60s Splendid Life

Sleeping in the middle of the night, there was a rustling sound in the room. Wang Meili, who was awakened, opened her eyes and saw a familiar figure in front of the bed. Needless to say, it was her man. In the dark, the man had already got up and was getting dressed, so he asked aloud, "You are sleeping in the middle of the night, why are you getting up?"

"I'll go back to the old house, you can continue to sleep." Lu Jianguo, who finally came back to stay with his wife for a night, was really worried about sleeping until midnight, so he got up and prepared to go back to the old house to have a look Dad.

Wang Meili, who had endured it for so long, couldn't help having a fit. She sat up from the bed and asked the man who was about to go out after getting dressed, "Lu Jianguo, are you sick? Your father is not just your son, Lu Jianqun is not dead, and their family is still living in the old house! What’s the matter if you come to my place to sleep all night? You have to run back to see your father in the middle of the night. Lu Laogen is your own father Isn't it?" Wang Meili was very angry because of the separation of the family. The couple hadn't slept together for almost two years, or after the new house was built, the couple had a separate room. live together.

But despite this, this man still lives in the old house to guard his father most of the time, and rarely spends the night in the new house. Wang Meili already has countless complaints in her heart, but this man still completely ignores her. In the middle of the night, she had to get up and go back to see her father before she came back. This kind of thing happened more than once or twice, even she herself didn't know how many times.

"Hey, it's not like you don't know them. The second child hasn't even entered Dad's house a few times." Seeing that his wife was angry, Lu Jianguo was in a hurry to go out again. He wanted to go back to see his father but was afraid that his wife would be angry. I was a little anxious in my heart, and I didn't know what to do at both ends.

"It's because of your appearance that Lu Jianqun doesn't care about anything and throws everything at you! Go, go, if you want to go, who can stop you, after you go, don't come back to my place to spend the night." Anyway, the man who separated the family chose his father and mother, and now he ran back to her, what was the matter, she just pretended that she lost this man, and just lived with her children in the future.Back then she married this man because of his honesty, but now Wang Meili hates his honesty so much that she was bullied like this by her brothers.

Lu Jianguo was not human at both ends, with his old father who couldn't let him go, and his wife who was angry with him. His heart wavered from side to side. This honest and filial man still chose his father's side, thinking about coming back to coax his wife. "Hey... don't be angry, I'll be back when I go, you can go on sleeping."

Seeing the man leave just like that, and the door of the room being opened and closed, Wang Meili was so angry that she lay back on the bed, but couldn't sleep.

Lu Jianguo hurried back to his old house and entered his father's room. As soon as he entered the room, he could smell the smell of feces and urine. When he went to clean the bed for the old man, he found that the old man was dying. Lu Jianguo was busy again. He had to run and pat the window of the house where his brother lived, and shouted: "Second brother, get up quickly, Dad is going to die."

When Lu Jianqun in the room heard this, he threw off the quilt and got up, put on his clothes and went out, "What's the matter, Dad?"

"I don't think Dad is going to be able to do it like that. Go and tell everyone to come here." Lu Jianguo explained a few words, and then hurriedly patted on the door of the old lady's house. I went back to my father's house.

Wang Meili, who just lay down and fell asleep, was woken up again by the knocking on the door outside. When she heard the second uncle's voice outside, she shuddered, and hurriedly called her sons, daughters-in-law and daughters to get up, and everyone dressed up together. The clothes rushed to the old house.

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"Boom bang bang-"

Lu Jin, who was still sleeping, was woken up by the sound of knocking on the door outside. He touched the alarm clock beside the bed and glanced at the time. It was between three and four o'clock at night.

Grandpa Yu was also woken up and asked his grandson if someone was knocking on the door.

"Well, it should be. Grandpa, you don't need to get up. I'll go and see what's going on." Lu Jin lifted the quilt and got up, put on his pants and coat and went out, opened the door, and saw the person coming out of the door. His cousin.Before he could open his mouth to ask, his big cousin told him what was wrong with the old man and told him to go there quickly.

Hearing this, Lu Jin was stunned for a moment. He had visited the old man two days ago, but when he thought about the old man's appearance, it was not surprising that he was leaving. When he recovered, he replied, "Oh, yes, Brother Hall, you go there first, I’ll go back and tell my family.”

"Hey, okay, hurry up." Lu Songguang hurriedly left after informing his cousin.

Lu Jin went back to the house and told his grandpa what his big cousin told him just now. As for the other children who were still sleeping, he didn't call them up, "I'll go and see first, grandpa, you are at home I'll come back later and tell you about something."

"Oh, okay, it's cold and you wear two more clothes before you go." Yu Wenchang woke up when he heard such a big thing happened.

