134.Chapter 134: The Past
I was startled and shouted, but soon my grandfather stopped breathing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The father and uncle on the side didn't say anything, and several women in the family had already cried, Qi Hao pulled me and motioned for us juniors to go out, because the uncles and aunts in the hall also came in.
I walked out with Qi Hao blankly.
The two brothers were stunned for a while, and then Qi Hao asked, "Boss, what did Grandpa say just now?" I seem to have heard him call Qi Xin's nickname!"
I nodded, but I didn't make a sound, took out a cigarette from my pocket, lit one, and gave it to Qi Hao.
I was indeed saddened by my grandfather's passing, but his words on his deathbed suddenly calmed me down. Although I lost a loved one, I instantly shifted my thoughts, not to say ruthless, but that my grandfather's words were really strange!
Nan Nan is the nickname of my little sister Qi Xin, who left us due to illness as early as when she was thirteen years old.
I had just entered high school at that time, because my family conditions were very poor, there was basically no extra money, and my parents could only prepare food expenses for me every month, and most of the time they carried rice from their own homes to school, and the food money was only about ten yuan.
It is a provincial, prefectural and municipal third-level key middle school, once you are admitted to this school, basically half of your feet have already stepped into the university!
Therefore, we locals are proud that our children can be admitted to this middle school! And I am the only one in the village who was admitted to this school, and my family is proud of it, and it is always a topic of conversation for adults in their spare time! I don't know if it is a recognition of knowledge, or the rules set by the ancestors, in short, everyone in the village is very humble to me, and the eyes and tone of speech are different from usual, which makes me a little proud when I was young at that time!
The school is far away from home, and you can only go home when you get food every month, usually once a month, sometimes two months, because the family never gets a month's food money at once. This doesn't feel much for me, who has been able to endure hardships since I was a child.
I remember very well, it was supposed to be a day in mid-October, Friday.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, I took the train back to town, and it was almost eight o'clock when I got home.
As soon as I entered the door, I felt that the atmosphere was wrong, my father was busy at home, and Qi Hao was doing his homework on the side.
I was amazed at my father's behavior, because he never did much housework. When he saw me coming back, he only said lightly: "I'm back!" and then continued with what I was doing. Qi Hao on the side also looked up at me, but he didn't make a sound, and soon he lowered his head again. But I could clearly see a sadness in his eyes that could not be concealed!!
I'm still very strange, when I go home in the past, Qi Xin is always the first to run out to greet me, she has always been more intimate with me, and she likes to stick to me when she has nothing to do, but this time I didn't see her, and even the house didn't seem to have her breath. My mother didn't come out, but it was my father who was doing the housework!
Hurriedly asked Qi Hao: "Where is Qi Xin?"
Qi Hao didn't say anything, and when he looked up again, his eyes were full of tears! My brain exploded with a bang: Could it be that something happened to Qi Xin? As soon as I threw away my schoolbag, I rushed into the back room. I saw my mother lying on the bed, not moving. I shouted, and immediately I heard her sobbing. I stayed there immediately: Qi Xin must have had an accident!!
I hurriedly asked, but my mother didn't talk and kept crying.
At this time, my father stood at the door and motioned for me to go out with him. I can't describe what it was like, more than sadness, more heartache! After taking a deep breath, I followed my father to the sunning flat, and he slowly told me what had happened.
He said that three days ago, Qi Xin suddenly fell ill and left the same day before he could be sent to the hospital. The mother couldn't stand the blow, she didn't eat for three days in bed and didn't go out!
After listening to my father, I couldn't help but feel sad and cried loudly!
At that time, the countryside was still very superstitious, and after the death of an underage child, it had to be buried on the same day, usually with the help of the villagers, and the closest relatives could not participate, and all the items related to the family had to be taken away and burned together! The family members did not know where the children were buried, and the people who helped would never tell the families! Therefore, I had no way of knowing where Qi Xin was buried!
When I calmed down, I had some doubts in my heart: Qi Xin has been sick since she was a child, often has a fever, and has done a lot of things to seek medical advice, and her family was really poor at that time, and she couldn't take out too much money for treatment, so she never could be cured, which I know. But many years have passed, although she is sick, but she doesn't see anything different from other children, she is a normal child on weekdays, how can she say that it is sudden and sudden?
Moreover, I still remember very well that when my father took her to the big hospital in the city to see a doctor, I also went, and the doctor also said that it is just an ordinary chronic disease, which is common in children, like what adenoids and tonsillar hypertrophy are called, and it is not a fatal disease, and it will slowly shrink with age until it disappears, and in severe cases, it can be surgically removed. At that time, the family couldn't afford so much surgery fees, and I heard that the disease would gradually improve, so my father bought some medicine and came back with her.
