Chapter 5 Some goodbyes are too late to say
"Gold, grandpa is gone", Dad said to Jinzi in a trembling voice. At that time, Jin Zi was working for a small advertising agency, and she instantly wailed and cried at her workstation.
The colleagues around didn't know what was going on, they were all startled by the gold, and after understanding the reason, everyone advised the gold to go home and rest, and the manager immediately gave the gold a leave, and the gold cleaned up his things and walked out of the company with tears in his eyes.
She remembers that when she went home for the Chinese New Year, her grandfather was still very energetic, the winter in the north was very cold, and there was snow and ice on the road, although her grandfather was eighty years old, he still insisted on going out for a walk every day, sometimes Jin Zi would accompany him out, holding a small Maza, and her grandfather would go out of the unit door and press his legs with sports equipment at a corner of the uphill slope, and his legs could still be raised to a position as high as his head, Jin Zi remembered that his grandfather, who had studied Chinese medicine before, said: "If the tendons are one inch long, the life span will be one year longer." After pressing the legs, Jin would sit with her grandfather in a sunny place, and she found that there were many corpses of flies and ladybugs in the shelter from the corner of the building, and they were lying there motionless in piles, and she observed curiously, and her grandfather said to her at this time: "They look like they are dead, but they are not, and when you see the sun shining in for a while, they are all alive again." Jin Zi was surprised, and after a while the sun shone on her body, and it was so warm and comfortable. The flies and ladybugs in the ground are also crawling slowly, and the ladybugs and flies that do not shine in the sunlight are still motionless. Grandpa said to the gold, "If you're lucky, they'll spend the winter here." After a pause, he said, "At night they are frozen, and in the day when there is sunshine they wake up again." Kaneko said to his grandfather, "They're amazing! Life is amazing." Grandpa smiled at Kaneko, and then signaled that it was time for them to go home, and Grandma had already cooked by this time, and when he got home, Grandpa would sit in his fixed position and slowly take off his shoes and clothes. Because there is indoor heating in the north, there is a big temperature difference between it and the outside, and every time you go out or come back, you have to experience a burst of dressing and undressing.
Grandpa likes to tell Kaneko stories about the past, how he came to Kanto when he came to Kanto, how he lived in a new place, and how he raised his children after having children, and grandma would answer the call. Kaneko likes to listen to these stories very much, maybe this is the inheritance, the times change, each generation can not experience the life of the previous generation again, so they will learn from their mouths where they came from, what the past is like, only by accumulating the past can we have a more solid future.
Grandpa had stomach cancer surgery when Jin Zi was just about to go to elementary school, and since then his diet has been very careful, he never eats much, and every meal has to eat steamed red-skinned white radish slices, Jin Zi also followed his grandfather to enjoy a lot of good fortune, what soft-shelled turtle soup, dog trachea soup, roast pig brother-in-law, but Jin Zi will not get fat, because she has a bad stomach since she was a child, and she has to run to the toilet several times when she eats bad things, so the family took her to the doctor when she was a child, but it is also a symptom but not a cure.
Kaneko remembers when he was a child and lived in a big city with his grandparents, grandpa would often go boxing, and then ride a two-eight bicycle to pick her up from kindergarten from school, once Kaneko because of eating popsicles, carelessly put his foot into the rear wheel, grandpa didn't realize it at first, he felt how the pedals couldn't move, and then the cartoon patterns on the gold sandals were clipped, and the foot was also injured, and he stayed at home for a month, and grandpa also blamed himself, and tried to let the gold sit on the front beam when riding a bicycle in the future, and the gold was also good The scar forgot the pain, and he was still alive。
One day, Kaneko waited in the kindergarten until late and her grandfather didn't come to pick her up, and in the end only she and another child were left, seeing that it was getting dark outside, Kaneko anxiously lay on the edge of the corridor and waited, and the teacher also came to comfort Kaneko and read the storybook to the two of them. Later, after waiting for a long time and no one came, the teacher decided to send Jin Zi and the child home, and when they reached the corner of the third floor, Jin Zi suddenly saw his grandfather at the door of the dance studio, and the grandfather of another child, and the teacher walked up to them and asked, "Why are you here? There is no dance class today." Grandpa Kaneko slapped his thigh and apologized to the teacher again and again: "Oh, it's all because I'm mistaken, I thought it was a dance class today, and the two of us are still waiting here!" After returning home, Grandma Kaneko also knew, and counted Grandpa Kaneko with tears and laughter.
