Rebirth 1975: Tore up the call-back order at the beginning

Lao Zhang left. After suffering for nearly a month, the old man's strong will to survive finally failed to his body.

Fortunately, before leaving, he had already settled his affairs.

I have met everyone I wanted to see and done everything I wanted to do, and I have no regrets.

It's just that his death devastated several children, especially Wen Hui and Bao'er.

Zhou Yang was also very sad. Although he had been mentally prepared for this, when this moment really came, he still couldn't hide the sadness in his heart.

But the grief was grief, and he was powerless to recover. The only thing he could do was to try his best to handle Lao Zhang's posthumous affairs.

Holding back his grief, Zhou Yang reported the news of Lao Zhang's death to the relevant departments and applied to the superiors to hold a funeral in accordance with Lao Zhang's last wish.

The superior department responded quickly. They had also sent people to inquire about Lao Zhang's last wishes and made detailed records.

After comparing with Zhou Yang's request, I basically agreed to handle the funeral in accordance with Lao Zhang's wishes, but also made adjustments to some of the things.

According to Lao Zhang's last wish, everything will be kept simple after his death. There will be no memorial service, no farewell ceremony, no tombstone, the body will be cremated, and the ashes will be returned to the mountain...

The superiors agreed to most of these requests, but the superiors refused only the issue of not erecting a tombstone.

After Lao Zhang's body was cremated, some of the ashes were sent back to the capital and into Babao Mountain.

Zhou Yang also expressed his understanding and approval of the above requirements.

After all, he also hopes that Lao Zhang can leave a place for them to pay homage. In the future, when the children miss him, they will also have a place to visit.

On October 10, the capital announced the news of Lao Zhang's death through television broadcasts. In the obituary, the organization spoke highly of Lao Zhang's life, calling him an outstanding party member and a proven and loyal person. Warrior, outstanding proletarian revolutionary...

At the same time as the obituary was released, the authorities also specially organized people to set up a funeral committee. What was shocking was that the name of the great elder was included in this committee.

However, the great elder did not personally go to Babaoliang Village to conduct the funeral for Lao Zhang. Instead, he entrusted the matter to Zhou Yang and at the same time sent the top leaders of Anbang Province to help handle the matter.

Subsequently, after Zhou Yang discussed with An Bangguo and his father-in-law Li Fengnian and others, Lao Zhang's funeral immediately began in Babaoliang Village.

According to Lao Zhang’s last wish, the funeral will be simple!

Zhou Yang and others planned to send Lao Zhang's body to the funeral parlor for cremation first, and then scatter part of the ashes at the east end of the village, leaving part of the ashes behind for him to escort back to Beijing.

After determining the funeral process, Zhou Yang personally went to the village radio station to announce the news of Lao Zhang's death to all villagers and announced the funeral process.

There is no playing and playing like ordinary people in the village hold funerals, and there is no practice of filial sons and grandsons wearing sackcloth and filial piety, and the coffin being kept for several days.

The body was cremated on October 10, and an ashes scattering ceremony was held on the same day.

All educated youth members who are willing to see Lao Zhang off can gather at Dongliang on the morning of the 20th.

After issuing the notice, Zhou Yang personally escorted Lao Zhang's body to the county funeral home to prepare for the cremation of the body...

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October 10th, the 20th day of the eighth lunar month, is cloudy!

On the mountain ridge at the east end of Babaoliang Village, there were crowds of people everywhere. The crowds lined up neatly on one side of the mountain ridge. They were all those who wanted to see off Lao Zhang for the last time.

In the crowd were not only the educated youth members of Babaoliang Village, but also teachers and students from the village school, cadres and employees of the printing factory, and even the village where Lao Zhang donated the school. After learning the news, they all sent people over. .

So much so that three to four thousand people gathered in Dongliang, which was not very big at the moment!

At nine o'clock in the morning, as a motorcade slowly drove from a distance, the originally chaotic crowd suddenly became quiet, and everyone's eyes were focused on the motorcade.

