Chapter 113: Ninety-Nine
"Snow, who is he?" Auntie, they all looked at Lu An and asked.
I didn't know how to say it, so I didn't speak.
Lu An's expression was quite calm, and he explained to his aunt: "My name is Lu An, I am Mo Xue's classmate, and I am also her boyfriend. ”
Hearing Lu An say this, I was worried that my grandmother would think of me, and I wouldn't dare to look back at my grandmother's face.
Grandma's hand was still in my hand, and she moved to pull my mind back.
I turned my head to look at my grandmother in a panic, waiting for her criticism, but I saw my grandmother's face full of love, looking at me and smiling: "The snow in our family has grown up, and our eyes are good." ”
I burst into tears, grabbed my grandmother's hand tightly and asked, "Grandma, don't you blame me?" ”
"If you can have someone with you, grandma won't worry." Grandma is really different from the elders of other people's families, she can always see the beauty that others can't see.
"Snow ......," my grandmother called me, "although our family is poor, you are also the treasure on the tip of my heart, and I am reluctant to let you be wronged." In the future, I will be gone, no matter what happens, you must love yourself well and don't let yourself be wronged. Otherwise, grandma will be distressed. ”
"Grandma, grandma......" Grandma's words have a deep meaning, telling Lu An not to let me be wronged in the future, but I only heard the meaning that she will not be there in the future, thinking that grandma will not be there in the future, what should I do alone, I can't help crying.
However, Lu An heard the deep meaning of his grandmother's words, and assured his grandmother: "Grandma, don't worry, I will definitely be good to Mo Xue and not let her be wronged." ”
"Hmm." Grandma nodded to Lu An and slowly closed her eyes.
I looked down and cried, I didn't see the scene of my grandmother's eyes closed, but I felt my grandmother's hand hang down, and when I looked up, my grandmother's eyes were closed.
"Grandma!" I didn't believe that grandma left like this, so I got up and touched my grandmother's face and gently pushed her face: "Grandma, grandma, you wake up, you wake up." ”
The aunt quickly rushed over, opened Grandma's mouth, stuffed something in, and then turned to me and said, "Xue, your grandma has left, she walked very peacefully." ”
As he spoke, he took my hand away from my grandmother's face.
I bumped my aunt away, grabbed my aunt's hand again, and pleaded, "Auntie, shall we send grandma to the hospital now?" Grandma is still saved. She's fine in the morning, can't ...... all at once."
My aunt's eyes turned red at what I said, and she said to the second brother: "Qiangzi, you take your sister away, I want to give your grandmother a longevity dress." ”
The second brother came to pull me.
I ducked to the side.
Lu An even came to pull me.
"Lu An, what are you doing?" I cried and asked Lu An.
Lu An didn't speak.
I saw my aunt lift the quilt inside the bed, and under the quilt was a set of shrouds, and my aunt hugged my grandmother and put on my grandma's shrouds.
The second sister-in-law was on the side to help.
"Don't, don't! Don't dress my grandma like that! I yelled, trying to break free of Lu An and my second brother's hands, but they were all tight, and I couldn't do it at all.
Also, my aunt and second sister-in-law don't listen to me either.
I cried and knelt down, but I didn't kneel, and was hugged by Lu An.
"Auntie, I beg you, don't wear it for my grandma. My grandma must still be saved. ”
But my aunt ignored me, and cooperated with the second sister-in-law tacitly, and put the shroud on my grandmother.
After dressing, the aunt and the second sister-in-law put the grandmother flat together.
The aunt took a piece of yellow paper and put it on her grandmother's face.
When a person dies and cannot see the light of day, he must cover his face with yellow paper.
Seeing my grandmother lying there stiffly, motionless, her face covered with something, and I didn't know how to take it away, I had to accept the fact that my grandmother had left me, and tears couldn't stop falling.
However, I was unwilling to accept it.
"Auntie, why? Why don't you rescue it? I don't want the money, I don't want the house, let's send my grandma to the hospital, okay? ”
My aunt looked at me with red eyes and muttered, "Xue, your grandma has stomach cancer, and stomach cancer is in an advanced stage." ”
"What?!" I was dumbfounded.
I looked at my aunt in disbelief and shook my head: "Impossible, how could grandma get that kind of disease?" She just drank cold water, her stomach was upset, she was in good health, she ......"
Although I didn't want to believe that my grandmother had stomach cancer, it was a fact that my grandmother had several stomach pains and took medicine, and I was defeated by this fact.
