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Chapter 35
The third siblings who had been away for a month came back. The people in the village knew what they were doing this time. Many grandma and auntie took them to say that Ye Qingshan died and they were so pitiful.
Ye Ning and Ye Lan are older, and they just feel uncomfortable. Ye An cries bitterly. His mother doesn't want him anymore, and now his father is gone. From now on, he will be a child without his parents.
"Don't be afraid, the eldest sister and the second sister are here." Ye Ning squeezed Ye An's face, and after raising him for a month, he became white and fat. He looks like Li Fang, and he must be a very handsome man when he grows up. Mother Xiaoyan, we have a lot of things at home, so let's go back and get busy."
"Go, just come to me if you need help." Seeing the three siblings walking away, they said with emotion, "Poor, no parents at this age."
"What's so pitiful, I didn't see Ye Ning enter the pharmaceutical factory as a full-time worker. Now Ye Lan is admitted to high school, and Ye Ning helped her introduce her to the factory as a dual employee. They will definitely find a worker in the city to get married. Are you afraid that you won't be able to raise a younger brother like Ye An?" There was an older lady who thought Xiaoyan's mother was a fake compassion.
When Xiaoyan's mother heard her grandma's words, she suddenly felt that her whole body was awkward.
Her daughter Wang Xiaoyan and Ye Ning are the same age. The two girls in the village will inevitably compare. Wang Xiaoyan helped out at home after graduating from elementary school. She married a carpenter in the next village when she was seventeen. She was proud of her for a long time. She is still going to school and spends her family’s money. One is already married to a craftsman, and she doesn’t worry about food and clothing. She feels she’s doing the right thing. She didn’t expect Ye Ning to enter the medicine factory and also brought her younger siblings to the city. Let Xiaoyan continue to school if she knows it, two can't be brought in, one is always fine, if their family has two workers, it would be more beautiful.
There was no one in the house for a month, and a layer of ash had accumulated. Ye Ning asked Ye Lan and Ye An to clean it first. She was going to the next village to see if the coffin was ready.
The wood for the coffin was provided by themselves. Many elderly people would prepare the coffin wood early. One year, Ye Ning’s grandfather found two good camphor trees on the mountain. He spent a lot of money to buy them from the secretary of the brigade. Three sets of coffins can be made, the old couple of them have one coffin one by one, and the rest are not moved. Who would have thought that the last coffin was used on Ye Qingshan.
The coffin is ready, the camphor wood is very fragrant, and the most important thing is camphor wood, which is the best coffin material for ordinary people. Ye Ning watched as the coffin was laid, and her eyes were instantly red.
"Thank you, I will find someone to carry it tomorrow." Ye Ning hurried home immediately, bringing Ye Lan and Ye An to the little uncle's house.
It is reasonable to find Old Man Ye for this kind of thing, but Old Man Ye is really chilling. Ye Ning doesn’t want Ye Qingshan to be uneasy after death, so he simply bypasses him to find the third great uncle. He is the patriarch of the Ye family, and Ye is also Ye. Qingshan's relatives and uncles can also help manage.
He brought five pounds of meat, two bottles of wine and two packs of cigarettes. The gift was not light. Seeing what they were carrying, the third uncle said angrily: "It's all a family. Your father is gone. We should help. Why are you still mentioning something? Take it back in a while, otherwise I'm really angry."
"Uncle, just accept it, or we will feel uneasy." Ye Ning put the things down and said to the third great uncle: "I don't know anything about funerals, and Little Lan doesn't know much about it, so everything I have to trouble you to mention something."
The third great uncle smoked a dry cigarette, and sighed: "Your parents are not there, the old house...Is this funeral as simple as everything?"
Ye Ning and Ye Lan looked at each other. They knew that the third great uncle was for their sake, and they were afraid that they would spend too much money for the funeral.
"Thank you for the third great uncle for our sake. We didn't even think about doing it, but...it shouldn't be too simple, generally it is still necessary." The scenery can't be done, but it can't be too shabby.
The third great uncle nodded, "You are all filial children. Look at Master Wu in the cemetery. Where is the coffin?"
"I did it with Xiaoyan's father-in-law. Tomorrow, I will ask some uncles next to me to help carry it." Ye Ning said again: "I bought the white cloth, but we really don't know what to return. I want to ask your opinion. It is the noodles. Little Lan said that there are four cool, four hot and eight dishes, and that some people will add chicken and duck. We are not particularly clear about this."
