Dashan Makes a Living 1984

Generally speaking, Qingcheng's various red and funeral customs are probably like this.

The most solemn thing is usually a funeral.

In the early years, if the old man passed away, and it happened to be winter, the body would have to be stored for seven days and seven nights before the funeral, so the children of the sponsor had to entertain guests for a seven-day and seven-night feast.

Not to mention the red tape and customs in the process, but the cost alone is not something ordinary people can afford.

If it weren't for the fact that there are generally more children at this time, and everyone can share the burden, then this custom can't be persisted at all, not to mention other things, even eating banquets can make people poor.

It may be for this reason that in the later period, unless the family is particularly rich, or the elderly in the family dies, they will continue to insist on seven days, and most people will reduce it to three days.

The first day entertained relatives from afar.

The next day was officially over, and the family sacrifice was held in the evening.

In the early morning of the third day, before the sun rises, people will be buried, and then relatives and friends will have a feast and leave in the afternoon.

Red things should be divided into men and women.

If it is a marriage, it is equivalent to a day in the middle of the funeral.

If it is to marry a daughter, it basically takes half a day, and many people even take care of a meal.

Then there is the full moon.

Generally speaking, the full moon is about the same level as marrying a daughter-in-law, but the rules are different and the sense of ceremony is also different.

For example, Qingcheng has a custom of giving steamed buns at funerals.

That is to say, when a family has weddings and funerals, when you go to the ceremony, you not only need to bring money or gifts, but also steamed buns.

Take funerals as an example, usually thirty-two steamed buns or twenty-four steamed buns are brought as a gift.

The people who handle the affairs will give you a certain gift in return according to the number of steamed buns you bring.

If you bring thirty-two, return twelve, and put a piece of meat in four of the steamed buns.

If you brought twenty-four, return eight, and put meat in two of the steamed buns.

The main reason for sending steamed buns is because the staple food of people in Qingcheng is steamed buns.

If a family member died suddenly, nearly a thousand steamed buns would be needed to entertain the guests. If steamed, it would be too late, so the guests would bring their own steamed buns.

Regardless of whether it is a white matter or a red event, it is mainly steamed buns.

But the full moon is not.

On the full moon, people will bring pot helmets to the ceremony.

Guokui is actually a baked flatbread, dry food, and one of the staple foods that people in Qingcheng often eat.

The pot helmet is relatively dry, not easy to break, easier to store, and very popular among people.

Whoever's child is over the full moon, just bring a pot helmet, and the pot helmet does not need to return the gift.

Like weddings and funerals, the size of the ceremony of eating full moon wine mainly depends on whether the family has money. If the financial ability is satisfied, then it should be more grand. If eating is a problem, then it is a small matter, and there is no need to swell your face and pretend to be fat.

When Wang Fang was full moon, Wang Tianxiao didn't rush home, so he didn't give it to her, which was also one of Wang Tianxiao's regrets.

This time I met Wang Peng's full moon, his financial ability is already satisfied, and he doesn't need to be stretched anymore, so he can let go of his hands and feet appropriately and give his child a good full moon.

But in fact, what Wang Peng struggled with the most during the full moon was not money, but what to do and where to do it.

According to Wang Tianxiao's idea, just set up one here on the mountain, and only invite some people from his father-in-law's family to come over, and he doesn't want to make a big fanfare at his own home.

But Li Yali felt that if this happened, Zhang Yufeng would be completely unable to step down, and would be very sad. The relationship between Wang Tianxiao and his mother would continue to be deadlocked.

If the relationship between the brothers becomes bad, it is a big deal that they will not communicate with each other for a lifetime, but it is not completely appropriate to not communicate with their mother for the rest of their lives.

The mother's eccentricity is naturally eccentric, but after all, she raised him.

I remembered that when Wang Tianxin came over yesterday, he mentioned that his mother expressed that he wanted to see his grandson Wang Peng, but because he was not feeling well and it was not convenient, he was unable to do so.

Wang Tianxiao didn't care either.

In the hospital half a month ago, he confronted his mother again, and the relationship between the two fell to freezing point for a while.

Now both mother and he are holding their breath, and each other needs time to calm down.

This is the thing that makes him most helpless.

"Then what's your idea?" Wang Tianxiao wanted to ask his wife more about the child's full moon.

After all, she worked so hard to conceive in October, so she should have more say.

"I thought about it, let's do it in the village."

Under the light, Li Yali's eyes were full of tender affection, "I know you don't like the environment at home, but after all, you were born in the village, and there are relationships and emotions that you can't let go of. My idea is that you can Don’t have too many close ties with those people, but you must also maintain a certain relationship, or you will cut off your foundation, which is not a very sensible behavior.”

