Chapter 37: Aunt

My mother died early, and my father married a stepmother not long after. They all said that if you have a stepmother, you have a stepdad. This is true.
Ye Qingmei has a straight temper and is really bullied. Ye Qingshan knew she stood in front of her when she was young. It can be said that their siblings grew up dependent on each other, and because of this, Ye Qingmei sees Ye Qingshan very much. Because he has been protecting Li Fang, he is angry.
In Li Fang’s mind, Ye Qingshan was the only one left in her family. During the Chinese New Year, Ye Qingshan said she would go out to work, but she disagreed at the time. But her family was not well-off, and she had two children and two daughters to raise. The way to relieve Ye Qingshan was not even enough to persuade others. How could she not expect that she would not come back after this trip, and she didn't even have a corpse. If she had known this, she would not let Ye Qingshan go out even if she strayed and rolled.
"Aunt, I hope it's a fake too, but my dad... is really gone. It's uneasy for you to let my dad go like this." Ye Ning pulled Ye Qingmei up, "The house is in a mess, your help. "
After crying for a long time, Ye Qingmei slowly eased her strength. She couldn't fall down. Qingshan hadn't settled down yet. Ye Ning was so old that she had to go down the mountain to organize the funeral. Qingshan's funeral could not be messed up, otherwise her brother would be uneasy.
The aunt went to the house to change her clothes and wiped her face casually. Seeing Ye Ning's cries again, she couldn't stop, crying and looking for her uncle.
"What's the matter?" My aunt was shocked when he saw the crying eyes of the first and third children, "Did Wang Chunxiang bully you? Wait, I'll call your uncle and let him take your uncle." Ask for justice."
There are many males in their family. At this time, the countryside is really walking sideways. Who would dare to bully their family?
"Auntie, Qing Shan... Qing Shan is dead." Ye Qingmei choked and said.
"What kind of nonsense? Qingshan just went to work outside, why did he die?" My aunt looked at this and that, and saw a few people look sad, not like a fake, and asked incredulously: "Really ?"
Ye Qingmei choked up and repeated Ye Ning's words, crying so much that she couldn't speak.
"This... why did something like this happen? You guys, too, don't come to us if such a big thing happens? How long has it happened? Why didn't you listen to it at all." My aunt wiped regretfully. Corner of the eye.
"My dad’s incident in March was worried that the people in the village, especially the people from the old house, would bully us when they knew that my dad was gone. No one except our siblings knew about it. But when Xiaoan was on vacation, I would take care of it. I told the people in the village that maybe no one is going down the mountain in Xiangshe Village these days, so you don’t know. I’m looking for Master Wu as a good day. July 16 is the best day. I’m worried that people from the old house will arrive. The mourning hall disturbed my dad's peace, so I came today to ask my uncle to help him sit down."
Ye Ning explained roughly. As for her uncle's complaint that they didn't ask them for help earlier, she didn't hear her. People just said they were kind. She can't take it seriously. Relatives are not family members. It doesn't matter if you help once or twice. Too much, no one feels well.
When my uncle was growing vegetables in the backyard, he shook his body when he heard the news of Ye Qingshan’s death. They had six brothers and only two sisters. One of them was older than him. He died at the age of 19 because of a dystocia. Ye Qingshan’s mother It was his youngest sister who also died early, leaving behind a son and a daughter. As a result, the only son also left in an accident. After death, there was no word to see his sister.
Fortunately, there were still three children left. Looking at Ye Ning, my uncle asked, "Are you all still studying?"
I graduated from high school this year and got admitted to Everbright Pharmaceutical Factory through the help of my classmates. "Ye Ning said quickly.
"I failed the college entrance examination this year?" Uncle did not expect Ye Ning to have graduated from high school.
"No. My sister was admitted to college, but she was afraid that no one would take care of me and Xiao An, and there would be no financial resources in the other family, so my sister went to work." Ye Lan said first.
"I don't plan to go to school anymore. I also work when I come out of college. Now I have the opportunity to work as a worker in a factory. It's good." Ye Ning explained immediately.
The people in the room don’t think so. Although they have never read, they all know that nowadays college students graduated as cadres. Even if they become workers, they will be promoted quickly in the future. High school graduates like Ye Ning enter the factory. As a worker, unless there is someone behind it, it is difficult to make progress.
Everyone knows that going to college is better, but Ye Ning’s situation is different, parents are gone, and there are two younger siblings underneath. If they don’t go to work to make money, what should they do?
"How are the arrangements at home?" asked the uncle.
Ye Ning probably said it again, and found that she hadn't noticed many of the details before, and then just said that she didn't expect it.
"You've been in school before, and it's pretty good to be able to prepare like this for the first time." The uncle comforted the two sisters Ye Ning, pondering for a moment, and said: "Let the Qingmei couple go with me first, so that you don't get messy at home. When your cousins ​​come back, I will ask them to come down and help you set up a mourning hall. I will come back tomorrow."
Ye Ning nodded quickly, and said a few words to her uncle and uncle. Hurry back with the aunt and uncle.
"Your dad is gone, does your mother know?" Ye Qingmei wiped her red eyes and asked in a low voice.
"I don't know, I didn't contact her." Ye Ning glanced at her aunt, "I don't think there is any need to contact her."
Ye Qingmei agrees with this, and she has gone all the time. Whether Ye Qingshan is dead or alive has nothing to do with her. It's just that these children are pitiful, and there are no parents at such an age.
