Chapter 207: Dignity is not given by others
The woman's scolding came from the courtyard, followed by the sound of footsteps fading away.
Outside the door, Sun Decai's old face was red and white, but in the end, he looked at Wu Zheng with a wry smile on his face, and said with a sad face: "Big nephew, let you see the joke!"
Wu Zheng didn't look at the joke, but asked very seriously, "Then are you going to help?"
"Go!" Sun Decai replied without hesitation, and then said with a smile: "Others can not go, if I don't go, doesn't it mean that there is no man in Qiantang Village?"
As he spoke, he glanced at Qian Xiaoping. said: "Pingping, don't go to other homes, you will be humiliated if you go!"
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but shake his head with sadness on his face: "Such a big village, so many people, but they are afraid of this and that, and they don't even have a responsibility, it's really sad!"
Wu Zheng smiled, but suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help asking: "Old man, listening to you, it seems that your cultivation is very high!"
"Cultivation? If you read more books, you will naturally have it. ”
As soon as Sun De finished speaking, a woman's scolding voice came from the courtyard: "Hmph! You are still cultivating? You still read a lot? I see that you have read too many books, and you have read this old thing stupidly, and you have been read as an idiot! I finally became an accountant, and I was squeezed out by someone." It's such an idiot, knowing that the hornet's nest is still poking!"
When the scolding came, Sun Decai's face turned red, and he couldn't help but turn around and say angrily: "Zhao Shanshan, you are also a person who has read books, how can you be so ignorant." ”
"Hehe, you're literate, aren't you asking for trouble?"
"I ...... I'm looking for trouble? If it weren't for Xiao Mao, would you still be bullied by Sun Cripple? People helped you out of anger, but you didn't know how to be grateful? I felt ashamed to have a daughter-in-law like you. ”
"Old thing, how do you talk? Believe it or not, I let your son beat you to death?"
"Such a wretch, does he dare?" Sun Decai sneered: "My own son, I don't know better than you?"
After speaking, he turned his head to Wu Zheng and said, "Big nephew, let's go to Lao Qian's house!"
"If you don't die, you can endure it, right? I see how you will live in the future?"
The woman's shout came from the courtyard, Sun Decai's old face twitched violently a few times, but after complaining, he looked at Qian Xiaoping and asked, "Pingping, do you think grandpa is very useless?"
"Hehe!" Qian Xiaoping shook her head with a wry smile, and said in a low voice: "Grandpa, if it's useless, I'm useless! I knocked on the doors of the twelve families just now, but none of them opened the door for me!"
"Don't you think it's shameless?"
"Face?" Qian Xiaoping turned her head to look at Wu Zheng, who was speaking, and said with a wry smile: "People who have no money, what qualifications do they have to talk about dignity?"
"Can you not have self-esteem if you don't have money?" Wu Zheng smiled faintly: "You are wrong to say this, whether a person has money or not, self-esteem is a must." ”
"But what do people who don't have money do to support their dignity?"
"Backbone!" Wu Zheng glanced at Qian Xiaoping, and suddenly smiled: "If a person doesn't have backbone, then even if he has a lot of money, in front of people who are richer than him, he can't stand up to his waist." But if you have backbone, even if you are poor, you will never bow your head to others. ”
"I ......" Qian Xiaoping looked at Wu Zheng blankly, but then lowered her head and said in a low voice: "I also want to have backbone, but when I think that my brother is dead and there is no one in the village to help, I feel very useless!"
"Who said no one helped?" Wu Zheng laughed, "Am I not human?
"But there are only two people, how are we going to handle my brother's funeral?"
"You don't have to worry about this!" Wu Zheng smiled faintly, and then asked, "Do you want dignity?"
Qian Xiaoping suddenly raised her head and nodded subconsciously: "Yes!"
"But dignity is not given by others, it is earned by yourself!" Wu Zheng sighed, looked at Qian Xiaoping, who seemed to be thoughtful, and said with a smile: "We can do without money, but we must not have no self-esteem, let alone give up on ourselves, and look down on ourselves!"
"Brother Wu!" Qian Xiaoping's eyes suddenly turned red, and then she bowed solemnly to Wu Zheng: "Thank you, I understand!"
"It's good to understand!" Wu Zheng didn't pretend to anything, and generously accepted Qian Xiaoping's thanks.
Glancing at Qian Xiaoping, who was full of gratitude, he turned his head to look at Sun Decai: "Let's go, old man, let's go see Xiaomao first!"
"Okay!" Sun Decai nodded, and then said with emotion as he walked: "Xiao Wu! You are a good person, Wu Fengxing is really blessed, he has such a good son! But Xiao Mao's side, I don't know how many people are waiting to see the joke!"
"Look at jokes?" Wu Zheng smiled faintly: "My comrade-in-arms will never be seen as a joke, only envied and jealous!"
"Is this possible?" Qian Xiaoping looked up suddenly, but then lowered her head with a miserable laugh.
Wu Zheng knew what she was thinking, but she didn't explain, she just followed the two of them and entered the gate of the Qian family.
