Chapter 37: The Funeral
I slipped into the courtyard in the name of Xiao Wang's friend, and although I couldn't do it in a big way, it was still necessary to simply set up a few tables.
After the 200 yuan gift, I was placed at the table of his former friend. Since most of the people sitting at this table were friends from Xiao Wang's village, it was a little awkward for me to be crowded in it alone. But fortunately, the people in the village are simple, and after a few cigarettes, they also chatted. Of course, the topic of this chat also revolves around Xiao Wang.
But this man, after a few glasses of wine, there is no door. I saw a buddy chewing a peanut in his mouth, but he suddenly threw the chopsticks and sighed heavily, "You said that this good person didn't have a good life, let's just say Xiao Wang, you have to have a brain and have the ability to have a brain, why did you marry such a thing." ”
I didn't pay much attention to this guy at first, I just thought he was drinking too much and talking nonsense. So a few people sitting next to him began to persuade him, saying, "Each has his own life...... No way. ”
"But what day is today, the day of his husband's funeral, shouldn't you, as his daughter-in-law, come to see him off?"
This guy said this sentence kind of woke me up, I have been looking around for half a day, looking at the people back and forth, I always feel that something is missing. When he mentioned this, I suddenly remembered, there are so many people in this courtyard, but I didn't see Xiao Wang's wife.
This shouldn't be, although I also heard that the two couples are not in harmony before, but today is the day of Xiao Wang's funeral after all, and you, as someone's daughter-in-law, should also come out to take care of it. Could it be that the two of them are already divorced? This shouldn't be, I've never heard Xiao Wang mention it.
So I asked, "Yes, why didn't the little Wang's daughter-in-law show up?" ”
I completely lit up the buddy with this sentence, only to see the guy slam the table and say, "Who the knows, I can't keep this cheap. What kind of son of a son of a girl are you messing around? ”
When he said this, the guy almost shouted at the top of his voice. This guy obviously drank too much, but it can be seen from these two sentences that his relationship with Xiao Wang is not ordinary. And just as everyone was comforting him, a slender little girl with tears and tears came over.
The little girl's appearance is somewhat similar to Xiao Wang, and she should be Xiao Wang's sister. She walked to our table with a serious face, and then gently tugged at the corner of the buddy's clothes, and said, "Second brother, my mother asked you to come over." ”
Hearing the little girl call out to him, he quickly got up and stumbled towards the shed. At this time, this guy really drank too much, and he stumbled a little when he walked, so I hurriedly stepped forward and helped him into the spiritual shed. But just as I helped him into the mourning shed, a long-lost chill suddenly hit my face.
I could see some ice cubes under the shroud, but these ice cubes alone were obviously not enough to bring the temperature down so low. I frowned slightly, but I saw the old woman sitting next to the coffin weakly.
"What's wrong with my aunt?"
The old woman looked up at me and said, "This ......"
"Auntie, he is my brother's friend in the city, no outsiders...... If there's something you need, just say it. ”
The old woman nodded, and opened her mouth with difficulty, apparently crying for too long and her throat was a little inflamed. Seeing this scene, the little girl on the side pointed to the open coffin on the side and said, "Just now the eight immortals wanted to seal the coffin, but ......"
The brother staggered a few steps, holding the coffin board and looking inside. I saw that Xiao Wang's body was lying quietly in the coffin, his hands had been seriously deformed, although he was wearing a shroud, I could still see the traces of broken arms.
His eyes were closed, and there were still some blood stains in the corners of his eyes that had not been scrubbed. I looked down at his body, only to see the toes of his left foot upturned. The toes were so cocked that the socks on his feet were almost torn.
And at his feet, all the time shoes lay quietly. When I saw this, I couldn't help but ask, "What is this foot...... Was this how it was before wearing a shroud? ”
The old woman sighed heavily, and said a little hoarsely, "It was fine when I dressed him at that time, but it was just when the coffin was sealed...... Alas...... My son's life is miserable. ”
As she spoke, the old woman sat there and wept bitterly. I was born with no way to see women cry, so I was a little at a loss at that time. At this moment, the "second brother" lying next to the coffin staggered and fell to the ground.
"Alas...... My brother's wish is unfulfilled again. ”
With that, he pointed to the little girl standing beside him and said, "Go...... Go call that mean woman. ”
The brother's eyes were red when he spoke, and the little girl reluctantly took out her mobile phone and dialed it. After a while, the little girl put down her mobile phone, shook her head gently, and said, "My sister-in-law doesn't answer the phone...... She ......"
"Damn, she doesn't even care if something so big happens to my brother, I have to find this slut if I say anything today."
After that, the buddy took my arm and said, "Brother, don't you have a car, you pull me and I'll go to that slut now." ”
To be honest, I was really reluctant to get involved in these things, but when things got to this point, I couldn't help it. So I drove the brother and rushed to Xiao Wang's rental house.
Along the way, the brother also told me a lot of stories about their childhood, and also told me some things about Xiao Wang's daughter-in-law. Xiao Wang's daughter-in-law was met when he was delivering takeaways, and the two of them hit it off at first sight, and it took less than half a year to get married from the time they met.
In the second year after the two got married, her daughter-in-law had a child. It was precisely because of this child that her daughter-in-law quit her job, so all the pressure on the whole family was concentrated on Xiao Wang's head.
At that time, Xiao Wang's mother suffered from heart disease, owed a lot of foreign debts for bypass surgery, Xiao Wang's sister also needed money to go to college, and the birth of the child, just relying on Xiao Wang's pitiful salary to deliver food was not enough to support the family. Just because of money, her daughter-in-law quarreled with him a lot, but even so, Xiao Wang made money from takeout without regrets.
When he said this, the guy actually cried. I couldn't help but sigh softly, no one is wrong in this matter, but no one can escape.
"My brother worked hard to make money to support his family, but who knew that the woman in the family who was watery Yanghua betrayed him."