The first ray of sunshine in the early morning shone into the Chenjia Village. The woman from the Chen family took care of everything at home as scheduled. After finishing the cleaning, she entered the room of the Chen family's mother-in-law, Luo Meifeng, and prepared to serve her mother-in-law in tight clothes. When she opened the door and saw that her mother-in-law had not gotten up yet, she thought that her mother-in-law was just a bit cooler than usual.

I just got up late, so I didn't dare to disturb him, so I quietly closed the door and exited the room.

Others outside the room have basically gotten up and washed up. Chen Tianming, who is already three years old, is lying in the arms of his mother Guo Yan, crying for his grandma. He said that he dreamed that his grandma did not want me and left alone. The little guy always likes to stick to his grandma. Guo

Yan held the little guy in her arms without thinking much about what Chen Tianming said. She smiled and said to Chen Yan next to her: "Look, your son wants to be held by grandma again. Go and see if mom is up. It's usually early at this time."

They made a fuss about picking up their grandson. Chen Yan didn’t say anything and prepared to go and have a look. When Chen Tianming saw that his father was going to grandma’s room, he shouted to go too. Chen Yan smiled and took his son from Guo Yan’s hand and touched him lovingly.

Touch the little guy's head and walk to Luo Meifeng's room.

When they arrived outside Luo Meifeng's room, Chen Yan knocked on the door and said, "Mom, are you up? Your grandson wants you to hold him." After calling a few times, he didn't see any movement inside. Just as he was about to turn around and go back to the front hall, Chen Tianming was wowed.

She started crying loudly and called her "grandma" incomprehensibly. The cry alarmed the rest of the Chen family, and they all rushed over. Chen Ying was walking at the front of the crowd and yelled at Chen Yan before she could figure out the situation: "You

Why did you make my precious grandson cry again?" Chen Yan almost wanted to cry, thinking that your boss saw me making my precious son cry. He said with a bitter face: "How dare I make your precious grandson cry?

, he cried when he saw that my mother had been unwilling to open the door and no one answered the door." Chen Ying looked at Chen Yan with suspicion, glanced at Guo Meifeng's room, and found that Luo Meifeng had not yet heard such a big movement outside.

She came out, thinking that she would have come out to protect her precious grandson by now. Everyone also noticed that something was wrong.

After seeing everyone looking at Luo Meifeng's door without speaking for a long time, Chen Ying glanced at everyone and said, "Who will serve the old lady this morning?" Huang Juan, the second daughter-in-law who just entered the house, said, "I will enter the old lady's house this morning.

Seeing that the old lady hadn't gotten up yet, she didn't dare to disturb her, so she left the room." After hearing this, everyone had nothing to say. After all, the Chen family has a strict hierarchy. How dare you, the second daughter-in-law, disturb the two ancestors of the Chen family.

After hearing this, Chen Ying didn't say anything. She walked to Luo Meifeng's door and knocked on it and shouted: "Meifeng, it's time for Meifeng to get up. After calling a few times and seeing no movement, she opened the door and entered Luo Meifeng's room. When she entered the room, she saw

Luo Meifeng was still lying on the bed motionless. She walked slowly to Luo Meifeng's bed and called out: Meifeng, Meifeng. Seeing that Luo Meifeng still didn't respond to him, Chen Ying started to get a little worried and thought, even if she had a cold, she couldn't move still.

Thinking of this, I sat on the edge of the bed and stretched out my hand to push Luo Meifeng's body. When I just touched Luo Meifeng's body and was about to push, I found that the body I touched was stiff. I suddenly felt something bad and shouted: "Meifeng, Meifeng". While shouting

While pushing again, seeing that Luo Meifeng still didn't respond at all, Chen Ying had to think of the worst plan. He stretched out his trembling hand to Luo Meifeng's breathing area. After a while, his voice began to tremble and he shouted: "

Meifeng, Meifeng." There was obviously a cry in her voice.

