At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, a group of five people arrived at the door of the funeral home. Tu Cheng and Hao Lili were surprised to find that the eldest lady Gao Chaomei was already waiting there with a basket of incense wax paper fire!

It takes a long time to get from home to Harbin City, Tu Cheng is thinking, how did this eldest lady get here?

Suddenly, he remembered the scene of the previous night, when his cousin Tao Gang borrowed his mobile phone for him.

It turned out that the eldest lady Gao Chaomei saw that Tao Gang and his son were so anxious that they knocked on the door to ask in the village! While asking the neighbors about the whereabouts of the father and son, at the same time, she was still complaining in her heart, why didn't she ask Tao Gang to take a note of her nephew and daughter-in-law before her nephew and daughter-in-law left in the morning?

Finally, after seven o'clock in the evening, the eldest mother finally got a call from Harbin City from Harbin City from the village chief's house with her son Tao Gang and her nephew Tu Cheng's mobile phone!

She had hoped that the phone call would surprise her. However, to her dismay, there was no surprise in this phone call, but it was a big bad news - the concubine passed away!

Gao Chaomei kept asking her son on the phone: Is it true?

When her son was young, she was always worried that his son would lie to her! Although she and her husband Tao Gang are both illiterate people, they have taught their son to be honest since he understood words.

And at that moment, how she wished that what came out of her son's mouth was just a lie that his son was joking!

Their son is still in his thirties, but he still hasn't started a family.

She and her husband have "urged their son to marry" more than once. However, the son, who had always been stubborn, vowed that if he did not help his father find his own brother, he would never marry a daughter-in-law for the rest of his life.

Hanging up her son's phone, Gao Chaomei borrowed 200 yuan from the village chief's house. After walking again, almost the neighbor's family borrowed a total of a few hundred dollars.

After thinking about it, the family has just sold wheat, and there are still a few hundred yuan left! All in all, Gao Chaomei finally went home with peace of mind.

When Gao Chaomei returned home, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening! While looking for a set of dark black clothes that she would wear tomorrow, she calculated in her mind what time she would have to go out at least before noon.

Before this, Gao Chaomei had only been to Harbin once, or seven or eight years ago, when his son Tao Gang, who was only in his twenties, went out with his wife for the first time to look for relatives.

When they met someone in the bustling street of Harbin City, they pointed to their husband Tao Qihong and asked if they had ever seen a man who looked exactly like him.

I have gotten countless times all passers-by are surprised and shake their heads blankly!

Finally, after two days of fruitless searching, Tao Gang, who only had primary school education, had no choice but to return to his hometown with the second elder!

At five o'clock in the morning, when it was still so dark that she couldn't see her fingers, Gao Chaomei had already appeared at the east end of the village leading to the town with a flashlight!

Although, she really wanted to catch the first shuttle to the county seat! However, at the time, she ignored the fact that two-legged people could catch up with even two-wheeled bicycles.

However, fortunately for her, when she walked for a while, she met a fellow who rode a motorcycle to the town to help deliver pork, and kindly gave her a ride.

Especially when she heard that Gao Chaomei was going to rush to the funeral home in the city so early in the morning to attend the memorial service of her concubine, she burst out with strong pity and sympathy.

After delivering the pork, he took her directly to the bus station in the town on a motorcycle.

Gao Chaomei is naturally not a person who likes to take advantage of others. She took out ten yuan from the purse wrapped in layers and gave it to the fellow who gave the pork as a thank you. But the young fellow refused to accept anything he said!

"Eldest sister, your car has started, let's go!" Until the shuttle bus to the county seat had been slowly started, Gao Chaomei finally got on the bus in a grateful mood for her fellow countrymen.

When she arrived at the county seat, Gao Chaomei directly asked the person wearing security clothes about the location of the ticket window! And bought a ticket for the latest train to Harbin City!

Although Gao Chaomei can't read, she is relatively lucky compared to the women in the village who get motion sickness as soon as she rides in the car! That is to ride in a car, no matter how far she sits, she will not get motion sickness.

It's just that not long after she got on the shuttle bus from the county seat to Harbin City, she felt hungry in her stomach.

When I touched my pocket, I realized that because I was in too much of a hurry before going out in the morning, I forgot to bring the steamed bun. I had no choice but to continue to endure the physical torture of hunger!

Eventually, the car came to a stop after more than half the journey.

The master turned his head and shouted to the people in the carriage: "Rest for ten minutes, there are people who go to the toilet and buy something to eat, hurry up." ”

To Gao Chaomei's surprise, she actually found that there were steamed buns sold here. So I got out of the car and spent one yuan to buy two big white flour steamed buns.

After translating the two steamed buns into the stomach, I finally felt less hungry. Move forward with the bumps of the car. Gao Chaomei leaned back in her chair and fell asleep.

When she got off the bus, Gao Chaomei instantly had a sense of strangeness and novelty when Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden.

