March 1980.

After the Spring Festival, Huo Yaozu, the lobby brother, suddenly made a phone call.

On the other end of the phone, Huo Yaozu didn't say anything, but asked Huo Yaowen to come to the house with the second uncle and the second grandmother.

The call came inexplicably, Huo Yaowen was still very puzzled at first, but when he remembered his cousin's hoarse voice and weak appearance, he was suddenly shocked and thought of a bad idea.

On the same day, the family hurriedly drove to the grandfather's house.

As soon as he entered the house, Huo Yaowen noticed that the uncle's face was very pale.

"Chengcai, you are here, please come in. ”

The uncle squeezed out a smile and beckoned Grandma and the others to come in.

"Chengzhi, how is your father?"

On the way here, Grandma was very worried, and when she saw the appearance of her uncle, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart.

"It's not very good. ”

Da Bo Huo Chengzhi shook his head, and led everyone to the old man's room.

On the bed, grandfather Huo Zongming leaned on the head of the bed, with two pillows behind his back, his face was pale, and everyone was thin, and his deeply sunken cheeks knew that the old man's time was running out at a glance.

Grandma saw her grandfather like this, and hurriedly asked Huo Chengzhi: "What's wrong with the eldest brother?

"After returning home on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, my father's health became worse and worse, and I asked the doctor, who only said that the old man's wind disease had recurred. Originally, I wanted to inform you at that time, but my father wouldn't let me. After I got up today, my father suddenly quarreled, I went into the house to see, my father was crooked at the head of the bed, his eyes were blank, so he hurriedly called the hospital, the doctor came and looked at it, and said that his father had no time to ......."

As he spoke, Huo Chengzhi's eyes were rosy and he sobbed in a low voice. This cry even led Huo Yaozu and his wife to cry.

The rest of the words, without Huo Chengzhi to continue, Grandma could guess it, couldn't help frowning, wanted to speak for a long time, sighed deeply, and walked to the bed to comfort the grandmother who was already crying.

At this time, the sounds of crying and comfort mingle with each other, and an atmosphere of sadness and grief spreads through the room.

"Uh-uh-uh......"

Suddenly, Huo Zongming, who was originally starless on the bed, suddenly widened his eyes, gasping for breath in his mouth, and making a strange sound.

The sad Huo Chengzhi looked at the bed, and suddenly his heart trembled, and he hurriedly ran over, knelt on the ground, looked at Huo Zongming's breathless appearance, and kept shouting: "Father!

"Zong Ming, Zong Ming!" The eldest grandmother was already teary-eyed, and she was prostrate on the bed and shouted Huo Zongming.

This scene immediately frightened a few juniors, but then saw Huo Chengzhi, grandma, grandma and others crying, as if they understood what was going on, and hurriedly walked to the side of the bed and shouted.

"Uncle!" "Grandpa!" "Grandpa!" "Big Brother!"

Huo Chengguang, the third uncle, his uncle Zhang Huawei, his aunt, his cousin Zhang Wanjun, his cousin Huo Xiufen and others who hurried outside heard the wailing in the house, and they all ran in with red eyes.

At this moment, Huo Zongming's heavy breathing continued for more than a minute, and the sound became smaller and smaller......

"Father!"

With Huo Chengzhi's bitter crying, Huo Zongming's cloudy eyes gradually lost their vitality.

Huo Yaowen looked at Huo Zongming, who was gradually losing his life on the bed, his heart suddenly twitched, and he couldn't help but think of the scene when he met his grandfather for the first time in his mind.

At that time, although Huo Zongming was over sixty years old, he was still full of spirit, and at the Huo clan meeting established by Huo Guantai in 1968, he talked and laughed with a group of people surnamed Huo, so he was not majestic.

……

A few days later, the funeral of grandfather Huo Zongming was held in a Hong Kong funeral home, and business friends who knew Huo Zongming came to mourn and condole. It lasted for two days before the bones of the grandfather were sent to the crematorium for cremation.

Originally, according to the grandmother's meaning, she wanted to send the grandfather's bones back to her hometown for burial, but because Hong Kong has advocated cremation in recent years, and some procedures have not been completed with the mainland, so as to avoid the body from changing for a long time, she can only hold a funeral cremation in Hong Kong first, and then go back to his hometown Zhongshan with the urn for burial.

"Brother Yaozu, don't be too sad. Grandpa thought that he left without regrets. Huo Yaowen looked at Huo Yaozu who was holding the urn, and couldn't help but step forward and sigh with relief.

"Yes, grandpa should have no regrets. ”

Huo Yaozu turned his head and squeezed out a smile at Huo Yaowen: "When I went back to my hometown in Zhongshan last year, my grandfather told me that this trip fulfilled his wish for nearly thirty years, even if he died in the future, he would definitely be smiling Jiuquan." ”

Seeing his cousin like this, Huo Yaowen sighed and said, "I have already asked people to apply for a return permit to return to the mainland." I have also written to inform the third grandfather that I will let the hometown build the grave first, and when we go back next week, we should be able to directly put the grandfather into the ground. ”

Huo Yaozu thanked him: "Trouble you Yaowen." ”

"Don't talk about the family, I think the eldest grandmother seems to be too sad, how relieved and relieved she is when you go back. Huo Yaowen patted him on the shoulder.

"Well, I will. ”

Huo Yaozu walked out of the funeral home with Huo Yaowen holding the urn.

……

Although the mainland has been reformed and opened up at this time, and the ports that have been blocked for more than 20 years have also been opened, it does not mean that you can go back to the mainland if you want to.

In order to get the return permit for the uncle's family as soon as possible, Huo Yaowen contacted President Wang of the Xin Hua Society.

With the help of President Wang, he quickly got a certificate of return to his hometown for the uncle's family.

Originally, Grandma also wanted to go back to her hometown, but Huo Yaowen and his father Huo Chengcai were worried about the bumpy road and were afraid that Grandma would make a mistake, so they let Grandma take care of her grandmother and let her stay in Hong Kong.

Although Grandma wanted to go back, she also knew that this was a kindness from her children and grandchildren, and the grief-stricken grandmother who had relapsed from her old illness really needed someone to comfort her, so she nodded and agreed to stay.

Soon, in mid-March, Huo Yaowen simply handed over the work at hand, and followed his father Huo Chengcai back to his hometown in Zhongshan with his uncle, Huo Yaozu and others, and buried his grandfather's bones in the ground.

"Huo Gongzongming, born in the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu......"

The hard-nosed Taigong stood in front of Huo Zongming's tombstone at this moment and read the eulogy that had been prepared for a long time.

Huo Chengzhi took his wife, son, daughter-in-law, grandson and others to kneel down in front of the tombstone, grief-stricken, crying loudly, crying silently.

The relatives of the surrounding Huojia Village, all of them showed sadness, when Huo Zongming returned to his hometown last year, he was still very strong, but he didn't think that a year had passed, but he was separated by a world, life and death.

Not far away, Huo Yaowen, who was standing on the left side of the crowd, looked at the black and white photo of Huo Zongming on the tombstone, and remembered that when he returned to his hometown last year, Huo Zongming was excited to stand on his feet on the passenger ship, and kept muttering, "I'm back, I'm finally back!"

Thinking about it, now the grandfather can be regarded as the real fulfillment of his wishes.

"Whoever goes out of the mountain will return to his hometown like this"

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