C30

The Qi family was very close to the Deming family's land. Since Qi Hai's father couldn't attend to the work in the land at work, sometimes when Qi Ma couldn't get busy by herself, Deming would take the initiative to help. Qi Chang remembered that there was a year when someone had to pour water from a reservoir in the county into the ground, and when Qi Yuan had to open a hole in the river beside the river, he couldn't even get a full supply of water from his mother. Deming helped her open her mouth and poured all the water into the field. After that, whenever Qi Ma needed help, Deming had to help out a lot of kind-hearted people.

The three siblings finished their meal in silence. Their younger siblings went upstairs to rest for a while, then rushed to the school to attend class. Qi Yuan packed up the things that were to be carried tomorrow, and the new quilt that his mother had made for him was packed in a woven bag.

A bus from F City stopped at the crossroads of the village. Qi Chang stopped with one foot on the ground, wanting to wait for the bus to leave. As the bus left, Qi Cheng heard someone talking to him, "Excuse me, are you from this village?"

It had been a long time since he had heard someone talking to him like this. He looked at the person he was talking to, who was tall and in his twenties, with short sleeves and a thin plaid shirt, the bottom of which was stuffed into his brown slacks and carried a cowboy backpack. Perhaps it was because he was sitting in the car, but his hair was a little messy, a few strands of it sliding down to his face, and his face was covered with sweat.

Qi Chang said, "Yes."

"May I ask how do I get to the Qi Deming home?" It was a very urgent tone.

Qi Yuan looked suspiciously at the young man and asked, "What is your relationship with Qi Deming?"

"Qi Deming is my brother-in-law. My sister called to say that something happened to her family, so I came to take a look."

"You're the younger brother of sister-in-law Deming. Follow me."

Qi Xiang rode on his bicycle and slowly walked a few steps before he turned around and said, "Get on, I'll bring you with me."

The young man sat down on the back shelf of the car and pedaled hard twice. As they were heading south from the intersection, they found a small hill, so it wasn't too heavy for them to ride bicycles.

"About that, thank you."

"There's no need to be courteous, Deming and sister-in-law Deming are doing well with us."

When they arrived at his grandmother's house, he slowly stopped his bicycle. The young man quickly jumped off and said, "Thank you. Which family is mine?"

"I'll take you there," he said.

After locking up the car and leading the way to the Deming house, almost to the Deming house, the young man hesitantly said: "This is?"

He said, "This is the Deming family. My Deming brother fell off the bungalow last night."

Qi Zhengyuan blinked, then said, "Sister Deming has just gotten pregnant, then Brother Deming …"

When the young man heard this, he rushed towards the Deming family. The messenger at the door stopped the young man and asked, "What relative are you of Deming?"

The young man anxiously said, "Deming is my brother-in-law."

The herald beat the drum with a small hammer and followed the young man into the courtyard, where he saw the young man rush in, followed him into the courtyard, where, according to the customs of the countryside, the filial children kneeled outside the mourning hall to thank the guests, the women of the family knelt in the mourning hall to thank the guests, Deming's wife lay on the kang unable to get up, Deming's wife lay pregnant in her own room, Deming's coffin was lying on the floor of the large room, she knelt by the door, the young man rushed into the room, and knelt down solidly in front of the coffin.

Mother Qi, who was helping the young man, said, "Mom, this is Sister Deming's brother. He's here to visit you."

Mrs Qi looked at the young man and said, "Take her with you. Sister Deming is still lying on the bed. There will be a funeral tomorrow. You can't not rest well, Sister Deming."

Qi Ming opened the door and saw his wife lying on the bed. When she heard the commotion, she didn't get up and said, "Sister De Ming, your brother is here."

The young man walked up to the bed and called out in a low voice, "Big sister." Wifey Deming slowly got up and turned her head, looking at the young man standing in front of the bed and said: "Yohang, you're here." With a slight tremble in his voice, he reached out his hand to grab the young man's hand that was reaching out towards her. The young man asked in a serious tone, "Sis, how did brother-in-law do it?"

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all my fault," Deming's daughter-in-law cried, holding the young man's hand, "If I had insisted on not letting him carry the two sacks of peanuts on the bungalow, it would have been fine, your brother-in-law said that I was pregnant with my body, I couldn't do those manual labor, after checking out that I had a child, your brother-in-law went to work by himself, such a tiring job, he took back the two acres of peanuts himself, he couldn't even move when he came back, smiling at me, I don't feel anything, even a tad bit happy, I'm sorry, I should have thought long ago that I couldn't bear doing these kind of work, I should have stopped him to carry the peanuts on my back."

