Chapter 352 It’s snowing, will she be cold?
The snow fell heavier and heavier, and in the blink of an eye it covered up the footprints made by Yunhua.
Baoya blinked her eyes, and the snowflakes on her curled eyelashes were shaken off.
Her small hands were clenched into fists, her palms cold.
"Baoya, what happened to Third Sister?" Yunyue was still confused.
Baoya didn't reply to her, but said, "Fourth sister, let's go quickly."
After she finished speaking, without waiting for Yunyue to reply, she also rushed out after Yunhua.
Yunyue looked at Baoya's umbrella that fell to the ground, then looked at her hurriedly running figure, and finally realized that something was wrong.
She gripped the umbrella handle tightly and chased after him.
Jingzhen followed them and quickened his pace.
Baoya ran all the way and turned into the familiar alley. From a distance, she saw Yunhua kneeling at the door.
The door of Grandma Yu's house was wide open, as usual, as if welcoming their arrival.
But she stopped when she was still four or five steps away.
After an unknown amount of time, Baoya felt her right shoulder sink. It was Jingzhen who put his arm around her shoulder.
"Come in."
Jingzhen's voice was still cold, but very light, like a breeze brushing against the cheek, without any warmth.
After he said that, he took Baoya's hand.
His hands, unlike his voice, were warm.
Baoya was led by him and couldn't help but follow his steps.
Yunyue also arrived and rushed to Yunhua's side to help her up.
When Baoya was led to the door by Jingzhen, what caught her eyes was the white courtyard covered with heavy snow.
The door to the main hall was also wide open, with white silk and white flowers hanging on the lintel, and a coffin was parked in the hall.
Yunhua's lips had been bitten, her eyes were red, and her round oval face was full of tears.
She had just run in such a hurry that she fell directly on the doorstep. Her hands were scratched and bleeding, and there was a hole in her pants, revealing the cotton inside.
But she didn't feel any pain at all.
Yunyue stood beside her and wiped the blood off her hands with her sleeves. As she wiped, tears fell from her eyes.
"How could that be? We were just talking to Grandma about the little rabbit yesterday!"
"She said...she said she and her mother-in-law would go to her hometown to play, go shopping, and eat delicious food..."
"Look, it's snowing so heavily, and we haven't even built a snowman for Grandma yet!"
Yunyue sobbed and finally squeezed out a broken sentence from her mouth: "In two months... it will be the New Year..."
Yunhua sniffed suddenly, and big tears fell from her red eyes.
She actually vaguely noticed that her mother-in-law always liked to nag and give her instructions when she was teaching her embroidery these days.
The braid is a little loose, and the twist of the roller is a little stiff...
It’s obvious that Grandma Yu is not a person who likes to nag.
At that time, she didn't think much about it. She just felt that she was now more skilled and her mother-in-law had higher expectations of her.
But I didn't expect that it would be...
Baoya stood at the door of the main hall, wrapped in a light pink embroidered jacket. She was small and stared at the coffin in a daze.
She just felt a tightness in her chest and the pain made it hard for her to breathe.
There was the rustling sound of falling snow in my ears, mixed with Yunhua's sobs and Yunyue's loud crying.
Baoya blinked, and crystal tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Let's go see mother-in-law." Jingzhen said.
"Brother Xiaojing," Baoya stood still, stretching out her red, frozen little hand and pointing at the coffin in the main hall, "Grandma... is lying in there..."
"Hmm." Jing Zhen was slightly stunned, not understanding what she said.
Baoya sniffed, turned her little hand over, and a snowflake fell into her palm.
"It's snowing. Will she be cold?"
Jingzhen's hand trembled as he held hers, and a tear fell from the corner of his wet and red eyes.
Jingzhen didn't answer, but Baoya knew.
The old lady who once held her hand and said with a smile that she would come to her newly opened shop to show her support will never feel cold again.
She doesn't feel cold, doesn't feel pain, can't speak, can't talk, can no longer hear her speak, and can no longer take her and her third and fourth sisters back to Jiangnan, back to her hometown that she misses so much.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard behind me, approaching slowly and steadily.
Baoya turned around and saw Qianqiong holding a bunch of things.
There was no expression on her pale face at the moment, except for a pair of eyes that were obviously red and swollen from crying.
She put the package at the door and went into the house alone to move the tables piled in the corner.
Jingzhen quickly walked over to help, and the two of them lifted the table and placed it facing the coffin.
Then Qian Qiong opened the package she had just placed at the door, took out the items one by one, and placed them on the altar.
Stem light, fruits, grains, snacks.
After setting everything up, Qianqiong went to the kitchen and got a bowl of rice, which she placed on the altar. There was a pair of chopsticks on the bowl. This was the last meal.
After everything was arranged, she lit the incense again, lighting both ends and placing it horizontally on the incense stand. This is called inverted incense.
Jingzhen helped her bring in the burning paper and clay pot that were placed at the door and placed them on the ground in front of the altar.
Then he lit a stick of incense, bowed and worshipped, and then inserted it into the incense burner.
Qian Qiong didn't say a word, she knelt in front of the clay basin and burned paper.
After struggling for so long, she no longer had any strength left.
After the sadness, the whole person was left numb. He burned the paper one by one and stared at the jumping flames in the clay pot in a daze.
Baoya, Yunhua and Yunyue also lit incense, then quietly gathered around and burned paper with Qianqiong.
The courtyard was silent. Apart from the flickering flames in front of him, the only sound was the rustling of falling snow.
It was unknown how long it took before Qian Qiong came back to her senses as if she had just woken up from a dream.
She raised her hand to wipe the cold tears from her face and said to Baoya and the others, "What are you guys still doing here? Hurry... go to school."
Yunyue shook her head like a rattle, but Baoya, Yunhua and Jingzhen didn't move.
Qian Qiong sniffed: "I'm here, that's all. You all should go do what you need to do. You've been delayed for so long from going to class, Mr. Qi must be worried..."
But no one moved. With the sudden departure of the mother-in-law, none of them felt like going to the academy anymore.
In the end, Jingzhen got up, went to the door, and said something to Ling An who was waiting outside, asking him to go to Yucai Academy to give a message to Qi Mo, and then go to the Yun family.
The four children knelt in the mourning hall for a whole day. As it was getting dark, no one was willing to leave.
Qian Qiong couldn't rush them, so she had to find a few of her own thick coats and quilts and put them on several people to prevent them from getting cold at night and catching a cold.
I went to the kitchen again and cooked a pot of hot porridge and a few boiled eggs.
She herself was not in the mood to eat, but it had been a whole day and she couldn't let the children go hungry.
Nearing the hour of Xu, Wang Cailian, Yun Dalang and Yun Sanlang all arrived.
Everyone lit a stick of incense for Grandma Yu, and after paying their respects, they coaxed Baoya and the others to go back.
But in the end, Yunhua stayed and accompanied Qianqiong to keep vigil for Grandma Yu. After all, she was a disciple, so it was only natural for her to stay.
Wang Cailian and the others stopped trying to persuade them and left with Baoya, Jingzhen and Yunyue.
It was already completely dark, and Baoya was led out of the mourning hall by Jingzhen.
Looking back, I caught a glimpse of a rabbit cage under the eaves. There were two chubby and cute little rabbits lying stiffly in the cage.
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