door to happiness

As I expected, the person who opened the mountain chose the bamboo forest on the right for my mother's grave.

It turned out that my mother came to my dream that night, just like she came to Li Xiangyu's dream that day.

"Sometimes there must be something in life, and there is always time in life. Don't force it. When it's time to go, go, and when it's time to hug. My child, we are not destined." In the dream that day, she turned her back to me and said The words are still vaguely recalled in my ears.Yes, our fate is shallow, and she has already left before I have time to hug her.However, what does she want to express in the phrase "Sometimes in fate must be there, and there is no time in fate to force it"?Is Li Xiangyu and I destined for each other, or are we destined for each other?Or, did she mean the fate between me and her?

The Lingtang has been set up, the curtains are hung all over the wall, and the wreaths are piled up from inside to outside.A door panel, sandwiched between the coffin and the mullion.In the coffin, her physical body is eternal; the paper-studded spiritual seat is like a small pavilion, and her photo is placed in it-her soul will temporarily reside here, accepting people's worship.

Every time a person came, the brothers of the Li family would step forward, bend their right feet, kneel on one knee in front of others, and kowtow to thank them.The funeral will last for six days, and it will not be buried until the sixth day of the first lunar month. (If counting from the first day of the new year, the time is six days; if counting from the [-]th of the new year, the time is seven days, which is in line with the seven-day burial time, and there is no overdue ceremony.) The hardships during this period can be imagined.Li Huanyu really felt sorry for me, so he let me do the gift of his daughter.

On the third day, Tong Tong's father, who is the housekeeper, suddenly found his father. It turned out that all the extra money in the card had been used up, but the wages of the gong and drum team, the funeral band, King Kong's salary, and the opening of grocery shopping had not yet been settled. .If this is calculated in a scattered manner, it is estimated that it will cost another [-] to [-].

This worried Dad, so he hurried out of the house to borrow money from the east and the west to see if he could raise some money.However, the country people are very superstitious. In this first lunar month, if anyone is willing to borrow their family wealth, isn't this a bad luck?Many people ran away when they saw Dad, the meaning was obvious—please don't open your mouth.

"Father, I'll go and see Li Hang's house. He's doing business outside and his family is well-off. For the sake of his junior high school classmates, he should borrow some money!"

"I've been there just now. His father saw me and quietly hid from the side door to play cards. It's Chinese New Year, and everyone wants to win a prize. Who wants to lend money? You go try your luck, remember to watch people Face. Those who celebrate the Chinese New Year, don’t embarrass others too much, speak well.”

Li Hang is Li Xiangyu's junior high school classmate, and he can be regarded as the same family, although several generations have passed.After graduating from junior high school, he went south to Shenzhen with his father to work, and rented a small shop in Huaqiang SEG to sell mobile phones, and made a living.

I followed Li Xiangyu to Li Hang's house.His house is indeed very beautiful, with magnificent decoration, which looks like a villa. If it falls in Yangcheng, it cannot be bought by tens of millions.

When he arrived outside Li Hang's house, Li Xiangyu didn't dare to go in, but called him and asked him to come out.Maybe it's because of wearing heavy filial piety and entering the room with a mourning stick in hand, for fear of touching Li Hang's bad luck.

Li Hang came out, wearing a luxurious suit, and his leather shoes were polished to a shine.He is a little fat, and people in their early twenties have started to have a belly, obviously not doing a good job in body management.

Seeing Li Hang coming out, Li Xiangyu knelt down first with a mourning stick, which shocked me.It was only then that I remembered what he said: a filial son is the youngest, he must kneel down and give a salute to anyone he sees, even if it is a dog.

Li Hang clasped his fists in both hands, bowed his head, "invited" Li Xiangyu up, and said, "Brother, you can't come back to life after death, so please mourn!"

"Mother doesn't care about me, and I can't do anything about it. My mother spent more than [-] yuan on the operation, and now I'm a poor family. It's a bit difficult at the moment. Old classmate, you have made a lot of money over the years. I hope you can help me and help me. Overcome this difficulty. This kindness is as deep as the sea, and I will never forget it. I will go to Guangzhou at the beginning of the year to work, and I will definitely repay you as soon as possible.” In terms of words and sentences, he seems to be in every possible way, trying to avoid a "borrow" ", did not ask him "do you have any money", but in this way, it seemed a bit jerky.

"When Liu Lei's mother was ill, I also heard about it. His family also borrowed a lot of money. With the example of Liu Lei's mother, you should learn from the pitfalls. When your mother is ill , you shouldn’t let her go for treatment, the hospital is a furnace that burns money. Cancer, anyway, is dead, why bother.” His eyes were very contemptuous, as if to say, “What are you doing? Do it yourself, no one can help you."

I suppressed the anger in my heart and gritted my steel teeth "clucking".

"What you said is that you didn't think much about it at the beginning. Now that the matter has come to this point, I hope you can help me a little bit. Help me organize this funeral first. Give me as much as you can!" Waiting to see, judging by the person's face, Li Xiangyu is still calm, neither manic nor angry.

