Life is not surprising, and it is not surprising that there are people who died, and the "soul-summoning banner" carried by the dead son and the dead soul: it is not surprising that the relatives of the deceased are fighting together, but surprisingly, the village-level leaders come together...
Huaiyang Town There is a widowed old lady Liu Xiang. Because her husband died early, she failed to leave a son and half of her daughter. She is a very strong person. She can do things when she was young and has accumulated a lot of things. Later, when she got older and lost her ability to work, the villagers mobilized her to join the five-guarantee household and took care of her from head to toe.
This old lady has no hobbies in her daily life, and the only thing she likes is her children. There are eight neighbors, streets south and north. No matter whose children arrive at her, she is willing to spend money, and she is willing to buy delicious food and rare toys. Therefore, it is deeply loved by children.
Plus her family is located in the most prosperous and lively cross street in the village, so it caused the children in the village to run towards her house every day, as if they had run a kindergarten. The old lady is very virtuous and the villagers in the village are well-known; but her family and relatives say that she is stingy, mean, stingy, shabby, and not very good. The old lady has a headache and fever, and she is hiding around for big and small matters, and she is indifferent to her. She is simply inferior to ordinary villagers.
For decades, Old Lady Liu has passed by her 80s in a blink of an eye. One day at the turn of summer and autumn this year, he finally died.
When Old Lady Liu was alive, she rarely cared about her itchy people, but after her death, she cared more.
First of all, it was her nephew Liu Shitou, and then, she followed her nephew Xiang Xiaobi.
Liu Shitou's house is moving forward. Although he lives far away from Mrs. Liu's house, he is a nephew and is the closest relative. Of course, his aunt will be sad when she dies.
He received the news of his aunt's death and immediately sent his son to buy shrines and invite a drum band to bury old lady Liu. Unexpectedly, as soon as he led the people to the crossroads, he happened to meet a group of people again! who? Xiang Xiaobi, who came from East Street. Don’t look at Xiaobi’er’s house close to Old Lady Liu’s house, but he is his nephew. It’s still a lot farther away!
However, Xiang Xiaobi'er was not willing to be outdone, and his momentum was like a willow tongue, carrying a shroud and leading a drum band. At this moment, two people and horses are facing each other and they are about to enter the door. You didn't let me, I didn't let you, I rolled my arms and rolled up my sleeves and started to move my hands. It was so lively that it attracted a lot of people on the street. Seeing that Old Lady Liu's street door was about to be squeezed out;
Suddenly, the door opened and walked out of Old Lady Liu's courtyard. He glared at everyone, shouting with a thumping eyebrows: "What are you doing! What are you doing! Where do you want to rebel? Ah? Old Mrs. Liu is a five-guarantee household, everything is under the jurisdiction of the village committee! If you have any questions, go to the village chief to talk about it. What kind of messing around here! Get out of here!"
is a tragic person. The security director roared and suddenly suppressed the two gangs of 20 or 30 people. They were like plucked roosters, all of which were gone. Liu Tong was still quick-witted. When he saw something wrong, he immediately turned around. He murmured a few words in his sons' ears, and then hurried out of the crowd and headed straight for the village committee.
walked to the gate of the village committee. Liu Tong stopped and made her emotions hard. Then, she heard him screaming at my aunt and started crying. Seeing his nose and tears, his eyes were swollen and his mouth was ashen. Only then did he step into the village committee gate.
When he saw the village chief Xin Buhei, he knelt in front of him and cried, "Village Chief, you have to make the decision for me! This rural custom is that the elderly in the family dies, and if there are children, they are nephews. Besides, when my aunt was alive, I took care of her because there are many children and did not care about her, so I didn't have the filial piety! Now that she has gone, I have to bury her even if I poke a hole to bury her debts, and I have to bury her well, and use a banner to send her to the grave with her own hands..."
He became more and more excited as he spoke, and his hands were slapped on his chest involuntarily, and he shouted, "Otherwise, I feel ashamed in my life, how can I have the face to see her in the future!" Village Chief Xin opened his mouth and said nothing, and like a shocked donkey, he broke into the rice from outside the door and looked towards the little shit.
Xiang Xiaodie was a little slow. He found that Liu Tong was missing in the crowd. He probably was going to find the village chief to make a trick, so he hurriedly followed him. He happened to come, and the village chief had not expressed his opinion yet.
So he hurriedly took over the conversation and said, "Captain Xin, you must be honest as an official! You can't be far away. Although he is the closest relative, what responsibilities did my aunt fulfill when she was alive? Now that my aunt has passed away, he feels warm. It's not obvious that it's weasel to swear chickens to filial piety, but my heart is not pressed in the right place!" Speaking of this, he raised his voice even more: "Think about it, if my aunt didn't think my family was unreliable, how could she adopt my nephew? It's obvious that this is her old man who wants me to carry a banner to the grave in a hundred years!"
Village Chief Xin heard the words of the two, his heart was like a mirror, and he knew everything. He understood that the three drunken husbands' intentions were not wine. Therefore, he hesitated in his heart, thought about it, and forgot to kneel on the ground.
