"Hey, wife!"
Xu Zhaolan's sudden fall startled Shen Qiusheng, who was standing next to her.
He was also a loving husband. When he saw Xu Zhaolan fall to the ground, he rushed over to help her up and then slapped her face twice.
"Wife, wake up!"
The force was so great that Xu Zhaolan's face immediately turned red, and her highly developed pain receptors instantly woke her up.
"A ghost...a ghost!"
The first thing Xu Zhaolan did when she opened her eyes was to cover her face and point to the door. Shen Qiusheng looked blank. It wasn't that he wasn't afraid, but that he was nearsighted and couldn't see very well at night.
"What ghosts or ghosts? Don't talk nonsense at night!"
However, Shen Dongsheng realized that the source of Xu Zhaolan's fear was that her mother's face was not covered.
Okay, then just cover it up and that's it.
So he quickly ran over and pulled the tattered mat up a bit.
This time you won't be able to see it.
"Big brother, have you eaten yet?"
After recovering from the grief of his mother's death, Shen Qiusheng still felt his stomach growling.
He politely greeted Shen Dongsheng, thinking he could use this as an excuse to sit down and have a meal.
"No, I walked all the way from Fujia Village."
"That's perfect, let's sit down and have something to eat together."
Shen Qiusheng even went so far as to keep his own brother outside when it was mealtime. However, when he saw that there was only a bowl of stir-fried vegetables left on the table, he cast a questioning look at Xu Zhaolan.
Where's the meat?
Xu Zhaolan had a calm expression on her face, and then she sighed in a pretentious manner and said to Shen Dongsheng, "Brother-in-law, you know that our family is poor, so we only have these vegetables and flatbreads. Please don't mind them."
Shen Dongsheng dared not complain. Although he hadn't been so poor as to eat a bowl of vegetables with his family when he ate at Qian Xiaohua's house, now was clearly not the time to be picky.
Moreover, Xu Zhaolan's pancakes also contained eggs and lard. So Shen Dongsheng immediately began to wolf them down.
However, while eating the pancake, he inadvertently noticed Shen Guangzong next to him, who was eating from a bowl. There were even a few pieces of braised pork in the boy's bowl!
Xu Zhaolan's gaze had been fixed on Shen Dongsheng the whole time, and when she saw him looking at her son's bowl, she immediately realized what was going on.
"Sigh, the meat this child is eating was sent by his maternal grandmother. There were only a few pieces, and neither of us could bear to eat them."
After hearing this, Shen Dongsheng felt too ashamed to compete with a child for food.
What made him somewhat uncomfortable was that he had treated Shen Guangzong better than his own daughter, but from the moment he entered the house until now, Shen Guangzong hadn't greeted him once.
"Guangzong, don't you recognize your uncle?"
After all, he was the nephew on whom he had placed high hopes. Shen Dongsheng forced a smile and asked Shen Guangzong.
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Shen Guangzong immediately put down his bowl and asked, "Uncle, didn't you get married? Did you buy me any meat when you came back?"
"After Tiger's aunt next door got married, she came back and bought him meat too!"
Shen Dongsheng was taken aback by these words. It wasn't that he minded Shen Guangzong's mention of getting married, but he suddenly remembered that he had bought a dollar's worth of meat from Fu Dazhuang earlier that day.
When he left Fujia Village, he didn't forget to put the meat on the cart.
Where did the meat go?
Thinking of this, he stood up abruptly and quickly walked outside.
Xu Zhaolan and Shen Qiusheng, the remaining couple, looked at each other in bewilderment until Shen Dongsheng came in from outside with a black object in his hand and a smile on his face.
"I bought this meat today; I'm saving it for Emperor Guangzong!"
He swallowed hard after he finished speaking.
When Xu Zhaolan saw that he had actually bought meat, a smile immediately appeared on her face.
"Oh, brother, you're too kind. You even went out of your way to buy meat on your way home. No wonder you dote on Guangzong the most... Ugh, why is this meat so dirty? It's covered in mud!"
Just moments ago, Xu Zhaolan thought she had misread the color, but when she picked up the piece of meat and touched it, she realized something was wrong.
The meat had lost its original color; it was all black and covered in dirt.
"Oh, I tripped and fell on my way back, so I probably got dirty."
"What? Dirty meat? I don't eat dirty meat! Uncle, give me some money to buy another piece!"
Shen Guangzong immediately became angry and looked like he was about to throw a tantrum and lie on the ground, while Shen Qiusheng, who was standing next to him, watched without saying a word.
But Shen Dongsheng had no money left, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "I have no money. I came back specifically to bury my mother."
Xu Zhaolan looked on in disbelief.
"Mother has saved up quite a bit of money over the years, brother, you can't be so heartless as to swallow it all by yourself!"
Honestly, Shen Dongsheng was speechless with accusations. "I have no money, and neither does my mother. Qiusheng, you need to control your wife! How can she say such things!"
Shen Qiusheng stood up silently. "Brother, did Mother really not leave you any savings?"
His face was full of disbelief, an expression that deeply pierced Shen Dongsheng's heart.
These are his family members, these are his brothers!
Xu Zhaolan became increasingly agitated as she thought about it. Originally, she entertained Shen Dongsheng hoping to get some money out of him.
I never expected this person to be so penniless.
"What else is there to say?" Xu Zhaolan said, her smile fading. "Big brother, if Mother hadn't left any savings, she would have gotten into trouble because of you."
We just went back to my parents' house, and as soon as we got back, my mother disappeared. If we hadn't come back to take care of the house and its surroundings, I'm afraid no one in the house would have been able to rest.
The house is now full of things. You should bury Mother quickly, and then disperse.
After saying that, she took the piece of meat and walked towards the kitchen without looking back.
Shen Qiusheng sighed, feigning difficulty, "Brother, Zhao Lan wasn't being mean. It's just that we have no choice; it's really hard to support a family like this."
"Mother left with you without a word, and when we came back, there was no one in the house. Now you're back, but Mother is gone. I don't know what to say..."
The implication was that Shen Dongsheng was inextricably linked to Old Lady Shen's death.
But that is indeed the case, and Shen Dongsheng was powerless to refute it.
"Well then, no matter what, let's bury Mother first, shall we?"
The location of Old Lady Shen's grave had actually been decided long ago, right next to their father's.
However, Shen Qiusheng hesitated, "Brother, I haven't been feeling well lately, so I can't go to those places at night. Why don't you go instead?"
The thought of having to work in the cemetery that night made Shen Qiusheng want to refuse a million times over.
Shen Dongsheng didn't say anything because his younger brother had been in poor health since childhood. He could only finish the pancake in his hand in a few bites, pick up the shovel, and go out.
Seeing him leave, Xu Zhaolan quickly went forward and closed the door.
"That's it, let's just leave this alone!"
Meanwhile, in the nearby Fu Family Village, the Fu family welcomed a guest.
"Xiao Bai, why are you here so late?"
Bai Qianzhou smiled and handed the food he was carrying to Ye Xiaocui, "Auntie, I've come to see Awan about something."
Fu Wan was a little surprised to hear that the person was looking for her.
"What's up?"
Bai Qianzhou looked mysterious and then took out a notebook from his backpack.
Fu Wan immediately recognized it as the book she had given to Zhao Gang before.
How did this notebook end up with you?
"It's quite a coincidence. When Uncle Zhao told you he was looking for someone to translate, he didn't mention that the person was me, did he?"
I also know a little bit of the island nation's language.
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