Seeing Wang Tianxiao's silence, Li Yali said softly again: "Think about it, if you want to achieve something here, do you need a lot of people to help? Didn't you say before that harvesting herbs requires a lot of manpower. Now you If you don’t maintain a certain interpersonal relationship, where will you find people, even if you have money, you may not be able to find someone who is willing to do things.”

Wang Tianxiao was taken aback. He really hadn't thought about the point of view his wife said before.

The main reason is that his pattern can't be opened suddenly.

It's not that after he was reborn, he suddenly became capable of everything, and his thinking realm suddenly rose to a height as high as the sky.

It doesn't.

A beggar is reborn. If he is not given special abilities, he will probably still be a beggar.

And Wang Tianxiao was an ordinary person in his previous life. Even though he understands a lot of general trends after his rebirth, his personal thinking pattern still needs to gradually become bigger.

Therefore, he often has a sense of tearing.

He can do all the things that he has handled and that needs to be done by himself.

But when multiple people are involved, he will lose sight of others when dealing with it, and there will always be omissions.

Just like what Li Yali said.

He originally thought about looking for someone again at that time, but he never thought that people can be found if they want to. The employment system in this era is not yet mature, and the social relationship between people is more important.

If you don't have accumulated relationships on weekdays, it may not be feasible to find someone to come when it is critical.

"Well, what you said makes sense. If it doesn't work, we should do it at home? It's just that time is a little tight, and the pit yard is relatively small, and it can't accommodate many people."

"The place is small, we can go to the alfalfa field on the cliff," Li Yali said with a smile, "Anyway, there is nothing in the alfalfa field in winter now, so it can be used as a place to sit. It's not the kind of colored striped cloth that is specially rented out in the town. Well, when the time comes, let them come over and build the shed, and lay two layers of dust on the ground, it will be fine."

Wang Tianxiao's eyes lit up, he couldn't help looking at his wife, and smiled pleasantly: "It's Lili who has many ideas, I didn't think of these."

"At that time, you were busy thinking about things in the mountains. I was lying on the kang and thinking wildly all day long, but that's all I thought of. How about it, do you think it will work?"

"No problem, I think it's very reasonable. I'll go to find out about it tomorrow. I'll go directly to the captain to be the manager. He will help us figure out all the matters. We just need to prepare the money."

The general manager is the general coordinator of every red and white event and the full moon.

Every time something happens here, the manager will be found first, and then everything will be dispatched, guests will be arranged, work assignments will be made to the staff, various affairs will be promoted, and emergency situations will be resolved and coordinated.

It's all the responsibility of the manager.

Therefore, there are not many people in the village who can be the general manager, so they must be highly respected, or they must have a certain reputation and influence.

If you find a manager and everyone doesn't buy it, then he won't be able to arrange work.

Wang Tianxiao's natural team is the third team. The captain is Wang Dabao, who is of the same generation as Wang Tianxiao, but he is already in his fifties this year.

He was very prestigious before, and later he had a production team, and became the production captain as everyone expected. He was considered to be a relatively influential person in the Wang family.

Wang Dabao and his father and Wang Tianxiao's father are cousins. When they get together, they are a little far away, but they are actually very close.

Not too far, not too close, very suitable for the identity of the general manager.

"Well, it's fine, it's the best way. We don't understand some things. Brother Dabao has been helping others as a manager. He has experience. You can buy some good cigarettes and wine to thank him."

"I know."

"That's good..." Li Yali stopped suddenly and didn't continue talking. Seeing Wang Tianxiao staring at her in puzzlement, she shook her head helplessly, "I'm just worried that there will be conflicts with my natal family."

Wang Tianxiao smiled, "It's okay, I'll make an ugly statement up front, and whoever makes trouble first at the banquet will be invited out by me, and no one will be allowed."

"Everyone else is fine, I'm just worried about my mother..."

"My mother can't do it either. I will tell her in advance that if she wants to participate, don't get into disputes with uncles and aunts, otherwise she will not be allowed to participate."

Wang Tianxiao's tone was very firm: "In short, we have the final say on everything about my son's full moon wine, and no one can disturb our arrangement."

"Oh well."

Li Yali responded.

She blew out the lamp on the window sill, and said in the dark, "Go to bed early, you have a lot of work tomorrow, it's too hard."

"It's nothing, I'm still tired."

Looking at the dark roof, Wang Tianxiao remembered what Zhang Wenyuan had said to him, and couldn't help thinking, Wang Tianxiao, you have been reborn, why can't you go with the flow, live a leisurely life, hunt every day, drink small wine, wife and children? It's not good to be on the hot kang head.

What are you rolling!

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Early the next morning, Wang Tianxiao got up and went to the city.

After sending the wild things to Wenyuan Hotel, he didn't bother to go to Zhang Wenyuan, and went directly to the small department store in the east of the city to buy six bundles of nets.

