These words touched the old Zhou Tou's heart, and he sighed.
Boss Zhang asked, "Why are there no people?"
Old Zhou lowered his eyes and said, "I met a bandit."
"Why didn't you go to bring back the bones?" Zhang Lao Er said, "People don't go back to their hometowns alive, but they always come back after death, right?"
"It's in Liangzhou, and it happened three years ago. Even if I go to find it, I can't get it back."
Boss Zhang glanced at the Taoist priests in the yard, and said, "It's useless to summon the soul. Aren't these Taoist priests all liars? Instead of spending this money, you might as well save it for living people to spend."
Boss Zhang originally wanted to lay the groundwork a little longer, but now that the words came to this point, he asked directly, "Why did you invite so many people? I took a look outside. Where is your village?" Come inside and out?"
Old Zhou said "hmm".
Mr. Zhang slapped his thigh and said: "You are confused, cousin, when did you lose your mind? Please invite a few families with close blood relationship, as long as you have a good relationship, plus relatives from outside, there will be seven or eight tables That's about it, why did you even invite those relatives who turned the corner?"
Old Zhou snorted coldly in his heart, and said neither softly nor hard: "Aren't the people my cousin brought this time all relatives who can't be found even around the corner?"
Boss Zhang's face darkened, and he said seriously: "They are all from your uncle's and aunt's family. For two generations, we are all the same ancestors. Can there be an aunt without them? Can you have you without an aunt? ?”
"I don't know them." Old Zhou's skin was never thin, so he was not afraid to say, "If my cousin hadn't brought them here, I wouldn't have greeted them when I saw them on the street."
Boss Zhang: ... I can't talk anymore today.
Seeing that he was choking, old Zhou snorted triumphantly.
Say he treats a lot
Hmph, does he know that he treats a lot of guests
But what can he do
Every household in Qili Village knew about Zhou Yin's matter, and even every household participated in it. This matter has been settled today. Will he invite this family, not that one, or not at all
Their old Zhou family will continue to live in Qili Village, so of course they are all invited. When he dies, there will definitely be no such ostentation. At that time, Dalang will invite a few families who are closer to him, and a table of ten or so will be enough.
In fact, he would rather invite the whole village once than Zhang's family.
It is said that they are close by blood, but in fact there is not much emotion.
Blood relationship is also maintained by communication, how much affection can there be without communication
He and the Zhang family hurt each other once they met, so it would be better not to see each other.
Old Zhou took out his bong, but didn't smoke it.
Boss Zhang was only silent for a moment and then continued to mutter: "I didn't mean your cousin, I know you made such a big show because of guilt, but he is already dead, no matter how big you are, he can't see it, so it's better to keep it Something for the living."
"I remember my second cousin was very transparent about this. When he was young, he went to my house..."
"How young?" Old Zhou interrupted him angrily, "Cousin, I don't remember my second brother ever visiting your house when I was young."
"Why haven't you been there? Auntie took him there," Zhang Laoer said, "Cousin, I've wanted to talk about you for a long time. You just want to compensate your cousin, so it should fall in a place that is affordable. Now you What's the use of inviting the whole village to dinner? What relationship do they have with my cousin? In terms of blood relationship, my eldest brother and I are the closest people to my cousin. If you want to compensate him, you have to look at the living person first. After taking care of it, cousin Izumi knows, will he be unhappy?"
Zhang Lao repeatedly nodded in agreement.
Old Zhou was so stunned that he almost dropped the cigarette pouch in his hand.
Man Bao on the side was also stunned, and shouted: "So the uncle is not my own uncle?"
Old Zhou turned his head and slapped Man Bao on the head, and shouted: "What nonsense, he and I are brothers, how could he not be? Cousin, don't talk nonsense, what is the best relationship with you?" People close to me? Then what am I?"
"Then aren't you sorry for him? Besides your family, aren't we the ones closest to my cousin?"
Old Zhou said "I" and was speechless.
Zhang Lao said: "Cousin, don't blame me for speaking harshly. If you want me to say that the second cousin was killed by you, I don't know how sad my aunt is down there."
"That's right," Zhang Laoer continued, "My aunt loved my little cousin the most. Before she died, she told you to take good care of my little cousin and us, but what about you..."
Zhang Laoer snorted and said: "If you have a wife, you will forget your mother. As soon as my aunt left, you fell out with our family on the back foot. That's fine. We are outsiders after all, so we don't care about you." , but Zhou Yin is your younger brother."
Mrs. Zhang nodded repeatedly, and said: "My aunt and uncle left half of his family business. They have suffered all their lives. There is nothing else. The money for the second cousin to marry a wife is always left, right?"
"Even if you don't stay, you still have to raise someone well. My aunt married you a daughter-in-law, shouldn't you raise her other son?" Zhang Laoer continued: "What about you, huh, married She married a femme fatale, and even sold my aunt's youngest son."
Old Zhou twisted the shredded tobacco with shaking hands, and said with red eyes: "We didn't want to sell the second brother..."
"That's what you said, didn't you sell it in the end?" Zhang Laoer interrupted him, "You have so many sons, can you just sell any one? You still have a daughter, and you can sell your daughter, girls always You are worth more than boys, but you are reluctant to part with Zhou Xi, but you sold your younger brother, Zhou Yin doesn't know how to hate you in his heart."
"That's right, otherwise he wouldn't have stayed home for so many years."
The village head at the side couldn't listen any longer, and stepped forward and said, "Don't talk nonsense, Uncle Xiao Yin wanted to go out back then, and it's not like you don't know that the land was so dry back then, if you don't go out, you will probably starve to death. How many families in the village have starved to death."
"Of course we know, because two people died in our family, but their family didn't die!" Zhang Lao said, "Why didn't anyone die in your family? Wasn't it because you sold Zhou Yin for food, if you didn't sell people, He will not leave his hometown and die outside."
Old Zhou Tou kept his mouth shut and did not speak, Zhang Boss strode forward and said: "When he died, he might hate you in his heart, so seriously, we two brothers are the closest people to Zhou Yin. Do you think he will forgive you just by inviting Taoist priests and the whole village to perform the funeral for him?"
"You can dream, you can also treat the people he cared about a little bit better, so that his resentment can be lightened."
Old Zhou lowered his head and said nothing, but the village chief was very angry, but he was a generation younger, and some words were hard to say.