English Version Of This Article Written By Teacher @rivalhw!
The series of stories in the village [short stories]
Yang's old mother died
Yangwa has two brothers and two sisters. Yangwa is the youngest one. After the two sisters are married, they rarely come back. Yangwa’s brother died in a car accident in previous years and the old mother followed. Yangwa lives.
Yang Wu’s family has several acres of land, and two children are in junior high school. When he is busy, he goes home to plant crops and is busy collecting wheat. When he is idle, he goes to the county town to make some work to make some money. His wife works in the provincial capital. It is precisely because of this that the old mother is at home because she does not use electrical appliances to cook meals. She simply burns some water all day long, soaks her steamed buns and eats the pickles. This is a good meal, plus age. It was also big. When I went out to pick up trash, I was planted on the side of the road and never got up again.
After receiving the news of the old mother’s death, Yangwa rushed back from the county town. Because of his lack of money, and because he has not yet paid the wages, he borrowed some money in advance from the foreman, and he was also able to prepay some wages from the next month. Actually, like these short-term workers, they followed suit. The foreman and the project run, the salary is monthly, except for the monthly salary to hand home some of the rest, the rest is to smoke cigarettes on weekdays, drink old beer, and then occasionally go out to the county massage parlor to shoot a few shots hand. There is hardly any spare cash in it, so on weekdays, when something is a bit of money, you need to advance some money from the foreman's hands in advance, so that when you start again and again, you will not be connected.
According to the custom of the countryside, people are buried for seven days after their death. In the past few years, the government began to promote cremation, and the county towns have begun to implement them. The huge chimneys in the suburbs, which are rough and white, are said to be the crematorium built in the past few years. However, in this remote and impoverished mountain village, the people’s concept is still very traditional. Some people even paranoid that people must complete the burial after death, especially the old lady like Yangwa. With Yangwa, when she is old, she must not send her to the crematorium on the outskirts of the county. Otherwise, she will not be able to reincarnate in her next life.
The location of the cemetery was well established. It was in the mountains behind the village, next to the tomb of his brother. However, what she did not expect was that something unexpected happened that made him very annoyed.
The custom of the rural burial is to dig a large pit and cover a half-arched cave dwelling inside. The man is put together with a coffin, and the outside is built with bricks. It is finally buried with soil, and a good monument is erected on the outside. Of course, according to custom, this tombstone will not be established until after three years of death.
When the tomb was dug to halfway, the old man of Sanshui came to the village.