"In return, you can return soap just like the big guys. This is cheap and practical, and the noodles... These years have been better. Some people are very popular and make two dishes of whole chicken and duck. Most people do this. You want If you can do it well, you have to put it on. The main thing now is how many people you want to invite, make a list for me, and Ye An will follow me to call someone."
Ye Ning nodded without hesitation. After having lunch at the third great uncle's house, the third sister and brother returned home and discussed who to invite.
Their mother is an educated youth and there is no foreign family to invite. The relatives are from the father. Most of them are in the village. The outsiders are relatives like aunts, aunts and aunts who are married outside, except for Ye Qingshan's relatives. This aunt walks around every year, these three must invite, and other cousins like the daughter of the third great uncle are not invited and fine.
"Do you want to invite your uncle?" Ye Lan asked when Ye Ning wrote her name one by one.
Uncle? Ye Lan didn’t say that she had forgotten that they had no family, Ye Qingshan did, and his mother was from Xiangshe Village. He used to walk more than 20 miles here. The more than 20 miles are not flat. had to climb several mountains. At first stepmother wanted to marry Ye Qingmei to a lame wife. Ye Qingmei went to Xiangshe Village all night to find her uncle. Then her uncle’s family brought a dozen people to this place with hoe and pole. On the other hand, they didn't bother with the grandmother, so they beat Old Man Ye directly. If the grandfather hadn't come forward, Old Man Ye's legs would also be lame.
Later, the uncle made the decision and asked the aunt to marry to Xiangshe Village. It didn't matter that he would not be bullied under his nose. Ye Ning was not clear about the details. I heard from the villagers that the aunt introduced her in-law relative to Ye Qingshan. Ye Qingshan disagreed, and married Li Fang. The two brothers and sisters were a little unhappy about this. In the end, it was his brother. When Ye Qingshan got married, his aunt was also considered rich and able to contribute. Later it seemed to be with Li Fang. After a conflict, Ye Qingshan helped Li Fang, and then the two brothers and sisters had less contact.
"It's time to call, let's call it personally." The mother-in-law is elder, and they also need to ask her uncle to come out to help.
Write down all the people you want to invite, Ye Ning took out a piece of paper again, sorted from big to small, and took it to the third great uncle.
"Your uncle wants to ask, nothing else is a big problem, but you still have to add a few people. These are usually good relations with your dad. I will write them out. You can ask them for help and have them help. It’s a lot easier for you.” The third great uncle wrote three names, and then handed them to Ye Ning so she could prepare them first.
Ye Ning nodded. There were indeed a lot of things, and she had to ask the neighbor's uncle next door to help carry the coffin. actually said this before, but have to say it again.
Not long after arriving home, Ye Ning heard a knock on the door outside, opened the door and saw that it was the people with the names just written by her uncle.
"Uncle Zifu, why are you here?" Ye Ning hurriedly invited them into the house.
"We won't go in. We just came to ask if we can help. Don't worry." Ye Zifu looked at Ye Ning, who was pale, and took out an envelope from his pocket. "It costs a lot of money to do funerals. , You just joined work, Little Lan and Little An are both in school, the cost must be very high, this is our little intention, first hold the flowers, we will find a way if it is not enough."
Ye Ning looked at the money stuffed into her palms, and her heart was heavy. These three uncles were brothers wearing a pair of trousers with Ye Qingshan. The conditions at home were not good. Although don’t know how much money is in it, they must have made it for a long time money.
Ye Ning returned the money to Ye Zifu, "Uncle Zifu, you should also know that I sold the land at home, so the family actually has some money. It’s okay to do funerals. You can take the money back. If you really need it, I’ll do it again. I'll ask you to take it."
Several big men are not very talkative people, Ye Zifu held the money, and said uneasily: "Then tell me if you want to use it."
"Definitely." Ye Ning thought for a while, and she really needs the help of three people. "Uncle, the day after tomorrow, Master Wu will come to fix the acupuncture point. At that time, he will dig the tomb. The stones will be transported up tomorrow. Please help me if this matters."
The three of them nodded hurriedly when they heard it could help, "Don't worry, I will find someone to pull the stone, and I will pull it up the day after tomorrow."
Sending off the three uncles, the third sister and brother went to the uncle's house next door to ask them to help carry the coffin again. It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when they got home, and the people from the old house came over.
"Ye Ning...you don't find your grandfather for the big funeral of your father, but Ye Laosan? I think you are really going to be weaned here, right?" Aunt Ye Ning helped her stepmother. Looks ignorant. ,,,