Chapter 454: Jiu Gong's Rage

When everyone was present, Deng Shirong began to speak: "The main reason I called everyone here this time is to discuss the matter of building a cemetery in the clan."

Everyone looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what a cemetery was.

Deng Yungui asked, "Uncle Jiu, what do you mean by this cemetery?"

Deng Shirong replied: "To put it simply, it means building a cemetery, and then burying all the old and new graves of the clan in this cemetery. If they are buried together, it will not only be convenient for future generations to worship, but most importantly, the clan members will not be buried everywhere on the hills like they are now.

Burying people everywhere may not be a big deal in the short term, but think about it, decades or even hundreds of years later, with so many people's graves, wouldn't all the hills be filled up? Just think about it and you should understand what it will be like!

After all, the mountaintop is fixed, but the graves keep increasing..."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the tribesmen present understood.

I have never thought about this question before, but now I think about it and it makes my scalp tingle.

Deng Shian pondered and said, "Old Nine, what you said makes sense. Now our Deng family has a population of over 3,000. In a hundred years, we will have to add several thousand graves. If we bury them all like we do now, it will be a big problem.

I am afraid that in one or two hundred years, the place where we live now will be surrounded by tombs."

Deng Yungui said, "Uncle Jiu, tell the clan members about this terrible idea and ask them to bury the new graves in the cemetery. I guess there won't be much of a problem. But if you want to move the old graves to the cemetery, it will be difficult to reach a consensus."

Rural people have been relatively superstitious since ancient times, and moving ancestral graves is a really big event.

Especially in the Bobai area, people attach great importance to ancestral tombs, and many disputes arise from ancestral tombs.

Not to mention the ancestral tombs of many descendants, even if one wants to relocate the tomb of one's own parents, as long as one brother disagrees, the tomb cannot be moved.

It is very difficult to reach a consensus on relocating graves.

The reason is very simple. Those families who live in harmony and have many children and grandchildren are very satisfied with their current living conditions. Of course they are unwilling to move the graves for no reason. If they ruin their feng shui and cause any bad situation in the home, it will be too late to regret.

Therefore, unless there is no other choice, it would be very difficult to get these descendants who are living well to agree to move the ancestral graves.

As for those descendants who are not living well, they do want to move their graves.

After all, they will not reflect on themselves, but will blindly attribute all the reasons for their bad lives to the lack of blessings from their ancestors, thinking that if they move their ancestors away, maybe their ancestors will start to bless them and allow them to live a good life.

There are quite a few people who hold this idea. This is what the saying goes, "If you can't shit, it's because the ground is hard."

Deng Shirong was naturally aware of this, and he said: "My idea is this, we will not relocate the graves of the ancestors of the De generation and above, and only relocate the graves of the Wan generation and below. Of course, whether to relocate or not is voluntary and not forced.

But for new graves, people can no longer be buried anywhere as before. When a cemetery is built, they must be buried in the cemetery, so that the residential area will not be surrounded by graves in one or two hundred years. "

"If it's a voluntary move, then there will definitely be no problem."

Deng Yunqiang nodded and said, "As for the new grave, Uncle Jiu, you should come forward and tell everyone, there shouldn't be any problem."

Deng Shian asked: "Laojiu, where do you plan to build this cemetery?"

Deng Shirong had already thought about it and replied, "I plan to build this cemetery in Gaolongtang, where the ancestor of our Deng family is located. That is the highest and largest mountain in our Deng family. Not to mention many other things, it should be no problem to build a thousand or several hundred tombs on it. What do you think?"

The cemetery he advocated was different from those built in cities. It still adopted the current burial method, but it just concentrated the graves together to save space, that was all.

Instead of building a palm-sized tomb, the tribesmen would definitely find it difficult to accept that.

Deng Yungui said: "Uncle Jiu, just building a few thousand tombs is not enough!"

Deng Shirong said: "For the time being, we will build a few hundred burial sites, and we can choose other places to build the rest later. Anyway, as long as we have the awareness of centralized burial, instead of burying them here and there like we do now, it will be fine."

Deng Shian asked again: "Then how do we choose the location of this cemetery? After all, everyone wants to be buried on the top of the mountain, not at the foot of the mountain."

Deng Shirong said: "I thought of building the cemetery layer by layer, and then arranging them according to seniority from high to low. For example, the ancestor is buried at the top of the mountain, and the Wan generation is buried on the second floor, and the Shi generation is buried on the third floor, and so on.

If this level is not enough, then move on to the next level."

