But most of them think so. Whoever holds a wedding or funeral can receive a gift of twenty or thirty yuan, which is extraordinary. Who would have thought that when people from this unit come, good guys,

It's over a hundred fast once you get up.

Lin Yutong was stunned for a moment when he heard someone say more than a hundred yuan. There were only ten people in the animal husbandry station, including himself. Why was it only more than a hundred yuan?

I quickly went to the gift room to look at the gift book. It turned out that the gift list was not only from my colleagues, but also fifty yuan was given in the name of the animal husbandry station.

This fifty yuan will be given to any employee no matter what happens at home. Colleagues will give more or less, it all depends on their kindness.

I haven't finished reading the ritual book here, but there is a noise outside again. I don't know who is shouting in the alley: "Lao Si - Lao Si - Tong - someone from the commune -"

Good fellow! The wreaths of elegiac couplets were placed first, and then the wine, meat and dishes were served and half a cart was pulled.

Director Ming came over in person with a few people, burned incense, bowed, and offered gifts. There was a rush of coming and going. There was more than a hundred yuan in the account.

Following this, wreaths were sent to the electric power station, financial office, post office, grain station, cotton station, and other public institutions in the town.

None of this has anything to do with Fourth Master and Lin Yutong!

After all, what I was given was Director Ming's face.

If someone gives you face, you have to keep it. It doesn't matter if you don't have friendship. Once you start to interact with each other, friendship will naturally come.

Fourth Master and Lin Yutong were almost unable to participate in anything. They were too busy entertaining these people and it was too late.

All the rooms in the house are occupied, the east room is the mourning hall, and the west room is the ceremony room. Except for the eldest son, whose door is locked by Li Xianer, the other rooms are also occupied. The beds are covered with brand new white cloth, and the steamed buns are so delicious.

It needs to be placed in a hot place to ferment. Where can we entertain guests?

Li Xianer stopped being a bastard and took the initiative to open the door to the room and called Jin Mancheng: "You too, why are you keeping a broken bicycle in the room? Push it out quickly..." After that, he laughed again and called the Fourth Master, "Fourth, hurry up and do it inside...

..." Then he called Jin Mancheng, "The new teapot is on top, take it down... Where are the tea leaves? Hurry..."

The reception was very warm.

It’s freezing cold, where can we go if we don’t go in?

Fourth Master has seen this kind of proactive flattery many times. He invited people in without even raising his eyebrows.

Lin Yutong and Fourth Master were chatting with each other, and she was greeting them at the side. She was serving tea and water with a special look in her eyes.

The level of this guest is different, and the specifications of this matter are also different. Originally, the memorial shed was set up and it was over, but now this is not good. Those who can come to pay homage today will definitely be there again on the day of burial.

Come here. Can you ask the leaders of the commune to stand in the wind?

Needless to say, Fourth Master and Lin Yutong said that the entire alley was covered with canvas sheds. To protect themselves from the wind and cold, there was a fire about ten meters away, which was tended by an elderly man, with a kettle on it and a borrowed table.

The entire alley was laid out. I had to ask those who came with the leader to sit comfortably no matter what they were doing.

The old man of the Jin family just listened and couldn't stop smiling. What a decent funeral for the old gangster!

After a busy day, at about ten o'clock in the evening, the helpers had almost left. But there were still people on the stove, and the steaming of steamed buns must not stop. The stoves were all divided, and who should change shifts at what time?

All are arranged by the deacon.

Filial sons and grandsons all have to keep vigil. When it gets dark, the mourning hall has been moved from the east room to the mourning shed in the yard. People have to kneel in the mourning shed to keep mourning. The ground is too cold, and there is a layer of wheat.

There was straw, but it was of no use in the twelfth lunar month. It was still cold when it should be cold. I lit a brazier and left it, and the whole family had to sit and observe mourning even if they did not kneel.

Today, I am so busy, there are guests like this that I would never have thought of in the original Jin family. The few sad atmosphere seems to have disappeared.

He was running towards a seventy-year-old old lady. Such a funeral can be called a happy mourning.

They all felt that they had gained face, and the topics they talked about were all about this matter. Who is this person, which village is they from, who is who, who is from whose family, who is from that family.

Li Xian'er's voice was high-pitched and she was laughing. She told Lin Yutong about a guest today, "...I felt familiar as soon as he came in, but I didn't dare to ask. Now that you mentioned his name, I think it must be. I

The fifth aunt’s sister is his wife’s cousin-in-law. I heard she is the deputy director of our post and telecommunications office, I wonder if that’s true?”

Then you can't go wrong.

Lin Yutong nodded, her laughter became even louder, and she did not forget to tell Aunt Jin, Yingzi and the other women that that person was as tall as he wore whatever clothes he wore, and then told some gossip about that person that he had heard.

Finally, he lowered his voice and said to Lin Yutong and Yingzi: "...You two probably don't know that he has a good relationship with my uncle of the Lin family."

My uncle from the Lin family?

Lin Yutong reacted for a long time before remembering who he was talking about.

Apart from herself and Yingzi's biological father, there seemed to be no one else in the Lin family whom she called her uncle.

Lin Jiacheng also works at the post office, but in the county town. This belongs to the same system.

The person who has been discussed for a long time is called Su Youde. He is in his forties, and his family is from Taiping Commune, but from a small village below. He was recruited into the post office as a lineman with Lin Jiacheng.

