Chapter Twenty-Four: Looking Back Again
Su Feng didn't know why she was crying, as if it was not only Hou Xiaohua who was far away outside the window, but also her own overwhelmed youth, many years later, her mind would occasionally recall this person, if she really left with him without hesitation...... If she had the courage to speak out about her youth back then...... If...... , but there is never an if, and if you miss it, it will be a lifetime...... The bus stopped not far from the eldest sister's house, and the joy of going home quickly diluted the sadness just now, Su Feng immediately walked home after getting off the car, but as soon as she arrived at the gate of the hospital, a big lock separated her, and the eldest sister was not at home?
It's winter, and it's going to be dark soon, where can the eldest sister go, Su Feng poured the peach cake and Changbai cake into a bag, and then took out half of each, and put the rest of the food over the fence of the small garden and put it on the ground, she was going to take things to see Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang, besides, on such a cold day, people couldn't stand standing outside for even 5 minutes, and they could only go to his house to settle down temporarily.
As soon as he turned into the previous room, he faintly heard the crying in the distance, and the quiet village in winter would seem empty and long at all...... She couldn't help but panic, and sure enough, the crying came from Uncle Wang's house, Su Feng hurriedly trotted into the yard, a black tent was set up in the yard, and a dark red coffin with a phoenix carved around it was placed on a temporary shelf, and at the foot of the coffin, everyone lined up according to their generations, kneeling in turn the sons and daughters, grandchildren, and daughters-in-law of the Wang family, and the eldest sister's family was among them...... , Su Feng moved forward in a daze, and the principal shouted in a long voice
"Guest, please bow...... The family replied ......", Qi'er raised her head and rubbed her eyes that were already swollen from crying
"Auntie, Mom, look, it's Auntie, Auntie is back!" Su Hua was still immersed in grief, and didn't look up at all, and when she heard her daughter's words, she took a closer look
"Sure enough, it's my sister", she told Qi'er to back up, stood up secretly, and said to the children kneeling on the ground
"Don't make any noise, kneel down here, I'll take your aunt home first, if your knee is too painful or frozen, just go into the house slowly, do you hear it?", the children nodded obediently, Su Hua Mao walked over to Su Feng with his waist over, looking at Su Feng's face full of tears, he hurriedly comforted
"Feng girl, why are you back, why did you find this, don't cry first, I'll take you into the house to see Daddy Wang!" In the house, relatives gathered around Uncle Wang, who was sitting in a circle on the kang, some were crying, some were choking, and some were comforting, Su Hua looked at her father-in-law and called softly
"Dad, my mother's four sisters have come to see you!", Uncle Wang raised his head slightly, his cloudy eyes were bloodshot, and he had the impression that Uncle Wang was a big man in the village, and his face was always not angry and arrogant, but now this person is just a dying old man!
, Su Feng stepped forward and said in a choked voice
"Uncle Wang, I just got out of the car, I came to see you and Aunt Wang, I also brought peach crisp and long white cake for the two of you, I didn't think about it......" Before the words were finished, he couldn't cry, Uncle Wang stretched out his withered hands, and then shook them in front of her
"Good boy, be obedient, don't cry, your aunt Wang is uncomfortable when she hears it! You must be tired after a day's ride, go home with your sister first, if you want to come, you will come back later." Su Feng didn't know what to say, just stood and sobbed, Su Hua gently dragged her
"Girl Feng, let's go home with my sister first, I'll give you a whole bite to eat", the two walked into the courtyard, and Su Hua detoured to the children and whispered
"Dazhi, take your brothers and sisters home with me, and come back after eating", Dazhi said in a hoarse voice
"Mom, you take Ermeng and them back, my dad and I are here. Su Hua wanted to say something more, but at this time, Wang Zhongliang heard the conversation between the two, and also turned around and whispered
"Let Dazhi be here, you take Ermeng and them back, take a look after eating, if it doesn't work, don't come, just get up early tomorrow morning and come over." Su Hua nodded obediently.
Because there was no fire for a day, the room at the moment was cold and the temperature outside was almost the same, just entered the house, Ermeng went out and brought firewood to prepare to burn the kang, Qi'er asked her mother filial piety
"Mom, what are you going to eat at night, you chat with my aunt, I'll do it!" Su Hua also had no intention of cooking, and nodded
"You can get anything, I want to see your dad after eating." Sisi and Qi'er obediently went into the kitchen and began to prepare dinner.
On the kang, Su Feng was still immersed in the grief just now, unable to extricate himself, and his tears still couldn't stop falling.