"Your grandmother is in good health and optimistic, otherwise it would not have lasted so long. She was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer last spring, and I met her when she went to the hospital to buy painkillers, otherwise I wouldn't have known she was in the same city as me. ”
"Painkillers?" I remembered something, twisted it hard, and asked Lu An to let go of me.
Lu An seemed to know that I had something to do, so he picked me up and let go of his hand.
I rushed to the place where my grandmother put the medicine, took out a small medicine bottle, pointed to the words on the medicine bottle, and said, "I checked, this is medicine for stomach problems." ”
"This bottle is indeed a bottle of stomach medicine, but this bottle contains painkillers. Xue, your grandma is gone, don't be too sad, follow your aunt in the future. How your grandmother loved you and loved you before, how your aunt loved you and loved you, and your two brothers and sisters-in-law will not let you be wronged. ”
"My mind is very messy now, I don't want to talk about the future, I ......" I looked at my grandmother, but her face was covered with yellow paper, and I couldn't see it anymore, and I won't see it again.
Thinking of this, my heart ached, tears rained down, and I called for my grandmother to go over and uncover the yellow paper on my grandmother's face, wanting to see her again.
But before I could get there, I was stopped by my aunt.
The aunt said, "Xue, you can't touch your grandma." ”
"Why?" I asked unacceptably, it was my grandma, why can't I touch it.
The aunt didn't give a reason, but said, "You can't touch it." Your grandmother confessed, enter the ground as soon as possible. It's hot now, and we've already contacted the funeral home......"
When I heard the three words of the funeral home, I knew what the aunt was going to do next, they were going to send the grandmother to be cremated.
Send grandma to be cremated, and you will really never see grandma again.
"Go to the funeral home today? Can it be two more days late? "I want to stay with my grandmother for two more days.
My aunt touched my head and shook her head: "Xue, I know you're sad, we're all sad." ”
When I heard that, we were all very sad, and I suddenly remembered that my aunt was my grandmother's daughter, my own daughter, and I ...... Although I am not my granddaughter, I was raised by my grandmother, and I get along with my grandmother day and night, and my relationship is not lost.
"Auntie......" I looked at my aunt and wanted to cry again.
My aunt touched my eyes and wiped away my tears: "Don't cry, follow my aunt in the future." ”
"Mom, the car has arrived." The second brother didn't know when he went out, but now he came in and said.
After hearing this, my aunt wiped my tears and rubbed her eyes, and said, "Let them in." ”
The second brother went out to talk.
After a while, four people came over carrying an ice coffin.
The aunt, the second brother and the second sister-in-law went to carry the grandmother's body.
I saw that they could touch grandma, and I also ran over to help, and Lu An also came to help.
Together, we carefully sent Grandma into the ice coffin.
I grabbed my grandmother's cold and dry hand and refused to let go, tears welling up in my eyes.
When my aunt saw this, she hurriedly covered my eyes with her hands and lifted my face up, "You can't shed tears on your grandma." ”
At the same time, Lu Anlai separated my hands from my grandmother.
My hand was separated from my grandmother's.
I watched as they closed the ice coffin and carried it out.
I followed closely.
The sun outside is so big, so dazzling, so big that it feels like a dream.
Really, like a dream.
When I went to school in the morning, my grandmother told me to pay attention to safety on the road and drink more water on hot days......
I didn't dare to think about this, and with Lu An's support, I got into the hearse in a daze.
After arriving at the funeral home, my aunt didn't let me follow, and let me and Lu An stand outside.
I know my aunt is afraid of me, but I'm not afraid, it's my grandma.
I said I wasn't afraid and insisted on following, but my aunt still didn't agree.
Lu An also disagreed, and persuaded me: "Mo Xue, listen to my aunt." ”
I didn't speak, I acquiesced.
The aunt and the staff of the funeral home pushed the grandmother in.
Lu An and I stood at the door of the funeral home.
There was a tree at the door of the funeral home, and Lu An asked me to stand in the shade of the tree, I didn't want to, I just wanted to stand in the sun.
Lu An shielded me from the sun above my head with his hand, and looked at me from time to time, afraid that something would happen to me.
"Lu An, why do you say people die?" I asked Lu An.
Lu An shook his hand, "Mo Xue, don't think so much, I will always be by your side." ”
Auntie, they went in for a long time before they came out, and when they came out, they had an extra urn in their hands.
I stepped forward and carried the urn over, so light.
This is my grandmother.
My tears were dripping.
Afraid that it would not be good for my grandmother to drip on the urn, I quickly made a mistake and tears fell to the ground.
"Snow, let's go to the cemetery."
"Auntie, you said it's hot now, you have to hurry. Now my grandma ...... Can you ...... two days later? Even if it's for a day. "Grandma just left, and I don't want to send her away so soon.
