This year was shrouded in gloom for the entire Han family.
On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, a mourning tent was set up on an open space downstairs in Grandpa Han's residential complex.
Small cities don't have strict regulations on this matter. Usually, if someone dies in a resident's home, they set up a mourning tent downstairs. In such cases, even if some people feel it's taboo, they don't dare to say anything.
All the children and grandchildren had to keep vigil. Although the temperature in the northern winter nights could drop to minus ten or twenty degrees Celsius, the huge stove burning in the mourning hall made it not too cold, though it was a bit grueling. Han Yunqi was in good physical condition, so Tang Xiaoxiao wasn't too worried about him. Even Han's father, at his age, was quite healthy. He and Guo Mingli usually ate food produced in the mountains near Tang Xiaoxiao's place, which had some health benefits.
Han Yunqi's generation is doing well, being young, but the other uncles and elders are not so good. After three days and two nights of mourning, the old brothers all showed signs of fatigue.
Han Yunyue knelt for three whole days.
Actually, the Han family might not blame him that much. To put it bluntly, the old man is so old, even if nothing unexpected happens, it could still happen in the next two or three years. Everyone is prepared for that.
But after all, his bringing a homosexual lover home was the direct cause of the old man's anger, and now that Grandma Han has become half-vegetative, Han Yunyue has become a sinner to the Han family.
Even though none of the people who are still conscious are truly resentful of him, they still have to put on a show of deep sorrow on the surface. This is especially true for Han Yunyue's biological father, Han Shiyong. If it weren't for his physical condition, he would probably have knelt with his son for three days straight.
The father is to blame for not raising his son properly. The trouble caused by his son led to his elderly father's untimely death, and Han Shiyong felt that he would never be able to hold his head up high again.
Aside from Han's own family, the relatives and friends who came to pay their respects were unaware of the old man's true cause of death. They only knew that the old man had suddenly fallen ill, and that it was not surprising at all for someone of his age to pass away.
The Han family members are well aware of the principle that family scandals should not be aired in public. Even if there are minor frictions or secret rivalries among the families, they would never let their own family members drag them down at this time.
The Han family has produced a good-for-nothing descendant who not only fell in love with a man but also angered his grandfather to death and caused his grandmother to suffer a stroke and become paralyzed. When this news got out, all of them lost face.
So nobody publicized the facts.
Regarding Han Yunyue's kneeling in front of the mourning hall and refusing to get up, everyone believed that it was because he had a very deep relationship with his grandfather and could not accept the sudden loss of his loved one.
No matter what the other members of the Han family thought in their hearts, they would never openly comfort Han Yunyue, otherwise, what would become of the old man who had just passed away?
They let him kneel.
Only Yu Xiuping felt sorry for her son, so she put thick soft pads under his knees, draped several thick down jackets over him, and brought him food twice.
Han Yunyue did not refuse Yu Xiuping's gesture of putting a soft cushion under him and draping a coat over him. He remained expressionless, as if he had lost all awareness of the outside world, and just knelt mechanically.
He didn't touch a single bite of the food.
After Grandpa Han's body lay in state for three days before his burial, the entire Han family was exhausted, and Han Yunyue collapsed.
He developed a high fever of 39.3 degrees Celsius and fell into a coma.
Seeing him like this, Han Shiyong could no longer put on a bad face. After all, he was his only son. Even if he was angry, could he sever the father-son relationship?
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