When everyone outside the house heard the trembling cry, they began to look puzzled. After a while, everyone reacted and began to refuse to admit the result they had thought. Chen Tianming began to cry loudly again, and this cry pulled everyone away from their imagination.

When the meeting came, Guo Yan hurriedly said to Chen Yan and took Chen Tianming's hand. Chen Yan walked into Luo Meifeng's room in three steps and saw the old man sitting in front of Luo Meifeng's bed wiping his tears. Chen Yan's mental arithmetic had truly sunk to the bottom.

He walked up to Chen Ying in disbelief and said with a cry: "Dad, why are you crying here? Why doesn't Mom get up yet? In fact, Chen Yan still doesn't want to admit that his mother is gone like this. After all, Luo Meifeng

He was only in his fifties. Although he had some ailments and aches before, his body was still strong. How could he just leave like this? He didn't even see him for the last time, and he didn't even say a word to him.

Chen Ying looked at this honest eldest son and knew that although this boy was naive, he really had nothing to say about his elders. He wiped away his tears and looked at Chen Yan and said: Your mother is really gone. Then she looked at him again.

Luo Meifeng was lying on the bed.

Outside the house, Chen Tianming was still crying and calling for grandma and grandma. No matter how hard Ren Guoyan coaxed him, she couldn't coax him. Seeing that there was no movement in the room, she didn't dare to scold him loudly. She coaxed Chen Tianming and stood with the others.

Chen Ying, Chen Yan and his son were waiting outside the house, not to mention what Chen Tianming had just said to her.

Chen Ying in the room sighed, raised his head and said to Chen Yan beside him: "Go out and tell them about this. Then call your brothers who are outside."

Chen Yan stood up depressed in his heart and said nothing. Now he was also in pain and uncomfortable. He knew that his father was also sad and uncomfortable. He nodded to his old father who seemed to have become much more haggard all of a sudden, turned around and walked out the door.

Chen Yan dragged heavy steps to the outside of the room. When he saw the whole family standing there waiting, he paused with a look of embarrassment on his face, and sighed and said, "My old mother has left..." Before he could say anything,

After saying that, he squatted down, covered his face, and cried bitterly. His whole body was shaking, as if he would be crushed if he didn't cry and let it out.

When everyone heard what he said, before they could react, they found that the second-generation head of the Chen family was squatting on the ground and crying bitterly. They immediately knew the reason why the old lady hadn't gotten up and left the house for so long. The whole Chen family burst into tears.

Chen Ying, who was inside the house, heard the cry outside the house and another lament. Two lines of hot tears couldn't help but fall. He recalled every detail of his wife's companionship with him for decades. He took out the dry cigarette he had brought with him and smoked it.

stand up.

...

After crying, Chen Yan stood up with a face full of tears and a trembling body. He wanted to call his brothers to tell him about the bad news that had happened at home. He stood up straight, wiped a handful of tears and walked towards the place where

The room with the landline; I walked to the phone and looked at it. I usually thought it was a good thing, but now it looked like something I was afraid of. I didn’t dare to pick it up, and I didn’t know what to do next.

Talk to my brothers. After a pause, I sat down by the phone and found the phone numbers of my brothers. I picked up the phone and dialed.

.......

When Chen Hao, the second son of the Chen family who was busy at the construction site, heard the foreman calling him at home, he hurriedly stopped what he was doing and walked to the contractor's room. Generally, people on the construction site do not have mobile phones, so basically everyone

I borrowed the landline phone in the contractor's room to contact my family. Each family also relied on this phone to contact their relatives.

The people on the construction site are familiar with each other, and the women at home usually make more frequent phone calls. Seeing the contractor asking Chen Hao to answer the phone, he jokingly said: "Haozi, your women miss you again. How many days ago?"

I can't help but call you again. Do you want to go home and feed her before coming out, haha;" After saying this, other people also laughed and cheered, and Chen Hao was also familiar with them.

, not angry either, chatting nonsense with them while walking.

When they arrived at the contractor's room, the contractor who was sitting on the chair said to him, "The phone hasn't been hung up yet. It's your boss calling. The voice doesn't seem right. Although he pretends to be calm, he can still hear it. Hurry up.

