“Impossible, you must be mistaken. He called just an hour ago, saying he was going to take his mother to the hospital tomorrow. You told him that.” Fang’s mother said repeatedly.
“We did make an appointment to go to the hospital tomorrow. My aunt passed away when she called. My uncle and Tianlai came out, leaving my aunt alone in the hotel. My uncle smoked a lot of cigarettes, and my aunt choked and coughed up blood. The blood flowed into her trachea, and she couldn't catch her breath and died.”
Fang Yanming briefly described the cause of Fang's aunt's death. The forensic doctor said that Fang's aunt died about an hour earlier, around the time that Xu Tianlai and his son went to make a phone call.
Aunt Fang must have been in despair before she died, right?
"Your uncle is still smoking in the house? That old bastard, he's trying to drive your aunt to her death! The doctor said your aunt has cancer, and it's because of your uncle's smoking. Why is God blind, not letting that old bastard get cancer? Oh my... your aunt died such a tragic death..."
Fang's mother instantly forgot about her aunt's selfishness and stinginess, and was left only with grief, bursting into tears.
Father Fang covered his face in grief, tears streaming down his face. That was his own sister, gone just like that, never to be seen again.
Feeling distressed, Mr. Fang subconsciously pulled out his pipe, lit it, and started smoking. Mrs. Fang, who was wailing loudly, smelled the smoke and saw her husband smoking while crying. Enraged, she didn't even hang up the phone and started hitting him.
"Still smoking? You want to kill me so I can remarry? If you want to smoke, go smoke outside and don't come here to ruin my life..."
Fang's mother, with god-like fighting power, turned her grief into strength and scratched Fang's father all over, leaving his face covered in blood. Fang Yanming heard his parents arguing on his phone, smiled helplessly, and hung up.
His aunt's death served as a wake-up call for his mother. Before, when he was always complaining about his smoking, his parents never took it seriously, saying that their ancestors had always done it this way and nothing would happen. Now, however, they were finally taking it to heart.
Uncle Fang and Xu Tianlai took Aunt Fang's ashes back to their hometown. Fang Yanming bought the train tickets, but he deliberately bought seated tickets. His aunt was so ill, and these two couldn't bear to buy sleeper tickets, making his aunt sit for more than ten hours with her sick body. They were really awful.
Although Aunt Fang choked to death, there must have been a reason why she had to sit in a hard seat for more than ten hours. Fang Yanming harbored resentment and deliberately made things difficult for the father and son.
"Yanming, are there no sleeper tickets left?" Uncle Fang asked in a muffled voice.
He had no choice but to pay for the hard seat himself. Of course, he would want to be more comfortable if he didn't have to pay. Sitting in a hard seat all night would break his back and make his feet swollen. It was truly a torment.
Fang Yanming sneered, "There weren't any when you came, and there aren't any left now. If you want to take a sleeper berth, we'll get you one after you get on the train."
He shoved the urn into Xu Tianlai's hands, turned and left, not wanting to see the father and son at all, afraid he would lose control and beat them up.
Uncle Fang was about to put on airs again, but Xu Tianlai tugged at him and said, "Get in the car!"
Xu Tianlai was also heartbroken and felt more resentful towards his father. It was his own mother who had died. If the villagers knew that his mother had choked to death because no one cared for her, they would definitely gossip about him, and he would have no face to go back.
Uncle Fang snorted sullenly, got on the bus awkwardly, and didn't mention the matter of upgrading to a sleeper berth again. It was absolutely impossible for him to pay for it out of his own pocket.
Fang Yanming didn't care about what happened after that, but because of the funeral arrangements, Fang's father and other brothers had a falling out with Fang's uncle and almost got into a fight.
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