Chapter 33: The Funeral of the Living
Ji Er's car was very fast, but Qinglan felt very slow, so slow that there seemed to be no road that could be longer than this one. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Before the car was parked, Qinglan jumped off quickly and rushed towards the gate of Shu's house.
There was no one in the courtyard, and the house was quiet, Qinglan walked to the door of the hall and paused, usually, before she walked here, Mrs. Shu would greet her with a smile.
Qinglan took a deep breath and lifted the curtain on the back room.
Mrs. Shu lay quietly on the kang, her hair combed neatly, but it was not the bun she usually combed on weekdays, and the shroud had been put on, it was the new set of clothes that Pan Erniang made for her during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Qinglan's body suddenly lost consciousness, and when she came back to her senses after being scolded by Aunt Shu, she found that she had already gotten on the kang, kneeling beside her grandmother, and one hand stopped in the air.
"What are you bringing ?!?" Shu Ergu screamed, the sound like a gong slamming with an iron pickaxe.
"Why do you put a piece of yellow paper over my grandmother's face?" Qinglan's tone was calm, as if this was an ordinary conversation, not the current tension.
Aunt Shu's upper body trembled obviously, and Qinglan stared at Aunt Shu deadly.
Aunt Shu felt a chill on her back, she had never felt that any of her eyes were as unforgettable as this time.
Seeing that the two aunts didn't speak, Qinglan "swished" and took away the yellow paper at once. Suddenly, Qinglan's eyes shrank suddenly:
Grandma's eyes are open!
Qinglan's tears poured out uncontrollably, and her voice trembled and asked, "What's the matter?! ”
The two aunts were like deflated balls, bowing their heads and not daring to look directly at their mother and niece on the kang.
"What's wrong with my milk! What did you do with her! "Qinglan was furious when she saw Mrs. Shu's face, I couldn't look at it!
"Qingqing, don't talk nonsense," Qin walked in with two bowls of porridge and handed them to the two sisters-in-law, "Sister, hurry up and cushion it, later... What are you doing! ”
Qinglan jumped over and swept the bowl to the ground, "snapped" and shattered into several pieces, and yelled at the three of them: "Eat! I told you to eat! How can you still eat!? Saying that, Xia Kang stepped on the porridge fiercely, and the porridge splashed everywhere, Qin's face sank but she didn't dare to speak, she was frightened by Qinglan. Sure enough, Pan Erniang's daughter, how good can her temper be? usually looks like a smile, but she doesn't care, you see the person who pokes her heart, she is about to eat the second sister-in-law!
"Have your consciences been robbed by dogs? My grandmother is a big living person, why is she lying here motionless?! You still have the heart to eat around my milk here!? What the hell is going on with my?! Rise!?! Before my grandmother left, her body was almost well, it was you who forced her to go to Qinhuangdao and took her to practice qigong! As a result, you tell me, how can a good person say no and then it will be gone?! We didn't even see each other for the last time!! Qinglan's face was mixed with tears and snot, and she smashed it to the ground, "Second aunt, what the hell is going on, my grandmother is staring at you here!" How can the good girl who killed her have the face to eat and drink in front of her!! The great anger had overwhelmed Qinglan's reason, and although she didn't choose what she said, what she said was what she was talking from her heart.
There was silence in the room. Aunt Shu and Second Aunt Shu seemed to have made an appointment, and Ren Qinglan didn't open her mouth no matter how much she made trouble.
At this time, there was a knock at the gate of the courtyard, and it was the return of all the people who had gone to report the funeral in various places. The Qin family hurriedly cleaned up the house, and the two aunts rearranged their postures as filial daughters.
Old Man Shu, who walked into the back room, had already changed into a plain clothes, and there was tiredness and impatience on his face, but there was no guilt and sadness. Qinglan saw that she was angry, and she didn't want to ask, "Why don't I have milk?" “
Being stared at by a child, Old Man Shu had a momentary weakness, but only for a moment, and he immediately said angrily: "Who are you talking to?" Well? Who are you doing here?! ”
Qinglan looked at her unmovingly, sank her mind, and asked again, "Grandpa, what's going on with my grandmother?" Why is this happening? Qinglan bit the word "why" very hard.
"You get out." Old Man Shu didn't want to and didn't plan to explain anything to a child, he saw Qinglan kneeling straight on the kang, extremely unhappy, and opened his mouth to pick people.
"I don't, I'm going to guard my milk." Qinglan categorically refused, "My grandmother's death is unknown, I don't dare to leave." ”
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the people in the room turned white and they looked at Old Man Shu. At this time, Old Man Shu was also very angry, he endured it again and again, and then grabbed the palm of the hand that slapped Qinglan.
"What are you kid doing here, what kind of mess! Get out! This time it was Boss Shu who spoke, and he cared more about his own father than his mother. The niece repeatedly challenged the dignity of her father's elders, and even if it was justified, he could not let it go like this.
