Chapter 10: Different fates for the same person, fate is the most tricky
In late July, the power of the dog days of summer was fully released.
In such weather, eating and drinking is not a pleasant experience.
But in the era of food shortage and clothing shortage, whether the experience is pleasant or not is not important.
Whether you can fill your stomach and have a good meal is the most important thing.
So early in the morning, the drum and music band of the kiln factory started playing.
Many sheds were built inside and outside, but they were not enough.
The prominent people in the village received letters and came to pay their respects and sit.
From time to time, the singing of the guests came from the mourning hall.
The ups and downs of the voice announced the arrival of the prominent people in the village.
After paying homage, Secretary Qiao visited the family members Qin Xiuru and the two children, and then got together with the village elder Lao Getou and Accountant Li who arrived earlier.
After the three of them lit up their cigarettes, Secretary Qiao exhaled the first puff of smoke and said, "Fat Zhou died in a glorious way."
Old Ge nodded, and as he spoke, smoke came out of his mouth and nose, he said, "Qin Xiuru has done him justice."
When it was Accountant Li's turn, he said something unexpected: "Fat Zhou has made a lot of money over the years, right? It shouldn't be difficult for his wife to find someone to remarry with the money he left and the two children?"
Secretary Qiao did not deny it directly, but only said, "I'm afraid it won't be easy."
Accountant Li insisted, "Qin Xiuru still has some capital. Although she gave birth to two children for Fat Zhou, she is not old. As long as she is willing to have another baby, what's the difficulty in remarrying?"
However, Qin Xiuru, who was in mourning in the mourning hall, did not care whether her dead husband died in a glorious way.
Since being rejected by Wu Wei last time, Qin Xiuru was not angry.
On the contrary, she looked up to him from the bottom of her heart.
The less you can get, the more you cherish it.
Qin Xiuru thought that as long as Wu Wei agreed, everything would be fine.
Even if they really had a child, it would be fine!
But she would have to wait until she saw Wu Wei to say these words.
Unfortunately, the kiln factory was busy with music and dancing, and Wu Wei had not shown up until around ten o'clock when the first-row banquet was about to begin.
Just when she wanted to ask Pan the Dwarf, Wu Xiuchun came over with Wu Xichun to kowtow.
Funerals are different from weddings.
If there are men in the family, men usually attend to show respect for the deceased.
And Wu Wei would rather be stabbed in the back than show up.
Qin Xiuru knew that it would definitely not work out today.
At the same time.
Wu Wei came to the home of a family surnamed Chi in the west of the city.
He met this host early in the morning at the Beiguan Bridge.
After all, it is not difficult to recruit workers if you have skills. Once is new, twice is familiar.
He took a look at the project on the spot. It was not large, just eighteen walls with a length of five meters and a height of three meters.
Divide the large room upstairs into two so that the son and daughter can each have their own independent rooms.
And bricks, stones and cement are all ready.
In addition, two small workers are called over.
In total, it is only one day's work.
Wu Wei asked for a pair of labor protection gloves, picked up a tile knife, and started working directly.
At first, the efficiency of cooperating with the two small workers was not high.
When Wu Wei took the time to spread a big front door for the two, it immediately became smooth.
It was busy until the evening, when it was getting dark.
This wall has been built.
Since the owner did not need to brush the wall with cement, Wu Wei used the back of the tile knife to help them fill the seams.
This makes it look more beautiful.
Even so, he only received three yuan for one day's work and a pair of broken gloves with untied threads.
He didn't even give him a pack of cigarettes.
Not to mention a celebration banquet.
Of course, Wu Wei can understand.
For a small one-day project, the owner usually doesn't care about any celebration banquet.
It was good enough to have a lunch included.
But when I left, I heard the two workers greet the host.
Wu Wei did not stop them.
To put it bluntly, they just met by chance and at most they smoked a cigarette together. How dare they stop them?
Maybe they thought that you only make three dollars a day, so it's easy to talk.
After all, they only make one dollar and fifty cents.
It's not easy to make money!
But fortunately, as long as you have skills, it's not difficult to find similar odd jobs.
Diligence can make up for lack of talent.
After a busy day, I returned home and my two sisters were still waiting for me happily.
The third sister Xiuchun brought out a new bowl with two big fat and tender meatballs hidden in it.
Wu Wei took a look and didn't care about the meatballs, but he cared about the bowl first.
He said anxiously: "Zhou Paopi is not a happy funeral. You can have a banquet, but why do you take their bowls?"
Xiuchun was also anxious when she heard it.
She vaguely understood this rule.
No matter how good the bowls from the funeral of a short-lived ghost are, they cannot be taken home, as it is unlucky.
Only the longevity bowls from the funeral of a happy person can be taken, as it means that a ‘bowl’ means ‘evening’, and it is auspicious.
But how could Xichun, who was only 14 years old, understand this?
She just wanted to help her second brother grab a big meatball.
Xiuchun knew that she was shy and it was not easy for her to risk it for her second brother.
So she did not stop him.
Wu Wei saw that his words made the third sister stunned and the fourth sister cry.
He understood it at that time and immediately changed his words: "It's okay, it's okay, the second brother is strong, we are not afraid of these. Go and warm up the meatballs and make a bowl of rice, I'm hungry."
Soon, Xiuchun brought a bowl of rice over, and the two big meatballs on it were steamed.
The oil and water in it soaked into the rice below.
It smelled delicious.
As for the bowl, it had been replaced with a large bowl from home.
Wu Wei did not ask where the new bowl was thrown.
Wu Wei simply mixed the loose meatballs with the rice, and put his mouth on the edge of the bowl, shoveling and turning the bowl.
On the one hand, he was really hungry.
On the other hand, it was a habit formed by long-term lack of food and clothing.
He ate while saying: "When you two went to the banquet today, Qin Xiuru didn't do anything weird, did she?"
Wu Xiuchun shook her head: "No, Qin Xiuru stayed in the mourning hall all day and didn't show up much."
Xichun added: "She went back to the room to rest for a while."
Wu Wei secretly complained in his heart.
I hope this woman will give up when she sees difficulties, and not always cling to her like she did in bed.
When he came back to his senses, he heard Xiuchun change the topic and said, "Today is also the day when Xiao Weimin is dying. The Zhou family is much more pompous than the Xiao family. Everyone says that Widow Qin is much better than Widow Yang."
Hearing this, Wu Wei immediately blurted out, "What nonsense is this? Qin Xiuru can make the decision on Zhou Baopi's funeral."
"But Xiao Weimin's parents are still alive. Can Yang Qiaoqiao, a young wife, make the decision?"
That's the truth.
But when these young girls and wives get together to gossip, they don't care about these things.
They just want to have a good time.
"It is said that Yang Qiaoqiao just got married not long ago and didn't raise a child. She remarried just like that."
"Unlike Qin Xiuru, who dragged three children, no one would want her even if she wanted to remarry."
"So Qin Xiuru is really sad, but Yang Qiaoqiao may not be."
Wu Wei shook his head and didn't agree.
In her previous life, Yang Qiaoqiao was pregnant with Xiao Weimin's posthumous child and never married.
But Qin Xiuru took Zhou Baopi into her family before his body was even cold.