Li Ping'an knew why his mother was so sad, but it was precisely because of knowing that he felt more and more guilty.
When he was young, when he was enjoying the cool air on summer nights, his mother would occasionally tell him about past events, some of which she had personally experienced, and some of which were told to him by her father and mother.
Li Ping'an's grandfather's name is Chen Liang. He was born in an era of war and chaos. At that time, the people were in dire straits. When Chen Liang was seven years old, Xiaochen Village was robbed by horse bandits. In order to protect the village and the young and old in the family, the villagers of Xiaochen Village The man resisted desperately. In that bandit disaster, Chen Liang's father unfortunately died at the hands of the horse bandits.
After losing the backbone of the family, Chen Liang's mother was depressed and passed away after a serious illness, leaving only three children. Chen Liang's uncle, Chen An's father, took over the responsibility of taking care of his nieces and nephews, but in the end, only Chen Liang grew up.
When Chen Liang was eighteen years old, he was unlucky enough to be recruited by the government to recruit young men to replenish the army. He then fought for a year and was eventually seriously injured but was abandoned. However, his fellow villagers who were also in the army could not bear to let Chen Liang fend for himself and took the risk. The dead soldier carried Chen Liang back from the battlefield, and finally asked someone to send him back to Xiaochen Village so that Chen Liang could return to his roots.
Chen Liang did not die when he returned to Xiaochen Village. Uncle Chen Liang was the village chief of Xiaochen Village at that time. He thought that his deceased brother was the only one left. He couldn't bear that his deceased brother's bloodline was cut off, so he asked for help from the Chen family. The direct lineage of the Zhengzhi family, after pleading hard, finally asked the direct lineage of the Zhengzhi family to find a famous doctor. Finally, Chen Liang was lucky. He kept holding his breath until the famous doctor came, and God blessed him, and he finally survived. Come down.
Although he is lame, it is better than dying.
As soon as Chen Liang was brought back from the gate of hell, the old village chief began to marry Chen Liang, thinking that if Chen Liang had a son and a half, his deceased brother would also have a bloodline to continue. But at that time, it was still difficult for a normal adult man to live, let alone a weak lame man?
Few families are willing to marry their daughters to a cripple who has no father, mother, or siblings. Even poor families who sell their daughters are eager to get more money from the sale.
In the end, it was the old village chief's daughter-in-law who interceded with her natal family and got a distant relative to marry her daughter to Chen Liang.
Without the village head and his family, Chen Liang would most likely not have survived, nor would he have been able to marry a wife, let alone Chen Dajuan's five brothers and sisters.
Ever since she could remember, Chen Dajuan knew that her grandfather's family took great care of her family. Chen Liang couldn't do farm work, so it was Chen An and the brothers who helped him after they finished their own farm work. Chen Liang was bedridden all year round and needed medicine. Sometimes the family didn't have enough money, so Chen An and the others lent it to her family. But she never said anything about repaying the money; during the holidays, she would send some meat to her family so that she and her brothers and sisters could have some meat.
There were too many. In the heart of young Chen Dajuan, Chen An, her cousin, was sometimes even more important than her father. He was more like the backbone of their family, making them rely on them closely.
Now that she suddenly heard the news of Chen An's death, how could she not be heartbroken?
Seeing Li Ping'an's evasive eyes, Chen Dajuan's heart sank to the bottom of her heart. Unable to accept it, she choked and asked, "Do you know this? Is it true?"
Li Pingan nodded with difficulty, still not daring to look at his mother.
Chen Dajuan's body swayed and her eyes lost their luster. After standing still for a while, she slowly knelt down, covered her face and cried bitterly.
Listening to his mother's cries, Li Pingan's heart felt clogged and his nose was sore. He raised his head and tears fell from the corners of his eyes.
Little Ruyi didn't understand what happened yet. She only knew that her mother was crying and her elder brother was also in tears. She looked at her mother and then at her elder brother, feeling at a loss and not knowing what to do. After thinking about it for a while, she decided that her mother was crying the hardest, so she walked over and hugged her mother, stroking her back.
"Oh oh~ oh oh~ don't cry, don't cry~"
Every time she cries, her mother always comforts her like this.
"Xiao Ruyi, can grandma put you to sleep?" Li Ping'an's grandmother Zhou squatted down next to Xiao Ruyi. The Li family settled in Xiaochen Village in the first year of Kaitong. How many years after the founding of the Dajing Dynasty, the Li family was here Having lived in Xiaochen Village for many years, the affairs of her in-laws are no secret in Xiaochen Village. She also knows a lot about it and knows how close Chen Dajuan and her natal family are to Chen An's family.
Now that Chen An died suddenly, she wanted to take Xiao Ruyi away and let Chen Dajuan cry happily.
In fact, she felt uncomfortable in her heart. The Li family had been able to live peacefully in Xiaochen Village for more than ten years, and the old village chief and the head of the village had all helped.
But Xiao Ruyi insisted not to leave. She just wanted to accompany her mother and comfort her.
Fugui, who was guarding the sleeping Jixiang and Xinglong, pursed his lips and his eyes were blank, not knowing what he was thinking. Li Dafang and the others came over, but they only surrounded the outside and looked at Chen Dajuan silently.
At this time, there were also cries in the big thatched shed. The death of the village chief made many villagers nervous. Panic swept over them like a tide. Some people were wailing loudly, while others were sobbing softly. .
The chasing and playing children also returned to their places in their homes and snuggled quietly next to their adults.
Chen Liang's home was not far from the village chief's home. When they moved up the mountain in the afternoon, since his three sons had all gone to the county to buy grain, it was his nephew Chen Song who carried him up.
After listening to the statement of his second son Chen Erzhu, he was silent for a while with red eyes. When he saw Chen Song, Zhang Yu, and Li Erlin carrying Chen An's body in, he picked up his crutch and punched the ground, asking Chen Erzhu to help him. He gets up.
When they arrived at the village chief's house, there were already several layers of people inside and outside, and the sound of a child crying for grandpa could be heard.
Three gray-haired old men also came here accompanied by their descendants. One of the three of them is the patriarch of the Chen clan in Xiaochen Village, and the other two are clan elders. Seeing the crowd surrounding them, the clan leader Chen Zhengsheng sounded like a bell. shouted: "What are you all doing here? Let's disperse and go back to appease the people at home."
Seeing that it was the clan leader, everyone did not dare not listen and quickly dispersed.
The situation inside was revealed to Chen Liang. He saw Chen An's grandchildren kneeling on both sides of the body, shaking Chen An's hands or body, crying and calling for grandpa. Wake up soon.
Chen An's daughter-in-law sat slumped beside him, her eyes dull and her face washed with tears. The eldest daughter-in-law, who is also Chen Song's wife, held her infant son and wiped her tears.
Chen Song kneeled with his head buried in front of his grandmother, Mrs. Chen. Mrs. Chen stared at her son's body in silence with tears in her eyes and a sad face.
She has come from the era of war and chaos, and now it is a time of peace. Why would her only remaining son die in front of her, leaving her with a white head to give away to a black-haired man?
He just wanted to come back early to inform the villagers to buy food to tide over the difficulties. What mistake did he make? Such a good person will be gone if he doesn't! God, if you have eyes, why don't you open them and see what you've done?
Out of grief, Mrs. Chen's eyes darkened and she almost fainted.
"grandmother!"
"aunt!"
With quick eyesight and quick hands, Chen Song hurriedly stepped forward to help the swaying old lady Chen.
Chen Liang also screamed sadly, pushed Chen Erzhu away, stepped forward on crutches, and knelt down in front of Mrs. Chen.