Soon, the car arrived in front of the crowd and stopped steadily.

The car door opened, and An Bangguo, Zhou Yang, Li Fengnian, Ye Zhenshan and others got out of the car one after another, but in the end everyone's eyes were fixed on the two children.

The two children were a boy and a girl. The boy was holding a black wooden box in his hand, and the girl was holding a framed black and white portrait.

These two children are naturally Wen Hui and Bao'er. One of them is holding Lao Zhang's urn, and the other is holding his portrait.

Originally, Ye Zhenshan planned for him to carry the urn for Lao Zhang as his nephew.

After all, Lao Zhang and his second brother Yan Gengdong were friends in times of need, and they almost helped him take care of his son. They were great benefactors to their Lao Ye and Lao Yan families.

As the old man had no children, he should die as his nephew.

However, his request was rejected by Zhou Yang. Zhou Yang knew that Lao Zhang devoted almost all his efforts to Wen Hui and Bao'er in the last few years of his life.

If he really needs a close relative to send him on his last journey, the person Lao Zhang hopes for most must be Wen Hui and Bao'er.

Therefore, he decided to let Wen Hui carry Lao Zhang's ashes, Bao'er carry his portrait, and let the two children send Lao Zhang on his last journey.

After seeing the urn and portrait, some people in the crowd began to cry.

People in the village didn't have a particularly deep impression of Lao Zhang before. They didn't know where he came from. They only heard that he seemed to have committed something, but no one knew what the specific matter was.

In short, the people in the village had the same attitude towards him and Yan Gengdong, and they tried not to get close to him.

But in recent years, people have discovered that Lao Zhang is not a simple man. He is knowledgeable and kind-hearted. He does not have any resentment towards the villagers because of their previous attitudes. Instead, he is always grateful to the village for taking him in over the years.

More importantly, he has been helping the people in the village with his actions over the years.

He first dragged his old body to teach the first batch of college students in the village, making Babaoliang Village a famous academic village in the province and even the country.

Then he brought many normal school students who graduated from regular classes to the village, further improving the teaching quality of the village schools.

In addition, in the past few years, he has donated and built many schools for surrounding villages, and he did all this without seeking fame or profit.

Although people still don't know his true identity, everyone is grateful for what he did and at the same time feels sad for the death of such a kind old man.

The team walked very slowly, but Dongliang was not high, and soon the team reached the highest point of the beam.

"Bang Bang Bang!!!"

As three soul-chasing cannons were fired in succession, Zhou Yang came to the front of the crowd and watched the team stand in silence to bid farewell.

Then, he said loudly: "Comrades, according to Comrade Zhang Songshan's last wish, his ashes will be scattered on the east beam of our Babaoliang Village. He will always guard this land he loved. I wish Mr. Zhang all the way." Go well, may your generosity last forever... Now the ashes scattering ceremony officially begins!"

As Zhou Yang's voice sounded, under the guidance of Ye Zhenshan, Wen Hui opened the urn with tears in his eyes, and then with tears in his eyes, he suppressed his grief and slowly scattered Lao Zhang's ashes to the vast land.

The wind is very strong today, and the ashes are flying in the wind and drifting into the distance...

Seeing this scene, everyone present shed tears silently, and Li Youwei, Huang Rufeng, Li Haiyan, and Wu Rina, Li Qian, Ma Xiaolan and others who came to see him off even cried loudly!

Soon, the ashes scattering ceremony was over.

Then, Zhou Yang took Wen Hui, Bao'er and others, escorted the remaining half of Lao Zhang's ashes, and drove directly to the capital.

Just after Zhou Yang and others left, Wang Ping, Li Jianguo and others immediately took several large iron buckets to the place where the ashes had been scattered, and then asked the educated youth who came to see Lao Zhang off to burn incense, candles, paper money, and pay homage to the deceased.

For a time, there were scenes of burning incense and paper everywhere in Dongliang...

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