Chapter 334 Everything Happened Too Suddenly
Shen Xuewei rushed to the hospital after getting off the plane, only to find that the person had already passed away.
At this moment, my second aunt called and I learned that everyone had already returned to their hometown.
She changed buses twice and returned to Xiaoli Village. The moment she stepped into the Chen family's house and looked at the portrait in front of the hall, she felt her feet were unusually heavy.
Noticing her return, Chen Fangli walked towards her carrying a set of mourning clothes.
She suppressed her grief and said, "Weiwei, change your clothes, say goodbye to your grandfather, and send him off on his final journey."
The mourning clothes were very light, yet they felt unusually heavy in my hands.
Shen Xuewei took it with trembling hands, her voice hoarse.
"Everything was fine last week, right? How... how could Grandpa suddenly pass away..."
Chen Fangli shook her head, probably because she had been crying for a long time before this, and her eyes were red and swollen.
"Let's not talk about that now. Let's finish your grandfather's funeral and let him rest in peace first."
Shen Xuewei silently put on the mourning clothes and knelt behind Chen Fangli and the others.
For her, all of this came too suddenly.
Relatives who had received the news kept coming to the house to help. The coffin was placed in the middle of the main hall, and the candlelight in the mourning hall flickered, illuminating the portrait of Grandpa Chen.
In a daze, I felt that the others had not yet left.
Carrying her on my back along mountain paths when she was little, teaching her to write and read with a stern face, the smile on her face when she saw her report card, and so many other things...
As Shen Xuewei recalled the past years, tears involuntarily streamed down her face.
All of Chen's children, except for Chen Fangran who died many years ago and Chen Fangqiu who is still serving time in prison, are here.
Even Chen Fangmin, who had married far away, knelt before the mourning hall, tears streaming down her face.
"Dad, how could you leave us so young? I just visited you a while ago, how could this happen?"
Her biological father passed away before he was even seventy. Even if Chen Fangmin is heartless, she is truly heartbroken at this moment.
She was the apple of her parents' eye since she was a child, and the scenes of her time with her parents before she got married kept replaying in her mind.
The thought of never having a father again made her cry even louder.
Grandma Xi was not in front of the mourning hall because she couldn't bear the sudden death of Grandpa Chen. She had already fainted several times from crying and had to be sent back to her room to rest.
The body lay in state for three days, and relatives and friends who received the news came to pay their respects.
On the third day, at the chosen auspicious time, the coffin was carried to the cemetery by the pallbearers, and Shen Xuewei and others accompanied them to the funeral.
After everything was arranged and everyone dispersed, the Chen family members sat in the house, all looking dazed.
At this moment, Chen Fangmin stepped forward, looked at Chen Fangyang, and finally asked the question.
"Second brother, what exactly happened? Dad was fine just a few days ago, how could something like this suddenly happen?"
Chen Fangyang lifted his eyelids and glanced at her. "How would I know what happened? I wasn't there when Dad had the accident. It was the caregiver who called me and that's how I found out."
Chen Fangmin was even angrier. "What kind of attitude is this? You took Mom and Dad to the city, and now that something happened, you're saying you don't know anything?"
"You live so close by, yet you never visit your parents more often. What are you up to?"
Chen Fangyang was furious at what she said and opened his mouth to curse.
However, Zhao Fang'er, who was standing to the side, gave him a look, and he snorted coldly, swallowing his anger.
Zhao Fang'er looked at Chen Fangmin, her tone gentle yet carrying an inherent sense of pressure.
"Big sister, you've married far away all these years and rarely come back. It's understandable that your parents are worried about you. I understand that."
“When Dad had the accident, everyone was busy with their own things, and it happened so suddenly that by the time we found out, Dad had already been taken to the hospital.”
“At the time, only my mother and the caregiver were by my side the whole time. Now the caregiver is not here, so only my mother knows what happened.”
"How about we ask Mom what happened?"
Of all these people, the one Chen Fangmin dared not offend the most was Zhao Fang'er.
As soon as Zhao Fang'er spoke, she was immediately silenced and looked at the old and frail figure in front of the sofa.
"Mom, what exactly happened the day Dad had the accident?"
Since Grandpa Chen passed away, Grandma Xi's hair has turned completely white in just a few days.
For the past three days, she hasn't had a drop of water or anything, refusing to eat anything no matter what, and has managed to get through it all thanks to her willpower.
It wasn't until after Grandpa Chen's burial that her children persuaded her repeatedly, and she finally managed to muster the courage to eat a few mouthfuls of porridge.
He was so heartbroken that he didn't utter a single word except for crying.
Hearing her daughter's question, her eyelids began to tremble violently as she recalled what had happened that day.
"Yes, he's your dad's cousin, the one named Xiang Heng."
She clenched her fists, veins bulging, filled with both regret and anger.
"That day, for some reason, he suddenly came to our house and said he wanted to catch up with your dad."
"I went to get some tea, and I don't know what he said to your dad, but your dad suddenly started screaming. I knew something was wrong, so I quickly called an ambulance to take your dad to the hospital, but it was too late..."
She suddenly slapped her thigh hard, her face covered in tears and snot.
"I regret it so much. If I had known he didn't get along with our family, I shouldn't have let him in. I'm the one who ruined your father's life!"
Everyone tried hard to recall this person, but found they had no recollection of him.
Chen Fangyang seemed to have a vague recollection of it, but he couldn't remember who he had heard it from... He looked at Shen Xuewei.
It seems I heard about it from Shen Xuewei before.
Shen Xuewei was initially bewildered, but then quickly remembered.
"It's the person who came to borrow money from my grandparents before."
When she mentioned it, Chen Fangyang remembered it too.
"Yes, that's why he borrowed money from his family, and that's when Dad finally decided to build the house."
However, no one can understand why this happened so many years ago.
Is it because his family didn't lend him money back then that he's trying to harm Grandpa Chen?
Even if you truly harbor resentment, there's no need to act like this, is there?
The people in the room were getting angrier and angrier. In the end, they filled two cars to the brim and drove to Chen Xiangheng's house to settle accounts with him.
They were all surnamed Chen. Although Chen Xiangheng did not return to his hometown, the news of his maternal grandfather's death still reached him through a relative's phone call.
Thinking back to what he had inadvertently said to Grandpa Chen a few days earlier, which caused Grandpa Chen to suddenly become emotional and be hospitalized, and then came the news of Grandpa Chen's death.
The Chen family has been in chaos these past few days and hasn't thought of him.
Once this is over, won't they come looking for trouble with him?
Thinking of this, he was initially flustered, but quickly calmed down.
Since the person is already dead and couldn't speak before death, the secret will definitely not be discovered, so what's there to panic about?
He's just a gigolo, plus a few women, and the only troublemaker is still in jail.
Even if that family comes knocking on our door, what can they do to him?
The thought had barely crossed my mind when I heard a loud knocking on the door.
"Chen Xiangheng, get out here right now!"
No matter how lazy and unreliable Chen Fangyang usually appears, his own father is gone.
At this moment, the man who was in charge of the household stood in front of everyone and knocked heavily on the door again and again.
Chen Xiangheng's whole family was at home when they suddenly heard such a loud commotion, and they all came out of their rooms.
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