Grandma's funeral was held at ten o'clock in the morning, and the cemetery was in a field behind the Jiang family's house.
At around nine o'clock, most people in the village came over.
Jiang Minghao was stunned for a moment when he saw Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo, and then said hello to them, "When did you come?"
Lu Zhinian: "Last night."
Pei Shuo glanced at the direction he came from, "Brother Hao, do you live over there?"
Jiang Minghao nodded, "Yes."
Pei Shuo: "Then your home is very close to Suisui. It's almost the same as our family home before."
Jiang Minghao's house is separated from Uncle Jiang's house by a small road.
Lu Zhinian glanced at Jiang Minghao's house, raised his eyebrows and thought for a moment, then asked him, "Is there anyone at home?"
Jiang Minghao paused, "No."
Jiang Guodong has not been seen for several days, and he went drinking somewhere during the first month of the year.
Seeing Lu Zhinian's expression as if he was thinking about something, he asked, "Is something wrong?"
It's almost time to wake up, and there are many people in the yard. Many people volunteered to help pick up wreaths and elegiac couplets, which were to be taken to the cemetery later.
Lu Zhinian's eyes were dim as he stared at someone from a distance through the crowd, "Well, let me use your place to teach someone a lesson."
Jiang Minghao followed his gaze and saw Jiang Mingjie standing next to the coffin holding a white elegiac couplet.
He raised his eyebrows and said nonchalantly: "Whatever."
Pei Shuo glanced at Lu Zhinian, feeling slightly excited.
Damn it, I can finally clean up this shit!
At nine forty, wake up on time.
Jiang Suchu took Shu Yuan's hand and said, "Aunt Yuan, Uncle Lu, and Uncle Pei, just follow me later."
Shu Yuan patted her hand and said, "We understand, go ahead."
As an immediate family member, Jiang Suichu had to stand at the front with an elegiac couplet, and could not stand with Lu Zhinian and others.
She was worried that Aunt Yuan and the others didn't understand the customs here and didn't know how to do it, and she was a little worried.
Seeing Jiang Minghao and Lu Zhinian standing together, she trotted over and said, "Jiang Minghao, help me take care of Aunt Dianyuan and the others later."
Jiang Minghao nodded, "Yes. Don't worry."
With Jiang Minghao here, she felt relieved.
When she turned around, her eyes met Lu Zhinian's accidentally. Lu Zhinian curled his lips towards her and mouthed silently, "I'm here."
Jiang Suchu looked at him and nodded gently. Then go through the crowd and go to the front.
The Taoist priest stood in front of the coffin and shouted, "Awaken the soul!"
Three loud blasts of detonators shook the heavens and the earth.
Jiang Suchu held an elegiac couplet in his hand and watched his grandma's coffin being lifted. The uncle stood at the front, holding grandma’s portrait in front of him.
At rural funerals, almost all villagers come to pay their respects. There were many people and the funeral procession was huge.
Firecrackers sounded one after another, and thick smoke seemed to be about to envelope this small mountain village.
The thick smoke stung his nose, and Jiang Suichu felt the tip of his nose sore, and every step he took was extremely heavy.
Lu Zhinian walked behind the team, keeping his eyes on the thin figure in front of the crowd.
There seemed to be a cloud of depression in his heart, which made him uncomfortable.
Burial, burial, and earth removal.
Jiang Suichu knelt in front of the grave, watching his grandma's coffin being covered bit by bit with soil. There were sporadic sounds of mourning in their ears. As they cried, they recounted the sorrow and pain of grandma's life.
Jiang Suchu just knelt quietly and let his tears flow silently. In my mind, I recalled every moment of the past ten years with my grandma, until the tomb turned into a short tomb.
From then on, she and her grandmother were separated forever.
She looked at the brand new tombstone, smiled with tears in her eyes, and kowtowed three times.
Grandma, I will definitely find a good family in my next life and stop living such a hard life.
After the funeral, the guests gradually dispersed, and only Shu Yuan and the others remained in the Jiang family.
Jiang Suichu hadn't seen Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo since the funeral. Only after asking Aunt Yuan did he find out that the two went to Jiang Minghao's house.
She didn't think much about it. Neither of them liked Jiang Mingjie and Jiang Mingzhu, so she thought they went to Jiang Minghao's house because they didn't want to see them.
Lu Shenghua looked at Jiang Zhiguo and his wife and told them that he wanted to take Jiang Suichu away. Jiang Zhiguo knew that it would be better for Jiang Suichu to go with them than to live in his own home. As long as Jiang Suichu was willing, he would not stand in the way.
Qu Ping had never known that they were going to take Jiang Suichu away, and she was unwilling to do so when she heard this, "Mr. Lu, you took Suisui away just after grandma's funeral. Those who don't know think that our family has treated Suisui badly and doesn't want her." .”
Life in the country is full of gossip. Qu Ping is a face-saving person. Over the years, she has always acted like a good aunt to Jiang Suichu in front of others. If Jiang Suchu was picked up, the villagers would definitely gossip and say that she drove him away.
