Cartoonist's Dream

The most accurate examination method in the hospital is the autopsy, that is, the method of dissecting the dead body to assess the cause of death or disease.

Lu Hui's body is undoubtedly intact, when it comes to cutting open her chest or tearing her abdomen apart, Lu's father and Lu's mother are absolutely unwilling.In the same way, Li Mu didn't want someone to cut open his wife's abdomen, take out his wife's liver, spleen, uterus or heart and observe carefully in front of his eyes.

Lu's father and Lu's mother resolutely opposed it, and Li Mu followed their ideas. On the contrary, Sherrington Hospital hoped for an autopsy.It seems that if you don't understand the cause of Lu Hui's acute heart failure, it will be difficult for a doctor to sleep all night.

However, the hospital had no choice but to give up under the strong opposition of the family members. According to the cause and effect, Lu Hui's acute heart failure was caused by the gradual accumulation of inflammation in the liver or spleen when the operation was not done cleanly in mainland China.

Now that the deceased is dead, Lu's father, Lu's mother, and Li Mu realized a lot when they woke up. Which hospital's responsibility is already very important, and they only want to keep the eldest daughter clean and intact.

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A plane landed at Nanhua Airport.

Lu Hui's body was transported back to China, and the elders of the Lu family had already reported her funeral.

Soon, the three-day and three-night funeral began on the morning of November 11, the 9th day of the ninth lunar month. [

On this day, eight pillars were erected on the Tianlong Road in front of the gate of Lu’s Courtyard, and two large nylon cloths formed a simple mourning hall in the shape of a [gang], also known as a mourning shed.

Logically speaking, the mourning hall should be arranged in the lobby of the courtyard, but according to the customs of the village - that is, people who die in a foreign land cannot enter the Lu family compound, so Lu Hui's condolence ceremony can only be arranged outside the courtyard.

[Gang] The entrance of the zigzag spirit shed faces south.Standing outside the shed is a bundle of paper banners, also called summoning banners.

Behind the paper fan is a square table, on which are several plates containing fish, meat, eggs, rice and fruit, followed by 8-carat portraits.There is a coffin parked behind the portrait and in the middle of the coffin.

The inner and outer coffins made of catalpa wood are two inches thick, and the eaves of the coffin are carved with flowers and phoenixes. Compared with the emperor in the Dream of Red Mansions, "the bottom is eight inches, the patterns are like betel nuts, the taste is like sandalwood musk, and when you clasp it with your hands, it is like gold and jade..." The first-level coffin is worse.It also cost a lot of money.The one sleeping in the coffin is Lu Hui.Now it has been encoffined, covered with luxurious silk and satin embroidered with embroidery.

Under the coffin, there are incense burners, ever-burning lamps and a cornucopia for burning paper money.It's a pity that there are only a few people who can guard her spirit, and there are only a few juniors who can kneel down and kowtow to her.

In fact, it is impossible for Lu Hui's parents, uncles, uncles, and even the elders above to bow down to her; and the young people of the same generation do not expect this woman who died young to bless them; as for the younger generations .They were either unborn or still babbling.

Inhumane.Childless.The fragrance of the jade meteorite faded away, and the coffin of condolences was a desolate scene.

Near noon.

The funeral guests rushed to the funeral one after another, and a few raindrops hit the nylon cloth of the coffin.The water vapor that had condensed for a whole morning finally reached saturation, and they scrambled to turn into water droplets and pour down from the sky.This is a cloudy rain in autumn, small raindrops are falling one after another, it seems that it will not stop for a while.

The rain moistened the long-drought land, and the sky above the spiritual shed was soon covered by dense dark clouds.

A car parked under the slope of the river embankment, and the family of three got out of the car and walked over after a while. One of the young women asked the relatives who had already been there:

"—How much will it cost?"

"Ten yuan and 20 yuan means nothing. She died in vain, not at the end of her life..."

The village woman who answered had just said a word. [

Li Mu's figure appeared beside them, glanced at their faces slightly and said:

"Two, the dead are the oldest."

