No one knew what Li was going crazy about, but no one cared...
Afterwards, under the instructions of the old patriarch, Hua Ciyuan's completely cold body was carried back to the Hua family by four big men.
Hua Shi followed the four big men, with his head down, walking silently on the village road, returning to the Hua family.
After laughing for a while, Li sat on the snow, with her head buried, her face covered, and her body trembling. She refused to get up and did not say a word even when others called her.
There were some kind-hearted people in the crowd who tried to pull her up, but she glared them away fiercely. Seeing this, the others dispersed and ignored her.
Then, Hua Ciyuan's body was carried away on a wooden board. When the onlookers saw that there was nothing more to watch, they scattered like birds and beasts and went back to their homes.
The old patriarch was also dizzy from this incident. He sighed softly and said a few words of evil, then was helped back...
In the empty woods, only Li was left sitting on the cold snow, whimpering crazily. No one else was there...
“W-What happened…?”
Hearing the noise coming from outside the house, Hua Xiao was the first to open the door and run out.
She first saw a familiar figure in the crowd and asked timidly. Then her pupils shuddered, her whole body trembled involuntarily, and she stood stiffly in place.
Is that... Dad's body...?
Really dead…?
Hua Xiao's mind was blank and messy, and he couldn't remember anything.
She stood stiffly at the door until Hua Shi walked up and pulled her aside.
"Bang……"
The long wooden board was placed on the ground in the empty yard, making a muffled sound.
Most of the villagers who had been following in from outside the courtyard gate had not seen enough of the excitement, so they blocked the door of the Hua family and looked inside curiously.
Hua Shi thanked the four people who helped carry the body back.
The four of them looked at each other and silently retreated from the yard.
At this time, when something like this happened, they didn't know what to say...
After everyone left, Hua Shi closed the open courtyard gate to block out the group of people who were blocking the gate, making a lot of noise, watching the excitement, and gossiping.
In the yard that had quieted down again, Hua Ciyuan's frozen and hard body lay on the wooden board, motionless and silent.
Hua Xiao huddled in a corner far away, his eyes fixed dully on the cold corpse. His eyes were red, and his expression seemed as if he hadn't reacted to what had happened.
Hua Li, who was in the room, came out late with her younger brother. Both brothers' cheeks were a little red, with marks from pressure. Their eyes were confused, and their reactions were slow, as if they had just woken up and were dazed.
When Hua Ciyuan was lying on the wooden board in the yard, Hua Li had no idea what was going on. He rubbed his eyes, opened them, and said in a daze:
"Dad, why are you sleeping in the yard? Don't you want to go back to the house to sleep?"
At this moment, the sky has already darkened, and the yard is so gray and hazy that it is hard to see clearly...
“Woo…”
After hearing Hua Li's confused question, Hua Xiao could no longer hold back and sobbed.
She was terrified and frightened, her face turned pale and blue, and the sound could not be controlled and overflowed from her throat...
Hua Li's sleepiness suddenly disappeared, and he looked up blankly towards the crying sound: "Hua Xiao? Why are you crying?"
He still hasn't reacted. What he saw before him was... a cold corpse...
Hua Xiao looked at Hua Li with tearful eyes and said in a trembling voice, "Dad... he, he's dead!"
Hua Li was stunned for a moment, then immediately ran down the steps from the eaves and looked in the direction of the wooden board.
This glance made him freeze in his tracks...
Although it was not very clear in the gray light, the face that was swollen by blisters was abnormally purple, and the lips were so pale that there was no blood at all... It was the appearance of a dead person.
Hua Li's little face froze, and when she came to her senses, two lines of tears fell uncontrollably.
Dead… ?
How could that be?
Wasn't he fine during the day? How could he suddenly die...
Hua Shi, who was standing far away, lowered her eyes, walked back to the house silently, and took a piece of black cloth that was left over from making clothes.
He walked out again, spread out the cloth and covered Hua Ciyuan's face, which was so pale that no blood was left.
Hua Li, whose vision was blocked and who was crying silently, suddenly came to his senses. He looked at Hua Shi with tearful eyes and asked with a choked voice, "What...what happened? Why did Dad die?"
Hua Xiao also cast a close gaze over.
"He drowned. He fell into a well and drowned. When he was found, he was already gone," said Hua Shi.
“Woo…”
“Wuwuwu…”
The two of them burst into tears at the same time, tears streaming down their faces.
Listening to the two people crying, Hua Shi felt a little upset.
She couldn't say anything to comfort him, so she just stood there and watched silently.
The youngest, Xiao Huaying, looked left and right, watching her two older brothers and sisters crying with curiosity, not understanding why they were crying.
Not only Hua Li saw Hua Ciyuan's lifeless body, but Xiao Huaying also saw it, but he didn't understand what it meant.
He was still young, he didn't understand what death was, nor did he know why people cried after death...
He only cries when he is hungry and has nothing to eat...
Hua Li and Hua Xiao cried softly, their eyes were swollen, but they didn't stop.
Night fell quickly and the yard became pitch dark.
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