I run faster than my teammates

Chapter 109
Ergou and Weibo led Liu Yusheng into the village. The road conditions in the village were not good, and the three of them walked slowly. Liu Yusheng looked around and found that there were not many people in the village, and everyone looked strange.I don't know if it was an illusion, but Liu Yusheng felt that everyone he met on the road was watching him secretly, and occasionally his eyes crossed, and the person he saw would immediately turn around and pretend that nothing had happened.

Er Gou was arrogant, and greeted people happily when he saw him, but unfortunately, no one paid attention to him.

After turning a corner, there is a spacious alley in front of it. The road in this alley is paved with blue bricks, flat and clean, and white lanterns are hung on both sides.

"Xiao Liu, we'll be there soon. At the end of this alley is the mansion of the Jin family."

Liu Yusheng nodded and did not speak. The three of them walked for a while, and finally arrived at the Jin Family Mansion, a quaint mansion with blue brick cornices and glazed roofs, pavilions, terraces and lotus ponds, as if they were in an ancient palace.

Er Gou walked in first, followed by Liu Yusheng. Paper money was strewn all over the courtyard, a thick layer enough to cover the feet.The yard is quite large. There is a table at the entrance of the main hall, on which is a big house made of paper, with a pair of virgins and girls made of paper on each side.Under the table are two paper horses, one white and one black, with two mourning sticks on the heads of the paper horses.In addition, there were three bowls on the table, which contained pork head meat, meatballs and fish respectively.

The two sides of the yard were lined up with kneeling people in sackcloth and filial piety, leaving an aisle in the middle, and a thick blanket was spread on the aisle.Kneeling at the end of the line with crooked necks, Ergou led Liu Yusheng to a small table, whispered to the person behind the table for a while, and beckoned Liu Yusheng to pass.

Liu Yusheng went over and handed over 200 yuan as Ergou said, and the person behind the desk took it, picked up a brush and wrote a few words on the notebook.Seeing this, the people kneeling in the yard began to cry, their voices were low and well-articulated, but there was no trace of sadness.

Ergou asked Liu Yusheng to wait for him for a while, and he went straight into the main house, and came out after a while with a filial piety hat, "Come on, little brother, change into this."

Liu Yusheng waved his hands hastily, "Don't, don't, Brother Gou is too much, it's not a relative, not a reason, how can I dress others in mourning?"

"Cut, what's the matter," Ergou said very disapprovingly, "Grandma Jin San is a kind person, it's good for you to worship her."

No matter what Er Gou said, Liu Yusheng just shouldn't, and Er Gou didn't insist, he put on his filial piety clothes, "Then you stay here and don't run around, I will call you after dinner." After Er Gou finished speaking I also went to kneel, and just leaned against the crooked neck, the two of them knelt together, talking and laughing, but no one from the master's family beat them.

Liu Yusheng agreed, but no one paid any attention. He just found a place to stay quietly, and he really didn't intend to run around at all.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the curtain of the main house was lifted, and a little old man came out. He was extremely thin, with a goatee and wearing reading glasses.The little old man stood in front of the offering table and shouted loudly: "The time has come, lay down!"

As the little old man finished speaking, firecrackers crackled in and out of the yard, and there were also squealers playing. Liu Yusheng didn't see where the blower was.

The sound of firecrackers came to an end, and seven or eight people walked in from outside the gate. The leader was also an old man. He led the young people to kneel in three steps and came to the altar. The two old men began to salute each other.

The etiquette is quite weird, the two old men turn left and right, you twist and I bow, although I can't understand what they are doing, but the movements are smooth, and there seems to be some inexplicable charm in the flowing water.

After saluting, the old man who came in picked up a stick of incense and started a new round of head breaking with the little old man.The old man held incense in his hand, while the little old man held a jug of wine in his left hand and a wine cup in his right hand. The two seemed to be pushing glasses to change glasses. After a round of complicated gestures, the incense was finally inserted into the incense burner, and all the wine was poured on the ground.

The little old man pointed with his hand and said loudly, "Return the gift!"

The people kneeling in the yard immediately kowtowed to the person who came, and cried loudly at the same time, "Grandma, my dear grandma..."

The people who come to pay homage come one after another, the process is repeated, firecrackers play music, kowtow and cry, the highlight is that every group of people who come, there must be a leader, and each leader has to say goodbye to the little old man who presides over the ceremony For a long time, Liu Yusheng was dazzled by all kinds of etiquette and postures.

Feeling boring after reading too much, Liu Yusheng simply observed the rows of wreaths and elegiac couplets placed on the wall.

As the old saying goes, the size of the wedding lineup depends on the parents of both parties, and the funeral lineup depends on the success of the children and grandchildren.There is some truth to this statement. After all, people take tea to cool down, whether the old people are beautiful or not, and whether the children have social status are the most important things.

Liu Yusheng didn't know who in the Jin family had become famous, but he could tell that Grandma Jin's funeral was quite crowded.One is that there are many wreaths, the huge courtyard is full of wreaths on the walls, and the other is that the elegiac couplets are of a high level, and the people who respect the elegiac couplets are not ordinary.

There is a largest wreath next to the eaves of the main room. On the right is written: The blue sea, the tide, and the sky are gone on this day, and the Fusang dragon will disappear.

Liu Yusheng couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth when he saw this majestic elegiac couplet. Generally speaking, this is a male mourning couplet...

Look at the next one: the body returns to the Danqiu of Langyuan, and the god is in the light, wind and moon.

Liu Yusheng frowned, then looked down.

The soul swims to the bottom of the water with waves and waves, and its name is the fragrance of grass and trees in the world.

The crane frame has disappeared with the clouds and the apricots, and the sound of the cuckoo is still cold with the moonlight.

The ambition of Qingyun is not completed in the world, but the white jade building is first formed in the sky.

……

Liu Yusheng looked at it, becoming more and more suspicious.Although he hadn't done much research on these, he clearly knew that these elegiac couplets were for male funerals.One or two may be careless and mistaken, but all elegiac couplets are like this, which means that these are not accidental, but inevitable.

But, why use these elegiac couplets for Grandma Jin?Could it be that the old man had some great achievements during her lifetime?
As it was getting late, countless big white lanterns were lit, and the sacrificial ceremony finally came to an end, and those who were kneeling got up and moved around.Liu Yusheng didn't know what to do next, and no one paid any attention to him. At this moment, Ergou and Crooked Neck had gone to nowhere. Someone called to go to the bathroom, and Liu Yusheng followed him.

On the way, Liu Yusheng found that although it was late, the Jin family compound was as bright as day no matter where he went, and looking out from a distance, it seemed that the whole Xiaohe Village was like this, and there seemed to be no night here.

After returning from using the toilet, Liu Yusheng saw a group of people walking in from outside the courtyard. The people in front were carrying a huge pot, which could smell the smell of meat from a long distance, and the people behind were carrying a large basket covered with a white cloth. .

(End of this chapter)