afterglow

Chapter 76
It's an unheard of strange thing, how can you go out to have fun and relax with a company?

Although the soldiers didn't understand Zhou Changfeng's strange request, they still complied.

Anyway, before holidays, people would go to eat, drink and have fun in small groups, but this time there are just more people, it doesn't matter.

As for the soldiers who died in this battle, unless their families have special requirements, they will be buried by the Mixed Third Brigade.

There is a large open space reserved in the northwest corner of the resident, which is the cemetery, and now there are only about [-] to [-] tombs in it.But Zhou Changfeng knew very well that after the large army arrived, there would probably be hundreds of new tombs at once.

Because the tombs of emperors are called "mausoleums", and because the dead soldiers often cannot bring back their bodies, most of their tombs can only be regarded as clothing tombs, so the official name here is actually the martyrdom garden.

He stood at the gate of the cemetery, looking at the calm and solemn stone archway and fell into deep thought.

Before his death, Sun Cheng asked himself to persuade his wife to remarry. At that time, he resolutely agreed without thinking too much, but now how can he say it.

These days Zhou Changfeng has been entangled in this matter, not knowing how to face his wife.

The day before yesterday, the first batch of obituaries, that is, death notices, had been printed and distributed, but the one from Sun Cheng was intercepted by Zhou Changfeng.

He drove to the vicinity of Sun Cheng's house, but he hesitated to get off the car, and finally turned around and left after all kinds of entanglements.

That night, several officers of the first battalion did not leave the camp, but set up a round table at the battalion headquarters to eat hot pot.

Under the booing of several people, Zhou Changfeng took out two bottles of Yanghe Daqu and some loose Xiaoqu wine.

Under the bright light, Xie Wancheng, Xue Can, Liu Qidong, Fan Wenhai, and Zhou Changfeng sat around the table. They even reserved an empty seat, placed a bowl in front of the empty seat, and filled it with wine.

"Toast to him first!" Zhou Changfeng picked up the cup, compared it to the empty seat, and then drank it down with his neck raised.

"Let's go!" Everyone followed suit and toasted together.

The drink is warm, sweet, slightly hot, and the mouth is full of rich and mellow aroma.

With a solemn expression, Zhou Changfeng reached out to pick up the bowl in front of the empty seat, and poured all the wine in it on the ground.

The absence of a companion who lived together day and night and fought side by side made everyone feel a little depressed, especially the current scene aroused their sadness, and the bits and pieces of their past life appeared in their minds like a slide show.

So it didn't take long for the dinner of the five to evolve into telling stories about the past while wiping tears while drinking and picking up vegetables.

After a while, Xie Wancheng, with moist eyes, turned his head and asked, "Battle Commander, what happened to Sun Zhixin's last words?"

Hearing this, several people looked at Zhou Changfeng.

"The living are dead, and the dead rest in peace." His eyes fell on the cup, and he said lightly: "The original intention of his confession to let his wife remarry is naturally that he doesn't want her to become a widow early and suffer. It's best for his wife to agree, but if he doesn't Agree? I don’t think we can force it, we can only try our best to persuade.”

"Anyway, I feel that if there is a pregnancy, then there is no need to persuade her to abort and remarry." Liu Qidong said carelessly: "Then the unborn child also has a life? Why bother."

"Sigh." Xue Can sighed, "But I lost my father at birth, and the child will probably be looked down upon when he is young, and it is so difficult for a girl to bring up the child alone."

"Yes, if you really want his wife to continue to live in peace, I'm afraid the best way is to remarry, otherwise I will be alone for decades... I will suffer."

In fact, since the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the so-called chastity is far from being extreme. It depends on my Qing Dynasty to push chastity and widowhood to the peak.

The Qing Dynasty clearly stipulated in the "Regulations of the Ministry of Rites" that women need to observe chastity after the death of their husbands, and if they perform well, they should be commended, so this extremely narrow custom is greatly encouraged.

Throughout the more than 300 years of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, there are only 200 chaste women in records. However, with the influence of Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, there were nearly 400 in the Yuan Dynasty, and it increased to more than 270 in the 2 years before the Ming Dynasty. people.

However, this is nothing, compared to the Qing Dynasty, it can only be said to be insignificant. In the Qing Dynasty, it was recorded that there were more than 100 million chaste martyrs in Jiayang, and various chastity memorial archways can be seen everywhere.

After hundreds of years of development, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism has long since failed. Such empty and decadent theories were complained by many literati in the late Ming Dynasty, and should have been replaced by more enlightened and pragmatic learning.

However, the Qing Dynasty, which entered the customs, continued its life, and the lifeless Neo-Confucianism was forcibly picked up again, leaving only general empty talk to let the scholars of the world read their books, so as to maintain the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

Apparently, the rise of the Hou Ming did not revive Neo Confucianism, which had half a foot in the grave.

As a result, the saying "starving to death is a small matter, but injustice is a major matter" has been rumored to be true and regarded as a creed, and gradually no one cares about it.

In the early Ming Dynasty, a widow appealed to Jian Yi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, for help, and Jian Yi asked her why she didn't remarry.

This still happened in the early Ming Dynasty when the atmosphere was relatively conservative, not to mention the late period when the atmosphere was liberalized. It is not a common practice for husbands to stick to festivals and commit suicide after being polluted.

This was the case in the former Ming Dynasty, so the later Ming Dynasty was naturally more open-minded in this regard.

Therefore, the five people present in the circle actually felt that it was no big deal to remarry. The living are dead and the dead rest in peace. The living still have to live a good life.

They finally decided to visit tomorrow, tell the bad news, and hand over the obituary.

The next day, due to drinking too much last night, the feeling of hangover made everyone feel uncomfortable, so they didn't leave until the afternoon.

Xie Wancheng stayed at the battalion headquarters to prevent possible emergencies, while Zhou Changfeng and the others drove to Sun Cheng's house.

Although he was born in a family of officials, Sun Cheng was relatively estranged from his family, and his house was only a house in an alley outside Shence Gate.

Xue Can's car stopped slowly at the entrance of the alley, and the four of them got out of the car one after another, and then came to the front of the courtyard together.

The so-called house without a yard is not a house. Although a house without a yard will be cheaper, it always makes people feel that something is missing.

Although Sun Cheng's house has a yard, the front yard is only a few steps wide.

His wife, Xu Baizhi, was an operator at the Shangyuan County Telephone Office. In this era, wired calls from all over the country needed to be transferred through the telephone exchange of the telephone office.

Today is July NO.20, theoretically a day off.

After a brief hesitation, Zhou Changfeng, who was a little nervous, stepped forward and knocked on the door.

(End of this chapter)