Qinglan didn't move, turned her gaze to Boss Shu, and spoke again: "Uncle, haven't you been with my grandmother all the time?" What the hell happened to my milk? ”
"Dick, get her away!" Old man Shu is a joke, he will never allow his eldest son to be questioned by a junior, and his future successor must not have any stains, and he will not be able to have a trace of doubt.
Shu Lao Er didn't move.
"What! I'm not good at talking! Get out! Old Man Shu pushed Qinglan to the ground hard.
Shu Lao Er squeezed forward to protect his daughter. Aunt Shu stood opposite and complained about her younger brother: "This kid is too tough!" ”
Qinglan felt even more sad in her heart, she felt deeply worthless for Mrs. Shu, grandma, look, this is your family! Despite the pain in her back, she stubbornly refused to go. Da Lang and several boys were frightened, and they came up to pull Qinglan one after another, and Shu Laosan slapped off his stretched arm.
"Dad," Shu Lao Er hugged his daughter, "Mother was the most painful Qingqing when she was alive, and now Mother... Qingqing accompanies her grandmother, why can't she? Speaking of the back end, Shu Lao Er was already crying.
"Okay, you've all turned the sky upside down! She doesn't go, I'll go! After speaking, Old Man Shu opened the curtain and stepped out, and most of the curtain was torn off the edge of the door, and Boss Shu and the others followed closely and left the back room. Shu Lao Er glanced at Mrs. Shu nostalgically, and also walked out.
"Grandma..."Qinglan lay on Mrs. Shu and cried, tears like a halter that didn't press the brake, and couldn't stop flowing down.
She felt deep sorrow for Mrs. Shu! Grandma, do you see the expression on your husband's face, so impatient and disgusted? Do you see that your son and daughter should have taken good care of you, and they did not feel guilty or embarrassed in front of their loved ones!
"Qingqing..."Aunt Shu didn't know how to talk to her niece, as for explaining or comforting, Qinglan didn't want to know.
"Don't cry," Second Aunt Shu also slowed down her tone, (Qinglan: My milk is gone, a big living person who loves me and loves me is gone, I can not be sad!) Can I stop crying?! Qinglan thought that Aunt Shu was kind enough to comfort her, but the latter words made her feel ridiculous about what she thought. "Wait a while, people are crying." Shu Ergu expressed the meaning clearly.
Heh, who the hell are these people?! When my mother dies, I can still control my emotions, cry when I say I cry, and don't cry if I don't cry?! But soon, Qinglan saw it.
The condolences came one after another, and Qinglan put the yellow paper on Mrs. Shu's face again, she didn't want others to look at Mrs. Shu with strange eyes. Grandma is a warm-hearted person, who has a little illness and disaster in this neighborhood has not come to Mrs. Shu to see, and she does not charge people money for the medicine she grows, she is a good person who deserves people's respect.
Next, Qinglan saw the two aunts' solid and profound acting skills. As soon as the person entered the door, the two sisters began to cry loudly, and as soon as the person went out, they immediately suppressed their tears, which was better than the power switch.
Qinglan couldn't stay any longer, she wiped away her tears and went to find Pan Erniang in the room.
"Mother." As soon as she finished calling her mother, Qinglan's tears fell again, she raised her head and blinked, "Why don't I have my milk?" ”
Pan Erniang looked at her daughter, wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and said: "Your grandmother was originally not well-organized, she went there, Datongpu, she was old and shallow, and she almost couldn't sleep at night." There is no food every day, three meals are filled with Fu Shui, and I have to practice with the qigong master all day and night. Don't say you're a sick woman, even young and strong guys can't stand it! Qinglan clenched her fists when she heard this, and sure enough, what she was worried about still happened. Two days ago, it snowed in Qinhuangdao, and a person froze to death on the beach. Your grandmother came out to practice in the morning, and it was hard to walk the aisles, so why did the master tell them to climb the steps..."
The road was slippery in the cold, and Mrs. Shu, who was so cold, had to resign herself to climbing the steps, because Aunt Shu told her, "Mother, you have to practice hard, you see that we have spent all this money, and we can't be blind in vain." If you insist on practicing, you will definitely get better, let's live a few more years, isn't it just earning. ”
"Rolled down the steps..."Pan Erniang's words continued, but Qinglan watched her mouth open and close, but she couldn't hear what she said.
Mrs. Shu rolled down the steps and her mouth was bleeding on the spot, and Boss Shu, who caught up, knew that this time, I was afraid that Hua Tuo would not be able to save her again. Boss Shu picked up Mrs. Shu and rushed to the dock, and when she arrived at the SD boundary, Mrs. Shu only had the air coming out, not the air coming in.
In the early hours of the morning, Boss Shu and Aunt Shu finally brought Mrs. Shu home, but it was too late, and Mr. Shu was so sad that he hugged Mrs. Shu and punched Mr. Shu several times in a row.
