Zhang He thought that since this "reunion" in the crematorium, he would never have anything to do with his father in this life, but he didn't think that thirteen years after this meeting, his father took the initiative to call his grandmother's house.

"Hello. Excuse me, who to look for. Because the work of the tour guide needs to contact guests, confirm the hotel, make an appointment, order food, and report to the company every day, Zhang He, who has long been reluctant to answer the phone when he is resting, has also picked up the phone "unprecedentedly" today.

"Is it Babe? I'm your dad. There was a cold sound on the other end of the phone.

"Who?" Zhang He, who had long forgotten that he had a father, didn't react for a while, so he subconsciously asked "who".

"I'm your dad. Father Zhang repeated.

"How do you know my grandma's phone number? Has anyone informed you?" Zhang He couldn't hide his excitement as he spoke, and subconsciously glanced back at his grandmother, aunt, fourth aunt and aunt who were all surprised.

"It's not easy to know, what have you been doing lately?" asked Father Zhang.

"I got married the day after tomorrow. Zhang He replied dryly.

"What the day after tomorrow, get married?" asked Father Zhang, raising his voice slightly.

"Ah, the day after tomorrow on the sixteenth day of the seventh lunar month, in the front door of the merit forest. You... Are you coming?" Zhang He looked at his grandmother and three aunts in front of him, and asked the other end of the phone with a serious face. But in his heart, he was full of anticipation.

"Hmm...... , I'm not going to go. Father Zhang replied a little later.

Zhang He's face sank instantly, and he asked, "What's the matter, you have something?"

"It's okay, why are you going tomorrow?" Father Zhang diverted the topic.

"I'm going to the cemetery tomorrow to talk to my mother. Zhang He said coldly.

"Then I'll go with you tomorrow, you wait for me at home, I'll drive to pick you up. Father Zhang said in a calm tone.

"You're coming to pick me up?" Zhang He's eyes suddenly lit up, his expression suddenly turned into a smile, and his tone was a few decibels higher than just now.

"Wait, I'll call you when I arrive. Let's say okay first, you're going alone. ”

"I'll go alone. Zhang He looked at his grandmother and aunts and affirmed.

"I'm far away from you, so let's go about ten o'clock. ”

"Cheng, then I'll wait for you at home. ”

"Come on, hang up. Father Zhang ended the call like this.

But Zhang He didn't seem to have eased up, continued to hold the earpiece, and after a long time, he slowly hung up the phone, turned around, looked at his grandmother and the three aunts with a very complicated expression, and squeezed out a sentence from his mouth for a long time: "It was my father's call just now." ”

"Hey, you said this! Let Bei Bei look for him, Bei Bei won't look for it, and say he can't find it. He's good, if you don't fight early or late, this baby is going to get married the day after tomorrow, so he took the initiative to call. Mom, do you think this is providential? Is it the second child who gave him a dream? Aunt Zhang Liqin couldn't hide her excitement and sighed to her mother.

"This is the old Xiang'er (it should be Hebei native language, which means blood connection), after all, it is father and son, people can't find it, and God helps to find it. The old lady laughed.

"It's really weird, I haven't been in touch for years. Since my second sister left, this bastard hasn't shown his face again! This moment Beibei is getting married, he is bubbling, he doesn't need to be in a hurry, he will be a father-in-law when he comes up, and he will become a grandfather in two years. Hehe, what a life. Why didn't my second sister wait until now? How happy I am to see my son get married. The fourth aunt Zhang Liqing said that her eyes were still red.

"Oh, no. Why do I sound like his father is not coming, and it seems that he is going to the cemetery with Bei Bei tomorrow, right?" Aunt Zhang Liling stared at Zhang He with a slight frown.

"He said he wouldn't come, so he said he would pick me up tomorrow and come with me to my mother's. Zhang He explained with a serious expression.

"My son got married, but Lao Tzu didn't come, so why did he call, that tendon was wrong. The fourth aunt was immediately displeased when she heard this.

"Yes, he hasn't cared since he was a child, does he know how his son grew up? Hmph, he doesn't come to get married! The aunt was also displeased.

"No matter how his son gets married, he has to give some of it, he can't give a point. Grandma Zhang He asked her daughters with some disappointment.

"Look at it, as far as his father's virtue is concerned, it's really hard to say, and he can't give much. At best, it's as much as we do, and 10,000 dollars is the end. The aunt said with a look of disdain.

"Ten thousand? It won't be so little, this son has raised him so much, and he doesn't need him to go out of the house when he gets married, he's embarrassed?"

"What's so embarrassing! Mom, you don't believe you, just look, what my eldest sister said is not wrong at all, maybe he is holding back what bad he is holding back when he calls today?"

