March 10, 1990, February 14, the year of Gengwu.

In the early morning, it was very clear. Just after four o'clock, someone was walking around in the yard. The chefs were already busy. The large amount of ingredients in the rooms on both sides were continuously transported to the temporary kitchen outside the yard.

The sky is still dark, but the moon is big and round, but the moon is bleak and bright makes people feel desolate. Fortunately, the sky of this era has not been controlled by haze. The stars in the sky are clustered around the moon, and they are struggling desperately to restore some vitality to the sky.

The six-bit large stove in the temporary kitchen was full of light, and the ingredients were added to the large pot and started stewing. One pot of pork, one pot of chicken, one pot of meatballs, one pot of tofu soak, and another pot of boiling water, used to wash and rinse.

The last pot is full of hot oil, because many ingredients in the stir-fry need oil in advance, such as shredded pork and diced chicken, and the processed carp. After the oil is over, these things are directly filled into large aluminum basins. The amount is too large, and the full one seems to be overflowing.

Li Kai’s favorite thing is the stewed meatballs. In his previous life, when he was in high school, there were no boarding students at Ancheng No. 1 Middle School, and there was no student canteen. The students brought lunch at noon. Every day when they arrived at school, the students put the aluminum lunch boxes they brought into the steamer box in the school boiler room, and then went to the classroom to have a meal with the students to exchange for the delicacies they brought.

At that time, Li Yan occasionally went back to his hometown to attend the "Blood and White" banquet, and would pack a lunch box and stew meatballs, half eaten at home and half taken to school by Li Kai. The meatballs were delicious, not only Li Kai liked them, but Li Kai's classmates also liked them. There was even a classmate who was near the school. If he heard that Li Kai brought the meatballs, he would wait until noon to get back the lunch box from the boiler room, eat two beautifully before going home. Li Kai had a good relationship with this classmate, and it was not until after he started working that he gradually got farther and farther away due to some special reason.

There are some differences between the rural version of Sixi meatballs and the genuine ones. The main ingredients are not pork and starch (ball flour noodles), but pork and steamed buns. The steamed buns must be overnight. If time allows, it is better to be dried every two nights. There is no water vapor when drying, and of course it is not dry to the point where it can be used as a throwing weapon to hit people. Peel off the steamed bun skin, then grind the steamed bun core, the better the more it is, mix it in the prepared fat and lean meat filling, stirring repeatedly, and then roll it into a meat ball as big as a fist, fry it in the oil pan until it is 50 years old, and then put it in a large pot to stew it. The juice water is soaked into the meatballs, it is not oily or greasy, it is soft and vigorous, and it is very good to eat.

At around seven o'clock, someone brought fried dough sticks, soy milk and pickles. Li Kui ordered 100 servings yesterday. As usual, breakfast was set up for Lingqian first, and then others could eat it. Just now, Li Kai asked the chef to cook more than 100 eggs in a large pot of boiling water, and cut some sausages and pork heads to comfort everyone. After all, it has been more than three hours since the early morning, and it is very hard. Li Kai never stingy in this regard. Love is love, and he cannot rely on love to calculate it. That would not be worth the loss. Moreover, Li Kai was a generous person, whether in his previous life or in this life.

Everyone who came to help in the morning asked Li Kai to put a cigarette in their pockets first, regardless of gender. Women could take it back and smoke it for their own men.

Li Yu is responsible for material management. Li Kai, the second cousin, is very "home", and is the kind of person who is lost even if he doesn't pick up money when walking, so he is responsible for this work. Everyone has passed the unanimous vote.

Everyone got some benefits and was naturally full of energy. After a hurry, they immediately started working again. The vacant western-style room was gradually filled with bags of paper money, paper ingots and bundles of mourning clothes. The kitchen was cut into a pot of semi-finished ingredients. Originally, I thought the temporary kitchen was a bit big, but now it seemed a little crowded.

Today, there are still people coming to worship, and the Ancheng garrison's rest office and the Ancheng regional government's retreat office have all come to visit the cadres; some of Li Qianjin's old comrades-in-arms received calls from Mr. Huang and sent their nephews or confidants to come; there are also old cadres who were sent to Banshantun or sent to the labor camp like Lin Songbei's family, and the educated youth from the countryside who heard about it from somewhere, and they all personally or entrusted others to come.

