"It's a waste of time to prepare clothes now." Du Lai patiently persuaded her, "Miao Xue, what you can do is actually very simple, just remember everything you see, and then come out and retell it to you. We can do it."
"No! I don't want to go in alone!" Fu Miaoxue insisted, "How much time can you waste preparing clothes? Why don't you go and steal some black clothes nearby? Anyway, everyone in the village came to attend the funeral, and there must be no one at home! "
It actually makes sense...
Bai Youwei thought for a while, took off the camel-colored shawl on her body, and said, "I'll go with her. You can go and have a look nearby. Of course, it's best to change your clothes and go in to express condolences together."
"That's it." Shen Mo took her shawl and turned away with Du Lai.
Without the shawl, Bai Youwei immediately felt the coolness of autumn. But looking at the two men walking far away, showing their arms and legs, she felt that her physique still needed to be improved.
Fu Miaoxue bit her head and went in with Bai Youwei.
There was more crying inside.
Lizheng's house is not as exquisite as the old scholar's residence, it is just a simple enclosed courtyard, the entrance is a square courtyard, and then there are three large brick houses in front, left and right. The son and daughter-in-law live on both sides, and Lizheng and Lizheng's wife live in the main house.
The coffin was placed in the main room directly in front.
There were people crying, singing, burning paper, and offering incense. It was very lively.
The woman called Ma Shi looked to be in her fifties or sixties, wearing a filial cloth on her head, sitting stupidly beside the coffin, the whole house was crying, but this old woman didn't cry, as if she had been affected by this change. Frightened silly.
Bai Youwei and Fu Miaoxue heard the guests with condolences talking in a low voice:
"Looking at Ma's like this, I'm afraid he won't live long."
"Yeah, the same is true for the Li family. First, the man was beheaded, and not long after that, she also died."
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In the prompt given by the inspector, the first sentence was: There is a female Li family...
Bai Youwei's heart moved, and she immediately leaned over and asked, "Is Li's head also beheaded?"
The guest who spoke replied: "How can it be? The one who was beheaded was Li Yanzi, and Mrs. Li suffered from a disease of insanity. After her man died, she began to stop eating and drinking. Naturally, she died soon. It's the same as Ma Shi now."
As she spoke, she saw Mrs. Ma's daughter-in-law brought her a bowl of water and dipped it on her mouth. Mrs. Ma didn't even know how to open her mouth, and just stared at the coffin in a daze.
When the villagers who came to express their condolences saw this, they all sighed and shook their heads.
"Ma Shi won't survive..." Many people said so.
At this time, Li Zheng's son asked, "Is Daddy's meal ready?"
The woman who was feeding Ma Shi put down the bowl and replied, "It's ready."
- After the death of ancient people, they usually put something in their mouths. This is called "rice containing", and it is also called "tongue pressing" in some places. The rich contain gold beads and jade, while the poor use food, which means that the deceased will not starve and suffer when they arrive on the Huangquan Road.
The daughter-in-law filled half a spoonful of white rice, about as much as one mouthful, pressed it into the spoon, and handed it to the son. The son bowed to the old man in the coffin and said, "Father, my son will give you a mouthful of rice."
After saying that, he reached out and squeezed the chin of the old man Lizheng, and brought the white rice to his mouth.
However, the old man's mouth was tightly closed, and no matter how hard he pinched it, he couldn't open it.
The son cried: "Dad! Just open your mouth, it's better than starving and freezing on the Huangquan Road!"
He increased the force in his hand, and tried to pry the rice spoon into the old man's mouth. Unexpectedly, the force was so great that the old man's head was smashed, and the force was prying it up and flying out of the coffin!
It is falling in front of Ma Shi!