Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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This time when she went back to see Mr. Wu, Ye Ning asked the uncle in the kitchen to help order two kilograms of meat. Together with the two packs of cigarettes she bought before, it should be enough. She got off work from the factory an hour early and took the evening bus back to the countryside. It was almost dark when she got home. Some villagers who had just come down from the mountain congratulated Ye Ning when they saw her: “The college student is back. Has the notice arrived? Where are you going to go to college?”
“The notice should be coming out soon, I’m not sure.” Ye Ning was so busy in the factory during this period that she really forgot about the admission notice. There was a faint light on at home, and Ye Ning knocked on the door. Seeing her coming back, the two siblings quickly put down their bowls and came out.
“Sister, don’t you have work? What are you doing at home?” Ye Lan took the things from Ye Ning’s hand and opened her mouth when she saw that she had brought meat again, but she didn’t say anything, “I still have rice, I’ll go stir-fry some more. “
“I have been counting the time. Xiao An has his final exam soon. After the exam, I will take you two to the city together.” Ye Ning pulled Ye Lan, “No need to cook, I can just eat anything.”
She scooped up a bowl of porridge from the kitchen, drank it all in one gulp, served another bowl of rice and sat down at the dining table. There was only a bowl of pickles, “Also, I want to ask Mr. Wu to help me look at the cemetery. If there is no problem, I should ask Uncle Wu to also find a time to lay the coffin.”
Even after several months, whenever Ye Qingshan was mentioned, the three siblings were still very sad.
“It’s time to see the master.” Ye Lan wiped her eyes, “Sister, I’ll go with you tomorrow.”
“Well, let’s keep the meat first, and we have to treat Mr. Wu to dinner tomorrow.”
Ye Ning, after finishing the meal, opened the back door to pour away water. She heard a squeaking sound from behind. She looked back at Ye Lan and asked helplessly: “Didn’t I ask you to sell the pig, why are you still raising it?”
“This pig is still there? The meat is growing, and it can grow half a catty a day. I think if we raise it for a few more days, we can make more money by selling it. Don’t worry, when the matter is finished tomorrow, I will go find someone to look at the pig. The pig is doing well this year. It will be sold soon.” Ye Lan vowed.
“Anyway, we will take the evening bus the day after tomorrow, and we must sell it before then. There is also the vegetable field in the back mountain. We will take away all the vegetables we can and leave the ones we can’t pick to aunt’s family next door, and they can grow it in the future.”
Ye Ning made this arrangement, and Ye Lan had no problem with it. The aunt next door was really just like her own grandmother, and she thought of them whenever she had some delicious food.
At dawn, Ye Ning and Ye Lan got up to make breakfast. The two sisters were whispering about home cooking in the kitchen. When the meal was ready, they woke Ye An up to eat. Today he had an exam. Ye Ning specially fried two poached eggs for him and gave him her best wishes that he would get a double hundred in the exam.
They sent Ye An to school first, and the two sisters turned around and went next door to find Mr. Wu. Seeing the two of them, the master immediately understood the purpose of his visit, picked up some things, and the group set off to the back mountain of Ye Ning’s Village.
“Had your father invited someone to take a look at this land?” Mr. Wu looked around and saw that they were all ordinary land, but this one was the best. Ye Ning rarely paid attention to things on the mountain. She didn’t know this and turned to look at Ye Lan.
“No, I didn’t hear Dad talk about this. I just followed Dad up the mountain one time. When passing by, he casually mentioned that when he gets old, he must be buried here. Is this place a good or bad place? “Ye Lan asked worriedly.
“This place can be regarded as a treasure of Feng Shui. If your father is buried here, his descendants will surely have long blessings and a healthy life. That’s why I asked if your father had someone look at it. The date is still July 16, but your father is older. He died in a foreign land lightly, and even suffered such a sudden death. I suggest that it’s better to have a religious ceremony.”
“You are the expert in this area. I will listen to you. Just tell me what you want us to prepare.” No matter it was Ye Ning or the original body, they all only believed in science. But ever since Ye Ning came back from the dead and travelled into the book, she had to admit that there was a soul. In addition, Mr. Wu was indeed capable, so Ye Ning believed in him even more.
“Okay. The rituals will be done when the burial is about to take place. Your family’s mourning hall will be set up for at least three days by then. Then I will come over and chant sutras for him every day.”
“Then there will be a labour master.”
At this time, the people working on the mountain who were passing by, saw the two sisters and an old man together. When they calmed down, they saw that it was a famous Feng Shui master from the next village. They couldn’t help but wonder, why had they invited the Feng Shui master to the back mountain?
Someone asked directly: “Ye Ning, what are you doing here?”
Ye Ning and Ye Lan couldn’t laugh, so they twitched their lips and said, “Look at the land.”
Several villagers looked at each other in shock when they heard that they had asked the Feng Shui master to take a look at the land. There were only two types of land you got looked at, one for the homestead where the living lived, and the other for the cemetery where the dead were buried. Since they came to the back of the mountain, they were definitely not looking at the land for a homestead, so it must be for a cemetery. Whether Ye Qingshan’s wife, an educated youth, had returned to the city or not, everyone in the village knew that it must definitely not be for her. They had seen Old Ye and the others just now. He was very powerful at work and had at least twenty or thirty years to live in that posture. Then who was the land for?
Neither the two sisters nor Master Wu spoke. The three of them hurried down the mountain and saw a crowd of people surrounding the door of their house from a distance.
“The college student is back, college student is back.”
“Xiao Ning.” The aunt next door waved to Ye Ning with a happy face, “Your admission notice is here.”
Ye Lan ran to the door ahead of Ye Ning and took over the village party secretary looked at Ye Ning with the admission notice in her hand, ecstatically saying, “Sister, you have passed the exam.”
Ye Ning took the notice and opened it carefully. It was the teacher’s major of their province’s junior college. The villagers didn’t know anything about it. They only knew that all those with undergraduate degrees and college degrees were college students. They could be assigned jobs after graduation and could stay in the city as officials. They all said that Ye Qingshan was very lucky. As long as he survived these few years, he would enjoy the blessings in the future.
When Ye Ning heard what they said, she looked at the big red notice and burst into tears. These were not tears of joy, but sadness. If Ye Qingshan was alive, what a happy event it would be. She closed the notice and wiped her tears and said, “Grandpa party secretary, you didn’t to send it over in person. You could have just told me and I would have gotten it myself.”
“It’s only a few steps away, so it should be. Does your dad know about this? Call your dad to tell him the good news. Ask him to come back quickly. He has to come back even if he has no money. He is the father of first college student in our village, so he must be busy no matter what.”
The old party secretary laughed so hard that you couldn’t even see his eyes.
“That’s right, let your dad come back, and we’ll be waiting for your congratulatory wine.” The villagers joined in the fun. But Ye Ning and Ye Lan burst into tears.
“This college entrance banquet can’t be held.”
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