The noodles were cooked quickly, and everyone carried bowls to serve Zheng Ping's celebratory noodles.
"I'll have a piece of mutton. Meat is the best!" Huang Fei said, reaching into the pot with his chopsticks and picking up a piece of mutton.
“Look at this mutton, doesn’t it look like that four-thousand-yuan piece of gold I found?” Zheng Ping said smugly, squatting down to the side.
"Shut up, and don't mention gold again!"
Everyone shouted to Zheng Ping in unison.
Upon seeing this, Zheng Ping quickly lowered his head to eat his noodles, secretly chuckling to himself.
"Damn it, I reckon Old Zheng will be talking about this gold in his sleep tonight. He's completely obsessed." Someone shook their head and said helplessly.
"Listening to someone talk in their sleep is better than being groped. Sleeping with Brother Zheng is too agonizing," Lin Nian couldn't help but say.
"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't, it was just an accident," Zheng Ping tried his best to cover it up.
"What if he's talking in his sleep while touching my butt?" Chen Feng added sarcastically.
Upon hearing this, Lin Nian froze, while everyone burst into laughter.
The third day arrived quickly. Chen Feng had been distracted since he started panning for gold in the morning. He kept checking his phone, as if he was looking for some information.
If the uncle really passes away, it will definitely be discussed in the group chat.
Chen Feng continued searching until noon, then leaned against a tree, eating bread and scrolling through messages on his phone.
It's already noon, everything should be alright by now.
After finishing his meal, Chen Feng stood up, dusted himself off, and was about to pick up his tools and continue working when his phone rang.
He took out his phone and saw that it was a message in the group chat.
"The eldest brother of the Zhang family's mine has also left."
The message was brief, but when Chen Feng saw it, he couldn't help but take a deep breath.
He silently packed his things and headed towards the Wuling van.
The uncle was a good man, and he wanted to go and see him, as a way of sending him off on his final journey.
We drove to Zhangjia Mine and arrived at the place. There were many cars parked in the yard.
Chen Feng opened the car door, got out, and went straight inside.
Upon entering the hall, the two mourning halls on the right were so glaring, while there were many people on the left.
Some people were giving gifts, chatting with relatives and friends, some were sitting on stools eating sunflower seeds, and there were even a few children in the room.
Meanwhile, the Zhang brothers' argument grew increasingly heated, their eyes turning red.
"Boss Zhang, you're a complete bastard! Why should you take that mining area on the left? Do you think I don't know that area has a lot of good stuff?!"
"I want the left side. Anyone who wants the right side can have it; I don't want it!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Laoda roared in anger, pointing at Zhang Laoer's nose and cursing, "Take it or leave it, I'm already spoiling you by giving it to you!"
"When you got married, Dad bought you a car worth 120,000 yuan. Why? Tell me why!"
"Why didn't I even see a car when I got married? Dad has always favored you his whole life, but now that Dad's gone, I'm going to fuck you! Nobody's going to pamper you anymore!"
Before Zhang Lao Er could speak, his wife objected, pointing at Zhang Lao Da in a shrill voice and cursing him without any restraint.
"Brother Zhang, you're telling me this now? When you got married, why did Dad buy you a 140-square-meter house while ours was only 80-something square meters?"
"You say Dad favors the second son, but I think he's always favored you!"
"Do you really think I don't know how much money Dad is secretly giving you behind your back? You're complaining now, but I'm the one who's complaining! Who can I talk to?"
"Hey Wang, stop talking nonsense!" Zhang's eldest daughter-in-law couldn't stand it anymore. She hurriedly walked over and slapped away the second daughter-in-law's hand that was pointing at Zhang.
"You're talking to me about the house? Then why did Dad give you 188,000 yuan as a bride price when you got married, while I only got 158,000 yuan?"
"You think you're more valuable than me? You slut, your hardware is bigger than mine, why, why!"
Seeing his sister-in-law make a move, Zhang Lao Er didn't hold back. He shoved her away and shouted angrily, "I don't care! Dad said everything in the house is split in half, and the mine is split in half too!"
"I want the other half of the mine. Sue me wherever you want, you bastard! You've taken advantage of me my whole life, and I'm not going to put up with you today!"
"Who the hell are you pushing?!"
After being pushed back by Zhang Lao Er, the eldest sister-in-law seemed to be ignited, rushed forward and slapped Zhang Lao Er across the face.
"Go to hell!" The second brother was furious when he saw his wife being hit. He slapped her twice, and the two of them started fighting.
"Zhang Lao Er, you beast, how dare you hit your sister-in-law! I'll teach you a lesson for Dad today!" Zhang Lao Da grabbed a glass bottle and smashed it over Zhang Lao Er's head.
Glass shards flew everywhere, and Zhang Lao Er's eyes turned red. He grabbed a stool and chopped Zhang Lao Da to the ground.
"I've been wanting to beat you up for ages!"
In an instant, chaos erupted on the left side of the hall, with people crying, shouting, fighting, and hurling insults. Some relatives rushed to break up the fight when they saw it.
Others, perhaps fearing repercussions, kept their distance.
The children inside had never seen anything like this before, and they were all terrified and cried.
Looking at the chaotic scene on the left, Chen Feng silently walked to the front of the uncle's mourning hall and stood there.
The incense in front of the hall had been burned out for who knows how long. Chen Feng took out three sticks, lit them, and placed them in the uncle's offering bowl, then bowed three times.
From the floor line behind Chen Feng, it seemed as if this place had become two different worlds.
They were beaten so badly their heads were split open, and they were crying and screaming.
It's quiet here; people bow and offer incense.
Two extremely discordant worlds were forcibly pieced together, and everything seemed so unnatural.
The uncle in the photo still looked so kind, and Chen Feng even seemed to see a sense of relief in him.
On his way here, he saw a discussion in the group that the uncle had passed away early this morning, just lying quietly in bed.
Everyone is speculating whether the man's excessive grief triggered a heart attack or something similar.
Only Chen Feng knew that it wasn't like that; the uncle wasn't sad, he just missed his wife.
These three days were probably the real ordeal for the uncle.
He had actually been eager to leave this world for a long time.
This is the choice that the older man wanted most.
Chen Feng took a light breath, turned around and left, unnoticed by anyone.
It was as if no one had noticed his arrival.
Funeral parlors have heard more heartfelt expressions of love than churches; hospitals have heard more sincere vows than auditoriums.
You promise to uphold your wedding vows forever, whether in poverty or wealth, in sickness or health, in beauty or fading, in success or adversity.
Are you both willing to love her, comfort her, respect her, and protect her forever, and to remain faithful to her and by her side for the rest of your lives?
"I was willing from the first time I met her."
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