In the second year after the death of the second master, his only son Guitang was admitted to the national university in the provincial capital, and Guitang's uncle worked as a teacher at this university. After entering the state, you will rarely go home except for other expenses such as living expenses, tuition and miscellaneous fees, and rarely go home at other times.

His mother passed away shortly after the beginning of the second year of his national education. Guitang took his daughter-in-law and his uncle back to complete the funeral, and Guitang and his wife went back to school with his uncle. It is said that the eldest lord gave him a lot of silver taels, and he never came back again. The eldest man took Mantang to the school to look for him, and his classmates said that he went to Nanjing with his uncle, and there was no news of him.

Since the Ren family's mansion has a four-corner fort and a courtyard team, Ren Xiaopu has also become the most prosperous village in Shili and Eight Villages, full of large and small sets, and a prosperous scene.

Ren's shop is adjacent to the west side of Ren's mansion, the area of the shop is not large, two blue brick houses, the courtyard is indeed very large, almost half of the length of the village. There are daily necessities for the people of the village, and they are available in the store.

The backyard of the shop is a sake brewery and an oil mill, and the sake brewery and the oil mill are connected to the yard, and there is a large sake brewery and oil cellar under the courtyard. Vegetables planted on both sides occupy two-thirds of the yard; The remaining one-third of the courtyard is paved with green bricks in the center. There are four square hollow stone piers at the four corners of the blue brick floor, and the stone pier jar is filled with clear water; In the middle is a large blue and white porcelain round jar, which is still filled with clean water, and there are two long-term workers responsible for managing them all year round.

I remember one time, Mantang came back from the school in the county town with his luggage on his back, in the school he took a few rural students and a few students from official eunuch families to fight, the teacher favored the students of the official eunuch, and only asked the rural students to write an examination, and the full hall was not convinced, and went home in a fit of anger, and stopped reading. The eldest master also recognized that he was not a talent for showmanship, so he let him follow him and learn to be a housekeeper.

Mantang can be called a good businessman, and in a year, the compound of the store has been changed into a foothold for large and small sets. With a large set in three days and a small set in two days, Ren Xiaopu has become a well-known farmer's trade area. Itinerant small merchants especially like to come here, and there are any family guards in bandits and thieves who dare not do evil, especially safe. People are also willing to come here to shop, and the booth fees charged by various mobile merchants every year are quite considerable.

The eldest man smiled, and he spent more and more time in the casino opened by Deng Laoba every day.

On a big market in the summer of one year, there are a lot of people who come, there is an old customer who collects mountain goods, several kinds of mushrooms collected in the morning, and they are almost sold out before noon, and the grandmother heard that today's mushrooms are particularly fresh, so she asked Zhang Xizi to buy some back, and wanted to make a meal of chicken and mushroom dumplings.

When Zhang Xizi came to the mushroom stall, the merchant was packing and leaving.

Zhang Xizi said: "Why do you want to close the stall? Our grandmother is trying to buy some dumplings to eat. ”

The mushroom merchant said with a smile: "Business is very good today, and all the mushrooms have been bought." Let's wait for the next episode to eat."

When Zhang Xizi heard this, he was a little disappointed and said, "You can look for it again, and see where it has fallen."

Zhang Xizi's words reminded the mushroom merchant, and he said: "Hey, what a coincidence, when my old customer sent me mushrooms today, he specially gave me a little yellow mushroom, and I was going to take it back to stew chicken and wine." Since the big grandmother wants to eat it, you can take it. ”

Zhang Xizi was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "This is not good, it is beautiful to take people."

"Hey, look at what you said, give it to grandma, shouldn't I have it?" As he spoke, he handed the small handful of yellow mushrooms to Zhang Xizi.

Xizi happily took it and thanked her repeatedly: "Then I will thank you for being here for her old man."

The amount of mushrooms is too little, the kitchen is according to the grandmother's instructions, the small chicken and mushrooms are wrapped into small dumplings, only sent to the grandmother's room, the eldest lord went to Chen's house at noon to eat the banquet, the eldest grandmother let everyone eat together, the daughters-in-law shirked and said to keep it for the eldest grandfather, no one moved chopsticks to eat, the third grandmother did not eat mushrooms, but also did not move, the fresh mushrooms with the chicken tasted particularly delicious, the grandmother had a stomach just a few days ago, today is particularly appetizing, and he actually ate half a plate of dumplings.

