The women cleared the tables and benches and cleaned the house. Because the temperature was relatively high, there was no need to light a fire to keep warm. All the braziers in the main room and on the floor were removed and only the benches were placed.

The guests who had dinner at Cheng Youde's and Grandma Zhou's house moved around a bit and brought benches to Le's house, where they sat on the floor or on the roadside or in an alley and under the eaves of the south building of the host's house.

In addition to the people who work for the Le family, people from the same village in Meicun went to many families. Generally, only one person from the family went there or took the children to have a feast. Others did not go. After the Le family had finished the feast, many elderly people also went to the Le family to have a meal.

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Therefore, there were more than 80 tables for dinner, and about 900 people. There were more people after the meal than during the meal, and the front and sides of the building were full of people.

After resting for a while, around nine o'clock, Cheng Wu moved the red lacquered cowhide drum that was placed in the corner of the Lejia hall, placed it, burned paper money, and started playing the drum with a stick and mallet.

The method of playing drums and playing music is called "beating the funeral drum" in rural areas. When the funeral drum sounds, it means that the time for mourning has arrived.

Funeral time is the domain of those who can sing funeral songs. Funeral songs are called "filial piety songs" in rural areas.

People who can sing filial piety songs can fully develop their talents as long as they are willing to sing when doing errands at home. Basically, those who can sing filial piety songs are old people and bachelors, so they are called "singers".

In rural areas, singers who specialize in singing filial songs during funeral ceremonies and who sing reasonably and thought-provoking songs are very popular and respected.

Some singers who are bachelors or those who are disabled and unable to work and who can sing filial songs go to accompany the spirits and sing whenever there is nothing to do, so that they can improve their own diet by having a few good meals with their masters. For such singers, not only do their masters not

If you feel disgusted, you will give me a red envelope to thank you afterwards.

The Le family was doing some errands, and all the singers from Jiudao Township were present. After leaving the banquet, they walked around in front of the floor and sat down in front of the floor. They didn't try to steal the limelight. They all abided by the rules. The host's singing was performed by the host.

The village drum master and his companions take the lead, unless they refuse to let the singer play the song.

After the funeral drums are started, relatives still have to mourn before it is the turn to sing filial songs.

The drum sounded once, and Le Yun called out "My aunt", threw herself on the coffin and cried, crying and complaining about the untimely death of her aunt, crying about the pain of her grandparents losing their daughter, and scolding the villain for being sinister and harmful.

He scolded all the people who killed my aunt.

She scolded the scoundrel, then cried about how good the neighbors had been to her aunt, and how much they had helped her after her grandparents lost her. She also cried out about how her aunt died young and therefore did not have the chance to see her brother, nieces and nephews. She also complained about her uncle, grandfather, and uncle.

Grandma, cousins, and cousins ​​are back.

Classmate Le is a junior, so it is only natural that she should be the one to mourn.
Chapter completed!