74. Sudden death of an old woman
When the old woman saw Qi Tian supporting her, she was so frightened that she shrank into a ball, and her whole body trembled even more!
"Don't ...... Don't come here! The mother-in-law said tremblingly.
Qi Tianyang had no choice but to retract his hand, looked at the mother-in-law with an innocent face, and gave me another look, and I hurriedly stepped forward to help her.
The mother-in-law kept panting, as if she was extremely frightened, and she didn't even dare to raise her eyes, for fear of meeting Qi Tianyang's face.
I'm a little puzzled, Qi Tianyang is tall and handsome, and now he is no longer afraid of the sun, and he no longer has to go out with a black umbrella, what is this old woman afraid of?
At this moment, an old man of sixty or seventy years old walked out of the house, saw the old woman lying on the ground, and hurriedly rushed over, "Mom, what's wrong with you?" β
The old woman was still panting, "He...... He...... Lotus ...... He's back! β
As she spoke, the old woman couldn't get up in one breath, and her old face became redder and redder, and gradually began to turn black, and finally the whole person was crooked in the old man's arms, and she lost her voice little by little.
I, Qi Tianyang, and Ji Sun stood on the side, looking at each other, and before they could react to what was going on, the old man suddenly burst into tears.
"Mom! Mother! Don't leave your family behind like this! β
She ...... He's dead? Qi Tianyang looked at the old mother and son in disbelief, and said to me in disbelief.
I was also completely stunned, but Ji Sun nodded definitely, "It seems that the old lady is out of breath." β
The three of us were all stunned, and my heart beat the drum and hammer, why are you so unlucky, even if you are not good for the teacher, as soon as you enter the village, you will bump into the funeral of a dead man!
"Youβdon't run! My mom is so dignified, why is it just gone? What did you guys do to her?! As if the old man had suddenly reacted, he put down the old woman in his arms, got up and pointed at a few of us, and roared.
Don't look at him is also sixty or seventy years old, he roared with full of energy, and his voice was not weaker than that of a young man, and after a while, the neighbors on the left and right were attracted by his noise, and when they saw the old woman lying on the ground and dead and warped, they all gathered around, "Uncle Pole, what's wrong with Grandma He?!" β
The old man, who was called Uncle Pole, burst into tears, "My wife was killed by these people!" Woo~~~"
Qi Tianyang flicked his hand away, raised his chin and said, "Don't talk nonsense, your old lady is reaching the end of her life, and Lord Yama has hooked her soul, what does it have to do with me?" You can break with me for a while, and when your wife is hard, she can't even change her shroud, and then the old man won't even have a decent dress on the road, I'll see how you explain to the old man. β
Uncle Pole came back to his senses suddenly, hurriedly turned around and picked up the old woman's body, and sent it to the house, while letting people go to get the shroud, he didn't forget to yell at the crowd outside, "Fellow villagers, show me these outsiders, I want to ask them for my mother's life." β
Those villagers really surrounded us, but after all, it was not their own old man who had an accident, and the villagers at most looked at us and refused to let us go, and there was no violent action.
From the chatter of the villagers, we learned that this old woman called Grandma He the oldest living old man in this village, who is 97 years old this year and has experienced the Republic of China, liberation, the Cultural Revolution and reform and opening up. She is an old widow, widowed for nearly 70 years, pulling her four sons alone, the first three sons have died two, and one was a former Kuomintang, who fled to Taiwan after liberation.
But she herself had prepared a coffin and a shroud for herself decades ago.
Because of this, Uncle Gongzi's son and daughter-in-law quickly found the shroud from the attic, took it down and let the old man change into it, until the old man was carried to the funeral bed, and the crowd finally stopped.
Uncle Pole walked up to us with his two aggressive sons and his daughter-in-law, who was pinching her waist and ready to scold the street, and said angrily, "My mother planted flowers at the door, why is it that she can't talk to you?!" She also ate a big bowl of noodles this morning, and her appetite is good! We're going to celebrate her 100th birthday in a few days! You give back my mother's life! β
Qi Tianyang sneered a few times, "You old man is not young, don't you have a long brain?" Do you know that your wife is ninety-nine? You know she died talking to us? We were scared, and a few of you haven't settled accounts with you, but you bite back? Let me tell you, your wife is a little dragon born in Xinweinian, her life has been ups and downs, and she has good luck in her later years, and she enjoys her family. No illness and no disaster, life is over, such a good ending, there are few old people in the world who have such blessings, what are you fooling about? The old man was unstable. β
Qi Tianyang said something, and Uncle Pole was stunned, and a young man in his thirties in the crowd stood up and said to Uncle Pole, "Uncle Pole, I have also calculated, this young man is right, Grandma He is considered to have died at the end of her life, and it has nothing to do with them, you should take the eldest baby and the second baby to hurry up and do a funeral for the old man, don't make trouble with these foreign babies." β
The man said, smiling at us, looking very Sven.
