togophonebook Chapter 140: Without Parents, Life Is All About Returning [New Book Begs For Support! 】
Chapter 140: Without Parents, Life Is All About Returning [New Book Begs For Support! 】
【Your father did not survive this harsh winter after all. 】
【New Year's Day, New Year's Day, it turns out it's really a pass. 】
[According to your father's last wish, he said that he has already handled too many other people's funerals in this life, and it can be summed up in one word, tired. 】
【If he is dead, just carry him to a better place and bury him, and save those messy things. 】
[Not to mention the loss of life and wealth, there will be no peace after death. 】
【You complied with his last wish and did not make a big deal of it. Instead, you found a place facing the sun and buried him in it. 】
[On that day, it was snowing heavily, and the sky and the earth were covered in white. 】
【You put on sackcloth and filial piety, carry the coffin, and walk towards the mountain. 】
[The cold wind is biting, and the cold is piercing the knife. You carry the coffin and step on the snow-covered mountain road, leaving deep and shallow footprints one after another. 】
[You have carried many coffins in your life, but you never thought that you would carry your father's coffin with your own hands in the end. 】
【Then, you hoeed the snow one by one, dug up the ground, and then carried his coffin in panting. 】
【Father lay quietly in the coffin, as if he had fallen asleep in the past, but his face was pale and a little flaccid. 】
【Traces of frost and snow fell on his body, and on his eyebrows and eyelids, glittering and translucent ice flowers formed. 】
【In his whole life, he hasn't praised you very much, and even the two of you have very little communication between father and son. Even if there is a normal dialogue, he is scolding you for all kinds of carelessness. 】
【When you were young, when you heard him say these words, you would always quarrel with him and feel angry in your heart. Why didn't you, your father, say such a few nice words?】
[But now, when you look at your father who is quietly lying in the coffin, how much you hope that he can stand up and scold you like he did in the past, even if he scolds you bloody, you must smile I agree, I won't argue with him again. 】
[However, there is no such opportunity anymore. 】
【The old master next to you wiped the mouthpiece of the bong, then threw the pouch and bong to you. 】
【You are squatting on the grave, smoking a cigarette one after another. 】
[The old master said from the side: "Young boy, don't blame your father for being so strict with you back then. People of our generation have never read any books, and they don't know how to talk about great principles. This is the first time we are human. Being a father for the first time, who knows how to teach children? But we all know that we will leave earlier than you in the future, so we should take care of you while we are still here and teach you everything we know. Give it to you? Otherwise, we won’t be relieved when we die.”]
【You are smoking a stuffy cigarette, and you don't reply. 】
【Later, you took one last look at your father, then sealed the coffin, and covered it with handfuls of soil. 】
[When you went down the mountain, the footprints you left in the snow before have been covered by snow without any trace. 】
[Everything is like a trace that has never been here before. 】
【You can't help being dazed, and you have a new understanding of Death. 】
【What is death? It's the end, it's the farewell, it's irresistible, it's the hand you can't hold, the temperature you can't feel, the phrase 'Daddy, I'm backㄈ' that you can't say anymore. 】
【Death is like an eternal lighthouse, no matter where you go, you will always turn towards it. 】
[In a trance, you turn your head and look at the sunny slope. 】
【Heavy snow is flying, lonely tombs stand, white soul flags are blowing in the cold wind, and the yellow paper is rolled up by the wind and floats into the distance. 】
[When the next spring begins, the hillside will be warm and the flowers will bloom, the sun will shine, and endless new life will emerge from the hillside. 】
【Only the person who sleeps in the land will never wake up again and truly pass away. 】
[Back at home, you with a blank look, looking at the room where no one is lighting the lamp, looking at your father’s clothes, even the bowls that he used to eat on weekdays, and the ones he hoarded during the first lunar month in the cellar Chinese cabbage. 】
[For some reason, you couldn't help crying. 】
【At this time, you really understand that your father is really dead!】
[Time passes slowly. 】
[Without your father, you become extremely lonely. 】
[Even though you didn’t have much communication with him before, but there is no more communication, as long as he is there, everything is actually fine. 】
【But now that he's gone, no one will turn on a light and warm up a bowl of rice for you in advance when you go home. 】
【You feel like you have completely become a child abandoned by the world, turned into a drop of flowers in the vast world. 】
