Chapter 19: Goodbye, Zhou Xiaoyu. Goodbye, Zhou Yuyu.
Yuyu fell asleep directly on Jiang Zhiyuan's back, and when he got up the next morning, there were three more blue and purple circles on his back, which were the traces left by Grandma Zhou's cupping for her yesterday.
Everyone thought she was suffering from heat stroke, and she was poured into two bottles of Huoxiang Zhengqi Water in a daze, and the spicy and choking taste in her mouth in the morning had not yet dissipated.
The body has recovered, but this mental power fish is also going to be absolutely useless when it is not fatal in the future, and the feeling of overdraft is too uncomfortable! Almost didn't die again!
So she is now consciously training herself, turning off the switch in her brain tightly, and never looking at it anymore, what others do about her, she just wants to live her life comfortably, and no one worries about anything.
For breakfast, Grandma Zhou made mung bean cakes, loofah soup, stir-fried cucumber slices mixed with bitter gourd and horn melon, and the whole summer fire reduction recipe is a collection!
Yuyu can't eat a few bites of meat now, but she loves to look at it if she doesn't eat it, and the whole table of green and bitter dishes begins to bubble bitter in her mouth before she eats.
She especially drifted her eyes to Xu Meijuan's dinner table, they each had at least half a salted duck egg!
Grandma Zhou knocked on her head with chopsticks, "I have no conscience like your old Zhou family!" If you want to go back, get out of here! I've also saved food! β
I've only been eating at the same table with her for a few days, and I'm thinking about going back there! No conscience!
Yuyu covered her head and smiled, and ran to Xu Meijuan's table with a sigh, Grandma Zhou was so angry that her hand holding chopsticks was shaking!
Grandma Zhou, Xu Meijuan, Zhou Aihong, and Zhou Aihua watched her run to someone's table, fished out two salted duck eggs and ran back!
"Milk, eat!" Yuyu gave the salted duck egg to the old lady, and pulled out the egg yolk and smeared it on the mung bean cake, and missed the secret mayonnaise he made a little bit.
In the early morning of summer, it is not so hot, most of the people in the courtyard set up a small table at the door of their small kitchen to eat breakfast, and Aunt Liu, who has a good relationship with Grandma Zhou, teased Yuyu: "Osmanthus, your grandson is not in vain, there are good things to know to honor grandma first!" β
Grandma Zhou's maiden name is Zhang Guihua, and her neighbors and grandmothers have called her name for many years. She glanced at Yuyu with disgust, but the corners of her mouth were a little laughing: "I'm waiting for him to be filial?" I'm not bad if I'm not angry! β
This is indeed the first time that Yuyu has taken Xu Meijuan's things to honor Grandma Zhou for so many years, and the old lady has dug up the salted egg yolk several times before digging it out, and her heart is actually very uneasy.
Yuyu smiled and lowered her head to eat, ignoring the three people at Xu Meijuan's table.
These days, she eats with Grandma Zhou every day, locks the doors and windows as long as she goes out, and plugs the doors when she sleeps, not giving them a chance at all, and a few people really can't do anything about her.
In the final analysis, it is also because Xu Meijuan, the mother and daughter, are controlled by others and live on Grandma Zhou and Zhou Yuyu.
Xu Meijuan didn't have a formal job, so she went to the small factory in the street office to get some manual work and came back to do it, and she could get thirty or forty yuan a month after working hard, which was enough to be hungry, and she didn't even want to eat meat.
And she didn't work hard, she only earned ten yuan and eight yuan a month, and the rest was supported by Grandma Zhou.
The old lady has been so decided since they returned to Pengcheng, Xu Meijuan takes care of the children at home, and she gives her living expenses every month. She eats and lives with Grandma Zhou, of course she has to listen to Grandma Zhou.
Zhou Aihong is twenty-one this year, working as a salesperson in a shopping mall, this job was a position that everyone envied ten years ago, but now it is too ordinary, the salary is not much, and she is a lot angry, but she has not graduated from junior high school, and she can't find any better job.
Yuyu used her super gossip collection ability to know that Zhou Aihong's counter in their shopping mall was to be contracted to the employees, and those who had some ideas were trying to find a way, Zhou Aihong also wanted to contract a counter that sold curtain fabrics, but the contract fee was paid annually, three thousand five a year, she had no money, and she was trying to find a way these days.
