Chapter 70: Photographs
The day before the final exams began, Lee Myung-il died.
When Jiang Feng received the call, he was assaulting Ma Yuan in the dormitory, his mind was full of materialism and dialectics, and when he suddenly heard the news of this thunderbolt on a sunny day, his brain was actually stuck.
Li Mingyi died.
This is the first time Jiang Feng has faced the death of his loved ones.
Even though Chen Suhua had already told him that Li Ming was not much news for a while, death seemed so illusory and distant to Jiang Feng. As if deliberately going against the doctor, the doctor said that he only had half a month at most, and Li Mingyi insisted on holding on for 16 days and left peacefully at ten o'clock in the morning.
The funeral home has been contacted, and the funeral is scheduled for six days later, and the Jiang family will help deal with the aftermath together.
The Li family was already thin, and there were originally a few relatives, all of whom broke off their relationship during the special period and have never had contact since. Professor Li has no children, no relatives and friends, and few friends, and he seems even more lonely and desolate when he is at home at a funeral.
After the exam, Ma Yuan and Jiang Feng went to Professor Li's house to help.
The old man took Jiang Jianxing and Jiang Feng's uncles to the funeral home, and several of Jiang Feng's cousins and cousins were either out of town or had to go to work and school, so he was the only one left to go to Professor Li's house to help Chen Suhua sort out Li Mingyi's relics together.
That is, some clothes and photos.
The staff of the funeral home asked Chen Suhua to pick out some photos of Li Ming before his life, Chen Suhua looked at those old photos and became more and more sad, his red eyes rolled and he burst into tears, so he could only go to tidy up his clothes and let Jiang Feng pick out the photos.
The photos are all in a thick album, which is the album that Li Ming loved to turn before his life, most of which are photos of him and Jiang Huiqin, after Jiang Huiqin's death, Li Mingyi never took other photos except for family photos.
"Dad was in good spirits yesterday, and he drank a small half bowl of porridge in the morning, and then when the interest came, he asked me to take out the album and show him. He sat on the sofa and flipped through the photos, flipping through them, I thought he was asleep, and at noon I wanted to wake him up and ask him if he wanted to eat, but I didn't expect ......" Chen Suhua said and choked up and cried, and it took a long time to calm down.
"Xiaofeng, you can pick more photos of your aunt and aunt, so that your aunt will be happy to see it below. Chen Suhua said.
Jiang Feng didn't know how to answer, and he didn't know what mood to use to treat this album.
He was too unfamiliar with death, so strange that he didn't feel real, even if everyone told him that Li Mingyi had died, he had seen his cold corpse in the funeral home, and Jiang Feng didn't feel that he had died.
This room is full of the atmosphere of his life, and Jiang Feng still vividly remembers the past in his and Jiang Huiqin's memory. Jiang Feng opened the photo album, and according to Chen Suhua's words, he only looked for a photo of Li Mingyi and Jiang Huiqin.
"Auntie, how about this one?" Jiang Feng found one that met the requirements and held up the album to show Chen Suhua.
In the black-and-white photo, the young Li Mingyi and Chen Suhua are standing in front of a Western-style building, smiling but stiff with a smile on their faces, and both of them look tired.
"This one doesn't work, your aunt doesn't like this one. Chen Suhua only glanced at it and vetoed, "This photo is taken before your aunt and aunt moved to San Francisco during the Anti-Japanese War. ”
No wonder it was obviously the joy of housewarming, but both of them seemed unhappy.
Jiang Feng was about to turn the next page.
When I turned the page, my palm was on the photo.
"Ding, get the item: [A Memory of Li Mingyi]. The system's chime suddenly remembered.
Jiang Feng was stunned.
He just ...... Did you do anything?
Jiang Feng soon realized that he had touched the photo with his hand just now.
Jiang Feng suddenly remembered that when he completed the side quest of [The Last Medicine] before, the game gave him two memories at once, and he sighed at that time that the game suddenly became generous. Now it seems that this is not the case.
He also seemed to have come across a photo at that time, which seemed to be the wedding photo of Li Mingyi and Jiang Huiqin.
In order to verify his conjecture, Jiang Feng touched the photos in the album from beginning to end, and finally obtained another [Li Mingyi's memory] on a black and white family photo.
I received two memories at one time, which can be described as a bumper harvest. Jiang Feng looked at the album from beginning to end again, and picked out 9 photos of Chen Suhua who had no opinion, including the marriage certificate of Li Mingyi and Jiang Huiqin.
Most of the photos in this album are old black and white photos taken during the Republic of China, and many of them even have negatives, which are not easy to preserve until now.
The old things that Li Mingyi had used and the old clothes that he wore were all solemnly sorted out and put away, and Jiang Feng was on the side to help, and he was busy all day before he packed up the old things.
Jiang Feng had an exam the next day, and after saying goodbye to Chen Suhua, he went back to school.
The memorial service was very simple.
A small memorial service, not many people attended, all of them were Professor Li's old friends, Li Mingyi's old friends in Peking were basically passed away or could not be contacted, and those who were still alive could not come because of physical reasons, so they sent their juniors to come.
Jiang Feng found that Professor Li had aged overnight.
His closest relative in this world is only Chen Suhua.
The old man wanted to invite Professor Li to go to Z City with them for the New Year, but Professor Li refused on the grounds that there was a mourning at home, and the old man had no choice but to give up.
As soon as Jiang Feng finished the final exam, Jiang Jianxing closed the healthy stir-fry restaurant, stopped doing business, and booked the nearest ticket, which is like an arrow to return to his heart, just like an overseas Chinese who has not returned to his hometown for more than ten years.