Ren Fushi saw that his mother-in-law had a big appetite, and said happily: "My mother is willing to eat, and I will buy some yellow mushrooms in the big gathering the day after tomorrow, and make dumplings for my mother." ”

The grandmother smiled and said, "Buy more, let's eat together, this mushroom is very delicious, it's the first time I've eaten it so delicious." ”

After lunch, everyone ate some freshly picked watermelons, the grandmother felt a little sleepy, and the daughters-in-law also left the table and went back to the house, according to the lunch break.

The eldest grandmother felt uncomfortable soon after lying down, accompanied by nausea and vomiting, and her abdomen began to ache.

Ren Fu learned that his mother-in-law vomited badly, so he hurriedly came to his mother-in-law with small steps, and when he saw his mother-in-law's uncomfortable appearance, he said to Xiaocui: "Go to the wine shop and call the second young master." Then he said to the people in his mother-in-law's house, "Quick, make some sugar water."

With a sweaty face, the hall hurriedly ran over, briefly asked about the situation, and shouted outside: "Monkey Liu, go to the town's Chinese medicine hall to invite Mr. Sun."

After a while, the eldest grandmother actually shouted the name of the dead second master: "Defu, his second uncle, come in and sit, what a long way has you walked, and you are covered with dirt." Her second aunt, you also come in. ”

Mantang, Qingtang and Steward Liu panicked when they heard this, and the third grandmother asked Mantang to quickly send someone to find Wong Tai Sin in the village. Ren Fu's and other daughters-in-law and daughters' families were also panicked, they didn't know what to do, they were in a hurry, and a few girls were so frightened that they sobbed. Let them go back to the house and don't make a mess here. Qingtang's daughter-in-law took a group of people to the backyard.

The people in the family ran up and down for a while, at a loss, Er Kui took the eldest man back from the Chen family banquet, and Dexiang also rushed over from the wine shop.

Three hours later, Monkey Six invited Mr. Sun over. Doctor Sun entered the house to greet the eldest master, put down the medicine box and hurried to see the eldest grandmother. The eldest grandmother is no longer dancing like before, I saw that she was covered with sweat, tears in her eyes, and saliva was flowing down vigorously.

Seeing this, Mr. Sun asked urgently. "What's for lunch?"

"Chicken and mushroom dumplings, the eldest man didn't eat them at home at noon, so the eldest grandmother ate them by herself." Someone rushed to answer.

I saw Mr. Sun take out a silver needle and insert it into the vomit of the grandmother, pull out the silver needle and say, "Poisonous mushrooms."

Mr. Sun is not tall, and he speaks like gold. He opened the eyelids of the eldest grandmother, touched the pulse again, shook his head at the eldest master, and said coldly: "Prepare for the future." ”

Everyone in the room was stunned as if they were stupid, and the whole hall came to their senses and pulled Mr. Sun to cry and beg: "Sir, sir, please save my mother." Save my mother. ”

Almost at the same time, everyone in the room shouted, "Sir, please help...... ”

The eldest lord also pleaded and nodded to Mr. Sun. Mr. Sun reluctantly took out the licorice juice and said, "It's time for the patient to drink." He took out a silver needle and put it on the grandmother's head, and pricked more than a dozen needles on her hands and feet.

Mr. Sun shook his head and silently pulled out the needles one by one, and finally made a voice: "Get ready." ”

My grandmother was born in a large family in Changchun City, a scholarly family, the delicate three-inch golden lotus walks steadily and gracefully, the glass earrings never swing left and right, even if they look back at the old age, it is just like a light yarn whisking willows, smiling at the beginning of the run. The most rare thing is that she is soft and kind-hearted, fragrant and clean, and shows foolishness. Without leaving home, she took care of the relatives of more than 30 people and the backyard of more than 50 long-term workers in an orderly manner, and there was never a little mistake, which was really not easy.

Grandma's life is to be enlightened, never take anything seriously, and go with the flow. A sentence on her lips: "Gold and silver treasures, there is no joy, nothing to worry about, you can't bring it in life, you can't take it away in death." It is good to live according to your own heart, and there is no suffering. ”

It is said that the last words she said when she left were, "Amitabha, I'm going back." Everyone was puzzled, only Ren Fu nodded to her and said, "Mother, you are good." "When I write now, I feel like two enlightened people are in conversation.

The eldest lord is grieving, the cousins are grieving, the people in the family are all grieving, that is, the villagers in the whole village are in tears, those who have seen her, and those who have not seen her are like this. The funeral was very large, and the whole village came to see them off, and many people from Shili and Eight Villages also came, and the county magistrate also sent people to see off the grandmother. Grandma's life is ordinary and enviable, and I am even more so.

After this incident, the people in the shop didn't dare to eat mushrooms for a long time. Many years later, everyone still has lingering palpitations when they talk about mushrooms.