She has just worked for two years, her salary is seventy-five yuan and five, plus two yuan for women's health expenses, she has seventy-seven yuan and five yuan, and she will give Xu Meijuan forty yuan per month for food, and the rest of the money is enough for her to buy shampoo, pearl cream, whitening powder and lipstick eyebrow pencil, at most she can go to a park and buy a popsicle, and even buy a new dress has to work hard to save money.
It is definitely impossible for her to take out 3,500 yuan to contract the counter, Xu Meijuan should have a little savings in her hand, after all, she has collected Zhou Yuyu's money over the years, but she definitely can't take it out to Zhou Aihong.
Therefore, Yuyu analyzed that Zhou Aihong still had to hit himself with the idea in the end. The signs have been obvious in the past few days, and she didn't come to find Yuyu's trouble again, and she kept peeking at her in private, probably looking for an opportunity to ask her for money, or to ask her to ask Grandma Zhou for money.
As for Zhou Aihua, Yuyu knew in his previous life that this cousin was a personal essence. Xu Meijuan's four daughters, the eldest and second married early, and did not have much to do with her mother's family, Zhou Aihong was uneducated, and later she worked for others after the mall was restructured, and she never left any impression on Zhou Xiaoyu in her life except for speaking mean and stupid.
And Zhou Aihua is the only daughter of the Zhou family who is doing well, she was not admitted to college after graduating from high school, and went to a secondary school to study nursing. At this time, college students and secondary school students were assigned jobs by the state, and she was assigned to a neighborhood clinic as a nurse, and later got along with a doctor at the clinic, who divorced and married her, and after a few years, the couple opened a private clinic on their own.
Zhou Xiaoyu didn't know about the rest of the matter, she was not interested in Xu Meijuan's family, Xu Meifeng relied on her to support her for the elderly, and her younger brothers and sisters also lived on her money, she had a strong personality, and no one who didn't like to listen to it dared to say it in front of her.
But needless to say, you can guess that Zhou Aihua is doing so well, Xu Meijuan and her second husband have been renting a small single room in the urban village with the divorced Zhou Aihong and their children, and she has never helped her parents' family at all.
But now Zhou Aihong is fledgling, she still has to rely on Yuyu, she will be in her third year of high school next semester, and she will have to count on Yuyu's salary for tuition and living expenses in the future.
Yuyu felt that the real Zhou Yuyu was like a baby elephant that had been domesticated since childhood, obviously it had grown up, and it was clear that the stake that tied her could be kicked off with one kick, but the fear buried deep in the early years trapped her, so that she could not break free until she died.
In Yuyu's opinion, Xu Meijuan and the three of them are not even opponents, at most they are three flies, buzzing and annoying, but not threatening at all, if they are more interesting, don't be annoying, she is just helping her cousin get justice, so that they can live a worse life than in their previous life.
If they dare to have other ideas, they will just swatt them down!
But now Yuyu is not in the mood to care about them, there is something more important to do today, Zhou Xiaoyu has been suspended for seven days, and he will be buried in the ground today.
The tombstone in the cemetery over there at the funeral home has been arranged, and Yuyu borrowed 500 yuan from Grandma Zhou, plus the more than 700 yuan that Zhou Xiaoyu saved herself, and prepared to hold a luxurious funeral for her.
Not only did she buy the best cemetery in feng shui, and made the most luxurious tombstone, but also chartered a small hall to hold a farewell ceremony, surrounded by flowers, and she was not allowed to put any plastic flowers and paper flowers provided by the funeral home.
Grandma Zhou thought she was extravagant and wasteful, and Yuyu told her: "In the future, I will also hold a funeral for you like this, which is more grand than Xiao Yu's, charter a hall, fill it with flowers, let everyone watch, and send you away in a beautiful way!" Buy another cemetery, carve a big tombstone, and bury you and your grandfather together. β
Grandma Zhou didn't say anything, and gave her another hundred yuan.
Zhou Xiaoyu's funeral was actually attended by few people, in addition to watching her children do housework and set up stalls to make money, she didn't even have the opportunity to make friends over the years, several good friends in her previous life were made after she went out independently, and now there are only a few family members and neighbors in the compound who send her away.
The family was busy arguing over the house again, and they didn't have much to worry about the funeral, so Yuyu took over and arranged everything by himself.
