Father Zhou was tired, and fell asleep after speaking.

Zhou Hongwen hung his head and walked out of the house with a sad face, Qi Jinzhi also came out, and Zhou Shuying and Zhou Xiuying guarded the second elder in the house.

Qi Jinzhi wiped his tears and said to Zhou Hongwen: "Let's prepare the shroud and coffin first, don't ask for anything else, just ask for a rush, maybe my father and mother can live a few more days." ”

"Ready." Tears fell from the corners of Zhou Hongwen's eyes, he looked up at the sky and endured the remaining tears.

Turning around, Zhou Hongwen took Jin Zhi's hand: "I'm sorry for you." ”

Qi Jinzhi went back to the house: "What's not bitter, whose life is not like this, we are husband and wife, we should be of one heart and one mind, just put away these false sets, don't need it." ”

While talking, Qi Jinzhi went back to the house and took some silver and handed it to Zhou Hongwen: "I originally heard my mother say that the coffin was prepared a few years ago, and you invited someone to come over to make paint, and you have to buy another shroud and everything you need to use for the funeral. ”

Zhou Hongwen took some money and went out to find someone to make a coffin, Qi Jinzhi changed his clothes and went out to buy a shroud, and bought some yellow paper and white cloth back to put them away.

When she came back from shopping, Mother Zhou woke up, Qi Jinzhi smiled and said hello, and personally cooked a bowl of porridge for Mother Zhou's to drink.

The porridge boiled by the golden branch is thick and fragrant, it is not cold or hot, and it tastes just right, but unfortunately, Zhou's mother can't drink it, even if she pinches her mouth, she can't do it.

Zhou Xiuying cried when she saw this, Qi Jinzhi glanced at her: "What are you crying about." Talk and laugh with my mother more, I think of some ways. ”

Zhou Xiuying has no master, and it is all up to Qi Jinzhi to call the shots at this time, she nodded when she heard what Jin Zhi said, and she would not refute it at all.

Zhou Shuying was the same, at this time, she grabbed Zhou's mother's hand and forced her to laugh and speak, Qi Jinzhi went out and brought a bowl of sugar water, took a clean white gauze and dipped it in sugar water, and wiped it on Zhou's mother's mouth.

"Can this be done?" Zhou Shuying asked in a low voice.

Qi Jinzhi sighed: "If you can't do it, you have to do it, if you can't eat and don't think about pouring some water, maybe it's ......."

She didn't say what happened next, but Zhou Shuying and Zhou Xiuying also understood. The two of them couldn't help but shed tears again.

It didn't take much effort. Zhou Hongwen had already invited someone to set up the coffin in the back yard, Qi Jinzhi went out to take a look at it, and looked at the coffin board only to feel piercing, as if he felt uncomfortable or something. I simply stopped looking at it.

Two more days. Zhou's father and Zhou's mother only gasped. Zhou Hongwen guards most of the time every day, even if he sleeps at night, he has to put someone to sleep in the same room with Zhou's father and Zhou's mother, even if the second old man dies of anger and no one will see him.

Every other day and a half, it happens to be the turn of the golden branch to watch the night. She squinted for a moment and looked at the second elder, and found that Zhou's father's face was much better, and when she saw Zhou's mother yelling hungry, she thought that this was about a return to the light, and immediately called Zhou Hongwen's brothers and sisters to come, and asked the three of them to guard, and Jin Zhi cooked two bowls of porridge and came over.

She just got it done, Father Zhou also began to shout two words of hunger, Jin Zhi hurriedly brought the porridge over, and the two elders drank half a bowl each, after drinking, Father Zhou looked at Mother Zhou and smiled.

