Time flew fast to February 1986.

The Qi family is happily preparing for the New Year's goods, Qi Health's bicycle back seat clip, the handlebar hanging, are the post and telecommunications bureau things, he put the bicycle at the door of the house, carried a bag of frozen swallow fish on the handlebar, a pig back pick, and walked to the door.

The door of the Qin family also opened, and Qin Meiru, who was only wearing a small cotton jacket, rushed over, picked up a box of frozen persimmons sandwiched on the back seat, and slammed open the door of the Qi family faster than Qi Health Care, resisted the door with her body, let go of a gap, and courteously signaled Qi Health Care to go to the door.

Qi Jian stood up with a frown, and said coldly: "Thank you, I'll just move it slowly by myself." ”

"Come forward!" Qin Meiru didn't mind Qi Health's cold face at all, and shouted loudly: "Aunt Lu, where are these things!" ”

Lu Xiuzhi opened the second door and came out, and when she saw this posture, she hurriedly held on to the door and pointed to the warehouse door, "Put it in the warehouse!" Oh health care, how can your unit divide this old many, send some to your grandfather on Sunday, and you can use it for Chinese New Year's Eve! ”

"Okay." Qi Jianzhi put down his things and went to push the bicycle, Qin Meiru followed him again, and helped him hold the door with a spring bow again, at a glance, Qin Meiru standing at the door was young and fit, curvy, and beautiful to the eyes, which made Lu Xiuzhi so troublesome.

"Boss, go inside and wash your hands! It's time to eat! ”

"Then Aunt Lu, I'll leave!" Qin Meiru stretched the front of her padded jacket and said with a smile.

"Ah, let's go, why don't you eat something here!" Lu Xiuzhi said extremely hypocritically.

"No, Aunt Lu! My family is also well cooked! Qin Meiru smiled like a flower, quickly glanced at Qi Health Care and left.

"Don't you feel uncomfortable, don't you feel awkward?" As soon as Lu Xiuzhi entered the second door, she said with a disgusted face.

"Just ignore her." Qi said while making soap.

"Alas, silly boy! You're still young and don't understand! Lu Xiuzhi sighed.

February 8 was Chinese New Year's Eve, and when he went to work until noon as usual, Qi Baokang took his younger siblings to freshen up, put on the couplet Fu characters, and hung up lanterns.

Lu Xiuzhi came home from work, the whole family took a bite to eat, and quickly changed their clothes, Qi Jianxing, Qi Baokang, and Qi Baoping rode bicycles to Taiping Village first, leaving Qi Baoan and Shen Mengxi to wait for their parents to come back and rub Xiao Zhang's jeep with the county party committee.

Lu Xiuzhi forcibly tied a big pink bow on the top of Shen Mengxi's head again.

"How can I listen, it looks like someone is crying outside?" Lu Xiuzhi said suddenly.

"What nonsense? During the Chinese New Year, if you seal the doors and windows, your ears are good, and you can hear people crying! Qi Youheng pressed a large piece of coal in the furnace and closed the lid of the furnace one by one. He went out to the barn again and looked around, and locked the barn door. The northwest wind howled, and he also looked at the south in confusion, there were really people howling for the New Year!

He opened the door, Han Jianfu also came out, and the two walked towards the Qin family.

The Qin family's two doors were wide open, Diao Fengqin sat on the threshold, patting her thighs, and her cry shook the sky, "My mother! You're gone! Oh, my mother, how can you let us live! ”

It turned out that just now, Old Lady Qin passed away.

——Someone in the family died in the Chinese New Year's Eve, and in the following years, they all thought about stopping.

Li Qiaofeng came to Qi's house and bit Lu Xiuzhi's ear, "The surname Diao, who usually abuses his in-laws, is now dead, crying and singing, like a dead mother!" ”

Lu Xiuzhi was reluctant to say more, "It's not easy for anyone to have this thing on the New Year!" ”

"Cut, I see, that old lady is not good at stubble, don't look at her wilting in the past few years, let Diao Fengqin be able to be subdued, and when she was young, she didn't give Diao Fengqin any less anger!"