"Don't cry, Feng girl, what's wrong with your body" Su Hua persuaded, Su Feng asked in disbelief
"Isn't Aunt Wang's health very good, she is only in her 70s, why is it that people are suddenly gone?", Su Hua sighed
"We don't know, the day before yesterday morning when I went to deliver frozen bean buns to the second elder, it was okay? In the middle of the night last night, Wang Dad ran over and shouted that Wang Niang pressed her chest to convuls, and your brother-in-law and I hurriedly got up and went over to take a look, who would have thought that when people were already out of breath, it would only be 10 minutes before and after. ”
"Originally, it stands to reason that the old man's longevity materials were prepared in advance, but Wang Niang left in such a hurry, she didn't give people any emptiness at all, your brother-in-law and his eldest brother went to the coffin shop to buy ready-made ones early this morning!" Su Feng listened carefully to the eldest sister's words, and sighed uncontrollably
"It's too sudden, it's too s......udden", a fire was lit, the room gradually got hot, Qi'er moved to the kang table and put the dishes and chopsticks, Sisi brought a big pot of steaming pimple soup, Su Feng saw the rice and thought that the things were still outside, and immediately asked Er Meng to take it back, and with the long white cake, several people began to drink the soup, and the dinner table was silent, Er Meng secretly looked up at his mother and asked cautiously
"Mom, did you say they could let my milk into the ancestral grave tomorrow!" Su Hua heard Er Meng's words and immediately drank it
"Don't ask, children, hurry up and eat!", was drunk by his mother, Er Meng quickly picked up the bowl and pulled it up, Sisi looked at everyone, and also cared
"Mom, I also want to know, they won't let my milk go to the ancestral grave!" Su Hua didn't scold her daughter anymore, just sighed softly, and Su Feng listened to the conversation between their mother and son suspiciously
"Sister, what are you talking about, why don't I understand?" , Su Hua put down the dishes and chopsticks, and decided to tell her about this bad thing, it turned out that Aunt Wang was not Uncle Wang's original partner at all, Uncle Wang's original surname was Ma, after giving birth to the eldest child, he didn't take care of his body, he was always sick, and he gave birth to the second child in a few years, but he had a cold in the confinement and had a fever all the time, but he had to feed the child all day long, coax the child to sleep, and he didn't take it seriously, and the result was serious when he dragged it on, and the family slowly became afraid, and then quickly invited a doctor, a good meal, the child was rescued, but one ear was burned deaf, his mother blamed himself for not taking care of it, as soon as he got on fire, he died of illness within a few days...... , Uncle Wang, a big man with 2 children, can't live at all, and the Ma family is afraid that the two children will suffer, so the little girl sent him to do a sequel, but this matter has always been not good, so he didn't get hired, let alone worship the church, so Aunt Wang and the two children are also relatives, so they didn't treat them badly as a stepmother, and slowly gave birth to a few more children at home, everyone almost forgot about it, and the children didn't know about this relationship, until Aunt Wang left, the Ma family and the Wang family arrived, and they turned this matter out, and they all said that the name was not right, and naturally they couldn't enter the ancestral grave, Several children, especially the eldest and second, never felt that Aunt Wang was not their mother, and they couldn't accept this reality, but they were not qualified to change the rules of the clan, so now they are here, and the children want Aunt Wang to enter the ancestral grave and be buried with Uncle Wang after a hundred years, but the old people in the clan do not agree at all...... Su Feng listened to it, it turned out that his brother-in-law was not Aunt Wang's biological son, and the most important thing was that his brother-in-law's one ear was deaf, and they had lived together for so long, and they had never found out!
This kind of family event, Su Feng is an outsider or a junior who has no right to speak, and can only sigh with emotion, Aunt Wang must have been kind to fear that her sister's child would be bullied before agreeing to this marriage, but if she had known that she would not even be allowed to enter the ancestral tomb after a hundred years, would she still sacrifice herself like this!
After dinner, Er Meng asked his mother to go and change his eldest brother to come back, but Su Hua refused
"At this time, let's let your dad and your eldest brother be there!", Ermeng bored and picked his fingers on the threshold of the bedroom, Sisi took out his winter vacation homework and wrote it by the dim electric light, Su Feng said curiously
"Ermeng, why don't you do your homework?", Ermeng smiled awkwardly
"Auntie, I won't read it anymore!", Su Feng asked
"What's the matter, didn't you get into high school?"
"Hmm!" Er Meng blushed and said, Su Feng didn't ask anymore, she looked at Qi'er, Qi'er sat obediently next to Sisi, rubbing her braids unconsciously in her hands,
"Qi'er, what about you, are you in junior high school", Qi'er immediately stuck out her tongue
"It's up, it's up, and it's almost out if it's not enough. ”
"Why, why is the girl not studying?", Sisi looked at her sister and smiled
"Auntie, Qi'er is stupider than my second brother, and she doesn't like to read," Qi'er immediately picked up
"Auntie, I want to learn how to make clothes with my mother and become a tailor in the future!" Listening to the conversation between her sister and several children, Su Hua couldn't cry or laugh!
Su Feng thought for a moment and said to the eldest sister
"Sister, why don't you let Er Meng go with me!", Er Meng looked at his aunt happily, and Su Hua was puzzled
"Come with you, what can you do with him!"