I used rebirth to bury his captivating gaze.

Chapter 95: More than half a year after Diao Yan's death, no one notified her (she went to a ho

Hao Xin, the husband of the sick wife, worked overtime every year in the mine to earn more money for her medical treatment. He sought medical help and prayed to gods everywhere, but his illness was not cured.

Hao Hao, the sick daughter-in-law, has suffered from asthma since childhood and cannot do any work.

My mother-in-law is a good person; she's a kind-looking old housewife. She has three daughters, all of whom are married and live in other places.

To take care of her, her mother-in-law didn't visit any of her daughters' homes for several years. Even when her three daughters gave birth and were in postpartum confinement, she, as their own mother, didn't go to help them for a single day.

A mother-in-law cannot leave her sick daughter-in-law; a daughter is like water spilled from a cup, while a daughter-in-law is her only support in the future.

He didn't marry this sick girl because he was the mother's son and his family was poor. He married her because she was pitiful and lived off her brother and sister-in-law.

The sick daughter-in-law's name was Mao Ailian. Her illness stemmed from the abuse she suffered from her older brother and sister-in-law during the cold winters of Northeast China when she was young, as they were often hungry and cold. Over time, this abuse became the root of her illness.

Fortunately, she had a kind mother-in-law and a family of great kindness who took good care of Mao Ailian and took her to hospitals and doctors everywhere.

Her condition was maintained but not improved. Then she moved from another place to a rented courtyard. Her husband went down the well to earn money and paid back the money he had borrowed from his three sisters to pay for his sick wife's medical treatment. At that time, the three sisters took the opportunity of borrowing money to scold and blame their mother-in-law and husband. They said that the mother and son did not earn enough money to pay for his medical treatment and that the sickly woman had returned home.

After that, the mother and son never borrowed a single penny from their three older sisters again.

When Yang Yuhan saw Mao Ailian, she saw that she looked sickly and listless all day long, and her cough was endless. Every time she coughed, her face turned red, and it looked like she might die if she couldn't catch her breath.

Then Yu Han began to save him. Every night before she went to the night school, she would take out a cup of spring water from her dream space and give it to him to drink, without telling anyone what kind of water it was.

Mao Ailian always complied and drank it, and she felt refreshed afterward.

Then she smiled and said to Yu Han, "Little sister, where do you get your water? It's so sweet and delicious. My throat feels so comfortable and refreshed after drinking it."

Yang Yuhan simply smiled at her, which was her answer. Mao Ailian then stopped pressing for details. As long as she felt good after drinking it, that was enough. She couldn't possibly harm the girl in front of her who was doing big business!

Yu Mei got off the tractor and cried for a long time. Passersby and passing cars stopped to ask her what was wrong, thinking she had been bullied.

Yu Mei then stopped crying, got on a red tractor, and drove to the village ahead.

A moment later, the red tractor stopped at the intersection of the West Bridge of Daxingan Village. Yu Mei got off the tractor. Since they were already here, they couldn't just leave at the Tuandingshan Bus Station to return to Qishi Coal City, could they?

The red tractor started up and continued driving towards the village ahead. Yu Mei glanced listlessly at the back of the red tractor as it sped away, then turned and walked laboriously towards the dirt road to the east of the village.

A few minutes later, she walked into the Yang family compound carrying a large bundle on her back.

Then she looked at the west wing of the courtyard and knew that it must be empty. The three children, Yang Zhi and Liu Yue, had moved to a red brick house they had built themselves in the south of the village.

At this moment, her legs felt so heavy that she could no longer move either foot, and the great ambition in her hands fell to the ground at her feet in the yard.

She felt so small, kneeling on the earthen ground in the courtyard, facing the south-facing window of the west wing. Looking at the three cold, empty mud-brick rooms, now deserted, she began to weep again, then screamed.

"Mom, Mom, how could you be so heartless? How could you leave without even saying a word to me? Mom, I clearly had a premonition about the heavy snow last winter. I knew that every cold winter, some elderly people in the village would die. I also suspected you, but I didn't come to see you. Sure enough, what I suspected really happened. Mom, I'm so sorry."

"woo woo woo woo……"

At this moment, Yang Chong, Xu Fengying, and the two children, Xiao Ping and Chun Sheng, quickly walked out from the north wing of the courtyard.

Four people surrounded her, and two of them helped her up. Then Yang Chong picked up her large bundle from the ground, and the two men helped Yu Mei into the north wing. The two children followed closely behind!

Upon arriving at the house, Yang Chong put down Yu Mei's large bag. Xu Fengying pressed down on Yu Mei's two cold shoulders, trying to get Yu Mei to sit on the edge of the wooden kang (heated brick bed). Then, Yang Chong had the two children help Yu Mei take off her shoes. Yu Mei reluctantly climbed onto the large kang in the east room. Afterward, the two children also took off their shoes and climbed onto the kang, sitting beside Yu Mei and looking at this familiar and beautiful aunt.