"Sister Qu, what are you talking about?" Shu Yuan saw through her thoughts and stepped forward with a smile to hold Qu Ping's hand, "I believe that the neighbors have seen how you have treated Suisui these years. You are so kind to Suisui, I wonder who would dare to come out and say something wrong with you. If you are really worried, we will ask the surrounding neighbors to bear witness."
Qu Ping was stunned for a moment. This Shu Yuan looked gentle and polite on the surface, but she didn't expect that her words were flawless and full of pitfalls.
Every sentence seemed to praise her, but in fact it was degrading her.
Qu Ping reacted and said with a smile, "What a testimony, really. I just don't worry about Suisui. Besides, there is no reason to run to other people's homes during the Chinese New Year."
Shu Yuan's brows moved slightly, which meant that she was an outsider.
She secretly twitched her lips and said, "Sister Qu, don't worry. Suisui has been living in our house since he was a child. I'm not kidding. Suisui spent more time living in our house than in his own home."
Shu Yuan patted Qu Ping's hand with some distress as she spoke, "Sister Qu, you don't know that my skin was thin when I was a child, and I would be allergic when it comes to humid and hot weather, but it makes me worry a lot. This The room must be well ventilated and well lit, otherwise she will easily get rashes. I think Sui Sui is no longer allergic now, which means you take good care of her."
Jiang Suichu was stunned by the overtly sarcastic conversation between Shu Yuan and Qu Ping. She looked at Aunt Shuyuan and secretly admired her. There were very few people in the village who could talk better than Qu Ping, but Aunt Yuan actually laughed and scolded her.
As the saying goes, don't hit someone with a smiling face. Qu Ping was angry but couldn't express it.
Shu Yuan's words were obviously saying that the room she prepared for Jiang Suichu was not good. Qu Ping smiled coquettishly and said, "This is what I should do."
Seeing that she was speechless, Shu Yuan smiled secretly in her heart, "I understand your reluctance to leave Sui Sui. But how sad Sui Sui is when grandma passes away. I believe you, Sister Qu, know better than me. Let's take Sui Sui away." It also allows her to change her environment and get back on her feet."
"Sister Qu, you don't want to see Suisui so sad, right?"
Qu Ping looked at Shu Yuan's pleading look and twitched the corner of her mouth, "...Yes...Yes."
What else could she say? Shu Yuan immediately put her on the back foot. If she says no, it means she doesn't care about Jiang Suchu.
Seeing Qu Ping nod, Shu Yuan turned around and raised her eyebrows at Lu Shenghua and Pei Tian.
Lu Shenghua smiled helplessly, as expected, women still have to deal with this woman.
"Suibao, let's go." Shu Yuan pulled Jiang Suichu over, "Let's go pack things."
Jiang Suchu glanced at his uncle, and he nodded to her, "Go ahead."
Shu Yuan and Jiang Suichu went to the room to pack their things, while Jiang Zhiguo, Lu Shenghua and Pei Tian were chatting by the stove in the main room.
Jiang Mingzhu felt an indescribable feeling in her heart as she watched Shu Yuan help Jiang Suichu pack her things.
She knew that Jiang Suichu would never come back after leaving this time, and she became the princess again when she was a child. But I still have to live a backward and poor life in this small mountain village.
Why does everyone prefer her so much, even people who are not related by blood are so kind to her.
Jiang Mingzhu admitted in her heart for the first time that she was jealous of Jiang Suchu and went crazy with jealousy.
"Mingzhu, where is your brother?" Qu Ping hadn't seen Jiang Mingjie since the funeral, thinking he was upstairs. But she went to look for him upstairs and saw no one.
Jiang Mingzhu came to her senses and said with a straight face: "How do I know!"
After saying that, she crossed Qu Ping's footsteps and went upstairs.
Qu Ping looked back and said nothing.
The courtyard door of Jiang Minghao's house was closed, and weeds grew in the yard. It looked like an abandoned house.
The house was also dark, and the old mud house always seemed extremely damp.
The side room filled with debris was even darker, with only a little light coming through the cracks in the wall.
Jiang Mingjie had a piece of cloth stuffed in his mouth, and was pushed against the wall by Pei Shuo and Lu Zhinian, who punched and kicked him like a sandbag.
His arm had been removed by Lu Zhinian a long time ago, and he was unable to fight back, so he could only groan in pain.
Jiang Minghao leaned against the door of the side room, squinting at the methods of Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo, and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
The punches were strong and punched in the dark, and it looked like they had been specially trained.
Jiang Mingjie bowed in pain, veins popped up on his forehead, and his face turned red.
Just when he thought he was about to die, Pei Shuo and Lu Zhinian threw him on the ground like garbage.
He curled up on the cold ground, with no injuries visible on his face, but he was in so much pain that he couldn't get up at all.
Pei Shuo had never felt so good. He rubbed his hair and then kicked Jiang Mingjie's belly, "Bullshit!"
"Well..." Jiang Mingjie curled up in pain and wailed like a shrimp.
Lu Zhinian wiped his fingers one by one with a tissue and looked down at Jiang Mingjie on the ground with cold eyes.
