Rebirth Of A Noble Daughter: Chapter 5

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Chapter 5: Burial

When Old Lady Niu heard this, her heart suddenly shook, and she knew that something was wrong.

“Little Niu, come out quickly,” Old Lady Niu called her grandson, and then she picked up the little boy on the ground. The little child had a yellowish face and thin skin. There was almost no flesh on his body, his forehead was pale, his face was red, and both eyes were crying and swollen like walnuts.

“Hurry up and find your father, mother and second uncle in the field, the Shen family lady should be gone.”

“Oh…” Little Niu didn’t ask much, and hurriedly ran to find his parents.

Old Lady Niu took her son and daughter-in-law into the house directly, but when she saw the breathless woman inside, she knew that this person was really gone.

Old Lady Niu also felt sorry for the unaccompanied mother and daughter. She put Shen Qing Ci down, and then touched her withered hair, “Aunty will take of these matters. Don’t be afraid and stay here.”

Shen Qing Ci nodded, she did not move, but bent her knees and knelt there.

Old Lady Niu’s heart was hurting uncontrollably, and she did not dare to delay. She was afraid that she hadn’t died for a long time, and her body was still soft. First, she should be cleaned and sent off properly. If she wasn’t buried, she would become a lonely ghost in the future.

She directly asked her daughter-in-law to find a piece of clothing that she hadn’t worn. She doesn’t feel bad about the clothes now. Seeing off the dead is the most important, so she must give them away.

Seeing the people coming and going inside, Shen Qing Ci put her head on the ground, then kowtow to her mother.

Mother, A Ning will see you off.

Mother, A Ning is not afraid, A Ning has not been afraid all her life.

A Ning will protect father, elder brother, and sister.

A Ning will no longer be so stupid. In this life, A Ning must live well, and be a good person.

Mother, rest in peace…

And again, she started chanting the Death Mantra sentence after sentence.

When Old Lady Niu came out, she saw Shen Qing Ci, who was kneeling on the ground and chanting the Death Mantra. Suddenly, she felt as if the Buddha’s light flashed across Shen Qing Ci’s body.

She couldn’t help rubbing her eyes, and when she opened them again, she found that there was nothing.

She thought, she must have read it wrong, she looked back again and saw that Lou Xue Fei was already dressed, she sighed.

 In the end, she couldn’t help herself, and was reluctant to let such a young woman be buried in a straw mat, so she hastily took some silver and asked her son to order a thin coffin. No matter how hard-hearted she was, she couldn’t let it go. Let’s just do it, it’s a good deed.

No matter where Lou Xue Fei was from, she died in the village after all, so Old Lady Niu had said that she should be buried in the ancestral grave in their village.

The village chief shook his head. At first, he was unwilling, but in the end, he felt that Lou Xue Fei and Shen Qing Ci were too pitiful and agreed.

The Niu family helped with the burial. And all the people who went there were not much. After all it was a funeral, not a celebration.

Lou Xue Fei’s body was buried, and there was a new solitary grave in the graveyard at the back of the village.

Shen Qing Ci knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed three times.

The members of the Niu family were all standing in the back, and for some reason, this new tomb made them feel uncomfortable, and they all felt some unbearable sadness.

Shen Qing Ci kowtowed again and again. Then she stood up, knelt down in front of the Niu family, and kowtowed three times heavily.

“Xiao Qing Ci, go back with aunty, and be my granddaughter.” Old Lady Niu really didn’t want to give up the child. She knew that if she didn’t care about the child, this child would die sooner or later. She would either starve to death or her life would be ruined.

Shen Qing Ci shook his head, “Aunty, I have a home. Also, my mother is still here.”

“I want to guard my mother’s spirit.”

Old Lady Niu tried to persuade her for a long time, but Shen Qing Ci denied and did not go home with Old Lady Niu.

Shen Qing Ci took another look at the new grave. She walked over, knelt on the ground, and then laid on the surface of the grave. She was not afraid, because that was her mother.

She seemed to remember the body temperature of her mother.

Mother said that she would look at her in the sky.

She believes her words.

In the evening, the lights of each house were lit up, and each house was filled with the smell of food.

Shen Qing Ci took a hard bun. She was small and couldn’t eat much. This bun was sent by Old Lady Niu. She didn’t care whether it was delicious or not. She knew that her father would be here soon, so she waited.

She ate the hard bun which was like a stone and tears rolled down from her face.

At night, she huddled alone on the old wooden bed that her mother had slept on. It was also covered with the rotten quilt that the mother had covered. It still smelled like her mother. She remembered that this was the smell of her mother.

This was the second day from the day she was reborn. On the first day, her mother was gone. On the second day, she buried her with her mother with her own hands.

She firmly grasped the rag cotton on her body, and the fingertips of her little hands were also white.

No one knows that this night, she cried so much as if she would never be able to cry in a whole lifetime.

When she woke up the next day, she touched her face and wiped her small face clean with the back of her hand. Then she went to the kitchen and took the black-faced bun that was bigger than her face and bit it. She ate, and after eating a little and a half, she ate her stomach.

When she came out, the rising sun in the distance was slowly rising.

She went to the fields to pick a lot of wild flowers, and then went to see her mother.

She put the wild flowers next to the grave, and then hugged the grave.

Mother, A Ning has come to accompany mother.  A Ning misses you very much. A Ning also saw you yesterday, but today why are you not seeing A Ning anymore? Mother, do you think there is a mother like you in this world? A Ning is only four years old, but you don’t want A Ning anymore.

She sniffed and wiped her face clean with her small hands.

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