[You can't help but have a new understanding. It turns out that once your parents die in your life, life becomes your way back. 】
【You even think in your heart, will the end of Death not be nothingness, but a long-lost reunion?】
[Time passes slowly. 】
[After your father left, you took over your father's funeral business in an all-round way. It was not until this time that you really supported a family that you couldn't help but be thankful that your father used to be strict with you in every detail. 】
[It is precisely because of the strictness at the beginning that you have just exchanged for your calmness in dealing with things now. 】
[However, although your family background is good, because of the industry you are in, it is still too taboo, so you have been crowned for several years, and no matchmaker has come to propose marriage. 】
【Until you were in your twenties, the old lady at the entrance of the village came to you and said, girl Ailian from the next village, would you consider taking the exam?】
【You have been alone for too long, whenever you see other people’s homes brightly lit, why don’t you envy them?】
【You didn't nod your head in agreement, nor shook your head to refuse, but just whispered two words: "Look."】
【Wang Po smiled and left, and one morning after staying for a few days, she brought two people back. 】
[Walking in front is a middle-aged peasant woman with big arms, round waist, dark complexion, and vigorous gait, she looks like a leader in farm work. 】
[And following behind is a fair-skinned, delicate-looking, thin figure, low-browed, pleasing to the eye, timid girl. 】
[The peasant woman who walked in front pulled her and complained impatiently: "You sick and consumptive man, go faster, if you don't get married again today, you will pack up and leave by yourself, me and your brother But I don’t have time to take care of you.”]
【The girl responded timidly, and walked forward, but she had to take a breath from time to time, and she knew that her physical condition was not good. 】
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【She is Ailian. 】
[My parents died early when I was a child, and then I followed my father's cousin Life. 】
【She was born weak, and during her childhood, she lived in the woodshed all the time, contracted cold and lung disease, not only could not do anything, but also coughed badly when it was cold. 】
[In this village where the population is the labor force, Ailian is almost not treated by the family very much. The cousin and sister-in-law's family have long wanted to throw this oil bottle out. 】
【It’s just that in this family, women hold up half the sky. Who would want to find such a sick seedling out, and find it for their own family?】
【So, the two of you, who were almost abandoned by the world and full of self-confidence, just met like this. 】
【She raised her head timidly, writing that you looked at each other. 】
【The next moment, both of you relax slightly. 】
[Although the two of them had already made a plan in their hearts as early as the very beginning, as long as the opponent is not too bad, there is nothing to choose. 】
[But more or less, I still have some worries in my heart. 】
[Ai Lian heard that people who are engaged in the funeral industry are often physically deficient. When I was on the road, I couldn't help but imagine in my head, would the person I was kissing today be a lifeless old man with acne on his face? Leprosy head. 】
[But when I saw you, you were born with a tall and tall figure. Although your appearance is not very handsome, you are still handsome, with sword eyebrows and star eyes. 】
【Almost instantly, she blushed, lowered her head, and immediately couldn't help thinking in her heart, such a person, would she really look up to such a sick person?】
【She couldn't help feeling uneasy. 】
【And you, the moment you see her as a girl, you know in your heart that it's her!】
【Whether it's love at first sight or love at first sight, I have to say that the woman in front of me is so white that her skin is glowing, and her appearance is delicate and gentle.
[For other families, asking for a daughter-in-law is asking for a labor force, and they want to be able to do farm work. 】
[As for you, all you want is a woman who at least you can find pleasing to the eye. 】
【As for whether this woman can do farm work?】
[To be honest, the wealth accumulated by your ancestors for three generations, plus your own hard work over the years, is second to none in the entire Huangqiao Town. 】
【So, while the matchmaker and the peasant woman were chattering and spitting, you simply took out ten taels of silver from your cuff, and put it on the table with a bang. 】
【"My mother, ten taels of silver?" The peasant woman's eyes widened, and a burst of disbelief filled her face. 】
[This is ten taels of silver. If it is exchanged for food, it will be enough for their family to eat for a year. 】
【Therefore, without any nostalgia, the peasant woman took the matchmaker and left happily. 】
【And you and Ailian looked at each other, and they both laughed at the same time. 】
[Because you both know it. 】
[You have your own family in this brightly lit world. 】
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