Go pick it up." The contractor is also from the village next to theirs, so he also recognizes the eldest son of the Chen family. He usually interacts with the Chen family at home, so he has some clues.

Chen Hao didn't say anything. He walked to the phone and picked up the phone. "Hello... hello..." he said a few words, and then fell silent. After a few minutes, the contractor still didn't say a word to Chen Hao, so he thought

The phone had long been hung up, so he turned to look at Chen Hao, and saw that Chen Hao was standing there motionless holding the phone to his ear. He said to Chen Hao: "Why are you so stupid there?

Is the phone dead?" After asking two questions in a row, Chen Hao still stood there without answering.

The foreman stood up from his chair and walked over to Chen Hao, patted him and said, "Why are you so dazed? Why are you holding a phone and not talking?"

Chen Hao finally heard the words of the foreman, came back to his senses and said to the foreman: "Brother Chen, I want to go home now, go back now." After speaking, he looked at the foreman steadily.

Brother Chen, the contractor, was stunned. He thought when did this kid become impatient and spoke so irritably. He sounded as if he was being ordered by him. He was a little unhappy. But he thought that the voice of the boss of the Chen family on the phone just now seemed a little wrong. That's all.

Not talking about Chen Hao, he looked at Chen Hao and said, "Haozi, what did your eldest brother do to you? Did something happen at home? I have to go back now."

When Chen Hao heard the foreman say this, he also knew that he had just been rude. After all, the person in front of him was considered his boss. Although he had known him since childhood, he was now working with him. He hurriedly said to the foreman: "Brother Chen,

My mother passed away this morning. My boss just called me to tell me about this. I have to go home now..." After saying this, Chen Hao could no longer suppress his sobs.

The contractor named Brother Chen was also shocked. He thought something might have happened to the Chen family, but he didn't expect it to be such a big deal. He patted Chen Hao on the shoulder and said, "Haozi, my condolences, Aunt Luo passed away.

It's also very sad. You should be ready to go back quickly. Don't go to the construction site. Just go back to your room and clean up before going back." Then he walked to the table, opened the drawer, took a stack of money and walked to Chen Hao, who was still sobbing, and said;

"Aunt Luo watched us grow up. When I was young, Aunt Luo treated me just like you and your brothers. This money is a little bit of my heart." After saying that, he gave the money to Chen Hao, knowing that Chen Hao might refuse.

Then he hurriedly said: "If you treat me as a brother, don't say anything else, and don't refuse my offer." Chen Hao stopped pretending when he heard what he said, knowing that he was his boss outside, but at home

We had a certain friendship at that time, so I accepted the money without saying anything, raised my head and said thank you. Then I turned around and walked out of the room, walked to my own room, packed up, and prepared to go home.

Chen Hao packed up and didn't tell others at the construction site that he was going home. He didn't know how to tell everyone, and he didn't want everyone to be sad too, so he went to the station and took the bus home.

.....

Chen Yan dialed the number at Chen Hao's construction site and saw that it was the boy from the Chen family next door who had grown up with him since childhood and was now the small boss. He pretended to be calm and said a few words and asked him to call his younger brother to answer the phone.

After waiting for a few minutes, I saw that my brother was stunned when he heard his voice. He didn’t know what to say to his brother. Then he sighed and said directly to the phone: "Mom passed away this morning, and we were the last ones to leave her."

I didn’t even see it..." After talking about what happened in the morning, I saw that my brother on the other side of the phone remained silent. He sighed again and said to himself as if he was talking to the phone: "Tell Xiao Chen to come back quickly.

.”

After Chen Yan saw Chen Hao, he didn't say a word, looked at the phone in his hand and hung up. He also knew that his brothers would not be able to stand this like him. But it had already happened and he had to face it.

After thinking about it, he continued to dial the contact numbers of his third and fourth brothers.