It was already around 3 p.m., so Xu Fengying quickly started making dinner.

Yang Chong offered words of comfort and advised Yu Mei, "The dead cannot be brought back to life. Please accept this and move on."

Yu Mei then turned her grief into anger and roared, "Why didn't you tell me my mother died? How did she die? Did Yang Zhi and his wife have some other scheme?"

“Yu Mei, calm down first. Don’t overthink it. Your brother and sister-in-law didn’t do anything to harm you. My third aunt died of illness. We wanted to notify you, but we couldn’t find your phone number or your address.”

"If you don't know the address, why don't you ask at the Zou family's house? Don't Zou Laqian's brother and sister-in-law live in this village? They must have Zou Laqian's home address!"

“She died of illness? What illness did my mother have that could kill her? I didn’t know that. I’m going to go to her family right now and find out.”

After saying this, Yu Mei angrily jumped off the heated kang in the east room, ready to put on her shoes and go find Yang Zhi and his wife to settle accounts.

Yang Chong stopped her immediately, and Xu Fengying hurriedly came into the house from the kitchen to persuade her not to act impulsively. She said that after dinner, everyone would accompany her to Yang Zhi's new house.

Then Xu Fengying went back to the kitchen to cook.

After dinner, without taking a break, Yang Chong led Yu Mei and the other woman straight to Yang Zhi's new house at the south end of the road.

After walking for five or six minutes, we arrived at the black-framed iron gate of Yang Zhi's newly built red brick house, only to find that the gate was locked. The inside of the house was also completely dark.

Yang Chong knocked on the door, but there was no answer. Yang Yumei shouted loudly, "Yang Chong, you come out right now! You can't hide forever. Are you scared? Are you feeling guilty?"

There was still no response from the two of them after a moment, and the glass windows inside the room remained dark.

At this moment, a middle-aged woman's voice came from the east courtyard, "Yang Zhi's family went to the house of his second sister-in-law in the next village. It's Liu Yue's eldest son's wedding, and the whole family went to give gifts."

"Aunt Zou, do you know what time they left?" Yang Chong asked in a calm tone.

“They left yesterday. When they left, their family asked me to take care of their home.”

"Do you know when they'll be back?" Yu Mei couldn't help but ask. Her words were clearly laced with challenge and anger!

"Is this Yang Yumei? When is Yumei coming back?"

"It's me, Sister-in-law Zou. Do you know how my mother died?"

"The doctor in the village said your mother died from an age-related illness."

“Can village doctors really treat patients? It’s obvious they don’t want to treat my mother. When my father was sick, I was by his side, but they wouldn’t treat him, which is why he died. I think my mother must have felt helpless and desperate before she died.”

"Yu Mei, let's go back first and come back another day. Let's go, saying too much will only make people laugh at us."

Yang Chong pulled her towards his home.

The following morning, Yang Yumei went home. She didn't want to stay another day; staying a few more days wouldn't make any difference! She didn't want to see Diao Yan's shadow absent from this empty courtyard!

When she got home, she quit her job as a waitress at the big hotel and worked as a nanny for a few days. But she still felt that being a nanny was too hard and tiring. She couldn't stand the work of serving others and couldn't stand other people's arrogant attitude!

However, she went to work as a hostess at a nightclub.

Before leaving the Yang family compound that day, she and Yang Chong went to a cemetery at the edge of a cornfield in the west of the village and saw the joint grave of Diao Yan and Yang Zhanxi.

Their graves were simple large earthen mounds, just like any other graves, which were also earthen mounds, without any stone or wooden markers.

Earthen graves need to be filled with shovels regularly, otherwise they will collapse over time if it's windy or rainy.

Just like having no children and no descendants, the owner of the grave will not visit the grave, and weeds will grow on the grave until it is no longer a grave.

After Yang Yumei and Yang Chong finished cleaning their parents' graves, Yang Chong also cleaned the graves of Yumei's uncle and aunt. Then, they each offered incense to the other's parents before turning back to the village.

Yang Yumei changed careers to work as a hostess in a nightclub, hoping to earn more money to build a cement grave for her parents and erect a stone tablet with their names on it.

She also wanted to change Lixin's job as a cyclist, because he was working too hard. After Lixin finished speaking, he told her to keep the money from selling the yellow carts for her to spend. He said he wouldn't buy a diesel farm vehicle to haul furniture, but would wait until he had saved enough money from cycling to buy a farm vehicle to haul furniture and deliver goods.

Good things come to those who wait. I'm still young, no need to rush to make money. Maybe one day a windfall will fall from the sky and I'll just find it.

He kept saying he didn't need the money to buy a diesel car, and Yu Mei couldn't do anything about it. When Yu Mei returned from the countryside, she cried and cried until late at night, unable to sleep. Li Xin tried to coax her to sleep, but she wouldn't sleep, and neither would Li Xin.

Then, as usual, he would get up early every day to deliver goods to small vendors at the wholesale fruit market.