The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 169

In mid-July, the Da Zhou family, who had been dying for a year, finally passed away. People in the village said that she got what she wanted, and she didn't feel relieved until her grandson became a scholar.

He Tao also felt that this was a joy and sorrow. Although Mrs. Zhou was paralyzed at the edge of the bed and could not speak or walk, it was impossible for her to be disturbed by something, but she always felt that Mrs. Zhou's life itself was an annoying thing. .But in name she is her own grandmother after all, so she still has to do a full set of dramas and go to mourning and vigil in mourning and mourning.

He Youliang's feelings are very complicated.It can be said that everyone has been waiting for her to die since the day Da Zhou became paralyzed. He almost regarded her as a dead person, but after she really died, he didn't feel relaxed.

He resented Da Zhou for allowing others to spread his bad reputation without defending him, angry at her for embezzling his wedding money for the promising He Youtian, and also because she tried every means to take advantage of He Tao and felt that having such a grandma was very difficult. Shameful, but he also remembered that when he was a child, Da Zhou called him aside and gave him meat secretly without telling the rest of the family. I made him a little padded jacket, and I still remember that Mrs. Zhou felt that blacksmithing was hard work, and would rather let everyone in the family eat less than let him be an apprentice blacksmith...

From a general point of view, the Da Zhou family is a very good head of the family. If it weren't for her shrewd calculations, the He family would not be able to support a dozen people with that little property. The personalities and preferences of the individual He family were stripped away, and they were treated like marionettes by her. Whoever was asked to kneel had to kneel, and whoever was asked to lie down could not stand.

Especially after Xiao Chen took charge of the family, it became clearer by comparison. Xiao Chen was soft-tempered, unable to suppress others, unable to stand up to things, and couldn't even make up his mind about rice and grain arrangements.The He family's food is limited. In the past, when the big Zhou family was in charge, they calculated the expenses of 350 six days a year. Although everyone can only eat a few days of happy food every year during the Chinese New Year, there has never been a shortage of food. Condition.But now, it's only mid-July, and less than two months after the wheat harvest, He Youliang heard that Mrs. Chen had asked someone to borrow grain.

Although the situation is special, there are two elders above who need to see a doctor and take medicine, and Xiao Chen can't bear it too much.

"Brother, what are you doing with such a black face?" He Lian poked He Youliang's arm, and then remembered that they were on their way home crying for funerals, she stretched out her hands and rubbed her face, doing the same. She made a bitter face, then turned her head and said to He Tao: "Eldest sister, face, why don't you be happy!"

After hearing this, He Tao put on a face like crying or not: "Is that so?"

"Right, that is it!"

He Youliang smiled helplessly. He felt that his grandma had really failed in her life. On the day of her death, her granddaughters had to pretend to be sad.This pretender also includes himself. Although he thinks of the Da Zhou family, he feels mixed feelings, but it is undeniable that he is not sad!
When they arrived at the gate of He's house, the three brothers and sisters adjusted their expressions tacitly, and took a breath before stepping into the gate of the courtyard. Who knew that after entering, they watched a farce.

He Hua, who was wearing filial piety clothes, stood in the main room and yelled at Mrs. Chen: "You must have not taken good care of your mother. Although my mother can't move, she has been fine all year. How could she just leave as soon as she said it? It's you, it's you, it's you who dislike your mother as a burden and can't take care of her, so she went, you unfilial and vicious woman..."

He Youliang quickly stepped up to block Xiao Chen, and said coldly: "Auntie, don't make trouble, my mother is not alone in taking care of grandma, the second aunt, sister-in-law, and second sister-in-law are all helping , my father and second uncle are also taking care of it, could it be that everyone together is not good for grandma?"

