Chapter 22: The Orphan Girl
With a piece of linen draped over her body, Huiya knelt in the West Room in a daze, holding the paper money used for the memorial tightly in her hand, looking at Mama Zheng, who had been changed into clean clothes, lying quietly on the door panel covered with a sheet.
After Mama swallowed her breath, Huiya didn't cry anymore, she only gave Mrs. Dong five taels of silver in a daze, and then watched Mrs. Dong neatly talk about Mama's funeral.
The shroud temporarily borrowed from the old woman in the village, the incense, candle and paper money that she asked someone to buy back in a hurry to go to the town, and the pig's trotters and roast chicken used in the memorial service were all purchased with the five taels of silver that Huiya gave when Mama had just passed away. How many of them were really used on the shroud incense candles Huiya didn't know, and she didn't have the heart to know, because her whole mind was already messed up.
Mama went...... Mama went...... The grandmother who is not sick or has no disaster is so lost after a fall, why is this? Was this really fate? If it's fate, then what is it for me to come back and live again!
Unconsciously, it was already the early morning of the next day, and the people in the mountains had no rules for stopping their spirits, and it was the summer when people couldn't let go, and Mrs. Dong also disliked Mama Zheng for being unlucky in the West House, so she discussed Huiya in a whisper that she was going to mourn Mama Zheng.
"Mourning?" Huiya's expression was stunned, and her big black and white eyes were full of fear, "No, you can't carry Mama away...... Mama ...... "Hui Ya said this, but did not say any more.
People die for the greatest, and enter the earth for peace, these words Huiya knows, Rao is reluctant to give up Mama in her heart, Huiya knows very well in her heart, this peace after death still has to be given to Mama.
"It's okay to mourn, Mama has been serving me for so long, it's time for her to rest, prepare a good pair of longevity materials for her, and bury her." Huiya sighed faintly, and said, thinking that she would do her best to give Mama a good ride.
At this time in her previous life, she was an orphan girl, and she was crushed by the huge blow of Mama's death, and she was in a mess all day long, and Mama Zheng's posthumous affairs were very bleak, not to mention longevity, not even a shroud, and she was buried in the mountains after a roll of broken mats.
"Well buried, well buried...... Do you want to live a machine?! When Mrs. Dong heard Huiya say that she could be buried, she was very happy, and when she reacted to Huiya's request for longevity, her voice suddenly rose, and even her eyebrows and eyes stood up, as if she would get angry if she was not satisfied.
She pinched the five taels of silver given by Huiya in her hand, although it cost one or two when she bought the shroud and incense candles, the rest was hot in her hand, if she bought the longevity materials, she had to remove another tael, where could it be like this, wasn't it like picking her heart.
"What? Mama has worked hard and made great achievements, isn't it worth buying a set of longevity materials for a good burial? Huiya's black and white apricot eyes widened, looking at the lady Dong in front of her. Hui Ya is like a mirror in her heart, Mrs. Dong is very greedy for money, and her five taels of silver fell into her hands, and it is even more difficult to take it out, but Rao is so, Hui Ya still wants to do her best to let Mama Zheng go a little more beautifully.
"A set of similar longevity materials, three taels of silver is enough, I will give you four taels of silver, you invite a few more people, choose a good place, and send grandma up the mountain lively." Huiya took out the purse that Mama Zheng handed over to her, poured out the remaining silver in it, and saw that there were still seven or eight taels, so she took one of the big ones and handed it to Mrs. Dong.
Huiya has now lost Mama Zheng, an orphan girl, where can she clash head-on with Mrs. Dong's family, seeing that the silver on the face of her can't be saved, it is better to use this silver to exchange for Mama Zheng's posthumous affairs to be Zhang Luo.
"Good, good...... I promise to pick a good pair of longevity materials for Mama Zheng, and send her up the mountain in a lively and lively manner, which is closer than my mother and son! Mrs. Dong's face smiled, and she happily took the silver in Huiya's hand, pinched it in her hand and turned it upside down, this piece of silver of four taels, plus the silver given by Huiya before, Shu'er's dowry is complete.
Mrs. Dong happily took the silver out, and when she turned around, she couldn't help but look greedily at the pair of gold bracelets on Huiya's wrists, thinking that now that Mama Zheng is gone, she has to find a way to take out the gold and silver in Huiya's hand.
That night, Huiya kept a night for Mama Zheng, and when the sky was white, the funeral person found by Mrs. Dong had arrived. Huiya hadn't slept for two days and two nights, and when she stood up tremblingly, she only felt dizzy, and before she could move, she fainted with black eyes and fell to the ground.
"Oh, poor man, Miss Huiya, this is too grief!" Mrs. Dong was so happy in her heart that she was busy helping Huiya onto the kang, and in the eyes of everyone, she directly took off the bracelet on Huiya's hand, so she hurriedly took people up the mountain, ready to wait for Huiya to come back from the mountain, if Huiya hadn't woken up yet, she would have searched Huiya's clothes and the gold and silver jewelry on her body.
In her previous life, she did exactly that, and soon after Mama Zheng died, she took all her clothes, jewelry, and silver while Huiya was sleeping, and only threw her a set of shabby clothes. made Huiya suddenly change from a young lady from a large family with thousands of pets to a farmhouse-like existence.
Because of the funeral going up the mountain, the whole Dong family went out, leaving only Huiya lying in the house, and Mrs. Dong secretly took her purse from Huiya's waist when everyone didn't notice it.
Huiya fell asleep after fainting, in her dream, Mama Zheng was not dead, she happily took herself to the capital to pick up her father, and then entered Beijing in a beautiful way, returned to the Zhao family's mansion, and lived happily.
"Giggle...... Mama made me a sugar cake to eat......" In the dream, Huiya sat on the swing with a smile, and Mama Zheng made delicious sugar cakes for herself.
"Mama can't make sugar cakes for the little lady, the little lady has already gone, does the little miss remember?" Mama Zheng's face in the dream was not clear, but Huiya knew very well that it was her Mama Zheng.
"How so?" Huiya's eyes widened suddenly, and suddenly she lost her balance and fell off the swing, screaming in horror.
"Live well, go back to the capital......" Mama's voice kept echoing in Hui Ya's ears, getting louder and louder.
"Mama!" Huiya sat up suddenly, and found that she was still in the Dong family, without her father or mother, only the smell of incense and candles, and her face was full of sweat.
"Mama ......" Huiya touched the hairpin left by Mama in her sleeve, only to feel that her liver and intestines were broken, and now that Mama is gone, she is only an orphan girl.