Chapter 5349 Depression
Ms. Liu entered the main room of the main house. In the main room, it was deathly quiet.
No sunlight can come in from the outside. The patio has not been taken care of for a long time. It is filled with broken stools and discarded things, giving off a rotten smell.
The doors are all closed, like an abandoned house that has been abandoned for a long time. It is completely opposite to the prosperous and bustling atmosphere of Yang Huazhong's house before.
Ms. Liu first glanced at Yang Yongxian's house. The door was closed. She poked her head and pulled open the crack in the door to peek in, but couldn't see anything.
Ms. Liu had no choice but to continue walking in. When she passed by the door of Yang Yongzhi and Zhao Liuer's house, she raised her hand and patted the door, shouting several times: "Liu'er, Liu'er?"
The same thing happened in the house. There was no movement. Mrs. Liu looked down and found that the door was locked. She remembered that during the previous chat, Ms. Sun seemed to have mentioned that Zhao Liu'er and her two children had returned to her parents' home in the county with Zhao Damao in the past few days. Went.
The reason is that the Zhao brothers and sisters’ only biological aunt in the world is ill. They went to visit her, and Zhao Liuer wanted to stay there to take care of her for a while.
Yang Yongxian was half dead, and Yang Yongzhi and Zhao Liuer were not in the house, so there was almost no living person in the front yard. Liu continued to walk inside.
She passed by the patio and came to the back half of the main room. She saw the several ancestral tablets entangled in spider webs standing there alone. The candles in front of them had also been extinguished. She didn’t know how long they had been placed there. All the offerings were moldy and rotten.
Mrs. Liu looked away, sighed, stood next to the Eight Immortals table under the shrine, raised her hand to touch the table, and touched the ashes in her hand.
Suddenly I thought of many years ago, when the children had not grown up yet, and even the third bedroom had not been divided out. At that time, all the rooms in Lao Yang's family ate in a big pot.
Not to mention the holidays, even if you go there on weekdays, aren't this shrine and this spiritual tablet wiped clean?
The whole family is frugal and is not allowed to light the lights until dark, but on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, the candles here are lit all night long.
It was rare for the family to hold a tooth ceremony, so they had to prepare some offerings for the ancestors first. The old man and the old lady repeatedly gave orders not to steal the offerings. Even she, the most greedy person, did not dare to touch these even if she was hungry. offerings.
It’s not that I really don’t dare to grab the ancestors’ offerings to eat, but I’m afraid of my parents-in-law, who will watch over me all night.
At that time during the New Year, the old man and his whole family stood here to burn incense and place offerings to the ancestors’ tablets. After the New Year’s Eve dinner, everyone sat here to pay New Year’s greetings and keep watch while the children chased and played around the patio. Several wives were cooking dumplings in the backyard kitchen...
At that time, Yongxian, Meier, and the eldest brother were the most favored, while the third and fifth children had the least status in the family.
As for the children with three and four bedrooms, they are even less welcome.
At that time, the whole family was noisy and crowded around the old man and the old lady. Although the family was poor, life was tight. They couldn’t eat more than once a year and couldn’t buy more than two pieces of meat. New clothes, but now that I think about it, it was quite lively and down-to-earth when the whole family was together.
Looking at now, there is no one in this empty main room. Where have all these people gone?
With such melancholy, Mrs. Liu slowly opened the small side door leading to the backyard.
The backyard, when she lived here in the past, she thought the backyard was quite big, with two rows of wing rooms on the east and west, and a kitchen and dining hall across the middle.
But when I came back to look at it now, I suddenly found that the backyard was originally very small, and the yard in the middle was as big as a palm. The old locust tree was actually cut down. In the original Where the old locust trees grow, there are now several rows of wooden shelves. On the wooden shelves, there are large and small pieces of washed yellow cloth, some round and some long.
Two familiar figures were standing in front of the wooden shelf sorting, putting the dried pieces of cloth into a basket, and then taking piles of washed pieces of cloth from the wooden basin at their feet. Then put it on a wooden shelf to dry.
"Sister-in-law, third girl!"
Ms. Liu excitedly shouted to the two figures.
Kim is deaf and mute, and her back is turned to this side, so she cannot hear or see at all. The third girl raised her head and saw that the person who came was Mrs. Liu. Her eyes lit up, "Mom, why are you back? When did you come back? Why didn't you mention this to me when I went to town to see you before? Noise?”
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Ms. Liu smiled and said: "Originally I didn't plan to come back. Today I'm going to your second sister's house, just in time for them to come back. Your second sister invited me, so I came back together."
The third girl understood and asked: "What about my second sister and the others? Why didn't they come back to the old house?"
Ms. Liu said: "They are all staying at your third uncle's house at the entrance of the village. You can clean up later. , Take Tiedan to your third uncle’s house for lunch.”
The third girl nodded repeatedly and went to remind Mrs. Jin, but was stopped by Mrs. Liu.
"I'll do it myself."
Liu crept up behind Jin, and suddenly raised her hand and patted Jin on the shoulder.
Jin turned around reflexively, and saw that the person standing behind her was Liu. Jin was so excited that she almost jumped up, grabbed Liu's hand, and screamed "yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"" I couldn't utter a complete sentence.
Mr. Liu knew that Mrs. Jin could not hear the sound and could only read lips, so she made gestures with Mrs. Jin and talked while gesticulating: "Sister-in-law, I haven't seen you for a year. How are you?"< br>
Jin nodded repeatedly and raised her hand to pat her chest, which meant that she was very good.
Then Jin poked Liu on the shoulder, pointed at the clothes Liu was wearing, and gave a thumbs up.
Both Mrs. Liu and the third girl understood this clearly. They were praising Mrs. Liu for her good life and her well-dressed clothes.
Mrs. Liu smiled so hard that her eyebrows curled up, and she quickly put the basket on her arm on the ground, uncovered the veil, took out a bunch of fruits from it with both hands and stuffed them into Mrs. Jin's hands.
There are bright red dried dates and big golden oranges, which are enough to fill Jin’s two pockets until Jin’s body can no longer hold them.
The three girls stood aside and watched with a smile, very happy with the change in their mother.
In the past, auntie, don’t expect to get an orange peel or a date core from your mother.
"Third girl, what are you and your aunt doing here? What are all the things drying here?"
Ms. Liu asked the third girl curiously.
When Jin heard the question, he pointed to the east room behind him and made babbling gestures.
Ms. Liu was a little confused, but fortunately the third girl explained: "Isn't my grandma hemiplegic? She has to urinate and defecate on the bed. This niao cloth is indispensable. She needs nearly twenty pieces a day. . "
"Huh? Is your baby in this state now?" Mrs. Liu was very surprised. She had heard about Mr. Tan falling into the ditch earlier, but she didn't expect it to be so serious.
"Didn't your grandma invite someone from the Zhang family to serve her earlier? Why are you two doing the washing?" Ms. Liu asked again.
(End of this chapter)