Chapter 171

Guo Wei and Huang Qishan rushed to Hengyue City to help my father's coffin.

One of them carried the mission of the Chunshan County Government, and the other carried the honor of Suxi Township.

Huang Qishan brought a large car, preparing to load my father's coffin back to Chunshan County.

I was so moved that I held their hands and thanked them repeatedly. Guo Wei blamed me and said: "Uncle passed away, and you didn't tell me. How can such a big thing be without the township government? After all, you are a township head, and Suxi Township has the responsibility to handle the funeral."

I smiled bitterly and said: "It's not good to trouble the township government."

After Huang Qishan performed the ceremony of three kneelings and nine kowtows, he walked around my father's coffin, pulled a stool and sat down, and waved for me to come over.

"You should know that the city is going to hold a public sacrifice at the Martyrs Cemetery, right?" He asked me.

I nodded to show I knew. Asked: "Why hold a public sacrifice at this time?"

Huang Qishan said solemnly: "The liberation of Chunshan County that year was on this day."

I remembered the martyrs who sacrificed when liberating Chunshan County. It turned out that my cousin-in-law He Zhi had just calculated this time.

"Secretary Guan hasn't slept for a few days for this matter." Huang Qishan told me: "Things came too suddenly, the county had no preparation and no experience. It is said that the last public sacrifice was at the end of the seventies, and it has been almost thirty years."

Guo Wei took over the conversation and said: "In my opinion, public sacrifices should be held every year. The martyrs lying underground are still lonely and sleeping all year round. If you don't hold a public sacrifice, who can remember them?"

"The scale of this public sacrifice is very large. Secretary Guan personally took command, County Magistrate Liu supervised the battle, and all bureaus and offices in the county moved. Just for the white paper flowers, one hundred women were mobilized to tie them for a night." Huang Qishan's tone was heavy and his expression was solemn: "Our Youth League Committee mobilized the Youth League members of the whole county. On the day of the public sacrifice, everyone gathered at the county stadium. Each township must send representatives, and the number of representatives must not be less than thirty. In this way, the number of people on the day of the public sacrifice may reach ten thousand."

"It has nothing to do with my father's burial, right?" As soon as I heard such a big battle, I couldn't help but worry. If this public sacrifice was aimed at my father, I couldn't bear such a result.

"It doesn't matter. This is the city's decision. It's just that your father happened to encounter the public sacrifice, and he is an old revolutionary, so it is right to receive such courtesy." Huang Qishan has been in the agency for a long time, and his level of speaking can be just right.

I stood blankly, my eyes weak.

"We will set off tonight, and Uncle's coffin will arrive in Chunshan County tomorrow morning." Huang Qishan arranged for me: "Secretary Guan specifically explained that everything is arranged, don't worry!"

"What time to start the coffin?" Guo Wei asked.

"According to the rules of Hengyue City. Start the coffin at one o'clock in the morning, and it will take six hours on the road, and it can arrive before eight o'clock in the morning." Huang Qishan answered with confidence.

"Okay." I said, looking at my father's legacy photo, thinking that tonight is his last night at home, my heart hurt again, and I couldn't help but start crying.

"Chen Feng, you have to be strong. Today is the day of the family sacrifice, there are many guests, you have to take care of it." Guo Wei comforted me: "And Qishan and I listen to your instructions, we will send Uncle on his last journey."

A burst of firecrackers outside the courtyard, followed by Qian Youyu talking loudly and coming in. As soon as he saw the spirit tablet, he knelt down and kowtowed three times. He climbed up, took out a gift bag from his bag, and asked me: "Brother, who is responsible for collecting the gift money?"

I waved my hand to refuse, Qian Youyu said loudly: "This etiquette must be completed, no joking."

Guo Wei took it and said: "Boss Qian is right, the etiquette cannot be less. I will be responsible for this." He pulled a table, found a piece of white paper and a pen, sat down in a big way, and registered the gift money sent by those who came to mourn one by one.

Busy until the sun went down, everything calmed down, and the monks chanted the last scripture. After chanting this scripture, it means that the procedure of the family sacrifice is over, and we are waiting to send my father's coffin to Chunshan County.

Everyone was tired, Guo Wei was so tired that he lay on the table, and didn't even have the heart to eat. Qian Youyu was full of energy, chanting with the monks.

As soon as one o'clock in the morning arrived, according to the content arranged in advance, Meizhu and Jin Ling stayed at home to accompany my mother, and the others followed to Chunshan County.

With a roar of eight strong laborers, my father's coffin was lifted steadily, sent steadily to the large car parked outside, a heartbreaking suona sounded, gongs and drums sounded, and in the sound of firecrackers, the motorcade set off windingly.

There were only me, my aunt, and Huang Qishan in the car accompanying the coffin, plus eight strong laborers. Originally, Guo Wei was determined to accompany, but he drove a jeep and couldn't leave it here, so he had to take my uncle in his car.

The car left the city. Every time it passed a village, someone lit a string of firecrackers and threw them down. I held my father's legacy photo in my arms, drowsy.

"Xiao Feng, have you decided who will hold the spirit tablet?" My aunt leaned over and asked me.

I shook my head.

"What should we do?"

"I'll hold it alone." I said, not wanting to discuss this issue.

"No!" My aunt was so angry that she almost roared.

"What do you say?"

My aunt was so anxious that she almost cried: "Such a big thing, I thought you were ready. Chen Feng, Chen Feng, I think you are smart for a lifetime, confused for a while."

I looked at my aunt strangely, opened my mouth and smiled: "Why is there such a saying?"

"If you are a fool, you are not a fool. If you are not a fool, you are stupider than a pig." My aunt scolded, turned her face away to wipe her tears.

Huang Qishan leaned over and asked me: "Chen Feng, what made your aunt cry?"

I told him about the spirit tablet. After Huang Qishan heard it, he laughed and said: "Just this?"

I nodded.

"I thought it was something amazing. Let's do this, if you don't dislike it, I can be considered the old man's son, let me hold it." Huang Qishan patted my shoulder and said affectionately: "Uncle is a revolutionary predecessor, and we little ones are all his sons. Don't you think?"

I refused: "This is not good."

"What's wrong with it?" Huang Qishan said anxiously: "Don't you want to admit that we are brothers?"

I nodded.

"Since you admit that I am a brother, isn't your father my father? It is a matter of course for a son to hold the spirit tablet for his father." He grabbed my father's spirit tablet from my hand without saying a word, carefully placed it on his chest, and ignored me.

The motorcade finally entered the county boundary of Chunshan County at dawn. Walk for another hour, and you can reach Chunshan County.

The early villagers looked at our motorcade with sleepy eyes, and lowered their heads to busy with their own business indifferently.

Huang Qishan's mobile phone rang, and the secretary of the county government office called to ask where we were.

"Almost there." Huang Qishan replied briefly. In the distance, we saw the outline of Chunshan County. The rolling mountains were like a freehand painting, and the beautiful Chunshan County lay quietly in the embrace of the mountains. This is going to be my father's long sleep place! I suddenly felt close to Chunshan County.

The wreaths piled up in the carriage were blown by the wind, as if my father's old comrades were calling for his return. In a trance, I seemed to see my father smiling in the clouds, giving me infinite strength invisibly. This is Dad's long sleep place, I want to do something on this land! I said secretly in my heart.

Looking at Huang Qishan from the side, he looked solemn, biting his lips, six hours of road all night, he held my father's spirit tablet in his arms,

It was completely standing over, my heart moved, and tears of gratitude almost flowed out again.