Neighbors live, Lu Xiuzhi has heard Diao Fengqin's ancestors scolding her in-laws for eight generations, although she feels excessive, but it is not good to ask other people's family affairs, so she just doesn't know. But in recent years, I heard that Diao Fengqin doesn't give her in-laws food, and often gives her one meal a day, but Qin Lianzhong didn't even ask.

has been a neighbor for many years, but Lu Xiuzhi has never entered the Qin family's house, and she can't imagine how such a small house can accommodate eleven people, but I heard Qin Meiru say that her younger brother and younger brother live in the kang qin.

"If you don't let me have a good time, I can't spare you! This old lady! Just catch up with the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the diaphragm will be your whole life! This old lady is really steely! Li Qiaofeng gave a thumbs up, "In the future, if my daughter-in-law dares to do this, I will treat her like this!" ”

"Bah, Bah, it's the New Year, what are you talking nonsense! You are so powerful, the guest clothes that Lao Han asked you to make, and the family of men are honestly listening to your command, what do you still want! Lu Xiuzhi slapped the table three times and said.

Li Qiaofeng smiled and slapped the table three times, "The five men in your family don't all listen to you!" Let me tell you, don't you know, my uncle's sisters are in their hometown, but they don't have the happiness of our Northeast women, no job, no status, all the work outside the family has to be done, and the old and the young have to serve, that's it, the mother-in-law still points her nose and scolds every day, and men sometimes get started. They all envy me! ”

"Do we have to go over and take a look, alas, this year has passed, not only the old Qin family, but also the neighbors!" Lu Xiuzhi stood up.

"Let's go, go early! I'll have to go to the old woman's house, too! Li Qiaofeng also stood up.

Lu Xiuzhi turned her head and pointed at Qi Baoan and Shen Mengxi, and said solemnly: "You two! Stay in the house honestly, and no one is allowed to go out! ”

Lu Xiuzhi and Li Qiaofeng entered Qin's house, only to see a few neighbors building a spiritual shed in the yard, and no one who saw Old Man Qin, only heard the cry of the girls in the house.

Five-year-old Qin Meili cried so much that she crossed the river and stumbled out, "Mom, Mom!" I'm scared, I'm afraid to be in the house! ”

It turned out that the old lady Qin had not yet been buried, and stopped on the kang, and when Lu Xiuzhi and the two asked, they learned that the old lady did not even have old clothes, and there was no coffin at home. From the open second door, I saw Qin Lianzhong kneeling in the house, kowtowing to his mother who had already choked his breath on the kang, Diao Fengqin sat on the ground and cried, not caring about anything, several older girls had never experienced white things, and their eyes were black and at a loss.

The Qin family, which is a mess, can see that the two of them are at this age, and it stands to reason that these things should be prepared a few years in advance.

At this time, if people are stiff, they will not be able to wear their clothes.

Fortunately, Xiao Zhang came to pick up the family at this time, and when he saw this scene, he enthusiastically pulled Qin Meiru out, and went to the only shroud shop in the county to buy a shroud and came back.

This is the first time Lu Xiuzhi has entered the Qin family's house, the room where the old lady Qin lives is smaller than the back room of the Qi family, it is the old couple with three granddaughters who live, and the position of the kang is separated by a curtain, which should be the place of the old man Qin.

The house was in a mess, Lu Xiuzhi didn't want to see more, and after a bit of work, the Qi and Han families saluted, went to the spirit shed to burn a few pieces of paper, and left the Qin family after fulfilling their affection.

As soon as I went out, I saw Qi security guards standing on the roof of the door bucket of the house, looking up, and saw my parents slipping down the ladder.

The husband and wife deliberately went around the crowded place on the street, slapped again, and only when they came back were they willing to get into Xiao Zhang's jeep and head towards Taiping Village.