Several times in dreams

Chapter 44
Chen Zhizhou didn't know how he got home, he hugged Wenyu all the way, calling his name, watching him wither in his arms a little bit, his heart was broken, but there was nothing he could do.

Jiang Shi didn't dare to cry, she wanted to take away Wen Yu, who was already cold, but Chen Zhizhou refused to let go, he just sat there in a daze, without moving for several hours.

Chen Wenjun couldn't see it anymore, so he and the Jiang family forced Wenyu's body to be snatched away. The servants here had already obeyed the order and prepared the coffin for burial.

Jiang cried a few times, wrapped Wenyu with a bamboo mat, put it in the coffin, put mulberry branches and pig iron on the bamboo mat, and his servants nailed the coffin and carried it away.

The death of a child in the folk is regarded as auspicious, and they are not allowed to enter the ancestral graves. They can only be buried in the fields next to the ancestral graves at will, without leaving the head of the grave.

Wanying shed tears silently, Wenyu was so cute when she was alive, but now she can't even have a grave when she's dead, let alone the memorial service during festivals, she just left quietly without leaving a trace.

She couldn't help thinking of the child she lost the year before last, wondering if the child had been reincarnated and where it had gone.

Feeling sad for a while, lamenting the impermanence of the world, he saw Chen Zhizhou sitting blankly, and suddenly fell backwards.

Everyone was shocked and quickly helped him up. Mrs. Jiang grabbed Mr. Chen, and Wen Jun shouted, "Dad! Dad! Wake up!"

His mouth and eyes were crooked, and saliva flowed from the corner of his mouth.

The whole family was in chaos, Meng Wanying hurriedly ordered her servants to invite Langzhong Zhao.

Chen Zhizhou suffered another stroke and collapsed. This time, he never recovered.

Mr. Zhao came here several times and the needle was given, and he left shaking his head every time. He said that he was afraid of repeating the stroke, and that if it happened again the second time, the gods would not be able to save him.

Mrs. Jiang didn't believe it, and devoted herself to serving her every day, but Master Chen couldn't move anything except his eyes.

Jiang knows that he understands in his heart, every time Jiang sheds tears to him, telling him that the family cannot live without him, nagging Wenjing and Wenxiu's ignorance, Wenlan's insensitivity, he will shed tears.

Jiang quickly persuaded softly, "Master, don't worry, it will get better soon. Didn't you use it for two years last time and everything will be healed?"

Chen Zhizhou blinked his eyes strenuously, Jiang quickly took a mouthful of the stewed rotten meat porridge, more than half flowed out from the corner of his mouth, Master Chen couldn't even swallow it.

If you feed too quickly, you will choke, that's a fatal thing, so every time Jiang feeds herself, she can't trust anyone.

Wenjing and Wenxiu are not disciplined every day, and because of their stubborn age, they play like crazy and don't even read books. Wanying said it several times, but it doesn't work.

Wen Jun advised her to help the Jiang family more and ignore the two little guys.

Chen Zhizhou's condition was getting worse and worse. He was already thin, but he was eating less and wasting more, and gradually lost his appearance.

Every hour when Jiang was undressed, he turned over and scrubbed his body, but there was only a handful of bones left, and bed sores still broke out, Jiang was so distressed that he burst into tears.

When Liqiu arrived, Chen Zhizhou hadn't had water or rice for three days, and he had been lethargic without opening his eyes.

The Chen family had already prepared the coffin and shroud, but Jiang did not eat or drink, and prevented Chen Zhizhou from being carried to the main room. She always believed that the old man would recover.

Several uncles in the clan were so angry that they gave Wen Jun a lesson. This chronically ill person must not die on the bed when he is on his deathbed.

Wen Jun didn't know it, but his mother was stubborn, and he couldn't persuade him at all, so he didn't know what to do for a while.

When Meng Wanying walked into the room, her mother-in-law Jiang said hysterically: "No one is going to take the old man away today, he is still alive, he can't just leave us girls behind!"

"Master! Master! Wake up! Tell them quickly, you will be fine!"

Meng Wanying took Jiang's hand, "Grandmother, you still have Wen Jun and me, and Wen Jing Wenxiu is about to grow up, let Dad go well, he won't worry about you..."

Jiang was stunned for a while, then collapsed into Wanying's arms and began to cry loudly.

