Yuan Yuan had only two impressions of grandma. One was that when she was a child, she wiped her face with such force that it hurt his face. Second, when he came back last time, his grandmother smiled and mended his clothes and said, "Far away, I have a girlfriend and bring it home to have a look."
Standing in front of his grandmother's portrait, he felt very unfamiliar. Death was too far away from him. Either it happened to someone he wasn't so close to, or it happened when he was not sensible. Someone beside him spoke to him, Yuan Yuan just nodded unconsciously, knowing that grandma had gone peacefully.
A few friends of Tan Ruikang's father came to see her that day and brought her something. Grandma sat under the eaves picking beans, preparing to fry beans to entertain guests, and chatting about Tan Ruikang's father. Leaning against the door frame, without answering, he passed away peacefully with a smile.
Euthanasia without disease and pain is still 87 years old, which can be called Bai Xi.
The coffin was sent to the funeral home in the county seat for refrigeration. It is impossible to keep the coffin at home on a hot day. Several friends of Tan Ruikang's father were helping. They invited someone to cover the coffin on the day my grandmother died.
The shroud, the coffin, the funeral expenses, and the cemetery were all prepared by my grandmother before she died. In the past, when I asked someone to make a shroud, my grandmother smiled and tried it on. She was not at all shy. She looked in the mirror and looked at the woman who brought the shroud. He said, "Let's add a belt, and I will be able to dress nicely to see old man Tan."
At that time, many people in the village laughed and said that the old lady was open-minded and optimistic. Hearing that, Yuan Yuan couldn't help but laugh.
Tan Ruikang's eyes were red, and after he was busy, he invited people to build a shed, rented a few electric fans, invited people to drink tea in front of the shed, and entertained the villagers who came to express their condolences. My grandmother and grandfather helped many people during their lifetime, and many people came from all over the place at one time.
When no one was there, Tan Ruikang sat in the spirit shed with red eyes in a daze.
Yuan Yuan knew that he was uncomfortable, but he didn't know what to do. After a long time, he went to Tan Ruikang and said, "Hello."
Tan Ruikang: "?"
Yuan Yuan pressed on the PSONE handheld and said, "Show you this."
Tan Ruikang leaned over to look at it, and after pressing it a few times, the ultrasonic mice above hugged into a group, rushed over the cliff, spit fire with a buzzing sound, and crushed the monster into a piece of paper.
Yuan Yuan said, "You can make it dance, you see."
The ultrasonic mouse on the screen ate an apple, jumped around, and said with a frown in the distance: "But I can't get through here. I can't get through it for a week, I'm so annoying."
Tan Ruikang took over the PSONE, and he couldn't get past the places far away. The two pressed together beep beep beep. After a while, the guests came, and Yuan Yuan took the initiative to get up to receive them. .
After a full hour, Tan Ruikang sighed and said with a smile, "It's over!"
It's good to pass, Yuyao took the game console, and was elated, and motioned him to pick up the guests. Tan Ruikang washed his face and came over to sit down and pour tea.
The next day there were more people, and Yuanyuan sent one wave after another, saying, "Why are there so many people."
Tan Ruikang said: "When the eldest grandpa died, there were many talents."
Yuan Yuan said, "Why didn't you call me back then?"
Tan Ruikang went to set the wreath again and said, "You were at the beginning of Xiaosheng, so you can't be distracted."
Seeing that Tan Ruikang was working hard from a distance, he couldn't help himself. He kept saying, "I'm coming, what do I do?"
"I'm coming." Yuan Yuan said.
Tan Ruikang said, "I'll be thankful that you don't have heat stroke."
Distant: "… "
Tan Ruikang smiled and asked him to sit down to accept the Dianyi, saying, "You come to memorize the Dianyi."
Yuan Yuan didn't speak the local language, so he faced a book and received the ceremonies sent by others. Tan Ruikang went to pull the black cloth again, prepared the filial piety belt, made a hemp hoop, put it on his arm, and said seriously: "Xiaoyuan, the grandfather and grandma have no grandson, I am the second room, you are the grandson, we are separated from each other. On the first floor, it doesn't matter who is who, they are all grandchildren, and let's wear filial piety together."
Yuan Yuan hummed, took all the money, turned sideways and asked Tan Ruikang to give it to Dai Ma, and Tan Ruikang taught him to write Dianyi clearly, and it was all human favors that had to be returned in the future.
The two were busy working until midnight. The lights were turned off outside, and the stars appeared in the sky. Tan Ruikang packed up the square table and bench, set up a wire bed in the corner of the spiritual shed, put a straw mat on it, and touched the heads of the distant heads to count the ceremony. , keep a good account, and each other breathed a sigh of relief, the calculation was finished today.
In the quiet spirit shed, the two of them lit a cigarette each, leaned on Tan Ruikang's shoulder far away, looked at the portrait of the grandmother in the middle, and murmured, "How could you do this?"
Tan Ruikang looked at the cigarette in his hand intently and asked, "Which ones?"
Yuan Yuan said: "Please invite someone to do the funeral, contact to set up a spiritual shed, receive a funeral ceremony or something."
Tan Ruikang laughed, looked at him sideways, and whispered, "It's amazing? You will too in the future."
Far away: "I..."
Yuan Yuan thought about it, maybe one day he would also face such a problem. After Zhao Guogang died, he would come to contact them and organize the funeral himself, and he didn't know anything, not even the phone number of the funeral home.