Qi Tianyang looked at him for a while, and the old man seemed to rely on him very much, "Ah Shi, are you telling the truth?" β
The young man named Ah Shi nodded, "Uncle Pole, I can't lie to you." β
Uncle Pole whimpered in a low voice, "I'm still going to celebrate my mother's 100th birthday!" Mother, why don't you wait a few days! β
Ah Shi smiled bitterly, "Uncle Pole, haven't you heard someone say that old saying?" The king of Hades told you to die on the third watch, and you must not leave anyone until the fifth watch, and Grandma He's life is numbered. β
Uncle Pole doesn't look like a messy person, probably because of the death of his mother, it was difficult to accept it for a while, so he would fight with us, and this son was persuaded by his own people, so he figured it out, and instead brought his two sons to apologize to us.
"I'm overly emotional, if there is anything offended, please forgive me, for the sake of my mother, don't worry about me, an old man." Qi Tianyang rolled his eyes, I knew that he probably wanted to mock the old man again, for fear that he would ruin other people's funerals, so he hurriedly grabbed him and said to the old man, "Uncle, it's okay, we are just passing by, and we have encountered such an unfortunate thing, please also mourn." β
Uncle Pole heard me say this, and there was nothing left, but invited us to have a flowing water banquet, saying that the old lady's funeral at this age is considered a happy event, and everyone who passes by must go to his house to eat a bite, indicating that the old lady was respected and popular during her lifetime.
I was originally troublesome, but thinking that we wanted to find the barren mound where Qi Tianyang was born, and we had to break into these villagers, I nodded and agreed.
Qi Tianyang and Ji Sun saw that I had accepted the invitation, so they had no choice but to sit aside and watch this lively and extraordinary joy and mourning.
Soon we figured out the identity of the young man named Ah Shi, it turned out that he was the feng shui master of this village, but such a young feng shui gentleman still surprised us.
When everyone was crying, the three of us quietly slipped out and walked to a mountain spring to breathe.
Ji Sun suddenly asked Qi Tianyang, "Tianyang, although the old woman is dying, what do the words she said before she die?" β
I also want to know what the old woman said and who came back, and what she meant," she seemed to call out a name, called Lian or something. β
Qi Tianyang frowned, "She seems to be very afraid of me, maybe she recognized the wrong person, maybe I look like some enemy of hers." β
Ji Sun said slowly, "Tianyang, Old Man Qi adopted you here, that is to say, you are very likely to be from here, have you ever thought about what the person the old woman said may have something to do with you?" And...... Since she recognized the wrong person, it means that you are very similar to the person in her mouth, and you are very likely to be related by blood. β
After listening to Ji Sun's words, Qi Tianyang and I were a little surprised, this person lives like a stuffy gourd with a sawed mouth on weekdays, and he looks a little dull, I didn't expect what he said to be the way and the rules are reasonable, it can be seen that his analytical ability is also extremely strong, and he is just wise and foolish on weekdays.
Qi Tianyang opened his mouth slightly, and then nodded, "What you said is good." This is also the reason why I want to stay, if I have parents, these villagers, there must be someone to know, I guess, the old woman probably knows. β
Ji Sun shook his head again, "No......"
Qi Tianyang looked at him suspiciously with me, "What's wrong?" β
"The timing is not right." Ji Sun also furrowed his thick eyebrows, "That old woman is almost a hundred years old, even if your parents are from this village, more than twenty years ago, this old lady was also an octogenarian, and if you want to come and have little intersection with young people like your parents, even if you want to ask, you have to ask a younger person." β
Once again, I was amazed that Ji Sun was not only analytical, but also meticulous and reminded us of everything we didn't expect.
Qi Tianyang suddenly smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "I didn't bring you in vain!" β