Three hundred and twentieth nine chapters be kind to others (four)
When the funeral team left the West City Gate, the sun was still shining brightly, but in a short while, the sky was covered with clouds. When we arrived at the blessed land, it started to rain lightly.
The autumn wind and rain make the atmosphere of mourning more and more heavy. Not only does the filial piety add more sentimentality, but even the relatives and friends who come to attend the funeral, they can't help but cry in the rain when they think of the kindness and kindness of the patriarch, and the filial son of the clan, the master of the clan's house and The second master even cried in front of the clan leader's grave.
However, Chen Jue was dumb and dumb, kneeling among the filial piety, but did not cry with everyone.
However, seeing his confused appearance, others only think that he is sad and cruel, and no one will pick on it, that he does not cry or is unfilial.
When the clan leader was buried in peace, it was already dusk and it was too late to return to the city, so relatives and friends who came to see the funeral would need to be placed outside the city for one night.
The master of Zongfang was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to speak, and he was all placed by brothers Shen and Shen.
Although Master Hong, a fifth-room, looked a little tired, he was not as tired as Master Hong and the others. When Guo saw him, he let go of his heart and told his husband that he wanted to bring Shen Rui and Chen Jue Go to the Wufang Sacrifice Village to settle down.
Master Hong naturally had no objection and said, "This is just right. There are so many people in the zongfang, and it is quiet after going to our village."
As he was talking, he came over.
It turned out that although the zongfang had asked someone to clean the ritual house to settle the funeral and relatives and friends, I didn't expect that the number of people who were attending the funeral today exceeded 50% of the estimated number. The zongfang could not be placed in time, so I could only go to each ritual house to celebrate the funeral. Resettlement.
Among the nine houses of Shen, there are poor and rich. Even if each house sacrifices the fields, the number varies. There are only sect houses outside the city, but only sect houses, three and five houses, and there are no sacrificial houses at the other houses.
If the clan house wants to accommodate relatives and friends, they can only place people in the sacrificial villages of the three and five bedrooms.
Master Hong naturally responded: "Just ask someone to come and ask someone to clean a few more rooms. Fortunately, it is now early autumn, and the house can be cleaned up and people can live." Speaking of this, he remembered Guo's words and said: "Brother Rui and Brother Jue and two were also placed here. There are many customers there, and there is a gap between them in the third room.
Chen said, "Well, just follow my uncle's instructions, I'll bother my uncle and aunt..."
Master Hong waved his hand and said, "It's not a person from the two surnames, don't ask for the heretics. You go and count the number of people, and then send someone to tell Brother Qi that it's."
Shen thanked again and went back to Zongfangyang House.
Each house is connected with blessed land, and each family's sacrificial village is naturally not far away. Seeing that nothing happened, Master Hong and Guo took Shen Rui, Chen Jue, and Chen Quan and returned to the sacrificial village first, leaving Chen Qi behind. Reach here.
For a moment, Chen Da sent someone to find Chen Qi.
It turned out that relatives and friends who were attending the funeral were assigned, and relatives and relatives of the family members who were attending the funeral were assigned. Among them, the older ones stayed in the Zongfang Sacrifice Village. The younger ones from the relatives and friends went to the Sanfang Sacrifice Village. The younger generation who was close to the Wufang Sacrifice Village.
This arrangement is to avoid being polite, and to avoid troubles with three and five bedrooms.
After all, both are sacrifice villages, the food in the houses and the food in the sect houses had been arranged long ago, and the three and five bedrooms were temporarily borrowed. The houses and food must be prepared in a hurry, and it may not be comprehensive. There are three more rooms. There is an old man of high generation. Mr. Hong, the fifth house, was in poor health, and it was difficult to disturb him. The younger generation did not need them to socialize in the past, and they could place him casually.
Chen Qi asked about the number of people and personally picked up a group of brothers and nephews of the clan, and everyone went to the sacrificial village together.
At this moment, Shen Rui and Chen Jue had finished washing, changed into Yu Jing's clothes, and were sitting in the house of the owner of the ritual house, forced by Guo to drink ginger tea to drive away the cold.
