When she walked to the door of the house, the first person who greeted her was her aunt Qin Xianglan, "Xiaoyue is back!" ”

Qin Yang walked straight towards the house as if he hadn't heard his aunt's greeting. Seeing that she didn't talk, her aunt whispered behind her, "Hey, this kid!" "My aunt didn't know that Qin Yue's throat at this moment seemed to be blocked by something, and her throat was so dry that she couldn't say a word, let alone communicate with people.

She walked straight to the hall, and when the scene before her eyes unfolded, the 18-year-old girl felt that the innocence had really collapsed before her eyes, and she lay on her father's coffin and wept bitterly!

The neighbor's aunt came over to help her, "Little ghost girl, don't cry to your father, if your tears fall on him, you won't be able to dream of him in the future!" ”

Many years later, Qin Yang still somewhat believed in the words of the neighbor's aunt. After all, since beating her father and leaving, she has never seen her father's face in her dreams.

But she comforted herself in her heart: "It can't be such a coincidence, right?" ”

Father Qin was buried at eight o'clock in the morning on the fourth day after passing away! Because the weather was so hot in the summer, the next day, there was a vague smell in the house! Especially on the third day. So, Jiang Cuilian pointed to the coffin and said, "Her father, I know that you miss home, I know that you miss Xiaoyang and Xiaoyue." Don't worry, I'll raise them all to adulthood. You can go with peace of mind and take care of the feelings of the big guy! ”

Her mother, Jiang Cuilian, would basically recite her father's coffin in the same way every few hours. Qin Yang said to his mother, "Mom, he can't hear you say this, Dad, and besides, this hot day must be unavoidable!" ”

The relatives on the side advised Qin Yang, "Let your mother talk to your father one last time!" After all, the two of them have been married for twenty years, and they still have two sisters. ”

Whether it was Qin Yang or Qin Yue, they couldn't believe that although they were so busy and tired that they hadn't been able to sleep well for many nights, their mother Jiang Cuilian, whose eyes were bloodshot, had never cried in front of their father's coffin, and shed a single tear.

Even at the moment when her husband Qin Jiashu died, her mother did not shed a single tear from beginning to end. She just kept holding her husband's hand.

And the last sentence that Qin Jiashu left to his wife before he passed away and could be heard completely clearly was "Her mother, the two daughters will be handed over to you, we are really going to separate this time, you promise me, don't shed tears, it's like the first time we broke up, this is the second and last time!" After saying this, her husband Qin Jiashu never woke up.

Mother Jiang Cuilian went to Qin's second uncle's house to report the death of her husband Qin Jiashu, and invited people from the village to help one by one! Locals call this type of notification "mourning". Originally, the funeral was supposed to be done by the eldest son of the deceased. And I have to go to the door of the villagers and neighbors to kneel and kowtow! But Qin Jiashu has no son, the eldest daughter is not at home, and the second son is still young. So, all the "funeral" and asking for help are

It was done by Jiang Cuilian alone. Of course, she didn't go to the door of her neighbors and villagers to kneel and kowtow, but she gave the same explanation in every house! ~Aichi Literature ¥... Free to read

Naturally, no one can compare this at this juncture, but Jiang Cuilian herself still feels that the most fundamental etiquette must not be missing. Although she is just a woman, she can't make people feel that they have forgotten the rules and defeated the customs.

It's just that Jiang Cuilian, a woman, makes the villagers feel a little puzzled that the two of them can be described as a model couple who can't wait to be connected by flesh and blood. When her husband died, his wife Jiang Cuilian didn't cry or howl, and she couldn't even see the slightest trace of crying on her face when she was mourning!

Most of the time, people still have a little sympathy for a woman who has lost her husband. Relatives and villagers persuaded her to mourn and change, but she comforted everyone that her father was completely relieved this time!

So later, some people gossiped behind her back that she had no filial son in front of the bed for a long time, no matter how loving the husband and wife were, the relationship would be worn away, just like that one! When she wasn't there, the villagers would always give her an example. And when she is present, the villagers always avoid talking about such topics.

At their father's funeral, Qin Yang and Qin Yue cried so much that they couldn't stand up. Although they accepted their father's illness, they still couldn't accept the fact that the sinister disease took their father's life!

My mother, who was already dark and thin because of her father's illness, was thinner after a toss from her father's funeral! Even, Qin Yang felt that her demeanor was obviously not good enough!

So, on the night when her father came back from the earth, Qin Yang said to her, "Mom, if you are sad and want to cry, cry out, it will be better!" ”

Mother Jiang Cuilian resolutely refused: "Before your father died, I promised him not to cry." You say, 'How can I break his last word?' ”

Jiang Cuilian kept her promise, and even when her life was the hardest, the creditor came to the door and took away the two hundred-pound fat pigs in the family to pay off the debt, and she didn't shed a single tear.

Qin Yang and Qin Yue learned all this from their neighbors many years later. It's Qin Yang himself, when he hears about it, whenever he thinks about it, he always cries silently alone!