The house was still the same, there were still only Qian Gui and the old couple, and no outsiders were present. This scene also indirectly proves Sun Decai's words just now.
Seeing them come in, the two hurriedly greeted Sun Decai, and Qian Guihe also kowtowed to Sun Decai in accordance with the rules.
Sun Decai didn't dodge, after all, when the village was doing white things, not to mention the younger people, even if they were older, when they were filial sons, they had to kowtow when they saw people.
It's just three or two people who are only in the shadows, let alone sending people to be buried, even if they go to cremation. Not to mention the need for coffins, digging pits, etc., not even five more.
Qian Guihe naturally knew this, but because Wu Zheng and Sun Decai were present, even if he was sad, he didn't dare to show it, so he could only discuss it with Gao Cuilan.
But the two of them didn't know anything about this matter in the village, so they discussed it and discussed it, but they didn't come up with an idea.
In the end, Qian Guihe had no choice but to whisper: "Wife, there is really no way, we can only do it ourselves." ”
Gao Cuilan's face was also full of bitterness, and she said in a low voice: "In addition to us doing it ourselves, will anyone else come to help?" If someone comes over at this time, even if I ask Pingping to marry him, I am willing to ......."
"Crunch!" Before she could finish speaking, there was a sharp sound of brakes on the street outside the yard.
The movement was not a sound, but a succession of sounds, which rang several times before it stopped.
However, the sound of brakes stopped, but there was a series of sounds of opening and closing doors on the street, followed by the sound of chaotic footsteps.
Hearing such a movement, the old couple glanced at each other, and their faces immediately became ugly.
Qian Guihe didn't think about it, and rushed out of the inner room directly, "Big nephew, run away, it must be Sun Xiaosheng who brought someone back again...... Huh, what about people?"
At this time, he found that not only was there no Wu Zheng in the house, but even his daughter Qian Xiaoping was not in the house. And Sun Decai was not there, in the whole house, only Qian Xiaomao on the morgue bed was lying there silently.
"What's wrong?" Gao Cuilan heard his exclamation and hurriedly rushed out of the back room.
As soon as she rushed out, she saw a large number of people walking in through the gap in the abandoned gate of her house. Soon, there was a lot of pressure standing in the courtyard, and just like that, there were people walking in the back.
Seeing these people, the old couple were all dumbfounded! Because so many people came in, they didn't know any of them.
It's not bad, although these people are all young people, they don't look like they're looking for trouble. One by one, they were all standing in the courtyard in a regular manner. So many people didn't make much noise.
"Wu Shao!" Just when the two of them were stunned, those people suddenly shouted at the same time. Then, they saw Wu Zheng who came in from outside, and they also saw their daughter Qian Xiaoping.
It's just that when they saw that Qian Xiaoping was pulled in by Wu Zheng's hand, they couldn't help but glance at each other. In each other's eyes, they both saw each other's worries and suspicions.
Wu Zheng didn't notice the expressions of Qian Gui and the old couple, but just let go of Qian Xiaoping, who was full of sluggishness, and said to Li Dahai, who was following behind him: "Dahai, let the brothers prepare to do things!"
"Okay!" Li Dahai immediately waved his hand and shouted: "Don't be stunned, you can hear what Old Man Sun said clearly, right?"
"Hear me clearly!"
"That's good!" Li Dahai nodded with satisfaction and said, "Since you have heard it clearly, then you can do whatever you have to do?" Sixth, you take someone to tie the spirit shed, third son, do you go to see if the coffin is here?"
With his shouting, the people in the courtyard immediately became active, some turned around and ran out of the courtyard, and some went directly into the house.
Qian Gui and the two of them looked stupid, looking at the busy people blankly, and they didn't react for a long time.
However, they all understood that these people were here to help, and it was Wu Zheng who called over.
The courtyard was bustling, and twenty or so people came in from outside the door to resist some iron rods used on the construction site, and soon a frame was erected, covered with a tarpaulin, and a spacious mourning shed was built.
With the construction of the mourning shed, huge flower baskets and wreaths were carried in from the outside. It didn't take long for the yard to be opened, and it was all put on the street.
Looking at those flower baskets, looking at those young people who were doing things silently, Gao Cuilan's cheeks trembled violently a few times, and suddenly rushed to Wu Zheng, and knelt down with a plop: "Big nephew, thank you, aunt, thank you for making my son walk less shabbyly, and not being seen as a joke!"
Her kneeling made Wu Zheng speechless again, and quickly turned sideways to help the old lady up, "Auntie, won't I say it, Xiaomao is my comrade-in-arms, that is my brother, I can let my brother be looked down upon?"
"Yes, yes, you are brothers, you are brothers!" Gao Cuilan wiped her eyes vigorously, then pulled Qian Xiaoping over, and said to Wu Zheng: "Big nephew, I told your uncle just now, whoever can come over to help, I will marry Pingping to him." Now you have done it, so, you will be Pingping's man from now on!"