Chapter 368: Carrying a Coffin in Parade
Ask Song Zhenping to give up his past resentment and go to the funeral of Mrs. Gu in mourning.
Disaster!
There is also Mrs. Gu's family. The people in Gujia Village are extorting money and making trouble. It is even more impossible for Song Zhenping to come forward and suffer this humiliation.
Song Dekui knew that Daping had been wronged, but he had to be the one to attend the funeral.
Just like that, Song Zhenping encountered trouble just one hour after returning to Xiaoshi Village.
Unable to convince Song Zhenping, Song Lizheng found an opportunity to explain everything to Yang Hua and asked her to persuade Song Zhenping to attend the funeral.
Although she is a new daughter-in-law and should not be in charge of such matters, she must be a smart person seeing how she dealt with the mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in a very methodical way just now.
At least the new daughter-in-law is too shy to disobey what the village head says.
Yang Hua understood the situation of her and her husband from what the women said.
When the vicious stepmother died, Song Zhenping not only had to give money to send her family away, but also had to wear mourning clothes to attend the funeral.
If we ignore the hind milk, there might be trouble with the relocation of the grave.
Things were troublesome, but fortunately she had experienced the funeral of her parents at her mother's side and had dealt with difficulties from relatives, so she was not panicked at this time.
After hearing what Li Zheng said, Yang Hua said, "Li Zheng, I will let Da Ping complete the burial of my hind grandmother. There is only one thing: the Gu family must be driven out of the village.
They didn't care before, so now they have no right to make any comments.
If the Gu family doesn't leave, I can't guarantee that Daping will be willing to stay.
My second sister said, if it’s not appropriate to move the grave now, then we can come back later. The grave is still there and won’t move.”
Song Lizheng frowned.
Song Liyun is smart and both Song Zhenping and his brother listen to her.
If the new daughter-in-law says that Song Zhenping is leaving, then when she comes back later, things here will still be in her hands.
No, this matter needs to be resolved quickly.
In addition, the relocation of the grave cannot be agreed to. Who would be willing to separate a branch of the family that is about to become prosperous?
After Yang Hua's soft and hard tactics, Song Lizheng and several clan elders stopped forcing Song Zhenping.
After some discussion, the few of them decided on a solution.
In the evening, Song Zhenping prepared a meal with the mutton he brought.
Please ask the wife of the village head and several daughters-in-law to cook mutton soup, and invite several elders to eat together.
Eating mutton and drinking boiling hot mutton soup, the elders, even those who had only eaten fatty meat during the Chinese New Year, held on to their bowls tightly.
Song Lizheng was eating absent-mindedly, glancing at the door curtain from time to time.
Just then, Song Erlang came in through the curtain, and the cold wind instantly made the people inside shiver.
"Second brother, what happened to those people? Can they hold on?" asked Song Lizheng.
Song Erlang brushed off the snow foam on his body and said, "I'm freezing. They took down the door of Uncle Song's house and burned it."
An elder who was eating meat nearby said vaguely: "Who cares? They can leave if they want. If they can't help it, they can carry it back. We won't stop them."
"Yes, Mrs. Gu is a member of the Gu family. What does she have to do with me, Song!" Another elder put down his bowl and wiped his greasy mouth.
At this moment, they seemed to have forgotten that Mrs. Gu was the daughter-in-law of the Song family. Even though her husband had died and her son was gone, she was still a member of the Song family.
Song Zhenping looked indifferent, waiting for the Gu family to leave after they could no longer bear it, and then he would go and deal with Mrs. Gu.
According to what Song Lizheng and others discussed in the afternoon, if the Gu family wanted to guard the coffin and ask for money, Xiaoshi Village would no longer be a member of the management team, leaving it to Gu Po's family to do whatever they wanted.
Anyway, Song Zhenping is Mrs. Gu's legitimate grandson.
Now, whatever he, the head of the family, says, Song Lizheng and other members of the Song family will do.
As night falls, the aroma of food wafts through every household in Xiaoshi Village.
