Chapter 11: The Funeral
"Grandma. He Sihai rushed into his grandmother's room.
I turned on the light.
I saw my grandmother lying on the bed neatly dressed, with a smile on her face, extremely peaceful.
"Grandma. ”
But He Sihai had a very bad premonition, and called out again in a voice that had almost changed his tune.
Grandma didn't answer, let alone open her eyes.
He Sihai stepped forward, shook her body slightly, and said in a crying voice: "Grandma, get up, let's talk again." ”
But......
He Sihai reached out and touched her cheek, which was already cold.
Suddenly, he remembered something, rushed out of the room, and looked around the living room.
No.
He Sihai opened the door and rushed out.
"Grandma~"
He Sihai shouted loudly.
In the silent night spread far, far away.
Under the bright moonlight, through the shadows of the moon in the treetops, there was no figure, and naturally there was no shadow.
He Sihai stood in front of the door and shouted a few times.
Tears flowed silently down her cheeks.
When he first came to He Tao's house when he was a child, the first thing that entered his heart was his grandmother.
Grandma took good care of him.
Heal the mind that came to an unfamiliar environment, be on guard, panicked.
From childhood to adulthood, grandma never scolded him, never beat him once, always protected him, loved him, and truly regarded him as her own grandson.
......
He Sihai suddenly remembered, and the ledger appeared in his hand with a movement in his heart.
The thin ledger seemed to him to be as heavy as a thousand pounds at this time, and after hesitating, he still opened the ledger.
Sure enough, there was an extra line of words on it.
Name: Pan Yuying
Birthday: Xin Si year 癸巳巳月甲寅日申时 2 o'clock
Wish: Completed
Reward: Blessing
"Grandma, go all the way. He Sihai muttered.
Then he crouched down, holding his head, and let out a low whimper.
The successive departures of his relatives hit him very hard.
After all, he was just an adult.
"Dad, wow......" Suddenly Peach's cry woke He Sihai up.
He wiped it on his face and rushed back into the house.
He...... And peaches.
So he must try to live.
......
"Fourth grandfather. ”
He Sihai's eyes were red and swollen, and he greeted the old man in front of him with a depressed expression.
"Sihai, don't be sad, old age is a blessing, not to mention that your grandmother is also peaceful. The fourth grandfather reached out and wanted to pat He Sihai on the shoulder.
But in the end, it shrank back again.
He sighed deeply.
"I'll go in and see my sister-in-law. He walked back into the house.
He Sihai stared blankly at the noisy crowd outside the door.
He suddenly thought of the scene of going to Tangyuan's house that day.
How similar.
He Sihai turned around and saw the peaches curled up in the place where his grandmother often sits.
Holding the little fat chicken toy, he looked ahead in a daze.
He Sihai walked over, picked her up, and hugged her in his arms.
"Peaches. ”
"Hmm. ”
"Dad. ”
"Hmm. ”
There are only two of them left in this family.
......
The fourth grandfather's family is here.
The fifth grandfather's family also came.
The children and grandchildren of the second and third grandfathers also came.
Almost the whole village came.
He Sihai also saw He Qiu following his father He Da and coming behind him.
The last time we gathered like this, it was the funeral of He Tao and his wife.
As for grandma's house, there is no one left.
The house was so lively, but except for peaches, He Sihai felt a faint alienation.
He Sihai does not belong to this family after all.
Especially He Tao's generation, he has almost nothing to say to He Sihai.
Because He Sihai is just an adopted son, although his surname is He, he is just an outsider after all.
On the contrary, the young people of He Sihai's generation did not pay much attention to these, and took the initiative to say a few words to He Sihai.
But that's just a few sentences.
He Sihai is like a marionette.
The fourth grandfather and the fifth grandfather said how to do it, and he did it.
It's similar to the last time he organized the funeral of He Tao and his wife.
He Sihai is also familiar with the road.
Is this experience?
Thinking of this, He Sihai didn't suddenly want to laugh.
Watch people come and go.
False cries in the house.
Laughter outside the house.
Everything made him feel unreal.
Although it is rural, there are no burials anymore.
There is also no crematorium in the town, so it can only be taken to the city for cremation, and then the ashes are buried in the ancestral grave.
Fortunately, there is a special funeral team, as long as the money is given, they will arrange it properly, and even sing and dance......
It is impossible for He Sihai to engage in those gaudy performances.
Of course, he didn't have any money.
The grandmother stayed at home for three days before being sent to the crematorium.
Peaches followed He Sihai inch by inch.
No one will let anyone hold it.
Ignorant, she already knows what death is.
"Dad, will I never see grandma again?" asked Peach sadly, putting her arms around He Sihai's neck.
"Grandma missed Mom and Dad for them, so I saw them go. Grandma has been with you for so long, and now she has to go with Mom and Dad. ”
"I miss mom and dad too, and I want to spend time with them. Momoko said.
"That's not good, you're going to accompany your parents, then my brother will have no one to accompany you, and my brother will be very pitiful and sad. ”
Hearing this, Peaches immediately hugged He Sihai's neck.
"That peach will always be with my brother, don't be sad. ”
"Thank you. ”
"What?"
"I say, Peaches are the best kids in the world. ”
Momoko smiled for the first time in days.
The graveyard in Hejia Village is on a small hillside not far from the village.
This is also the ancestral tomb of Hejia Village.
The people of Hejia Village are basically the same ancestor.
Each family has its own graveyard.
Grandma's ashes were placed next to Grandpa's grave.
Below them are two half-new tombs.
It was He Tao's and his wife's.
The people who followed the mountain left one after another, laughing and talking, discussing what to eat at noon.
In the end, only He Sihai, Taozi and the fourth grandfather were left.
He Sihai brought a shovel.
Shovel some new soil and put it on the graves of my grandfather and my parents.
Peaches sensibly helped pull the weeds on the tomb.
The fourth grandfather squatted in front of his grandparents' graves, flipped through the burning paper money, wiped his tears, and said a lot.
Finally, he greeted He Sihai and Taozi loudly: "Sihai, Peach, come and kowtow to your grandparents, parents and parents." ”
Particularly loud.
Use this to hide your sadness.
Grandma's death, the fourth grandfather is probably the saddest person except for He Sihai and Peach.
The so-called eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, and the fourth grandfather's feelings for his grandmother are probably the same.
As for the fifth grandfather, don't talk about it.
"Grandparents, Mom and Dad, I'll come to see you again for the New Year. ”
The fourth grandfather stood next to him and took a deep puff of the cigarette in his mouth, and finally only a cigarette butt remained, which he threw to the ground and crushed it deeply with his foot a few times.
Then he shouted and said, "Gone." ”
A small hand was stuffed into He Sihai's palm.
"Let's go. He Sihai turned around and picked up the peach and walked down the mountain.
The road is lined with tombs.
Suddenly, as far as his eyes could see, he found a new grave.
Curiously asked, "Who else in the village has recently died?"
The fourth grandfather in front of him turned his head when he heard the words and glanced at the new grave.
Then he sighed, turned around, and continued to walk forward, saying, "The boy of the He Da family drowned in the pond at the entrance of the village. ”
"Ho Qiu?"
"Of course, isn't He Da just a child of He Qiu?"
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