Chapter 118 Family Dignity
The first day of the first lunar month is the day to visit the grave. Since Rao Mingyang became an adult at the age of 18, the task of visiting the graves to the ancestors who passed away from the Rao clan on the first lunar month has fallen on Rao Mingyang.
Fortunately, he is not alone. Because every year he goes to the grave, several cousins go to the grave together.
If you are close, just walk, and if you are far away, you will go to the famous BMW X5!
The grave that was buried the farthest among the deceased ancestors was a grandmother of Rao Mingyang, who was the second concubine of Rao Mingyang's grandfather, and was buried on the hillside of a small mountain village more than 20 kilometers away.
In the past, when there was no bus and it was inconvenient, everyone only went there once a few years. But even if you take the bus to get off at the nearest place, you have to walk nearly 10 kilometers of tractor dirt road. You can only go there once in the early day of the first lunar month.
Moreover, most shuttle buses are on holiday on the first day of the first lunar month, and there are fewer and crowded shuttle buses on this day, so it is not easy to wait. Therefore, before the first lunar month of 2017, Rao Mingyang and his team had not been to visit the grave of this great-grandmother for three years.
However, this year, with Rao Mingyang's BMW X5 off-road vehicle, it's okay to run on that tractor dirt road.
Although it was drizzling in the sky, everyone also discussed that after finishing the nearby grave, they would go to pay New Year's greetings to the great-grandmother, put a few incense sticks, burn a few pieces of paper, and set off a few circles of firecrackers.
So, after going to the nearby grave in the morning, after lunch, Rao Mingyang and four other cousins at home took a full car to pay New Year's greetings to the grandmother's grave.
The off-road vehicle with hundreds of thousands of yuan is indeed extraordinary. Even the tractor dirt road in the mountain village is not under pressure. Rao Mingyang successfully drove the car to his destination and parked it next to the yard of a family.
When I got off the bus, a cousin said, "It's better to have a car. This year is the easiest time to visit the grave here!"
The others nodded in agreement.
Then, everyone took out the incense, candles, money, paper, firecrackers and other items from the trunk, then closed the car door, and found a small path to walk towards their grandmother's grave.
The place where Rao Mingyang parked was very close to the cemetery, only a few hundred meters away. He climbed a small section of earth slope, turned over two ridges, and arrived.
However, when everyone stood in front of the grave, they suddenly felt angry.
Because, my brothers and others saw that this grave was completely built with earth. The surrounding graves had been dug up and were connected to other people's farmlands. The leeks in the fields looked quite lush.
The grave of this great-grandmother was buried in other people's farmlands. When everyone came to visit the grave, there was a circle of grass about 1 meter wide around it, which was used as a grave platform for the descendants of Rao to burn incense, paper and firecrackers for this earthen grave.
Unexpectedly, after three years, Grandma's grave was dug up by someone else and turned into a farmland. Isn't this bullying? Do you think there are no descendants in this grave?
"What should I do?" someone asked.
Then, I heard the oldest cousin say, "Let's go and settle the score with this family!"
As the cemetery of our ancestors and the dignity of our family, no one will retreat. The five brothers put in the incense, candles, money and paper on the grave and found the owner of this farmland.
The owner of this farmland was named Fan and the man was named Fan Jigang. Everyone knows that, in fact, it is not far from the house where Rao Mingyang and others parked.
Several people came to the door with great momentum. Fan Jigang's family was at home, so several people started to argue with their family.
Fan Jigang didn't say much, but his wife was very stingy, saying that the farmland belonged to their family and there were no landmarks on the grave. Who knew how big the earthen tomb of the Grandmother of the Rao family was and how wide the grave was?
Rao Mingyang and the others naturally would not give up, so they started arguing with the woman.
There were seven or eight families nearby, all attracted by the quarrel between Rao Mingyang and the woman and gathered together to watch. The relatives of the woman gave the woman a helping voice to confront Rao Mingyang and the others.
A few big men quarreled with the tried and tested rural women, but they couldn't win. Rao Mingyang and his brothers were so quarreled that they were almost ready to take action.
Rao Mingyang relies on his level 3 Vajra Body and his official background, so he is not afraid of fighting.
He was mentally prepared. Even if he had a fight today, he would start to shock the police station of the Public Security Bureau and solve the problem of his grandmother's grave.
This is Fan Jigang's land, and several families also have more than a dozen men, so they are not afraid of Rao Mingyang and others.
Just as everyone became more and more quarrels and was already at the critical point of attack, the male owner of the family where Rao Mingyang and his parking lot walked to Fan Jigang, quietly said a few words to him, and pointed to the BMW X5 parked by their yard.
"Zhang San, do you think that car was driven by them? It costs fifty or six hundred thousand yuan per car?" Fan Jigang was shocked and asked in a low voice.
Zhang San nodded and said, "That's what my son said. The car is called BMW, it's very high-end!"
Fan Jigang nodded and said, "Mercedes-Benz, BMW is very expensive, I know this. I didn't expect that someone in the Rao family could afford a BMW. Why didn't anyone come to visit the grave in the past few years?"
Zhang San shook his head and said, "Who knows? Maybe they didn't have time a few years ago! I want me to say, you are in the wrong place. If it is an ordinary family, it's fine, but the Rao family doesn't seem simple, just forget it!"
Fan Ji was a little discouraged when he looked at the BMW X5 parked there quietly!
In the whole village, only a few families have cheap cars such as tractors, vans, small trucks, etc. Mercedes-Benz and BMWs, hundreds of thousands of yuan each, which is too far away from them, and you feel that you don’t have enough confidence when you look at it.
Just when he was hesitating, their villager team leader also came.
After hearing what everyone was quarreling, Zhang San also talked about the situation of the car parked by his yard, and the villager team leader knew how to deal with it.
This is a matter of Fan Jigang's family. No matter whether the descendants come to visit the grave or not, you cannot easily dig other people's graves. Not to mention whether the descendants are in trouble for you, this practice is also disrespectful to the deceased.
In addition, Rao Mingyang's BMW, which was hundreds of thousands, was parked there, which was not a character that was easy to bully. The villagers' team leader made the decision. Everyone went to the field to draw a 1-meter-wide grave platform for Rao Mingyang's grandmother's grave. Fan Ji just pulled it back.
Fan Jigang's wife naturally refused to rely on her, but Fan Jigang pulled her back. After talking, she stopped making trouble.
Under the witness of the villagers' team leader and more than 20 local villagers, Rao Mingyang and others picked up some stones, drew the boundary of the grave platform, and found some branches and inserted them around the gaps between the stones, which marked the dividing line between the grave platform and Fan Jigang's farmland.
After solving this problem, several cousins took out the cigarette and dispersed it. The local villagers dispersed. Rao Mingyang and his friends burned incense, paper and firecrackers for their grandmother. After going to the grave, they went home.
When they got home, the few people reported this to their elders.
Then, everyone agreed that during the Qingming Festival, the earthen grave would be built into stone graves. The grave tables were also made of sand, gravel and cement, so no one could dig grave tables in the future.
Chapter completed!