Xu Qian completed the procedures for collecting Xie Huifang's bones, took them to the crematorium for cremation the next day, and then took the ashes to a nearby temple to practice.

There were a lot of procedures that should be followed, and it was not until the third day that I set off to Xu Qian's grandmother's hometown.

It was a small village on the edge of Beicheng, more than a thousand kilometers from Yunzhou.

The group set out on the morning of the eleventh day of the new year and did not arrive at the nearest town until 6 p.m.

The town is so small that it doesn't even have a guest house.

Jiang Yan got out of the car and inquired, and if he wanted to stay, he could only go to the county seat, which was fifteen kilometers away from here.

The group stayed in the county overnight and rushed to Xiejiazhuang early the next morning.

Almost all the people in this entire village are surnamed Xie, but Xu Qian's grandfather died early due to illness, and his branch is gone to Xie Huifang. In the past, people were relatively single-minded, and most widows did not advocate remarriage, so her grandmother guarded Xie Huifang's daughter all her life.

When the two cars entered the village, they attracted the attention of many villagers, and Jiang Yan's car was in the front, and when it stopped, Xu Ang got out of the car and asked them about Xie Huifang's mother's grave.

"Xie Huifang? Our village's? ”

The middle-aged man who spoke looked like he was in his early forties, wearing a green military coat and a locomotive hat on his head, and his style looked more elaborate than ordinary villagers.

But when Xu Ang asked about Xie Huifang, he was at a loss.

"Her mother used to be a five-guarantee household in the village, and there was only one daughter in the family, and her father left early."

"Five-guarantee households?" The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, "Isn't it the grandmother you asked?" ”

He said the local dialect here, and Xu Ang didn't understand it very well.

But the middle-aged man turned his head and shouted at an old man standing at the intersection fifty meters away, "Third grandfather, come here, someone asks where the grave of the eldest grandmother is." ”

After shouting, he turned his head and said to Xu Ang in a rather awkward Mandarin, "This third grandfather is the cousin of the eldest grandmother and her man you asked, and their graves are all together, he must know if you ask him." But young man, are you related to the grandmother's family? Are you going to go to her grave? ”

Xu Ang was about to speak, when the old man who shouted just now had already walked over.

The middle-aged man repeated Xu Ang's question and asked, "Third grandfather, is the aunt of the eldest grandmother's family called Xie Huifang?" ”

Xie Sanye nodded, "That's right, it's called Huifang, but she has already married to Dawangzhuang next door, and she hasn't come back for more than ten years. ”

Xu Ang was silent, and then said in a deep voice, "We are sending Aunt Fang and her ashes back today, hoping to bury her next to her mother." ”

"Ashes?" Xie Sanye was shocked, "She's gone?" When did it not? Why not? Why didn't the people of the Lin family come here to report the news? ”

The person in front of him is Uncle Xie Huifang, but there were many brothers and sisters in the past, and life in the countryside was not very good, so his brothers couldn't take care of it, let alone the cousin?

And Lin Jian'an happens to have no parents, and there is almost no contact between the two sides, so it is not surprising that he does not know Xie Huifang's news.

Lin Jian'an abandoned his wife and children, Xu Ang didn't want to say more, after all, Xie Huifang was gone, what was the use of talking more?

At this time, Jiang Yan also got out of the car and walked over, he stuffed a pack of cigarettes into the hands of Xie Sanye and the middle-aged man, and asked if they could help find a few people to dig the grave, and the salary was negotiable.

"What kind of wages do you want? Whose family does it cost to help with the funeral? ”

Xie Sanye turned his head and asked the middle-aged man to call someone, "A few boys in my family are here, you let them all take the shovel to the cemetery in the north."

After arranging the manpower, Xie Sanye turned around and left, "I'll take you there." ”

Jiang Yan stopped him, "You get in the car." ”

Xie Sanye turned his head to look at the two rather magnificent cars not far away, and muttered in his heart, is that kid from the Lin family a good mix? Have you got the money to buy a car?

After muttering, I realized that something was wrong, Huifang was gone, even if they hadn't been in contact for many years, the Lin family couldn't remember that they didn't report her, but why did they send her back to her parents' house for burial?

This is clearly problematic.

There are also these two boys, he remembers, Huifang gave birth to two daughters back then.

Waiting for the car, Xie Sanye found that there were two girls who looked very similar in the back seat, not only the two of them looked alike, but also looked like Huifang when she was young.

"You are"

Xu Qian looked at Third Master Xie, and Jiang Yan introduced her, "This grandfather is Aunt Fang's third uncle, you should call him grandfather." ”

"Grandpa." Xu Qian hurriedly opened her mouth to call someone.

Xie Sanye nodded in response, his eyes inadvertently swept down, and only then did he see that she was holding an urn in her arms.

"It's . Huifang's ashes? Can I ask her why she didn't? ”

In their rural area, there is actually a special way to bury them, for example, after the death of the married daughter, they can't be buried back to their mother's ancestral grave casually, and if the family is grand, they will definitely not agree to Xu Qian's doing.

And the reason why Xie Sanye didn't say a word and called someone to help was because he thought about his cousin's vein, and no one came to burn paper during the Qingming New Year. On the other hand, the graves of several of their families have been divided early, and they are not in one place, but they are only not far apart, and they don't affect anything.

So it's okay for Huifang to be buried here, just look at the two cars that sent her back, and if she celebrates the New Year in the future, she is not afraid that no one will send money to his cousin.

Xu Qian saw that this grandfather was kind and sincerely wanted to understand the reason for her mother's death, so she whispered a brief description of what happened to the mother and daughter who left here to go to Kyoto fifteen years ago, including Lin Jian'an marrying another person in Kyoto, and his son is already fifteen.

Xie Sanye's face turned pale after hearing this, and the beard on his mouth trembled, "This bastard, this is the modern Chen Shimei!" There is also the old man Nalin, who was not dead in the early years, and said that his grandson had made a lot of money in Kyoto, and Huifang followed him there to enjoy happiness. Every year when I burn paper for your grandparents during the Qingming Festival, I can't help but complain about her in my heart, and I don't know how to come back to see her parents after so many years. My wife still scolded her for being a conscienceless, how could I have thought of it"

Xie Sanye's eyes turned red as he spoke, he raised his hand to touch the urn, and muttered in his mouth, "Poor Huifang, your mother loves you so much, you must know that the person surnamed Lin will treat you like this one day, and he will not let you marry him if he says anything back then."

The car passed through the small village from south to north, and finally stopped on the side of a dirt road under the instructions of Xie Sanye.

"If you have to walk in from this side of the road, you can't drive in."

The group got out of the car, and Yu Heng and Yu Feng carried out a pair of high-grade glass coffins that they had bought in Yunzhou from the trunk.

Xie Sanye looked at the small and delicate coffin and was stunned, and then looked at the grandeur of Mu Shenyan's mother and son, and was secretly shocked, didn't Huifang have an accident a long time ago? How can there be such a character to give her a funeral?

Or are these people here because of her eldest daughter?