Great changes in the countryside

Chapter 426
There is also a custom in the countryside that people who die outside cannot enter the house, and the remains can only be parked outside.

Chen Hongling is no exception.

The coffin has already been bought, and it costs 120 yuan per bite, which is already the best.

Cai Baohua, Cai Xiaohui's father, is in charge of encoffining. He is an "expert" in this area and has been doing this for five generations.

Aunt Nine and two other women were in charge of cleaning Chen Hongling's body and changing her clothes, and they were also professionals in this area.

Because of Chen Hongling's death, both father-in-law and mother-in-law fell ill.

It's a custom again, Chen Yang can't enter other people's houses, so he didn't visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

A white-haired person sending a black-haired person is already too sad.

Father-in-law Chen Dongsheng sent word that Chen Hongling's funeral was to be handled by Chen Yang, and there was no need to ask for instructions.

Chen Yang didn't understand anything, so he could only discuss this with Tong Laogui, Chen Yaoping, Cai Baohua and Cai Nanmei.

First of all, choose the day and time, leave this matter to Chen Yaoping and grandpa, and grandpa will be in charge of checking.

The most important thing is the cemetery, and Chen Yang had to believe that the feng shui of the cemetery must be optimistic.

Chenjia Village belongs to the plain area, without mountains and woodlands, but like other plain villages, it also has a piece of mountain land belonging to the village, which is specially used for burying the dead.

That mountain is called Wannianpo, with a surface area of ​​150 mu, half of which has been used as a graveyard.

The ancestral grave of Chen Yang's family is also here.

Counting from the grandfather's generation up, there are two generations in the ancestral grave, Gaozu and great-grandfather.

Gaozu, great-grandfather, grandfather, father, and myself are the five clothes that are often said.

As for Gaozu, it was the unified ancestor of the Chen surname, buried in another place on Wannianpo.

The cemetery was divided in the 50s, based on the ancestral graves, and each household was divided into a piece.

The grandfather and the three brothers were allotted two acres of mountain land.

This land is backed by a boulder, with small hills on both sides, a natural geomantic treasure.

Now the land is mostly trees and bushes.

This piece of land has a name called "Qinglong'ao".

Without anyone accompanying him, Grandpa led Chen Yang to Qinglong'ao.

In fact, grandpa knows a little Feng Shui.

After the land was allotted that year, my grandfather asked someone to test the feng shui.

The grandfather and grandson first worshiped Gaozu and great-grandfather.

Then grandpa walked to a place, stopped and said to Chen Yang, "There are only three top-grade places here, one has been occupied by my grandfather, and the other has been occupied by my father."

Grandpa's grandfather and father, to Chen Yang, are the great-grandfather and great-grandfather.

"The place under my feet is the third top-grade place. Yang, bury your daughter-in-law here."

Chen Yang said politely, "Grandpa, this place should belong to you."

"I'm not worthy, because I only have your father as a son, and I'm still a prisoner. Your father is even more unworthy, although he has three sons. In your generation, you are the eldest son and grandson, and you will do your part."

Chen Yang nodded, "Then I won't be polite."

Grandpa has a good memory, so he found a branch and drew on the ground.

But Chen Yang could see that the location of the land drawn by his grandfather was a little southeast compared to the tombs of Gaozu and Great-Grandfather.

Chen Yang didn't ask carefully, because his grandfather said, "The secrets of heaven must not be revealed."

When he was about to go down the mountain, Chen Yang asked, "Grandpa, where are the graves of Third Uncle and Shunzi's father?"

"It's on your great-grandfather's right hand side, covered by those small trees. When you're free, you can ask Shunzi and the third child to come and repair it."

The third uncle and Shunzi's father both lost their family property because of gambling when they were young, and the grandfather is still angry with their father and son.

The day of encoffining and the day of burial have been fixed.

After obtaining the consent of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Chen Yang decided to keep the funeral simple.

The death of the elderly is called joy and mourning. Please drummers play and sing, the more lively the better.

But Chen Hongling is only 25 years old.

Except for some old rules, everything else is omitted.

Chen Yang didn't hold a banquet either, only those who helped with the funeral, Chen Yang kept them for dinner.

On the day of the funeral, people from the village came spontaneously, three to four hundred people, basically one family.

They are all of the same generation and the younger generation, because the custom is that the elders do not send off the younger generation.

In front of Chen Hongling's grave, a stone tablet was erected by daughter Chen Yan and son Chen Bo.

Ye Jing and the others hurried back to Shanghai after burying Chen Hongling.

After the burial, there is another important memorial ceremony called "doing seven", which is to invite the soul of the deceased to go home every seven days, a total of seven times.

During these 49 days, Chen Yang's family had to stay at home, let alone visit other people's homes.

Chen Yang made reforms. During the first "seven", one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, solved it all at once.

In Chen Yang's view, these are all for living people to see, but Hong Ling can't see them, and they have no meaning at all.

One more thing, Chen Yang is also deviant.

According to the practice in rural areas, after a person dies, everything belonging to that person must be taken out and burned, especially those old people who died.

But Chen Yang didn't.

Chen Yang's house has been renovated, the third floor has not been rebuilt, and the windows and doors on the second floor have been reinforced.

The two rooms on the east side are divided into four rooms in total, one of which is used to store Chen Hongling's things.

On the four walls, there are photos of Chen Hongling and her family members.

Chen Yang also told the second brother and the others that no one was allowed to enter this room except himself.

The other three rooms are Chen Yang's bedroom, study room and baby room.

Except for going to the grave once and "doing seven", Chen Yang never leaves home.

Many people from the village came to visit, including village cadres and some township cadres, as well as some old classmates.

Chen Yang didn't see him at all, and his second brother received them all.

The workers in the second brother's factory had a chance to see Chen Yang, but they were all taken aback.

Chen Yang grew his long hair and beard, and his whole person changed.

The situation of Chen Yang was reported to Li Chunyang and Zheng Weimin, the two leaders of the township, by the branch secretary Chen Shengmei and the deputy mayor Ma Yutang who was stationed in the village.

The two township leaders reported to Tong Siping in the county.

Tong Siping thought for a while and reported to Secretary Fan Sicheng in the area.

On the last day of December, Fan Sicheng called Chen Yang.

The second brother set up an office, and he usually answered the phone calls.

When the second brother heard that it was Fan Sicheng on the other end of the phone, he hurriedly apologized, put the microphone on the table, ran to the living room on the second floor, and asked the eldest brother to answer the phone.

Chen Yang came out of the bedroom and sat down in the living room. While answering the phone, he signaled his second brother to avoid him.

"Old Fan, Secretary Fan, I am Chen Yang."

"Well, how are you?"

"Me? I'm fine."

"I heard that you locked yourself at home and never went out."

"Old Fan, don't listen to their nonsense. I don't want to destroy the 49-day custom."

"Yeah, let's be sad. Xiao Chen, no matter what, life must go on."

"I know, I know. Lao Fan, I have a problem now, a huge problem."

"Oh, tell me, what is a huge problem?"

(End of this chapter)