Back then, we were working in pairs, and they did this kind of work for five years. They were together through thick and thin, no matter what. It makes no sense for the relationship to be bad.

Of course he knew very well about Lin Jiacheng.

After returning from Jin's house, I had to tell my old friend what I thought. Seeing that it was already half afternoon, he left on the bicycle in the office.

The Lin family is in a place called Huangcun on the edge of the road from Ping'an Town to the county seat. Turn in from the main road and ride a bicycle in three to five minutes. Because I don't know whether Lin Jiacheng is at home or at work, he forgot when he came out.

I made a phone call. Su Youde shrank his shoulders from the cold, feeling a little annoyed.

The post office is more convenient than other places because it is very convenient to make phone calls.

I had something on my mind and forgot about it when I was in a hurry. Riding a bicycle against the wind on this cold day, even for just three to five minutes, was really unpleasant.

When I arrived at the Lin family, I knocked on the door. It was Lin Yuqi, the eldest son of the Lin family, who opened the door. "Uncle?" He was stunned for a moment and quickly moved out of the way. "Come in quickly. It's very cold." After saying that, he limped inside.

Go, "Mom! Uncle De is here."

The door curtain was lifted, and a plump woman walked out. She looked about forty years old, with a round face and eyes that seemed to be smiling when she saw anyone. "Here you come? Come sit in the room quickly."

Su Youde called his sister-in-law, rubbed his hands and walked inside, "Where is Jiacheng? He's not back?"

As he spoke, he entered the house. There was a woman sitting in the house. She seemed to be in her fifties. She called people "big brother" when she saw them.

I know this person Su Youde, she is Lin Jiacheng's adopted sister and his sister-in-law. Anyway, she is a very close person.

He quickly called out: "Sister is here too."

"Here you are." The woman gave up her position at the head of the kang, "Why are you here? Jiacheng didn't go home."

"Then I have to go find him." He didn't stay long, turned around and left.

How can anyone just walk in and leave?

"It's an emergency. It's the same thing as us." The woman quickly motioned to Lin Yuqi who came in, "Don't be stunned and give your uncle some tea."

Su Youde was in a dilemma. If Lin Youde's wife asked this, she wouldn't say anything. The problem is that this old sister asked it, so it would be a bit ugly if she didn't say it.

The status of this old sister is quite special. It was before liberation. She followed her father to beg for food and came to this Huangcun. The Lin family has two sons and one daughter. The second son is Lin Jiacheng, and there is another son above.

His name was Lin Jiahui, and he was born blind. Lin Jiacheng’s mother gave the begging father and daughter a meal. Seeing that the father was so sick, coughing when he walked, and looking like he couldn’t survive, she said,

Why don't you leave your girl to my family? In the future, when my son becomes a wife, I will raise her. The father also wants to give his child a way to survive. The war is in chaos. If he loses his child, he will probably have to

It didn't work out. So, he left his seven or eight-year-old daughter behind and left on his own.

According to Lin Jiacheng, when his sister came to his house, he had just learned to walk. She was said to be a sister-in-law, but in fact she was no different from her real sister. Because the eldest son of the Lin family was blind, when the children were still young in those years,

Lin Jiacheng always takes care of his nephews and nieces. Therefore, the children of the Lin family call the eldest brother father and the elder sister mother. The two members of the Lin family call parents parents.

Compared to Deng Chunhua, the woman whom the Lin family married after they grew up, this nameless old sister who used to be called Lin Dani and is now called Auntie Lin has caused more trouble in the Lin family.

When asked, Su Youde hesitated and said: "...There was nothing we could do back then, but now that the children are older and have families, you don't admit it...right! Are you watching, sister?"

Aunt Lin pursed her lips and rolled her eyes as she glanced at Deng Chunhua, who pursed her lips and said nothing, "...I heard about it when Yingzi got married. I wanted to ask my second son to go. What's the result?"

Deng Chunhua made a huge fuss!

Su Youde didn't say anything. He could only send the news about this matter. As for how he felt about it, it all depended on the Lin family.

This time when we went to Jin's house, the fourth and fourth son of the Jin family were shocked. As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, you could feel that this was definitely not an ordinary person. It was definitely not unreasonable for a temporary worker to ask the director of the commune to come to the door in person.

of.

He had known about Lin Yutong raising pigs for a long time. But she had never seen him before. Now that he looked at it, how he talked and acted, and to be honest, after meeting so many young girls, none of them could compare.

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This old man is in luck.

Over there, Deng Chunhua still pursed her lips and said nothing. Aunt Lin got down from the kang and said to Su Youde: "Well, big brother, go and do your business. I know about this. Just go and do your business, and the county will be safe."

No need to go…”

Not telling Lin Jiacheng?

Su Youde couldn't ask whether it was someone else's housework. He could just do his duty as a friend.

As a result, early the next morning, Lin Yutong had just come out to wash up, and heard a cry from afar: "My old aunt...the old aunt I have no chance to see..."

Which relative has arrived?

There are different types of mourning. Some people can cry. Some people start crying from a mile or two away from the victim's house. They cry and babble at the same time. They cry until they are hoarse at the victim's house.

This guy started crying as soon as he entered the alley. Lin Yutong thought he was an old relative at home.

Follow the fourth master and kneel down quickly.

As a result, he came in crying and sighed, and everyone in the Jin family except Yingzi was confused.
To be continued...