While comforting her mother-in-law, Meng Wanying took her aside, and at the same time asked someone to carry Chen Zhizhou to the main room with gestures.

Chen Wenjun knelt beside his father, watching Chen Zhizhou's complexion was sallow, his eyes were closed tightly, he had only one breath left, and he was still struggling to support himself.

"Father, don't worry, Wanying and I will take good care of my mother and younger siblings at home. I know you won't worry..."

Chen Wenjun couldn't go on and started crying.

Jiang cried desperately, lay beside Chen Zhizhou and refused to straighten up, Wanying supported her mother-in-law and comforted her softly.

"Where's Wenlan?" Someone asked.

Wen Jing and Wen Xiu had been brought here a long time ago, and the two children were at a loss, kneeling on the side and crying in fear.

A woman ran to Wenlan's room and saw that she was teasing a yellow-green parrot she had just bought with a straw stick.

"Oh, my eldest lady, what time is it, the master's side is not good, I'm waiting for you, hurry up!"

Chen Wenlan glanced at her mother-in-law, put down the straw stick, and followed her to the main room slowly.

"The eldest lady is here, here she is!"

Before he finished speaking, Chen Zhizhou's complexion changed, and he was about to break his breath.

Everyone hurriedly put on the shroud, and after a while of busy work, they smoothed Master Chen's body, and after another look, he had already left.

Jiang staggered and fell to the ground, "My lord, you are so cruel to leave our orphans and widows behind! How will you tell me to live in the future!"

Wen Jing Wenxiu burst into tears in fright, Meng Wanying supported her mother-in-law with one hand, and held the two children by her side with the other, and everyone wailed.

Chen Wenlan looked at all this numbly, she was busy crying, no one paid attention to her, she seemed to have nothing to do with all this, she stood aside and watched for a long time, she silently knelt down in a corner.

After Chen Zhizhou disappeared, some people in the clan saw that the Jiang family was still young and didn't have any ideas, so they came up with some unclear contracts, and made a fuss about dividing up most of the family property.

Jiang's family now has only a dozen or so tenant farmers left, and their own ten mu of private land. The pond and mill have also been taken away.

Fortunately, there are two shops that Wanying married as a dowry, a medicine shop and a cloth shop, and the painstaking efforts have resulted in a slight surplus.

At the end of the new year, the Japanese army rations were all supported in southeast Shanxi, and the base areas were encircled and suppressed. The devils in the Holy City searched everywhere for people's fat and people's anointing, and snatched away the few pigs that were about to be slaughtered by the Chen family.

Most of the stored food was also robbed, but fortunately Wanying took out some of the new food and hid it in a hidden place every year, otherwise this year would not have been possible.

The life of the Meng family was also difficult. Several shops were closed one after another, and there was not much business to do if they were not closed. It was not enough for the little Japanese to rob every day.

Only pharmacies, grocery stores and pawn shops are left struggling.

Although for the sake of Meng Wanyun's face, the Japanese didn't go too far, but there are always some devils who don't care about it, and they will rob the shop when they enter it, and Meng Wanyun can't protect everything.

Meng Zhaoxuan hid all the valuable things in the house that could be hidden, and dismissed most of the servants. He said to the outside world that the whole family lived on Meng Xianjun's salary.

Li Mengxian knew that Meng Zhaoxuan was in poor health and it was not easy to make money. The family members couldn't take care of her, and Qinghong was still young, so she had too many places to spend money, so she took the initiative to tell He Jinlian to reduce her monthly expenses by [-]%.

I and Wanlan lived on Meng Xianlun's salary. Although life was tight, it was not embarrassing. Besides, after Wanlan graduated next year, it would be nice to have an income.

He Jinlian is naturally willing, but Meng Zhaoxuan doesn't do it, how can he ignore Wanlan and his wife?Besides, Xianlun's burden would be too heavy.

In the end, they negotiated a [-]% reduction. Meng Zhaoxuan said, it doesn't matter if life is hard, we are all a family, and the hard days will pass.

He Jinlian didn't like to object, but in private, she reduced Liu Liping's courtyard expenses by [-]%.

Liu Liping didn't dare to make trouble, and couldn't get in touch with Meng Xianchen, so she had to dismiss the servants, leaving only a little girl and an old mother to serve her. Life was as miserable as Coptis chinensis.

The days passed slowly, and at the end of the year, Meng Wanying was pleasantly surprised to find that she was pregnant again.

(End of this chapter)