Farmhouse Qiaofei

Chapter 335

"Mother..." Mrs. Wu tentatively called her, "Is there any broken mat at home? Which room is it in?"

Liu's eyelids were raised, but there was no response.

"Mother, do you know where the mat is?" Seeing this, Wu asked again.

Mrs. Liu glanced at her coldly, her eyes seemed to be pierced with knives, but she still didn't speak.

Mrs. Wu felt uncomfortable being looked at, but because Mr. Bai had just passed away, she guessed that Mrs. Liu was overly sad, so she didn't bother with her, sighed, and turned her head to the Westinghouse to look for it.

After rummaging through the dusty furniture for a while, he finally found an unused mat. Wu asked Bai Shao to find someone to borrow a hammer and two small nails to nail the mat to the door frame.

Bai Shao hesitated in her heart, and walked slowly to the gate of Bai's house, worrying about whom to borrow, suddenly saw a dazed young man standing at the door and smiling at her.

He Xiang tugged at Bai Shao's sleeve, and said in a low voice, "Miss, this is the person who came to report the news. I heard that the lantern was also sent by them."

Bai Shao understood a little bit, raised her eyebrows, walked up to the young man, and asked, "Do you still have a hammer and a small nail at home?"

"Yes, yes, I'll go get it right away." The man obviously wanted to help, and when he heard Bai Shao's question, he immediately nodded excitedly, and ran home to get the things.

When he came over with a hammer and nails, Bai Shao asked He Xiang tentatively while motioning for He Xiang to take it, "Would you like to build a shed for my house?"

The man nodded quickly, and said happily, "Since the young miss has said so, then leave this matter to me!"

Bai Shao smiled, she was sure in her heart that this person really came to curry favor with her family, so she became rude to him and gave him a lot of work.

By the time Bai Chuanbai came back with a large pile of paper money for candles and shrouds and coffins, the funeral shed at the entrance of Bai's house had already been erected.

Because the sky was already bright at this time, Bai Chuanbai asked Zhao Long to notify Bai Chuanqiang, Bai Chuanqiong, and his three sisters who hardly interacted with each other one by one.

The next step is to scrub the body, put on the shroud and so on.

As female relatives, Wu Shi and Bai Shao wanted to avoid suspicion, so they went out of the main room and stood in the yard waiting.

During this period, Bai Chuanbai's whimpering sound could be heard several times in the east room, and Bai Shao couldn't help but sore his nose when he heard it.

After the shroud is put on, the formal funeral will begin.

Although the Bai family has declined over the years and their reputation has deteriorated, old master Bai used to be quite prestigious in Shilipu and had many good relationships, so there are still many people in the village who are willing to come to help.

Of course, it is not known how many of these people came here based on the face of the dead old man, and how many of them came here because of Bai Chuanbai's current wealth.

With the help of the villagers, many things can be done easily - cutting filial cloth, making filial clothes, meals, digging graves and so on.

When it was about noon, Bai Chuanqiang and Bai Chuanqiong came back together as if they had agreed upon a deal.

Originally, Bai Chuanbai felt a little sympathetic towards the two brothers, but now that old master Bai is gone, the family affection becomes very precious.

After the three brothers hugged each other and cried for a while, it seemed that all the previous disharmony had disappeared.

Regarding the funeral of Mr. Bai, the three brothers began to plan separately.

As if by default, Bai Chuanbai paid the money, and the other two brothers paid for it, and they did more work.

Although Bai Shao was somewhat dissatisfied with their acquiescence in his heart, but it is true that his family is not short of the money, so he did not raise any objections.

On the first night, because the son had to watch the night, Bai Shao and Wu went back to the Bai Mansion in Xieyang County first, and after barely resting for the night, they went to Shilipu before dawn the next day.

At noon that day, the three sisters of the Bai family who were not far away actually arrived late.

This was the first time that Bai Shao met the three aunts. Usually, old man Bai took Bai Chuanbai to deliver things to their homes, but they rarely came back—maybe they came back in the years when Bai Shao was away, but according to Bai As far as Shao knew, they hadn't been back for at least two years.

Otherwise, if Mr. Bai is so seriously ill, how could they ignore him and not even pay for the medical treatment?
However, to Bai Shao's surprise, as soon as they entered Bai's house, they all burst into tears, their voices were earth-shattering, as if they contained infinite emotions.

Bai Shao was a little surprised, and pulled Wu Shi's arm for some unknown reason.

Wu patted her and explained in a low voice, "Crying and crying, generally the more the children in the family cry, the more honorable the funeral will be."

It turns out that there are still these twists and turns...

Bai Shao twitched her lips and refused to deny it.

That day, because of the addition of three aunts, the crying of the Bai family finally became more vigorous-but any relatives who came to visit would cry loudly.

On the fourth day, the married granddaughters of the Bai family also came back.

Bai Zhi seems to be living well these years, with a three or four-year-old boy, he is no longer shy when speaking, and has matured a lot.

However, Bai Ying still has the spirit of a brave man as always, even with a big belly, when she sees Bai Shao, she doesn't want to run towards her excitedly.

"Fifth Sister..." She was a little excited, "Fifth Sister, are you really Fifth Sister?"