Xu Meifeng wanted to object, she was not dissatisfied with the funeral, she wanted to be angry for Yuyu for Xu Meijuan, but Yuyu asked her: "I arranged for me to pay, if you don't agree, listen to you, you pay?" β
Xu Meifeng was dumbfounded.
At half past eight in the morning, the car from the funeral home came, and Yuyu didn't care about others, and got into the car with Zhou Xiaoyu's urn in his hand.
It stands to reason that the matter of holding the urn should not be done by fish, Zhou Xiaoyu just has no children and a younger brother, but she has taken care of it since she was born, and the eldest sister is like a mother who does not bring any water at all.
But the two younger brothers, Ma Xiaogang and Ma Xiaorui, were taken to school early by the old lady of the Ma family early this morning, and they were not allowed to eat breakfast at home.
Zhou Xiaoyu also has a half-brother Sun Haicheng, who was born in wedlock to Xu Meifeng, and moved out after entering the factory to work last year.
Sun Haicheng has come to see Zhou Xiaoyu once since he died, brought a pile of the most common yellow table paper, and never showed up again. He didn't come today, and it was said that the factory had to work overtime to catch up with the production task.
Yuyu didn't feel anything about this, she didn't want her brothers and sisters to attend her funeral in her past and present lives, and it was more comfortable for them not to come to her.
The farewell ceremony was very simple, there were only a dozen people in attendance, and there were only eight wreaths outside the door of the small hall - Jiang Zhiyuan and Zhang Dapeng sent four of them.
The small box containing Zhou Xiaoyu's ashes quickly sank into the ground, and the tombstone was erected, and when Yuyu came back to his senses from the tombstone, everyone was clean, leaving only her, Jiang Zhiyuan, and Zhang Dapeng.
The tombstone is not a photo, but a portrait of Gongbi, paid for by Yuyu, and Jiang Zhiyuan asked the art teacher of their school to paint it.
Because when choosing the posthumous portrait, Yuyu found out that Zhou Xiaoyu had never taken photos since he was three years old.
After her father died, her grandmother was frail and had been living in a nursing home, and after she was three years old, Zhou Xiaoyu remarried with Xu Meifeng, and no one thought about taking a souvenir photo of her growing up.
The family portrait taken by the Ma family last year did not bring Zhou Xiaoyu because her surname is Zhou.
In the end, there was no choice but to ask someone to draw a portrait of Xiao Yu as a posthumous photo according to the appearance of Yuyu. Only those who are familiar with Xiao Yu after the portrait came out found that she looked really similar to Yuyu.
Both of them have inherited their grandmother's beauty from generation to generation, with white skin and phoenix eyes, a small and cute mouth and nose, and a particularly playful little chin.
Zhang Dapeng looked at the portrait painting on the tombstone and cried like a fool, "Brother, Xiao Yu doesn't even have a photo, I'm afraid I will forget Xiao Yu in the future." β
Yuyu didn't pay attention to him, it's good to forget, and it's bad if you don't forget it for a lifetime.
She took out a small wine jug and toasted to the tombstone, you and I toasted one by one, goodbye, Zhou Xiaoyu. Goodbye, Zhou Yuyu.
Jiang Zhiyuan squatted beside the tombstone and burned paper money for almost two hours, and he has not stopped since the funeral.
Zhang Dapeng was more exaggerated than him, he even ordered a bunch of papier-mΓ’chΓ© houses, household appliances and clothes, and the old man who watched the cemetery pushed two carts with a small cart before transporting them.
The two of them burned paper there as if they were competing, and Yuyu was choked so that his eyes were red, glad that he didn't let them know that he died in his previous life, and there was no cemetery for them to suffer, or they would not stop dying!
Zhang Dapeng was still there to discuss with Jiang Zhiyuan: "In the future, we will come together on Qingming and July 15, where did you buy this gold ingot?" It looks really. β
Jiang Zhiyuan: "I folded it myself, I'll teach you when I go back." Why are you burning a tricycle for Xiao Yu? She doesn't have to set up a stall to make money there. β
Zhang Dapeng: "Yes, don't burn this!" In the future, I will burn money for her to spend, and she won't have to go out of the stall again! β
Yuyu: I really regret the whole cemetery, who can stand it in the future!