Chen Xiashu couldn't help but turn his head to look at the lifeless Old Lady Wang.
Those eyes that used to be full of shrewdness were now lifeless.
Or maybe he was unwilling to die, and his eyes were filled with resentment.
He turned his head away feeling guilty, his heart beating fast.
Seeing that Chen Xiashu had remained silent, Old Man Shen couldn't help but push him anxiously: "Second Brother, did you hear what I said?"
Chen Xiashu then came back to his senses as if awakened from a dream and nodded absentmindedly.
One is his mother, the other is his father, and Chen Xiashu feels very conflicted.
He doesn't know if this is right?
But I couldn't think of a better solution, so I could only remain silent as usual and hand over the decision-making power.
Old Man Shen pushed him away immediately in excitement and dragged his injured leg to deal with Old Lady Wang's body.
He had to clean up the scene before his other children came back.
The cornmeal that he had just picked up with great difficulty was mixed with Old Lady Wang's saliva and was no longer edible, not to mention that there was dirt mixed in it.
Old man Shen looked at the yellow dots on the ground with some distress, blaming himself for not hearing the noise in advance.
After putting the bag of cornmeal with a little bit of cornmeal left back into the cupboard, he moved next to Old Lady Wang.
Old man Shen originally wanted to close the old woman's eyes, but his hand was trembling so much when he reached out his hand that he didn't dare to get close to her.
He tried his best to suppress the fear in his heart, and kept repeating: "You can't blame me. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for wasting the food."
"If you hadn't stolen the food, how could you have ended up like this?"
"When you go to hell, you can't hold this account against me. If you want to hold it against Shen Siyue, then hold it against her. She's the one who made you like this."
After mustering up his courage for a long time, he finally closed Old Lady Wang's eyes with his calloused hands.
No longer having to look into the old woman's eyes, Old Man Shen's fear was finally alleviated a little.
He collapsed to the side as if exhausted, with beads of sweat already seeping out from under his clothes.
After resting for a while, Old Man Shen stood up from the ground, holding the edge of the kang, limped over with one leg, grabbed a piece of rag, and wiped the old woman's face in a panic.
Then he closed her mouth with force.
Now, at least from the outside, you can no longer see the horror from before.
Old man Shen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Xiashu just sat on the ground blankly, watching his father clean up everything.
Until this moment, he still couldn't believe that his mother was actually dead.
After Old Man Shen had cleaned up, he felt that it was a bit ugly to let Old Lady Wang lie on the ground like that.
But I didn't expect that a dead body would be so heavy. I tried for a long time, but found that I couldn't lift it by myself.
He glanced at his second son and saw that he looked silly and dazed, and knew that he could no longer be counted on.
Then he had to give up the idea of lifting the person onto the stool and sat on the edge of the kang, thinking about how to explain to others later.
"Second brother, when your brothers come back soon, don't say anything. I'll do the talking. Do you hear me?"
After thinking it over, he still felt uneasy about his outspoken son. What if he was exposed?
I don’t know if Chen Xiashu heard it or not. He just sat on the ground with his head down, stupidly, and no one knew what he was thinking!
The two of them sat like this, one on the ground and the other on the edge of the kang, waiting for the other people who had gone to work to come back, every second as if it were an eternity.
When he finally heard some movement in the yard, Old Man Shen stood up with a start.
Because I couldn't use one of my legs, I almost fell to the ground.
The first person to enter the house was Shen Qiushu.
He shouted that he was extremely tired and lifted the door curtain.
The first thing Chen Qiushu saw was Chen Xiashu who was still sitting on the ground: "Second brother, why are you sitting on the ground?"
Then he saw his mother lying straight on the side near the cabinet. He couldn't help but stop and ask, "Why is mom lying on the ground?"
Shen Chunshu, who was following closely beside him, saw that he was blocking the door and couldn't help but push him: "Go away, why are you blocking the door?"
Chen Qiushu was not paying attention and was pushed by him and staggered.
Shen Chunshu has been in a bad mood these past two days.
Whenever they met people from the village, they would mock their family in words and deeds, saying that they were getting poorer and poorer.
How could this make him feel better?
So when he saw his mother lying on the ground, he was about to open his mouth to scold the second brother, but he found that his face was ashen and his eyes were red.
Dad was sitting there with a look of grief on his face.
It was only then that he realized something was wrong. He asked what was going on and tried to help the old lady up.
As a result, when we arrived in front of Mrs. Wang, we found that her face was cyanotic and a little swollen, and she looked different from a normal person.
He pushed gently: "Mom? Mom?"
After waiting for a while without any response, Shen Chunshu reached his trembling hand under Old Lady Wang's nose. Soon he sat down on the ground and looked at Old Man Shen in disbelief.
"Dad, my mother...she..."
Old Man Shen had a sad face. He looked at the eldest and third sons with red eyes and said, "Your mother might have been too hungry. She secretly ate raw cornmeal. I didn't expect... I didn't expect that when I found her, she had choked to death."
As he spoke, Old Man Shen covered his eyes with one hand and began to sob.
Tears literally flowed out from between my fingers.
At this time, all the Shen family members had entered the house, with their mouths wide open. No one expected that Old Mrs. Wang would pass away like this.
Immediately afterwards, Li Xiang's crying "Oh my God~~~" brought everyone back to reality.
Wang Huilian and Li Xiaoqin, as the daughters-in-law, also wiped their eyes with their hands and made whimpering sounds.
No matter how much you disliked Old Lady Wang in the past, now that she is dead, you have to act like a filial son and grandson.
Shen Chunshu tried hard to blink his eyes, but not a single tear came out.
He could only rub it vigorously with his hands, and then called to Chen Qiushu: "Third brother, help me lift mother onto the kang. We can't let her walk on the cold ground!"
Shen Qiushu was about to step forward to help, but was stopped by Old Man Shen: "No, no, you can't bring the kang up. Dead people can't go up to the kang."
They have a custom here that people cannot die on the kang.
If a person dies on the kang, it is called "carrying the kang on his back".
It is said that such people can only lie down and cannot stand up even in the underworld. Some also say that they cannot be reincarnated.
There are also rumors that if someone dies on the kang, it will bring bad luck to the family and the descendants will suffer from poverty.
So as time went by, it became that when a person died, they could no longer sleep on the kang, but had to be placed on a spirit bed.
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