He understood that He Hua was completely venting his anger because he refused to marry Zhou Kexin.However, He Hua was not wrong. As the saying goes, there are no filial sons in front of a long-term hospital bed. In the beginning, Mrs. Chen took good care of Mrs. Zhou, but Mrs. Zhou, Zhang Dahua, and Wang Qionghua all had reasons. If you don't help, He Fuguo and He Fu's family are two men who are not careful enough. Xiao Chen can last for a month or two by herself, but not for a year. After that, she can only make a living on the surface.

"You..." He Hua was pinned down by He Youliang and couldn't speak.Does she still dare to say that it was all put together?She turned around angrily, pulled the bored Zhou Kexin who was standing beside her looking at her toes, and knelt in front of the hall, crying, "Mother, why are you so cruel, your daughter will be pointed at her nose and scolded by her nephew when she returns to her mother's house?" Mother, I am suffering..."

He Youliang only found it ironic that Da Zhou loved He Hua so much before he was alive, but he felt that He Hua was not sincere now, and she was crying only because there was one less person to support her in the future.

Da Zhou's funeral was very deserted, she had already prepared the coffin and shroud herself, it wasn't bad, but that was the case with other things.She is different from her highly respected great-uncle, she left the impression in the hearts of everyone as a very stingy and slightly mean old lady, not many people sincerely came to pay homage to her, and the villagers just came to see her relatives and neighbors. Stick incense, and He Fuguo and others said a word of condolence and obedience.

Now it is the hot summer season, and the He family is afraid that the corpse will smell, so they only plan to bury it after three days of inactivity.During the suspension period, He Youliang and He Lian lived in He's house all the time, while He Tao and Fu Shi just finished their work every morning and afternoon, and there were no sudden incidents in between.

He Tao never let the twins show up.Superstitions, superstitions, after getting involved, you will become more and more convinced. Since she "believed in Buddhism" because of the twins, He Tao has also had a lot of taboos, so she is not willing to let the precious girls come to see the big Zhou family. What about the vicious great-grandmother who killed a great-granddaughter? Moreover, she had to change her clothes after returning home from vigil every day, and burn incense sticks to get rid of bad luck before she dared to hug the twins.

After the funeral, when He Youliang and He Lian were about to leave, He Fuguo suddenly stopped them and gave He Lian a small purse.

"What is it?"

He Lian opened it suspiciously, and it turned out to be the tremella pan that was snatched by the Da Zhou family.

"I found it when I was packing up your grandma's belongings just now..."

"I thought she sold it!"

"Yeah, I thought your grandma sold it too."

He Fuguo really didn't understand what his old mother was thinking. The family "needed money urgently" several times. Da Zhou's went out to borrow and blackmailed, but he didn't sell the earrings.When he first saw it, he still thought, is the mother planning to return it to Lian'er in the future?However, he himself felt that this idea was too ridiculous.

The Da Zhou family is dead, and no one will know the answer.

"Fortunately, it didn't sell!" He Lian laughed suddenly, shaking her earrings and said, "This is my first piece of jewelry!"

He Fuguo also laughed, and he remembered that year when He Lian first got this pair of earrings, she couldn't wait to wear them for him to see.It's only been a year, and everything is different, and now the little girl will not act like a baby when she sees him.

He rubbed his face, concealed his complicated thoughts, and said to He Youliang: "You and Chunya's marriage, what do you think about it, should it be done in Rexiao, or should it be moved to next year..."

He Youliang nodded: "Well, I have to discuss this matter with the Lin family."

Originally, the two parties had agreed to hold the wedding after Chun Ya and Ji at the end of November, but now it seems that the date must be changed.

After leaving He's house, He Lian couldn't wait to hang up the earrings, pointed to her ears and asked, "Brother, do I look good?"

"Beautiful!"

"I'm a girl, of course I love beauty! Besides, I'm not smug, I'm good-looking!"

"You really talk about everything, you, be careful that you won't get married in the future!"

