That night, I received a call from Yu Chengfei, who told me that the elders in Yang Mengying's hometown had calculated the date and that the burial would be at 9 a.m. tomorrow. I asked if I could go, and Yu Chengfei said, "Come, just don't let Yang's mother see you, kowtow secretly and leave."

Tomorrow is the sixth day of Ye Zhan's coma. I went to see Yang Mengying off in the morning, and in the afternoon I was just in time to go to the ICU. I talked to Ye Zhan's parents, and they nodded numbly, each of them looking exhausted. In the past six days, they hardly closed their eyes, their eyeballs were full of bloodshot, and they would wake up immediately after taking a nap, and ask when they woke up: "Is there any news about our son?"

What we got in return was disappointment after disappointment. These days, we have a growing sense of crisis, and we always feel that the time has come when we have to face it. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, I can still hear them say, "If our son hadn't messed around, this day wouldn't have happened."

I felt a pain in my heart when I heard this. No parent in this world wants their child to be a mixed-up person. The next day, I said goodbye to Ye Zhan's parents, left the hospital, took a bus, and rushed to Yang Mengying's hometown village.

According to the address provided by Yu Chengfei, Yang Mengying's hometown is not far away, just near Beiyuan City. Although this village is close to Beiyuan, it has not been touched by the city at all. Generations have been poor, and the living standard is still in the 1980s.

It is said that when Yang's mother was young, she was seduced by a man and later became pregnant with Yang Mengying. The man bought a house in Beiyuan City, left her a sum of money, and then disappeared without a trace. People in the village stabbed Yang's mother in the back, and her relatives cut off contact with her. Yang's mother moved to Beiyuan City with her daughter, and became the first person in the village to live in the city.

This time Yang Mengying died. Even if Yang's mother had a child with a strange man, she still had to be buried in the village according to the rules, and the people in the village couldn't say anything. This village is really poor and backward. There are only two buses a day. I took the early bus and arrived at the village at exactly eight o'clock. As soon as I got off the bus, I heard the sound of gongs and drums playing funeral music from afar. I didn't need to ask anyone, I just followed the sound and walked all the way there.

Because it snowed a few days ago, the temperature has risen in the past few days, and the road is very muddy. Soon, my heels are covered with mud. After turning many times, I finally saw the mourning hall in an open space in front.

This kind of mourning hall in the village is very typical, it is a tent built with nylon cloth, with some wreaths and other things piled up inside, and an altar in the middle, with Yang Mengying's black and white photo on it. Behind the altar is the coffin.

In front of the mourning hall, the band was playing hard. The custom in the countryside was to make funerals lively. Yu Chengfei and the others were all wearing white clothes, and all the girls were there. Nan Nan was Yang Mengying's sister, so she was naturally among them.

They were either sitting or standing in the mourning hall, but there was nothing for them to do for the time being. Everyone had a sad look on their face.

At first glance, they are all acquaintances. There are almost no people from Murakami. Even after they died, are they still unwilling to accept this mother and daughter?

Brick knelt in front of the coffin without moving, and it was unknown how long he had been in that position. Behind him, Yang Mengying's sisters, the Scorpion girls, knelt one after another, all wearing white clothes, kneeling in front of the altar, crying and kowtowing from time to time. Yang's mother sat on a straw mat, staring blankly at the photo of her daughter on the table.

Around the mourning hall, there were students from Chenggao or Beiqi High School. No matter what their relationship with Yang Mengying was, everyone who could come came. Seeing this scene, my heart broke again. It was me, I killed Yang Mengying!

This thought circled in my mind again, and I almost couldn't control myself and fell to the ground. Yu Chengfei was the first to find me, walked over quickly, and said, "Wait here for a while, I'll call a few people to let Yang's mother go to rest."

Then he went back and gave a few instructions to Lei Yu and the others. Then a few boys went over to persuade Yang's mother. Yang's mother was reluctant at first, but was still carried away by them.

I then walked over trembling, and knelt down in front of Yang Mengying's coffin, tears streaming down my face like heavy rain. Everyone gathered around and also knelt down, there were more than a hundred people.

The villagers passing by all made a sound of "tsk tsk". This scale was more grand than the death of the elders in the village. After a few kowtows, Yu Chengfei pulled me up and took me to the open space behind the mourning hall.

Several people who were close to me also came over and asked me about Ye Zhan's condition. I said it was still the same. The doctor said that he would not wake up tomorrow and would probably have to lie in bed forever. Everyone sighed and Xiaochun and the others secretly wiped their tears.

Yu Chengfei said: "We will bury Yang Mengying today, and we can go back after guarding for another day tomorrow."

There will be a lot of people here soon, so just follow the funeral procession. Mother Yang won’t be able to find you.

I nodded, and everything was arranged by Yu Chengfei. Now I really didn't want to use my brain at all. There were many people around the mourning hall. Gong Ning sent me a set of mourning clothes. After I put them on, I hid in a corner.

After a while, Yang's mother came back. She was not in her current mental state to look at other people. She was still sitting on the straw mat in front of the table in a daze. The four kings surrounded me, carefully preventing Yang's mother from seeing me, but it felt like a superfluous addition. I didn't care about that much. I sat on the ground, and my whole body was empty again. I thought about Ye Zhan and Yang Mengying in my mind.

I looked at all the people walking back and forth in front of me, and suddenly I was very afraid that I would cause them to get hurt. I wanted to stay away from them, the farther the better. Just when I was upset, Bai Qing suddenly came over and asked Gong Ning and the others to leave. I knew Bai Qing had something to say to me, so I called out bitterly, "Sister."

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