"Rebirth in 1980's as a charming military wife, [spoiled by her rough husband into a treasure]."

 Chapter 15: A memory that I didn’t have before 

   While Cheng Yang was lying in the hospital, anxious about finding his wife, Shi Xiao Ai had already brought Mingrui and Ming Xi to the cemetery.
The cemetery in Yuncheng is right next to the crematorium, and the two places are only ten minutes away from each other.
The parents of the original owner are also buried here.

   To be honest, Xiao Ai hesitated for a long time before coming.
   She would rather not bring such young children here.
Though she is not that particular, she has learned more or less about some customs from the elders in her family in her previous life, and she knows it is inappropriate to take a child who is too young to the cemetery.

   But after much deliberation, she still brought them here.
Because she felt that the children's mother was no longer here, she had the responsibility and obligation to take the two kids to their grandma, grandpa, and great-grandpa to see them.
Let them see how well the initial owner raised the kids.
Besides this, there is another reason.

   When she came here today, she brought a set of clothes belonging to the original owner and planned to bury the clothes in front of the grave of the poor woman's parents.
Shi Xiao Ai had no way to buy a cemetery for her and set up a monument.

    If you do this, let's build a tomb for her.
Even if the two children knew nothing, she still had to bring them to kowtow to their biological mother.
“Comrade, the trees have been transplanted. Do you think there is anything else to do besides this?”
   The two masters who helped set up the monument put a last layer of soil on the pine tree transplanted in front of the grave, then stood up together, looked at Shi Xiao ai, and asked.
“No, that's good. Excuse me, master.”
Shi Xiao Ai followed the custom and stuffed a pre-packaged red envelope into each of them. Each of the envelopes contained one dollar.

   This is the money given to the masters who come to help, besides the management fees paid to the cemetery.
Cemeteries at this time differed from those of later generations, and there were no well-maintained tombs to choose from.

　I said it to be a cemetery, but in fact, it is a barren slope circled by the government for the use of local citizens.

   To choose a tomb, you only need to go to the cemetery office and choose an empty spot on a topographical map provided by them. The other party will draw a circle on the paper and write a name, which can prove that this is the case. The land is yours.

   Later, the cemetery will send a master to assist you in digging a pit, burying it, planting trees, and erecting a monument.
Of course, these all require payment.
   The cemetery is state property, cannot be sold to the outside world, and can be used for free.
But you have to pay the management fee, which is paid for ten years at a time, totaling fifty yuan.
The profit margin given to the masters is calculated separately.

   After this trip, Shi Xiao Ai's already shriveled wallet lost more than half of its weight.
The masters took the red packets and went happily.
It was neither a weekend nor a day of sacrifice. As soon as they took off, only the mother and son were left behind in the entire cemetery.
Shi Xiao Ai took out the white sugar cake she baked from her backpack and placed it next to the new grave, together with the bulk wine she purchased from the grocery store at the entrance of the alley.
Then light the incense sticks and paper money purchased from the cemetery.
While burning paper, he muttered to the tombstone: “Grandpa, although I am not your biological granddaughter, since I came here and inherited the house you left behind, you are my biological grandfather, and I will be like your biological granddaughter in the future.” I will worship you like a granddaughter. You should try the white sugar cake I baked. There is a lot of sugar in it; it is very sweet. To love your granddaughter, you gave up all the sugar to her. You must have not eaten sugar for several years, right?

From now on, I will honor you. I will often make all kinds of delicious food for you so that you can never stop being sweet. “
After that, she waved the two children over and introduced them to the tombstone: "Grandpa, this is Xiao Rui, and this is Xiao Xi. They are both charming, right? Inspect your great-great-grandson. Great-granddaughter! I brought them to see you today; you must be happy, right?”
Shi Xiao Ai signaled the two kids to kneel and kowtow three times to their great-grandpa, and the two kids obeyed.

   After paying homage to the old man, Shi Xiao Ai took Mingrui and Ming Xi to the other side of the cemetery and found the graves of the original owner's parents.
   She too took out the sacrifices and arranged them, and she too made the same promise to the two old people.
   She promised they would accept the responsibility of their daughters and come to visit their graves every year. She too ensured that she would fulfill her mother's responsibilities to the initial owners and draw good care of Mingrui and Mingxi she too asked the two children to kowtow to their grandmother and grandfather.

   After they completed the processes, Shi Xiao Ai took out an oilcloth pouch from her school bag. Inside the pouch was the suit of garbs that the initial owner wore when he went to the party secretary's house.
   That poor woman lost her life wearing these attires.
Shi Xiao Ai put the attires afterward to the tombstone and then whispered in her heart, “I'm sorry, I can't save your life. All I can do is bury you next to your parents and reunite your family.
   I will take great care of Mingrui and Mingxi, raise them, see them as adults, and prevent them from being wronged. Please believe me in this.
Go with peace of mind; this life has been too hard. Live a great life in the next life. I hope you can be safe, happy, and worry-free for the rest of your life. “

   After Shi Xiao Ai said these words, the green pine trees in front of the grave danced in the wind, rustling and bringing a quiet fragrance.
   Shi Xiao Ai took the shovel she borrowed from the cemetery office and dug a hole behind the stone tablet near the grave.
The two kids kneeled in front of the monument as she asked, watching everything.
   When arranging clothes yesterday, Shi Xiao ai had already told the two children that they would bury the clothes here and let them accompany her grandma and grandpa for her.
So they didn't show any surprise.
It was not yet the twelfth lunar month; the weather was frosty, and the ground was as tough as stone.
Shi Xiao Ai dug seriously, and soon her hands and feet became stiff with cold.
   She put her palms together and rubbed them, then stepped on them. There was a dull click sound from the front end of the shovel as if it had touched something solid.
   Shi Xiao Ai thought she had struck a rock and squatted down to move it away with her hands. But when she looked into the pit, she found that what the shovel touched seemed to be a piece of oilcloth that was already in tatters.
Her head hurt, and a memory she had never had before appeared in her mind!
   That is a plot that does not appear in the story's synopsis, and it should come from the recollection of the original owner.
The memory is some sporadic pictures in which there is a figure of a girl with a black veil on her arms.
She was just like herself now, struggling to dig a pit with a shovel and then put something into the pit.
   Shi Xiao Ai's heart skipped a beat, and she glanced around.
After making sure there was no one else around, she took out the thing wrapped in an oilcloth.