This change is really amazing, completely different from a few years ago, Gao Chaomei sighed in her heart.

However, at this moment, the focus of her attention is not here, and the most important thing for her now is to find a bus to the funeral home as soon as possible.

I have to say that Gao Chaomei is an extremely careful person. But the wise man light green must be mistaken! Gao Chaomei actually sat in the opposite direction when she got on the bus for the first time!

Fortunately, she asked the bus master in time to correct it in time.

After going around and changing buses three times, Gao Chaomei finally got on the bus that passed through the funeral home. When he repeatedly confirmed his destination with the master, he was seriously despised by the bus master.

"I said that you eldest sister, why are you talking so much nonsense! This car was supposed to pass through the funeral home, should I still lie to you? "Although it has passed the National Day in October, the temperature in Harbin has turned colder. But the bus master's anger is still not small.

"Hey, big brother, I'm sorry! I can't read, and I've just gotten in the wrong car! Gao Chaomei whispered to the bus master to be careful.

The voice broadcast on the bus: "Coming to the funeral home, please get off the bus to the back door in advance and get ready to get off."

At that moment, Gao Chaomei's heart suddenly had a sense of relief and pleasure that she was about to be amnesty.

The moment the door opened, she immediately got out of the car!

However, to her surprise, she was the only passenger to get off the bus at this station, which was crowded with a large number of people.

In addition to faintly hearing the mourning music coming from the funeral parlor to mourn the deceased, Gao Chaomei also saw two puffs of green smoke coming out of the tall chimney.

In my hometown, when people die, they will directly get a box of black lacquer coffins and put them, and choose an auspicious day of the zodiac to carry them directly to the barren mountains and mountains to bury them. And here, all the dead will be reduced to ashes.

Gao Chaomei couldn't understand why she was still a big living person in three days, but now she has become yin and yang and is about to turn into a pile of ashes.

After asking the doorman about the specific time, calculating that there is still a lot of time before the cremation of the concubine, it is estimated that Tao Gang and they should not have arrived yet. So, Gao Chaomei chose to wait at the gate of the funeral home.

Sure enough, Gao Chaomei waited for a while, and then saw Tao Gang and his son and others getting off the bus.

At this moment, Gao Chaomei couldn't hold back anymore, tears burst out of her eyes!

"Auntie!" Hao Lili called softly, and handed over two pieces of white tissues to Gao Chaomei.

For a while, Tu Cheng suddenly remembered that when it was past seven o'clock last night, his cousin Tao Gang had borrowed a mobile phone from him.

Under the auspices of the funeral home staff, it can be regarded as a group of six people from this big family who participated in the memorial service of Tu Hua, the mother of Tu Cheng.

It seems that among the six people who participated in the memorial service, only the eldest lady Gao Chaomei cried the most sadly! Tu Cheng's father has been silent!

As Tu Cheng's mother was pushed in......

Everyone present knew that the man who was smiling in front of him three days ago was about to turn into a wisp of green smoke and disappear with the wind. After that, it is reduced to ashes.

"His brother, it's nothing! You have this! Tu Cheng's father, Tu Zilong, did not refuse the eight hundred yuan handed over by his sister-in-law. He only knew that this was a "rush ceremony" that was celebrated all over China.

It's just that he probably knows that the life of the eldest brother's family is not easy! Therefore, when he was helping the faltering eldest brother to walk, he took advantage of the eldest brother's inattention, and unknowingly stuffed the 800 yuan just now into the eldest brother's trouser pocket.

It was nearly five o'clock in the afternoon when the group walked out of the funeral home! There are still more than five hours left until the evening train. The uncle's family of three insisted on sending several members of the brother's family, including Tu's mother, on the train.

Considering that they can't go home that day anyway! So, Tu Cheng booked a standard suite room under the pretext that he needed to book an hourly room to take a break!

After that, he told Tao Gang the truth when he parted.

In fact, in that scene, everyone was immersed in sadness! All the farewells seemed silent.

However, in addition to being uneducated, Tao Gang's brain is very useful! He had already written down the mobile phone numbers of his cousin and brother-in-law! At the same time, he also copied the landline phone of the village chief's house to his cousin. Said that if there is anything, you can call that landline number.

When he learned that his cousin and cousin-in-law had not officially married, Tao Gang said humbly: "Brother, you must call when you have a good day, no matter how far away, my brother and I will definitely arrive!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Tao Gang suddenly felt that he should not have said such words full of disobedience on such a sad occasion when his aunt had just left. So, the expression on his face was a little embarrassed!

However, Tu Cheng smiled understandingly: "Definitely, big brother!" ”

The train travels far away. Tao Gang's family of three is still standing on the train platform and waving to the train!

Half a month later, the ashes of Tu Cheng's mother Tu Hua were buried in a leafy jungle in her hometown.

At this point, the wedding of Hao Lili and Tu Cheng had to be put on hold for the time being.