As soon as she finished speaking, Ruan Qingyue took out money from her pocket and took out a piece of change worth one yuan.
The women gossiping in the small shop were shocked to see Ruan Qingyue having so much money in his hand.
Their whole family couldn't save so much money after working for a year. How did this little girl get so much money?
"Okay, okay."
The saleswoman quickly took the money and gave the burning paper to Ruan Qingyue, and also took a box of matches.
Ruan Qingyue picked up the burning paper, took the matches, took the forty cents she found, left another dime on the counter, and left holding the burning paper.
The women in this room were all surprised.
"What's going on! Her family is very poor. Where did this little girl get so much money?"
"Who knows! Didn't I make a fuss and marry Cuixiang to someone from the city? Maybe she was brought back from the city."
"That's true, but how could her mother let her spend money to buy burning paper? Which mother in their family would not even be willing to burn any incense when going to the grave, and how could she be allowed to buy so many paper burning papers?"
"I don't know! Why don't we follow over and have a look."
These chatty women got up and chased outside as they spoke.
Ruan Qingyue went directly to her father's grave holding the burning paper. She saw that her father's grave was overgrown with grass and even the tombstone was missing a corner.
Ruan Qingyue put down her things, carefully took care of the cemetery, swept the tomb, and cleaned it up. Ruan Qingyue knelt down solemnly in front of the tombstone and burned the paper steadily.
As the paper money burned, Ruan Qingyue felt a sense of grievance and sadness, and tears fell without warning.
This kind of emotion that does not belong to her makes Ruan Qingyue even more embarrassed.
Since I have used your body, your affairs are all my business. I will take back the injustice you suffered, and I will help you fulfill all the filial piety you have thought of.
Ruan Qingyue was thinking about this and was still burning paper money. Those who came to look at her were hiding quietly. Seeing Ruan Qingyue kneeling in front of the grave, crying and burning paper money, everyone sighed.
Ruan Qingyue was burning the paper, and she could vaguely hear the movement behind her. It was obvious that someone was curious and deliberately chasing after her. Ruan Qingyue raised her eyebrows slightly, reached into her pocket, took out the real money, and tampered with her hands to get a handful of change.
Throw it into the fire.
"Ouch! You girl, what are you doing!"
The women who watched Ruan Qingyue burning paper saw Ruan Qingyue burning real money, and they all came up to stop him.
Ruan Qingyue pretended to be shocked and quickly put the saved money into a secret pocket.
"You girl, why are you so stupid?"
"Why are you burning real money? If you burn real money for your father, your father won't be able to spend it!"
The women who came over to watch couldn't hide anymore, and they all ran over to stop Ruan Qingyue, but they could only watch the banknotes being turned into ashes by the tongues of flames.
"I just want to show some filial piety to my father. I heard that paper graves have never been burned, and some real money must be burned. Otherwise, my father's life will be very difficult when he is in the underworld. I want my father to be in the underworld."
Live a good life."
Ruan Qingyue was pretending to be sobbing and speaking intermittently.
These women hurriedly grabbed Ruan Qingyue's arms, fearing that she would burn real money again. Listening to Ruan Qingyue's words, each of them felt very uncomfortable. Seeing that the money had been burned away, there were only a few cards left next to them.
I didn’t say much about the paper money. After all, it was the sincerity of others.
Ruan Qingyue sobbed slightly and sent these people away before Ruan Qingyue continued to kneel down and burn paper.
After the women here left, Ruan Qingyue spoke slowly.
"I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about it. Please bear with me. I will come back every year to burn paper for you."
Ruan Qingyue added the rest of the paper money and saw that the fire was extinguished before getting up and walking back.
As soon as I entered the village, I saw Li Mei being dragged by several women.
Those women were the ones Ruan Qingyue sent away just now.
"What are you doing! Children are filial to their children, so what's your hurry? Even if it's a big deal, you still have to wait until the children finish burning the paper."
"That's right. If you have anything to say, we can wait until the child comes back. What are you going to do now? The one who dies is the most important."
These women were very noisy. Ruan Qingyue thought that this incident would break out at home, but she didn't expect that it would break out under the most lively big tree in the village.
"If you dare to come back, I'll break your legs."
Li Mei saw Ruan Qingyue walking back slowly, and became even more angry. She pushed away a woman who was blocking her and rushed towards Ruan Qingyue.
Ruan Qingyue still walked forward without any evasion.
"Mom, why don't you burn paper for Dad? Dad's tombstone is all missing corners. Why don't you replace it with a good tombstone for Dad? Why?"
Ruan Qingyue shouted these words loudly before Li Mei rushed to her.
Li Mei was stunned for a moment and stopped in her tracks, but Ruan Qingyue did not stop and walked towards Li Mei step by step.
"Why are you talking? Dad treats you badly? Why do you treat dad like this? If I hadn't gone to the city, I wouldn't have known that I was going to burn paper for the dead. Why are you so excessive? You can treat me no matter what.
, but you can’t treat dad like this.”
When Ruan Qingyue said this, tears burst out of her eyes uncontrollably. These tears were not Ruan Qingyue's, but burst out from the memory of the original owner.
Ruan Qingyue's questioning was loud and clear. In this most lively place in the village, because Ruan Qingyue's questioning was silent, even Li Mei said something.
"Why didn't you take me to visit my father's grave? My father's grave was covered with grass. Why didn't you tell me that I could go to the cemetery to see my father? You didn't have to do any work. Why didn't I do it? Why didn't you tell me?
I hate you, I hate you."
Ruan Qingyue's angry roar frightened Li Mei and kept backing away. Seeing Ruan Qingyue like this, the villagers all lowered their heads slightly, and no one said a word.
This kind of thing is a family matter, and no one should be able to interfere.
It's just that what Li Mei did was really disgusting. She didn't even pay homage to the dead. She didn't even want to go, and she didn't even tell her own children.
In the past, she was not good to her child. She even refused to tell her these things, which was too much. She couldn't blame her child for hating her.
"You, you, have rebelled against you, please go home."
Li Mei felt her face burning in front of so many people, but she never thought that one day Ruan Qingyue would question her like this.
"Go back to a shitty home. I don't have a home. In the past, no matter what you did to me, I thought I was doing something bad and made you and my brother angry. Now I realize that it's not my fault at all. It's your fault. It's you."
You're not good to me. It's you who bullied me and you didn't want me to live. I went back with you today, but tomorrow I will be a corpse being carried out."
