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

Zhou Xiufang's sudden death is definitely a big event in the village!

That night, the "masters" of Zhou Xiufang's natal family arrived.

The so-called master refers to the brothers and nephews of the female deceased's family and other immediate relatives. The reason why they are called "master" means to support and call the shots.

According to local customs, after the death of a married woman, she must wait until the "masters" arrive before being buried.

On the one hand, it is to let the relatives pay homage to the remains of the deceased!

On the other hand, let the deceased's natal family see that the deceased died normally, rather than being murdered by the in-law's family or husband.

It can be seen that some customs still have their practical significance.

Zhou Xiufang's natal family is also in this village, but her parents have passed away long ago, leaving only one brother, Zhou Xiufeng, who is two years older than her.

In fact, Zhou Xiufeng also knew that his sister was dying, so besides going to work, he spent most of his time by his sister's hospital bed these days. He wanted to see her off for the last time.

But today, my wife was going back to her natal family, and by the way, she sent some food to the old man's family, and asked him to drive a car to deliver it, so he went, and stayed at the old man's house that night due to time constraints.

What I didn't expect was that Zhou Xiufang couldn't bear it and left on this night!

In order for Zhou Xiufang to be buried as soon as possible, Zhou Yang personally drove to the next village to pick up Zhou Xiufeng.

Zhou Xiufeng also understood how his brother-in-law Feng Liujin was, and also knew that his sister's physical condition was really exhausted, not that her brother-in-law died of harsh treatment.

So after saying goodbye to my sister for the last time, I agreed to be buried.

After being encoffined, except for those who helped stay, the rest went back, and just waited for Zhou Xiufang's family members to come to report the funeral.

After daybreak, Feng Liujin took his eldest son Feng Dajun to report the funeral to his close relatives and friends in the village.

The reason for the rush is partly because the temperature is still not very low, and the body of the deceased cannot rest for a long time.

On the other hand, because Zhou Xiufang just turned 40 years old, it is not an exaggeration to say that she died young, which is different from the "happy mourning" of the seventies and eighties.

Whether it is relatives, friends or family members, they all hope that she will be buried as soon as possible.

When Feng Liujin and his son reported the funeral, Feng Qi took a few young men from the village to the grove outside the village to dig the tomb for his sister-in-law, calling it "breaking the ground and digging the mausoleum".

The others stayed at Feng's house to help make filial piety clothes, filial piety hats, twist hemp, build stoves, etc.!

For a moment, the Feng family became the focus of the entire Babaoliang Village!

It's just that no one wants a focus like this...

Zhou Xiufang's funeral lasted for a whole week, which is relatively short in the village. Under normal circumstances, it would take at least half a month from the death of the deceased to the burial, and it might take three to four months.

Because the two brothers Feng Liujin and Feng Qi have always been kind to others, they seldom quarreled with others, and their popularity was good, so during the entire funeral of Zhou Xiufang, anyone in the village came to help whenever they had time.

Therefore, the funeral went smoothly on the whole, which made her finish the last journey with dignity!

Zhou Xiufang's death touched Zhou Yang a lot, not because she and her father-in-law were relatives, but because this was the first time he had seriously witnessed the whole process from death to burial of local people.

Counting this year, Zhou Yang has been in Babaoliang Village for almost 7 years. During these 7 years, many old people have "gone" back and forth in the village.

But due to his own reasons, he always avoided such things in the past, and it had nothing to do with him, so he didn't have any thoughts or touches.

However, this time he almost participated in Zhou Xiufang's funeral.

He saw the fragility of life, saw the grief of the Feng family, and also saw the unity and friendship of "the family has something to do, and the whole village helps" in the village...

Through this funeral, Zhou Yang gained a deeper understanding of the land under his feet and the people living on it.

At the same time, it also made him silently decide on some hesitant things...

.......

Zhou Xiufang's sudden death had little effect on other people in the village except for the Feng family.

