Chapter 12 Human Warmth
Seeing the master and apprentice coming over, the driver Chen Gang hurriedly ran down the steps and whispered: "Hurry up, it's that family again, it was supposed to be cremated, but it started to make trouble again early in the morning." See if it works. I'll get out of the car first. With that, Chen Gang turned around and left.
Lu Bingyi shook his head and looked at Sanbao: "You don't know yet, that family is really difficult, not with us, but with their own family, it's all three times, one will say cremation and one will say no." The day before, I called to say that the body could be cremated, and last night it had begun to thaw and dehydrate. I was worried about trouble, and that made me right. ”
"Why? Hello to the dead! Sambo asked puzzled.
"I'll tell you later, let's see what's going on first, let's go" Master Lu and San Bao hurriedly walked to the front hall.
In the hall, several people were arguing, and Director Wu had lost his temper, sitting on the stool next to him, looking at the family coldly. Cremated Liu stood beside him, holding his arms, and waited for them to end the dispute without saying a word, it seemed that he had bothered to speak a lot just now, and he would have lost the heart to persuade him.
"I'm the child's aunt, I have the final say about the family's affairs, and my sister can't burn it." A tall, sturdy woman with a fleshy face shouted at the man across from her eyebrows.
"What if you are her aunt, I am still the child's father, our family's affairs are not your turn, there is such a big thing in the family, have you asked, this person has had an accident for so many days, you just came to see and howled and left, do you have a sister in your eyes, let me tell you, I have endured you for a day or two, what are you crazy. Didn't you just want to ask our family for the demolition subsidy? I'm telling you, no way. This man seemed to be the husband of the deceased, although he was thin and white, but when he quarreled, the green tendons on his neck almost exploded, and his face was flushed, and he stared at the tall woman opposite, and did not show weakness.
"Come with me! It's okay to burn, then return the demolition money that my sister owes me, just forget it, forget it. The stout woman seemed intent on ending the endless fight, and she finally spoke her terms.
"One hundred thousand, right!" Curator Wu, who was sitting on a stool by the wall, muttered in a low voice, it seemed that he was already familiar with the scene in front of him.
"One hundred thousand, right!" The man said these words unhurriedly, his eyes staring viciously at his opponent.
"Yes, take the money!" The woman held out her hand.
"When did my daughter-in-law promise to give you 100,000 yuan, the demolition subsidy is written in the name of my family, what does it have to do with you! Even if there is an agreement between you, what does that prove? The man saw two people coming across from him, and he suddenly felt full of confidence.
"Fart! Don't forget, when your family built the yard, the vegetable plot occupied was given to the two of us by my father, she divided two points and I divided two points, and the wall of your house took up one more point for me, and if it was to be demolished, that point was worth 100,000! The woman saw that there were many people, and her momentum was quite arrogant, and her voice immediately rose eighteen degrees, and she pouted when she heard the cremation Liu Zhi, who was closest to it.
"Dad, auntie, let's not do this, Mom is gone, don't let her chill. So many people watched, shame isn't it? At this time, the thin girl in a light gray sweater next to her said weakly that the girl would not be more than 20 years old, and maybe not even 18 years old. Her fair face is very similar to his father, and her thin figure has also inherited this father, but it can be seen that her spirit has become very depressed, and her eyes are deposited with sad melanin, and there seem to be tears that have not been erased.
"Adults talk, what do you interject." The child's father looked at him coldly, and he was just about to continue his rhetoric and fight with the child's aunt, but he was separated by Lu Bingyi, who came forward.
"Here, just now, you give a judge...... I" The man thought that a savior had come and grabbed Master Lu's arm.
"I won't listen to anyone!" Master Lu's voice revealed unmistakable majesty. "This is a funeral home, please respect the deceased. I don't care if you have any unresolved disputes, but there are no more people, and the storage of the remains has exceeded the prescribed time limit. You have agreed to be cremated today, which is equivalent to agreeing to the deceased's last wishes, she has a spirit in the sky, and she definitely doesn't want to see her family fall out over money. Do you want her to die? I hope she will hate you for the rest of her life! Which of you has thought about her!? Master Lu suppressed the anger in his heart, he restrained his outbursts of emotion, lowered his voice, and stared at the two people in front of him tightly.
"I dreamed of my mother yesterday......" The girl slowly raised her head, tears flashing in her eyes. Really, I know you don't believe it, but my mom told me that she was so tired, so tired, and wanted to get some rest. The girl looked into her father's eyes, and the man seemed to be touched by something in his daughter's eyes, and he didn't dare to look directly into his daughter's eyes, he lowered his eyelids slightly, waiting for something.
"College, I'm not going to school." After the girl said this firmly, she took out a bank card from the small black satchel on her shoulder and handed it to the puzzled aunt. "This card was the first and last money my mother left me. The demolition money was used to pay off the debts, and there was nothing left...... There is not much money in this card, just 50,000 yuan, which she earned by getting up early and selling vegetables at night. The password is six zeros. Take it, I don't want my mom to suffer anymore. ”
The girl's aunt hesitated, but symbolically raised her hand slightly and put it down, and the girl saw that she was still hesitating, so she couldn't help but stuff the card into her hand.
"That's it! Let my mom go! The girl seemed to have put all her energy into this last effort, and her body shook, making people feel that she was almost about to fall to the ground, and Master Lu hurriedly gently supported the girl's weak shoulders.
"Don't let your child be wronged!" Master Lu helped the girl to sit on a chair by the wall. And Director Wu, who was sitting there before, disappeared without a trace.
Master Lu got up and solemnly looked at the deceased's husband again, the man was silent, he stared at his daughter who was sitting on the chair thinking about his thoughts, and seemed to be still thinking about the bank card with 50,000 yuan that his daughter took out. On the other hand, the girl's aunt didn't say a word, she froze in place, the card was tightly squeezed in her hand, and the woman's eyes had a certain victorious posture, and there was some indescribable relaxation. What the two of them were really thinking at this time, no one knows, but I'm afraid it won't have anything to do with the deceased.
"Please wait in the hall for a while, Master Liu is responsible for handling the cremation procedures for the deceased for you and carrying out the cremation procedures.
And I will do my job well, please let her go with peace of mind......" Master Lu finally instructed.
"Are you ......?" The husband of the deceased suddenly thought of this question and asked.
"I'm a makeup artist."
Master Lu bowed slightly to the two of them, and turned to leave with Sanbao.
The deceased's husband and her sister did not say anything more, they just silently watched the master and apprentice go away, they did not quarrel anymore, they just stood face to face for a long time, and then they each looked in their own direction, thinking about their own thoughts, while the deceased's daughter, the thin and determined girl, closed her eyes, did not make a sound, let the tears overflow her eyes, gently, clinging to her warm cheeks, and slid down to her ischemic and chapped lips, which may be her unspoken love for her mother but frozen for a long time.