After finishing his meal, Wang Tianxiao hesitated for a long time before finally asking Xiaozhu to take the children to her sister-in-law's house to play.
Then, I tried to tell my mother the bad news.
Zhang Yufeng was stunned when she heard the news.
She was sitting cross-legged on the kang (a heated brick bed), but after hearing the news, she slowly closed her eyes and then remained motionless.
Wang Tianxiao sat with her.
He knew that his mother was extremely saddened and had fallen into a temporary state of emotional turmoil.
He didn't know what comfort he could offer.
Perhaps, saying nothing at this moment is the most appropriate thing to do.
And so they sat there from dawn till dusk, and then into the middle of the night.
Gradually, he started to feel sleepy.
I started to doze off without even realizing it.
Suddenly he heard his mother calling him.
"Second son."
"Ah... Mother, I'm here." Wang Tianxiao jolted awake, opened his eyes, and saw that his mother had also opened her eyes.
Where is the third brother now?
"Oh, I've already contacted the coffin and the tent that's been set up. I've also notified my older brother and sister, and asked Tianyi to contact people and things related to the funeral. Tianxin is helping out too."
"Oh, that's good. Thank you for your hard work."
"What's so hard about this... after all..."
He found the word "brother" a bit jarring, so he didn't say it.
"Sigh, the third son's life was ruined by that wife. He wasn't like this before he got married... I was just wondering when I would go to report to the King of Hell, and before I knew it, my son went first."
"mother……"
"Don't worry about your mother, I can handle it. I haven't told you yet, but before your eldest brother, I actually had another son and a daughter. The older one is older than Fangwa, and the younger one is about the same age as Pengwa."
But Mother didn't have any breast milk to feed them, and she had nothing to eat either, so they all starved to death. Mother thought to herself that she never wanted to see her children die in front of her again, not even one of them. But she never imagined that she couldn't defy fate.
Sigh, it's all fate.
Think of how your father died so young, it's easy for him, leaving you all to your mother. A widow raising eight children alone, your mother has truly done her best. God, what more do you want from your mother? How can I stop this calamity from befalling my children…”
Zhang Yufeng began to pour out her heart, like a broken record.
Wang Tianxiao had no idea that his mother had given birth to two more children.
Perhaps if it weren't for this reason, their mother might never have told them.
It's like tearing open a wound that had just healed.
Wang Tianxiao didn't know what to say, so he could only stay with his mother and listen to her recount old stories.
Before I knew it, another whole night had passed.
The two were startled from their conversation when the chirping of birds in the mountains began to echo through the valley.
Zhang Yufeng looked out the window at the gradually brightening dawn in the east, and finally sighed, "Let's rest for a while. After you get up, take me down the mountain. I didn't educate my good-for-nothing son well when he was alive, and as his mother, I must give him a proper send-off after he dies."
Wang Tianxiao nodded.
He didn't dare go to sleep directly, but instead asked Li Yali to come and keep his mother company.
To be honest, I'm still worried that my mother might do something foolish.
Who knows?
In everyone's heart, the one who was most heartbroken by Wang Tianren's death was undoubtedly his mother.
The other brothers were sad, but none of them experienced the near-collapse of grief their mother felt.
The pain of losing a child, the grief of a parent outliving their child, is a calamity that no mother can ever overcome, and my mother has experienced it several times.
.
Wang Tianren's funeral was not a grand affair.
It wasn't that Wang Tianxiao and the others were unwilling to make arrangements, but rather that with so many people missing from the village recently, the entire village was immersed in immense grief.
Few people still have the energy to handle this kind of thing.
Therefore, almost everyone simplifies things.
The coffin was kept for two days. On the second night, a family memorial service was held. After that, the body was buried in the grave under the cover of darkness in the early morning.
All the paper figures, houses, and mounts would be burned directly on the grave after the person was buried.
After daybreak, the guests only need to have one meal before they can leave.
From then on, memories of a person will gradually fade from people's consciousness, leaving only a faint impression in the hearts of their closest relatives.
After a while, especially three years later, this person will be completely forgotten by people.
After burying the body, the Wang family held a family meeting in the temporary tent that had been set up.
Besides Wang Tiancheng and Wang Tianren who was buried in the ground, Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaolan also returned.
This was one of the most complete gatherings yet.
This time, however, people weren't discussing things as enthusiastically as before; instead, everyone had a touch of sadness on their faces.
Led by Wang Xiaozhu, the children went out to play.
Leave all the sadness to the adults in the tent.
for a long time.
Zhang Yufeng said calmly, "Everyone's here today. There are a few things we need to discuss together, so we can all make a decision. I'm a little tired, so I'll leave it to..."
All eyes turned to Wang Tianzhong.
In this situation, if the mother didn't want to talk about it, then it must have been the eldest brother who did.
"...Let Tianxiao speak."
Everyone was stunned.
Wang Tianzhong was also stunned.
Everyone's eyes turned to Wang Tianxiao again.
But Wang Tianxiao also seemed a little surprised, and subconsciously looked at his mother, wondering why he had suddenly been asked to preside over this family meeting.
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