Deng Shian nodded and said, "That's a solution, but I think we can add a condition. That is, outstanding people in the clan, no matter what generation they are, can be buried on the second floor after a hundred years, just below the ancestor, like Chang Yong. And people like you, Laojiu, who have made great contributions to the clan and are qualified to have a separate page in the family tree, can be buried on the top of the mountain like the ancestor after a hundred years, for all the descendants of the Naye Deng family to worship."

Deng Yungui nodded repeatedly upon hearing this and said, "Uncle Shian, this is a good suggestion. I agree with it."

Deng Yunqiang smiled and said, "I agree, and I believe the clansmen will have no objection. After all, this is not a matter of one or two generations, but a matter of thousands of generations. Every family has the potential to produce outstanding descendants."

Deng Yunxing said: "This is fair, I agree with it."

The other elders also nodded in agreement with the old clan leader's proposal.

As the direct beneficiary, Deng Shirong naturally would not object, so the matter was settled.

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The next day.

Deng Shirong convened a clan meeting to discuss the construction of a cemetery.

This was proposed by the clan leader, and the elders all agreed unanimously. Naturally, other clan members would not have any objections.

Besides, the dangers of random burial have been realized by the clan leader after being reminded by the clan leader, and building a cemetery for unified burial is indeed a very good solution.

As for determining the burial location based on seniority, that is also reasonable. Those who have made great contributions to the clan and are qualified to have a separate page in the family tree can be buried on the top of the mountain like the ancestor. This proposal has been agreed by everyone, and everyone is convinced.

There are also outstanding figures in the tribe who are qualified to be buried on the second floor. This is also an encouragement to all tribesmen, so naturally no one has any objections.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Deng Shirong made the decision and said, "Since everyone has no objection, then it's settled. The group will pay for the construction. While the cemetery is under construction, all clansmen can go back and discuss with their brothers and uncles to see if they should move the graves of their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents to the cemetery."

"This really needs to be discussed carefully. Relocating graves is no joke."

"The Feng Shui master said that my father's grave has a "barrel shell", so my father's grave will not be moved."

"Everyone can consult a Feng Shui master first. If the Feng Shui master says it is suitable to move, then you can move. If he says it is not suitable, then don't move."

"If you want to move, then move. Anyway, I have many descendants now, and my family is prosperous. I won't bother my ancestors anymore. Let them rest in peace!"

“…”

All the clan members agreed to build a cemetery, but when it came to relocating the ancestors, nine out of ten members expressed that they did not want to move. Anyway, the clan leader said that it was voluntary, so everyone spoke the truth.

The main reason has been mentioned before. Everyone lives such a good life now, and most people are unwilling to relocate graves for fear of disturbing the feng shui. If they do that, they will really have no place to cry.

In fact, not to mention others, even Deng Shirong himself had no intention of moving his parents' graves.

However, his deceased wife will be buried at the top of the hill in the cemetery a hundred years after his death. Then his children and grandchildren can move his deceased wife here to be buried with him.

After discussing the cemetery, everyone decided on the date for dredging Dazhong Mountain. These things were done every year, and the clan leader Deng Shirong did not need to worry about what to do, as the clan directors would arrange everything.

For the next half month, the entire Bobai was busy clearing the mountain and offering sacrifices to the mountain.

After the Naye Deng family started the mountain worship practice, other surnames followed suit in recent years. They either don’t worship the mountain at all, or they have to do it for three consecutive years.

Therefore, in every town and village in the county, you can see large trucks with family name flags flying on them, carrying clan members as they pass through the market with drums and gongs beating.

It was so lively for more than half a month before it slowly calmed down.

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That afternoon, when Deng Shirong was drinking tea and chatting with Deng Yungui, Deng Yunqiang, Deng Changbao and others in his villa, a clan member suddenly came over on a motorcycle and shouted, "Jiugong, something big has happened. Guai Maqi from Changshou's family is going to jump off the building."

When these words were spoken, everyone who was drinking tea was surprised.

"What's going on?"

Deng Shirong put down his teacup, stood up and asked, "Why did you suddenly jump off the building?"

The tribe member replied: "I don't know the details, but judging from Guai Maqi's current mental state, he should be taking drugs."

"Bang!"

Deng Shirong slapped the table and yelled, "You bastard!"

He was really angry. He knew very well the harm of gambling and drugs, so he issued a ban in the tribe early on.

At the beginning, gambling was forbidden for the whole clan. If anyone dared to touch (I wanted to use the word "吸", but was afraid that it would be inharmonious if combined with the word "毒", so I used the word "沾" instead) gambling, he would kick the person out of the group without hesitation. It was this sword hanging over their heads that allowed the Naye Deng family to completely put an end to gambling over the years. Villages with other surnames basically had gambling grounds, but the village where the Naye Deng family lived did not even have a single gambling ground.

