Her forehead was swollen and red, and bleeding. Her consciousness was a little hazy, and her speech was not very clear.
"Don't—no—don't go—"
Xiaomei's mother used the last bit of her consciousness to stammer out a few words. Everyone understood that she wanted to use her life to win a chance to clear her daughter's name.
Her children all cried inconsolably.
Shumei came out of the house with Xiao Shuangning and witnessed all this. She didn't want her daughter to see such a scene, so she quickly covered her daughter's eyes with her hands and took her back home.
Seeing this, the coffin bearers were frightened and dared not move forward.
Although Fu Jun kept shouting at them to hurry up, they did not do so this time.
"Go! Why are you leaving? What's there to see? He's just a lunatic looking for death. Business is more important. Hurry and leave!"
Fu Jun was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. He circled around the coffin and kept urging the coffin bearers.
"What should we do?" one of the coffin bearers asked his companion.
"This..." Everyone hesitated, as if no one knew whether to leave or not, and whether they could make money or not.
After all, someone is about to die, and they don't want to get into unnecessary trouble.
"Are you still leaving?" the coffin bearer continued to ask.
The others remained silent, looking at each other helplessly.
Xiaomei's sister was really forced into a corner this time. She asked her sister-in-law to take care of her mother who had fainted, and walked to the coffin.
At this time, many villagers had gathered around.
As the saying goes, gossip can melt gold, and rumors can hurt people. She wanted to rely on everyone's help to buy time for her brother and win a chance for Xiaomei to clear her name.
"Dear fellow pallbearers, dear uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, I am the younger sister of Fu Jun's wife, Xiaomei. The person lying in this coffin is my biological sister. We are all from the same village, and you must know that my sister was in good health and had no illnesses. But now she died suddenly, and there is a deep scar on her neck. He is Fu Jun, but my brother-in-law claims that my sister fell on her own."
"Little girl, why don't you learn to be a good person at such a young age? Your sister's death was truly an accident. There were many witnesses that night. If you don't believe me, you can go and ask them."
Now that he was out of the house, Fu Jun had to consider his face and pay attention to the impact in the eyes of his fellow villagers. His attitude was much softer than just now in his own yard, and he knew how to reason with Xiaomei.
"Why were you so afraid of the police coming to verify her identity if she fell? She had to take advantage of my brother going to town to contact the police to forcefully bury my sister. Isn't that a guilty conscience? Everyone, please give justice to my poor sister. Her death was unclear. As a family, don't we have the right to find out the truth?"
Xiaomei, the younger sister, was filled with indignation when she spoke.
When the onlookers heard this, they all agreed in unison, "Yes, of course."
"As a husband, does he have any reason to stop us from finding out the truth about my sister's death?" Xiaomei's sister struck while the iron was hot and pointed at Fu Jun, who was a little panicked.
Everyone echoed again, "Of course not."
"Fu Jun! How can you still stop it? If you get to the bottom of the matter, you will feel at peace, right?" One of the old men kindly persuaded Fu Jun.
"Isn't it—isn't it that I'm afraid of missing the time?"
Faced with so many villagers and their gossip, Fu Jun didn't dare to speak sweetly anymore. He had to find excuses to fool everyone.
"That's not right! I heard from Wang Bazi that your wife won't be covering the soil at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning?"
As luck would have it, Wang Bazi's next-door neighbor was also in the crowd. He happened to hear what Wang Bazi said and saw through Fu Jun's lie in person.
"Really? Did I remember it wrong?" Fu Jun was completely at a loss for words. He scratched his head awkwardly, pretending to be thoughtful, and tried to fool everyone by saying he remembered it wrong.
Everyone was just talking about how he could be so confused that he could even get such an important date wrong.
He stood there at a loss, with an extremely ugly expression. He glared at Xiaomei's sister. At this moment, even he himself didn't know how to end it.
Xiaomei's sister couldn't help but sneer when she heard his eloquent and sophistry words.
But no matter what, in front of everyone, Fu Jun shouldn't force her sister away again, right? She breathed a sigh of relief, finally buying time for her brother.
She ran to her mother and sister-in-law, "Mother, wake up! I've bought time for my brother. Please wake up!"
With tears in her eyes, she kept screaming and calling out to her mother who had fainted.
The villagers kindly offered them advice, "Take her to the clinic! Let the doctor give her some medicine. Don't let her get tetanus."
Xiaomei's sister thanked them repeatedly and asked her sister-in-law and brother to take her mother to the health center first, while she stayed here and waited for her eldest brother to come back.
At this time Shumei sent Xiao Shuangning back and just arrived.
She saw that the situation here was relatively stable. She wanted to do something for Xiaomei, but she didn't want to stay there and see Fu Jun's annoying face, so she volunteered to take Xiaomei's mother to the health center.
With Shumei's kind guidance, Xiaomei carried her mother on her back and walked towards the health center.
The pallbearers used sticks to hold the coffin in place so that the weight of the coffin would not fall on them.
After listening to what Xiaomei said, they wondered if they could only carry the coffin back. After all, the time had not come yet. Even if they wanted to make money, they could not make such ill-gotten gains!
This is bad timing and will bring bad luck to the living. It is something that goes against conscience and they must not do it.
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