Chapter 23: Remember to Stop Breathing (3)
"Call an ambulance, I'll fix it up for your grandma."
The old king put his arms around the old lady's shoulders and thighs, and the princess hugged her and yelled at her son, who was already at a loss.
"I'll call, I'll call."
Lao Wang's son was relieved by Lao Wang's yelling, and in a panic, he took out his mobile phone and pressed the number four times in a row to successfully dial, and said his home address incoherently with the help of his father.
At this time, the iron gate of the yard was kicked open, and the man who appeared in Lao Liu's house stood at the door and said to himself: "Is it running so fast?"
"Little brother, help, my old lady has a broken head."
Lao Wang thought that the man was a neighbor who heard his voice and came to help, so he didn't think much about hugging the old lady in his arms and running out.
"Oh oh oh!"
The man was still thinking about the devil in his heart, but he couldn't see death without help, so he stretched out his hand to help carry the old lady with Lao Wang, and Lao Wang's son regretted it very much and followed closely behind the two.
If you don't quarrel, grandma won't get hurt.
The answer was that there was no answer, and in his distraught he forgot the black qi and evil wind that came out of his body.
Ten minutes later, the ambulance stopped at the intersection of Hutong and picked up the old lady, Lao Wang and Lao Wang's son and sent them to the hospital together.
The man turned and went back into the alley to look for the demon.
Three hours later, the lights in the emergency room went out, and the old lady was informed that the old lady had died due to intracranial hemorrhage caused by trauma.
At this time, Lao Wang's father and son were completely desperate, Lao Wang knelt at the door of the emergency room and held the old lady's hand and cried, while his son also knelt on the ground and slapped himself wildly, whipped his face and turned blue and purple, and muttered in his mouth without stopping.
Five hours later.
Lao Wang called the funeral home car, took the old lady's body home, and prepared the funeral for three days according to custom, by the way, because the old lady said before her death that she wanted to be buried and did not want to be cremated.
However, due to land reform, the country is now promoting cremation and does not allow burial.
The sudden death of his mother and this annoyance almost didn't come up in one breath and sent himself away.
But there was only such a pillar left in the family, and Lao Wang stiffened and began to handle the old lady's affairs.
Contact the funeral home to come with all kinds of equipment, the first thing to do is to load the old clothes and change the old lady's clothes.
He wore a white shirt and pants, then a black cotton shirt and cotton pants, and finally a black robe.
He also put on a black hat with a brim to cover the wound left by the stitches on the back of the old lady's head.
A pair of old blue Beijing cloth shoes stuck her foot in it, and then broke the old lady's mouth and stuffed a copper coin into it, and shut up and held it.
Finally, the old lady is covered with a black cloth that can cover her face, also known as a face towel.
Busy work from afternoon to six o'clock in the evening can be set up a funeral shed, because the death is too sudden, the coffin Lao Wang did not choose to buy a ready-made coffin, but in the funeral home ** a set of coffins.
I also helped buy a cemetery through the funeral home, and quietly told the person in charge of the funeral home cemetery that he wanted to be buried, and the person in charge told him that he could, but he couldn't bury in the cemetery, and he needed to find a wilderness to bury.
Lao Wang still agreed in the face of such conditions, he didn't take good care of his mother before he died, and let her be frank when he came.
"Son, son, come here."
Lao Wang looked distressed as his son knelt in front of the old lady's funeral bed all afternoon, motionless, and didn't drink half a mouthful of water.
"Dad...... I was wrong...... I was so wrong......"
The son's waist was tightened, his expression was weak, his eyes were filled with endless remorse, and he stumbled to say something that was difficult to forgive himself.
"Come here, your grandmother is dead now, and Dad knows it's wrong, and there will be only our father and son left in this world in the future, you have to live well, do you know? Let your grandmother in the spirit of heaven not worry about the two of us, I will give you twenty money, you go to the street to eat something, don't spoil your body. ”
Seeing that his son had no intention of getting up, Lao Wang had to walk up to him by himself, rub his son's head, and pretend to be not very sad to comfort his son.
"I ...... Not hungry...... Do you think grandma will get up and cook for me when she sees me like this...... Grandma loves me the most, she can't bear to watch me starve, grandma, get up! Your grandson is not eating again, you should tell your grandson quickly, and your grandson will definitely listen to it as soon as you say it...... I don't want money this time...... I want grandma...... Woowoo woo ......"