Since there is no specially sold bird-catching net, he only needs to use a chicken-blocking net instead.

But this kind of net is usually blue or green. It is not easy to find a colorless one, and it takes a lot of effort to find it.

When he returned to the station, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and he still didn't eat a bite of food.

After I came back, I didn't care about eating, so I brought the net to the field with the big guys in the open space in front of the station, and started to arrange it.

A bundle of nets is 50 meters long and less than two meters wide. A single net is too narrow, so two nets are laid together, and three traps fifty meters long and four meters wide are quickly laid.

Once it's done, double the seed is cast in the netting, and it's time to wait for the birds to take the bait.

The mountainous land covers a total of more than 2,000 mu. Of course, it is impossible for them to cover all the land with nets. These traps are just to scare others.

Birds are very smart. Once many birds are found, they will die on the ground and gradually stop coming.

After finishing his work, Wang Tianxiao asked the others to continue working, and he went back to the village to discuss with Wang Dabao about holding the full moon wine.

Together with today, there are still three days to go, and many things have to be finalized quickly.

Originally, he thought it would be simple to do it at the station, just invite relatives to dinner, but after his wife instructed him, he felt that it made sense.

At any time, if a person wants to accomplish something, the help and support of others is indispensable. No one can really do well alone.

The necessary human relationship still needs to be maintained.

When Wang Tianxiao went down the mountain, he first went to the supply and marketing cooperative in the town to buy a pair of peony cigarettes and two bottles of Qingcheng Baijiu.

Strictly speaking, this kind of thing cannot be called a gift, and people in Qingcheng call it a labor fee.

In other words, someone else took over the entire ceremony, so a certain fee was required.

In addition to a cigarette and two bottles of wine, some money is generally required.

The market price is about five yuan or ten yuan, mainly depending on the scale and the economic conditions of the family.

There are relatively more white affairs, and less red affairs. The scale of the full moon wine and the red affairs are similar, and the price is also similar.

As for alcohol and tobacco, it must also comply with the rules.

In the future, what kind of cigarettes and wine will be used at the banquet, and what will be given to the manager who takes care of it. It can't be higher, let alone lowered, which will make the manager lose face.

As for what price level of tobacco and alcohol to use, it depends on their respective economic conditions.

For wine, most of them use Qingcheng Baijiu.

This is a local brand of liquor in Qingcheng. It is not very delicate, but has a strong taste and a very high alcohol content.

There are bottles, and there are barrels for sale. Basically, ordinary people in Qingcheng drink this wine.

To smoke, I usually use Peony brand cigarettes, which cost 20 cents a pack. If I don’t want peony, it’s a kind of cigarette called "Grey Rabbit", which has no taste and is just a ritual.

If you are a very rich person, you can continue to go up, such as "Ocean", "Lanzhou", or even "Hongta Mountain", "Hademen" and so on.

When Wang Tianxiao came to Wang Dabao's house with his things, it happened to be time for lunch in the afternoon.

Wang Dabao's family sat on the hot kang to eat.

Ordinary people don’t want to rush to other people’s home to order food. People’s food is basically cooked according to the person. If you go there suddenly and give you food, then others will not be full. Can't let you watch.

Therefore, Wang Tianxiao originally staggered three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was almost dark, so he arrived at Wang Dabao's house after five o'clock.

But Wang Dabao's family happened to leave relatives today, and came back late, so they had dinner late, so they happened to meet.

Because the two were cousins, and Wang Dabao was the production team leader, they had a pretty good relationship, so Wang Tianxiao couldn't refuse his kindness, so he had to eat a bowl of rice at Wang Dabao's house.

During the meal, Wang Tianxiao explained to Wang Dabao the purpose of his visit.

When Wang Dabao heard this, he was very surprised.

"Second brother, you said that your son is already full moon?"

Wang Tianxiao is the second child in the family, so people in the clan used to call him the second child instead of calling him by his name directly.

"Well, it's a full moon."

"So fast, why haven't I heard my aunt mention it?"

Wang Dabao's wife is She Saifen, a woman from Sichuan. She fled famine and went to Qingcheng at that time. She met Wang Dabao who was working as a coolie, and finally married him.

Now the two have three children, and the youngest is as old as Wang Xiaozhu.

She Saifen has the characteristics of a typical Sichuan woman, quick-tempered, with a sharp mouth and a tofu heart.

He was a little unforgiving in his words, but he was a kind person in his heart. In his previous life and Wang Dabao, he took good care of Wang Tianxiao, and they also helped them in the matter of land distribution.

Therefore, Wang Tianxiao is grateful to Wang Dabao and his wife, and he also has a sense of intimacy after rebirth.

The aunt She Saifen talked about was naturally Wang Tianxiao's mother, Zhang Yufeng.