To everyone's surprise, when Xu Damao and the other two returned with He Yuzhu's ashes, the person who went to pick them up at the train station was Cui Chunmei.
Yes, she took the initiative to ask Lou Xiao'e about the time, and then went to the train station alone to pick her up. Even though the train was delayed by more than two hours, she stood alone in the cold wind and waited patiently.
After receiving them, at her insistence, He Yuzhu's mourning hall was set up in their previous home.
Why did Yuzhu and her three children wear mourning clothes?
This really took everyone by surprise.
When they got off work in the afternoon, Li Chu and Ding Qiunan brought Wen Xuan and Wang Yueyue over together.
Wenhui wasn't with me; she's newly pregnant and it's inconvenient for her.
Little Chou Bao also stayed with his older sister. The child is too young, and if he sees something he shouldn't, it might frighten him.
When they arrived, Xiao Dang and Huaihua were also there, and they were even wearing mourning clothes for He Yuzhu. After all, he had been their stepfather for a period of time, and their family had basically always been taken care of by him. So these two girls still have some conscience.
Without Qin Huairu around, the two of them didn't completely evolve into ingrates, especially Huaihua.
She has been working for Xu Damao for the past few years. She is poised and elegant in her dealings with people, speaks appropriately, and has the air of a professional woman.
They managed the new store very well, which helped Xu Damao a lot.
Xu Damao was also a generous person. In the summer, he convened a meeting with several shareholders and decided to allocate 5% of the new store's profits each month as a bonus to Huaihua.
Based on this calculation, Huaihua can basically receive nearly 100 yuan per month just from the bonus. Now that it's getting cold, more people are eating hot pot, so she will probably receive even more in the next few months.
This measure made Huaihua even more devoted to Xu Damao.
When Li Chu first heard this, he wondered if he had misheard.
Wow, that's great! They even know to reward you with this. For a small amount of money, you gain a loyal employee. This deal seems like a good one.
After offering incense to He Yuzhu's memorial tablet and receiving thanks from the family, Ding Qiunan gave a small gift. The family didn't intend to sit down; they exchanged a few words with Yushui and Cui Chunmei before leaving. Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e were still waiting outside.
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"Brother Chu, we've been waiting for you to come, otherwise Xiao'e and I would have left long ago."
As the group walked out, Xu Damao spoke in a low voice.
"Did you set up this mourning hall after you came back?"
"No, Chunmei asked a friend to arrange it. It was already set up when we arrived. The registration staff and the people in charge were all her friends."
Standing at the gate of the courtyard, Li Chu looked back and saw that it was quite presentable, not at all shabby. From Cui Chunmei's perspective, it was definitely a high standard.
After all, they're already divorced, so they're not doing anything about it, and nobody can say anything about it.
In this way, she appears to be resourceful and has a broad perspective, earning praise from all her relatives and friends.
If we compare Qin Huairu to her, it's like comparing heaven and earth.
Didn't you see that he never came back?
"Have you seen Qin Huairu yet?"
"Of course we saw him, sigh~" Xu Damao sighed, took out a cigarette from his bag, lit it, and continued, "Brother Chu, you know, the only place we can go is the hospital where Zhu Zi was treated. We don't know any other places, and we don't know the way."
Upon arriving at the hospital, they learned that Qin Huairu hadn't even paid the bills for Lian Zhuzi's death. Lian Zhuzi was still in the morgue, but Qin Huairu had disappeared without a trace, never to be seen again after the man's death.
This was a bit much. Ding Qiunan and the two children following behind were stunned.
Regardless of the circumstances, He Yuzhu suffered this calamity because of you.
You've settled the hospital bills and arranged for the person to be cremated. Is that too much to ask?
But she simply disappeared.
The hospital fees weren't much. It's understandable if you say the amount is too large and you simply can't afford it, but even including the long time spent in the morgue, the total cost was less than twenty yuan.
He Yushui was so angry that she almost fainted.
After the cremation, Yu Shui was still furious and made Xiao Yang take his work ID to the local police station to ask them to help find the person.
Although Xiao Yang didn't have law enforcement authority there, the police are all one family, and it's not difficult to help find someone. The police station didn't refuse; they went out and found two street vendors, and in no time they found out Qin Huairu's address.
When they met Qin Huairu, she had just returned from outside, carrying a snakeskin bag filled with a bag of garbage she had just collected.
She looked like a woman in her sixties or seventies, with gray hair and a slightly hunched back. If we weren't so familiar with each other, we might not recognize her if we met suddenly. She had none of the elegance she had when she was in Beijing.
She is indeed a ruthless person. In her heart, no one is more important than her son, not even herself.
She saved all the money she collected from garbage and the money she had brought with her from the past, just to leave it to her son.
It would cost He Yuzhu over ten yuan, and asking her to pay that would be like taking her life.
Let alone ten or twenty yuan, she can't even bear to part with a penny or two now.
She usually eats steamed buns with cold water, and only every few days will she pick up some vegetable leaves to cook herself a hot meal.
Although her son was sentenced to life imprisonment, she had inquired and found that if he behaved well in prison, there was a very high chance of his sentence being reduced.
So in the past few months, whenever she visited Bang Geng in prison, she would tell him to reform himself well and try to get his sentence reduced.
She's saving money for him outside, so he can get married when he comes out.
Seeing that Qin Huairu had become like that, the group didn't want to say anything more. They met briefly and then parted ways just as quickly.
In fact, Qin Huairu was unaware that the day after she visited her son last month, her son Banggeng, along with the other serious criminals sentenced to life imprisonment, were all transferred to the Northwest and secretly transported away overnight.
As for notifying the prisoners' families, they will definitely be notified, but the prison sends regular mail to the address left when the prisoners were admitted.
Banggeng left an address in Beijing, specifically a courtyard house here. Xin is still on his way, while the others have already arrived in the Northwest.
When Qin Huairu found out about this, it was no earlier than when she visited him in prison in late November. I wonder what his reaction would be then.
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