Early the next morning, Cui'er left Sunjiagou with a bundle in her arms and tears.
Aunt Liu and his wife carried torches and sent them all the way over mountain ridges and across rivers. Only when they could no longer send them away did they stop with the comfort of Sun and the others.
Aunt Liu reluctantly stroked Cui'er's hair and said her words over and over again for most of the night last night, but now she still has thousands of words stuck in her throat.
"When you get outside the mountains, you must listen to your aunt and your aunt. If you miss home, ask your little grandpa to help you send a message back. I will ask your father to visit you." Aunt Liu warned again.
Cui Er nodded gently while wiping away tears.
Finally, she lay on Aunt Liu's shoulder and cried.
Cui'er's father was also reluctant to let go. He had raised his daughter until she was fourteen years old and had never left such a faraway place. The man was also very reluctant to let go, but he couldn't cry like a woman.
He just came to Uncle Yang Huazhong and Yang Ruoqing, handed over the dry tobacco pole, "Here, take a couple of puffs."
Uncle Yang Huazhong and Yang Ruoqing both took a puff and the three men puffed together.
We are all fathers and we all understand.
Yang Huazhong said: "Cousin, please relax, we will take good care of Cui'er. If you are free, come out and see your daughter, and we will get together too."
Cui'er's father nodded.
On the women's side, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Sun came over to persuade Cui'er and her daughter.
Da Sun said: "Cui'er, don't cry. There are many sisters at home, Xiaojie, Huangmao, Xiaohua Xiaoduo. You are all girls of the same age. You will have company when the time comes!"
Mrs. Sun said to Cui'er's wife, Aunt Liu: "Sister-in-law, not to mention that you saved my life, just talking about the relationship between our two families, I will also take good care of Cui'er."
"Besides, you saved my life. Don't worry, I will take care of Cui'er as my own daughter. When the time comes, let her live in my house."
"Xiaohua is already my daughter-in-law. I let her live in a separate room and let Cuier live with Xiaoduo. The two girls can chat quietly together."
Aunt Liu was relieved when she heard these arrangements.
She held Sun's hand and said, "Tui'er will be entrusted to you..."
Then, the woman tried to kneel down, but Mrs. Sun held her back.
"Don't do this, I really can't bear it," said Sun.
Everyone said a few words of self-respect, saying goodbye to you after a long journey, and both parties finally said goodbye with tears.
…
We returned to Changping Village and settled down with Cui Er.
"Tui'er, you are tired from traveling today. You should have a good rest first. Auntie will call you during lunch." Mrs. Sun said lovingly.
Tweety nodded obediently, "Okay, Tweety listen to my aunt."
Mrs. Liu and Guihua Dayun all came over and were waiting for Ms. Sun in the main room.
Everyone gathered around Mrs. Sun and asked about Mrs. Sun's funeral.
After everyone comforted them again, Mrs. Liu took the lead in talking about things in the village.
"Third sister-in-law, Fengzhi is dead!"
"ah?"
Sun thought she had heard wrongly.
"Fengzhi...what's going on?" asked Sun in surprise.
Mrs. Liu then told the story of what happened in the past few days in an exaggerated manner.
"The corpse that was carried up the mountain yesterday morning, even though it was stabilized with ice, was still smelly. The nostrils of the coffin carriers were stuffed with cotton balls. Two of them couldn't bear it anymore and vomited halfway through the process. Tsk tsk..."
Sun also subconsciously covered her mouth, her eyes filled with fear and some regret.
"Hey, death is like a lamp going out. It's just a pity for Zhou Sheng and Bingbing." Sun sighed.
Mrs. Liu pouted, "What's so pitiful about Zhou Sheng? I heard that Yang Zhenbang paid eight taels of silver to come over, saying it was to compensate Bingbing."
"With those eight taels of silver, Zhou Sheng can change hands and marry a new wife. She can still hug her when she gets under the quilt," Mrs. Liu said.