"It's me, Sister Yingzi." Bai Shao smiled and supported her staggering figure, "I'm going to be a mother, walk slowly, even if it's not for myself, it's for the child."

"I know, I know." Bai Ying waved her hand, still looking excitedly, looked at Bai Shao carefully, and asked, "The longer she grows, the more beautiful she is. If the third aunt hadn't told me, I would have recognized her. not come out."

Bai Shao smiled and waved to her. Just as she was about to say something, she saw Mrs. Wu walking over with a big pot in her hands. All kinds of meatballs asked, "Mom, are you going to have dinner at noon today?"

Waiting for meals, which means entertaining meals, is usually used to entertain those folks who are busy in the days before weddings and funerals.

"That's right, I hired a special chef this time. The fried meatballs are crispy and fragrant. You can try a few later." Wu said to her softly, "Because it takes too much time and effort to make this, our family has been cooking it for a long time. Didn't do it."

"Oh, my sister likes this more than I do, but it's a pity that she's in Yanjing, it's too far away." Bai Shao sighed, squatted down with Wu Shi, and put the big pot of vegetable balls in the clean room. In the side room, I looked around and saw that there was no one around, so I twisted a ball and wanted to stuff it into my mouth.

Because this kind of thing is repeatedly fried in large oil, although rapeseed oil is used, when the ball is pinched, Bai Shao still feels a greasy smell, and even breathing is a little uncomfortable.

She covered her chest, took a deep breath, opened her mouth, and stuffed the ball into her mouth.

At this time, Baiying just came to look for her, and seeing her stuffing meatballs into her mouth, she couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, fifth sister, you are stealing food here, and you still don't call me, so how can it be, I want to eat it too." eat……"

Before the words finished, Bai Shao, who was chewing the balls, suddenly felt a nausea in his chest.

She clutched her chest, and didn't even have time to run out of the side room. She could only lie behind the door, opened her mouth, and spit out the half-rotten balls she chewed on the ground, and then retched desperately.

"Fifth Sister..." Bai Ying was taken aback, and hurried over to pat her on the back, "Are you okay?"

Bai Shao waved to her, indicating that she was fine.

"Come and drink some water." Because she was pregnant, Bai Ying always carried a water bag with her. Seeing that Bai Shao was uncomfortable, she untied the water bag on her waist and handed it to her.

Bai Shao took it, took two sips of warm water with the lid, felt that the desire to retch was suppressed, then straightened up, thanked Bai Ying with a smile, "Thank you very much, Fourth Sister."

Bai Ying took back the water bag, and smiled, "It's all a little effort, you probably haven't eaten breakfast, so it's disgusting to eat greasy things at first."

"But I ate it." Bai Shao looked at the balls in the pot with some doubts, and suddenly smelled a greasy smell at the tip of her nose, turned around immediately, and retched again.

Bai Ying patted Bai Shao's back lightly, doubts appeared in her eyes.

"No, no, no, I can't stay here anymore." Bai Shao blushed, and after feeling a bit more comfortable in her heart, she couldn't wait to rush out of the east side house.

Breathing the fresh and clean air outside, she breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally felt comfortable, "But I'm afraid I won't be able to eat lunch..."

"Fifth Sister..." Bai Ying's eyes became more hesitant, seeing Bai Shao's retching behavior, she thought of a possibility.

But...she took a look at Bai Shao's girlish attire, and was a little unsure, so she hesitated, never expressing the doubts in her heart.

When it was lunch time, there was indeed vegetable ball soup, and Bai Shao couldn't eat it, so he asked Han to buy some pastries to make ends meet.

Naturally, she was endlessly busy in the afternoon, but because Mrs. Wu found out about her retching at noon, she was not allowed to work and told her to sit in the main room and not move around.

Bai Shao was bored, mainly because she didn't like to sit with Mrs. Liu, so she quietly went to Westinghouse.

The place where Mrs. Bai used to live, after Mrs. Bai's family moved out, it was vacated and filled with a lot of sundries. After Bai Shao went in, he found that there was at most a place where he could stay. .

Even so, it was much better than sitting in front of Mrs. Liu.

Thinking this way, Bai Shao found a small stool and sat down.

Later, it was probably because she hadn't slept well in the past few days, and because she had retched just now, she was a little tired, and she fell asleep leaning against the back of the west room door.

When she woke up, it was almost dark, and the villagers who came to help had already gone back to their homes, only Bai Chuanbai and Wu Shi and their two maidservants were left to clean up the leftovers in the yard.

Bai Shao rubbed her eyes, and was about to stand up to help, when suddenly, there was a murmur in the main room.

That was Liu's voice.

"Let me tell you, just tomorrow, I will have a showdown with the third child tomorrow. I can't ask for less money. If you help me, I will give you some..."

Immediately afterwards, it was Bai Laosi's voice.

"Mother, it's not good to ask for money so straightforwardly."

"Then what do you want?" Mrs. Liu glared at him, "What can you do?"

"Mother, listen to me, why did my father die? Are you clueless? Why did my father die as soon as my third brother came back? Why didn't he die sooner or later, but why did he die when he came back? Mother, you always think about it..."

(End of this chapter)