As his wife continued to cry, she buried herself in his arms and began to cry. Qi Yuan also started to cry along with her. The young man's eyes were red as he patted her back and said while patting her, "Sister, don't cry anymore. Don't cry, sister."

Qi Zheng hurried forward and said, "Sister-in-law, don't cry anymore. You're always blaming yourself for not wanting to see it. De Ming is so careful with you, he definitely doesn't want to see you like this."

Qi Xiang and her brother supported her on the bed. When she closed her eyes, he stood up and let out a long sigh of relief. The young man's eyes were red as he said, "My name is Fang Yonghang. I would like to ask where there is a public phone. I would like to make a phone call to ask for a leave of absence from the office."

"I'll take you to my grandma's house," Qi said. "My grandma's house is the one behind Deming's house."

He went to the courtyard and asked her for the key to the house. After explaining the situation, he took Fang to his grandma's house and went to the door to look at the accounting table. Fang took out his wallet and took out the hundred yuan notes, which he placed on the table.

Fang Yichang said, "Everyone, everyone." Seeing that Third Uncle was helping him to collect the money and place it in his account book, Fang Yicheng sighed and followed Qi Zhengyuan to his grandma's house.

As I walked, I said: "My sister and my brother-in-law have been married for so many years, and I met them once, and they were the ones who were married. Afterwards, I stayed out at school, and my sister sent me monthly living expenses, and later I guaranteed the graduate student, and with the allowance, I told my sister that there was no need to send more money, and my sister said that brother-in-law wouldn't let me, and said that I was out there, and that I had to have two dollars no matter what, and if there was anything I couldn't do without money, then I would save up for the sake of a bit of money to repay brother-in-law. I haven't been home for more than three years."

Fang Yiping's eyes were red, and he spoke softly with Qi Ju, saying that De Ming had treated him well. Qi Ju listened silently along the way, and did not interrupt him, because when a person was sad, they would probably want to speak their mind to vent their feelings, right? Qi Jizheng did not think that speaking those words of consolation in a dignified manner would be able to bring more comfort to someone who had lost his loved ones.

Fang Yichang called Fang Yichang at his grandmother's house. He went outside to pick two rows of grapes from the grape arbor, washed them under the water pipe, and placed them on a plate on a small square table under the grape arbor. Fang Yichang greeted Fang Yichang and sat him down, saying, "Come and take a seat, Sister Deming is still resting, you won't be able to help if you go."

Fang Yichang sat down and helped pour a cup of water, saying, "I have to go home and pack up my luggage for tomorrow's report, so I won't be going over. I'll tell my mom that you're going to stay over for the night. You can come to my house with my mother. "

Fang Yihang said, "There's no need. I'll help my sister keep watch tonight, so I won't be troubling your family."

Qi Chang said, "Then help yourself."

Fang said, "Are you going to register at the university?"

"Yes, to F City University."

Fang said, "Which department will you report to? I'm now a teacher in the Mechanical Department. "

After hearing that, Qi Zhengyuan looked around for a while and recalled the situation of the Mechanical Department. He then said, "I'm going to report to the Information Department. It's for the Applied Electronics Department." Just as he was saying that, his grandfather opened the door and entered the room. Qi Zheng quickly got up and took his grandfather's hand, and introduced him to Fang Yichang, who stood up and greeted him, and his grandfather said: "The young man is not bad, you can sit down and rest. I'll go home and get some things." His grandfather whispered, "I've got some money, Deming doesn't have enough for the office. I wanted to leave it up for now, Deming Niang and Deming's daughter-in-law can't even get up, so I won't nag at them anymore."

Qi Chang said: "Yes, something happened to De Ming's mother and his wife."

Pappy opened a drawer and took out a stack of hundred-dollar bills. "First, you sit at home with the younger brother of wife Deming. The Deming family doesn't even have a place to sit."

Qi Xiang agreed to send his grandfather out the door, and Fang Yonghang said to him: "I'll go to my sister's house to accompany my sister, we haven't seen each other for a few years."

He brought Fang Yicheng to the Doming house, and saw that everyone was busy cooking and cooking, as well as helping to prepare the things to be used for the funeral tomorrow. Fang Yichang went to his wife's room, greeted his mother, and then went home.