After saying that, he walked away, he just reminded them not to speak rudely, and he didn't want to cause trouble at Lu Hui's funeral.

"Whose child is this, why is he so impolite, and casually interrupts when the adults are talking!"

The young woman stared at Li Mu's back and deliberately raised her voice.Her tone of voice was not so much a question, but a criticism of Li Mu's parents who were hiding somewhere.

Li Mu didn't turn around to argue, but the village woman tugged at her clothes.

"Shh, keep your voice down, he's right—the dead are the greatest."

"Auntie, I'm speaking for you!"

The young woman said kindly that she felt that the change in Auntie's attitude was a bit unbelievable.

"That depends on the target."

"Look at what you said, what I say depends on the face of the person? What does he think he is from?"

"Look at the east side, here, Qingxiu Qingdong side, see that tower? The ten miles below the tower are all his property... Also, he has opened several casinos in Pingnan, and his hands are as good as thugs." Brother Hui with a few hundred numbers is his father, so it won't do you any harm to say a few words."

Hiss—the young woman gasped.Looking at the young figure again with unbelievable eyes, the memories related to it deposited in his mind continued to emerge.

"You mean the unicorn from the Li family?! The newspaper said he likes Xiaowei?"

"Isn't that right? This time I'm probably here as my brother-in-law. He bought the coffin. It costs at least 30 to [-] yuan. You can buy a nice house."

The village woman looked at the coffin, her half-closed eyes showed envy, and the corners of her flat mouth seemed to feel sorry for it.

The wood used in the coffin is whole wood rather than stitched wood, which means that the log must be over a hundred years old. A coffin made of whole logs is undoubtedly a luxury.

The young woman doesn't know how to answer the conversation. What's the use of preparing such good things for the dead? It's better to take good care of them before they are alive, and use the 10 yuan in funeral expenses such as cemetery fees and coffin fees to have a good meal. .

But having said that, the two daughters of the Lu family had already laid down before Li Mu made his fortune.

"It's good that the boy is affectionate, but it's a pity that their daughter is blessed."

The young woman looked at her back and nodded.

"Yeah, I was nailed to the ground by steel bars thick as six thumbs. I was sent to the hospital, but I was saved. I thought that if I survived a catastrophe, there would be a blessing in the future, but I didn't think that I still didn't get through that test."

The village woman also nodded.Under normal circumstances, it would have been impossible to escape death if the brain was pierced by steel bars. Even if the two granddaughters of the old man of the Li family could wake up, they would still be demented. It is really sad to think about it.

"Let's not talk about it, I will take the child to the incense stick first."

The young woman who came by car resigned, took her daughter to get the joss sticks, and smiled apologetically at Limu when she passed by.

Li Mu stood under the summoning banner and looked at them with his head nodding.The young woman burned incense and handed it to the girl, and taught her to prostrate three times and four times in front of the coffin, and then they put incense together and burned two pieces of paper money into the cornucopia.

Generally speaking, the dead children should be surrounded around the coffin. When the mourners come from outside, others will kowtow, and the dead children should respond with a few bows. Unfortunately, no one present can help Lu Hui return the gift.

Lu Hui, who was devastated by the heavens, had no heirs, and Lu's father and mother, as elders, could only stand beside their daughter's coffin and bow their heads in gesture.They wear white cloth strips on their right hands to prove that they are Lu Hui's immediate relatives.

If the person who died was a man, the knot was on the left; if it was a woman, the knot was on the right.Of course, the premise is that there are still elders alive, such as any one of the parents or grandparents is still alive, then the knot can be tied according to the rules.If all the elders are dead, there is no need to hit them on the hands, just win directly in the middle of the forehead.

Charlatans and knowledgeable people can see who is dead and who else is in the family when they look at the filial piety clothes and knots.

Li Mufa was guarding the spirit of his wife. He was not the husband of the deceased in name, and he was not even considered a collateral blood relative at this time.It is not even allowed to pass a bouquet of incense to mourners, and they can only wander among these strange but familiar relatives.