Zhou's mother also smiled and said to Zhou Hongwen: "Son, my mother is leaving, and my mother will never see you again." ”

When this sentence came out, several people around the second elder cried, and Jin Zhi turned his back to wipe his tears and smiled: "What do you say, my mother can eat, and she will definitely be fine in the future." ”

"It's not going to be better." Mother Zhou smiled and stretched out her hand to pull the golden branch: "You are a good person, and you have the ability, this family, it will depend on you in the future, what is wrong with Brother Wen, you should talk about it, you should persuade it, if Shuying and Xiuying are not good, you will beat and scold them." ”

Father Zhou also looked at Qi Jinzhi: "My own children know that although Brother Wen is good, his heart and eyes are enough, but he is too loyal, and he can't do many things, sometimes it is inevitable to call people fools, Shuying is soft, but unfortunately her ears are too soft, she believes what others say, she can't make up her mind, she asks someone to sell it and give the number of money, Xiuying is stronger, but she is too tendonal, what she wants is what she wants, and no one can persuade her." ”

A tear fell from the corner of Zhou's father as he spoke, his face turned yellow rapidly, and Zhou's mother looked at him, and her face became worse and worse.

Father Zhou smiled: "You go first, I feel relieved when I see you go." ”

Mother Zhou curled her lips and smiled slightly, closing her eyes.

Father Zhou grabbed Zhou's mother's hand, took a few quick breaths, and said stiffly: "I didn't worry, I didn't worry, when you entered the door, I also watched these days, and I finally put my mind at ease." ”

He opened his eyes violently and looked at Zhou Hongwen directly: "Listen to Qi's in the future, remember, remember......"

"Daddy." Zhou Hongwen shouted: "My son remembers, remembers." ”

Zhou Xiuying and Zhou Shuying nodded and cried at the same time, Zhou's father was relieved, and then he let go, closed his eyes and didn't open them again.

"Dad, mother......"

There was an earth-shattering cry from the Zhou family, Zhou Hongwen's sisters, brothers and sisters, and Qi Jinzhi all knelt on the ground and snorted, and Qi Jinzhi took an iron basin and burned some paper for the second elder.

But after a while, everyone close to them knew that the Zhou family had died, and many people who thought that the relationship was good came to help.

Zhou Hongwen went out of the house and thanked the neighbors, and asked the respected old people what to do about the funeral.

The Zhou Shuying sisters cried on their knees, almost helpless.

Qi Jinzhi has seen a lot in the end and knows the world, so he pulled up Xiuying and handed her a handkerchief to wipe her tears, and whispered: "You go and call Aunt Awang over, you can't leave her to make filial piety clothes and sew filial piety hats." ”

Zhou Xiuying didn't understand, Qi Jinzhi leaned over and lowered his voice again: "It's unlucky to do a funeral, when cutting filial piety cloth, you have to call a widow to cut the first piece." ”

Zhou Xiuying understood it, and immediately patted the soil on her body and went out to find someone.

Qi Jinzhi beckoned Zhou Hongwen again, telling him to quickly arrange the mourning hall, unloaded the door panel of the hall and prepared to put the corpse of the second elder, and went to the house to get the Mengdan, and dragged Zhou Shuying again, and asked her to quickly help tear off and clean up the red couplets and other things that were pasted at home and outside the house because of their marriage.

Subsequently. Qi Jinzhi went back to the house and replaced the red underwear and red embroidered shoes he was wearing with plain colors, and found the cotton and sorghum poles at home for later use.

As soon as she came out, Zhou Hongwen called her: "Jin Zhi, go find an offering table, and take some plates of snacks and fruits to offer." ”

Qi Jinzhi agreed, hurriedly found a small kang table and placed it under the porch, took four more plates, and placed four kinds of dim sum on it, each of which was four.

After setting it up, she looked at it again, and quickly found a clay pot and put it over to prepare to burn paper. Then he went to the house and took some cloth mats and laid them in the courtyard.

I've just finished it. I heard Zhou Shuying call her again: "Brother and sister, find a small black crockpot, by the way, you have to cook some millet." ”

Qi Jinzhi hurriedly agreed. When she got it done, she couldn't rest. I found Zhou Hongwen to discuss, and asked the people in the village to send filial piety to a relative's house to report the funeral.