Master Hong sat on the top and didn't like the taste of ginger soup the most. But when Guo looked at it, he could only taste bitterness and sip ginger tea with a mouthful of mouthfulness.
Chen Quan had no time to spare, so he took the servant to check the house he had temporarily cleaned up.
A maid came in and reported, "Master, Madam, the second brother is back. He brought the young masters of each house in the clan back and wanted to pay tribute to the master, Madam..."
Master Hong couldn't wait to put down the ginger tea in his hand and said, "Call in quickly."
The maid responded and then opened the curtain. Chen Qi came in first, and behind him was a group of guests pouring in.
The originally spacious house immediately seemed a little crowded.
Shen Rui had already pulled Chen Jue to get up and glanced at him. There were 30 to 40 people, ranging from 10 to 30 years old. They all had plain clothes, including many familiar faces.
Everyone came forward to greet each other, and they had different names, including several types: "Uncle Hong, Aunt Hong", "Uncle Hong, Uncle Hong", "Uncle Hong, Grandmother Hong".
Although the visitors were guests, they were all juniors in the clan. Master Hong and Guo did not need to be treated deliberately. After only a few words, they ordered Chen Qi to take them to the front yard to settle.
Chen Jue looked unhappy, showing that it was not the time to reminisce about the past, but Shen Rui couldn't stay away. In addition to his classmates in the clan school, Chen Qin, Chen Bao and Chen Jia were also intimate. I stayed in the sect for some days, and everyone was immersed in grief. Even if I met, it was not the time to talk.
Now that everyone is here, they have to greet him.
Shen Rui said to Chen Jue: "It's early to get up this morning. Why don't Brother Jue go and take a break first? I'll go and see Brother Qin and the others?"
Chen Jue really didn't have the heart to socialize with his brothers, so he nodded and said, "It's really scarce... Brother Qin and the others, the second brother will sue me for the crime, and the brothers will talk to you another day."
Guo was paying attention to the movements of the brothers. Hearing this, he said, "The houses are all prepared. You brothers are one room for each person, but now it is probably not enough. If you deal with them for one night, the two brothers will be squeezed."
There are only three yards in the jujube, and there are also servants from the jujube. There are not many houses that can be cleaned up. Like Shen Rui and Chen Jue, two people are already calculated. Look at the number of people coming today. , it can be said that except for Chen Hong and his wife, everyone else is going to squeeze in.
Shen Rui said: "It's just that my aunt's side is cheap."
Chen Jue said: "Although my nephew is tired, he wants to sleep immediately, but he still has to ask for some snacks with his aunt first..."
It’s not that he is hungry, but that he knows that he doesn’t eat, so he goes to rest. Later, Guo also wants to send someone to shout. If he doesn’t eat anything, the elders will talk to him again, and Shen Rui will also be worried.
Guo said, "Your uncle and aunt are hungry, so you are about to ask someone to eat. Brother Jue will accompany us... Brother Rui, go and help your second and third brothers entertain the brothers of the clan."
Shen Rui responded.
After all, it rained for a while today, and the autumn rain was bleak. Guo had already ordered the kitchen to make mutton soup and prepare vegetarian noodles. I don’t know who was here to stay before, so I prepared it twice. If I have it, I can Use plain noodles to entertain guests, and use mutton soup to treat guests without sausage.
The toppings were prepared early. Guo ordered, and soon the maid brought in the food box. There were three bowls of vegetarian noodles and four plates of cold side dishes.
Although the couple was not convinced, the relationship between Master Hong and the Grand Master was not bad, and because of Chen Jue, they did not get any meat.
Although Chen Jue had no appetite, he ate a bowl of noodles in big mouthfuls.
Master Hong looked at Guo and couldn't bear it, so he ordered someone to take Chen Jue down to rest.
"Poor Brother Jue, his identity is different... Even if he is a relative there, it is not easy to go on a blind date, so it is embarrassing..." Master Hong sighed.
Guo also sighed and said, "If I don't say anything else, Sister Hai really regrets this time... It was the person who fell off her body. If I had known today, why would it have been the beginning?"
