School started, and Bi Yue got up early in the morning to make some dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork. She took two of the three aluminum lunch boxes.
When she was sitting in class in the morning and listening to the teacher's roll call, she and Liang Xiaoxiao were sitting there poking each other during the last roll.
The two girls wearing exactly the same clothes were particularly eye-catching. They had no awareness of the situation, and others, at least their roommates in the same dormitory, kept looking back at them in confusion.
In just one holiday, Bi Yue's attire, temperament, and smile had all changed drastically. How could this not attract attention? How could this not arouse curiosity and suspicion?
"Xiaoxiao, smell it, is it fragrant?" Two little hands were fiddling with the desk.
Liang Xiaoxiao covered her mouth, her eyes full of mischief, and whispered softly, "Take one out, I want to taste it and see if it's delicious. Eh? Two boxes?"
"The other box is for our teacher Li."
"Yueyue, look, our squad leader seems to be pretending to look back at you again!"
"He's looking at you, why are you always paying attention to him?! But this kid, thin, fair, well-mannered, wears rimless glasses, and is the squad leader, wow." Bi Yue stared at the back of He Zhuoer's head and commented.
"Well, he's one of the good-looking ones in the class. Aren't you tempted?"
Bi Yue shook her head, looking extremely bored, flipping through a book she didn't like:
"That thing, Yueyue, I've given up! You can come on!"
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This school opening has a different meaning for Bicheng.
For the first time, he felt that he could finally finish his studies and he was not worried because he had money in his pocket. This is exactly what he meant.
Naturally, he was in a good mood. He wore the new clothes and pants bought by his sister, used a new fountain pen that did not leak ink, and quickly wrote down the precautions given by the teacher. From time to time, he turned his head and said a few words to the classmates around him.
At this moment, Bi Yue, who was leisurely swinging her two slender legs, and Bi Cheng, who told his buddies that he would occasionally come back to the dormitory to visit, had no idea what was happening in their hometown.
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The fat neighbor was the first to arrive at the Bi family.
At that time, she was standing at the head of the children's room in the east courtyard when she heard the noisy crying coming from the old Bi family. She slapped her thighs with both hands, her heart skipped a beat, and she cried out:
"It's bad!"
The next people to rush to the Bi family were Zhao Shugen and Ge Yufeng who had heard the news.
Soon everyone living nearby rushed over, and those who were familiar with the family also came to take a look. You held the cloth strips while he helped carry the coffin.
Zhao Shugen and Fatty's husband helped the old man change into old clothes. Fatty deftly tore off the red and black couplets with the word "Fu" and hung a white cloth strip on the big iron gate of the Bi family.
Zhao Shugen touched the old man's hands, which were as dry as tree bark. The wrinkles on these hands were proof of the hardships of life.
He sighed and said, "Oh, it's all over. Old man, don't worry about me! Go!"
Liu Yafang leaned against the door frame, the tears on her face had long been dried by the wind. For the first time, she scolded Bi Tiegang in front of outsiders:
"I can never get my head around him. He's incompetent at anything! He's just like that. Even **** can't keep up with him!" It's obvious that there's resentment piling up in his heart, and it seems like it's about to explode.
A young boy was running on the hillside with a schoolbag slung across his body, which he had put on instinctively.
On this day, he should have gone to school like his older brothers and sisters, but now he was running around sweating profusely, mumbling in a trembling voice:
"Dad, sister, brother."
Bi Sheng ran all the way, frightened by his grandfather. He fell down several times and got up without even bothering to brush the dirt off his pants. He went straight to his aunt Bi Jinzhi's house:
"Auntie, auntie, my grandfather is gone!"
Bi Jinzhi slid down the doorframe and sat on the threshold in an instant. Tears welled up in her eyes, and she couldn't see Bi Sheng clearly. "What? When did it happen?"
When Bi Jinzhi, Fu Guo, Fu Xiaojuan, and Bi Sheng arrived in a car, old man Bi Fu was already wearing new clothes and black leather shoes and was placed in the yard.
Bi Jinzhi's shrill cries made the women in the village wipe away their tears.
Her mother was gone, her father was gone, and this time she had no mother's home at all.
As long as a person is alive, even if he is just lying there, there is hope.
"Dad! You didn't even leave a word for Ni'er?! How can you be so cruel? You haven't even met Tielin yet!"
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Bi Fu was sent away by his daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, youngest grandson, and all the villagers who lent a hand.
In the absence of Bi Tiegang, Bi Tielin, Bi Yue and Bi Cheng...
In rural areas, people pay attention to burial. There is also a saying that burying the deceased as soon as he or she passes away is better for future generations.
The villagers helped carry the load, and only Bi Sheng, a filial son and grandson, was left walking in front. He looked on with fear, helplessness, and panic, scattering the paper money he had prepared long ago along the way.
That night, Liu Yafang, with red and swollen eyes, murmured to Bi Jinzhi:
"Sister, I'm unfilial! Unfilial! I've known for a long time that I'm not a good person. He, he's gone, and I can still see a little light in my heart. I'm not a human being!"
Bi Jinzhi shook her head:
"He's tired of lying down for two years. If it weren't for us, he would have died long ago! He's exhausted! Sister-in-law, thank you. Oh! I'm just upset that Dad didn't have anything good to eat. You know, I still have a hundred yuan in my pocket that my brother gave him that I haven't spent on him yet!"
"He didn't even leave a complete sentence, just kept calling Tielin. Do you think if I hadn't slept so soundly, would he have said a few more words? How am I going to explain this to your brother?"
As the two were talking, the cries of the aunt and sister-in-law were heard again from the sky above the courtyard.
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Two days later, Bi Tiegang rubbed his sore legs and stood at the gate of the Northwest Prison, which was surrounded by high walls and strict electric fences.
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