After coming back, Qi Xin, as before, was crazy with the children in the village, and she didn't see anything unusual at all, so except for her high fever from time to time, there was no other situation, and after a long time, the family got used to it, and as she grew up, the number of fevers became less and less.
At that time, although I didn't know much medicine, I believed the doctor's words. So, I thought for a long time that night, how could Qi Xin leave us forever because of this illness! I couldn't accept this at all!
I really wanted to ask for details, but I was worried that because of Qi Xin's sudden departure, my parents were still immersed in grief, so I didn't dare to make a mistake.
Later, I secretly asked Qi Hao that he was also boarding in junior high school at that time, and he was not at home on the day Qi Xin left. My father's explanation was that he was afraid that it would affect my brother's studies, so he kept it a secret from us. I didn't dare to ask my grandparents, because I was afraid of sprinkling salt on the wound, after all, Qi Xin was still their only granddaughter at that time!
As for the others, they are even more silent.
To this day, my grandfather's deathbed words seem to have hidden secrets!!
Considering that it is safe, I can only answer half a sentence to Qi Hao's question, so I said: "Grandpa's last words were indeed Qi Xin, but the voice was so small that I didn't hear it clearly at all! Maybe his old man suddenly remembered Qi Xin at this time!"
When an old man in the family dies, according to custom, the rest of the matter is handled by others, and relatives cannot interfere!
Qi Hao took his wife and children to the side in a daze, and I walked out into the street alone, sitting on the bluestone slab in front of the door.
Just as I was finishing my fourth cigarette, my uncle came up to me and I handed him one.
After lighting a cigarette, my uncle suddenly whispered, "Xiaoyu, what did grandpa tell you?" My uncle is a typical money fan, everyone says that he is very philistine, but I don't have too many feelings, my uncle is my uncle, and his personality is not much different from most people!
So, I repeated the words I answered Qi Hao as they were, and said, "I'm very strange, why did grandpa mention Qi Xin when he was dying? Uncle, do you know what the situation was back then?"
After listening to my words, my uncle was a little suspicious, and at the same time there was a little disappointment on his face, and when he saw me asking, he also shook his head and said, "I don't know about your sister, and I wasn't at home at that time!"
My uncle took my grandfather's shift, and we called it "top job" at that time, so I believe his statement, because he had just been on the job for a long time.
Seeing that nothing came of it, I had no choice but to give up.
Estimating that my words were of little value, my uncle quietly asked again: "Xiaoyu, there are such people in the family, you are the most beloved one of your grandparents, have they told you anything before?"
I knew what he meant, and he hoped to find something he was interested in through me, such as gold and silverware or antiques. After all, my great-grandfather was also a big landowner, and his family was rich and powerful, so if he left his grandfather with any treasures, he couldn't say for sure. But I'm not interested in these things, so I don't care at all.
"You are their son, you don't know, how can we juniors know this?" I gave him a blank look.
Uncle was robbed by me, so he had to sneer: "Now that the old people are gone, if we really leave some treasure for others to give, then wouldn't we be at a loss?!"
I know my uncle's character very well over money, and I used to tell him when Qi Hao and I saw the pink round object in Zaozitang, but he insisted that there was definitely a treasure buried in the place where that thing landed, and I was made to cry and laugh at that time.
Thinking about my grandfather's dying words, I suddenly had an idea.
So he said: "Uncle, wait a minute, I'll ask Qi Hao to see if you know some of the situation, it's really not good, let's just pay more attention to our uncle and nephew when we sort out grandpa's relics tomorrow!"
Uncle took a puff of cigarette, nodded, and said, "You see that you are not too young, if there is really something good, you can fight for a few years less! I don't think about being greedy, just divide it between brothers and nephews according to the inheritance law! Do you think so?"
I am the eldest grandson in the family, and I have been loved by my grandparents since I was a child, and my education and knowledge are somewhat higher than the rest of the family, so even if it is my uncle, he does not dare to mess around.
Although everyone is very sad about the death of his grandfather, psychologically speaking, the old man is at the end of his life, and he is already eighty-five years old, and it can be regarded as a joy and mourning on our side, so under normal circumstances, although the heart will be sad for a while, but it will not be too immersed in it. Most of the family members are also sad for a while, after all, everyone will inevitably die, let alone the old man who is long-lived, so after a moment of grief, I have calmed down!