"I'm not afraid, I can earn money by myself now! Hmph, what's so good about marrying, you can see that my mother will know it, and I will be controlled by my mother-in-law and scolded by my sister-in-law. From now on, I will not marry at all." Yes, I raise a lot of pigs and chickens, sell them for silver, count them in the morning and count them in the evening, and I also make a lot of beautiful new clothes for myself, buy a lot of jewelry, and change them every day How happy it is to wear and change clothes!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could a girl's family not marry for the rest of her life? Don't say that casually in the future..."

"Oh, I got it, little brother, you are really long-winded..."

The siblings talked and laughed and returned to the Great Wasteland. As soon as He Youliang entered the house, he wanted to find the two precious nieces. Who knew that He Tao firmly refused the door and asked him to change clothes and burn incense before touching the twins.

"Hey?! Why did you turn this out and put it on?" When He Tao was talking, he found the earrings on He Lian's ears.It has been more than a year since I bought this thing, and I haven't seen He Lian wearing it. She found it out as soon as the Da Zhou family died. How much she hates the Da Zhou family!
He Lian immediately told He Tao the ins and outs.

He Tao couldn't help cursing after hearing this: "It's really shameless!"

He Youliang joked: "Sister, don't speak ill of the dead. It's not over seven days, and grandma's soul hasn't gone far! If she hears it, she might come back to look for you!"

He Tao's hairs stood on end when he heard that, he twisted He Youliang's arm and cursed: "Bah, bah, bah, you big crow's mouth, hurry up and give me three bangs, hurry up, hurry up!"

He Youliang could only pooh three times before He Tao let go of him.

I don't know if it was because of He Youliang's words that He Tao dreamed of Da Zhou's that night.

Assuming that it was in a dream, He Tao pointed at Da Zhou with her hips crossed and yelled at her, calling her disrespectful and shameless, but Da Zhou didn't retaliate, but just stared at He Tao with her lips tightly pressed. The eyes are very contemptuous, as if to say "I'm just like this, what can you do to me".He Tao got angry and rushed forward to beat her: "I've wanted to do this for a long time!"

The grandfather and grandson wrestled together, and He Tao tried to slap Zhou Shi with all her strength, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't hit Da Zhou Shi, or even if it looked like she hit, But there was no sound at all, just like being hit on cotton. The more she hit, the more anxious she became, why couldn't she hit it? !
The next day, He Tao woke up before dawn. As soon as she opened her eyes, she remembered the dream she had at night, and she got up, oh my god, did that big crow mouth of He Youliang really hit the spot? her? !

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt chills all over her body, with goosebumps all over her body, and hurriedly pushed Fu Shi who was soundly asleep: "Shitou, Shitou, wake up... huh?!"

"Daughter-in-law, what's the matter with you?" Fu Shi sat up blinking his eyes.

"What's wrong with your face?" He Tao grabbed Fu Shi's head, what happened to the slap marks on his face? !
Fu Shi yawned, rubbed his eyes again, and then said slowly: "What are you talking about, I don't know what nightmare you had last night, and you slapped me a dozen times when you caught me. exert oneself……"

"..." After being silent for a while, He Tao said very deeply, "I feel like my grandma got on me last night..."

"Bah, bah, what are you talking about so early in the morning!" Fu Shi reached out and patted her on the head, then rubbed her hair vigorously and said, "Didn't I tell you that I am so angry that I am a ghost?" Seeing me, you have to take a detour, your grandma is still a new ghost, and she will probably shake three times when she meets me!"

Fu Shi's self-defense successfully convinced He Tao, and she immediately decided to treat this matter as "thinking every day and dreaming at night", but after getting up, she still put a piece of paper on the Buddha statue enshrined in the main room very devoutly. Burn incense, let them bless the Great Zhou family to go to hell smoothly!
But after all, this matter left a little lump in her heart. She couldn't sleep well for the next few nights, and she always woke up in the middle of the night. So, after waking up in the middle of the night on the third night, she heard a sound of children crying, moreover, it came from outside the yard...

(End of this chapter)