Nuan Nuan and Yang Rui went home to hold their children and did not pay attention to the follow-up of Lao Fu's family.
They could leave, but Yang's father couldn't. When things got to this point, Lao Fu's family didn't take advantage, and they didn't even care about Fu Dashu lying at home.
There is no way to bury the orphans and widows left, so they can only be managed by the brigade.
Yang's father directed the crowd watching the fun: "It's hot now, so don't bury the body for a few more days. It's not necessary. If you bury the body for a few more days, people will stink!"
Hurry up and help, tidy up and put some clothes on Fu Dashu. The brigade will send people to carry him out to mourn, so that no one will cause trouble again! "
Father Yang, the captain of the team, spoke, and everyone responded positively, especially those who came from Fu Dashu's house to order dishes, buckets, ladles, etc., they were a little embarrassed, and thought it would be good to help out a little now!
People who have just died will excrete, which is very dirty.
Before the funeral, you must first scrub yourself, put on clean clothes, and cover your face with a piece of yellow paper.
This kind of yellow paper is very thin. When worn on a person's face, it can identify life and death, and determine whether the person is dead or not.
Because some people fake death, for example, they were blocked by phlegm, couldn't take a breath, and then passed away.
Then there are some people who have myocardial infarction and suddenly recover after a certain period of time.
The purpose of this yellow paper is to stick it on the face. Once the person breathes, the yellow paper will move.
So it is a way to distinguish between life and death.
Also, after a person dies, the look on his or her face is very ugly and scary. Some people who come to express condolences may be frightened by the look on the face of the deceased. They cover their faces with yellow paper to prevent others from seeing the look on the face of the deceased.
The third function is to eliminate germs. After a person dies, there will be rotting bacteria in the intestines and stomach, which may come out from the nostrils and spread the bacteria.
The fourth effect is superstitious. When a person dies, whoever he sees for the last time will be unlucky. The body dies, but the soul is immortal. Then cover the face with yellow paper to prevent the deceased's eyes from focusing on anyone.
Yangjiatun has always done this.
Now that everyone is free, those who are brave can help clean up. Some country people are not taboo about this.
Sun Aihua had just had an outburst, and her body actually softened, and her eyes were swollen to walnuts from crying, but she still thanked everyone.
He also talked about his family's difficulties: "Captain, no one would have thought about the loss of my big tree at such a young age! There is no coffin, how can we bury it? If we bury it directly, we must not let wild dogs dig it up. Already?"
Cremation was not practiced in the 1960s, and most people were buried. If buried, there must be an ancestral grave.
The ancestors of the old Yang family are buried in the ancestral graves in Yangjiatun. The old Fu family is new here, and his family has never died in Yangjiatun. There is not even a cemetery.
Then you can only bury it in a wasteland or somewhere, where it will be easily dug up by wild dogs or other things.
In this era, a coffin was not cheap, and the wood at this time belonged to the collective. A person like Fu Dashu, who is not too old, would never prepare a coffin for himself.
Yang's father thought for a while and felt that he still couldn't give out the collective things casually. After all, if he opened the door, he would not be able to control it in the future.
If someone else’s family is also missing, the brigade can’t just provide the wood.
He could only say: "It's getting hot now, and it won't freeze for a while. Let's go with a few people to see if there is any wood that can be dismantled in Fu Dashu's warehouse. If not, just remove the door panels and build a coffin. !”
There was no other way, so Sun Aihua thanked everyone with tears in her eyes.
He has been following the others to clean up his man and put him into this simple thin coffin.
Then she took off the quilt and changed the white quilt lining into two sets of mourning clothes for herself and her daughter Laidi to wear.
Then he followed the people who came to help to carry Fu Dashu to the back mountain and bury it.
After everyone left, Sun Aihua and Laidi knelt in front of the small grave bag, crying silently and burning paper.
Normally, Sun Aihua couldn't stand up straight in her husband's family because she didn't have a son. She treated her parents-in-law with great filial piety. She never said no when her parents-in-law asked for food.
But now, she knew the true identity of these so-called relatives. Sun Aihua secretly told herself: From now on, if she doesn't pay attention to them anymore, she will take good care of the house and raise her daughter!