"Okay, I'll send it tomorrow." The aunt agreed.
We went back with my grandmother's ashes.
The aunt prepared a posthumous photo for her grandmother.
In the posthumous photo, the grandmother is wearing a black dress similar to a tunic suit, with kind eyes, a kind face, and a slight smile.
But in my memory, I don't remember that my grandmother had such clothes, nor do I remember that my grandmother took such a photo, and I wondered if it was my grandmother who knew that she was about to leave and took a photo in advance.
The clothes were those of the photo studio.
Seeing me staring at my grandmother's photo, my aunt seemed to see what I was thinking, and explained: "This photo was taken at the request of your grandmother, and she is wearing clothes from her era." ”
Sure enough, as I thought, I asked, "When was it filmed?" ”
"You took it before the summer vacation, and your grandmother felt that she was about to leave, so let me take her to take pictures."
When I heard my aunt say this, my tears came out again.
I remembered that my aunt said that my grandmother died of stomach cancer, and I thought of many of the past, and I felt very guilty: "It's me who is sorry for grandma, it's me who has tired grandma, if it weren't for me, grandma wouldn't even be reluctant to buy a bottle of water, drink tap water, leave at the age of sixty or seventy, and don't enjoy the blessings." ”
I haven't repaid her yet.
When my aunt heard this, she was surprised: "Your grandma is ninety-nine." ”
"Huh?" I was also surprised when I heard my aunt say that my grandmother was ninety-nine, and looked at my aunt in shock: "Ninety-nine?" ”
"Well, your grandma is ninety-nine this year." The aunt nodded, "I'm sixty-four this year."
"You're sixty-four?" I was shocked again, looking at my aunt's appearance, I felt that she was in her forties, less than fifty, but I didn't expect her to be sixty-four.
"Well, I'm sixty-four. Your grandmother gave birth to me at the age of thirty-six, thirty-five years older than me, and this year is exactly ninety-nine. ”
Grandma is ninety-nine...... I am seventeen this year, which means that when my grandmother is eighty-three years old, she should be enjoying her old age, but she still has to support me.
How can my parents bear it?
They won't be like me, and they don't know how old Grandma is, right?
"Don't you know how old your grandmother is? Didn't you ask? "Auntie asked me.
I shook my head and nodded again: "I remember I asked when I was in the first grade of elementary school, and my grandmother told me that she was fifty-five years old. In the first grade of primary school, I was seven years old, and now I am seventeen and my grandmother is sixty-five. I always thought that my grandmother was sixty-five this year. ”
Mei Xue's grandmother is also in her sixties, and every time I see my grandmother and Mei Xue's grandmother standing together, my grandmother looks so old, I blame myself.
I didn't expect my grandma to be ninety-nine this year, and the self-blame in my heart has decreased a lot because of this age, but I have a doubt in my heart: Why did grandma lie to me about my age?
Is she afraid I'm worried?
I guess I'm afraid I'm worried.
If I knew my grandma's real age, how could I rest assured that she would go out to pick up garbage and cook for me at such an age.
"Maybe your grandma wants you to worry." Auntie is the same as I thought.
As he spoke, the takeaway ordered by the second brother came.
I don't want to eat.
Auntie, they all advised me to eat a little more, I ate a third of it and didn't eat, and the rest was solved by Lu An.
I remembered the rule I had heard before, saying that after a person dies, his descendants should keep a vigil for him, so I asked my aunt if we wanted to keep a vigil for my grandmother, and expressed that I wanted to keep a vigil for my grandmother.
The aunt also wanted to keep vigil for her grandmother, so she said yes.
The second brother and sister-in-law have to go to work tomorrow and stay until more than ten o'clock in the evening, and the aunt asked them to go back.
The night was getting deeper and quieter, and I thought about it a lot, and then I gradually accepted the fact that my grandmother left, and then I remembered to ask Lu An why he came.
But my aunt is here, I'm embarrassed to ask.
When my aunt went to the toilet, I asked Lu An: "Lu An, why are you here?" ”
Lu An said: "I was called the office by the teacher, and when I came out, I saw you being pulled away by your aunt, and I guessed what was wrong, so I followed." ”
"Oh, you're so bold that you came in." Thinking of Lu An's sudden appearance and telling my aunt that he was my boyfriend, my heart is still a little trembling now.
If my grandmother was angry with my early love and left with anger, I would blame myself.
Alas, I don't even dare to think of such a situation.
"I've also experienced the death of a loved one, and I know you're the most vulnerable and in need of comfort right now, so I didn't expect that many to come in."