Chapter 272
Mother Lin still has some memories of her own childhood, but the appearance of her parents has become a little fuzzy. After all, it has been more than 30 years, and most of the memories are not very clear.
Taking a deep breath, she held Reddy's hand and said, "Nice to meet you. If you feel lonely, you can stay. I will take care of you."
Lin Nanzhi was translating on the side.
After hearing this, Reidi immediately smiled and hugged Lin's mother: "That's great, thank you, auntie, thank you for taking me in, I'm so happy."
With Lin Nanzhi's simultaneous translation, Lin's mother also understood and couldn't help but smile. She patted Redi's back gently, and then happily took her to meet Grandpa Lin.
Grandpa Lin has never given up trying to find out about Lin's mother's biological parents, even though he knows it's difficult. He has little education and doesn't know how to find them, so he would go to Lin's mother's place to ask after a while, but there has been no news so far.
He always said that he had no regrets now, and the only regret was that he was unable to help Lin's mother find her family.
Now that Lin's mother's relatives had been found, he was naturally very happy, and he kept talking to Reidi, while Lin Nanye translated on the side. But he felt that he could not do anything, so he downloaded a translator to Reidi's mobile phone.
This software is available in many languages around the world, including Chinese and Russian. However... Grandpa Lin and his friends don’t understand Mandarin, so they still have to rely on Lin Nanzhi to translate it.
In less than a moment, all the relatives knew that Lin's mother's relative had arrived. She was a very tall and beautiful foreign girl.
That's right, Reidi is very tall, 1.8 meters, 3 centimeters taller than Lin Nanzhi. The women here are generally 1.5 to 1.6 meters tall, and there are very few taller ones. Lin Nanzhi's sisters are both top-notch, not to mention Reidi.
For this reason, many people come here specifically just to take a look at this real foreigner.
Although times have become better and better, they stay at home all year round. The farthest place they have been is either the town or their daughter's in-laws' home. They have never seen any foreigners. Lin's mother is a foreigner, but she grew up here since she was a child, so in their eyes she is not a foreigner.
The funeral here is still burial, not cremation as is popular nowadays, and this is the case in the whole of Umong, and even in many places in the southern province. In places like theirs, there is no cemetery, and the elderly are buried when they die, believing in resting in peace.
When an elderly person dies, it is called a happy funeral, so the coffin will be kept at home for a few days, followed by a day of mourning, and then the burial the next day... The whole process will take at least seven or eight days, and sometimes as long as half a month.
Lin Nanzhi is not as busy as others because her main task is to take care of the pregnant Lin Nanxuan and take care of Redi who does not speak Chinese.
In the past few days, Reddy has also started to learn Chinese. Lin Nanzhi started by teaching her pinyin, which would be easier. After a few days of learning, Reddy can also say some simple greetings.
"Zhizhi, I heard that you've recovered from your illness. Let me take a look. I've been feeling a tightness in my chest lately..."
Lin Nanzhi: “…”
Since she saved a life on the roadside last time, when she returned home, her neighbors all knew that her medical skills were amazing, and they spread the word that she was almost as good as Hua Tuo. There were so many people who came to see her for treatment that it was a pity that she lived alone and traveled everywhere, otherwise her door would have been trampled down.
"Third aunt... I'm not a Chinese medicine student, so I can't take your pulse. Western medicine requires machines, and this disease still needs to be treated in the hospital. And this part of the chest can't be treated casually. If something happens, I won't be able to get rid of it early."
"It's nothing, I don't mind."
Lin Nanzhi: “…”
I'm saying no, don't you understand?
"I do mind." Lin Nanzhi smiled but didn't really smile. Seeing that the other party wanted to say something, she quickly stood up and said, "Third Aunt, my mother asked me to go downstairs to help. I won't let you say anything."
After Lin Nanzhi finished speaking, he quickly grabbed Redi and ran away.
Reddy said that she wanted to live in the flower-growing village because her family was all here and she had no relatives there. Moreover, after eating the Chinese food here, she didn't want to go back. So she asked Lin's mother to give her a Chinese name, Yunjin, following Lin's mother's surname.
After things here are settled, she will take Lin's mother to Russia to pay homage to her grandparents, and then live here for a long time.
Lin Nanzhi also took her to apply for a permanent residence permit in Zhonghuajia these days. After submitting various materials, she only needs to wait for the review to pass and then go to get the certificate. After getting it, she can also buy a house here, work, etc.
Brought Redi to the funeral home.
The coffin will be kept in the mourning hall for seven days. Today is the day to help, tomorrow we will burn paper money, and the funeral will be held the day after tomorrow.
Today, there are a lot of my uncle's family members, but there are fewer people in the mourning hall. There are only a few people, basically some people with whom Grandma Lin had a particularly good relationship during her lifetime, and a few children who are keeping vigil.
Lin's mother was also there.
She had been keeping vigil these past few days, and she would occasionally squint, looking particularly bad. Lin Nanzhi was afraid that she would hurt herself, so he made her a cup of brown sugar water and added spiritual spring water to it.
"Why are you here too?"
She looked at Wen Jiunian and found that he was sitting aside, folding yellow paper in his hand.
"Xiao Nian is helping here."
"oh."
Lin Nanzhi also walked over, and Wen Jiunian immediately brought plastic stools for the two of them. After the two sat down, they started folding yellow paper together.
She tilted her head to look over here. Wen Jiunian was wearing black clothes and had a piece of black cloth hanging on his arm. This thing also has a name, called black gauze, and the word "葬" was written in white characters on it.
Her hair was unkempt as it hadn't been trimmed for a while and had grown a little long, so she simply used an elastic band to tie a small braid at the back... It looked very artistic.
"What are you looking at?"
"not."
"Where is your handkerchief?" Mother Lin couldn't help but frown when she saw that Lin Nanzhi had nothing on his head except his hair.
She didn't care whether this thing was worn today or not, but people in the village just liked to gossip, and she was afraid that Lin Nanzhi would be seen and gossiped about if someone saw him.
"I was pulled into a mud pit this morning. I had just washed and dried my clothes, so I didn't do anything."
Mother Lin had no choice but to go into the house and take out two more pieces, giving one to Lin Nanzhi and one to Yun Jin.
Yun Jin is the niece of Lin's mother, but she has nothing to do with Lin's grandmother. However, she felt that the two elders of the Yun family had raised her aunt for so long, so she wanted to show her filial piety to her after her death. This thing has been gone for a long time, and I found that it was not enough, so I went to buy it today and cut it.
Lin Nanzhi took it immediately, held it in his hand and asked Wen Jiunian to help shake it, otherwise it would be uncomfortable to wear it with dust.
Finally, she folded the white cloth in half, one long and one short, and used white thread to sew it in the middle to form a triangular hat and put it on her head. After she finished it for herself, she also remembered to do it for Yunjin.
"Mom, do you have any hairpins?"
"no."
Lin Nanzhi shrugged.
This place was not far from a store, so I went to buy two pairs, one for myself and one for Yunjin, to fix the scarves on her hair.
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