly behind him: "Looks like we can have another breakfast!"

"Eat it when you order it, and don't eat it when you come, I'm sorry for my mother's busy work!" Lianying replied.

Before Tian Cheng could reply, the car had arrived at the entrance of the village. Tian Cheng saw a lot of people coming and going on the street, so he couldn't help but wondered: "Eat breakfast, why don't you sit at home, why do you all come to the street to join in the fun? Is there someone playing tricks?" No?"

Lianying followed and replied: "It's so hot that people can't breathe, playing tricks is a real pain!"

According to the old habit, Tian Cheng still turned off the car and stopped slowly. Both of them got out of the car and pushed the motorcycle into the village. Saying hello, Lian Ying inevitably had to chat with her brother and sister-in-law who had a good time in the past, and after a while she was pulled far behind Tian Cheng.

After walking another hundred or ten meters, Tian Cheng noticed a man wearing a white cloth appeared in front of him and ran over. There was a funeral in this village. As for whose family, Tian Cheng couldn't figure out, but he was definitely not in the same family as his father-in-law.

Tian Cheng turned his head and wanted to ask Lian Ying, but he didn't see anyone at a glance, so he looked back and saw Lian Ying standing more than ten meters away holding hands with an old man talking, so he gave up the idea of ​​asking. Still pushing the motorcycle forward.

Walking to the entrance of a turning alley, several paper wreaths stood against the wall, with black and white elegiac couplets hanging on them, which read "Master Yue Zhang is eternal, my son-in-law Liu Er respects you", this font is somewhat familiar, but Tian Cheng didn't pay attention to it Thinking, look at the words on the two wreaths at the back, but because the angle of view is a bit too far, the words on the elegiac couplets can't be read clearly, Tian Cheng can't stay here, so he still walks forward without looking back, and after another alley, it's him Father-in-law's house.

The gate of his father-in-law's house was ajar, Tian Cheng parked his car outside the gate, went up and pushed the door open, but no one was there, Tian Cheng suddenly thought that his father-in-law was a well-educated person in the village, and he needed his help in many red and white matters, just now Didn’t the words on the elegiac couplets I saw come from the hand of my father-in-law?The father-in-law is helping out at the funeral, so why does the mother-in-law join in the fun?

Tian Cheng stood there for a while, feeling that it was a very unlucky time to come today. He originally wanted to see his father-in-law, but this funeral cannot be separated from him. If he couldn't see him, wouldn't it be a waste of time to come here?

While Tian Chengzheng was thinking wildly, Lianying and her mother walked into the gate one after the other.

"Look, your uncle is helping out at the funeral, or if I ask him to come back, you two can talk!" Lianying's mother said enthusiastically when she saw Tian Cheng.

"Auntie, don't be busy, let him finish his work before talking, so as not to make people feel that we are not human." Although Tian Cheng really wanted to see his father-in-law, but at this moment he felt that his funeral was inseparable. Arriving interfered with helping others, and I felt very sorry. At this time, no matter how much I wanted to talk to my father-in-law, it was inconvenient for my mother-in-law to call my father-in-law back.

"Then you wait, I'll cook for you!" Lianying's mother said as she walked towards the kitchen.

"We've already eaten, so there's no need to work!" Tian Cheng winked at Lian Ying, signaling for her to stop her mother who was about to cook.

"Mother, we've really eaten!" Lianying stepped forward and grabbed her mother.

"You have eaten it, but I haven't eaten it yet!"

"Then I'll cook with you, you two are chatting!" Lianying said as she entered the kitchen.

Lianhua's mother was stunned and said: "Look, our mother and I are going to talk in the house!"

Tian Cheng understood, and followed his mother-in-law into the main room. The mother-in-law poured a glass of water and put it on the table, and then chattered about what she had heard and seen in the village.

"With the implementation of the responsibility system, the common people are still suffering!" What his mother-in-law said made Tian Cheng feel very uncomfortable.

"Compared to before, that Jane is really heaven and earth, not to mention her stomach can be full, and the family still has some spare money to spend, isn't it much better?" Tian Cheng replied.

"Look at the funeral in our village, you haven't heard of it yet!" Mother-in-law sighed, as if she felt very sorry for the deceased.

Tian Cheng shook his head: "I just came from the village and saw that people were busy with their own business. I only said hello to the people I met, and didn't say much!"

"This man is an honest man. He has just turned 50 this year. He has four children. The eldest daughter just passed through the door last year. The three boys below him, the eldest and the second are both of marriageable age. But relying on the few acres of thin land, life is already easy. I don't live well, and my family has a lot of places to spend money, and it's common to feel difficulties, but who knows that because of such a big deal, I have a wrong idea!" Tian Cheng's mother-in-law is usually a talkative person, so when talking about the village When talking about people and things, they spoke in an orderly manner, and deliberately buried a suspense for Tian Cheng.

"What crooked idea?" Tian Cheng was a little confused.

"It's really pitiful to say it. I saw that you make a lot of money growing rice in Dongxiang. This year we also changed the rice fields here. In the first year of planting rice, I don't know the technology. People's rice fields are green. His rice fields The ground was still yellow, and he went to the field every day to check, but he couldn’t see what was going on. He felt that life was meaningless. He heard from his wife that he kept talking about it the night before he died. When he came back from the field that day, he hanged himself and walked to a dead end. When the family found out, he was cold! Do you think this person is pitiful?" Mother-in-law spread her hands to Tian Cheng and asked.

"There is such a miracle!" Tian Cheng really couldn't figure it out, if he followed this person's way, the problems he encountered these days would not be overwhelmed.

"This person is usually honest. When he was in the team, he was very self-motivated and knew how to work. Now that he works alone, he is more motivated than before. But back then, there were village cadres in the team, and he obeyed the village cadres' arrangements for everything. What is his name? I can do whatever I want, and now I am in charge of my own business. I do it without black and white, and one job is worth two, but when I encounter new farm work, it is inevitable that I will encounter difficulties, and I don’t know how to ask people, so the rice grown is not up to expectations Seeing that the rice seedlings in other people's fields are all calves high, and the rice seedlings in his field are not growing. Because of this, who would have thought of committing suicide? People are gone, don't you think this family is Is it more difficult?" Mother-in-law said this, and raised her hand to wipe her wet eyes.

Tian Cheng didn't answer. Hearing such things, Tian Cheng's heart was heavy. In the current countryside, not only the ideology needs to be changed, but also the agricultural technology. Doesn't the low yield of crops also make it difficult for more ordinary people to see the dawn of farming?
(End of this chapter)