Lu Cheng ran in from the side wearing a raincoat. When he saw Yu Zheng getting up, he ran over in a few steps.
He took off his raincoat and hung it aside, and wiped the water on his face: "Zhengzheng, why don't you sleep more?"
According to their custom, when a close relative dies, the children should stay up late to show their filial piety. So both Yu Zhengzheng and Su Chen stayed up late.
At most, like Yu Zhengzheng, she takes her children to take a nap in a nearby shed. It is impossible to go back home and lie on the bed to rest as usual.
That would also be considered a very unfilial behavior.
Although Yu Zhengzheng felt that everything after death was just a face-saving project, he couldn't resist the fact that everyone didn't think so, so he could only insist on staying up late.
It's just a few nights, so it doesn't matter.
This is the last thing they, as children, can do for her.
"I'm fine. Why are you here? It's all wet. Come in and wipe it."
Lu Cheng was originally staying with Su Qingbai. After all, Yu Zhengzheng was taking the children to take a nap, so he was too embarrassed to come over to avoid suspicion.
Later, it was discovered that it was raining heavily, and Su Qingbai asked him to come over and check on Yu Zhengzheng and the children so that they would not get wet from the rain, so he put on his raincoat and came over.
The wind and rain were really strong. In just a few steps, Lu Cheng's hair was dripping with water.
Yu Zhengzheng took out a towel and wiped the rain off his face. Lu Cheng stood there stupidly, looking at the girl in front of him with a very honest smile.
"Why are you looking at me all the time?"
Yu Zhengzheng looked up a little amused and a little shy, and gave him an angry look.
In the previous life, Lu Cheng died early. Before the two of them could even exchange a few words, Lu Cheng fell into the water and died because of her arrogance. Fortunately, God was not kind to her and gave her a chance to start over.
…
In this life, she changed her ways so as not to miss such a good person like him...
"Zheng Zheng..."
Lu Cheng's face gradually came closer. Yu Zhengzheng was a little embarrassed and quickly raised her hand to block his face: "What are you doing?"
She rubbed his cheek with her hand, waking up the man who was immersed in his wife's tenderness.
Lu Cheng also quickly came to his senses and looked at Yu Zhengzheng, he was very embarrassed: "Zhengzheng, I..."
"Well, you go and take a rest, and I'll go see Dad?"
Yu Zhengzheng asked.
Lu Cheng nodded.
"Okay, bring your umbrella."
It's only five or six steps from here to the opposite side, but it's raining so hard that if you don't bring an umbrella and a hat, you'll probably get soaked as soon as you go out.
In today's weather, it's easy to catch a cold if you get wet.
After all, the weather is still very cold now!
Yu Zhengzheng agreed, opened the umbrella on the side, and went to see Su Qingbai.
Su Qingbai's mental state was not very good. Su Zhe, Su Chen, and Yu Zhengzheng all advised Su Qingbai to go home and rest. But he insisted not to go.
He said it would be fine if he stayed up for a while, and if he felt sleepy, he could just take a nap in the shed.
This made them, as children, very worried.
After all, Su Qingbai's condition looks really bad these days. They all know that it's because Su Qingbai is still brooding over Zhao Meifen's death!
They all took turns to comfort Su Qingbai. Zhao Meifen's death had nothing to do with him. It was Zhao Meifen's fate. But maybe it was because they had been husband and wife for so many years. When the other person was still alive, he had no feelings. After the other person passed away, from then on, heaven and earth
He was still a little uncomfortable with being separated forever.
Because he was hiding something in his heart, his mental state had not been very good. Coupled with the lack of rest, he seemed to have aged a lot.
When Yu Zhengzheng came in from outside, Su Qingbai was coughing. Because of the wind and rain, he coughed loudly, and no one outside heard it.
Yu Zhengzheng also came in and realized that Su Qingbai was coughing so badly. When he heard Yu Zhengzheng come in, he raised his head and wanted to open his mouth to talk to Yu Zhengzheng, but no words came out, just a burst of tearing.
Coughing heartbreakingly.
"dad……"
Yu Zhengzheng walked up quickly.
"Dad, dad, how are you? Why are you coughing so hard?"
Yu Zhengzheng allowed Su Qingbai to calm down, and after the others calmed down a bit, she immediately went to pour water from the enamel cup on the side for Su Qingbai to drink.
Su Qingbai took the water that Yu Zhengzheng poured and took a sip, and then she felt a little relieved.
Seeing Yu Zhengzheng's worried face through the light of the kerosene lamp, he waved his hand and said, "I'm fine, don't worry about me."
"But dad, you look very bad."
"It's okay. I'm getting older and can't stay up late like you young people. Just wait for me to rest for a while."
Su Qingbai didn't want to worry the children, so he forced a smile on his face. Looking at Su Qingbai's smile, Yu Zhengzheng felt even more uncomfortable.
"Dad...if you have anything to do, you must tell us!"
Children who are children are particularly afraid of their parents hiding their physical condition. They always want not to burden their children, and they will swallow any uncomfortable things themselves and bear it alone.
This is what worries people the most.
Su Qingbai smiled and said: "What can happen to me? You girl, you just like to worry."
"dad……"
Yu Zhengzheng didn't think she was worried blindly.
But Su Qingbai obviously didn't want to talk about this topic anymore. He raised his head and looked at the rain curtain outside.
"The rain is so heavy, I don't know when it will stop?"
It was rare to see such heavy rain on the third day of the first lunar month. Su Qingbai's heart was heavy, and she always felt as if something was about to happen.
It would be better if nothing happens!
He looked at the rain outside in confusion.
Yu Zhengzheng also had the same premonition. Maybe it was because the rain was too heavy? In short, it made people unhappy.
It's as if something is pressing heavily on my heart, making me almost breathless.
It rained heavily all night.
The water in the textile factory compound is already half a meter high. This is also because of the strong ditch next to it. Otherwise, the textile factory compound, which is full of houses, would have been flooded.
It was just dawn, and people who had not slept all night picked up things floating on the water from each house. A group of people went to clear the sewer opening to let the water accumulated in the yard flow out.
In the shed used for funerals, many stools or basins are also floating on the water.
Fortunately, in the main shed used to place the coffin, the coffin was set up on two high benches, so the water did not reach the coffin.
He Qingdong, who had been standing in the water all night, slowly opened his eyes when he heard the noise of the cooks coming to cook.
The time for the funeral was set at eight o'clock, which meant that they would leave shortly after dawn.
He Qingdong was going to go back, wash his face, change into dry clothes, and then come back.
As soon as he turned around and went out, he heard a familiar voice outside that he hadn't heard for a long time.