Grandma eventually passed away before she survived that winter, and Shen Xia remembered that even the weather was very sunny and cloudless on the day she died. Grandma died in the middle of the night, Dad said that Grandma did not close her eyes when she died, and the old gentleman who was invited to preside over the funeral said that she was not blind to death, and she had to be able to close her eyes if she was not finished, Uncle was very confident, he said that the most painful of so many sons before Grandma was alive was him, and he went to close his eyes to Grandma and finally did not close them, and then it was Daddy's turn to help Grandma close her eyes, and Grandma's eyes were closed. Shen Xia was young at the time, and he didn't understand these superstitions, but he just thought to himself, grandma must have felt that there was not enough torture for their family, so she didn't die! That night, they all knelt in front of their grandmother's bed and kept their filial piety all night, and according to custom, the old man in the family died and the children and grandchildren had to kneel in front of the body until the old man was buried. The third brother was worried that Shen Xia couldn't stand it anymore, so he secretly stuffed a few balls of cotton into her knees, and the third brother told her that there was no need to tire herself for a dead person. And Shen Xia also knelt next to the third brother, and fell asleep next to him halfway through kneeling.

As soon as it was dawn, she was awakened by the crying, and Shen Xia found that she could sleep so soundly while kneeling. Shen Xia glanced around and it turned out to be those grandmothers' relatives and friends who had come to give her a funeral, no wonder there were so many crying. Other people's grandmothers died and the sky was gray, only when her grandmother died, the sky was a large piece of sunshine, she looked up at the sunlight spilled in outside the door and silently thought, grandma, look, even God feels happy when you pass away. Although Shen Xia's head, waist, and hands were tied with white cloth belts, she still felt in a very good mood, and she almost danced happily.

A bunch of people came, and they wanted to carry the grandmother's body to the coffin in the mourning hall, and the relatives and friends of the grandmother helped them to kneel on the ground and guard their filial piety, so that they could mourn and pass by. Shen Xia stood up, she didn't have anything to do, but the third brother knelt all night, some couldn't stand up, she slowly helped the third brother to follow behind, and when she went to the mourning hall, the whole family began to kneel beside the coffin and cry, and then the sound of firecrackers and eight sounds began to sound, intertwined with their cries. The uncle's family was even more exaggerated, lying directly on the coffin lid and crying:

"Mom, why did you go? You haven't had time to enjoy your happiness yet! ”

"Mom, it's all sons who are not filial, and I can't let you enjoy Qingfu!"

"Grandma, why are you willing to leave us behind!"...

Shen Xia looked at them coldly, what a disgusting family, why didn't they say these words when grandma was still alive? Grandma has been sick for so long, have they ever delivered a meal? It's not her honest mom who serves her grandma. I guess it's because so many people came to the funeral that they cried to others like this, so that others would think that they were filial sons. The eldest sister also rushed back, she just knelt on the side and sobbed, Shen Xia hadn't seen the eldest sister for a long time, and wanted to go up and talk to the eldest sister, but she knew that she couldn't do it now. She glanced at the people around her, and the third uncle and aunt who she hadn't seen for a long time also appeared, the third uncle and three aunts had been teaching in the county seat, and they knew the news of her grandmother's death last night, and rushed back early this morning. And they are relatively good to Shen Xia's family, but Shen Xia has no feelings for them, after all, they don't see each other all year round, they only come back occasionally, and Shen Xia will only say hello to them and say hello when he sees them, that's all. The little sister of the third uncle's family also let her grandmother take her for a year or two, but she was still young and didn't let her appear here.

She glanced at the people kneeling on the ground, and didn't know whether they were really crying or fake crying, anyway, she just made a appearance and knelt next to the third brother, the third brother didn't cry, she didn't squeeze out a tear, she didn't applaud when her grandmother died, it was good, and she expected her to cry. She knelt all night, even with cotton, she still felt a little pain, if it wasn't for her mother pressing her down and making her kneel by the coffin, she didn't even want to kneel, and went back to sleep directly. She saw her little sister Shen Ying playing on the side, ignoring everyone, the little sister was brought up by her grandmother, speaking of which, she should have a deep relationship with her grandmother, but she was only five years old and didn't understand anything, and she didn't seem to know that her grandmother had died, and she was still having a good time, and the uncle slapped her when he saw it, and she immediately cried. Shen Xia and the third brother almost laughed out loud when they watched from the sidelines, and the uncle actually gave her a slap in the face in order to let the little sister cry for her grandmother.

