"Puchi..." Li Kai, who was kneeling on the side, couldn't help it. Is Uncle Lin so cunning? Why didn't he discover it in his previous life?

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Li Kai quickly pretended to cough twice and explained hurriedly: "I choked myself by spitting, so you can continue to discuss it."

Seeing that he was fine, Lin Songbei continued, "The banquet was settled. Add four hard dishes to eight cold and eight heat. We should not be too extravagant. Just use ordinary drinks, and choose ordinary soda at the women's table."

There is still soda for women on the table? This is not available in Ancheng. Maybe it is because of this habit in Beijing. Seeing that everyone else nodded, Li Yan agreed.

This is a big expense. According to this standard, a table of banquets costs more than fifty yuan. This means that when doing rural affairs, they cook their own dishes. If they were held in restaurants like in the city, they would not be able to get two fifty yuan.

According to preliminary estimates, 80% of the villagers in Banshantun, plus the people coming to Aoshanping and Fuchang Village, have to set up at least 80 tables, which is more than 4,000 yuan. If you know that you don’t have to be a part of the meal, maybe more people will come.

"The third one is that firecrackers must not be missing. Of course, since we have unanimously chosen the mid-range standard, firecrackers can be less, but second kicks must not be missing. Second kicks are shocking. Uncle Wu will definitely be in the immortal class in the future. We must first report a letter to the people above. The voice is louder, and Uncle Wu will also be faced as he ascends to heaven. Maybe he will give him a position when he gets above."

Everyone nodded again.

"Aside from the fourth one, An Ruo mentioned just now that the old man's heart disease in his life is that he has no children. This matter has been criticized openly and secretly for many years. So I have to say that those who came to see Uncle Wu on the day of the funeral will not be as close to each other. They are all people who know how to be grateful. As long as he is willing, they will be filial. At that time, it will not only show that Uncle Wu has prestige, but also show that the people of Shantun value friendship."

Seeing everyone nodding again, Li Yan thought for a while and agreed.

This was another big expense. In the rural areas of Ancheng, the people who wore filial piety were all within five robes. It turned out that the owner provided the fabric. After the relatives took it home, they simply sewed it into a filial piety uniform. Later, it gradually evolved. Except for the family's direct connection, the rest of the relatives put the fabric directly on their bodies, found a strip of white cloth to tie it on their waists, and then wore a filial piety hat.

The fabric of the mourning clothes is white cotton, with a specification of two feet and five inches wide and one twelve feet long, which is exactly the size of a quilt. A piece of cloth is ten feet, which is 33.33 meters. According to Li Qianjin's prestige in the village and this "suicide" ration, it is estimated that dozens of pieces of cloth will be given out, which will cost two thousand yuan less.

"So, no matter how simple the handling is, your few thousand dollars are not enough." Lin Songbei nodded confidently, "Fourth Brother, we just want to hold a grand funeral for Uncle Wu, which is glorious. At least for twenty years, no one can overshadow the old man's limelight and make him leave with great enthusiasm. Brother, do you know? I often think of those days. When I think of those days, I think of Uncle Wu. Without Uncle Wu, our family may not be able to return to Beijing. Uncle Wu is to us. Uncle Wu is to us.

The grace is as heavy as a mountain, and no matter how much reward is, we are not overwhelmed. We are not like you, we are just by our side. Not only can we be filial, but our wives and children can also be filial together. We are high and far away, and we feel very guilty in our hearts. Now is the last chance, so we just want to do our best and put in some effort. If you think about it, you are not satisfied with us. Do we have to make us feel guilty for the rest of our lives? If we have to wait for the capital, my old man pointed at me and scolded me for being ungrateful."

"No...no...no...no, no," Li Yan saw Lin Songbei start to cry again, and the other two were also in tears, panicked, "Just do as we discussed, spend as much as we should, and we will spend the three of us equally."

Li Yan's family now has the gold bar guaranteed guarantee, so he is not panicked. Besides, he actually wants to do a bigger funeral for Li Qianjin, as if this will only repay a little of Li Qianjin's kindness to him.