In addition, people who play poker basically only play tractor.

People who play mahjong don’t gamble with money, they just bet on drinking water or alcohol. Anyway, no one dares to gamble with money.

In addition to banning gambling for the entire clan, in the late 1980s, the number of people taking drugs gradually increased. At that time, Deng Shirong also issued an order to ban drugs for the entire clan. He told his children at the time that anyone who dared to take drugs would have their legs broken. He also said the same thing to his clan members. No matter who took drugs, he would break his legs himself.

Over the years, thanks to his prestige in the clan, there were countless clan members in Bobai who had been contaminated by drugs, but only the Deng clan had not had a single person contaminated by drugs. This made Deng Shirong, the clan leader, very pleased.

After all, in their previous life, the Ye Deng family had produced many people who were addicted to drugs, and naturally, none of them had a good ending.

Changshou's son, Guai Maqi, was also one of the members of the clan who was addicted to drugs in his previous life.

He didn't expect that even though he had issued an order to ban drugs in the entire clan in this life, he still couldn't stop this Ma Qi from taking drugs.

When Deng Shirong was angry, the first thing he thought of was that today's matter must be handled properly, otherwise the drug-ban order he issued for the entire clan would become a joke. Not only would a second or third clan member become addicted to drugs, but gambling might also revive.

This is something he absolutely would not allow.

So, Deng Shirong drove a motorcycle, together with the clan members who came to report the news, and took Deng Yungui and others to Deng Changshou's house.

Deng Shirong's villa is about one kilometer away from Deng Changshou's villa. We arrived there quickly by riding a motorcycle.

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At this time, many clansmen had gathered at Deng Changshou's house, looking at Guai Maqi, who was sitting on the railing on the third floor with his back against the wall and talking incoherently.

At this time, Deng Changshou and his wife were also standing on the balcony on the third floor, standing opposite their son and carefully persuading him. They wanted to go over and pull their son back from the railing, but they were afraid of upsetting him and causing him to fall from the third floor. They were so anxious that they didn't know what to do.

The tribesmen watching below also did not dare to say anything. If they said something that irritated Guai Maqi and he really jumped from the top and died or became disabled, they would probably be hated by Deng Changshou and his wife.

So, everyone just watched quietly and talked in low voices with other tribesmen.

When Deng Shirong arrived on his motorcycle, the tribesmen finally felt more confident and greeted him one after another: "Uncle Jiu!"

"Jiu Gong!"

"The clan leader!"

Deng Shirong nodded, parked the car, and then looked at Guai Maqi on the third floor who was obviously mentally ill.

At this time, Guai Maqi was sitting on the railing and talking nonsense, his expression was sometimes excited, sometimes angry, and sometimes terrified...

Although there were many people who were addicted to drugs in that era, since Deng Shirong had banned drugs in the entire clan very early on, most clan members did not know what the reactions of people who were addicted to drugs were. At most, they had heard about it from others and had not witnessed it with their own eyes.

Now, seeing Guai Maqi's reaction, many members of the tribe have become alert and are determined not to let their children touch this thing.

Deng Shirong looked for a few seconds, then walked straight into Deng Changshou's house and quickly came to the balcony on the third floor.

"Jiu Gong!"

Deng Changshou hurriedly greeted Deng Shirong, his eyes full of shame.

After all, Jiugong's entire clan is drug-free, and no one in the clan has touched drugs for so many years. However, his bastard son made an exception. He felt ashamed and terrified, and didn't know how to face Jiugong.

Deng Shirong didn't waste any time talking to them. With the system space in his possession, he was very confident. After walking out of the balcony, he rushed over directly, grabbed Guai Maqi's arm at lightning speed, and then pulled him back from the railing amid the exclamations of the tribesmen.

Seeing Jiu Gong dragging his son back to the balcony, Deng Changshou and his wife also reacted. They immediately rushed over, grabbed their son tightly, and dragged him into the house.

"Give him some more water, and when this bastard wakes up, drag him to the ancestral hall."

Deng Shirong gave instructions and without waiting for Deng Changshou and his wife to reply, he went downstairs and said directly to the clan members downstairs: "Notify everyone to hold a clan meeting at the entrance of the ancestral hall at 7 o'clock tonight."

As soon as these words came out, the tribe members knew that the tribe leader was going to "settle accounts later", but they didn't know how he would deal with Guai Ma Qi who violated the drug prohibition order? ...

evening.

At the entrance of the Deng Family Ancestral Hall in Naye.

Except for those clan members who were away from home, all the clan members who stayed at home rushed over to attend the clan meeting after dinner.