"Wait a minute! I'll ask my dad."

Li Hang went there for a quarter of an hour, and when he came back, he held a red envelope in his hand, and handed it to Li Xiangyu with a smile: "A little heart, take it!"

Li Xiangyu took the red envelope, opened it, and looked at it. There was only 500 yuan in it. He was a little anxious: "Brother, add another zero, okay? Tell your father, I can write a note and imprint my fingerprint. How am I, Li Xiangyu?" , you don't know?"

"Xiangyu, let's open the skylight and tell the truth. With your family's current situation, it is difficult to turn around. I didn't expect you to pay back the 500 yuan." The boy looked arrogant.

"What did you say? Who can't turn over?" I was so angry that I picked up Li Xiangyu's mourning stick and was about to hit someone. The boy was so scared that he retreated several feet away.

I was about to chase him, but Li Xiangyu hugged him by the waist: "You can't hit him with this, it will kill you. Ah Hong, don't be impulsive! Let's go back first!" He begged bitterly, and took the mourning stick from my hand.

Li Xiangyu threw the red envelope at Li Hang: "Li Hang, Feng Shui turns, and I, Li Xiangyu, may not be able to turn around. I originally thought that it would be nice if you could lend me 500 yuan, and it would be worthwhile for my classmates. But you treat me like a beggar, This is a bit too much. The money, you should take it back yourself. If the money is not enough, I will think of another way. "

Man, how strange.There are icing on the cake every year, but there are not many who give charcoal in the snow.On weekdays, people look like dogs and call them brothers and sisters, but once they are in trouble, they can't wait to make trouble.

As soon as I thought of that kid Li Hang's arrogance, I felt indignant: "Why stop me, that kid is flattering you."

"This is a mourning stick," Li Xiangyu raised his mourning stick, "If this stick is beaten down, his old Li family will have to mobilize the whole family to overturn my family's funeral."

"Is it that evil?"

"Hey, it's all feudal superstition. If you are beaten by this mourning stick, you will be hard to get over and suffer for the rest of your life. Although there is no basis, these old ladies and old men in the country believe it. If you beat someone with this , that may really kill people. By the way, how much money do you have in your card?"

"More than 2000. How about I call Dad and ask him to send some money over? Seeing you being so angry, I really feel sorry for you!"

He smiled sweetly: "At this time, you can actually say: Make an offer, I'll buy you!"

I was amused by his joke: "So it can be like this. But, my baby is a priceless treasure, how can I afford it?"

I called my father and explained the predicament here. Without saying a word, my father agreed to deposit 5 yuan into Li Xiangyu's bank card through the ATM.

Li Xiangyu laughed at himself and said, "Why did I forget that I have such a rich father, and I still ran to my classmates to be angry?" His tone was full of helplessness, sadness and loss.

"Sad?"

He nodded: "For my dad, asking your dad to borrow money is far more contemptible than kneeling to Li Hang. This will make him always aware of his usefulness, and we are in this relationship, It will make him feel like he's selling his son for glory. Although my dad is usually silent, he is actually a person with strong self-esteem."

That's right, the dispute was so intense that night, so we can get a glimpse of the leopard.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, my father and my mother each drove a car, and brought Xiaobo, Liu Lei and Liu Lei's father back to Li Xiangyu's house.

Dad didn't understand the customs here, but fortunately, Liu Lei's father guided the whole process, and he didn't lose his manners.

At noon on the fifth day of the first lunar month, according to local customs, all the nearby families came to eat.It was opened according to the flowing water table, and there were two rounds in total, with [-] tables in each round, for a total of [-] tables.My father in the city has never seen such a banquet, and the so-called floating banquet is probably only available in Hakka military dependents' villages.No wonder, after a funeral, the cost ranged from tens of thousands to more than [-].

What surprised me even more was Li Huanyu's so-called "son etiquette".When eating, the filial son first kneels from the mourning hall and bows to everyone, no matter adults or children, and then retreats to the kitchen to thank the cook before coming out from the side door to the open-air flowing water mat, table by table. Kneel down and thank them for coming to the funeral.At this time, all twenty tables in the audience put down their chopsticks in unison, stood up, and waited respectfully for the filial son to salute, and then they sat down and continued to eat.

Seeing the numbness of the two brothers turned into black cloth stained with mud, I couldn't help but burst into pain.When will this bad habit of the countryside be eradicated?Is it not enough to express the piety of a filial son by kneeling at three steps and knocking at nine steps?

After eating, I went back to the mourning hall, touched their knees, and I couldn't help crying.

On the contrary, Li Huanyu smiled foolishly: "Should you be grateful to me now? This is really hard. Besides, if you kneel this time, after my dad is a hundred years later, why don't you kneel again? That's the real suffering!"

"Why, because the father is a man? Funeral ceremonies also favor sons and daughters?" I was a little curious.