Chapter 33 Earn money to build a grave?
Like a small animal testing the edge of the cave, he cautiously stuck out half of his head. When he saw Xu Qingling and Shasha, he was immediately frightened and shrank back.
“It’s a child!” Shasha exclaimed.
She trotted down to look.
I saw a little girl of two or three years old in Chai Jianguo's large backpack. Like Chai Jianguo, she was also thin and small, especially her arms, which were so thin that they seemed to break with just a break.
Due to malnutrition, the hair is yellow and very sparse, with only a small handful of two ponytails.
The cheeks do not have the baby fat that children should have, and are even a little sunken.
The eyes look particularly big.
However, these big eyes are very clear, bright, and watery, as if they are holding a clear spring.
She just curled up in the basket, a small ball.
When Shasha looked at her, she sat back quickly and lowered her head. After a while, she timidly raised her eyelids slightly and looked at Shasha curiously through the gap in her backpack.
Sasha smiled at her.
The little girl was obviously stunned for a moment, blinked her eyes, clenched her little fists, tried to muster up her courage, and shouted in a soft voice: "Sister..."
The voice was soft Soft and glutinous, like a small sweet cake, it made Shasha's heart melt.
"Hey, hello (^o^)/." Shasha responded, with a deeper smile on her face.
At this time, Xu Qingling and Shasha also knew that the following snoring sounds came from the little girl's belly.
Chai Jianguo took the backpack behind him to his chest, hugged it, and touched the little girl's head. His eyes were full of tenderness, "This is my daughter, Tiantian, 4 years old."
"Sister, they actually starved to death?" When Shasha returned to Xu Qingling, she saw on the computer the cause of death of Chai Jianguo and his daughter, both of whom died of hunger and starvation.
“No wonder you are so thin.” He is so thin that he is almost out of shape.
Sasha's little face fell, and when she looked at Chai Jianguo and his daughter again, her eyes turned sympathetic, "They are so pitiful."
Especially the cute and cute little Tiantian, who is only four years old.
Xu Qingling tilted her head slightly and suggested, "How about giving them some bread?"
Sasha's eyes lit up and she smiled immediately, "Okay, sister, you are such a good person. ! ”
Xu Qingling: Are you a good person if you give bread?
In fact, this is indeed the case.
A few minutes later, Chai Jianguo and his daughter were devouring instant noodles and crying.
Chai Tiantian seemed to be very hungry too. Her mouth was so full of bread that she kept stuffing it in her mouth as hard as she could, as if if she didn't stuff it one second, the bread would disappear the next second.
Only when you eat it, can you feel at ease.
"Eat slowly, eat slowly, no one will fight with you, don't get choked." Shasha looked on anxiously.
"Comrade Shasha, don't worry, we are ghosts now and won't get choked." Chai Jianguo took the time to say while eating.
Sasha: Well, I overlooked this.
"Dad, it's delicious..." Chai Tiantian finished eating the bread and was still unsatisfied.
This is the most delicious bun she has ever eaten in her life, although her life was short, only three years.
The steamed buns I have eaten before are mostly black steamed buns, and I have never even eaten white flour steamed buns.
"Comrade Director, Comrade Shasha, you are really good people." After eating, Chai Jianguo took Tiantian and knelt down to kowtow to Xu Qingling and Shasha.
It had been too long since they had experienced the feeling of food in their stomachs.
Only hunger lingers.
"Hey, don't do this." Shasha said hurriedly. The delicious bread filled with butter and meat floss was something that two ghosts who died in the 1960s had never tasted before.
Especially because they are still starving to death. Not to mention such delicious bread, they can also eat grass. For them, as long as they can fill their stomachs, It's just good.
"Chai Jianguo, what are your father and daughter's wishes?" Xu Qingling officially entered the topic.
“Comrade Director, I, I want to make money to build a grave for me and Tiantian.”
Earn money to build a grave?
This is the first time Xu Qingling has heard such a wish since he took office.
“You don’t have a grave?”
Chai Jianguo held his little daughter in his arms, his eyes slightly dim, "Yes, Tiantian and I are lonely ghosts without even a grave..."
As Chai Jianguo narrated, Xu Qingling and Shasha also learned more about him.
Chai Jianguo was born in 1941. He experienced war, founding of the country, stability, and finally his family died of famine.
Chai Jianguo was not called Jianguo at first, but he got the name later.
He got married when he was 16 years old. He and his wife have three children. Tiantian is his only daughter.
The eldest son was in poor health and suffered from asthma since he was born. Before the famine came, he got seriously ill when he was three years old and died of it.
In the year of the famine, his wife Zhou Chunhua happened to be pregnant. Due to insufficient maternal nutrition, the child was as thin as a cat when he was born, and his wife had no milk to feed him. Chunhua used a pair of gold coins passed down from her mother-in-law. The bracelet was exchanged for some rice, and I fed my little son rice soup every day.
But a month later, the rice was gone and famine broke out completely. When everyone had to go to the mountains to dig grass roots to eat, the youngest son Shuanzi still died.
"...When Shuanzi died, he didn't even have a formal name." Chai Jianguo said while wiping his tears, "The nickname Shuanzi did not keep him."
I originally came up with the nickname Shuanzi because I saw that my youngest son was skinny and the environment was not good, so I was afraid that I would not be able to support him, so I wanted to tie him up, but in the end I still couldn't.
The name of my daughter Tiantian is also in the hope that my daughter’s life will be sweet in the future. As a result, Tiantian has only been in this world for less than four years.
Zhou Chunhua was deeply hit by the death of her two sons and had the desire to die. After leaving the last bite of food to her husband and daughter, Zhou Chunhua closed her eyes and died.
Cai Jianguo endured his grief and tried hard to survive with his daughter Tiantian, but they still did not survive three months, and the father and daughter also starved to death one after another.
People at that time were fleeing from famine.
When a person dies, he is buried on the spot. There is not even a grave, so naturally there is no one to worship him.
Before the Fengdu Leave Division was established, Chai Jianguo and Chai Tiantian were lonely ghosts. Even if decades had passed, they could only linger in the place where they died and were not allowed to leave.
They were starved to death, but no one remembered them after being ghosts for decades, and no one worshiped them, so they were equivalent to starvation for decades.
It wasn’t until a while ago that the Fengdu Leave Division was established, and Chai Jianguo was able to take Tiantian to the underworld.
Now that they can come to the Fengdu Leave Application Department, they are determined to fill out the leave application form.
Xu Qingling saw that there were two people asking for leave this time, namely Chai Jianguo and Chai Tiantian.
When Chai Jianguo and his daughter died, their bodies were in the wilderness. Now, decades later, the place is still undeveloped because of its remote location.
A lot of trees have grown, and the two bodies are under a big cypress tree.
Chai Jianguo’s wish is to build a grave for himself and his daughter. When a person is alive, he must have a house to have a family, and when he dies, he must have a grave, so that he is considered settled and not a lonely ghost.
Lonely ghosts without graves can be bullied by ghosts and ghosts.
And it is easier to reincarnate only if there is a grave.
"What about Chai Tiantian's wish?" Xu Qingling asked.
Chai Jianguo shook his head and said he didn't know.
(End of this chapter)