Liangyue Farm Gate

Chapter 187
Li Houzhong went back without mentioning what happened at Li Houbo's house. When Mrs. Liu asked him, he said that the matter was settled, and waved his hand saying that he was hungry and wanted to eat.

Liu's heart was depressed, and she muttered at the dinner table: "You are a boring gourd, and you can't make a fart after eight poles. Tell me what happened over there? Can you still lose a piece of meat?"

Li Houzhong didn't answer her, Liu became more and more angry, snorted and said: "Don't think I don't know, I guess I must have left with Xiner and the others, what happened there? Yes, the old third family definitely doesn't have anything good to say, and so does her daughter. I don't think she is a law-abiding person. Seeing that she came back this time, even the new uncle didn't come back with her. Okay, come back and vent your anger..."

Li Houzhong knocked on the edge of the bowl and said, "Okay, okay, don't say a few words, what's the point of bringing it up after the matter is over?"

Mrs. Liu was not happy, poked the bottom of the bowl and said, "I can't even talk about it?"

"The third brother's family is in chaos, so don't add fuel to it."

Li Houzhong sighed, put a chopstick of food into Liu's bowl: "Let's eat."

Mrs. Liu was originally angry, but Li Houzhong's serving her food in this way made her angry.

Really, Li Houzhong's family no longer mentioned the matter of the golden alchemy book.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Li Jin was buried.

The sound of gongs, drums, and suona pierced Li Xin's ears. She hugged Yang'er and asked Yang'er to block Dodo. Yang'er obediently reached out to block the two Dodo.

Dajiang walked in the front holding the spiritual tablet, wearing hemp and mourning, followed by Xiaoxi and Koizumi, the two little girls still had red noses.Koizumi was only three years old, and he couldn't walk steadily. Xiaoxi led her, and the scene looked very sad.

Bai Po also blew up, Li Yin, Li Tong, Li Fei and Li Qiu were carrying the coffin, and Li Tie walked aside to watch over it.He is not in good health, he should have come to lift a place, but in the end he couldn't use his strength.

For young people's funerals, the older generation cannot come, and neither can their own daughter-in-law.When Li Jin was buried, there were only his own brothers, sisters and cousins, and it seemed somewhat deserted.Of his three children, Da Jiang, the eldest, was only ten years old, sobbing all the way holding the tablet.

Li Ming was throwing paper money into the sky.

Before dawn on the sixth day of the lunar new year, Li Jin was about to be sent off. The old people said that if it rained when the burial was carried out, the rain stopped when the burial was over, and the hemp clothed in hemp was muddy. The dirtier it is, the better the implication, which means that wealth will come and the descendants of the deceased will be blessed.

However, it is a pity that the weather on this day was very good. The sun was still hanging in the sky early in the morning, and there was no raindrop.

When they arrived at the place, before dawn, they grabbed rice and made Dajiang kneel with his back to the dug grave, with his hands behind his hemp pockets, muttering, and sprinkled rice on the hemp he had pocketed.When Li Xin heard the sentence "To be rich or to be expensive", Dajiang replied dumbly with "rich", and then the Taoist continued to read.

During the burial, the Taoist priest tore off the cockscomb of the big rooster, and the blood-stained face of the rooster was glued to the head, tail and middle waist of the coffin.

After pocketing the rice behind Dajiang, Li Jin's three children knelt in front of Li Jin's grave.

When Li Jin's coffin was carried down to the grave, the sound of firecrackers also rang out.

Suddenly, there was such a loud sound on the empty mountain top that it hurt everyone's ears.However, this kind of voice made people feel more suffocated. Accompanied by the choked-up crying of the three brothers and sisters of Dajiang, it made people feel flustered.

Li Xin couldn't bear to watch any more, turned her face away and buried herself in Guan Wen's arms.Yang'er obediently stayed between Guan Wen and Li Xin, with her arms around Li Xin's neck and her head resting on her shoulder.

After it was over, Taoist Wang had to go back to exorcise Li Jin, meaning to drive away all the souls that Li Jin had left in the Li family.After a person dies, he is afraid that his soul will come back and disturb his family.

Li Xin didn't go, and went back to her mother's house with Guan Wen. Jiang Shi happened to be eating sweet potatoes at home and asked them to eat them.

"Don't eat, second brother and sister, you can eat by yourself."

Li Xin didn't want to move, touched his head, let Yang'er sit aside, then sighed and said, "Second brother and sister just came back from uncle?"

"Yeah." Jiang nodded, "I have a headache from the quarrel, so I don't want to stay any longer."

Jiang Shi said embarrassedly: "Seeing that Uncle and the others are mourning again, I also feel uncomfortable, so I simply came back. Sister, why did you come back so early?"

"I don't want to stay too long." Li Xin replied and took a sip of water.

Jiang shi said with emotion: "The sister-in-law of the hall was crushed by a ghost last night, saying that she dreamed of the elder brother."

Li Xin was slightly surprised and asked, "What's wrong?"

