Xiuse Farmhouse

Chapter 223 Burial ([-])

The others shook their heads when they heard this. Grandpa Dazhi seldom meddles in his business, because Xiangxiu is separated from his house by a wall, and because he didn't care about the sound he heard last night, he felt somewhat guilty, so he said from the side: "I It seems that your idea is not right, and you don’t even think about how many years Ge Da and Xiangxiu have been apart. No one in the mine knows about such a big matter, so is there any need for someone to tell him? He will come, why bother to invite someone?"

Da Zhiniang is not optimistic: "I think you should stop thinking about what you have. How long have you been in the mine? Haven't you seen that Ge Da is not right for Xiangxiu? Maybe, Xiangxiu Xiu is dead, now he doesn't know where to hide and laugh?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Dad Dazhi looked at the sad-faced straw in the main room and stopped Dazhiniang.

"Oh, with so many people in our Yangjia Village, do we have to invite someone? Help Mai Cao to finish this matter with excitement!" Wang Matchmaker said aside.

"A dog can't spit out ivory!" Qingshan Niang scolded, glanced at the wheat straw in the hall, saw that she didn't pay attention to this side, and lowered her voice: "What's so busy, aren't you a matchmaker? Why are you so busy now? Can’t talk anymore? His mother died, and you made a lot of noise, wouldn’t it make the little girl even more sad? Uh, I know…” A look of understanding: “You must have done too much as a matchmaker, and your mouth is full of words. I can't tell the difference!"

"I..." Matchmaker Wang choked, and threw a melon seed into her mouth: "I'm not going to talk!"

"All right, all right, stop arguing about this!" Yang Yizhi waved his hands impatiently. There was a lot of mess here, and he was still in the mood to bicker here. That's right, he, the village head, had to take care of all the mess. It doesn't matter to these people a dime!
After thinking for a while, Yang Yizhi felt that he still had to find Ge Da, so he said: "No, I still have to find Ge Da." Then he said to Baishou: "Go and see when Ge Da starts working today, and ask him to come over for a while." Come on, um..." Paused: "Or let him wait for me somewhere, think about it, this Xiangxiu is gone, there is only Mai Cao at home, such a big girl, and she hasn't found her husband yet, so she stays alone Is it suitable for the family? Besides, there are so many outsiders in our village, so it's not reassuring!"

Everyone nodded.

"Anyway, Mai Cao is also Ge ​​Da's daughter, no matter how worried he and Xiangxiu are, they will not do anything to harm their daughter. Besides, even if Ge Da doesn't like Mai Cao, just find a husband's family and marry him immediately."

Someone worried: "The village chief means to ask Ge Da to take the wheat straw home? But what if Ge Da doesn't want to?"

"Why don't you want to, Xiangxiu pulls the wheat grass so big by himself, Ge Da is now picking up a ready-made girl, if he finds a better husband's family, he will follow suit!" Some people disdain Ge Da.

Anyway, this matter is uncertain, Baishou went to the mine, Yang Yizhi and others took the Taoist out, planning to see a geomantic treasure for Xiangxiu.

The courtyard became much quieter at once, Mai Cao was kneeling on the floor of the main room, she had already cried her tears, lowered her head, her face was expressionless, she was dumbstruck, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a wooden person.

Sitting next to her, Laisheng looked curiously at Xiangxiu who was lying on the ground covered with a white cloth. After a while, he poked the straw with his hand: "Your mother has also gone to heaven?" This is what Wanwan told him.

Wheatgrass lowered her head and said nothing.

Laisheng tilted his head: "When did your mother go, wasn't she still cooking in the mine yesterday?"

Wheatgrass still bowed her head.

Sighing, "What good is there in the sky, why do you like to go to that place?"

"I said you shouldn't let your mother go, she won't come back after she goes, just like my grandpa."

"By the way, how did your mother get there? On foot? Or by ox cart?"

"I want to see my grandpa!"

"How about this, you ask your mother, which way she went, and when my brother and sister-in-law are free, I will let them take us there, and then we can play for a few days and then come back, how about it? "

"Hey, why don't you talk?"

"Why are you dripping today? Hey, hey, why are you crying again? I told you not to cry. I cried every day when my grandpa first went there. Later, when my brother and sister-in-law came, I stopped crying." Come. Come, come, come..." Then Lai Sheng stretched out a hand to wrap around the shoulder of the straw, and patted it lightly just like before.

When Baishou came in and saw this scene, his face turned black!Go straight in and twist the ear of the next life and drag it out: "Didn't I ask you to watch the child at home, you will mess with me all day long!"

"How could I? Look at the wheat grass still kneeling on the ground, won't I accompany her?"

"Come again at night!"

Ge Da felt weird when he came to the mine. Everyone looked at him with strange eyes, with disdain, contempt, sympathy, and schadenfreude. For a while, he couldn't tell what it meant. , which is complicated anyway.

Later, a worker pulled him and asked, "You don't know what you look like?"

Ge Da was puzzled: "Know what?"

"Last night, Xie San ran to knock on the door of Xiangxiu's house, saying that he asked Xiangxiu to come out and help the workers cook supper..."

"Bah!" Before the man finished speaking, Ge Da spat on the ground and cursed: "A couple of dogs and men, looking for a man in the middle of the night, the stinky bitch will let the man kill him sooner or later!"

"Hey, you're right, Xiangxiu is dead!" the worker laughed.