"Then you collect the money first, settle the accounts after finishing the matter, and then refund the more and make up for it." Lin Songbei and Han Zeqi pushed the two stacks of money over again.

Li Yan could only smile bitterly and collect the money.

Then the few people briefly discussed some details and decided to rest when it was late.

Liu Fengzhi, Mao Xiaoling and Li Anruo arranged in the west room, and Li Yan and the three brothers rested in the east room. Li Kai, Li Qing and Chang Dalong took turns to take care of the incense candles. These nights cannot be extinguished and need to be replaced in time.

Li Anruo originally wanted to keep a vigil in the main hall, but Liu Fengzhi and the others persuaded him to "invited" him into the east room.

In the middle of the night, Lin Songbei and Han Zeqi came out to burn incense and chatted with Li Kai who was guarding for a while. They felt that this child had changed a lot compared to before. Many insights could keep up with the two of them, and they were even novel and advanced. No wonder they could get Li Qianjin's different eyes. They couldn't help but sigh that it was indeed the next wave that pushed the previous wave and Li Yan was good at teaching his children.

At around six o'clock in the morning, Li Kai, who was curled up next to the spirit, woke up. The spirit candle and the spirit incense were lit, and from time to time they had to burn a few pieces of paper money. The main room was smoky, cold and choking. Li Kai opened the door, and Li Kui, who woke up first, entered the room. He had already opened the boiler.

Li Kai took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and asked Li Kui and Mao Xiaoling, who came out of the east room, to buy 30 kilograms of fried dough sticks and 50 bowls of soy milk when they heard the news. Everyone got up in a while, and people who helped would come one after another. It was inevitable that someone would come in a hurry and didn't eat breakfast. Nowadays, people have a lot of appetite, mainly because they have less oil and water in their stomachs. I wonder if the amount of these fifty servings can be.

Let Chang Dalong seize the time and take a quick look. Dalong said he was not sleepy, so he simply asked him to go to the kitchen to cook dozens of eggs and eat them later. The amount of breakfast was quite large, but he was not worried about wasting it. Even if he couldn't finish it, he could continue to eat it at noon. The funeral banquet in rural areas was actually a meal at noon on the day of the funeral, and other times it was stewed. The owner would add a few plates of cold dishes for the men who helped him to set up a wine, which was nothing more than peanuts, pork heads and meat.

The others woke up one after another, and Li Kui also came back. The couple was riding a tricycle with four baskets piled up on the car, full of fried dough sticks, as well as a large pot of soy milk and a small pot of pickles.

Li Yan first put a bowl of soy milk, put chopsticks on the bowl, and then took two fried dough sticks on the chopsticks, peeled an egg and soaked it in the soy milk. Everyone kowtowed in turn and asked Li Qianjin to have breakfast.

People who helped came one after another, and as expected, many people didn’t have time to have breakfast. There were ready-made ones, so everyone was not polite and started eating.

There are still some examples of the funeral owner preparing some breakfast, but these are fried dough sticks and eggs, which should be the first. Everyone was "bajibaji" and almost didn't have enough to eat.

There are still many people coming to worship today. Li Yan wanted to welcome and see him off on behalf of the master's family, so he delegated the power to plan funeral matters to Li Kai. Now Li Yan trusts his son very much and thinks that he will only do better than himself in his own way.

So, Li Kai, Lin Songbei, Han Zeqi and two "masters" of funeral affairs held a meeting in the west room to assign tasks.

"My father and Uncle Lin and Uncle Han discussed yesterday. The banquet was based on the standard of eight liang and eight hot four bowls. Let's discuss the specific content quickly. We have to prepare the materials and not delay the use tomorrow." Li Kai was the youngest, but he was the representative of the main family, so he could only speak first.

"We don't know much about the rural service conference. Please discuss it. Xiao Kai decided, we both agree." Lin Songnan made his statement first.