"Beibei, you see him tomorrow, and ask him directly how much money he will give you, don't die of old age to save face, my father won't give you when to give it at this time! You tell him the truth, saying that we and grandma gave you 10,000 yuan, see what he says." If he doesn't mention black and white, you don't take him to your mother's. I don't know him from now on, anyway, after so many years, I haven't been like him or not." The fourth aunt asked Zhang He with a straight face.

"I know, I didn't want to look for him in the first place. Zhang He said with a calm expression, and then ended the conversation.

Early the next morning, at ten o'clock, the phone at Zhang He's grandmother's house really rang.

"Hey, come out, it's at the gate of the courtyard. Zhang's father said on the other end of the phone.

"Okay, here we go. Zhang He hung up the phone, said hello to his grandmother again, and walked out of the room with his shoes on.

Although it was only about 50 meters from his grandmother's house to the gate of the courtyard, Zhang He felt that he had walked for a long time. Because he hadn't seen his father for more than ten years, he really didn't know what kind of expression he should use to face this "stranger" person, should he be as happy as a bridegroom's official? Or should he be jealous and bitter? In short, there is an indescribable mixed feeling in his heart at the moment.

"Beibei! Here it is!" As soon as Zhang He walked out of the courtyard gate, he heard a shout coming from across the road.

Zhang He followed the prestige, and saw a man who was more than 1.8 meters tall, with gray hair, but still tall, wearing a yellow half-sleeved shirt on his upper body, and blue pants with washed cloth on his lower body, and a dark green waist bag that looked like a long time was tied around his waist, leaning on a taxi with the word "crescent" printed on it smoking a cigarette and waving to him.

"Damn, this outfit?" Zhang He couldn't help muttering in his heart when he saw this, and then walked across the road and asked the man, "Are you renting?" Then he took a good look at the man in front of him, and sighed in his heart: "Why didn't I remember that my dad was so tall, why is he still a little taller than me after so many years!"

"Get in the car, you sit in front and lead the way. Zhang's father extinguished his cigarette and beckoned Zhang He to get into the car.

Zhang He bypassed the car and opened the co-pilot's door, and was about to drill in, but saw a woman sitting in the back seat. I saw that this woman looked to be in her early forties, with a plump body and very white skin, but from her facial features, she should not be a native of Beijing. This can't help but make Zhang He immediately feel that it must be the "chicken thief"'s father who pulled the way order in order to "save costs".

But he was wrong, because the first thing his father said when he got into the car was: "This is your aunt, call auntie." ”

"Auntie?" Zhang He looked at his father with a confused expression, then turned around and called out politely to the woman in the back seat: "Hello, Auntie." ”

"You're Beibei, aren't you?" said the aunt with a thick Sichuan accent.

"This is my son. Zhang's father started the car and said casually.

"Fuck, go see my mom, what are you bringing her for?" Zhang He quickly moved his gaze to the rearview mirror outside the window with a displeased expression, and blamed in his heart.

"How? Father Zhang asked, looking in the rearview mirror on the left.

"Let's go to the East 5th Ring Bungalow Bridge first. Zhang He still looked out the window and said coldly.

"What is Bebe doing now?" asked Auntie in the back seat.

"Tour guide. Zhang He tilted his head expressionlessly.

"Hehe, what are you going to talk about? You're also a tour guide, you can tell me one. Zhang's father said with a sneer on his face as he drove.

Zhang He glanced at his father and did not speak.

"Did you go to college?" Father Zhang asked again.

"No. Zhang He said coldly.

"I said earlier that your grandmother and they don't know how to educate, you look at the two younger brothers of your aunt's family, this year's college entrance examination, one of them was admitted to the National People's Congress, and the other was admitted to politics and law. Father Zhang glanced at the aunt in the rearview mirror of the car and smiled.

"Stop, I also took 563 in the high school entrance examination that year, plus 593 in physical education, if I didn't have the money to go to school, I would have become a university teacher by now. Zhang He instinctively argued.

"Your aunt doesn't pay for them?" Father Zhang asked heartlessly.

"None of you want to come out. Zhang He looked out the window and responded.

"The bungalow we used to live in Zhushikou was demolished, did you take the money?" asked Zhang's father, changing the subject.

"My fourth aunt took the money to buy a house. Zhang He replied casually.

"What does it have to do with your fourth aunt?" Father Zhang immediately turned his head when he heard this.

"Look at the road. Zhang He frowned and reminded, and then said: "My fourth aunt's family has lived for fifteen years, and of course people will take the money for the demolition." ”

"You stupid boy, that room is ours, and your grandfather asked for it for me to marry your mother, how did it become hers. Zhang's father raised his voice and complained, and then said as if regretful: "When I first got married, I persuaded your mother to let your mother tell the family to change the house book to me." Your mother doesn't listen! I've always been the head of your grandmother's household, but now it's okay, it's an adult, so did your fourth aunt give your grandma money?"

"Don't worry about our family. Zhang He said impatiently.