"Guimaqi, this bastard, actually dared to violate the drug prohibition order issued by Jiugong. He must be living too comfortably!"

"I heard that Jiu Gong was so angry that he slammed the table. Guai Ma Qi is really a brainless bastard. I heard that those who get involved in drugs will not have a good ending."

"Drug addiction does not end well. There is a drug addict in my wife's family. It has been several years. Now he is no different from a disabled person. He sold everything that could be sold in the house. His wife also left with the children. A good family was gone just like that."

"This Guai Ma Qi must have been addicted to drugs a long time ago. If he had just started, he wouldn't have threatened to commit suicide."

"I don't know if Changshou and the others knew about it before. If they didn't, it would be fine. But if they knew, they helped to conceal it..."

“…”

Amid the discussions of the clan members, Deng Shirong, Deng Shian, Deng Yungui, Deng Yunqiang and other clan elders also came to the ancestral hall.

In less than three minutes, the protagonist of this clan meeting, Guai Maqi, was dragged to the clan meeting by his father, accompanied by his mother and brothers and sisters.

Guai Maqi should have woken up by now. When he arrived at the clan meeting and saw the clan leader sitting on the stage with a sullen face, he couldn't help but shudder.

Deng Changshou looked at Jiugong and said with shame on his face: "Jiugong, I brought this rebellious son here!"

"sit!"

After Deng Shirong asked them to sit down, he looked at the tribesmen below and said, "My fellow tribesmen, I have long said that gambling and drugs are things that you should never touch. Once you do, there will be endless troubles.

Let’s talk about gambling first. It is a bad habit left over from the old society and a disguised form of robbery.

As long as you get involved in gambling, no matter how much wealth you have, it is all fake. Once you get addicted to gambling, you can lose all your belongings overnight.

I have worked hard to lead you to become rich, so that you can all live a good life with me, instead of letting you gamble and then lose the money you have worked hard to earn to others at the gambling table. In this way, I am only helping others by helping you make money.

Then why did I bother?

So, I said at the beginning that if anyone dares to gamble, I will resolutely kick out his shares.

Fortunately, over the years, all the tribesmen have restrained their gambling addiction, and no one has been found gambling so far, which is something worthy of praise."

After hearing this, the tribesmen nodded repeatedly. They all saw the harm of gambling. In addition to their own Ye Deng family, villages with other surnames all had gambling grounds, and there were mahjong, poker, dice and other various gambling methods.

As for those who gamble, unless they become professional gamblers, ordinary people will lose all their money with interest if they lose just one game, even if they win ten games. It is easy for ordinary people to get addicted to gambling, so their lives are extremely unstable and they often have to borrow money from others.

In particular, there are many examples of people who originally made a lot of money in business, but ended up losing everything because of gambling.

Therefore, the tribesmen are very grateful that the clan leader had issued a gambling ban in the tribe. If there had not been this gambling ban hanging over the heads of those tribesmen who liked to gamble, most families would probably not be able to keep their current wealth.

"If gambling can only make people lose their fortunes and break up their families, then drugs are truly the thing that can kill people."

Deng Shirong glanced at Guai Maqi and continued, "Since the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, imperialism has imported large quantities of opium into my country, poisoning the Chinese people and causing my country to suffer a century of humiliation. People who are older now should have seen with their own eyes the elders in their clan smoking opium. They were so skinny that they died early.

Today's drugs are a hundred times more powerful than opium in the past. Once you get addicted, it will not just be a simple death at an early age, but you will also turn into a psychopath, suspicious all day long. You will hear some non-existent voices out of thin air, and often hear someone talking in your ear. The content of the speech varies. Sometimes many people are saying bad things about you, and sometimes one person says everything you are thinking.

I was completely unable to distinguish between the sound of real speech and that of an illusion, and so I fell into panic and confusion.

Some people will interact with voices they hear out of thin air, talk to things that don't exist at all, and even argue and curse at each other.

In severe cases, people may experience hallucinations, that is, seeing unreal things, such as seeing someone chasing them. Others may experience olfactory hallucinations, such as smelling strange odors in food, poison in the air, etc.

Another thing is that he thinks that some things around him that actually have nothing to do with him are related to him.

For example, if he sees someone spitting on the side of the road, he thinks that person is spitting at him. If he sees people talking in a group, he thinks that they are talking about him. In short, he feels that everything around him seems to be directed at him.

In short, at this point, the drug addict is almost like a devil. Many people, after experiencing hallucinations after taking drugs, even kill their parents, wives, and children with their own hands. Therefore, this drug must never be touched. Once touched, there is no turning back.

The best case is that they will die alone, but in serious cases, they will drag their loved ones or others to die with them.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience was in an uproar!

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