As Ding Yun finished this call, at four o'clock the next afternoon, Yu Man returned alone by plane, then by train, and finally took a taxi back in a hurry.
And as soon as she returned, she went straight to the ice coffin and cried.
Her voice was loud, but lacked emotion.
Like a member of a professional mourning team.
The village chief's face darkened when he saw her return alone. He immediately pulled her, who was crying loudly, away from the ice coffin with dissatisfaction and questioned her:
“Why did you come back alone? Where is your husband, where is your son? When your mother was alive, I only saw their photos. They didn't even come when she died.
What's the meaning of this?
Did you not notify them, or do they look down on us country folk and are unwilling to come?”
The reason the village chief agreed to discuss who would hold the banner and the urn after Yu Man returned was mainly because he considered the son-in-law could do this, after all, a son-in-law is half a son.
Or the grandson would do.
But now Yu Man returned alone, without her husband or son, what was there to do? Originally, his planned compromise was to have Yu Man’s husband or son take responsibility, so as not to violate village rules and not let other villagers occupy her family’s property, lest outsiders say they were preying on an orphan.
But now the people hadn't even returned.
He wanted to compromise, but he couldn't.
“Village chief, what nonsense are you talking about.
Doesn't my son have classes? Doesn't my husband have to go to work? The distance between the two places is so far, it’s a hassle to come back, isn't it enough for me to come for the funeral?”
Yu Man calmed her emotions and quickly replied as if it were natural. After getting married, she never mentioned that she had a daughter before, nor that her mother was a shaman.
She had been trying to hide it all these years.
How could it all be in vain because her mother died?
After this funeral was over, she definitely wouldn’t come back to this poor, remote place. This daughter didn’t know where she lived. Then these two biggest hidden dangers, the biggest black marks, would naturally disappear completely.
The village chief was undoubtedly extremely angry at her words at this time, and immediately rebuked her in a very unpleasant tone.
He accused her of being unfilial and other things.
But Yu Man, quite righteously, pointed at the village chief's nose and scolded: “Don't be ungrateful.
You really take a chicken feather as an arrow, acting like you're a cadre. What does my family's business have to do with you? I’ll do as I please. Am I breaking the law? You’re yelling at me for something that isn’t against the law. It’s like a dog snatching a mouse and meddling in other people’s business. Even foreign policy advocates non-interference in internal affairs. Does my family’s business require your interference?
Don’t talk to me about rules or traditions.
Tradition my ass.
In the past, cremation was reducing bones to ashes, but why aren't you resisting now? Why don't you think about tradition and not cremate? Aren't you all obediently cremated!
I think you're all just cheap.
You think we're easy to bully, right.”
“Get lost, get lost, get lost, get lost! Go somewhere cool.
And you, can’t you handle a funeral? You had to call all these people over. Who knows what they’re really thinking while pretending to be helpful with good intentions. It’s all useless!”
After scolding the village chief, Yu Man turned her attention to Ding Yun without a moment’s delay.
She was almost saying that Ding Yun had brought trouble upon herself.
But how could an original body of a sixteen-year-old girl know how to handle a funeral and what the procedures were, with no elders in the family?
What else could she do if she didn’t ask for help from others in the village?
If it were the original body being spoken to like this, she would probably not know how to retort, or would not dare to retort. But Ding Yun was not afraid of her. She immediately rolled her eyes and said:
“If you’re so capable, why weren't you here when Grandma died? Why didn’t you call, help arrange things, and contact the funeral home!
You didn’t help at all, and stayed comfortably at home for a few days. Only after we finished handling everything did you come back in a hurry to criticize me.
Have you no shame! Are you even human?
Oh, I forgot, you have such a thick layer of primer on your face, it’s probably thicker than the Great Wall. Do you even need to have shame? The phrase 'copper wall, iron bastion' must refer to your face.
Village chief, don't listen to her.
Just think of her as a mad dog barking.
Her words are hers, and I have nothing to do with her. Let the village continue to help with the rest. Also, I don't want any of the village land.
After moving and holding the funeral, this house will be tidied up and donated to the village.”
No matter what, the village chief was invited by the original body, and even begged to help. The original body was also very grateful to the village chief for his help, otherwise she really wouldn’t have known what to do.
Ding Yun inherited the original body’s body, so she had to inherit the original body’s previous actions. Yu Man’s current behavior clearly showed that she didn’t care about her daughter at all, and hadn’t considered what would happen to her daughter if she left the village.
If her daughter were still staying in the village.
Because of her words and actions.
How unwelcome she would be.
So Ding Yun naturally had to stand up to defend the village chief, and even directly stated that she would give everything else in the house to the village besides the money, and she would not interfere.
This was both an apology and a way to show that her thoughts were completely different from her mother’s, and that she had no idea her mother was like this. It was also to hope that the village chief would therefore stand on her side in the future, preventing her mother from trying to take all the family savings.
Although Ding Yun was not short of money, she could earn money in an instant, or exchange it for items from her soul space, but she just didn't want her mother to benefit.
Even if she burned the money, threw it away, or donated it, she didn't want her mother to get any of it.
As these words were spoken, the village chief's previously darkened expression finally softened slightly. On the other hand, Yu Man's face was ugly. And because Ding Yun was her daughter now, she stopped scolding. She waved her right hand and rushed towards Ding Yun, clearly intending to slap Ding Yun, or possibly more than one.
Since the other party was her mother, Ding Yun couldn't directly fight her with slaps, or kick her a few times. So she could only quickly release a bit of mental energy, forcibly stimulating the numb meridians and acupoints in Yu Man's lower limbs.
Then, at a distance of two meters from Ding Yun, she suddenly got a cramp in her calf, her lower body became numb and sore, and she fell directly. Not only did her knees fall to the ground with a thud, but her forehead also hit the cement floor as a result.
The sound was extremely crisp.
It sounded like a coconut hitting the ground, and also like an apple falling. It was crisp, and faintly, a sloshing sound could be heard.
However, Ding Yun did not intend to take her life. So, when her head hit the cement floor, she used her mental power to shield it slightly, causing her to only have a mild concussion and temporarily lose consciousness, not to be taken away by her biological mother, Ding Xianglan, on the spot.