Jinzi's grandfather is a person with big rules, when he was a child, if Jin was naughty and made a mistake, or did not do well in the exam, Grandpa would make Jin kneel, and then take a small bamboo stick to educate Jinzi, Jin Zi was in awe of Grandpa, and Jinzi's father was too, including aunts, and the biggest family style in their family was "respect".
Kaneko's grandfather died because of a lung infection caused by a cold, and he didn't delay for long, and left this world on the third day of admission, he didn't experience a lot of death pain, and said goodbye to this world quietly. Kaneko's father was with him at the time, and his aunts also rushed over from all directions, Kaneko was working in the south at that time, and her parents did not let her come back to mourn because they didn't want to toss her, and Kaneko could only grieve alone more than 2,000 kilometers away.
Kaneko's grandfather was two years older than her grandmother, and two years later, Kaneko's grandmother also passed away on her grandfather's birthday, and in the end they were generally old after all. Grandma suffered from long-term liver disease, and when it finally became cancerous, the doctors had nothing to do, and the family never told Grandma what she was sick with, and she always said that she must live until the time of the golden marriage, and she wanted to see the wedding of her only granddaughter, but unfortunately she could not do so. When the gold arrived, the grandmother had already been cremated, and they went to the public mourning hall to take out the grandmother's urn, and the gold looked at the rows of small grids, and then looked at the information written on the record sheet, it turned out that some people in their early twenties were placed here, and some people have been stored here for more than 20 years, so it seems that grandma and grandpa are blessed. They have experienced turmoil, but they have also witnessed prosperity, and they have been with their loved ones for a lifetime, and their children and grandchildren are full, which can be regarded as a complete life.
In the past, my grandfather always said, "Knowledge is power." "He watches news broadcasts every day, watching the country get better and better, and science and technology are getting more and more developed. Grandpa was a worker on a forest farm when he was young, and they sometimes carried wood in the waist-deep snow forest, and they could eat a bucket of steamed buns for a meal, and it was already good to have steamed buns to eat in those days. At the entrance of Kaneko's hometown, there is a large iron sign with red paint on a white background that reads: "Forest affairs, fire prevention first." "Grandpa once proudly said to Jin Zi that the words on the sign were painted by him, so that Jin Zi felt inexplicably kind every time he saw that brand. With the improvement of the environment, the material of the brand has also been replaced with advertising cloth, and there will be many patterns on it, but Jin Zi still thinks that the eye-catching big characters before are good-looking, because there are traces of grandpa there.
In my grandfather's day, "upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones." "It sounds like a fantasy, but now it has come true, and it is more developed, grandpa always sighs, this era is really good, children born in this era are really blessed, we must cherish it, study hard, and build the country stronger."
Grandpa raised five children in his life, and he always said: "No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education." "So Jinzi's father and aunts didn't miss school because of family reasons, the aunt who studied the best was admitted to a key university in that era, and grandpa wore a big red flower to receive commendation at the county's conference, which may be the happiest highlight of grandpa's life. Grandpa, although gold is not so powerful, gold will also shine, and gold must work hard to live up to grandpa's expectations.
A letter that Kaneko once wrote to her grandfather:
My dearest grandpa left us at 1:30 a.m. on March 10, 2016.
The last picture of the reunion in my memory stayed before the Chinese New Year, I sat on the sofa at my grandfather's house, and I talked eloquently under my grandfather's silent gaze.
For the first time in my life, my grandfather looked at me like that. There is hope, there is reluctance, and there are many others.
Grandpa was born on the 19th day of the second lunar month in 1936, and has existed in this world for 29,218 days, with 15 days to go, which is his 81st birthday.
Life can't last forever, but sometimes we just stubbornly hope.
My grandparents brought me up since I was a child, and decades have passed in a blink of an eye. Grandpa is a very face-saving person, but also a jealous and hateful person, if in ancient times, he must be a chivalrous man who walked the rivers and lakes, he ran to the north when he was young, and left him proud of the children here, and finally rested in this land, his body turned into dust in the sun, thousands of miles away, I want to say, I miss you very much, grandpa, and, to be your granddaughter, is the luck of my life.
Thank you to the relatives who worked hard for the grandpa's funeral, and the family members who endured their grief, for your hard work.
I am grandpa's blood, I will be good, with my eyes, to see the world for him.
It is said in "Dream Travel" that death is not the end, forgetting is. Some people are destined to accompany us through one part of the journey of life, and then go in other directions. Hopefully we can remember them forever, always.
Today's dream: Kaneko dreamed of her grandparents, who were sitting at a table, and grandma was standing behind them, and they seemed to be rummaging through a notebook, muttering, "Why don't you have a name?" Kaneko woke up as if she knew something, but she wasn't sure what she knew.