After making the call, Chen Yan sat blankly by the phone, thinking about the scene where none of the three brothers spoke just now, knowing that they must have rushed back now. Decadently, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and started smoking, thinking

There was a family outside that had to settle down, and there were a lot of things to do. After all, besides the old man, he was the mainstay of the family. As he thought about it, he threw the cigarette in his hand to the ground, stamped it out and walked out of the room.

With Chen Yan's settlement and explanation, the Chen family no longer just cried sadly, but began to prepare for the daily affairs of the family and the funeral affairs of the Chen family's old lady Luo Meifeng.

Chen Tianming has been carried into Luo Meifeng's room by his grandfather. No matter who the Chen family's descendants are, they must see the deceased of the Chen family, and then the body will be moved to the Chen family ancestral hall.

Chen Tianming saw Luo Meifeng lying on the bed in his grandfather's arms, struggling to be held by his grandma. He said that when he went to bed in the morning, he dreamed that his grandma didn't want me and left me alone. When Chen Ying saw her precious grandson saying this, she thought it was just nonsense.

A child can dream. He sighed again, twisted out a smile and said to Chen Tianming: "Tian Ming, don't make trouble, grandma is sleeping; Tian Ming, please be good and don't disturb grandma's sleep."

Little Chen Tianming didn't know that his grandma had passed away. He just saw his grandma lying motionless on the bed and thought he was really asleep. The second time he saw his grandma in the dream, he was happy that he hadn't left. Hearing his grandpa say that was just a shame.

She huddled in Chen Ying's arms and looked at Luo Meifeng lying on the bed with her big eyes.

...

It was already night time when all the three brothers of the Chen family arrived home. The four brothers of the Chen family knelt in front of Luo Meifeng's bed one after another, lowering their heads and shaking their bodies, sobbing.

Seeing that her sons had come back from outside, Chen Ying sat on the chair in Luo Meifeng's room, hugged Chen Tianming, sighed and said to her four brothers: "Your mother is gone, and no one has seen her for the last time. It was originally early in the morning

We are about to move into the ancestral hall, but firstly, it is not suitable to move before you come back to meet each other. Secondly, the rules of our Chen Family Ancestral Hall are also there, and we need to tell the other members of the Chen family. After all, the Chen Family Ancestral Hall is not our family.

"..." He paused for a while and then said to the brothers who had just returned, "You have just come back. Kneel down when I see you, which is considered a filial piety. Go wash up and prepare for dinner."

We'll talk about other things tomorrow." Then he said nothing, hugged Chen Tianming and stood up from the chair and walked out of the room.

It is a rule of the Chen family to eat without speaking and sleep without speaking, so during the meal, the brothers who had just returned from outside wanted to say something or ask something, but they still did not dare to say it. Chen Ying also knew that they

The brothers have a lot to talk about, but they don't want them to break the few rules that the Chen family has maintained by talking while eating.

After taking a few bites, Chen Ying was about to leave the table. When she stood up and walked out, she paused and said, "You brothers will all come to my room after you finish eating." After that, she went back to her room.

In response to the old man's words, the brothers of the Chen family paused with the bowls and chopsticks in their hands, looked at each other, and said nothing. Seeing that the old man had walked out of the restaurant and returned to his room, they all put down the bowls and chopsticks in their hands in a tacit understanding, stood up and walked towards the old man.

walk to the room.

The brothers didn't say anything on the way. They walked outside Chen Ying's room and knocked on the door. Chen Ying, who was in the room, walked up to his sons and said, "Come in."

The brothers pushed the door open and entered Chen Ying's room. They all stood in front of Chen Ying with their heads lowered sadly. When Chen Ying saw all the brothers coming, he looked at the chairs around him and said, "Sit down, everyone."

The brothers didn't say anything more, found a chair and sat down. Seeing that everyone was seated, Chen Ying sighed silently and said seriously: "Your elder brother also told you the general situation on the phone, so I won't say more.

What." After saying that, he habitually took out his long pipe and smoked it again. He took a few puffs, coughed a few times and said, "Just tell me what you want to say."
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