How short is a person's life, the dead rest in peace, and the life of the living must go on. After dealing with the funeral of his father Qin Jiashu, Qin Yang decided to continue to go back to work. However, what she and her mother didn't expect was that Qin Yue, who was only going to take the high school entrance examination in ten days, said to Qin Yang in a tentative tone after a tasteless breakfast where the mother and son were all tasteless, "Sister, I won't take the high school entrance examination anymore, I want to go out to work with you!" ”

Qin Yang looked at Qin Yue in a daze for a few seconds, and only said, "Xiao Yue, don't be joking." But she never thought that her mother, Jiang Cuilian, who had been silent on the side, was like an exploding landmine, and she smashed the bowl on the ground, "Books must be read, if you dare to say that you don't read, your mother will be anxious with you." In fact, she can already be regarded as in a hurry.

However, only she herself knows when she makes this

When he smashed the bowl, he cautiously glanced at his eldest daughter Qin Yang, who was sitting on the side, with the corner of his eye.

Therefore, until many years later, Jiang Cuilian always felt that she couldn't stand Qin Yang. would always say to Qin Yang, "Girl, Mom is really sorry for you, if your father didn't leave at that time, or if our family was more comfortable, you would also be a college student now!" When she said these words, Jiang Cuilian would cry every time.

For Qin Yang, it is not without regret that he could not continue to go to school, but there is no grievance. Because she knows that it is not easy for her family, and she is the eldest herself, she should give up her dream and take on part of the family's heavy responsibilities.

Qin Yue was stunned by her mother's action, she trembled her lips and tried to explain, "Mom, I didn't mean that, I just want to make more money with my sister and reduce the burden on the family!" ”

Qin Yang, who thought that hearing his sister's explanation, would still break out into a thunderous rage, never dreamed that his mother, who was illiterate in big characters, would become poor and lose her temper at this moment. She didn't speak, but just turned her gaze for help to Qin Yang's body.

Qin Yang understood his mother's meaning, and said to his sister, "Xiaoyue, other factories don't recruit child labor, you are only 14 years old, people don't want it, study hard!" ”

This trick really worked, Qin Yue really didn't mention going to work with her sister anymore. After another half a day, I obediently went to school.

In the school, Qin Yue's homeroom teacher was dying. As soon as Qin Yue arrived in class, she threw Qin Yue a bunch of test papers, saying that she had taken a leave of absence for the past two days, and the test papers issued by the teachers of various subjects. Qin Yue raised her head and glanced at the mountain of textbooks and various test papers in front of her. I thought that if I had done it all, I would have already finished the high school entrance examination.

Looking at Qin Yue, who was stunned, the head teacher didn't want to say anything more, so she had to pray silently in her heart that this child's grades would not fall too badly because of her father's death.

In fact, the reason why the head teacher gave Qin Yue the test paper was for only one purpose, just to urgently hope that she could catch up with the homework and review that had fallen behind as soon as possible. As for Qin Yue herself, although she was only about to take the high school entrance examination in 10 days, she didn't think too much about the courses she had left behind. There are only four words that spring up in my heart: "let it be".

After Qin Yang and his mother returned the neighbor's chairs, benches, pots and pans that his father borrowed for the funeral, he returned to Guancheng to continue working. It's just that what she doesn't understand very much is that when she asks her mother how much foreign debt her family owes, her mother will always tell her vaguely that it is not very much. can be as smart as Qin Yang, she knows that although her mother is unwilling to tell her the truth verbally, the foreign debts owed due to her father's illness must be many, many.

The reason why Jiang Cuilian has never dared to tell her daughter the amount of debt owed by her family is because she feels that her husband's illness has deprived her eldest daughter, who has excellent academic performance, has lost the opportunity to go to school, and she feels very guilty! If this ass of debt from the family is piled on her head again, it will be even more undeserved.

Just when the two daughters were divided into two ways, one went to the factory

After going to work and going to school alone, she was left alone at home.

It wasn't that she wasn't afraid, after all, from now on, she had only one identity in the eyes of her neighbors, and that was a poor widow who had lost her husband.

At first, she couldn't sleep all night, and when she couldn't sleep, she always turned on the lights and went to her husband's room, only to find that there was nothing but the board bed, which had been lying for more than a year since her husband had fallen ill.

Later, she simply spread the futon directly onto the bed. I moved the place where I slept to the bed where my husband used to lie when he was sick.

Lying on this bed, she always had the feeling that her husband was still lying beside her. So, for countless nights, she couldn't help but reach out and touch her side, only to find that it was already empty!

Whenever this happens, she will always withdraw her hand in frustration, and think for a long time, "Her father, come back to see when you come back, don't let me not sleep, otherwise I will have no strength to go to work on the construction site tomorrow!" ”

In fact, on the third night of Qin Yang and Qin Yue's departure, Jiang Cuilian took out the small bookkeeping book at home and calculated how much money the family owed.

Although she has never been to school, she has been able to write the name of the family crookedly through her husband's illness and medical treatment for more than a year. For those Arabic numerals and addition and subtraction or something. She's a little quicker than a lot of people. This is due to the fact that before her husband fell ill, she would always get up early in the morning and walk to the town to sell the endless vegetables they grew at home.

In total, the total foreign debt owed by the family is 109,716 yuan. Some of this money is from the town's familiar outpatient clinics. There are also temporary barefoot doctors who are invited to the house to give her husband injections and so on, each of which I remember clearly, the least is more than ten yuan, and the largest amount of money is more than 40,000 yuan, she clearly remembers that this money is when the doctor announced to her that her husband's illness is terminal cancer and surgery is not necessary, she still carries the 40,000 yuan borrowed from her sister and takes her husband to all the well-known hospitals in the provincial capital.

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