As one of the brothers, Sun Yuying, the wife of the third wife Yu Haichao, looked at each other with Ma Yu, the wife of the second wife Yu Hechao, and they both went over to help Yu Qiu:
"Niece, the dead cannot be brought back to life. Stop crying. Clean yourself up before you get hard. You can't go in such a dirty place. Your second aunt and I will accompany you."
Yu Qiu leaned against Sun Yuying miserably: "Third Aunt, wuwu, I have no mother, wuwu, I have no mother!"
Although there was discord between these sisters-in-law, now that her father was dead, they could let go of everything.
Sun Yuying couldn't help but shed tears. While comforting Yu Qiu, she promised to help arrange for Luo Suying's descendants.
Zhang Caifeng also came and, as the director of the women's department, comforted Yu Qiu.
Yu Qiu wiped away her tears and said, "Wow, Director Zhang, there's one thing I forgot to ask you. The other day, Yu Xiaosong didn't raise his hand to urinate during class, and he wet his pants. I told him to go home and change, but he hasn't been to class since. I heard Yu Laogen's family is also buried. So, what about Xiaosong?"
Zhang Caifeng was shocked.
Sun Yuying's face also turned grim. She immediately put Yu Qiu down and ran to ask the old woman with bound feet: "Grandma Jiu, you just said that you saw someone passing by the back window with an umbrella. What kind of umbrella was it?"
Grandma Jiu pursed her lips, but her words were clear: "It's black, probably made of foreign cloth. It looks really good. I looked at it several times!"
Zhang Caifeng ran over to listen and couldn't believe what she heard. It turned out that Yu Sui was the only one in the village who had a black umbrella.
Seeing Sun Yuying's mouth open and unable to speak, Zhang Caifeng hurriedly asked the Ninth Grandma: "Grandma, are you blind? Can you see clearly?"
Grandma Jiu was very upset: "You can't see clearly! My eyesight is very good. I thread the soles of my shoes myself. Did I ask you for help? It must be a black cloth umbrella, but I can't see the person's face. The umbrella is blocking the view. I can only hear people talking."
Sun Yuying grabbed her arm and asked, "What did they say? They said we were going out to play, right?"
"Oh, you squeezed my old bones so hard that they're about to break. I was so busy looking at the umbrella that I didn't hear clearly. I think you asked why you didn't go to school, and you said you didn't tell me. You didn't say you went out to play."
Sun Yuying suddenly collapsed to the ground.
Zhang Caifeng was relatively rational. Grandma Jiu's house was just a little in front of Yu Laogen's house. Yu Sui and Yu Xiaosong passed by her window, which meant that Yu Sui and Yu Xiaosong had moved into Yu Laogen's house.
Oh! What kind of fate does Yu Sui have? I never see Yu Sui and Yu Xiaosong playing together before, so how come they are together before the landslide?
Zhang Caifeng felt very sad.
It was indeed as Yu Sui said. After the love affair of the past few days, the members must have taken a new look at her. She might really become the only female captain of the entire club. But Yu Sui...
Zhang Caifeng stopped feeling sad and turned around to call on everyone to go and dig up Yu Laogen's house.
Sun Yuying sat on the ground and cried: "Sui, my daughter, why did you run to Yu Laogen's house? Ah, if you give birth to her, I will not live anymore!"
Yu Haichao limped over and picked her up: "Get up, let's go dig! It was just buried, what if there's still air in it? Dig quickly, dig!"
Sun Yuying rushed towards the collapsed earth pile like crazy and dug the soil desperately. She felt that the shovel was not fast enough, so she lay on the ground and dug with her hands.
Brigade Secretary Zou Zhiqiang quietly went to talk to Zhang Caifeng:
"Oh, this is really... A few days ago, it was Xia Lin who came to the brigade headquarters and told me that once it rains, people living near the mountains should be careful. He is the company commander and has seen a lot of things outside. I really listened to his advice, so I told several production teams to take precautions and reinforce the rocks.
"Thankfully, the reinforcements were in place, so the two production teams of Team 4 and Team 1 didn't have any major incidents. Now, it's them who have the problem. What a commotion! It's buried so deep, I'm afraid it's... Send someone to inform Xiao Xia, and I'll get some help from the other production teams. We have to give them an explanation."
Zhang Caifeng nodded silently.
She is a cadre now and has to take responsibility. Even though she feels so sad that she wants to cry, she holds it back and goes to Xia Dongping to inform Xia Lin.
They were all in the same team. As Xia Linbei's cousin, Xia Dongping immediately ran to her parents' home to find Xia Linbei.
Xia Linbei has been feeling unhappy these days.
His father was in poor health and his mother was a stepmother. His biological mother died of illness when he was ten years old.
The stepmother, Li Afen, was also from a brigade. She married into the family more than a dozen years ago and gave birth to a younger brother and a younger sister. She was always polite to them.
Because of this, Xia Lin was about to get married, and he wanted to give his stepmother some face to avoid conflicts with Yu Sui in the future.
On the day of the wedding, he gave his stepmother a few dollars and said that the wedding would be held on October 1st. If there was anything that needed to be done on the man's side, Li Afen could take care of it.
One dollar is enough for a decent wedding in this day and age.
Li Afen smiled happily when she took the money, but she didn't even mention that she would "send a good date" to the woman.
(Sending a date is similar to asking for a date in the ancient Three Books and Six Rites. In some places, it is also called sending a date or proposing a date.)
Xia Lin was a young man after all, and he really didn't understand the details of the wedding. But after Sun Yuying mentioned it, he became alert and asked these things in front of his father Xia Xiangdong when he returned home.
The family was having dinner at the time. Li Afen held the bowl and said, "It's only going to be held on October 1st. She went shopping a few days in advance and prepared the vegetables."
Xia Lin asked, "So you're not going to do these 'sending birthdays'?"
Li Afen: "Huh? You want me to do the 'send-off ceremony' too? You didn't tell me."
Xia Lin said: "Didn't I tell you that you are the one who will take care of the wedding? 'Sending the wedding date' doesn't count as part of the wedding?"
Li Afen said shamelessly: "Oh, Lin, you didn't tell me this, so I didn't know it. If you want me to do the 'sending ceremony', one yuan is not enough. Otherwise, give me another twenty yuan, and I will hire someone to steam the cakes, buy candy and red paper the next day!"
Xia Lin twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Is that so? Then, Mom, give me the previous one first, and I'll make you a bigger red envelope so that you don't get too much and it's unlucky."
Li Afen was not on guard at all.
My adopted son has been behaving very well in the past few months. He sends money back home every few months and takes good care of his younger siblings. When he comes home to visit, he calls me "Mom" and is very polite.
Perhaps because of this, Li Afen thought it would be okay to take advantage of this opportunity to get some more money from Xia Lin.
Li Afen went to her room and took out a red envelope she had left. "Actually, there's no need to go to such lengths. We're not particular, so there's no need to waste red paper."
Xia Lin took back the red envelope and smiled faintly:
"That's right. We're a family, so we don't need to be so particular. I've been living frugally these past few days, sending home at least eighty thousand, if not a thousand. Now I'm getting married, and they want me to pay for the wedding myself. I guess the whole community doesn't have that much money. Since my parents feel it's inconvenient if I don't give them enough, then I'll do the wedding myself."
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