Chapter Sixty-Nine: Roche
November 21 is Lin Ziqing's birthday, which happens to be the weekend. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
It was noon the day before my birthday.
"Qingqing, can you take a week off from school, your grandfather has passed away!" Lin Wenshan's slightly hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone.
Hearing the news, Lin Ziqing's heart was not as calm as she imagined.
I thought I was mentally prepared for the result I already knew.
But after a minute, the tears still fell.
Maybe in fact, I am not so strong, and I will be sad in the face of the passage of my loved ones' lives, and the people who are strong in fate will always be taken away.
According to the current customs of the ancient town, the old man needs to be buried in the scenery, and it is a burial, and the filial son and grandson should visit all the streets of the ancient town.
When Lin Ziqing arrived in the ancient town, basically all the relatives had arrived.
Many relatives she hadn't seen before also showed up, and this time it wasn't the neighbors who came to help.
Instead, the entire family of the East Gate Brigade sent a person to help.
More than 20 teachers from Heyuan Primary School and Middle School came, busy writing sacrifices, writing divinations, and elegiac couplets.
The entire front and back yards of my grandmother's house, as well as the threshing floor, were full of people, and there were as many as 100 people.
Lin Ziqing followed the third aunt to find the cypress leaves, ready to glue white linen, according to the custom, all the female dependents and girls who have reached the age of ten must carry this on their heads.
The third aunt put her things away, and then walked to the side to get Mai, and waited for Lin Ziqing to stand at the table in the backyard and start doing this.
The fourth aunt on the side, Luo Shi, glanced at the little aunt Xiao Jinxiu, and then glanced at Xiao Jinxiu.
Xiao Jinxiu nodded and motioned for her to speak.
Luo Shi blinked, then looked at Lin Ziqing and said with a smile: "Ziqing, your family has earned a lot of money over the years." I didn't see how much money your family paid for the funeral this time. ”
Lin Ziqing glanced at her, originally thinking that over the years, the living conditions of the fourth uncle's family had been somewhat better. I thought she had changed her temperament, but now it seems that how can this kind of person's temperament get better?
And it's not just Roche, even the little aunt and a few people who are helping on the side are staring at her. It seems that he is plotting something, just waiting for her to come back.
Lin Ziqing sneered.
Do these people see that their parents have changed too much now, and they are full of momentum, and they dare not say this in front of them.
This is to see that you are a junior, and you are a bully when you are small?
She stopped what she was doing, looked up at them and smiled; "Then how much do you think our family should pay is appropriate, our family hasn't used a stitch from our grandparents over the years, and the filial piety has always been doubled, and there is such a thing, you tell me that it doesn't seem appropriate."
Lin Ziqing smiled sarcastically, pointed her finger at their children in the yard casually, and asked rhetorically. "As for you, with your children, not only live in the ancestral house of your grandparents, but also eat their dishes, and even most of the things of the old people in our family have gone into your pockets, don't you have more."
"How can you be a junior who talks to me like this, you don't even shout aunt and aunt, where is your tutor, and you say that you can read, and you can read it to the dog's belly......"
She shouted so loudly that she called the third aunt over.
The third aunt also saw that her brother and daughter-in-law were thinking of a moth again, so she stood beside Lin Ziqing and wanted to speak.
But Lin Ziqing stretched out her hand and pushed her behind her, meaning that she should not interfere in this matter first.
Since they had made up their minds to come to her, let her settle it herself.
"These things have always been borne by the sons, since the rules have always been borne by the sons, grandpa has six children, and my father has already paid double the cost, do you still plan to make our family fully responsible, what does grandma do when she has so many children, you have to shirk this kind of thing, is it when we can't see it, I don't know how you treat the two elders?" Lin Ziqing looked at Luo Zhi coldly.
"If that's the case, wouldn't it be better for you to give double portions, after all, your food and accommodation account for your grandparents' share."
"No matter how much you have, since you have the ability, you should give more money." Roche saw that he couldn't make sense, so he began to play tricks.
If she is really a person who will die without taking advantage of it, and let her family bear it all, will the thousands of yuan she saved become her private money to support the children she brought?
Lin Ziqing raised her eyebrows playfully.
"What are you really dissatisfied with, when I say it in front of my parents, in front of so many relatives and friends. Tell me this junior, it's you who lose your job. ‘
The two of them didn't speak, and their expressions were a little embarrassed.