"It's just that Bingbing is going to suffer. It's true. Every stepmother has a stepfather, poor baby!" Mrs. Liu said again.
Guihua said: "Her fourth aunt, you can't say that. I don't think Zhou Sheng is the kind of person who likes the new and hates the old. Yesterday when Fengzhi went up the mountain, Zhou Sheng, a seven-foot tall man, cried so much that he couldn't walk and needed help. …”
Mrs. Liu said: "Oh, my sister-in-law Osmanthus, you have become the grandma and grandma, how come you still don't understand the heart of a man?"
"This man is the most heartless and unjust. He cried like that yesterday because Fengzhi had just left and suddenly there was no woman in charge of the family. It was like the child was weaned. Can't we make a fuss for a few days? "
"As time goes by, there will be nothing left. By then he will have some money in his hand. Even if he doesn't take the initiative to find his mother-in-law, she will naturally care about him."
"Even if you don't know the way out, don't go in to fill a house, and just become that flirtatious couple who are given dozens of copper coins, it's still a lot of shameless women to do it..."
"Zhou Sheng is not that kind of person." Mrs. Sun also said.
Ms. Liu tried her best to judge everyone: "It doesn't matter whether he is that kind of person, as long as he is a human being and a man, he will definitely steal something!"
"Zhou Sheng is only twenty-seven years old, in his prime. A man of this age can hold back if you ask him not to touch his mother-in-law for a month. But if you ask him not to touch his mother-in-law for two months, half a year, or one year? He still can't bear it? Don’t hold it in until you die!”
The next words were a bit vulgar, and Mrs. Sun and the others were embarrassed to speak, so Dayun quickly changed the subject and talked about the quarrel between Xiaoqin's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law two days ago...
Wherever there is gossip, Liu is indispensable.
"I know, I know. Grandma Xiaoqin beat Xiaoqin with a feather duster. I'm here to tell my third sister-in-law..."
Mrs. Liu once again grabbed the conversation and began to talk vividly to Mrs. Sun.
With Mrs. Liu here, even though Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Da Sun had been away from Changping Village for seven or eight days, the news was not lost at all, all thanks to Mrs. Liu as an excellent tutor.
After lunch, Mrs. Sun asked Xiaohua and Xiaoduo to take Cui'er around the yard a few times to familiarize themselves with the environment.
Then he went to Sun's house across the road and sat for a while.
Cui'er's eyes were full of surprise. She had never seen such a nice courtyard in her whole life.
This kitchen is bigger than the main room of her family.
The furniture and furnishings in the room were eye-opening to Cui'er, and at the same time, she felt even more inferior.
I am really a country bumpkin from Shangadali.
At night, Wang Cuilian and Yang Ruoqing cooked a table of delicious food and invited the Sun family and Yang Huazhong to come over for dinner.
Cui'er was also solemnly invited by Yang Ruoqing.
At this time, Baby Luo has successfully overcome the chickenpox crisis. The little girl is wearing a pink silk flower skirt, a double bun, a silver necklace and bracelets on her neck and wrists, and a little cinnabar between her eyebrows. She appears in When he was in front of everyone, he really looked like the lotus boy walking out of a New Year painting, smart and full of fairy spirit.
She greeted Yang Huazhong and other elders next to Shun'er, and then was introduced to Cui'er by Yang Ruoqing.
"This is your Aunt Cui'er, the granddaughter of the Grand Duke's family over in Sunjiagou. She will live in your grandmother's house from now on." Yang Ruoqing said with a smile.
Luo Baobao's eyes lit up, he tilted his little head to look at Cui'er, and called her aunt sweetly.
Cui'er smiled shyly and agreed softly.
Then Luo Baobao hugged Yang Ruoqing's neck and whispered a few words into her ear.
Yang Ruoqing raised her eyebrows, "Do you really think so?"
Baby Luo nodded seriously and glanced at Cui'er again. Baby Luo blushed and smiled coyly.