When the big guys talked about this, they just felt a little regretful, or felt that Zhou Xiufang was relieved. For a person who has been ill for a long time and cannot take care of himself, death may not be a bad thing.

All in all, everyone's life will soon return to the previous state!

However, it is different for those almost crazy matchmakers.

Since everyone was busy helping the Feng family with the funeral, these matchmakers finally calmed down a bit!

After all, there is a funeral going on here, and they are too embarrassed to run to the village every day to make arrangements for marriage!

What's more, I don't know who spread the news that the village will distribute hundreds of thousands of dividends to the members this year.

After the money is divided, the big guy's status as a villager will be even more valuable. Maybe even the girls in the county will beg to marry into the village.

Therefore, many people have the idea of ​​waiting for the price, and the older girls who were originally interesting before began to shirk it, which really poured cold water on those matchmakers.

The "marriage and love market" in Babaoliang Village, which was quite popular a few days ago, has cooled down bizarrely!

There is no doubt that the news was released quietly by Zhou Yang.

There is no way, those matchmakers are really crazy during this time.

If they are really allowed to be so tall, the village will definitely be in trouble and there will be no peace in the future.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhou Yang immediately called the village cadres for a short meeting, and briefly discussed the marriage of the educated youths in the village.

Soon, the brigade department issued an urgent notice on the marriage of members and educated youths.

According to this notice, the village does not prohibit anyone from getting married normally, and after marriage, the spouse's household registration can also be moved to Babaoliang Village, and the spouse can also receive the same benefits as the educated youths in the village.

This is the keynote, but the premise is that everyone must report to the village before getting married.

In addition to writing down the basic situation of the spouse and his family, he still needs to wait for the village's approval.

In addition, in view of the special situation of the educated youth and the living conditions in the village, it takes a year to wait to marry a local young man or woman.

And the village will use this year to try its best to solve the housing problem of some permanent residents!

At the same time, another decision of the village was announced, that is, the village plans to conduct a new round of job competition after the Chinese New Year, and announce all the jobs and the number of people in the competition at one time.

As soon as these two notices were released, they immediately aroused heated discussions in the entire Babaoliang Village!

Most people in the village support this decision, including those educated youths who are eager to get married.

No matter how eager everyone is, the real problem of housing is there.

Although it is not necessary to have a self-built house to get married now, as long as the parents can provide a suitable residence, but there must be a place to live.

But the educated youths are all migrants, and they all live in collective dormitories, and it's the kind where seven or eight people live in a bunk.

How can you get married in this situation? You can't let the other half live in the dormitory with you after you get married, right?

Even if they agree, other people in the dormitory don't agree, and the villagers don't agree even more, it's indecent!

What's more, the village didn't prevent them from getting married, it just asked them to push back the time of marriage to give the village a buffer time.

All in all, the matter of marriage is settled like this.

After dealing with these trivial matters, the time has entered mid-November, and there are less than three days left before leaving for Qingcheng.

However, just when Zhou Yang planned to stay at home with his wife and baby for a few days, and then go out to do errands, Xiao Wenhui brought him some bad news, which disrupted Zhou Yang's plan all of a sudden!

ps: When reading the book review yesterday, I found that many readers had disputes about the grain production in the previous chapters. Some friends thought it was impossible for a family to produce tens of thousands of catties of grain, but Lao Cang was not talking nonsense.

Lao Cang’s family is also from a rural area. Let’s talk about my own situation. It is located in Ulanqab City in central Inner Mongolia. The average villager’s land is 30 mu, of which 20 mu is registered, and the remaining 10 mu is not registered. (The reason for not registering before is to reduce the payment of agricultural taxes, but now there is no subsidy for this part of the land, which complements each other!), Lao Cang's family has 4 people's land, totaling 120 mu.

Although there are more dry fields and less water to irrigate, the annual grain output is tens of thousands of catties, not counting potatoes, sugar beets and other cash crops.

Therefore, most of the grain production in the book is not nonsense, it can stand scrutiny!