Because of fatigue, lack of food, and resentment... Ma Jianguo gradually became unwilling to take care of Ma Jinhua.
Then, one day, Ma Jianguo, exhausted and unable to move, returned home in the twilight and saw a group of two children, one adult and one child, having fun in the yard.
Ma Qiangguo's happy and relaxed expression made Ma Jianguo's eyes throb with pain.
Why?
Ma Jianguo's resentment reached its peak, and he could no longer bear it. He shouted, "Qiangguo, help my mother and feed her something."
Ma Qiangguo, who was having fun playing with his son, was taken aback and refused directly, "Brother, we agreed when we split up the family business that you would take care of Mom."
"That's not just my mother!" Ma Jianguo yelled, then went into his room and slammed the door shut.
There was a loud bang.
Ma Xiaobao was so frightened that he immediately started crying.
Ma Qiangguo immediately flew into a rage and shouted back in a harsh tone, "I don't care anyway!"
After shouting, Ma Qiangguo carried Ma Xiaobao out of the yard and went out to play.
Ma Jianguo, who entered the room, lay down on the bed angrily, thinking angrily, "If Lao Er doesn't care, I won't care either!"
Because he was too tired, Ma Jianguo fell asleep after a while.
When I woke up, it was already dark.
Ma Jianguo went to the kitchen in the dark and cooked something to fill his stomach. When he returned to his room, Ma Jianguo stopped in the dark yard.
It was quiet and there was no sound in Ma Jinhua's main house.
Should I eat it?
With a bit of self-deception, Ma Jianguo told himself this, and then went back to his room to continue sleeping.
All things are difficult at the beginning, but once there is a first time, there will be a second time, a third time... and countless times!
Whenever he saw Ma Qiangguo or Song Ping idle, Ma Jianguo would call out, "Qiangguo/sister-in-law, help mom clean and feed her!"
After shouting, Ma Jianguo will not care about Ma Jinhua that day. As for whether Ma Qiangguo/Song Ping will care about Ma Jinhua?
He doesn't care, he shouted anyway!
If Ma Qiangguo doesn’t care, it’s his fault and he is unfilial!
With this mentality, Ma Jianguo began to take on work every now and then.
The feeling of being a hands-off boss is definitely relaxing and comfortable.
After relaxing, Ma Jianguo's body, which had been so tense that it looked like it could collapse at any time, was no longer willing to return to its previous state.
After two weeks of going hungry, eating only occasionally, and without anyone cleaning the body for a long time, even someone with such tenacious vitality and strong will to survive as Ma Jinhua could not survive.
Her stomach felt empty, as if there was a fire burning in it, causing her whole body to ache. The pain was indescribable. Ma Jinhua stared at the door with her eyes wide open.
Her son!
She has three sons!
Why haven’t you come yet!
At the last moment before her death, Ma Jinhua suddenly thought of her two daughters. There was a famine and food shortage that year. For the sake of her three sons, she locked her two daughters in the room and starved them to death.
In a trance, it seemed as if two familiar voices rang in my ears, constantly murmuring, "Mom, I'm so hungry, so hungry..."
So hungry...
I’m so hungry!
When they died, they were just like she was now, staring at the door.
They are waiting for her!
And she is waiting for her son!
But in the end, they didn't wait for anyone.
Maybe it's retribution...
Ma Jinhua died of starvation in a mess of feces and urine.
In the evening of the next day, Ma Jianguo, who had eaten his fill, entered the room with his bowl of rice and saw Ma Jinhua lying motionless.
"Mom?"
I called out, but there was no response.
His heart skipped a beat, and Ma Jianguo trembled as he thought of a possibility. He stepped forward tremblingly. Ma Jinhua's wide eyes made him shudder.
"Mom!"
Dead, dead!!
After realizing this fact, Ma Jianguo, despite being horrified and sad, felt an uncontrollable sense of relief in his heart.
The heavy burden is gone!
After a few seconds of accepting the reality, the stench of feces and urine mixed with the stench of corpses in the room made Ma Jianguo dizzy.
Ma Jianguo strode out of the room and returned to the yard, shouting anxiously, "Qiangguo, sister-in-law, come out quickly!"
"Calling for the soul! What are you calling for..." Song Ping muttered, but after seeing Ma Jianguo's ugly face, she shut up in fear.
"What's wrong?" Ma Qiangguo then walked out.
"Mom is dead!" Ma Jianguo's eyes were red and his tone was heavy.
"Dead!" Ma Qiangguo stood there in a daze, forgetting what to say for a moment. He was overwhelmed with mixed feelings and couldn't describe how he felt.
The two brothers stood there in silence with heavy hearts, looking at each other with blaming eyes, but in the end neither of them said a word to blame the other.
The two men knew in their hearts that Ma Jinhua died because they blamed each other, and they were both responsible.
After a long time, Ma Qiangguo broke the silence, sighed deeply, and said, "It won't be so painful if I leave."
Ma Jianguo remained silent but did not refute.
The scene he had just seen flashed before his eyes again. The bed was covered in feces and urine. Ma Jinhua's skinny body was covered in spots. Her eyes were filled with resentment...
Maybe living is torture.
Maybe the second and third brothers are right.
Maybe she should have been given up treatment when she was in the hospital, so that she could have passed away peacefully and wouldn't have suffered so much!
Ma Jianguo couldn't help but squat down and burst into tears. He was sad and upset, and at the same time, he was filled with regret and remorse.
…
When someone dies, we need to hold a funeral, and then the problem arises: there is no money!
Ma Jianguo had no money, and neither did Ma Qiangguo. In the end, the problem fell to Ma Fuguo, who had a stable job.
Ma Fuguo was extremely angry, but there was nothing he could do. Ma Jianguo and Ma Qiangguo really had no money. Not to mention that they could come up with the money, they couldn't even borrow it.
Ma Fuguo, the younger brother, has to take on the main responsibility.
Using their newly received salary and some money borrowed from colleagues, Ma Fuguo provided the money, while Ma Jianguo and Ma Qiangguo contributed the labor, and the three of them arranged Ma Jinhua's funeral.
Ma Jinhua died, and when Ma Jianguo went to his wife's house to report the news, Li Hongmei naturally took Lin Xiaoman and Ma Jianguo back together.
"Mom, why did you leave? Why didn't you wait for me? I earned some money and could buy you some medicine. Why didn't you wait for me?"
Translation: She is not taking care of her mother-in-law during this period, but is earning money to treat her illness!
Li Hongmei performed the mourning act very well and continued to play the role of a filial daughter-in-law.
Small coffin, announcing the death, attending the funeral, staying at the coffin, keeping vigil, large coffin, funeral procession, burial...
After a series of funeral procedures were completed, Ma Jinhua was buried and became a tombstone in the Qingwanxi Village cemetery.
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