"Bah, live..." Ge Da was stunned, and hurriedly said, "Who do you say is dead?"

"Xiangxiu, your ex-wife."

Ge Da was full of disbelief, and said after a while, "Really?"

"That's not true. When you came up, didn't you see that there were white cloths hanging on the door of Xiangxiu's house? Yangjiacun is now talking about it!" Seeing that Ge Da hadn't reacted yet, the man thought that he was saying angry words on weekdays. Husband and wife have been kind for a day, not to mention that even the daughter is so old, so she has some feelings, so she comforted: "Don't be sad, I heard that she committed suicide on her own. From my guess, it's probably because of that thank you." San hit Huangzi who was doing supper and wanted to do bad things, but she refused, and she couldn't resist Xie San, so she slammed her head against a tree and died."

After speaking, the man patted him on the shoulder as a sign of comfort.

Ge Da raised his hand and pushed the hand away, and laughed twice: "Smelly woman, you deserve to die, you are a bitch who rides thousands of people and sleeps thousands of people, you should have thought of today's ending, this God has opened his eyes, he died well!" Then he left humming a song.

The man was stunned for a long time, and said in disbelief: "Oh, what a crime, what a big enmity, to be so happy!"

Baishou knew that Ge Da was working, but couldn't find him. Later, Yang Yizhi met him at the foot of the mountain and asked him to talk about the wheat straw.

"...Now she is the only family member of yours. For safety reasons, you should take her back. There are so many people here, her house is not safe for a girl!"

Ge Da looked at Yang Yizhi indifferently, and said nonchalantly: "What does this have to do with me? I made up with Xiangxiu a long time ago. To put it bluntly, it doesn't matter. Didn't she once show off in front of me and say that there is no me?" , and live a good life with the children? Since you are so capable, you can get along well among the men, what? Will you arrange everything properly and die? "

Rao Yang Yizhi, a person who has no blood relationship, was trembling with anger. If Maicao heard about it, he would die of grief. I really didn't expect Ge Da to be such a heartless person.Yang Yizhi had all the good things to say, not only did he not mention the matter of wheat straw, but he also said that the people in Yangjia Village were meddling in their own business, and they only cared about getting angry, mocking Xiangxiu inside and outside the words.

Yang Yizhi only gave him three words: "Inhumane!"

After hearing Yang Yizhi's words, Baishou and others were silent for a while. They knew that Ge Da would not accept straw easily, but they did not expect to be such a ruthless person.He is no different from his father in the next life!
One is to use his own flesh and blood to sit on the position of the head of the family, and then abandon it; the other is to curse his mother with a poisonous tongue, and laugh at abandoning the daughter to fend for herself.

Yang Yizhi didn't dare to tell Mai Cao about this matter, everyone discussed for a while and planned to hide it from her first, and then slowly talk about it after Xiangxiu's incident.

Wanwan didn't wake up until mid-afternoon, her eyes were still a little dry, but her energy was much better.Baishou kept the rice for her in the pot all the time, lit a fire to heat up the food, and after eating, Baishou came back with the baby in his arms.

Wanwan washed the dishes, took the child, and hurriedly asked him: "How are the preparations going, have you chosen the place?"

"The cemetery has been selected, and everything that needs to be prepared is ready, but the matter of wheat straw is a bit troublesome."

Wanwan was startled: "What's the trouble?"

Baishou told her the conversation between Yang Yizhi and Ge Da: "Seeing that Ge Da doesn't care about straw, this girl really has a hard life."

Wanwan was speechless and sighed heavily.

After dinner, Baishou went to work, and Wanwan took the child to Maicao's house. Yuan Baoniang and Shitouniang were already there, and Wang Matchmaker, Dazhiniang, and Qingshanniang were also sitting together.

Seeing Wanwan hugging the child, Qingshan Niang hurriedly said: "Hey, why are you still bringing the child with you? Why don't you go back."

"Yes, Second Sister, have you done the calculation for the child, should he remember Xiao's family?" Matchmaker Wang also asked kindly.

Remembering filial piety means being unable to attend funerals.

Wanwan smiled: "It's okay, I've calculated it, the fortune teller said that this child doesn't need to remember Xiaojia this year."

"Oh." Then the two gave her their seats.Qing Shanniang continued: "Some people didn't even think about it, and just said that there was a funeral, and it was inconvenient for the child to come."

Wanwan was startled: "Who is it?"

Yuan Baoniang looked at Niang Qingshan and smiled: "Mother Lanhua."

"Oh." Wanwan just remembered that such a big event happened in the village. Lanhua Niang likes to watch the excitement, and she seems to have never seen her today, but she expressed her understanding: "She finally got a son, I understand!" Then changed the subject: " Let’s forget about this, where’s the wheatgrass?”

"I'm really tired, let her go to rest for a while, and I have to get up early in the morning." Yuan Baoniang said in a low voice.

Everyone also lowered their voices.

An oil lamp flickered in the main room, and the flickering light cast a gloomy feeling on the pale white cloth on Xiangxiu's body.

Several women lit a fire in the yard and formed a tight circle. Matchmaker Wang said that the gloomy light in the main room made people shiver all over. They sat for two hours and went back in the dark. Later, Lady Qingshan She also left, and Da Zhiniang sat with the three of them until midnight, and she couldn't bear the sleepiness and went back.In the end, there were only three people left in the yard. She wrapped the child in a thick quilt, and the child was lying in her arms and sound asleep.

(End of this chapter)