Tan Ruikang said in a trance: "the year my dad died, I thought like you, what should I do? I have to send him away and give him a funeral, but no one has taught me before, never. I had to ask around about what to do, ask my grandmother, ask my neighbors, and then gradually understand a little bit, I will."
Yuan Yuan understood that Tan Ruikang was not sad for her grandmother's death. After all, she walked peacefully and contentedly, and went to another world to find her grandfather. She left behind such two little grandsons who wanted to raise their children but didn't want to be married, and snuggled up in front of the empty spiritual shed, filled with melancholy.
Tan Ruikang felt sad, probably thinking of his father.
Yuan Yuan stretched out his arms, put his arms around Tan Ruikang, and let him lie in his arms. The two of them saw the starry night sky through a hole in the roof of the spiritual shed.
"Family, parents." Tan Ruikang whispered: "They will all leave you one day, Xiaoyuan, and we will all walk the rest of the way alone."
Yuan Yuan said: "Hmm."
At that moment, something in his heart seemed to be touched.
"So are you." Yuan Yuan whispered: "You won't leave, right?"
Tan Ruikang said: "I shouldn't, um, I promise you, I won't."
The night in the late summer was very cool. They leaned against each other and hugged Tan Ruikang far away. Tan Ruikang was lying in his arms far away with one foot on the bench, and the two fell asleep.
The next day, one hand touched Yuan Yuan's head, and Zhao Guogang's voice sounded, "Go to the back room and sleep."
Yuan Yuan got up sleepily, went into the back room and fell asleep on the bed, while Tan Ruikang went to brush his teeth and wash his face, set up tables and chairs, and prepared to entertain the guests who came to mourn today.
After getting up in the morning, the village became lively. As soon as Zhao Guo arrived, Yuan Yuan felt that the real head of the family was coming. He didn't need to support Tan Ruikang anymore. After all, it was very tiring to hold a funeral. Zhao Guogang knew many distant relatives and knew how to socialize. He drank with the guests, paid for a running water table, and contacted him to return the gift.
"Dianyi will only charge two dollars." Zhao Guogang said, "Return more money. We don't lack funeral expenses, and we can't ask for money from the villagers."
There were also people from my grandmother's family. Zhao Guogang entertained them with all his heart, and gave each of them a high-end four-piece suit brought from the city.
At the first six o'clock, the whole village was full of vitality, fighting wine in the spirit shed, guessing boxing, and sending the old man to death with heroic laughter.
The first seven, the green hills were covered with green hills, and the young man went up the hill against the coffin. Zhao Guogang took his two children to kowtow in front of the grave, lighted incense, and started to loosen the cakes after coming down. They went back to clean up the shed, and it was like a must-play show that finally started smoothly and ended successfully.
Yuan Yuan stood outside the yard and took the chicken to send to the neighbors, smiling and saying thank you for their help. After giving away everything that could be delivered, I stood on the road in front of my house and realized one thing - this is the end of a memory, there is no longer a relative in my hometown, and they don't have to come back every summer.
Tan Ruikang's former home was completely closed with the death of the last relative. Tan Ruikang's mother's uncle's family is very small and very far away. From now on, only the two of them will have the blood of a real family flowing in their bodies.
Even Zhao Guogang is not a relative of Tan Ruikang. In this world, there is only one who is related to Tan Ruikang by blood.
The village chief came over with the documents to sign for Tan Ruikang. He and Yuan Yuan were both heirs. Before his grandmother died, he left a will. The old house and fields where Tan Ruikang's parents lived belonged to him. to far away.
In addition to some trivial things, there are 20 grams of gold jewelry that my grandfather bought for my grandmother, 10 grams for the distant daughter-in-law, and 10 grams for Tan Ruikang's daughter-in-law.
The old man disliked Tan Ruikang's father all his life, and finally a bowl of water was level at the end.
Zhao Guogang said to Yuanyuan: "Your mother also said before her death that when she is old, she wants to go back to her hometown to farm and raise chickens, and when you all go to work in the future, move your mother's urn back, and father will be buried here in the future. It is convenient for the two to go home to visit the graves every year on Qingming Festival.”
"It's not bad here." Yuan Yuan said, "Brother, I'll give you the house and land, I can't have it."
He can't divide Tan Ruikang's inheritance, he already has too much, and Tan Ruikang only has this.
Tan Ruikang smiled and said, "How can you not want the old man's heart?"
Yuan Yuan said, "Aren't we the same as who?"
"Yeah." Tan Ruikang nodded, he pursed the corners of his mouth, wiped the red mud with his thumb, held the distant hand, gently rubbed the distant thumb with his thumb, hooked his fingers with his fingers, and pressed the land deed.
"You know, isn't it the same." Tan Ruikang said softly.
The two fingerprints were pressed side by side at the bottom of the paper, regardless of whose house or land, the four documents were contracted by everyone, and Tan Ruikang and Yuan Yuan's fingerprints were all pressed.
"Don't worry." Tan Ruikang sat down to sign and said with a smile, "We can all make a lot of money in the future. This is just a souvenir. You can come back and have a look when you are not busy."
Before leaving, Yuan Yuan and Tan Ruikang kowtowed three times outside the yard. Tan Ruikang stepped forward and locked the door of the big house with his own hands. When the door was closed, Yuan Yuan looked at the photo of his grandfather when he was a soldier in the past - his smile was exactly the same as Tan Ruikang.