sjar Chapter 899 Digging a hole to bury people
Chapter 899 Digging a hole to bury people
Old man Zhang opened his mouth and closed it again. If he continued talking, the old woman would beat him.
Mrs. Qin walked over and looked at the cloth in front of her. This white cloth was something she had never seen before. She had never seen it in the cloth shop in town.
But this was wrapped by a dead person, so she couldn't take it.
After she lifted it up, she wanted to put clothes on the woman, and when she touched her hands, she felt that her hands and feet were still soft.
I took a look at the woman's face. Although it was a little swollen, she must have been very beautiful when she was alive.
"What a pity." Mrs. Qin sighed.
I thought that my daughter looked about the same age as this girl.
After she got married and moved to the city, she never came to see them again.
He couldn't help but feel sad and started crying while putting clothes on the woman.
After putting on his clothes, Old Man Zhang came over.
"Why are you crying? If I didn't know, I would have thought you knew these two children." Old man Zhang quickly put on his shorts for the man.
"You are on the road, how can you be naked? I don't have any good clothes at home. These shorts will just cover the important parts." The old man looked at the young man and thought he had a good-looking face. He didn't know which family he came from.
He was buried at sea like this, and it was caused by someone.
No matter what, they will help if they can.
"Old woman, please hold on to the cart and I will carry the person onto it." Old man Zhang wanted to carry the person onto the cart by himself.
"You old man, you have to be capable. He looks very serious. I'll go call Dahu and Erhu. Their brothers are in the house in front. I'll go and take a look. They didn't go out to sea last night. I guess they are sleeping at home!" Mrs. Qin asked her husband to put the man down and not to move for the time being.
Dead bodies are heavy.
Old man Zhang saw his wife running so fast.
Just don't care about it anymore.
He squatted in front of the two people and covered them with white cloth first.
He took two puffs from his pipe.
Soon, the two brothers Dahu and Erhu came over together.
"Uncle, just now Auntie said that you picked up two dead bodies?" Dahu asked.
Old man Zhang nodded.
He pointed at the white cloth beside him and said, "It's here. They should have been buried at sea. They didn't get eaten in the sea, so when they came here, we buried them both with straw mats."
"Yes, that's good." Da Hu said, and then looked at his brother: "Er Hu, lift it together."
He looked at the old man again and said, "Uncle, please help hold the cart. My two brothers and I will carry them onto the cart and bury them on the mountain!"
"Okay, our ancestors who were outsiders were buried there. If we are buried at sea in the future, people should also treat us with the same courtesy. It's mutual." Old man Zhang took a deep puff of his pipe and knocked on the pipe bowl.
Holding the wheelbarrow, he asked his two brothers to lift the man onto it.
When they arrived at the cemetery, the two brothers worked together with pickaxes to dig the grave.
"Uncle, is this almost done?" Dahu looked at Uncle Zhang.
"Okay, it would be nice if we could let them go." Old Man Zhang said calmly.
The bodies of foreigners were buried here to give them the last bit of dignity after their death.
"Erhu, you spread the straw mat underneath." Grandpa Zhang said, letting the younger generation do it.
After some villagers got up, they saw them dragging people up the mountain, and some came over to watch the fun.
"Oh, these two people have clothes to cover their bodies. The white cloth is so good, just keep it. Look at the material, if you go to the county, you may not be able to find such good material." The man who knew the goods was a worker in the county.
I was resting at home these days and didn't expect to see this.
If this white cloth belonged to their family, such a large piece of cloth could easily be worth more than ten taels of silver.
What a pity. What a pity.
Old man Zhang looked at the boy working in the county, who was the boy from the Niu family in the city.
"You kid used to work in the city. Do you want to take advantage of this little benefit? They are all dead. Do you want to make money from the dead?" Uncle Zhang said, and stopped looking at the boy from the Niu family.
The others are also simple fishermen.
I think what the kid from the Niu family did was not right.
"That's right, Niu family boy, you work in the county and are a respectable person in our village. You shouldn't say such things."
"Yes, we are all fishermen. We may all be buried at sea in the future. What if we can't even protect ourselves with a piece of white cloth outside and someone takes it away? And we are treated the same way. What can we do?"
"Brother Zhang, wrap the person's cloth and bury him. We are all authentic fishermen and can't do such a conscienceless thing." It was the village chief who spoke at this time.
He also rushed over after hearing the news.
Brother Zhang did a good job. When he found something like this, he simply cleaned up the body and buried it.
Niu Erdan was a little unhappy when he saw that everyone was talking about him, but he had his own little thoughts.
After a moment's thought, he said to the village chief: "Village chief, they are slandering me. I am doing this for the good of the villagers. You see, our villagers work so hard fishing in the sea, just to make a living. Do you know how good the white cloth is? If it is pawned, it will be worth a lot of money."
The village chief glanced at Niu Erdan and said, "You bastard, you are still thinking about this. Are you going to refute what I said?"
But there are also those who are curious, thinking that it is just a piece of cloth, how much can it be worth?
It looks much thinner than coarse cloth, but the last dignity left after a person dies is that piece of white cloth. After they die, they will be rolled up in white cloth, placed on a raft, and sent into the sea.
It is considered lucky if it is washed ashore and picked up by someone.
"Erdan, how much do you think it can be? We have never seen such fine fabric. It looks like the kind of material only used by the rich people in the city. I didn't expect this young couple to use such fine fabric for their sea burial."
"Such a large piece can be worth at least ten taels of silver. If this money is distributed to the villagers, every family will get one. Wouldn't everyone's life be better?" Niu Erdan was also salivating as he looked at the cloth.
But everyone has seen it, and it’s good to be able to get some coins.
After all, it's free, so don't miss it.
Niu Erdan instigated a group of kind-hearted people.
Most of these simple fishermen were shaken at this moment.
There are only about twenty households here.
If the money is divided, each family will get several hundred copper coins.
They can only earn a few dozen copper coins from fishing all day, or at most a hundred or so. However, their livelihood depends on the weather, and they cannot go out to sea every day.
In a month, I can only go out a few times.