"In the future, I will work hard in the factory and strive to become a regular employee as soon as possible. If I am promising, I will not be worse than I graduated from college." Ye Qingmei comforted Ye Ning, sobbing again.
"My sister is already a formal job." Ye Lan turned around and pulled Ye Ning a hand, "Aunty, don't worry about us, we can take care of ourselves."
Speaking of this, Ye Qingmei couldn't help but glared at the three of them. She had never seen such a big idea. Dad died of such a big thing. She kept it silent and kept it secret for three to four months. Sold the land at home.
Thinking of those good fields, Ye Qingmei pumped distressedly.
Hurry up, and finally arrived in the village before noon. Ye Qingmei wailed as soon as he entered the village, "My brother, you are only in your early forties, why are you dead? My brother, it's too early for me. You are such a relative, and you are gone. I will have no brothers in my family from now on. What should I do if there is no one to support you in the future? Brother, your life is really hard! I didn’t enjoy the blessing when I was a child, and I died when I was about to enjoy the blessing. , You died..."
Like singing a big drama, Ye Ning feels that Auntie's sadness is true, but these words are definitely not nonsense, they have profound meaning.
Weeping all the way to Ye Qingshan's house, went straight into the back room to look at Ye Qingshan's memorial tablet, and cried when she held it.
After a long time, Ye Qingmei put down the tablet, and when she saw Ye Ning and Ye Lan's tiara, she cried again.
"Qingmei, don't cry first, look at this house, everything depends on you," said the uncle, helping his wife.
Ye Qingmei barely stopped her tears, rolled up her sleeves, and directly asked her man to go to Houshan to help. How can outsiders take care of her own family, and then check the things Ye Ning bought.
"Enough white cloth, where are the linen cloth and the filial hat?" Ye Qingmei sighed when the few people looked blank, "I will make it for you at night, but the linen cloth has to find someone who has it. Tomorrow, a mourning hall will be set up to dig the grave. With the banquet, tomorrow’s banquet is simpler, so please invite the grave-digger to eat. The decent banquet is noon on the sixteenth. Is the dinner time set?"
Ye Ning's people shook their heads again, she really didn't know there was a time to eat.
"Have you borrowed these tables, stools, and chopsticks?" A family in the country has a few tables and chopsticks. When banquets are held, they will borrow tables, chairs, and chopsticks. They usually engrave the names of their family members. Just come out and go back.
Ye Ning still shook their heads.
"There are a few tables at noon on the sixteenth. I'm ready to go out to borrow something. Who do you want to cook for?" This time Ye Qingmei didn't wait for them to shake her head, and said directly: "Forget it, I guess you must not find it, the village My Liu Po ​​is good for cooking. Generally, I would like to call her if there is a ceremonial occasion. In the evening, you will go to her with me, and you have to find some helpers. I will look for someone else for a while. The food should be almost the same. To set two tables, there is meat, and you have to set it down first."
The two sisters Ye Ning thought that they had prepared almost the same, but the aunt came to realize that there were still many things that had not been arranged.
As Auntie turned like a top, one thing got on track.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, seven or eight cousins ​​came from Xiangshe Village, a tall man, and he stopped at the door. Anyone who wanted to make trouble with the moth had to weigh his own small kang and he couldn't resist beating.
Wu Xianfeng saw from a distance, and ran home, "That stinky girl Ye Ning went to her uncle's family."
"What? The old immortal is here too?" Wang Chunxiang shuddered when he thought of the old immortal. He was an unreasonable savage.
"I didn't see it clearly, but his son and grandson are here, and there are about a dozen of them." Wu Xianfeng said with some fear: "Then shall we go tomorrow?"
"Fuck, you want to kill yourself, don't drag my son." Wang Chunxiang grinned his teeth, but Ye Ning did not expect Ye Ning to move the old immortal out. If they dare to go to the mourning hall, they will definitely discount Fang Ming. Qinghe's legs.
As soon as the cousin's family and aunt came, the gossip in the village disappeared, and what came out were all regrets that Ye Qingshan died at such a young age.
"Don't pay attention to them, a bunch of soft guys who are bullying and afraid of hardship." Ye Qingmei knew the virtues of those people in the village best and told Ye Ning to ignore them.
When such a group of people came, food and accommodation had to be arranged. Ye Ning was originally planning to buy meat, but her aunt stopped her.
"A dozen big men, a few catties of meat are not enough to stuff their teeth, don't worry, I'll buy it."
Ye Ning wants to pay, and the aunt doesn’t want to live or die. She bought half a basin of pig blood and suet oil. When she got home, she boiled the suet oil first, and then took out the oil residue from the basin. .
"I have to cook these days. The oil is used quickly. Stir-fried vegetables with oil residue is a good half-meat and half-vegetarian dish, as well as pork blood tofu. If you make two more vegetarian dishes, the noodles will be delicious." Ye Qingmei Bian taught Ye Ning and Ye Lan, "Xiao'an, you can go to the supply and marketing store to get a few bottles of wine and two packs of cigarettes."
The four dishes are all served in a basin, and the taste is slightly salty.
Seeing Ye Ning’s expression, she finally smiled after crying for a day,
I deliberately fry it a little bit salty, so many people, how can I eat the food when the food is weak?
People won’t say if they have not eaten enough. The food is delicious, so if you eat too much, you can only say that Ye Qingshan's family is stingy and doesn't even have enough food.
Well, Ye Ning can be regarded as the crystallization of the wisdom of ordinary people. ,,,