Changping Village.
Later in the night, when Yang Ruoqing was sleeping in a daze, she heard the crackling sound of firecrackers coming from outside.
She turned over and closed her eyes to feel the sound coming from the resettlement point in the south of the village.
Thinking about it, it must be related to Wangfu.
Life passes by in a hurry for decades, and it disappears like a fleeting moment. It is really short.
A short life should not be wasted. Do something meaningful. When your soul is suspended in the sky in the future, overlooking others dealing with your abandoned body, you will at least feel that you are a dignified and decent person. Human beings are not animals that are despised by others.
I fell asleep again in a daze. I was so lethargic during pregnancy that I slept deeply. I didn't even know when Luo Fengtang would come back.
Anyway, when she woke up, it was already approaching noon. Luo Fengtang had just come out of the bathroom, looking clean and fresh after just taking a shower.
"Are you awake? My mother-in-law came over to say hello earlier and asked us to go to her house for dinner at noon. I was about to wake you up."
"Ah, I slept for so long! It's already lunch." Yang Ruoqing smiled and yawned.
"The mouthwash and everything are ready for you. Go wash up first." Luo Fengtang said.
"okay."
Yang Ruoqing stood in front of the sink and brushed her teeth. Luo Fengtang was at the table here preparing warm water for her while telling her about the past half day.
"Duoer and Shengnan are back with Jiaojiao and Lingling."
"Ah? The road was flooded. How did they go back to their parents' home?" Yang Ruoqing asked in surprise.
Luo Fengtang said: "We just happened to have a boat coming back from Lijiacun, and their family of four came here by boat."
Yang Ruoqing nodded, "No wonder."
She turned around and rinsed her mouth, then began to wash her face. Washing her face did not affect her speech.
"It's okay for them to come back and visit. My mother has been talking about them these days."
In particular, Wangfu's incident shocked Sun. Xiaoduo came back to visit and said something else to divert Sun's attention.
"Speaking of Xiaoduo, I remembered that there are still two things that I have been putting off." She added.
"What's the matter?"
Luo Fengtang came over with a bowl in hand, leaning against the door frame with his tall body, looking at her gently.
"What else can I have? It's the cattle dealer's uncle and our uncle's sixtieth birthday."
Yang Ruoqing was rubbing her face until it was covered in foam.
“Originally we planned to start preparations after the Dragon Boat Festival, but a series of things happened, mainly rain and rising water, so everyone no longer had the energy and thought to prepare.”
"It's been dragging on for months."
So that’s what happened.
Luo Fengtang thought for a while and said, "How about this? We have been observing the water level in the river for the past two days and there is an urge to drop it."
"After two days, we will withdraw some water. We will prepare to drain the water. After the water is drained, the village will be disinfected and everyone will move back to their homes. At that time, we will discuss with Duo'er and Shengnan about the longevity of the two families. We can throw a banquet together. Invite all relatives and friends and make it more lively. What do you think?"
Yang Ruoqing took a moment to give him a thumbs up and added four words: "Perfect arrangement!"
…
Xiaoqin and Damo discussed it and asked the two girls to go and put mourning on Wangfu.
Daping Niang was so sad that she fell into unconsciousness, and the couple helped with the funeral arrangements throughout the process.
When people in the village saw it, they all praised Xiaoqin for being virtuous, and even more so for her kindness and kindness.
Although she is ugly, she is far inferior to Xiaoqin's husband Daping, who died young, but so what?
Daping has a short life and cannot protect Xiaoqin and her children. Damo is ugly, but Daping can give Xiaoqin and her daughter a place to live. So appearance is really not that important sometimes. What matters is the person and the heart. .
Two days later, the funeral was over, and Wangfu's ashes were put in a small jar and brought back to the Taoist Temple by Taoist Priest Yuan.
At this time, good news came. Yang Huazhong and Luo Fengtang prepared several centipede waterwheels, which were set up on the riverside and in the pond at the entrance of the village to prepare for drainage.
"We can go home after the water is drained. I have been sleeping in a tent at the resettlement site every day. It makes my back sore and uncomfortable!"
"Me too. I catch a lot of mosquitoes and it's really a suffering. Since they have a water tanker to drain water, why didn't they drain it earlier? Didn't they deliberately make us suffer when we live here?"
On this day, Mrs. Liu came to the resettlement site to wander around after having a full meal. She also took a look at the porridge shed. On the way back, she heard two women from the same village talking in front of her.
When Mrs. Liu heard this, she immediately became angry.
He took a few steps forward and squeezed in between the two women who were biting their ears, knocking them staggering.
"Who doesn't have eyes...ah, isn't this her fourth aunt? Are you out for a walk too?"
A woman who was hit was about to curse, but when she saw it was Ms. Liu, she immediately changed her face and said hello with a smile.
Mrs. Liu's shrewdness and mischief were well-known in the village, especially since she was backed by the old Yang family and an even more powerful god-like mother-in-law, Mrs. Tan.
So most people try their best not to offend her.
There is a saying that you should not hit anyone with a smiling face, but Mr. Liu did not accept this trick.
She raised her eyebrows, put one hand on her hips, and pointed the other hand at the smiling woman, almost poking her nose with her finger.
"Stop smiling like that with me. What did you say just now? Do you have the guts to say it again?"
"Her fourth aunt, what are you talking about? Why can't I understand you?"
"Yes, her fourth aunt, we were just talking about how the porridge in the porridge shed is thick and the white flour steamed buns are soft and fluffy. It's so good..." Another woman also hurried over to smooth things over.
Mrs. Liu did not accept this and spat, "Do you think I am deaf? Isn't it true that I eat other people's food and criticize others behind their backs? Are there any of you like this?"
"What happened if there was no drainage before? That means the water level in the river has not gone down and there is no way to drain it. If you don't understand this, just shut up!"
"You eat from others, live from others, and are picky about things behind your back. Are there any of you like this?"
In the face of Liu's barrage of scoldings, the woman who was trying to smooth things over still smiled apologetically. The other woman was also annoyed. She blushed and argued loudly: "I didn't say anything bad about anyone. What are you saying? That tent It was really hard to live there, it was a big shop on the ground, and my whole back felt stiff after one night..."
"Ah!" Ms. Liu jumped up and spat at the woman who spoke.
"It's not that the Luo family and our old Yang family spent their own money to buy tents for you. Now you are sleeping on the coffin board like Wangfu! Lying in the jar! Just be satisfied that I can keep you alive without starving!"
The woman was pissed off because her head and face were spat on, so she rushed forward and started fighting with Ms. Liu.
Ms. Liu was not a coward, she was a 'both civil and military' person. The two women hugged each other and rolled down in the grass on the roadside. If the villagers who had eaten the disaster relief porridge had not rushed to pull them away, they would have been People were almost thrown into the ditch nearby.