Li Kai is a child who is meticulous and generous. When he was chatting last night, many places coincided with them, so he supports him to let go.

So with the attention of the two, Li Kai and the two general managers settled the content of the table first.

Eight cold dishes: fried peanuts, spinach powder, stir-fried lotus root slices, cold kelp shredded pork, pork head meat, meat skin jelly, lamb miscellaneous, and garlic sausage.

Eight hot dishes: roasted bean curd, fried onion with eggs, minced meat and tofu, fried black fungus, fish-flavored shredded pork, fried chicken with sauce, sweet and sour tenderloin, sweet and sour carp,

Four bowls of dishes: braised pork, stewed meatballs, stewed chicken nuggets, and stewed tofu soak.

Due to seasonal reasons, the fresh vegetables you can see now are spinach, and the vegetables stored are potatoes, onions, radishes and cabbage. Potatoes and cabbage are generally not available. Although there are also fresh greenhouse vegetable markets, they are expensive, which means that pretentious urban people eat a lot, and rural people do not recognize that thing, so it is better to serve more meat and vegetables, which is both affordable and high-end.

The "Jizhou Daqu" of wine is two yuan and sixty-one bottles; the cigarette is "chima" in Ancheng local cigarette, one yuan and two box. If the soda is not given, it is not a matter of money. At this time, the soda is all in glass bottles, and you have to collect and return the bottle after drinking it. It is too troublesome. Li Kai suggested buying more than a dozen bags of sour plum powder, and then looking for a few large pots to make homemade sour plum soup. No matter which one is a male and female table, anyone who wants to drink it will give it to you.

After all, the two managers' chins almost fell off. The level of this mat, let alone Bashantun, has been the best in a radius of dozens of miles.

Stop talking about anything, I ordered ninety tables and quickly organize people to purchase. So Li Ke drove his own small truck and Li Heng drove a large truck from the paper mill, and then pulled four or five people to the largest market in Ancheng.

In the yard, Li Yu and Li Yue took people to start cooking the pot, and Li Huai went to rent utensils.

There are no disposable tableware yet. Every village has a business for renting utensils, such as tables, stools, plates, bowls, chopsticks, even trays for serving vegetables, large pots for serving ingredients, and large iron pots for stewing. However, the service was too grand this time. Ninety tables were divided into three batches, so thirty tables were required. The supply of this house in Banshantun was insufficient. If you rent them all, you had to find another one in the neighboring village.

It can be said that when people do business, there are thirty or forty tables that can be used to do business, there are only ten tables that can still be dealt with, but there are thirty tables that can be used to do this, which is unprecedented.

It was busy here. Lin Songbei's friend came with someone holding a white marble urn. When Li Kai saw it, hehe, he knew it, it was wrong. He should say he would meet him in a few years. This person is Zhang Qingchang, and he is now the deputy director of the Ancheng Personnel Bureau. He will be promoted to the director in five years. Eight years later, if Li Kai graduated from university and couldn't find a suitable job, he would help arrange for Li Kai to be a math teacher at Ancheng No. 1 Middle School.

This is great. Eight years later, I have been helping me now.

Zhang Qingchang brought a "big" boss, a "big" boss with a backstage. According to reports, it monopolized half of Ancheng's funeral market. He spoke very loudly. He opened his mouth and said, "Old man must enter the martyrs' cemetery. He cannot let old revolutionary cadres shed blood and sweat for a lifetime. He will still be wronged and cry when he is about to come. Don't worry, we have a relationship, we can decide by calling. The old man is a real revolutionary cadre, and we are either taking advantage of the public. We just simplify the approval procedures and cannot delay tomorrow's ceremony."

Although Zhang Qingchang's endorsement and everyone believed this person's words, they still refused the other party's kindness based on Li Qianjin's last wish.

When Zhang Qingchang talked to Li Yan and the others, Li Kai also communicated with the "big" boss, learned about his main business scope, and then greeted several elders, and decided on a few things with him.

At ten o'clock, the agreed time has come and the body is going to be cremated.
Chapter completed!