The temperature at this point in the morning is basically the lowest of the day, and the weather is really cold. Just now when Lu Jin came in, he was shivering from the cold. After taking off his coat, he added some Two pieces of clothes, a scarf, a thick coat, and a hat before going out with a flashlight.

After his grandson went out, Yu Wenchang sighed and couldn't fall asleep.

When Lu Jin arrived there, just in time for the old man to die, the room was full of people, and he stood outside when he couldn't get in. Hearing the howling sound from the room, he remembered the time when he came two days ago. There was no one else except him and his uncle. Compared with the current lively scene, it was simply ironic.

However, compared to the fact that Lu Laogen didn't even have a son or grandson in front of him before his death, Lu Laogen had a whole house of sons and grandsons guarding him, waiting for him to breathe his last breath.

After all, Lu Laogen failed to survive this year and left on the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, ending his hard life.

By the next morning, everyone in the village basically knew about it.

Although it is a new society now, and those things of the old society are not popular, but in rural areas, there are old people who have passed away at home, and funerals still have to be done. Even if it can’t be done big, it should be done small. People who are close to the same clan will come to help .

Lu Jin also stayed at the old house to help with the work, and he didn't return home from the old house until dawn. At this time, when he came back, the old people and children in the family had already woken up.When the children at home saw him coming back, they all ran to him and asked him, "Brother, where have you been?"

Seeing that the child was about to hug him, Lu Jin pushed back to prevent the child from hugging his legs, touched the heads of a few boys, and asked, "Brother has something to do at the old house. Do you have any appointments in the morning?" Get up obediently? Or stay in bed?"

"I got up obediently, Xiaobao and Dandan stayed in bed and refused to get up." Chenchen seized the opportunity to sue her two younger brothers.

"Oh, really? It doesn't matter if it's cold and you can sleep a little longer." But Lu Jin didn't blame the two little guys who were lying on the bed. I'm suing my brothers, it seems that the winter vacation homework assigned to this brat is not enough, and I have to ask this brat to write a few more big words later.

Lu Haochen didn't know that a lot of winter vacation homework was rushing towards him, and he brought his two younger brothers rushing over outside the yard, and then rushing over.

"Grandpa, I'm back." Lu Jin went to the kitchen and saw his grandfather, sister, and Uncle Rong were all there.Yu Wenchang put down the spoon in his hand, turned to look at the returning grandson and asked, "You're back, how are things going in the old house?"

"My grandfather is gone, and there is still a funeral over there. I may have to go there to help in the next few days." Lu Jin said.

"Ah, let's go." Yu Wenchang was stunned for a moment, but he also expected this to happen, sighed, and said, "Hey, I'm getting old, and half of my body is buried in the soil. It's a matter of time before I leave. .You didn’t have breakfast, right? Just came back, eat something before leaving, I made porridge and warmed steamed buns.”

"Okay." Lu Jin came back to eat at home, so he went there early in the morning to help out. He was so busy that he even drank his saliva. He was cold and hungry.It happened that there was cooked porridge in the pot, so he asked his grandfather to pack a bowl of rice soup for him to drink, and he didn't bother to go back to the house to drink water.

After having breakfast at home that day, Lu Jin took his two older brothers and sisters out together, and the two younger siblings stayed at home to be looked after by his grandfather. As for his grandfather, he didn't let the old man over there.

However, even though Yu Wenchang didn't go, he took a dollar out of his pocket and gave it to his grandson before his grandson left, and asked his grandson to take it over there.

People who are acquainted and relatives in the country will give some money or something.Yu Wenchang and the Lu family can be regarded as relatively close relatives, but now his daughter and son-in-law are gone, but there are still a few grandchildren, and others are also in the Lu family village, so he still has to give the money to him. of.

Lu Jin didn't know much about these ways of the world, but his grandfather gave it to him and took it.

On the way to the old house with the two children, Lu Jin told the two children about their grandfather's death.

The two children have experienced the death of their parents, and they both understand what it means to go away. The two siblings followed their brother closely along the way, looking a little scared.

"Don't be afraid, brother is here." Lu Jin touched the heads of the two children, telling them not to be afraid.In fact, strictly speaking, he is not Lu Laogen's grandson, but these two are Lu Laogen's grandson and granddaughter. He wants to take the two children to burn incense for the dead old man, otherwise the village Some people will say that their brothers and sisters are not filial, and they will live in this village in the future. He doesn't want the children in the family to face those gossips.

So, now it's just a matter of burning a stick of incense, and he still has to bring his two older siblings to burn it.I haven't seen those people in the old house, and I haven't seen any of them on weekdays. I'm crying so hard there now.