This busy. It wasn't until dawn that all kinds of things were ready.

At that time, the Zhou family was already wearing linen and filial piety in front of the mourning hall.

Aunt Ngawang cut the filial piety cloth and came out to look at the time, and sighed: "It's time to cry." ”

As soon as she spoke. Jin Zhi and the others hurriedly cried, and several women who had a good relationship with Zhou's mother also cried.

Although this Chengxi Village is not close to Qijiazhuang, the person who reported the news is fast, and by dawn, the letter has reached Qi's family, and Qi's mother was shocked when she heard the news, and she was worried about Qi Jinzhi.

She and Qi's father couldn't go over, so they asked Yinzhu and Baozhu to go over to help.

Later, Qi Mu mentioned Qi Jing and Yun Yao again, only saying that they were far away, and they were afraid that they would not be able to catch up.

Qi's father said that no matter whether he was in time or not, he had to tell him, in the end, it was his sister's family, and he had to visit his brothers, brothers, and daughters-in-law.

The husband and wife were worried after discussing it, and in the end, Tongsuo hired a fast horse to run to report to Qi Jing.

Seeing that Qi Jing and Yun Yao had walked from Lotus Town to Fucheng for a few days, in fact, they were afraid that the hard work on the road would be slow, and besides, how fast the ox cart could be, this way would be delayed.

But Qi Copper Lock rode over much faster.

I don't know what kind of good luck Qi Tongsuo is, but he picked a thousand-mile horse and arrived in Fucheng in more than half a day.

It's still that something happened on the way and the time was missed, otherwise it would have been faster.

Qi Tongsuo walked halfway to meet a very brightly dressed boy, this boy brother was unlucky, chased and beaten by several people, Qi Tongsuo watched several young descendants besiege a person, a sense of justice in his heart, jumped off the horse and beat those people, seeing that the boy seemed to be a little stupid, Qi Tongsuo was afraid that he would have an accident again, and he took him for a while, until he ran into the family who came to find him.

Qi Tongsuo just piggybacked on his feet to help him in this matter, and he didn't take it to heart.

She hurriedly found Qi Jing and told her about the Zhou family, and Qi Jing was also very worried.

Qi Jing settled Qi Tong locked in the house to eat some food and rest, and Yun Yao came back, Qi Jing naturally pulled Yun Yao and said again.

Yun Yao didn't know what to say when she heard this, and finally could only say: "This flying disaster." ”

Qi Jing made a bitter face: "How many days has the eldest sister been married, and this kind of thing happened, I am afraid that the Zhou family will slander the eldest sister for being tough and restraining the two old men." ”

Qi Jing's worries are not unreasonable, and Yun Yao is quite worried when she hears it, but now she can't think about it.

After a while, the copper lock came out, rubbing his eyes and asking, "When are we leaving?" ”

Qi Jing thought for a moment: "Pack up and leave." ”

Yun Yao grabbed him: "Xianggong still don't go, let's settle down here, Xianggong only read for a few days and left, I'm afraid it's not easy to explain in the academy, besides, if you encounter some bad things, who knows if Xianggong can still study quietly in the future." ”

Now nothing is as big as Qi Jing's scientific expedition, Yun Yao thinks so, and Tongsuo also thinks so.

Seeing Qi Jing's hesitation, Yun Yao smiled and persuaded again: "I'll go back with the third sister, and just study with peace of mind." ”

Qi Jing thought about it for a while before saying: "That's okay, you and the third sister go to the eldest sister's house to have a look, you are clever and clever, and go to argue a few words for the eldest sister." ”

Yun Yao agreed, went back to the house to pack a few clothes, and took some broken silver out of the door, the copper lock took the burden in Yun Yao's hand, first helped her on the horse's back, and then he also turned over and got on the horse, and after sitting firmly, the copper lock wrapped around Yun Yao and led the reins of the horse, and rushed back with a wave of the horsewhip. (To be continued.) )