The third aunt looked at them and asked them with a little displeasure; "Do you understand the truth of home and everything, Wenshan has also helped you a lot in recent years, the two old people really haven't asked you for a penny of money, at this juncture, you still ask the juniors for money, don't you lose face."
Without waiting for them to reply, the third aunt continued;
"Now take the old man's funeral well before it is serious, this kind of rule is not something you can break if you want to, unless you don't recognize the old man as your father."
"Their family conditions are good, there are already more, our family has so many children, life is already difficult, even if they let all of them out, it will be a drop in the bucket." Roche still doesn't want to give up his heart to take advantage, and this is also extremely reasonable.
Lin Ziqing sneered: "You always have your reasons, don't tell me these big truths, tell me if you say it, ask you to find my parents yourself." I'm too lazy to pay attention to you. ”
Lin Ziqing was really speechless, why did she speak without any reason, but she could still be so reasonable, what did it mean to hold on to herself.
She didn't want to quarrel about this, so she looked at her aunt and said, "Auntie, what do you mean, do you think so too?" ”
Xiao Jinxiu nodded, and opened her mouth to think about it, but in the end she still whispered, "It's just a little idea, our family is a little difficult." ”
Lin Ziqing nodded, the little uncle has been working in the third uncle's house all these years, although he is quite honest, but he really hasn't made any money.
The little aunt is actually quite good, maybe the little uncle usually doesn't give her much home, so she followed Luo to take advantage of it.
Go back and find a way to help her, as for Roche, forget it. This kind of person can't help, and he won't be grateful at all, but will get worse.
When Lin Wenshan and the eight men carried their grandfather's coffin in the street.
Several female dependents in order were going to cry while walking, and it happened to be Luo who walked in front of Lin Ziqing.
Lin Ziqing listened to her dry howl and pretended to cry.
On the one hand, she was also careful not to step on the hem of the linen clothes she was wearing, just when she was a little impatient to listen to Roche's fake crying.
Luo turned around and said with a righteous face: "Why don't you cry, you are not filial!"
"Look at your own clean face." Lin Ziqing pursed her lips, if you really want to be filial, when the old people are gone, you will be called filial piety if you fake crying a few times. 、
The son wants to raise but doesn't wait, usually he cares more about the elderly, and now he is fake.
"Don't stop in front, go quickly, don't delay time." The people in the back team shouted dissatisfiedly.
"Sure enough, it was raised by a sc product." Luo muttered quietly, not daring to make a sound, she also knew that Lin Ziqing was not easy to mess with, and maybe she would be thrown out when she heard it.
After Grandpa's funeral was done, more than 1,200 people from almost the entire Dongmen Brigade gathered together for dinner.
This kind of white meal also has to be eaten for three days and three nights, during which Lin Ziqing has to listen to the cries of several female elders until midnight every night, and this time she is not impatient.
Instead, I boiled some rock sugar and pear water for my aunt and them.
In my previous life, I couldn't understand why a funeral had to do so many ways and be so troublesome, and it was still midsummer July, and it was very hot.
Because her mother was not there, she took the dual position of daughter-in-law and granddaughter alone, crying for three days and three nights, and wearing double linen clothes and hemp pants.
Lin Ziqing, who couldn't stand it, lost her temper and ran away with her face during the parade.
Now that I think about it, it was not for nothing that I was not liked at that time.
After the first seven days, the eldest uncle and the third uncle were counting the cost of the funeral.
The third uncle is more serious in his work, and even a dime will be counted after the average score.
This caused some people to be dissatisfied.
"Third brother, you can't share this cost like this, the family is about to take out more than 5,000, but we don't have it." Roche began to yell in dissatisfaction.
"Then you say how to divide it. Six sons, Wenshan also took a double share, I divided it according to 7 families, it is very reasonable and fair, you also want to save this kind of money, believe it or not, I will smoke you. "The third uncle is very stubborn in this kind of thing and insists on doing things according to the rules.
"The Wenshan family is so rich, why can't they all come out."
"Third brother, the fifth brother's family is rich, just let him go out alone, it's a trivial matter to him." Lin Wenjun saw that someone took the lead in saying this, and hurriedly interjected.
"Shut up for me, the old man is Wenshan's father, right, did you pick it up from the mountain?" Lin Wenshan stood up angrily and was about to smoke Lin Wenjun.
"Okay, let's stop the meeting, you guys made trouble a few days ago, and now you plan to continue to make trouble, right, let's think about whose house the old lady will live in the future." Lin Wenliang roared.