At around nine o'clock, an unexpected figure appeared, Zhou Haizhong, deputy secretary of Ancheng Machinery Factory and chairman of the trade union.

In fact, not to mention that Zhou Haizhong came in person, there was no need to send someone even to the machinery factory union, because Li Yan was barely considered the heir of Li Qianjin. The unit union would not come forward if the elders in this relationship died. What's more, Li Yan also considered this reason and did not report the death to the unit at all. But Zhou Lei knew that because Li Kai and Chang Dalong both asked the school for three days of bereavement leave. Zhou Lei went home and mentioned it to his father. Zhou Haizhong thought about it over and over again and decided to come in his private name as the factory leader.

Zhou Haizhong leaned the wreath he brought against the corner of the wall outside the gate. The wreath's elegiac couplet was written with his name. The wreath had become a disaster, with dozens of layers of layers, and one wall could no longer be put.

Li Yan was a little flattered. After Zhou Haizhong worshipped, he kowtowed and returned the greeting, and then held the leader's hand and burst into tears. This was a special "great" after all. After all, the two said a few simple words, and Zhou Haizhong found Li Kai and comforted him a few words, obscurely saying that Li Kai and Zhou Lei were friends and wanted to help each other, and invited him to come to his house after returning to the factory.

He refused Li Yan's invitation to stay for dinner. Zhou Haizhong was about to leave. After a long walk, he didn't find the account table. He asked someone who seemed to be in charge next to him, and then he realized that there was no account table at all. As long as everyone came to put a stick of incense and burn paper for Li Qianjin, they could stay for lunch.

Zhou Haizhong looked at the crowd of wooly and said, "What a guy, Li Yan is really powerful and generous, and he doesn't want tens of thousands of gifts to accept, and his courage is really different from ordinary people."

After Zhou Haizhong left, it seemed that the assembly call was sounded. Qiao Na's father Qiao Xiangdong, Jiang Xia's father Jiang Feng, An Jianjun's father An Yougong, Zhang Wei's father Zhang Lian, Li Hua's father Li Mintao, Ma Juan's father Ma Yonghui, Yang Jing's father Yang Chenggang, Yuan Tiezhu's father Yuan Dazhi, and even Chen Wen's father Chen Junqiang, who was not seen by the dragon, came in a group of people in the car that Qiao Xiangdong found. This not only shows Li Yan's face but also the friendship between the children. It has to be said that the children's results in the final exam are still there, and they all hope that Li Kai can continue to make progress with his own children in the future.

Several more wreaths leaned against the wall. The person in charge could only find a roll of steel wire, and temporarily weaved more than ten meters of wire mesh opposite the courtyard gate, dividing some of the wreaths.

Li Yan was a little confused. Jiang Feng and Ma Yonghui had a job contact with him. Chen Junqiang and An Yougong had some contact because of their children. Most of the others just nodded. Yuan Dazhi didn't know each other at all. He was not from the machinery factory.

Since they are here, they are just giving face and must take care of it. After the worship process, Li Yan pulled several people to stay for dinner. These people have no identities that need to be taken seriously, and they basically know each other, so after giving up, they responded.

Li Kai quickly found Li Huai and asked him to go to a small shop to buy some cigarettes and alcohol. The "Shilin" costs four or five yuan tobacco and the "Fenjiu" costs nine or eight yuan to drink. It is not just special to these people. Li Qianjin's old comrades and the old cadres who were sent to the city, and there were also many old educated youths who returned to the city to stay for dinner. These people must be treated beyond the standard. After all, they came from afar, and there were even those from western Jiangxi, who were old educated youths. When they went to the countryside in Banshantun, they also had to be kind to Li Qianjin. Now, as the deputy county magistrate of a county in western Jiangxi, they came here in a busy manner.

Originally, three tables were left in the house, but now I can only add tables in the main hall. There is no way, there is a lot of furniture in the east and west rooms, so I can only sit on one table.

The ceremony was proceeding in an orderly manner. When it was almost eleven o'clock, the manager came to report it. It was a bit of a mistake. The prepared 200 filial piety bodies were divided. In other words, more than 200 "nephews" dressed in filial piety were escorted by them. The funeral was not a problem. The key was the worship of the spirit before the funeral. There were more than 200 people, and the two of them would take at least one and a half hours a minute, and it would be too late to get buried. This time was auspicious time calculated by "Great Immortals". You should not miss it.