"The sister-in-law said that she fell asleep last night and dreamed that the brother-in-law came back and was talking to her." Jiang lowered her voice slightly: "The sister-in-law said that she knew she was dreaming because she was sleeping on her bed. On the bed, I didn't move the place, and I only saw the big brother standing at the end of the bed, listening to the big brother talking to her. She wanted to call out the voice to call the big brother, but she couldn't make a sound, and felt that she was being suppressed all the time In the end, I took a long and sudden breath before waking up."

Li Xin said "Yes", and said: "I think about it every day and dream at night. She is under too much pressure during this time, so it's not surprising that she has such a dream."

Jiang shook his head and said, "No, sister, this is the hall brother entrusting the hall sister-in-law with a dream!"

Jiang said: "The sister-in-law said, although she can't speak, she can hear the elder brother talking to her. The elder brother said, let her take good care of Da Jiang's children, and be filial to uncles and mothers."

Li Xin opened his mouth, and Jiang continued: "The key is that after the sister-in-law woke up, she felt a little scared. She knew that the big brother hadn't left, but she still couldn't resist the sleepiness during this period, and fell asleep again. Who knows After repeating the situation just now, she finally woke up after taking a long breath."

"What then?"

"Later, the lady-in-law was still afraid, so she lit the lamp to sleep, but she didn't sleep well all night."

Li Xin closed her eyes: "Then I guess the sister-in-law misses the elder brother..."

"I'm going today. I heard from my aunt and the others that last night my eldest brother came back, and many people saw him."

Jiang said eloquently: "Brother Datang came back to see his parents and daughter-in-law after the burial. He must be reluctant... Sigh, but when the Taoist priests get rid of their spirits today, Brother Datang won't be able to come back even if he wants to come back."

Li Xin suddenly felt cold.

She knows that her soul does not come from this time and space, so it can be said that she has occupied someone else's body to continue to survive.Although this body is the same age as her, looks similar, and even has the same name, but she is not the real Li Xin after all.

In this world, is the human soul and body really separate?she does not know.

But she was really a little scared, afraid that there would be such a thing as lingering spirits.Now that this matter is on her head, she has personally heard the rumor that she can see the souls of the dead...

Li Xin shook his head, put aside all his messy thoughts, and then said: "Just wait until the spirit is gone."

Jiang Shi nodded.

Even if the matter of Li Jin's funeral has come to an end now, Li Yin of Li Houbo's family will definitely not forget the matter of settling accounts with the Yang family.

Li Xin didn't have much to do here. She and Guan Wen had been back to her natal home for several days, and almost spent the entire New Year's Eve at her natal home.

After discussing with Guan Wen, he made up his mind to rush back in the next afternoon.

Mrs. Liu pulled Li Xin to whisper, and asked Li Xin, "This time, when you come back, how much will you give to your uncle's house?"

Li Xin was stunned for a moment and said, "Why do mother ask this?"

"Just ask you." Liu Shi and Li Xin whispered: "Don't be stupid and give out that much money. In the future, your uncle's family will get compensation from the Yang family. Maybe it will be richer, and it will be less than yours. Some money? I told you, the head of your family still owes his friend a lot of money. Since he has returned the money from the family side, mother will not say that it is for you. You must pay it back. Keep it for you. You should be careful in the Guan family. It’s not bad for two people to adopt a child. The child is a blessing, but you should continue to work hard and give birth to a son to gain a firm foothold in the Guan family. .”

Li Xin moved her mouth: "Mother, did sister-in-law tell you something?"

"It has nothing to do with your sister-in-law." Liu was stunned for a while and said, "Your sister-in-law also told you this?"

Li Xin nodded helplessly.

"Look, your sister-in-law is trying to persuade you to come." Mrs. Liu said to Li Xin earnestly, "You want to spend the rest of your life with your head of the family, and I see that your head of the family is also reliable, although his father is a bit unreliable. A little, but in the end, you will rely on your head of the family instead of his father in the future. It is only serious to have a baby of his own to tie his heart."
As he said that, he began to take it out of his pocket.

Seeing Mrs. Liu's posture, Li Xin knew that she was going to pay again, so she hurriedly stopped Mrs. Liu and said, "Mother, I don't need money..."

"What are you talking about, no matter how rich you are, you will say that you are short of money." Mrs. Liu glared at her, and finally took out an ingot of five taels of silver from her bosom, stuffed it into her, and said, "Take some time to go to the town to have a look." Look, your sister-in-law is working as an apprentice in the town, I think Axiu is also a smart girl, you ask her to help you find a good doctor, who will put more thought into women's diseases, and take a look at the medicine and eat it. Mother is also looking for Taoist priests to exorcise evil spirits for you."

Li Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and wanted to give the money back to Mrs. Liu, but Mrs. Liu said dissatisfiedly, "Mother has already taken it out, and she will not be happy if you push it back."

After saying that, he hid the money in Li Xin's arms, and said in a low voice: "Don't let others see it, mother will not be able to talk when the time comes."

Li Xin had no choice but to take it back.

After thinking about it, he asked Mrs. Liu, "How are the two families that mother helped Axiu see?"

Mrs. Liu said: "You mean the Gong family in our village, the Feng family in Xiahe village, and the Ma family in the town?"

Li Xin nodded, and Liu Shi said, "I looked at that meaning, it's all yellow."

(End of this chapter)