In fact, Village Chief Xin is sitting at home, his heart is on Old Mrs. Liu. Otherwise, the village director would not have been by Old Mrs. Liu so quickly. It's just like the wolf hitting the hooked flesh, he was unwilling to give up and wanted to stop. Now, seeing Liu and Xiang in this situation, they knew that the meat was not so delicious, so they simply slapped the table and said, "Get up! What are you two doing? Ah? If you have something to discuss, the problem will be solved?" As he said, he kowtowed and said, "Let's do this, one of your two families is close relatives and the other is a continuation. There are sufficient reasons for burying Mrs. Liu! Who will do it specifically? The village committee will not be able to do it in one's own way; if a hammer is determined, it is easy to have conflicts, so it's better for you to go back and negotiate together. If the discussion is really not possible, then the village committee will speak!"
Village Chief Xin kicked the ball out, slapped his forehead, and Gu Zi made his own calculations. Old Mrs. Liu died, and she had close relatives, and she was given a funeral; if she had no close relatives, she was given a funeral. Why did Village Chief Xin take great pains to do this?
According to customs, the death of an elderly person should be carried by the closest relatives, such as sons, if there is no son, nephews, etc., carry the soul-summoning banners and send them to the grave. Others have no right and no reason to fight for carrying this soul-striking banner. Because this soul-striking banner is light in size and has a strong meaning inside. How to emphasize the method? When the old man died, his son should have carried the soul-summoning banner, but because he was a widow, he had no son to carry the banner after his death. So whoever carries the banner means he is the old man's son. Of course, the property, house, etc. left behind the old man are all inherited by the person carrying the banner.
Old Lady Liu's property is limited, so she will fight on her house foundation. Nowadays, the price of land has soared, and Mrs. Liu's house is on the street. In the future, the old house will be demolished and a new building will be built. It is a great place to open a store and run a store. Do you think, can there be fewer people thinking about it?
Liu Shitou and Xiang Xiaodie knew that Village Chief Xin saw through their stomachs. Acting was useless and had no choice but to walk out of the door in disappointment. Both sides led a group of troops and held tightly at the door of Mrs. Liu.
Liu and Xiang just left, a famous nouveau riche in the town, who made a fortune by doing business, quietly entered the village committee. When he saw the village chief Xin, he had not spoken. He slapped a stack of bills on the table and said, "Hey, Village Chief Xin, this is 5,000 yuan! Old Mrs. Liu is a five-guarantee household, and it is a five-guarantee household. He naturally has to protect both birth, old age, sickness and death! Why don't you care about it if you die if you die? Is the superiority of our village only reflected in living people, and it doesn't reflect it if you die? I know that the village committee is tight, so I have to cover all the funeral expenses. I can't let our village committee down!"
ginger is the spicy, and the village chief Xin heard Qian Wangui's glory, but the taste was sweet and numb. But he was in a situation where he wanted to eat fat meat and couldn't pick the hook. The person who picked the hook happened to be there, how could he let go of the opportunity?
Therefore, he made up his mind secretly, but his face did not show any expression. He sighed and said, "Your brother is right, you are grateful for your heart. But if the village committee wants to get involved, if it doesn't work well, he has to sue the two companies. It's so troublesome!" There is no need to be a heavy hammer on the drum. Qian Wangui is the businessman's mind, and he can see through it at a glance.
Besides, he also saw from the village chief Xin's handling of the dispute between Liu and Xiang families that there was a story in the gourd he was holding, so he calmly took out a stack of RMB from his pocket and put it into Village Chief Xin's pocket, saying, "This is a worry of 5,000 yuan! If you get the land in the future, the benefits of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan are indispensable! However, you have to think of a foolproof plan..."
"That..." Village chief Xin pulled his eyelids, twisted his fingers hard, and squeezing the money ten thousand yuan. The cigarette that Gui handed over was twisted into pieces, and he snorted in his nose, saying, "I don't need to remind me of this! My old Xin has been eating this bowl of rice for many years, but the storm has not passed by, I am afraid you know it in your heart! Think about it, if I don't have three handfuls of divine sand in my hand, I can sit on this throne for so many years? Hum!"
At this moment, Village Chief Xin urgently notified the village committee and all of them to the village committee to hold an joint meeting , specifically studying and discussing the issue of burying Mrs. Liu, a five-guarantee household.
At the meeting, the one who is leaning towards Liu's tongue said that it is suitable to let Liu's tongue bury Old Lady Liu; the one who is leaning towards Little Fighter naturally said that it is necessary to bury Old Lady Liu with Little Fighter. If you say you are reasonable, he says he is reasonable. A duck's mouth, a goose's mouth, and a red neck and a swelling face quarrel. Later, the village director said, "Fight for an egg! Since Boss Liu has entered the five-guarantee household, the village committee should protect her! Now she has been protected to death, why can't she be protected to the tomb? The village committee has come forward to save the two families from making the village go crazy!"