"According to what I said, the old lady never wanted to go out of the ancient town, so she was allowed to stay in the town, and the fourth and sixth brothers used to eat with the two old men. Now let's eat at the fourth brother's. Our brothers gave it to the family as they were. ”
"I don't agree, why should we let our family go, even if you want to go, why don't you go to live at the eldest son's house." Roche shouted.
"The old lady is reluctant to leave the ancient town."
"It's what you said if you didn't want to, even if she said it, it was when the old man was there before. Maybe she's willing to do it now. ”
"I asked, and the old lady didn't agree to leave the town."
"Come to my house, the fourth brother and the sixth brother can provide food, and you don't want the rest to come out, the old lady can't eat much rations a year." The third uncle made a decision.
"Wenshan's house is so big in the city, why don't you go to his house." Roche was still dissatisfied.
"Why can't you figure it out, don't say it." Lin Wenxian was also dissatisfied with his wife's way of doing this.
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That night, everyone was so tired that they fell asleep peacefully, but some people tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
Luo fell asleep and suddenly flicked Lin Wenshan's clothes with his hand, waking him up in a daze.
"Hey, wake up~"
"What? Don't sleep in the middle of the night? Lin Wenxian was tired and panicked during the day, and was about to fall asleep, but was woken up by his wife, very unhappy.
"You say, the Wenshan family is so rich? Why is he so stingy, the richer the person, the more he picks the door, why can't the funeral expenses be all covered this time, and you, why doesn't he take you to do business and make you rich. Didn't you say that he was most afraid of you when he was a child? ”
"What are you thinking about in the middle of the night? Am I a businessman? There is also the old man's afterlife, the cost of spending should have been, why do you always calculate like this. Lin Wenxian said angrily, yawned, turned over and changed into a comfortable position to get ready to sleep.
"Then how to call calculation, you are dead-eyed, you have to be willing to speak, maybe it will be done, our family will take out 5,000, then if you save it, you can buy a lot of things."
Thinking of this, Roche couldn't help but get irritable: "No, it's cheap for them like this!" Tomorrow you go and tell him that my son will go to work in his shop and be a supervisor or something. ”
Lin Wenshan scoffed: "What is it to be a supervisor, you are really a genius or a talent when you are your son, it's not that I said you, just his two-hundred-pound figure and go to the restaurant to be a supervisor, then the person who can eat, the restaurant will give him a cross." ”
Luo is unwilling, she has always felt that her son is very smart and capable, what is there to be fat, it is a blessing, maybe he can go to work in a restaurant and attract money.
Thinking of this, she secretly made up her mind that she must let Lin Wen go and tell Lin Wenshan about this first.
Xiao Jinxiu also couldn't sleep all night. Lin Wenjun saw his wife tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and felt strange in his heart, thinking that his wife was thinking about husband and wife.
There was a little bit of emotion in my heart, and I couldn't help but lean over.
Xiao Jinxiu was annoyed, Lin Wenjun leaned over, she stretched out her hand to push him away, and slapped him on the arm.
"What are you doing, stinky?!" Lin Wenjun was angry, and couldn't help but curse in a low voice.
"Don't bother me, I'm thinking about what Liyun told me today, do you think she really wants me to help her do things? If I really go, will the fourth sister-in-law go with me? ”
"Since she promised you to help, you can go and do whatever that crutch does. That person has a belly of black water, I see that you are so honest, be careful that you are sold by her, and count the money for her. ”
"Talk about yourself, aren't you also a good thing."
"Go, don't say anything, go to sleep." Lin Wenjun said boringly.
Here, Luo didn't wait for Lin Wenshan to agree that his son would go to work in his restaurant.
first thought that his son would definitely be able to go to work, and told his son Jiang Xiaoxiao about it.
Jiang Xiaoxiao listened to his mother's words, and the more he thought about it, the happier he became, so he got up and ran over and kissed Luo Shi fiercely on the face.
"Mom, are you serious, really let me be a supervisor, and the salary is a few thousand? It's good that you can eat as much as you want. ”
"Look at your kid happy, let Lin Wenxian say it, Lin Wenshan will definitely agree, it's not that Lin Wenshan was very afraid of Lin Wenxian when he was a child."
"If it can really be done, I will eat and drink spicy food in the future, and I will not forget your mother."
"When your sister comes out after studying, you can take her with you." Luo has calculated everything, relatives should help relatives, not to mention brothers, she thinks this is also a matter of course. (To be continued.) )