It was also because of this that Jiang Feng had booked a ticket to Shudi and was discovered.
He was greeted by three sessions.
In the evening, the healthy stir-fry pot was closed, Jiang Jianxing, Wang Xiulian, Jiang Weiguo, and the three big Buddhas sat in front of Jiang Feng and stared at him with a scrutinizing face, three black shadows shrouded Jiang Feng, and invisible and tangible coercion attacked him overwhelmingly.
"Say, son, we are just curious to ask and care about you, why are you going to secretly book tickets to Shu without going home on vacation?" Jiang Jianxing sang red first.
"I am...... I just think that Shudi is fun, I haven't been there, and I want to take advantage of the holiday to have fun. Jiang Feng began to make up nonsense.
Jiang Weiguo has been in a low mood since Li Mingyi's death, and he is still counting on going to Shu this time to find someone to surprise the old man and make him happy for the New Year, how can he recruit it now.
You have to find it to be surprised.
"If you want to play during the summer vacation, can't you play? When it's almost the New Year, you run to play? You deliberately hide it from us, tell me the truth, what are you doing in Shudi!" Comrade Wang Xiulian was not intimidating and angry.
"The summer vacation is too hot, isn't this winter vacation cool! Comrade Wang Xiulian, what do you think, there are too many things during this time, I just forgot to say something and deliberately concealed it, there are still more than ten days before the New Year, so I want to take advantage of the New Year to play for two days. Jiang Feng said.
"Yes, it's really too hot to go to Shudi in the summer vacation, so it's better to play in the winter vacation. Jiang Jianxing was surrounded by Jiang Feng on the spot.
"Do you believe that nonsense he said? What is your son like, don't you understand?" Comrade Wang Xiulian glared at Jiang Jianxing fiercely, expressing great dislike for this kind of teammate who is not firm in his position, "Son, it's not that your parents won't let you go, but you have to tell the truth, even if you are twenty, you are still a child with us." Didn't you worry us by quietly running to Shu and not telling us the reason?"
Jiang Feng was taken aback, but he didn't expect Comrade Wang Xiulian to retreat and make him in a dilemma.
"I'm really just going to have fun, Mom, you're really thinking too much. Jiang Feng bit his stance and did not let go.
How could Wang Xiulian's surname be Jiang Feng's nonsense, he didn't say anything about her, so he guessed for himself: "Son, are you in love?"
Jiang Feng: ???
How did Comrade Wang Xiulian come to his emotional problem from the fact that he was going to Shudi without telling everyone?
He has been in contact with kitchen knives and pots every day, falling in love, talking with kitchen knives or talking to the three pots in the kitchen?
"Mom, what do you want? I stay in the back kitchen under your nose every day, who am I in love with?" Jiang Feng was dumbfounded.
"I can't fall in love every day under my nose, and it's not early love for high school students every day under the teacher's nose. Tell you the truth, are you going to play in Shu with your girlfriend?"
"No, you're alone, is your girlfriend from Shudi?"
"Is it Qianqian? She's from Shudi! Is it her!" Wang Xiulian was categorical, indicating that the case had been solved.
Jiang Feng: ???
Comrade Wang Xiulian's fairy logic!
Jiang Feng didn't know where to start retorting for a while.
"Qianqian, although Qianqian can eat, she doesn't grow meat, son, it's better to find a girlfriend and be strong. Jiang Health magically followed Wang Xiulian's logic.
Jiang Feng: ......
"I didn't! I didn't fall in love! I just went to play, I really went to play, Liu Qian went directly to her hometown to go to County B in Shudi, I went to the provincial capital, not a place at all. Jiang Feng said loudly, "Mom and Dad, I beg you not to think so much. I'm not a high school student, and I'm not in love if I'm in love, so why am I hiding it from you?"
"If it's not Qianqian, I remember that Wu Minqi seems to be from the provincial capital of Shudi, right?" Jiang Health didn't listen to Jiang Feng's words at all.
Jiang Feng: ......
"It's impossible, the girl's family is rich, beautiful, and cooked, and it's impossible to look down on our son. Wang Xiulian directly vetoed it.
Jiang Health nodded in agreement.
Jiang Feng: ???
Where am I......
Well, that doesn't seem like a good deal.
The two of them ignored Jiang Feng completely, and after analyzing themselves, they found that the possibility of Jiang Feng falling in love behind their backs was really small, so they gave up this topic.
"Okay, let's just think your parents have wronged you, what are you doing in Shudi?" Wang Xiulian said.
Jiang Feng: ......
Went around and around again and again to this question.
"I'm really just having fun. ”
"You ......"
"Okay, Xiao Feng is so old, there is no need to worry so much, he can go wherever he wants, and you don't care so much if the child is happy. The old man, who had watched the play for a long time, came out to interrupt Comrade Wang Xiulian's words, and made a final decision, "How many days will you go?"
"Five days. Jiang Feng felt that if he couldn't find any clues for five days, it would be a waste of time to spend any more.
"When you come back, remember to make up for the exercises you pulled down. "The old man got up, it's not early, it's time for him to go to Jiang Feng's fifth uncle's house to rest.
The old man left, Jiang Jianxing still didn't give up, pulled Jiang Feng and asked secretly: "Son, you secretly tell Dad whether you have fallen in love with Qianqian, Dad just said that there is no objection." ”
"Dad, I really don't!"
Jiang Feng wanted to cry without tears.
He is just a twenty-year-old child, why should he suffer the same treatment as Brother Lobby who was urged to marry during the New Year.