"Ca! Papa!" As the director said, Village Chief Xin picked up a folded bench leg of the person who put the wall at the bottom of the wall, slapped the table a few times to remind everyone to calm down, and then said in agreement: "What the director said just now is right! Old Mrs. Liu is a five-guarantee household, and her birth, old age, sickness and death should be managed by our village; now, our village committee has guaranteed her to die safely, and has done a lot of effort and material resources. Can't we do this in the end so that we can't do the power to let her fall into the soil? If that's the case, we will inevitably be laughed at by other people's villages!"
"That's the reason!" Someone said , "The key difficulty is to bury her in the village committee. Who will be the filial son who carries the soul-suming banner for her?"
"What's this problem?" Village Chief Xin lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and immediately made a decision, "I think that although Old Lady Liu has no children, she has been admitted to the Five Guarantees and is under the control of our village. Then all our cadres should be filial to her and respect her like her biological children. We did filial piety before her death. Now, she is dead, why can't we send her to the grave like her mother? It's all the years and my mind is still so feudal! Let's take this way, every village cadre must beat a soul-suming banner for each soul-suming banner, and hold a grand memorial service to send her to the cemetery for burial!"
leader made the final decision, and it was hard to say anything to his subordinates.
Ko Liu and Xiang are like toasts that have been smashed, and their flesh is not giving up. When he heard that the village was going to hold the funeral of Mrs. Liu, he angrily asked Village Chief Xin to argue. Who would have thought that if the village chief Xin didn't finish his three words this time, he immediately changed his face, and his fingers were lit randomly like drumsticks, cursing the two of them with impotence, black hearts and no humanity, fighting to death, not living people, and blasting out of the village committee gate. The two of them were so angry that they jumped and patted their feet and refused to give in. They shouted that they wanted to go to the town to sue the village committee.
Xin Village has been through storms for a long time, so why is it that person who dares not plant millet when he hears the ants crying! When things were about to come, he immediately arranged all the funerals, including buying shrines, pulling filial clothes, and other things that should be done.
Shortly, after Mrs. Liu was buried, she sang the opera for three days and performed the movie for three nights; after the three-day stoppage of the spirit, the village head Xin held a grand chase meeting, chanting eulogies, playing sorrow music, and setting off firecrackers. Each village cadres in the village is filial, each with a soul-suming banner, spirit-helping cars, paper money, kowtow at three steps, and roar at five steps, and roar at five steps. It is vigorous and lively and noisy. The funeral team is winding and long, attracting thousands of people from three miles and five villages to watch. For a time, from the town to the countryside, this matter became the focus of people's discussion after dinner!
On the fourth day of the burial of Old Lady Liu, the town accepted the complaints from Liu and Xiang's two families and went to the village to investigate. Now, Xuanyang Town, which had just calmed down, was boiling again.
This time, Liu and Xiang families felt that they had the support of the town and were braver. In the village committee, they no longer bowed their heads. They let the village chief Xin scold his son and grandson shout like that.
each opened their voices and quarreled with the village chief Xin so much that they called the donkey and the cow running to the end, and they were all in a mess! Just as the two sides were indisputable and the battle entered a white-hot stage. Suddenly, a thin and dry old man with high myopia walked in without saying a word. He walked straight to the comrades working in the town and said, "Comrade, I'll delay you for a while. I'm the principal of the primary school in this village. My surname is Xu. There is one thing I always say I'll go to find you, but I'm busy with work, so I can't go. You're here today." As he said that, he took out a small book from his pocket, flipped through a few pages, took out a piece of paper, and handed it to the judge, "Here, let's see, is this thing that I have kept for more than half a year effective?" There are very few words on
, and the people in the town finished reading it in a short time. After seeing it, he cleared his throat and said to the people in the room, "Hey, everyone, calm down! I think it is necessary to read the things that Principal Xu brought to everyone, and then discuss your affairs!"
Village Chief Xin and the other two couldn't understand what the medicine in Principal Xu's gourd had to do with their illness. They all stood up and stared at the people from the town in a daze.
"Cough!" The person who came was right in his glasses, his face solemnly glanced at everyone, and said, "This is a will, after review, it has legal effect! Next, I will read it to everyone:
"My name is Liu Xiang, and I have no children. Seeing that I have lost my ability to live, the villagers urged me to enter the five guarantees. Over the years, Jindao good villagers in the village have paid money, grain and effort to help me and support me. But I can't repay them in this life! After I died, I had only one wish, which was to hand over all my remaining property, houses, etc. to the primary school for handling. All income is spent on the children, which can be regarded as a little bit of my lonely old woman’s reward to the villagers!
After reading it, the room was silent and surprisingly quiet. It was like in a moment that the life in the house disappeared.
Suddenly, Liu Tong laughed twice. Immediately afterwards, he smiled at Xiaoshi'er. Then, the two of them laughed hysterically and violently, and they really couldn't say whether he was crying or laughing. Because the expression on his face is really hard to understand...
