At that time, every household closed their doors to have New Year's Eve dinner and watch the New Year's Eve. It was not until the next day that the children in the village went from house to house to pay New Year greetings and ask for melon seeds and peanuts, and they discovered that in the yard of Song Lao'er's house, Mrs. Gu's body had been half buried by a heavy night of snow.
The frozen body was covered with feces and urine all over the floor. Mrs. Gu, who fell to the ground, must have been unable to get up, and she lay there for half the night before she finally breathed her last.
No one knows what Mrs. Gu will be thinking in her heart when she listens to the firecrackers of other people around her and the whole family is happy.
But the people in Xiaoshi Village understood that Song Laoer's family was doomed.
Song Laoer and his wife took Song Xiaobao and never came back. I heard that they took a sum of money and left the paralyzed old woman on the kang.
Song Shuirong did come back once to get a sum of money for Song Laoer.
She thought that her parents would definitely redeem her life after taking the money, but Song Laoer didn't come back, so she could only cry and be taken away by Master Xue, and she never came back.
Her mother-in-law's family in Gujia Village also came once, also for money. Seeing that Mrs. Gu was abandoned by her own son, they never came again.
Mrs. Gu has no one to care about her. She lives on a bowl of soup from her employer and a mouthful of rice from her west, drinking raw water and eating raw potatoes. It will only be a matter of time before she freezes to death and starves to death.
But no one expected that it would be on the night of New Year’s Eve, and in the courtyard.
There is no way to let the body be buried in the sky without anyone collecting it, and the body still dies outside, scaring the neighbors.
Song Lizheng had no choice, so one family after another came to ask for help. They had to first carry the body onto the kang, find a woman from the village to wash it briefly for Mrs. Gu, and then find a thin coffin to put it in.
Song Li was very prestigious in Xiaoshi Village, but that was without caring about Mrs. Gu, the second son of Song Dynasty.
Now Song Lao'er has run away without caring about my mother, and Mrs. Gu has no one to collect the body and has to trouble others. It's the New Year, and no one is willing to help.
Song Lizheng's words didn't work, and everyone just cursed and complained.
From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I couldn't find anyone.
Song Lizheng had no choice but to coax and beat several nephews from his family. He had no way to change clothes and wash them, so he could only cut off the dirty clothes covered in feces and water with scissors, and then randomly put on something cleaner outside. .
The frozen figure was like a piece of wood that had to be broken off by its hands and feet before being stuffed into the coffin.
But now, although the person has entered the coffin, it is still outside. Not only is there no mourning hall, there is no one even burning paper.
Song Lizheng also went to Gujia Village to find Mrs. Gu's family, but they were also busy visiting relatives during the New Year and had no time.
If you stop for three days, you will need to mourn.
Things haven't been settled here yet, and the funeral has been reported since the first day of the new year, but the Gu family, who had been waiting for a long time, finally came to the door.
They didn't mention what to do about the funeral, but what they did say was that the people in Xiaoshi Village failed to take good care of Mrs. Gu and let her freeze to death outside the house. They wanted to sue the Song family for abuse.
The implication is that the Gu family must be paid a funeral fee before they allow Xiaoshi Village to bury people.
Now the Gu family has been blocking the courtyard gate and arguing for a whole day. Seeing that it is time to go out to the mountains tomorrow, they have not let go yet.
Song Li was so anxious that the corners of his mouth were blistered in winter.
Now that Song Zhenping is back, even if he has descendants to arrange the funeral, the Gu family can no longer be picky about what he wants to do.
However, Song Zhenping was unwilling to take care of it. Could Song Lizheng not be anxious?
You don’t care...then why are you coming back? It’s better not to come back!
At this time, more and more villagers came out after hearing the news, gathering in twos and threes at the door of Li Zheng's house. Those who were bold enough to not be afraid of Song Li Zheng even entered the house.
The clan elder, who had been invisible for decades, came and changed his previous alienation and gathered around Song Zhenping to ask questions.
Ever since Mr. Xue's servants came back from Qili County, they knew that the Song brothers and sisters had made a fortune.
Not to mention the large carriage parked in the courtyard at this time, the four cold-looking guards, and the upright-looking new wife.
Young daughter-in-law... carriage... escort, this is a wealthy family.
In addition, the aunt who had taken care of the Song brothers in the past took Yang Hua to greet her.
From Song's second girl's wedding, she asked whether Xiao An was still stupid, and also asked Yang Hua's family to find out how many children they would have in the future, whether they could return to Xiaoshi Village or not.
To put it nicely, it means caring about everything, but to say it worse, it means gossiping too much.
An ordinary new daughter-in-law would be too shy and embarrassed to bear it, but Yang Hua is not that ordinary person.
When an aunt learned that Yang Hua was older than Song Zhenping and showed an incredulous expression, Yang Hua only smiled lightly.
When leaving Xiaoshi Village a month later, Song Zhenping said that those women talked too much and asked Yang Hua not to be angry.
Yang Hua said calmly: "Second sister said when we were still in Ruijin Town that the people in Xiaoshi Village are not knowledgeable, timid, and not very evil-minded, so I should not argue with them.
I didn't believe it at the time, but now it seems... the second sister was right."
Song Liyun told Yang Hua when he was in Suijin Town that the villagers in Xiaoshi Village had been bullied and feared by Mrs. Gu's family for decades. They did care about the Song Zhenping brothers, but not much, and they were not grateful.
Just be polite when you go back, don't take it too seriously, just be considerate of the Li Zheng family.
Yang Hua took Song Liyun's words into her heart, so naturally she was distant and polite towards these women.
It's normal to have a close relationship with the Li Zheng family. Not to mention that Song Li Zheng was involved in family affairs and was at the lowest level of the government. Song Dekui also had an extraordinary relationship with the Song brothers and sisters.
However, it was said that Song Zhenping, faced with the lobbying of several elders in the clan, became stubborn and refused to agree to be a filial son and grandson to Mrs. Gu.
Song Dekui took his father aside and muttered. Song Lizheng frowned at first, but then he seemed to understand, and finally spread his hands: "You said you just let him do it on his own?"
Song Dekui smiled crookedly: "Dad, the pocket money your old son gave you is not enough. This is just the beginning. From now on, when your old son gets rich, you will be happy."
Song Lizheng glared at him: "How long have you been staying at Yun Yatou's place, and you have come back with so much money? Let me tell you, don't do anything wrong and come back to lie to me?"
Song Dekui opened his mouth exaggeratedly: "If you don't believe me, you have to believe in money.
Let me tell you the truth! Not only will Daping not bury Mrs. Gu, but he will also move his parents' graves away. You have to give him an idea."
When Song Lizheng heard that the grave was to be moved, Song Lizheng's brows knitted into knots. He didn't say anything anymore. He just silently took out his cigarette rod and began to think about things.
Moving graves is a major event for every clan.
Moving a family's grave means branching off into another clan and breaking away from the original family.
And those who are clamoring to split up the clan are basically the most outstanding one, and the strength and influence of the clan will be affected.
Therefore, unlike household relocation, relocation of graves requires not only the consent of Li Zheng, but also the consent of the elders in the family, and the elders of the clan must write a deed and burn incense to inform the ancestors.
Song Liyun was worried that Mrs. Gu would cause trouble when moving the grave, so she not only prepared four guards for Song Zhenping, but also gave Song Dekui a sum of money, asking him to help manage the town and village.
What she didn't expect was that Mrs. Gu died, sooner or later, three days ago.
Although there is one less scourge, there is one more thing out of thin air.