The pig's head that had not been eaten at the reunion dinner was rolling in the pot again.
Although there were more than a dozen men and women sitting around a fire in Song Laoer's yard, it was still terribly cold.
Gu Ergou, his pants tied up, came out from the courtyard wall with two clear snot hanging from his nose, cursing: "What the hell is the Song family doing? Just abandoning us like this?"
He was Mrs. Gu's nephew from her mother's side, and had a similar personality to his cousin Song Laoer. He often drank heavily with Song Laoer in the town, and he was also aware that Song Laoer wanted to sell his niece.
But I didn't expect that after not seeing each other for a few days, the last news I got was that Cousin Song's niece was not sold, but instead his own daughter was sent to Mr. Xue's house.
Naturally, there is no intimacy if there is no money for drinking. Besides, Song Lao Er went to Gujia Village to borrow money, so he no longer had any contact with the Song family.
He only came here three months ago after hearing the news that Song Laoer had obtained the silver, but it was a wasted trip. He even ignored his paralyzed aunt.
However, now that his aunt had died in the yard, Gu Ergou felt that he had another opportunity to extort money.
So he brought his men to hold the body hostage and demand money, asking Xiaoshi Village to pay him compensation, otherwise he, the nephew of Mrs. Gu, would not be allowed to bury the body, and he wanted to ruin the reputation of Xiaoshi Village.
However, starting from the afternoon, for some unknown reason, the people from Xiaoshi Village who had been speaking nice words to him suddenly slipped away one by one.
Not only did Song Lizheng never return, but even several elders who had a say in the clan did not show up.
No one even brought us dinner, what’s going on?
Gu Ergou gritted his teeth, rubbed his rumbling stomach, and said to the others, "Since the people of Xiaoshi Village don't take us seriously, we will carry the coffin to the Song Family Ancestral Hall and smash the door. Let's see if they dare to hide."
"Yes, Uncle Ergou is right! We will carry the coffin around the village now!"
"Come on, come on! Get on with it!"
Mrs. Gu was not an easy person to get along with in her mother's family. When she died this time, apart from her nephew Gu Ergou, the only people in Gujia Village who came to cause trouble were some young people who were deceived by him and knew nothing.
These people were furious when they saw the horrific cause of Gu Po's death. Now they were being neglected by the people of Xiaoshi Village. They were immediately furious and picked up Gu Po's thin coffin and were about to go out and parade her through the village.
Gu Ergou didn't forget to fan the flames and encourage them: "Brothers and nephews of Gujia Village, we can't let the Song family of Xiaoshi Village bully us. Damn it, make their head and clan elders kneel down and kowtow to my aunt!"
"Yes, yes, we will carry the coffin through the streets to redress the injustice done to our aunt who was tortured to death by them!"
A crowd of people started to tie wooden poles to the coffin, shouting.
During the day, Gu Ergou and his men used this trick to scare the people in Xiaoshi Village.
It is the New Year now. Mrs. Gu was vicious all her life, and she was a fierce evil spirit who died in the yard on New Year's Eve. If this white coffin were to wander around the village, I am afraid that the people in Xiaoshi Village would have difficulty sleeping again.
A few daring teenagers were watching the commotion in the yard from afar. When they saw the people from Gujia Village shouting that they wanted to carry the coffin, they immediately ran to the headman's house.
Upon hearing the news, Song Lizheng and others looked at him eagerly.
Song Zhenping's face turned pale, and he stood up and rushed out.
Yang Hua grabbed Song Zhenping's arm and turned to the four guards, saying, "Ali, go block the gate and don't open the coffin!"
Ali and his three companions had long understood that something was going on. When they heard the order, they jumped on their horses and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.
This agile move immediately shocked the people in Xiaoshi Village and made them open their eyes wide.
Song Lizheng was stunned for a moment, then quickly waved to several strong young men in Xiaoshi Village: "Tell all the able-bodied men in the village to pay attention. If anyone from Gujia Village enters the village again, beat them out."
(End of this chapter)
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