Everyone looked at Li Yan, who glanced at Li Kai's mouth and shouted "Snack on Me".

No one wondered why the meal time should be half an hour in advance. There were no rigid regulations on this thing, so the owner said it would open it. So there were "crackling" sounds of firecrackers and continuous kicks sounds outside. This was notifying everyone that they were going to eat, so they were going to eat quickly.

Because the rumor of the sensation was already released, the people who came Wuyang were just filled with tables, and there was already a circle of people behind them to take over.

There are two bottles of wine and two boxes of cigarettes on each table. If you don’t have enough wine, you can ask for it again. Li Yue pushed a tricycle, and there were a pot of sour plum soup on the car. He could come over to serve it by saying hello. Originally, the staple food of the banquet was all braised rice in a large pot, but there were too many people. Three pots of rice were needed for a banquet, so it was not available at all, so the staple food was changed to steamed buns. Li Kai asked Li Huai to contact the steamed bun workshop the day before and ordered a large amount of steamed buns. In order to avoid wasting food, the steamed buns were only one-third of the size of the usual size, but they were open for supply.

There were twenty-seven tables in the shed outside and four tables in the house, which were opened at the same time. That is, Li Qianjin’s funeral dared to do this, but others would not say whether it could be done or not, but it would be difficult to get all the "equipment" alone. Zhang Qingchang brought five sets of stoves, full of liquefied gas cans, and each of the five chefs held a position. Because the meat and fish were all over the oil, the dishes were served very quickly, and they were one in three or four minutes.

The four big bowls of Baliang and Bare, and most of them are meat and vegetables. The people of Shantun have never seen such a magnificent banquet. Some old people recalled that "Chen Dafu" could not catch up with the banquet today when he married a wife.

It is simply a "feast of gluttony". I don't care about the image for the time being. The food is so delicious. It may be because it is really delicious, or it may be because of the pressure of the "successor" standing behind me. The food is almost the same, and someone lit the small basin she brought out and started to "fold". Those who did not bring a guy silently put half a box of cigarettes or half a bottle of wine, then handed over the small bowl he used on the table in his hand, and then left the seat silently. The mouth of this small bowl is slightly larger than the palm of the adult's hand, and the half-black glaze is allowed to be taken away by the eaters. This is a custom passed down to expose the joy of the old man. It is said that the old man passed away to be considered a happy funeral when he passed away at the age of 70, but since Li Yan was prepared, others took it away "not caring".

Neither Li Zhenjiang came to have a meal. They were peers with Li Qianjin, and they were older, so they could be said to be a thing if they didn't come. After Li Kai found out, he secretly asked Li Yan to arrange for Li Heng to serve a bowl of dishes and put more than a dozen steamed buns to deliver.

At one o'clock, the bustling "farmer" finally ended the "fight" and began to worship the spirits.

According to Li Kai's proposal, Li Yan's family, Lin Songbei, Li Anruo and Han Zeqi worshipped the spirit alone, and the rest were in groups of four, and the "fifteenage sons" were in groups of ten. After worshiping the spirit in turn, they took the "mourning stick" made of sorghum poles to queue up outside the yard and kneeled.

Nearly an hour, all the people who were attending the funeral gathered outside the door. Li Yan knelt at the first place with the "soul-receiving banner" and Li Qing and Li Huai knelt on the left and right. They were responsible for supporting Li Yan; Li Kai knelt in the second place, holding the portrait in his arms, and Chang Dalong knelt on his left; Lin Songbei and Han Zeqi knelt side by side at the back, and behind were two rows of filial sons holding "mourning sticks". Each row of filial sons also held a hemp rope as thick as a thumb, and two hemp ropes extended to tie the hearse. On the hearse were Liu Fengzhi and Li Anruo holding the urn with women.

Seeing that the time was almost over, the funeral manager shouted "Get up" and Li Yan picked up the pottery basin at his hand and threw it to the ground. With the sound of the pottery basin breaking, the crying sounds in the hearse suddenly started, and everyone also stood up and pulled the hearse forward.
Chapter completed!