Chapter 16 Summary

Macondo is suddenly overcome in thunderstorms, meanwhile Ursula feels her end coming and Aureliano Segundo is bored and starts to fix things in his home. The animals that Aureliano had bred are now all dead. Aureliano Segundo is still in the same old same old "Fernanda and Petra" situation and he ends up staying with Fernanda to take care fo the kids but unfortunately Fernanda is still nagging at him. Aureliano Segundo then becomes obsessed with finding the gold coins that Ursula has buried. The same gold coins that were in the saint that some people brought to her during the war and then said they would come back for and when Ursula realized there was money in there, she buried it because then everyone would want it.