Putting on filial piety clothes, Qinglan and Shu Dalang and other grandsons knelt at the door, Qinglan stared at the black word "filial piety" on her arm without any expression. She couldn't cry, she only felt deep irony, and felt that these performances in front of her were ugly and terrible, they were not people, and their hearts were more sinister than the devil.
This is a funeral performed for the living.
"Qingqing..."Uncle Pan and Old Man Pan looked at Qinglan worriedly, with a dull expression on their faces, and their eyelids were swollen like a nectarines.
"Grandpa, uncle..."Qing Lan recognized the person in front of her, as if grasping a life-saving straw, Qing Lan threw herself into Uncle Pan's arms and cried loudly: "My grandmother is gone..." "I'll never see her again," she loved me so much, "Woo woo woo... I don't have a grandmother anymore..."I'm so scared, these people act so realistically, as if they are wearing painted skins, they are the most perfect filial sons and grandsons in the world, but they are obviously the culprits!! What right do they have to kneel there and accept the comfort and pity of others, and will the lie become true if it is told a few times!!
Uncle Pan glanced coldly at the people in the room, he knew the general situation, in his opinion, the niece must have been frightened, perhaps, someone dared to bully them?
Qinglan was held in her uncle's arms and cried for a while, and suddenly climbed back onto the kang. Everyone looked at her in surprise, and Aunt Shu and Second Aunt Shu's hearts suddenly rose, and they stared at the movements of their niece's hands very nervously. Qinglan crawled back to Mrs. Shu's side, uncovered the yellow paper, and touched Mrs. Shu's eyes with her little hand. "Grandma, don't be afraid, we're home. Grandma, you see that Qingqing is here, grandma is not afraid. Grandma, let's go home..."Qinglan couldn't say any more, her tears were so fierce that her eyes couldn't see clearly. But this time, Mrs. Shu's eyes didn't open again.
Uncle Pan picked up his niece and went out of the room. Old Man Pan sat in the hall, and he didn't even have a cup of tea in front of him.
"Dad, let's go." The gift money had already been given, and he didn't want his nephew to kneel in the cold wind.
"Hmm. But she couldn't go. "Knowing the son Mo Ruo's father, the old man Pan broke Uncle Pan's untimely plan in one word.
"But..."Uncle Pan still has to fight.
"It's okay, uncle, we're fine, I'll take care of my younger brothers." Qinglan is half comforting and half promised, I am the eldest sister, I will protect them.
"Qingqing..."You're still a kid yourself, "Hey~~~ Let's go." Old Man Pan didn't say it in the end, but Qinglan knew that the sentence should be: After all, this is your Shu family, and your surname is Shu.
The adults were busy, in and out, the people who mourned continued, Qinglan held a younger brother in one hand, and when she was hungry, she went to the room to find something to fill in casually, and when she was sleepy, she went to sleep with Mingran and they squeezed on a kang, and after a few days, several children obviously lost weight.
Li 13 and Ding Xiaobao also came, and since Qinglan was called away that day, neither of them has seen her again. Both of them were a little worried, and they didn't have much to pay attention to class, so Mr. Ji simply gave them a vacation and let them come to see Qinglan. At first glance, the wide filial piety clothes buried her in a white linen, so distressing.
Yes, it's distressing. Ding Xiaobao thought of his sisters who had nothing to do all day long, and then looked at Qinglan, who had always been cheerful and strong, kneeling there helplessly, and his heart was full of sadness.
Li Shisan was also very uncomfortable, he said to himself: Be kind to her in the future, you see, she is just a child, younger than her grandfather, she has no heart and lungs on weekdays, but now...
Qinglan saw her little friend coming, and wanted to squeeze out a good smile for me, but her dry and swollen eyes still involuntarily shed tears, she understood that only when she saw someone who really made her feel at ease, she would not stop crying.
The eyes of the two little boys who watched it were also wet, they didn't know Mrs. Shu very well, but Qinglan was a very important person in their hearts.
"Sir already knows, you don't have to worry." Qinglan was taken away like that day, and if she was put in Meiban, she would have been expelled. Xiaobao grabbed her wrist and comforted, "People can't be resurrected after death, don't be too sad, your grandmother will be sad when she looks at it." ”
"It's ugly," Li Shisan took out his handkerchief and gently wiped away her tears, "Compress your eyes at night, they are swollen like pickled radish." Don't cry anymore, cry again and become blind, your grandmother won't feel at ease knowing that she is underground. ”
"Hmm," Qinglan nodded, snatched Li Thirteen's handkerchief, wiped his snot vigorously, and handed the handkerchief full of snot back to Thirteen.
A baker's dozen:...
"I don't want it, you can take it and wipe it."
"Hehe~" Qinglan burst into tears and laughed, she had just deliberately seen Li Shisan's stinky face, and suddenly felt a lot better. (To be continued.) )