The son broke down emotionally, his head sank on the side of the bed, he held his grandmother's dry and cold hand and cried, and was on the verge of fainting.
"Don't cry, go eat, your grandma will be up after eating."
Lao Wang clenched the twenty yuan in his hand with his left hand, put his right hand on his son's shoulder, suppressed the idea of crying and choked and persuaded him.
"You...... Can't lie to me!"
"I don't lie to you! Let's go eat, your favorite spicy tang should still be open. ”
"Okay, I'll eat."
The son wanted to take the money from Lao Wang's hand, but he couldn't deduct it.
"Huh? Go, go, go. ”
Lao Wang looked at the old lady's corpse in a daze, and after a minute, his son agreed to eat, and let go of his hand to let his son take the money.
"Dad, pay attention to your body."
"Hey, I know."
The son took the money and walked out of the compound.
After the funeral shed was built, the father and son were left in the courtyard, because Lao Wang was very unfamiliar with human affairs, and the old lady had little contact with relatives of her generation, so there was no relatives and friends who came to mourn.
In addition to Lao Wang's construction site boss borrowing him 2,000 yuan, as long as the nearby neighbors throw some funeral money to Lao Wang, the family is not wealthy, and it is even more inexpensive in terms of medical expenses and funerals.
Lao Wang was powerless to kneel beside the funeral bed, covered his eyes and cried silently, and after crying enough, he babbled and said: "Mom, you said that you will suffer in this life, my father died early, and you put on my son who is so unconscious, and there are grandsons." I didn't let you enjoy a day of happiness before I died, I will burn you more money, I hope you don't save so much below, look at my father, and tell him that I miss him a lot, I shouldn't have been slapping my mouth with him at that time, and now I know that there will be rebellion when I think about it as a father, I will be good to Xiaoguang in the future, and educate him to be a useful person for the country...... You can go with peace of mind, don't worry about the two of us, the family is fine! ”
"It's not enough to be your son, I'm looking for you in the next life, and I will definitely try to make you live a good life for two days."
Lao Wang refused to cry and didn't dare to cry in front of his son for the sake of face, and there was no one in the courtyard at this time, so he found himself again, after all, he was also a son.
That old man doesn't want to be over half a hundred years old and can still call Mom in person.
"Lao Wang! Lao Wang!"
The door was pushed open and a man walked in.
Lao Wang hurriedly wiped away his tears, breathed steadily, and turned his head to see that the person who looked at it was Lao Liu, a neighbor nearby, the relationship between the two was a thief, and they were not less wandering outside together when they were young, so Lao Wang smiled bitterly and said: "Lao Liu, you are here."
"I heard that your mother is gone, come and have a look, and I want to tell you something."
Lao Liu walked over and took out a wad of crumpled red banknotes with a denomination of 100 from his trouser pocket, handed it to Lao Wang and said, "I know that something happened to your family, and I am looking for the money now, take it, just as my filial piety to my old mother."
"Lao Liu, you're going to see you outside."
Lao Wang can't accept this money, the two families are not wealthy, and whoever helps someone will have to be difficult for a while.
"Take it, when I borrow you, when the old lady is buried, you earn money and pay it back to me, you don't have to worry about some in my family."
Lao Liu and Lao Wang pushed for a while, forced the money into the pocket of Lao Wang's shirt, and knelt on the ground to kowtow to the old lady's corpse three times.
"Okay, if you squeak if you lack money, I'll pay you back immediately."
Lao Wang collected the money, and estimated that the thickness of the money could be 3,000.
"Where's your son?"
Lao Liu lit two cigarettes and handed one to Lao Wang, and found that Lao Wang's son was not in the courtyard.
"I went out to eat, and the child was hungry all day." Lao Wang squatted on the ground bitterly and smoked a cigarette and said.
Lao Liu squatted beside him and said: "I'll tell you something, don't worry, my daughter didn't go out with your son last night, and when she came back, she started to make trouble, it must be an evil spirit, when I wanted to go to see someone in the morning, I met a man, he would exorcise evil spirits, and run away to the ghost, my daughter is still in the hospital, if it weren't for my child's mother telling me, something happened to your family, I'm still in the hospital and can't come back, you look at your child, it's not good that your child also has dirty things with him, The man doesn't know where to go now, he can't find him, or he can show your son. ”