The old gentleman who presided over the funeral in the mourning hall asked them to kowtow and sprinkled willow water on them, and asked them to take turns to incense for their grandmother for a long time, and finally closed the coffin lid for the grandmother to go out of the funeral, according to the old gentleman's instructions, the uncle is the eldest son, he held the grandmother's tombstone and walked in front of the coffin, their father is the grandmother's second son followed behind the uncle, and behind the father was the third uncle, and then followed all the family members, all the people had to walk with the coffin, and threw a firecracker every seven steps, A pillar of incense was strung with a piece of yellow paper, and she heard the old gentleman say that this was to clear the way for her grandmother, so that she could walk more smoothly on the Huangquan Road. Along the way, the sound of firecrackers continued, the sound of eight sounds continued, and there was crying and shouting, those passers-by hurriedly made way for their team, and praised her grandmother for giving birth to a filial son, which can be regarded as having a spirit in the sky. The third brother took Shen Xia by the hand and silently followed at the back, sneering as he listened to others' discussions.

"Fourth sister, grandma is dead, are you sad?" The third brother asked her in a whisper.

"I'm not sad at all, my grandmother hasn't treated me well, why should I feel sorry for her?" Shen Xia didn't know why the third brother asked her like this, she looked up at the third brother and said frankly, she can fool anyone, but she won't lie to the third brother.

"Well, the third brother won't either, it's best that their family is dead!" The third brother's eyes became terrifying, he stared at the people in front of him fiercely, and Shen Xia followed his gaze and knew who he was talking about.

"Third brother, we're going to get better, right?" Shen Xia is already in elementary school, her grades are surprisingly good, she often takes the first place in the class, she has been happy for her third brother for a long time, and she kisses and hugs, even happier than he himself took the first place in the exam. The third brother said, fourth sister, you are really angry for the third brother, I want to tell everyone that my fourth sister is a very good reader. Shen Xia also nodded happily, she thought that half of all her efforts were for the third brother.

It's just that she is very unfamiliar with her classmates, not even a friend, although she is only a ten-year-old child, but there is no innocence, other children love to play and make trouble, there are a lot of toys, and she herself has almost no toys, occasionally in physical education class, she just runs by herself, plays with horizontal bars, and more often she hides by herself to read or write. Her eyes were very cold, no matter who she looked at, she looked cold, and once a classmate's object fell at her feet, and the classmate looked at her when she picked it up, and she was scared to cry. Gradually, all her classmates stayed away from her, and the head teacher also talked to her, but she ignored her. In the end, the head teacher found her mother, and her mother said that the child had been like this since he was a child, and they couldn't help it, so Shen Xia lived her own school life like this.

"Don't worry, fourth sister, we'll be fine!" The third brother firmly told the fourth sister that he believed that one day, their family would be fine, and he believed that no one would be poor for a lifetime. The funeral procession was still advancing, no one noticed what his brother and sister said, Shen Xia looked at his grandmother's coffin without any expression. A group of people walked to the hillside far away from home, Shen Xia watched them put down the grandmother's coffin in the pit dug before, and then covered the soil and buried it, and the uncle and they had to circle around the coffin a few times and kneel a few times, and finally the old gentleman asked everyone to take off the white cloth belt on their waist and put it on the side of the coffin, saying that they would burn it when the first seven were over, and the white cloth belt on their hands should let it fall off naturally, which is a respect for the deceased. Shen Xia and the third brother heard that it was a respect for the deceased, and they wanted to solve it on the spot, but they stopped because their mother was staring at them with her eyes next to them.

The funeral was finally held in the afternoon, and the people who participated in the funeral stayed in the ancestral hall to eat together, and the third brother pulled Shen Xia to hide in his parents' room and eavesdropped, it turned out to be the eldest uncle and aunt, the third uncle and the third aunt and his parents were discussing the cost of the funeral, the uncle said that this time he paid the most expenses, and the land in the name of the grandmother should be owned by them, and the third uncle and three aunts did not speak, but the parents felt that the eldest uncle and aunt had moved out, why should they fight for land with them? It's nothing more than wanting to rent to others so that you can collect land rent. After discussing for a long time, the uncle agreed to give the land to his parents, but he had to pay them five loads of grain a year. At that time, Shen Xia didn't know the concept of this quantity, but the third brother gritted his teeth, this family is really a tiger that eats people and does not spit out bones, and five quintals of grain are enough for their family to eat for a year.