"Brother Hai really feels sorry for his younger son. He was willing to succeed him because of Brother Jue's future. If you really want to talk about this, Brother Hai is reliable in his actions. I see that Brother Rui's cousin is more appropriate than Brother Ji's brother, and I see that Brother Rui's cousin is more appropriate than Brother Ji's brother. It’s too much. Brother Jue can count on Brother Rui, but he may not be able to count on Brother Zhi,” said Master Hong.
Guo frowned and said, "The sinking machine is rigid and has a lot of airs, and there is no human touch. Brother Jue is too different from him in age. How many feelings can he have? I don't know what to do in the future, but the sinking machine is more important than the great master. Uncle Zongfang was much different. When he was in the capital, he went to Panhe's house by himself, but he also wanted to subdue Brother Ying. Brother Qi and his two obeyed his orders. When Brother Ying saw Brother Qi was disobedient, he shook his face. This is what it means. What's the matter? Even when the great master was in charge, he didn't think about subjugating this or that. When it comes to the nobles of each house, the uncle of the second house and the brother of the ninth house did not speak. Why was it his turn to stand up and hold on to the great?”
Master Hong said: "I have been an official for a long time and I am just obsessed with interests... Fortunately, Brother Ying and others are not of this kind, otherwise I would rather my sons go back to their hometowns and be farmermen than they want them to sprint on the imperial examinations. .
The house that Chen Jue settled is the east wing here, with three rooms in total, with bedrooms at both north and south. One room on the north and south is Chen Qi, brothers Chen Quan, and the other room on the south is for Shen Rui and Chen Jue.
After Chen Jue went in, he blew out the lights and lie on the bed with his clothes in his arms.
Chen Jue saw the worried gazes of Chen Hong and Shen Rui, but he was not as sad as they imagined.
Perhaps Chen Jue was in pain when he first received the letter from the clan leader, and his heart was like a knife when he returned to Songjiang to guard the spirits. Today, when the clan leader was buried in a grand manner, Chen Jue was already numb.
If the deceased has a spirit, he hopes that he will be fine and not let the great master leave uneasy.
One day, two days, three days... After the great master's funeral is over, how many days can he stay in Songjiang?
Before he came back, Songjiang was his dream place, and he wished he could fly back to Songjiang. When he returned to Songjiang, he realized that he was already a guest, and this place was no longer his hometown, and the clan house was no longer his. Home……
In the front yard living room, after taking care of everyone, Chen Qi had already asked someone to set up a dining table.
In addition to the five brothers and Shen Rui, there were 34 juniors from the clan who came to sleep today, and everyone sat at four tables.
Chen Jin was also among them, but when he was having dinner, he did not sit in the same place with Shen Rui.
Shen Rui's table was all old acquaintances in the clan school. Among the remaining people, the older clan brother sat at a table, with Shen Qi accompanying the guests; the thirty-year-old group sat at a table, Shen Quan was accompanied by the rest of the teenage brothers and the nephews of the big clan also sat at a table.
Because everyone and the clan leader have both given five meals, there is no need to be a taboo in terms of diet.
The hot mutton soup, accompanied by snow-white rice cakes, the side dishes are vegetables in the countryside vegetable gardens, and they were prepared in a hurry. Although they could not eat more finely in the city, everyone ran away for the funeral for a whole day, and they were hungry. It's so cruel, there's delicious food in front of you.
At the dinner table, everyone had no usual demeanor and ate very fast, but they abide by the rule of "no words to eat".
The soup basin with a half-square foot was filled with a pot on each table, and I also added it once. I ate two or three pieces of rice cakes with a big fist, and more than five or six pieces of rice cakes with a small amount of rice cakes with a small amount of rice cakes with a small amount of rice cakes. .
Chen Qi was stunned. Although he was reluctant to eat, he was afraid that everyone would get bad. He hurriedly spoke to dissuade him and ordered someone to cook strong tea for everyone to digest food.
But I was too late to speak, and I was not holding on to one or two.
Chen Qin is one of them.
He held the tea and complained to Shen Rui: "It's all Brother Bao's fault. I ate three rice cakes and got full. He took the fourth one with me..."
Chen Bao listened, smiling, not defending him.
Chen Jia has always been kind and said the truth: "Just now, Brother Qin stared at the rice cake with blue eyes. If he didn't give it, he would rob it..."