"Do you know how much this house is worth now? You should tell your grandmother that your fourth aunt should also share with you, and she can't be the only one who takes advantage of it. Father Zhang said to himself.

"Okay, let's not talk about it, okay? Let's talk about you, how did you become a big leader and do rental?"

"Isn't Shougang moving? I'm almost 60 years old. Originally, he said that he would let me go with him, and said that he would be promoted to my official again, but this pestle was in Hebei, and he couldn't go back to Beijing for half a year, so I simply bought it out. Father Zhang raised his eyes again and looked at the aunt in the rearview mirror.

"It's good, free, no one cares. Zhang He said peacefully.

"Do you know how tiring it is to drive a taxi?" said Zhang's father as he drove.

"Where do you live now?" Zhang He said.

"Pattern port. Zhang's father said.

"Is it the house I've been to?" 5 doors 201?" Zhang He still remembers that when he was 11 years old, he followed his mother and aunt to the suite that his father had changed privately.

"What the second floor, you remember wrong, the sixth floor! Father Zhang frowned and glanced at the aunt in the rearview mirror.

"Am I mistaken? Zhang He muttered in his heart, then turned his head to his aunt and asked, "Auntie, what is your surname?"

"The surname is Wang. Auntie replied with a smile.

"Do you work in the Ministry of Information Industry?" Zhang He asked.

"No, I'm your father's apprentice, and I also work in Shougang. The aunt glanced at Zhang's father and replied, then seemed to realize something, pushed Zhang's father's shoulder with her hand, and said in a strange manner: "Do you still know people from the Ministry of Information Industry?"

Unexpectedly, this push made Zhang's father anxious all of a sudden, and suddenly shouted: "Don't see me driving here, push me! With a shake of my hand, we'll be finished!"

"What's the situation? Don't mention it! It seems that I guessed correctly, this woman is not the third, but the fourth! Dad, you can do it! You can really deceive!"

Since getting into the car and listening to his aunt's Sichuan accent, Zhang He has guessed that she should be his father's fourth wife after Li Yufen, the female leader of Shougang, and Zou Xiaoping, deputy director of the Ministry of Information Industry. And the reason why Zhang He knew the names of each of his father's wives is not surprising, because Zhang's mother mentioned the name of Li Yufen, the new wife after herself, to the family before her death, and Zou Xiaoping learned it from an uncle who claimed to be his father's good buddy when he accompanied a buddy to the Capital Iron and Steel Plant to sell insurance.

"It seems that my dad is hiding something from others!" Zhang He said to his father with a wicked smile on his face while thinking: "Why are you still so angry at such an old age?" Eh, I haven't asked you yet? Your son and I will get married tomorrow, why don't you come?"

Without waiting for Zhang's father to speak, the aunt preemptively said: "Your father also wants to go, but after your mother died, your aunt and they all said that it was your father's, and you have been with your grandmother for so many years." Your dad is afraid of blocking your grandmother and them, so he won't go tomorrow. ”

"What's and what?" Zhang He heard a little cloudy, but soon, he woke up and immediately said to his aunt: "Hey, it's all over, my mother has been gone for 13 years until today, and my aunt and they still have nothing to complain about! Besides, it's not easy for my dad for so many years, he is middle-aged and widowed, he has a lot of things to do as a leader, and there is no one to take care of him, isn't it good now, he also married you, and I don't have to worry about him." So I still hope that you and my dad will come tomorrow, and that's it for the rest of our lives. You say yes, right?" Zhang He said, observing his father's expression with his spare eyes.

"Look, you keep telling me that your son is spoiled by his grandmother's family, how can I think of it at all? Look how sensible Bei Bei is!" the aunt praised Zhang's father. But Zhang's father didn't speak with a complicated expression, and continued to drive as if he hadn't heard.

"Hehe, I see! The co-author only told people that he was widowed, and he didn't mention that he had been married twice in the middle. Okay, really good. Zhang He looked at his father's expression and felt ridiculous. So he teased his father again: "Eh, that's right." When did you and your aunt get married? Why didn't you tell me?"

Zhang He thought that his father would tell him the year, but his father replied: "Hehe." Why do you want to be abandoned?"

"Hey, if you dare to take it, I'll give it. Zhang He finally used "you" for his father.

"Why don't you dare to accept it, you make it up to me now. Father Zhang smiled.

Zhang He glared at him, shook his head and didn't answer.

"It's not proper to talk to your son yet, Beibei, you don't pay attention to him. We got married in 02, and we are all at this age, so we didn't do it, so let your dad go back to my hometown with me, and have a meal with my family to end the marriage. The aunt glanced at Zhang's father and said to Zhang He.

"I think you're quite young, why do you fall in love with this old man. Zhang He turned his head and said.

When the aunt heard this, her eyebrows immediately fluttered and said: "My two sons are adults, where are they still young, they are both 41 years old this year." ”

"41? Then you're younger than my dad..... 17 years younger!"