"I remember I reminded you, don't touch Jiang Suichu." After wiping his fingers, he slowly squatted down and pulled off the cloth from his mouth, "If you don't listen, then you will end up like this."
The cloth strip in his mouth was removed, and Jiang Mingjie instantly felt like a fish in water, panting heavily.
He wanted to scream, but when he exerted force, his stomach hurt and he couldn't scream at all.
Jiang Mingjie opened his eyes and looked at Lu Zhinian, gritting his teeth and saying, "Lu Zhinian, you... just wait for me. I'm going to call the police, and I'm going to make you all go to jail!"
Lu Zhinian sneered, "Then give it a try and see who goes in first, or us."
Jiang Mingjie looked at him and smiled sinisterly, his eyebrows beating, "You...what do you mean?"
Lu Zhinian narrowed his eyes, "What have you done that you don't remember?"
Jiang Mingjie looked at his dangerous gaze and couldn't help but swallowed, "I...have never done anything. Stop scaring people here."
"Oh~ Really?" Lu Zhinian raised his eyebrows, took out his phone and tapped a few times, found a video and put it in front of him, "Then this person is not you?"
The video was a surveillance video of him and Zhang Yaqi bullying a classmate at school.
He clearly remembered that this was at Zhang Yaqi's home. Zhang Yaqi couldn't stand the girl and asked him to take the girl to her home. He watched as Zhang Yaqi and others made the girl kneel on the ground to learn how to bark. They slapped her, took off her clothes, and some videotaped her.
Although he was not directly involved, he was indeed the one who brought the girl there.
Jiang Mingjie watched the people in the video laughing evilly, while he sat on the sofa behind and watched.
For the first time, he felt that he seemed to have a sense of disgust towards Zhang Yaqi, and the same for himself.
He lowered his head and murmured in denial: "It's not me, the person here is not me at all!"
Lu Zhinian looked at his cowardly and remorseful look, and twitched the corner of his mouth sarcastically, "Everyone is born equal, you shouldn't belittle other people's self-esteem like this."
Repentance afterwards is the most meaningless thing.
He stood up and said calmly and indifferently: "In the future, don't appear in front of Jiang Suichu again."
He didn't want Jiang Suchu to have anything to do with the people who had hurt her in the past.
After Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo left, Jiang Mingjie lay on the ground and cried softly.
Jiang Minghao looked at him sideways, twitched the corner of his mouth, and turned back to the room.
Jiang Suichu didn't have many things to begin with, so he packed them up in a short time.
When Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo came back, Lu Shenghua and Pei Tian had already loaded Jiang Suichu's things into the car.
Jiang Zhiguo and Qu Ping went out to see her off.
Jiang Zhiguo was a little reluctant and his eyes were red, "Sui Sui, take care of yourself."
Jiang Suichu pursed his lips and nodded, "Yes. You too, uncle."
Qu Ping looked at the two of them, and then stepped forward to grab Jiang Suichu's man, "Suisui, auntie really can't bear to leave you. If you feel homesick, you can come back at any time."
Jiang Suchu knew that her aunt's words were just for Uncle Lu and the others, so she didn't flatter her and just said a faint 'hmm'.
It was getting late, so Lu Shenghua said, "Then let's leave first, Brother Jiang."
Jiang Zhiguo rubbed his eyes and said, "Okay."
Pei Tian looked at Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo, "You two will share a car with Suisui later."
Lu Zhinian: "Yeah."
Pei Shuo agreed with a smile, "Okay."
It just so happened that he didn't want to be in the same car with Pei Tian, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to breathe and would have been suffocated along the way.
Shu Yuan put her arm around Jiang Suichu's shoulders and said, "Suibao, get in the car."
Jiang Suchu: "Yeah."
She looked at her uncle, her voice trembling, "Uncle, I...leave first."
Jiang Zhiguo waved to her, "Hey, let's go, let's go..."
Lu Zhinian came over and took off the backpack from her shoulders, and said softly to her: "Let's go home."
Pei Shuo also jumped over and put his hand on Jiang Suichu's shoulder, pushing her towards the car, "Princess Sui Sui is driving back to the palace~"
Jiang Suichu: "..."
Pei Tian couldn't help but stretch out his hand when he saw his son acting so careless, "You're such an adult, can you be more steady?"
Pei Shuo tilted his head to avoid Pei Tian's Tathagata palm and smiled, "Hey, he didn't hit me."
Pi Wan quickly pushed Jiang Suichu into the car before Pei Tian got angry.
Lu Zhinian smiled helplessly, walked around to the other side and got into the car.
Lu Shenghua smiled and patted Pei Tian on the shoulder, "Let's go."
Several people said goodbye to Jiang Zhiguo and Qu Ping again, and then got in the car.
The two cars drove away from the small mountain village one after another. On the winding mountain road, Jiang Suichu looked at the village at the bottom of the mountain in the car, silently determining the location of his grandma's grave.
Grandma, goodbye.
There was a touch of warmth on the back of her hand, and a beautiful hand held her tightly.
She looked sideways and saw Lu Zhinian looking at her tenderly and affectionately.
"Welcome home, Jiang Suichu," he said.
